Jacob Olshansky
@jacob-olshansky.bsky.social
Chemist. Assistant Professor at Amherst College. Researching and teaching in the excited state.
https://olshanskylab.wordpress.amherst.edu
https://olshanskylab.wordpress.amherst.edu
Reposted by Jacob Olshansky
Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Jacob Olshansky
With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
May 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
Very thankful to our NSF grant for funding a talented post-bac researcher (Frida) working on photo-generated spin states and to Amherst College for supporting our awesome post-doc (Eunbyeol). Both made beautiful quantum dots recently on a bittersweet #fluorescencefriday
May 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Very thankful to our NSF grant for funding a talented post-bac researcher (Frida) working on photo-generated spin states and to Amherst College for supporting our awesome post-doc (Eunbyeol). Both made beautiful quantum dots recently on a bittersweet #fluorescencefriday
Excited to share our latest work on spin qubit pairs now out (open access!) in ACS Nano. Big thanks to Amherst College students Autumn, Frida, and Amisha and to our collaborators at Utah, UConn, LBL, and Argonne!
doi.org/10.1021/acsn...
doi.org/10.1021/acsn...
Tunable Spin Qubit Pairs in Quantum Dot–Molecule Conjugates
Organic molecules and quantum dots (QDs) have both shown promise as materials that can host quantum bits (qubits). This is in part because of their synthetic tunability. The current work employs a com...
doi.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Excited to share our latest work on spin qubit pairs now out (open access!) in ACS Nano. Big thanks to Amherst College students Autumn, Frida, and Amisha and to our collaborators at Utah, UConn, LBL, and Argonne!
doi.org/10.1021/acsn...
doi.org/10.1021/acsn...
I was so pleasantly surprised today to find one of my favorite topics, spin-correlated radical pairs, has broken through to popular science podcasts! radiolab.org/podcast/quan...
Quantum Birds
How birds bend space and time.
radiolab.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I was so pleasantly surprised today to find one of my favorite topics, spin-correlated radical pairs, has broken through to popular science podcasts! radiolab.org/podcast/quan...
Reposted by Jacob Olshansky
Happy to announce I will be guest editing a special issue highlight PUI research! Please share
axial.acs.org/cross-discip...
axial.acs.org/cross-discip...
Call For Papers: Undergraduate Research as the Stimulus for Scientific Progress in the USA | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
This Special Issue will highlight the significant research activities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) in the United States and their unique focus on fostering student engagement in STEM...
axial.acs.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Happy to announce I will be guest editing a special issue highlight PUI research! Please share
axial.acs.org/cross-discip...
axial.acs.org/cross-discip...
Post-bac Frida successfully synthesized Mn-doped QDs just in time for #fluorescencefriday. We love 580 nm millisecond emission
January 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Post-bac Frida successfully synthesized Mn-doped QDs just in time for #fluorescencefriday. We love 580 nm millisecond emission