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Fun Man Fung
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Digital futures in learning, 🇸🇬 Asst Prof at UCD Dublin 🇮🇪🧑🏻‍🔬 Elected Council Member, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry 🧪 | Global Young Academy 🌍 #SpatialReality VR ☘️ | Science Diplomacy | https://www.youtube.com/@chemfunman
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This latest front cover features UCD School of Chemistry's Dr Fung review article on organic-dominated nanozymes for pesticide detection, aimed at sustainable agricultural monitoring.
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Organic-Dominated Nanozymes for Pesticide Detection: Toward Sustainable Agricultural Monitoring
Nanozymes are synthetic enzymes that mimic natural enzymes with superior stability and cost-efficiency. Organic-dominated nanozymes overcome key limitations of inorganic variants, such as toxicity and...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
First author Eslam (Egypt) is outstanding. He earned himself a visit to the 2025 Lindau and IUPAC 2025 World Congress. Immensely proud of this promising young scientist.
👨‍🔬✨ Cover star! Huge congratulations to Assistant Professor Fun Man Fun, whose work is featured on the latest cover of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

@ucdscience.bsky.social @ucdchemistry.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I have a PhD position available in my lab at the University of Freiburg!! If you, or someone you know, might be looking for a position using modeling and simulations to uncover secrets in (glyco-)protein structure/function relationships please take a look at our website!
www.kearnslab.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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📰 BREAKING NEWS: American Chemical Society members have elected their 2026 president-elect. cen.acs.org/acs-news/ele...
ACS members elect Christina Bodurow as next president
Four other members were also elected to serve on the ACS Board
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October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
[Open-Accessed] AI-ML-Mass Spec Platform to learn. Personalized Learning is the Digital Futures

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Hydragen: An Open-Accessed, Personalized Learning Platform for Mass Spectrometry | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Hydragen: An Open-Accessed, Personalized Learning Platform for Mass Spectrometry
Mass spectrometry (MS) is essential in analytical chemistry education, but effective mastery requires extensive personalized practice, often limited by availability of resources. To address this const...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We are inviting motivated postdoctoral researchers to apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with us as your host institution! We’re happy to support your application process✌️
📅 Call opens: May 8, 2025
✉ Write to me
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
April 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
[All are welcome] This Tuesday, April 8th, I will speak at UCLA Chem, the teaching powerhouse at UCLA. I'm so thrilled to be meeting education legends Garg, Russell, Courey, Kusenko, Caram 😍, hosted by Pr. De Weese #CER, see you there friends!
April 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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🔊 Pacifichem 2025 abstracts are due tomorrow (April 2nd)! 🔊

If you are working in the XR space, please consider our symposium: Immersive Technologies for Chemistry Education: Theory and Praxis of Introducing Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR) into the Chemistry Classroom & Laboratory #ECT006 🧪 🧑‍🏫
Don't miss the deadline! Abstracts for #Pacifichem2025 are due April 2.

Submit now: pacifichem.org/scientific-p...
April 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
[Just Published!] A very nice collab with @stevencpan.bsky.social (NUS Psy) in this novel activity 📗📙📘 on "PreQuestioning"🧠 @ucddublin.bsky.social 😄

Using Prequestioning as a Hands-On Activity to Support Undergraduate Student Learning | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Using Prequestioning as a Hands-On Activity to Support Undergraduate Student Learning
Prequestioning is a learning strategy that involves taking practice tests on to-be-learned information, followed by studying the correct answers. Despite promising results in laboratory studies, it ha...
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April 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Manuscript proof accepted ☺️
March 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fran rocks! See you at KL for IUPAC this July! @julianavidal.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Very proud of my team! #ACSSpring2025 #ChemSky
March 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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👉This week in the C&EN Magazine: Frances H. Arnold forges ahead + Green glues: Will they stick? + How rising temperatures affect the human brain: cen.acs.org/magazine/103...

#chemsky🧪 #biosky
March 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are standing on the shoulders of giants, and Peter is one of them! I highly encourage @cenmag.bsky.social to feature Dr. Carlton as "people of ACS" @acs.org who has been a key supporter of young scientists -- mentoring, volunteering work, making contributions to the community 😀
Met up with these #CASFutureLeaders legends on my first day of #ACSSpring2025. Thanks for making me look like a giant, @chemfunman.bsky.social and @finetraces786.bsky.social!
March 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
SenpaiLearn is having our largest participation at
@acs.org Spring Meeting 2025 with 6 group members. Come visit our presentations and posters! Our researchers (all debutants) are excited 😄 to share their work with you #ChemEd #CER #ACSSpring2025 We are looking for new group members (PhD+PostDoc)
March 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Delightful catch up with Anne and John at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social : my second CER visit learning about the work in the Baranger group on supporting learners in their Chemistry program. Thanks to BSE and UCB Chemistry for hosting my colloquium. Spatial Reality and Retrosynthesis Mindset 🪴#CER
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I had a super great exchange at WashU with the staff and researchers. Thank you @jenheemstra.bsky.social for inviting me to speak. What a lovely campus! I hear wonderful things from people who studied here. Let’s foster more exchanges with UCD 🇮🇪. Looking forward to your book 📕 this August , Jen👏
March 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A huge honor to give a CER Colloquium at Iowa, normally reserved for senior scholars. I am grateful to be part of the CER community, it’s a very enjoyable visit to Iowa City and experience the American university campus. Thank you Dr Renee Cole.
March 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@standupforscience.bsky.social in Missoula, Montana
We are scientists 🧑🏻‍🔬
Trust in Science 🧪

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March 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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ACS names its 2025 Outreach Volunteers of the Year:
Anne-Catherine Bédard of the Midland Local Section is named the global winner. cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS...
March 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm looking forward! Thrilled to be back in Missoula, MT to grace the occasion of "Montana Futures Forum", hoping to bridge academic networks and collaborations with @ucdtl.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social for stronger 🇮🇪-🇺🇸 ties. Innovation Workshop 📱 with eXtended Reality
W/Trump admin stripping federal support for higher education we got lucky & received funding just moments b4 it got cut off for visiting Stanford University Fulbright Scholar 🍀 @chemfunman.bsky.social from Singapore & the University College Dublin to be here at the University of Montana this week.
March 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just published! A multi-year, multi-department ChemEd project. Congratulations to the Team ChemPOV! @ucddublin.bsky.social Organic Chemistry can be made more palatable :-) @pubs.acs.org

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Changing Attitudes toward Organic Chemistry via a Digital Multiplayer Game
Organic chemistry is widely recognized as a challenging subject for students, characterized by its requirement for multilevel thinking, three-dimensional visualization, and extensive new vocabulary. T...
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March 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm delighted with such a good turnout at the lunch-time sharing 😄 I'm thankful for the opportunity to learn from everyone at 🇺🇸 @stanfordchemistry.bsky.social and I look forward to bringing the learnings back to 🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdtl.bsky.social #LifeLongLearning #Passion4Science @acs.org
Last week, @chemfunman.bsky.social shared insights on channeling your inner Ikigai to find purpose in Chemistry Education. 🌱🔬 It was a powerful discussion on aligning passion, skills, and impact to make a lasting difference in the scientific community. #Ikigai #ChemicalEducation
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We grew 100% in our 2025 @acs.org Singapore 🇸🇬 Youth Challenge. The participants were treated with research sharing by @everywherechem.bsky.social @bilalrkaafarani.bsky.social and many more!
February 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM