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Sean Elliott

@profsje.bsky.social

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Professor of Chemistry at Boston University; Labradoodle wrangler; T1 Diabetic; friend of English Majors

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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 3d

Ugh! So sorry you are dealing with all this; I hope it is mild and you can muddle through…

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 8d

You and me both… I hope October brings a bit of a slower pace and a time to catch one’s breath

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads

The solicitation for the 2025 submission dates for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is out, with the first deadline of November 10 for life-sciences disciplines. The big news is that el…

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Minjung Son @minjungson.bsky.social · 14d

New paper from the group @jmaterchem.rsc.org - we characterized how strong light-matter coupling impacts the photophysical properties of chlorophyll a. Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 18d

I’ll be honest: I read that so quickly I thought you were enjoying harvest time and great presume feels … and then my brain caught up. Here comes the combine…..

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 20d

We all deserve a cone of silence for some period of time. I hope you find yours.

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · 21d

Can't say I'm not intrigued; but I'd only go for it if there were a series of Inorganic, Physical, and Biochemical gins to compare....

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

I feel you. I think I will be sorted out shortly... but the anxiety it induces is No Joke.

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

I did find a CVS that had some G7s in stock, so I'll pick them up later, and wait for my resupply, like a lost mining colony in a scifi universe....

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

I managed to find a CVS that will give an emergency 1-off while my resupply is coming in.... *sigh*

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

AH THE JOYS OF CALLING ALL THE CVSs ... to go through the same crappy phone try to leave the same voice saying "HEY, DO YOU HAVE MY LIFE-SAVING TECHNOLOGY? YOUR NEIGHBHOR SAID YOU DID, but then again someone else said they had the tech in stock, and then when they called me back, they did not..."

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

New #DexcomG7 sensor day -- also last sensor as I just ordered a resupply... & it failed. It's too early to call pharmacies. And I need to get to work, and have a zillion meetings. Tech is amazing, but it also fails... Looks like this #T1D will be going commando, pancreatically, for a spell.

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wow that looks great in many ways... I wish I could pop over for that....

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 4

HUZZAH!

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 2

Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Or just a thing?

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey friend: treat y’self — two, TWO vegetables! (/Count laugh/)

count von count from sesame street says 2ah ah ah

ALT: count von count from sesame street says 2ah ah ah

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Aug 27

Do I know anyone in Canada would be willing to invite me to give a seminar in the Fall so I can get a vaccination while I'm there? I wish I were only joking. Kinda not joking. Last time I had covid, my Diabetes leveled up; I don't want to get it again.

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Minjung Son @minjungson.bsky.social · Aug 27

Check out these two new papers from our group (1/2): With @cschaack.bsky.social and Wendu Ding's groups at Wake Forest University, we demonstrate how protonation can significantly modulate the optical properties of allenes @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation

Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Aug 26

My correspondence appears to be woefully insipid. *blink blink* Alas.

Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Aug 20

Drive safe!

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · Aug 18

One of the problems is that civilians hear “grant“ and think it’s a “fill out a form and get money” process, not a “harrowing Hunger Games competition against the brightest minds in the country” process.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Aug 15

#facultychemjobs weather report: Trump Administration impact visible

Today (8/15/25), there are 81 tenure-track research/teaching positions and 8 teaching positions for the 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List.

8/13/24: 105 tenure-track, 7 teaching
8/15/23: 104 tenure-track, 4 teaching

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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Sean Elliott @profsje.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ugh. So sorry. People. The worst petri dishes ever.