Martin Rahm
@rahmlab.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in 🇸🇪 interested in chemical bonding, material prediction, and astrobiology. www.rahmlab.com
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Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emerged
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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New chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling.bsky.social and colleagues at NASA-JPL. #chemsky
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Polar Opposites Attract on Titan
As a scientist, it is a good feeling to come across something that contradicts textbooks. Better still to contribute to a discovery that could help explain chemistry on a planetary ̵…
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September 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
New chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling.bsky.social and colleagues at NASA-JPL. #chemsky
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rahmlab.com/2025/09/28/p...
Could there be 👽 life in Venus’s clouds?
Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor.
In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out!
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Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor.
In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out!
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On the possibility of carbon-free heteropolymers on Venus: a computational astrobiology study | QRB Discovery | Cambridge Core
On the possibility of carbon-free heteropolymers on Venus: a computational astrobiology study - Volume 6
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September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Could there be 👽 life in Venus’s clouds?
Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor.
In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out!
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor.
In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out!
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Martin Rahm
Excited to see our work featured by Digital Discovery!
Tired of quantum noise ruining your chemistry sims?
Our new MREM method brings multireference insight to error mitigation—boosting accuracy for strongly correlated molecules on NISQ hardware.
Proud of this collaboration with @rahmlab.bsky.social
Tired of quantum noise ruining your chemistry sims?
Our new MREM method brings multireference insight to error mitigation—boosting accuracy for strongly correlated molecules on NISQ hardware.
Proud of this collaboration with @rahmlab.bsky.social
Tired of quantum noise ruining your chemistry simulations? Our new MREM method brings multireference insight to error mitigation, boosting accuracy for strongly correlated molecules on near-term quantum devices.
@rahmlab.bsky.social @dobrautz.bsky.social
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
@rahmlab.bsky.social @dobrautz.bsky.social
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Excited to see our work featured by Digital Discovery!
Tired of quantum noise ruining your chemistry sims?
Our new MREM method brings multireference insight to error mitigation—boosting accuracy for strongly correlated molecules on NISQ hardware.
Proud of this collaboration with @rahmlab.bsky.social
Tired of quantum noise ruining your chemistry sims?
Our new MREM method brings multireference insight to error mitigation—boosting accuracy for strongly correlated molecules on NISQ hardware.
Proud of this collaboration with @rahmlab.bsky.social
A few last-minute spots opened for Telluride workshop, “Chemical Origins of Life as We Don’t Know It.”
meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/wor...
Interested? Please email/DM me or Rick Remsing (at Rutgers) a short note on your background & motivation.
📝 Travel, etc. not included.
#astrobiology
meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/wor...
Interested? Please email/DM me or Rick Remsing (at Rutgers) a short note on your background & motivation.
📝 Travel, etc. not included.
#astrobiology
https://meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/works…
August 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A few last-minute spots opened for Telluride workshop, “Chemical Origins of Life as We Don’t Know It.”
meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/wor...
Interested? Please email/DM me or Rick Remsing (at Rutgers) a short note on your background & motivation.
📝 Travel, etc. not included.
#astrobiology
meetings.telluridescience.org/meetings/wor...
Interested? Please email/DM me or Rick Remsing (at Rutgers) a short note on your background & motivation.
📝 Travel, etc. not included.
#astrobiology
💥 How much energy can be squeezed into chemical bonds before reality objects? A part of my scientific journey has been focused on answering that question, by both modeling and making extremely energetic materials.
In this blog post, I reflect on that pursuit rahmlab.com/2025/07/23/a... #chemsky
In this blog post, I reflect on that pursuit rahmlab.com/2025/07/23/a... #chemsky
A Quest for the World’s Most Energetic Compound
In a recent article, Lara Harter and Guillaume Belanger-Chabot (both at Université Laval in Quebec) and I computationally investigate the feasibility of making dinitroacetylene (C2(NO2)2; see Fig 1…
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July 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
💥 How much energy can be squeezed into chemical bonds before reality objects? A part of my scientific journey has been focused on answering that question, by both modeling and making extremely energetic materials.
In this blog post, I reflect on that pursuit rahmlab.com/2025/07/23/a... #chemsky
In this blog post, I reflect on that pursuit rahmlab.com/2025/07/23/a... #chemsky
Machine learning + quantum computation of chemistry. It doesn’t get more “it”. Great collaboration - we’ve learned a lot!
