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Ian Tonks
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chemistry professor. catalysis, mechanism, synthesis, and polymers. likes to run.

https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/tonksgroup/home
This is symptomatic of a dearth of Thanksgiving music rather than Christmas creep, imo.
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sad my NIH R35 renewal panel won't be meeting tomorrow. Hopefully, hopefully... someday. (and that they like our stuff, we have some really exciting chemistry coming up!)
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At the rate we’re going I look forward to the future Nobel awarded for the discovery that Brawndo does not, in fact, have what plants crave.
October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Networking/emailing professors can't hurt (no guarantee it'll help, either!): but given how uncertain this year is, extra info could help (both for applicant and school). Shepherd them to programs that would be good fits in your professional experience. Help them write/communicate/think coherently!
September 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It’s a pretty good bucket, but I can tell you that after you eat about 40 of them you don’t feel very good.
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
💯. Emotionally maxxed out these days.
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
2 of my favorite things: Ti and LMCTs!
August 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yeah. Sorry--my extreme facetiousness didn't come across in the text. 😆 Such a joke!
August 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Yeah. My shrug emoji was doing some heavy lifting there--safe to say this list uh... doesn't quite accurately capture important forums. The gamification of publishing continues apace!
August 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fascinating. As a practicing academic chemist virtually zero of these top journals make it into my regular reading list. We are a diverse lot I guess! 🤷
August 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
yes, Jeff, it totally sucks. agreed!
August 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
oof. I get lots of spam emails from whatever this revvitysignals thing is and wow do I delete them quickly.
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Congrats! That’s big news in these crazy times.
August 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM