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Kristaps Ermanis
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Computational organic chemist, assistant professor at
Uni of Nottingham, UK

https://ermanisgroup.org/
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Got my performance review.
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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It's a tax "raid". When you or I pay our income tax it's just a tax. But when a fabulously wealthy millionaire who refuses to contribute to the country whose public services they use (and yes, they use roads, defence, police etc) it's a "raid".
www.ft.com/content/8882...
Meet the non-doms fighting Rachel Reeves’s tax raid
With chancellor planning tax shake-up in this month’s Budget, Foreign Investors for Britain is trying to affect debate
www.ft.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!
November 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how:

docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
docs.bsky.app
November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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go.bsky.app/Qc4frbt

Made a starter pack for computational chemists, let me know who I missed please

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November 12, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Chemistry degrees have some of the highest values of any degree and are vital if we want to build a competitive high-tech nation. But they are expensive, and so if universities want to save money quickly they will just ignore national priorities and close them.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year
The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes
www.chemistryworld.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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A starter pack on the molecular theoretical quantum world.

#compchem #molphys #theochem 🧪

go.bsky.app/UGFPoE2
November 16, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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For all the new #ChemSky people, this is potentially useful (with caveats that big accounts don't always mean *good to follow* of course, but the tool has an alternative option there...).
November 18, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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The Baker lab seems serious about moving into enzyme design.

Here, they train a flow-matching model that can be conditioned by atomic coordinates and then use it to design enzymes based on active site geometry specified by density functional theory.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 15, 2024 at 10:11 PM