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Steven A. Lopez
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Computational photochemist -Associate Professor of Chemistry at Northeastern University (he/his 🏳️‍🌈)
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Well have you?

If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote
November 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Really excited for this Election Day in #nyc @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Finally a candidate I’m voting for instead of *just* against.
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Do you use chemical #ML to discover #molecules and #materials? Then you cannot miss the 2nd Chemical Compound Space Conference (CCSC) in March 2026 in Munich. We had fantastic time organising the 1st one last year, no doubt the 2nd will deliver! Early-bird register till 15.11. ccsc2026.github.io//
CCSC 2026
Chemical Compound Space Conference 2026
ccsc2026.github.io
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Check out our new collaborative paper on machine learning for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. It provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and best practices. Thx to
@jwestermayr.bsky.social @stevenalopez.bsky.social @rcrespootero.bsky.social ...
Machine learning for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics: best practices and recent progress
Exploring molecular excited states holds immense significance across organic chemistry, chemical biology, and materials science. Understanding the photophysical properties of molecular chromophores is...
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
June 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Chemistry faculty: Want to upskill your programming skills and learn to incorporate programming in your curriculum? Apply for our workshop “Empower Your Curriculum with Python” held July 9-10, 2025 at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Find out more and apply by May 15. molssi.org/join-the-act...
The Molecular Sciences Software Institution
This is the official website for MolSSI
molssi.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Lots and lots of chromophores to calculate? ☀️
No problem with #RI-ECI !🚀
Check our last paper in JPhysChemLett from #MECS at @univie.ac.at with Tomislav Pitesa and @sebastian-mai.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Efficient Excitonic Configuration Interaction for Large-Scale Multichromophoric Systems Using the Resolution-of-Identity Approximation
The calculation of electronic excited states in extended multichromophoric systems is computationally challenging. Here, we accelerate our recently introduced excitonic configuration interaction (ECI) method [T. Piteša et al. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2024, 20, 5609] with the resolution-of-identity approximation for the two-site two-electron integrals in the calculation of the interchromophoric Coulomb and exchange terms. Additionally, a simple overlap-based scheme is introduced to prescreen the Cholesky-transformed tensor of the three-centric two-electron interchromophoric exchange integrals, significantly accelerating the expensive tensor contraction for the two-site exchange term. This reduces both cost and memory requirements, enabling large-scale calculations of systems with many chromophores. We demonstrate its efficiency and accuracy by calculating electronic excited states of chains of up to 32 BODIPY chromophores and networks of up to 100 peri-xanthenoxanthene units, with 12 320 and 43 600 basis functions, respectively. We achieve errors in the excitation energies below 30 meV, using site states calculated with time-dependent density functional theory.
pubs.acs.org
March 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
@mayorwu.boston.gov has been a light in a dark time in our country. Thank you for defending Boston and the way of life that we enjoy here.
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Hey department chairs, please go talk to your assistant profs and discuss how tenure expectations will be changed in response to the current funding environment. They deserve a visit.
Also, adding years to the clock serves the university, not the researcher.
March 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Zhang et al. present N2AMD, an E(3)-equivariant neural Hamiltonian for nonadiabatic MD in solids. It achieves hybrid-functional accuracy and massive speedups, enabling precise simulations of carrier dynamics and recombination beyond conventional DFT. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Advancing nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations in solids with E(3) equivariant deep neural hamiltonians - Nature Communications
Accurate nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) is crucial for studying excited-state dynamics in solids but is computationally expensive. Here, authors use machine learning to enhance the efficiency ...
www.nature.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For the many new faces I'm seeing around in #compchemsky 🧪

go.bsky.app/UGFPoE2
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Starting a Parks & Rec rewatch to spend some time with goodhearted public servants
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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February 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
@hhmi.bsky.social have you no shame? 🤮🤮🤮
February 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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What a time to be an assistant professor at a large, R1 public university in the United States.
February 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Just got word that our Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) Grant was being canceled. All 100+ institutions. So even private funding is susceptible to this administration’s unraveling of DEI initiatives
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science

www.science.org/content/blog...
What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Suggested substitutions:
Activism = activismo
Barrier = burier
Biased = asymmetrical, or lopsided
BIPOC = everybody who’s not some weird authoritarian (EWNSWA)
Black = blacktastic, mahogany, wakandan
Latinx = mi gente, or buena gente

I can’t wait to submit my next grant proposal.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
@acs.org wondering why #ACS has been so quiet on this platform about a multitude of current events… 🤔
February 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Amazing collaborative work from an excellent team! Thanks @jingbai-li.bsky.social for leading this effort 🤩
January 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM