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Janine George
@molecularxtal.bsky.social
Computational Chemist. 🦀🐍 Scientist at BAM
+ Professor FSU Jena. Only private opinions here.
Last name: German pronunciation. 🏳️‍🌈 she/they (sie).

@JaGeo on github
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Hi #Chemsky, hi #compchem

Time for an re-introduction. I am Janine. I work on materials informatics topics @bamresearch.bsky.social and @uni-jena.de . I mostly work from Berlin.

We (my awesome research group and I) try to connect quantum-chemical bonding descriptors with materials properties.
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I wonder if I should post more routinely that we do have monthly video meetings for anyone in the @fhi-aims.bsky.social community.

The next one is tomorrow, Nov 12, 8:30 am EST. Time and coordinates are routinely posted in the Slack workspace.

#compchemsky (in case any FHI-aims users are there)
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just got the notification: 50 Years of the "Horses".

It's probably one of my favorite music albums ever. Released only 14 years before I was born.
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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🎓 Applications are open for the IMAT Centre for Doctoral Training at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social & @oxfordmaterials.bsky.social!

Among many exciting topics, have a look at our projects P10 and P13, both combining MLIPs and #compchem with close experimental collaborations: imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
Home | IMAT CDT
imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I have a friend. When I speak with her, my spoken English gets a lot better. It's so interesting.

But it doesn't stick. 😅
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Falling asleep on a Saturday at 7 pm. 🙃
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Today, I found myself in a discussion with some participants who believed that all theoretical predictions were nonsense as they have not all be replicated in the lab.

Okay.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Academic life:
1 day conference in a different city, then another appointment the next day 😅.

That's the part I hate.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Bus connections Berlin Dresden seem to be much better than the train connections.
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Meanwhile Halloween 🎃 #Halloween2025 in #Pittsburgh
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My hobbies are so weird that I really don't have any small talk topics.
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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A new preprint and two firsts:
Joana Bustamante's first first-author preprint in our group and us developing a model for thermal conductivity!

Feedback welcome!

arxiv.org/abs/2510.23133

#compchem
Thermal Transport in Ag8TS6 (T= Si, Ge, Sn) Argyrodites: An Integrated Experimental, Quantum-Chemical, and Computational Modelling Study
Argyrodite-type Ag-based sulfides combine exceptionally low lattice thermal and high ionic conductivity, making them promising candidates for thermoelectric and solid-state energy applications. In thi...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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doi.org/10.1063/5.0288278 Abinit 2025: New capabilities for the predictive modeling of solids and nanomaterials. #compchem
Abinit 2025: New capabilities for the predictive modeling of solids and nanomaterials
Abinit is a widely used scientific software package implementing density functional theory and many related functionalities for excited states and response prop
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I think I now have a way to describe what I am frustrated with in research: "Focusing too much on the adjacent possible."
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A new preprint and two firsts:
Joana Bustamante's first first-author preprint in our group and us developing a model for thermal conductivity!

Feedback welcome!

arxiv.org/abs/2510.23133

#compchem
Thermal Transport in Ag8TS6 (T= Si, Ge, Sn) Argyrodites: An Integrated Experimental, Quantum-Chemical, and Computational Modelling Study
Argyrodite-type Ag-based sulfides combine exceptionally low lattice thermal and high ionic conductivity, making them promising candidates for thermoelectric and solid-state energy applications. In thi...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Made it to the Eiffeltower today 😅. Only took 1 h to get there from South of Berlin
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Made it to the Eiffeltower today 😅. Only took 1 h to get there from South of Berlin
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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
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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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In Shenzhen (China) for the SMART Symposium in #compchem.
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Imagine if Alan Turing had access to Claude Code #CompChem
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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A good couple of days catching up on the latest Turbomole developments in beautiful Augsburg #compchem
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Really happy to see my PhD work now published in Crystal Growth & Design with @micheleceriotti.bsky.social and @graemeday.bsky.social

I worked on this through the whole PhD journey and its really nice to have it out and share it!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#compchem #chemsky
An Adapted Similarity Kernel and Generalized Convex Hull for Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction
We adapted an existing approach to identifying stabilizable crystal structures from prediction sets─the Generalized Convex Hull (GCH)─to improve its application to molecular crystal structures. This w...
pubs.acs.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM