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My wife @laurenwisk.bsky.social is in Time magazine!

time.com/7292910/covi...
Still Not Feeling the Same After COVID-19? You’re Not Alone
The physical and mental effects of COVID-19 can linger for months and even years.
time.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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dereklowe.bsky.social
Now this is welcome news. It’s spine-growing time!
nikobowie.bsky.social Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · Apr 14
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
April 14, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Josh Gruenbaum Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration Sean R. Keveney Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thomas E. Wheeler Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Education Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler: We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11, 2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community. Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s values but also threaten its academic mission. To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural, policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source. Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures; imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to strength… recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle. Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. William A. Burck Robert K. Hur Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006
April 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
A summary of some work I have had the pleasure to contribute to. Weird molecules that *may* be the future of QIS.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Vibronic Engineering for Quantum Functional Groups
ConspectusChemists have a firm understanding of the concept of a functional group: a small molecular moiety that confers properties (reactivity, solubility, and chemical recognition) onto a larger sca...
pubs.acs.org
April 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I’m in this! Thanks Harriett!
March 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I’m in popular science! www.popsci.com/science/why-...
Why don’t molecules ever stop moving?
This ‘deceptively simple’ question demands a dip into the murky waters of quantum physics.
www.popsci.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Going to @acs.org spring meeting! Come to my symposium "QIS for chemistry and chemistry for QIS" in Hall F, room 3! ttps://phys-acs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PHYS008-SD-Program_FINAL.pdf
March 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I am left to ask, what’s the point of capitulating to people who despise you? I’m not here to just produce science points like some kind of perverse sims game.
darbysaxbe.bsky.social Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Since Saquon went to a high school that played against my high school I feel a special kinship with this Eagles team. Let's go Birds, Allentown represent...
January 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I just deactivated my twitter account. Not one red cent to the Nazi.
January 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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chemjobber.bsky.social
RIP Sir Fraser Stoddart

chemsky ⚗️🧪
pegdesigns.bsky.social Margaret E Schott @pegdesigns.bsky.social · Dec 30
Colleagues, Students, Postdocs, Collaborators and Friends of Sir Fraser Stoddart: I am writing with the sad news that Fraser passed away suddenly on 31 Dec (Australia time) while on holiday with family. No details yet on any services. He is irreplaceable.
December 31, 2024 at 12:10 AM
jrcaram.bsky.social
While I like the idea, this is a plasmon, by definition all excitations are plasmons.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Molecular jackhammers eradicate cancer cells by vibronic-driven action - Nature Chemistry
In contrast to photothermal therapy requiring high powers over extended times and photodynamic therapy being abrogated by inhibitors of reactive oxygen species, actuation of vibronic modes in single m...
www.nature.com
December 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Let’s play “why is my toddler crying?”

Today it’s because we are not heating up her fruit with her leftover hamburger.
December 22, 2024 at 2:44 AM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Spidey and his amazing friends apparently gain the ability to turn into Dinos in season 3. Talk about power creep…
December 21, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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tompfay.bsky.social
I'll be recruiting postdoc(s) to start from July 2025 onwards at UCLA. Potential projects are very flexible, and can be tailored to your interests, but will be broadly in the area of quantum dynamics of chemical systems. Contact info is on the group site faygroupucla.github.io. #chemsky #compchemsky
Fay Group
Theory of Quantum Effects in Chemical Systems
faygroupucla.github.io
December 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Love it when surprise gov't shutdowns egged on by billionaire idiots makes it impossible for me to engage in scientific research.
December 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I am eagerly awaiting my annual holiday greetings from cambridge isotopes.
December 17, 2024 at 6:58 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
I begin my favorite part of the year. Rating students as “truly exceptional” and assessing whether a student is a “once in a generation” talent for graduate school letters. All my undergrads are great! Admit them!
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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markwbwilson.bsky.social
Come to Toronto! Thrilled that we are looking to hire another excellent colleague in Experimental Physical Chemistry.
Our job posting is straightforward: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Happy to share perspective / respond to focussed questions via e-mail.
Assistant Professor - Experimental Physical Chemistry
Assistant Professor - Experimental Physical Chemistry
jobs.utoronto.ca
September 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM
jrcaram.bsky.social
Hope to find chemistry twitter!
November 12, 2024 at 11:30 PM