Meagan Oakley
@meaganoakley.bsky.social
never met an actinide I didn't like
🇨🇦👩💻⚛ DKO Research Fellow and computational chemist @ University of Manchester
🇨🇦👩💻⚛ DKO Research Fellow and computational chemist @ University of Manchester
Pinned
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New group photo!
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New group photo!
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The anti-DEI crowd clings to the myth of meritocracy the way the Emperor clings to the myth of magic clothes.
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The anti-DEI crowd clings to the myth of meritocracy the way the Emperor clings to the myth of magic clothes.
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💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
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Y'all wanted some EChem? Check out our contribution in InorgChem @acs.org towards tetravalent lanthanides, with @conradgoodwin.bsky.social, @john-seed.bsky.social, in collaboration with @gen-chem.bsky.social + @peremiro.bsky.social for calculations!
Synthesis, Redox Chemistry, and Electronic Structures of Bis-di(silylamido)silane f-Element Complexes
We report the synthesis and characterization of pseudo-tetrahedral f-element complexes bearing the sterically demanding bidentate di(silylamido)silane ligand, {Me2Si(NSiiPr3)2}2– (Me2SiN†N†). Two equi...
pubs.acs.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Y'all wanted some EChem? Check out our contribution in InorgChem @acs.org towards tetravalent lanthanides, with @conradgoodwin.bsky.social, @john-seed.bsky.social, in collaboration with @gen-chem.bsky.social + @peremiro.bsky.social for calculations!
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Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Job advertisement
www.uni-hamburg.de
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
the radio dj just mixed unwritten by natasha beddingfield into regulate by warren g
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the radio dj just mixed unwritten by natasha beddingfield into regulate by warren g
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“a supply chain attack”
“a supply chain attack”
October 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
whoever decided to move Mapping and MutableMapping into collections.abc is permanently on my shit list.
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
whoever decided to move Mapping and MutableMapping into collections.abc is permanently on my shit list.
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Join us for our #FD_ExcitedStates, to define the frontiers for research at the intersections of theory and experiment in a unique discussion on Molecular excited states theory and experiment.
Find out more (and submit an abstract): rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
Find out more (and submit an abstract): rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Join us for our #FD_ExcitedStates, to define the frontiers for research at the intersections of theory and experiment in a unique discussion on Molecular excited states theory and experiment.
Find out more (and submit an abstract): rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
Find out more (and submit an abstract): rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026 #ChemSky
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🚨 Two PhD Opportunities in Actinide Chemistry at @hzdr.bsky.social (Dresden, Germany)
PhD Student – Actinide coordination chemistry lnkd.in/e5y8nwK9
PhD Student – MOFs of the actinides lnkd.in/e2NpT2y8
👉 Apply now and shape the future of actinide chemistry!
#actinides #fblockrocks #chemsky #nuclear
PhD Student – Actinide coordination chemistry lnkd.in/e5y8nwK9
PhD Student – MOFs of the actinides lnkd.in/e2NpT2y8
👉 Apply now and shape the future of actinide chemistry!
#actinides #fblockrocks #chemsky #nuclear
September 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚨 Two PhD Opportunities in Actinide Chemistry at @hzdr.bsky.social (Dresden, Germany)
PhD Student – Actinide coordination chemistry lnkd.in/e5y8nwK9
PhD Student – MOFs of the actinides lnkd.in/e2NpT2y8
👉 Apply now and shape the future of actinide chemistry!
#actinides #fblockrocks #chemsky #nuclear
PhD Student – Actinide coordination chemistry lnkd.in/e5y8nwK9
PhD Student – MOFs of the actinides lnkd.in/e2NpT2y8
👉 Apply now and shape the future of actinide chemistry!
#actinides #fblockrocks #chemsky #nuclear
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I have an open PhD position. The exact topic is negotiable and can range from implementing new quantum-chemical methods in @orca-qc-official.bsky.social to computational studies of open-shell molecules.
🔗 Details: www.langresearch.org/open-phd-fel...
Please share!
