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What will you find at the #CCCE2022 Inorganic Mixer? a) A venue with Calgary's largest beer selection b) Trivia and prizes c) Good vibes and excitement as we return to an in-person conference and mixer d) All of the above!
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Banff from the top of Sulphur Mountain right now. #CCCE2022 participants, this is what you get for 655 m elevation gain on foot or $84 return with gondola. Not part of the conference schedule, 150 km west of Calgary.
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The University of Calgary is hiring an X-ray Crystallographer, for details see internal.careers.ucalgary.ca… @Chemjobber @LouiseDawe please retweet!
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Spontaneous Ammonia Oxidation Through Coordination Induced Bond Weakening in Molybdenum Complexes of a Dianionic Pentadentate Ligand Platform | ChemRxiv doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20… New preprint on the work of Chris and Nicole from the PG and Dr. Rajeshkumar from the Maron group. 😎
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Today I was notified that I got the 2021 #ICS Excellent Young Scientist Prize. I'd like to thank my students, postdocs and coworkers. It is a recognition for all their hard work and creativity. 🙏🙏 Congrats to Amnon as well!
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Want to join a growing team of amazing scientists? The Prokopchuk Group is looking for a postdoc! Projects available at the interface of organometallic chemistry, electrocatalysis, and chemical fuels. apply here if you’re interested: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/14… #chempostdocbot
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Guess who was just awarded the NSF GRFP 😉😍🥳🤩 #RealTimeChem #chemtwitter
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My parents spent YEARS in my undergrad trying to convince me that despite what everyone told me, I would never get my PhD paid for. They didn’t believe that I got paid for going to school until the day my acceptance letters came in promising me financial compensation 😕
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One thing that bothers me in the current peer review process is unnecessary requests by some referees for “applications” to justify fundamental chemistry discoveries. So I recently started adding these sort of statements in some of my referee reports to preemptively counter this.
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Another HOT article for you! 🔥 R. Dobrovetsky @DobrovetskyG & G. Menard @GabLab_UCSB and colleagues' have published a HOT Comm on isolable cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene–phosphonyl radical adducts 😊 Read it here! 👉 ow.ly/ZBOA50y6ZPZ
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Our latest work on the reactivity of a cationic [MgH]+ species towards acids, oxidants, and heterocumulenes, including CO2, is now available online! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Below is the ChemComm article from earlier this year: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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The latest work from the @GabLab_UCSB draws analogies to PCET from probing hydrogen atom transfer type chemistry at a Phosphorus(V) Oxide bond. @TimCarroll9 @ChemJChu acspubs.co/3nXj30mv5AV
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UC Santa Barbara is now a top 5 public national university, according to the just-released 2019 @usnews #BestColleges Rankings! Go #Gauchos!! ow.ly/bCoT30lJxcZ
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