New pre-print from PhD student Hang Zou on warm-starting the variational quantum eigensolver using flows: Flow-VQE! Flow-VQE is parameter transfer on steroids: it learns how to solve a family of related problems, dramatically reducing the aggregate compute cost!
July 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Machine learning + quantum computation of chemistry. It doesn’t get more “it”. Great collaboration - we’ve learned a lot!
Bluesky needs more music, and the world needs more nerds. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a blast from the past. And a reminder not to underestimate the chemists 😉. #chemsky youtu.be/f8FAJXPBdOg?...
The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody) | A Capella Science
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June 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bluesky needs more music, and the world needs more nerds. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a blast from the past. And a reminder not to underestimate the chemists 😉. #chemsky youtu.be/f8FAJXPBdOg?...
Do you aspire to chemical understanding of condensed matter? Then this book is for you: Solids and Surfaces by Roald Hoffmann! #chemsky archive.org/details/soli...
Solids And Surfaces A Chemists View Of Bonding In Extended Structures : Roald Hoffmann : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The book begins with the language of crystal orbitals, band structures and densities of states. The tools for moving back from the highly delocalized orbitals...
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April 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Do you aspire to chemical understanding of condensed matter? Then this book is for you: Solids and Surfaces by Roald Hoffmann! #chemsky archive.org/details/soli...
#PhDposition in Computational #Astrobiology & #QuantumChemistry! Join us at Chalmers in 🇸🇪. Collab with NASA's JPL and @starsarecalling.bsky.social in 🇺🇸. @astrobiology.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @bluemarblespace.bsky.social #chemsky #compchem
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March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#PhDposition in Computational #Astrobiology & #QuantumChemistry! Join us at Chalmers in 🇸🇪. Collab with NASA's JPL and @starsarecalling.bsky.social in 🇺🇸. @astrobiology.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @bluemarblespace.bsky.social #chemsky #compchem
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Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group! #chemsky chng.it/wv4cFszkWG
Have you seen this petition yet?
Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group
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March 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group! #chemsky chng.it/wv4cFszkWG
The #EU should dedicate substantial resources to attracting American top reseach talent, asap. Then double research funding, collectively and nationally. It’s time to pick up the ball. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
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February 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The #EU should dedicate substantial resources to attracting American top reseach talent, asap. Then double research funding, collectively and nationally. It’s time to pick up the ball. www.science.org/content/arti...
$500 billion = Not peanuts. I think they have found something. openai.com/index/announ...
Announcing The Stargate Project
Announcing The Stargate Project
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January 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
$500 billion = Not peanuts. I think they have found something. openai.com/index/announ...
The idea of a Boltzmann brain, a 🧠 spontaneously appearing someplace in space believing it is you granted the universe is large enough, is bogus. In contrast, here is evidence for the Boltzmann hut (Swedish: koja), a series of branches randomly assembling to form a hut. #thermodynamics #chemsky
January 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The idea of a Boltzmann brain, a 🧠 spontaneously appearing someplace in space believing it is you granted the universe is large enough, is bogus. In contrast, here is evidence for the Boltzmann hut (Swedish: koja), a series of branches randomly assembling to form a hut. #thermodynamics #chemsky
Werner is great - check it out! #compchemsky
PhD/PostDoc in Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry
Have a look if you want to develop novel quantum computing approaches to enable accurate electronic structure calculations: dobrautz.github.io/jobs/
Sharing and endorsing would be greatly appreciated <3
#chemsky #quantsky #quantum #chemjobs
Have a look if you want to develop novel quantum computing approaches to enable accurate electronic structure calculations: dobrautz.github.io/jobs/
Sharing and endorsing would be greatly appreciated <3
#chemsky #quantsky #quantum #chemjobs
Jobs | Werner Dobrautz
Open positions in our group
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January 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Werner is great - check it out! #compchemsky
During the holidays, I revisited an idea I bring up (usually after a few drinks): A Theory of Food #Evolution! 🥖🍕 Just like species evolve, so does food. Which food risks extinction, and what food evolution will happens in zero gravity? #FoodForThought #recipes #culinary
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A Theory of Food Evolution
During the holiday season I got reminded of an idea I sometimes bring up jokingly (usually after a few drinks): A theory of food evolution! It goes something like this: Food is an evolving story of…
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January 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
During the holidays, I revisited an idea I bring up (usually after a few drinks): A Theory of Food #Evolution! 🥖🍕 Just like species evolve, so does food. Which food risks extinction, and what food evolution will happens in zero gravity? #FoodForThought #recipes #culinary
rahmlab.com/2025/01/04/a...
rahmlab.com/2025/01/04/a...
Raise your hands if your only problems running #Mac relate to #Microsoft! Here’s what Word had the balls to ask after failing to sync to OneDrive and proceeding to spinning-wheel-freeze on three separate attempts. Note how the “submit” button is greyed out. #1stworldproblems
December 18, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Raise your hands if your only problems running #Mac relate to #Microsoft! Here’s what Word had the balls to ask after failing to sync to OneDrive and proceeding to spinning-wheel-freeze on three separate attempts. Note how the “submit” button is greyed out. #1stworldproblems
Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology, #Sweden? Our excellence PhD positions are now open, featuring a range of top PIs. If you specifically want to join my research group, feel free to PM! #chemsky #chemjobs #compchemsky www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
Vacancies
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December 16, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Interested in pursuing a #PhD in #nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology, #Sweden? Our excellence PhD positions are now open, featuring a range of top PIs. If you specifically want to join my research group, feel free to PM! #chemsky #chemjobs #compchemsky www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
Here’s an idea: Imagine a #currency literally powered by carbon-neutral #energy. Could this help #SaveTheClimate? Let me know what you think. Share to reach those who might help bring it to life: rahmlab.com/2024/12/07/p... #Sustainability #GreenFuture #CleanTech #Altcoin
A Current-based Currency To Save Our Climate
The world would clearly benefit from abundant access to carbon-neutral electricity. However, a significant obstacle lies in the basic economics of supply and demand. As electricity production incre…
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December 12, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Here’s an idea: Imagine a #currency literally powered by carbon-neutral #energy. Could this help #SaveTheClimate? Let me know what you think. Share to reach those who might help bring it to life: rahmlab.com/2024/12/07/p... #Sustainability #GreenFuture #CleanTech #Altcoin
Example of nonsense #science reporting ”Just half a pound of the stuff may remove as much carbon dioxide as a tree can, according to early tests. ”. What!? Maybe if the #MOF is reused A LOT? #chemsky www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New powder that captures carbon could be ‘quantum leap’ for industry
A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use
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November 30, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Example of nonsense #science reporting ”Just half a pound of the stuff may remove as much carbon dioxide as a tree can, according to early tests. ”. What!? Maybe if the #MOF is reused A LOT? #chemsky www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Happy to have been elected board member of the European Committee for Chemical Bonding (ECCB)! Great community - I can recommend membership to those digging bonds. #chemsky #compchemsky #chembond www.eurchembond.com
European Committee for Chemical Bonding
A society dedicated to advancing the science and research of chemical bonding theory in Europe. Founded with the aim of fostering scientific excellence and collaboration, ECCB serves as a hub for researchers, academics, and professionals in the field. Our activities include organizing conferences such as the European Symposium on Chemical Bonding (ESCB), awarding prizes and scholarships for groundbreaking research, and publishing special issues in scientific journals to highlight significant contributions in chemical bonding. Committed to non-profit and public-benefit principles, ECCB ensures that all funds are utilized solely for promoting scientific endeavors without personal gain. With its headquarters in Leipzig, ECCB is a vibrant community that welcomes members from across Europe, offering opportunities for professional growth, networking, and recognition in the field of chemical bonding theory.
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November 28, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Happy to have been elected board member of the European Committee for Chemical Bonding (ECCB)! Great community - I can recommend membership to those digging bonds. #chemsky #compchemsky #chembond www.eurchembond.com
Pure gold 🧪 best journal www.universalrejection.org
Journal of Universal Rejection
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November 27, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Pure gold 🧪 best journal www.universalrejection.org
This came up in discussion with a student, on the topic of citation ethics. Funny drop of the ball by an editor. #chemsky Paper is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 26, 2024 at 10:29 PM
This came up in discussion with a student, on the topic of citation ethics. Funny drop of the ball by an editor. #chemsky Paper is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How much #bullshitresearch do YOU do (in %)? Definition: If you’d rather research something different, you are doing #BSresearch currently. Be honest with yourself. I will reflect before answering. Insightful video from @hossenfelder.bsky.social youtu.be/QtxjatbVb7M?... #chemsky #academia
Science is in trouble and it worries me.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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November 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM
How much #bullshitresearch do YOU do (in %)? Definition: If you’d rather research something different, you are doing #BSresearch currently. Be honest with yourself. I will reflect before answering. Insightful video from @hossenfelder.bsky.social youtu.be/QtxjatbVb7M?... #chemsky #academia