#PhDposition #CompChem
🔗 Details: www.langresearch.org/open-phd-fel...
Please share!
#PhDposition #CompChem
Open PhD Fellowship in Quantum Chemistry at TU Berlin – Lang Research Group
www.langresearch.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I have an open PhD position. The exact topic is negotiable and can range from implementing new quantum-chemical methods in @orca-qc-official.bsky.social to computational studies of open-shell molecules.
🔗 Details: www.langresearch.org/open-phd-fel...
Please share!
#PhDposition #CompChem
🔗 Details: www.langresearch.org/open-phd-fel...
Please share!
#PhDposition #CompChem
Developing new comp chem practicals for the upcoming semester. So happy I was able to sneak in teaching the students CASSCF :)
August 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Developing new comp chem practicals for the upcoming semester. So happy I was able to sneak in teaching the students CASSCF :)
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What are your favourite quiet corners of campus?
An absolutely stunning shot from our Instagram follower bill_ayres that captures the library so perfectly.
An absolutely stunning shot from our Instagram follower bill_ayres that captures the library so perfectly.
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What are your favourite quiet corners of campus?
An absolutely stunning shot from our Instagram follower bill_ayres that captures the library so perfectly.
An absolutely stunning shot from our Instagram follower bill_ayres that captures the library so perfectly.
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If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
July 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.
Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
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Can writing a scientific paper for the first (or fourth. Or fortieth) be a battle? Yes.
But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.
But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.
Thank you Jocelyn Sinclair from @canjphysics.bsky.social / @csp
@cdnsciencepub.com for the fantastic workshop of publishing guidelines at the Women+ In Physics Conference at @queensuglobal.bsky.social
@cdnsciencepub.com for the fantastic workshop of publishing guidelines at the Women+ In Physics Conference at @queensuglobal.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can writing a scientific paper for the first (or fourth. Or fortieth) be a battle? Yes.
But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.
But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.
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me: i will rest today
me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things
me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things
July 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
me: i will rest today
me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things
me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things
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The linked J. Chem. Ed. article above has this diagram connecting MO diagrams of N₂ with the photoelectron spectrum which I feel should be the complete image that all students learning MO theory should see.
I have never seen this idea in a intro chem textbook covering MOs.
I have never seen this idea in a intro chem textbook covering MOs.
July 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The linked J. Chem. Ed. article above has this diagram connecting MO diagrams of N₂ with the photoelectron spectrum which I feel should be the complete image that all students learning MO theory should see.
I have never seen this idea in a intro chem textbook covering MOs.
I have never seen this idea in a intro chem textbook covering MOs.
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I was a GS until I was 17!
How many members of #chemsky are or were Scouts? Fionna Samuels (@fmorningstar.bsky.social) learned all about the new chemistry merit badge requirements for #Newscripts in @cenmag.bsky.social - she also tried out the cabbage pH indicator experiment herself.
cen.acs.org/education/ou...
cen.acs.org/education/ou...
Chemistry merit badge gets a new formula
Updated experiments for Scouting America can be done safely at home with easy-to-find materials
cen.acs.org
July 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I was a GS until I was 17!
The dichotomy of dog
July 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The dichotomy of dog
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Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soft magnetic hysteresis in a dysprosium amide–alkene complex up to 100 kelvin - Nature
A dysprosium amide–alkene complex shows soft magnetic hysteresis loops up to 100 kelvin, arising from the high charge density of the amide ligands and the structural role of the pendant alkene.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Protect Trans Scientists.
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
Protect transgender scientists
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Protect Trans Scientists.
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social
Getting my presentation ready for WATOC next week. The last time I went was in Munich as a PhD student, and it was such a great experience (and it was my first time in Europe!). Feels weird to be presenting now as an independent researcher as it doesn’t feel like that long ago.
June 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Getting my presentation ready for WATOC next week. The last time I went was in Munich as a PhD student, and it was such a great experience (and it was my first time in Europe!). Feels weird to be presenting now as an independent researcher as it doesn’t feel like that long ago.