Daryl Yee
@dryeeseeks.bsky.social
Assistant Professor EPFL | Laboratory for the Chemistry of Materials and Manufacturing | 🇸🇬 | random thoughts about science,🥏, OP👒, and life in🇨🇭
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Daryl Yee
@dryeeseeks.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Here's my first go at bringing together everyone who does polymers + 3D printing!
Polymer chemistry, rheology, characterization, devices, etc. All are welcome!
Let me know if you want to be added to it
#chemsky
Polymer chemistry, rheology, characterization, devices, etc. All are welcome!
Let me know if you want to be added to it
#chemsky
Me when an older European person asks me where in China is Singapore 😅
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Me when an older European person asks me where in China is Singapore 😅
Reposted by Daryl Yee
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
Reposted by Daryl Yee
So so cool
Daniel Bonn writes in our research communities how his team devised a way to 3D print intricate ice sculptures without external refrigeration, just a water jet inside a vacuum chamber. They 3D printed a tiny ice Christmas tree with this process. go.nature.com/3L23WAK ⚛️ 🧪
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So so cool
Reposted by Daryl Yee
Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn
I write grants so my students can print unicorns
December 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I write grants so my students can print unicorns
Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
Our picture "Eye Spy" made it to the Chempics bracket! Lots of other beautiful pictures on display as well. Go check them out!
#chemsky #matsky
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#chemsky #matsky
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Our first-ever Chempics Bracket is here. Vote for your favorite science photo
Only one photo will emerge victorious
cen.acs.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Our picture "Eye Spy" made it to the Chempics bracket! Lots of other beautiful pictures on display as well. Go check them out!
#chemsky #matsky
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#chemsky #matsky
cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Testing out some new printing technology :D
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Testing out some new printing technology :D
Looks like my early setbacks have been for naught 😬😅
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Looks like my early setbacks have been for naught 😬😅
It’s fondue season up in here
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s fondue season up in here
Test print of our new nano/micro-scale printer!
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Test print of our new nano/micro-scale printer!
Saw the swiss alps with a colleague yesterday ✈️
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Saw the swiss alps with a colleague yesterday ✈️
It’s here!
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It’s here!
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
(Many thanks to the funding agencies and colleagues for making this happen)
Just saw this on my computer. I didn't think I worked this hard 😅
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just saw this on my computer. I didn't think I worked this hard 😅
Lots of cool research being done at EPFL MatSci!
Are you or do you know a smart, motivated Master student in a materials-adjacent area interested in doing a research project at EPFL? The @materials-epfl.bsky.social MX Fellowship applications open today sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello.... Choose a lab, send your file, and spend up to six months at EPFL!
October 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Lots of cool research being done at EPFL MatSci!
One of the pictures that we took as part of our recent Adv. Mater. study got featured in @cenmag.bsky.social Chemistry in Pictures!
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
Chemistry in Pictures: Eye spy
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
cen.acs.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One of the pictures that we took as part of our recent Adv. Mater. study got featured in @cenmag.bsky.social Chemistry in Pictures!
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
Beautiful science in a beautiful location.
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Beautiful science in a beautiful location.
Woke up to an announcement saying that we’ll be landing in Bilbao shortly.
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
October 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Woke up to an announcement saying that we’ll be landing in Bilbao shortly.
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Which would have been great if I wasn’t flying to San Sebastián…
Andddd it's now out in Advanced Materials!
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Andddd it's now out in Advanced Materials!
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Here, we show a new method of transforming hydrogels into ceramics and metals with low conversion shrinkages and high material densities. (1/7)
#chemsky #matsky
It's 2025, almost 2026. If you're gonna use chatgpt to write your entire research statement, at least make sure the references are not 100% fake.
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It's 2025, almost 2026. If you're gonna use chatgpt to write your entire research statement, at least make sure the references are not 100% fake.
We have some new positions available in the group! (PhD student + Research intern)
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Laboratory Openings / Join the Group!
PhD/Postdoc Openings Update: 12/09/2025 There is one fully-funded PhD opening in the group in the area of microstructure control during vat photopolymerization or on the fundamentals of crosslinking. ...
www.epfl.ch
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We have some new positions available in the group! (PhD student + Research intern)
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
Details can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/alchemy...
#chemsky #matsky
What a beautiful location!
September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What a beautiful location!