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Solar capacity is expected to triple based on new projects in the pipeline.

Total global solar capacity, including all projects in construction and planned, is expected to reach almost 3 terawatts, with 80% concentrated in just 15 countries.

Data @globalenergymon.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"Your invitation to review for..." x n, where n is a number that's larger than you expect #ChemSky
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"We have successfully received your letter of recommendation" x n, where n is a number that's larger than you expect #ChemSky
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar

go.nature.com/4oywvUV
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.
go.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I'm hiring postdocs @berkeleylab.lbl.gov to drive cutting-edge research involving MLIPs, high-throughput workflows, chemical reaction networks, generative models, and open-source software dev. Full position description + application here: forms.gle/zePBZDmciXez... #Chempostdoc #AI4Science
forms.gle
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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👋New preprint: "Interplay of Redox Non-Innocence and Symmetry Breaking in a 4d Coordination Framework"

🧪We’ve made Mo(pyz)₂I₂, the 4d cousin of the Cr(pyz)₂X₂ family — with redox-active ligands, symmetry breaking, semiconducting transport, and very strong magnetic interactions.

🔗👇
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Nobody makes enemies by finishing their talk early…
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I am not sure how many solid-state chemists are lurking here, but I bet 10p that CaSnO3 is not magnetic (with or without CO2) pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Supercritical CO2-modulated phase transition in CaSnO3 from orthorhombic to cubic symmetry for room-temperature ferromagnetism
The advancement of nanotechnology has enabled magnetic nanomaterials to exhibit remarkable potential and application value in medicine, transportation, information storage, and spintronics owing to th...
pubs.rsc.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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299 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Spherocobaltite:
- A carbonate mineral
- Found in hydrothermal deposits containing cobalt
- Named for its spherical shape and cobalt composition #minerals
October 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🤨No & No again! 👉 "Stale Citations" are an integral part of science: to give credit to crucial works of the past, avoiding 'reinventions', being a plague in research, e.g. in #chemsky #pisky

Your biased AI Tool to keep "research fresh" is a tombstone of science. Spooky indeed 😱 #researchintegrity
Check 18 of 26: citations older than a mummy’s wrap.

Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk highlights outdated references, ensuring research stays fresh, relevant and current.

Stale citations belong in history, not in peer review.

#ResearchIntegrity #Halloween
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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So much software reuse is untracked as people cite the software in the SI or because there are upper limits to citations.
🙃

I have never understood this.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Imagine if Alan Turing had access to Claude Code #CompChem
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Axel Becke, one of the big names in DFT development over the past 40 years, has passed away

#CompChem #ChemSky

(source Russell Boyd)
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Next Thursday afternoon, 30/10, the @thomasyoungcentre.bsky.social is organising a symposium in London on modelling battery materials with as speakers Marie-Liesse Doublet (Montpellier), Alex Squires (Birmingham) and Benjamin Morgan (Bath).
TYC Symposium: Batteries - THOMAS YOUNG CENTRE
Marie-Liesse Doublet, Montpelier - The Mirage of Anionic Redox for High-Energy Batteries Alexander Squires, Birmingham - Mixed-anion NaTaOxCl6-2x oxychlorides: From crystalline to amorphous networks f...
thomasyoungcentre.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The number of emails from potential PhDs & postdocs has skyrocketed this year. I can see many factors (from geopoliticial to scientific), but it's genuinely tough to deal with. I also remember the feeling of getting no response... #ChemSky
October 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Most journals now accept format-free submission (and the others should). Another example of “using AI” to solve a problem that could easily be solved another way?
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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🔥We're excited to announce a major milestone for the machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) ecosystem: TorchSim is moving to community ownership and governance through a partnership with Radical AI and the open-source community! TorchSim is an atomistic simulation engine built for the AI era.
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
October 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Historical evidence of life before matplotlib #CompChem
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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my PhD student G. Fabusola trained and tested machine learning algorithms to parse the response pattern of a conductive-MOF sensor array from K. Mirica's group!

👃 the electronic nose could detect and differentiate toxic gases and H₂S/SO₂ mixtures at ppm-levels.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
You never know what you’ll find while wandering around London #ChemSky
October 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Very strange to see #MOFs on mainstream tv after the #NobelPrize in #chemistry announcement. I guess it’s going to pop up in everyday lives more than usual!

Congratulations again to the winners and a special shoutout to Prof. Susumu Kitagawa - a partial alumni gathering photo below #chemsky
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM