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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
@olexandr.bsky.social
Chemistry professor at CMU. Connecting chemical sciences with AI #MachineLearning and automated experimentation. #tarheels fan. Care: #design, #photography #Ukraine #cats🐈 Rants are mine
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Our latest ChemRxiv preprint, "Transferable #MachineLearning Interatomic Potential for Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions" Collaboration with @nsf-ccas.bsky.social @gabegomes.bsky.social @bobbypaton.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #compchem #chemsky
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This webinar provided an overview of the chemical biology resources at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI focusing on the ChEMBL database.

Watch video: embl-ebi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
💯accurate
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The first simulation worked. It runs only for 3 ps, but mixes 3 things I have not done before. MD using a box, to avoid volatilization of the solvents, #AIMNet2, which is quite fast and appropriate for my systems, and Packmol for making realistic mixtures. #compchem #chemsky #orca
December 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🚨Out now!⚛️🛠️We celebrate the 100th anniversary of the advent quantum mechanics with a Focus issue that covers recent breakthroughs, unmet challenges, and pathways for moving forward to address such challenges. www.nature.com/collections/...

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Expanding the Frontiers of Computation with Quantum Mechanics
This year marks 100 years since the advent of quantum mechanics, which underpins much of modern quantum physics, chemistry, computing methods and technologies.
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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In a Perspective, @olexandr.bsky.social and colleagues discuss the development of MLIPs through the lens of four key challenges: chemical accuracy, computational efficiency, interpretability, and universal generalizability. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compchem #chemsky

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Machine learning interatomic potentials at the centennial crossroads of quantum mechanics - Nature Computational Science
As quantum mechanics marks its centennial, machine learning interatomic potentials are emerging as transformative tools bridging quantum accuracy with classical efficiency. This Perspective explores t...
www.nature.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It seems that sessions at #Pacifichem will be very well attended 😉 Hey @acs.org , did you bribe the mother nature? 🤣
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Rebranding — Happy #catsgiving! #thanksgiving #cats
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 for those who observe it! #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Europe’s 24-point peace plan calls for a ceasefire, third-party monitoring, and talks based on current front lines. It includes full POW swaps, return of civilians, NATO guarantees, no limits on Ukraine’s military, and control of ZNPP and key infrastructure. Russian assets funds Ukraine’s recovery.
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Slowly getting back to life after submitting Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories proposal. How is your week going? #AcademicChatter #ChemSky
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November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
WooHoo! @chemrxiv.org has just crossed 10,000 papers (preprints) in the Theoretical and computational chemistry section! #compchem This is the largest section so far...

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Congrats to Emma Bouchard from the @olexandr.bsky.social group and Ivan Levkovsky from the Matyjaszewski Group who are featured in this article :)
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hey tweeps, #compchem trivia question: how old is Klaus Ruedenberg, when he published paper in JACS last week. 😉 BTW it’s very interesting paper too

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Atoms and Bonds as Synergisms of Interacting Electrons and Nuclei. The Origin of Chemical Bonds in Polyatomic Molecules
In quantum mechanical elucidations, the molecular energy of formation from the free atoms is an aggregate of cooperativities (synergisms) of orbital interactions. Frequently, such synergisms are deduc...
pubs.acs.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Sounds about right!
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Theorists handling QM software calculations to the experimentalists 🤓 #chemsky #compchemsky
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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This is fun, but the photo is doctored. The actual “day in the future” is (was…) October 21, 2015, and I distinctly remember watching BTTF-2 on that day at the Waterfront. A DeLorean was parked outside the movie theater. People complained that there were no hoverboards. 😉
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We live in the future now! 😎
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Great @cmuchemistry.bsky.social collaboration with @isaacgb9.bsky.social ML-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer. We present AIMNet2 MLIP calculations of average BDFE for the 2H+/2e− dehydrogenation chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #compchem #chemsky
Machine Learning-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) mediated by hydroquinone and related molecules is key to natural and artificial energy conversion. The reactivity of these molecules depends on their bond disso...
chemrxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Meanwhile Halloween 🎃 #Halloween2025 in #Pittsburgh
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃 #Halloween2025
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We are witnessing history. Hurricane Melissa is tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the strongest storm (wind speed to 185mph & lowest pressure) to ever make landfall in the Atlantic Basin.
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We are witnessing history. Hurricane Melissa is tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the strongest storm (wind speed to 185mph & lowest pressure) to ever make landfall in the Atlantic Basin.
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I did not realize that one needs an article on the subject! On a side note, 🦋 has been a ghost town lately… #academiclife
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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📰C-CAS in the News 📰

This article highlights the work of C-CAS PIs @olexandr.bsky.social and @gabegomes.bsky.social as well as trainees Robert MacKnight, Nick Gao, and Liliana Gallegos.

www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

#chemistry #computerscience #nsf #chemsky
NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery
Carnegie Mellon chemistry professors, Olexandr Isayev and Gabriel Gomes, are making breakthroughs as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis.
www.cmu.edu
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM