Today and every day. Ukraine is not some geopolitical chess piece or a proxy or a buffer. It's innocent people dying every day under Russian attack because the most powerful democracies in the world refuse to protect them.

A world built for cars has made life much harder for adults. We end up supervising or driving our kids. Story below, no paywall, on how play streets can change this. So can Let Grow, which is renormalizing kids' independence & free play. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Chris Reed published an editorial perspective 20+ years ago on the exact same topic in C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News), interesting how things escalated even further since then.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. *Cornell University Lecture, 1964*

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Neat! Except the article begins like this: “Disillusioned with grad school…” 😵‍💫 nytimes.com/2024/08/17/wor…

Catch me at #ACSFall2024 ! I am giving two talks on Monday, 10:25AM and 2:25 PM.

Investing more funds into minor universities in less developed areas means giving more chances to those students who can't afford moving to big cities, valorizing local talent that might remain untapped, creating growth opportunities, reducing gaps. But the trend is the opposite!

Very few important things get done alone. Thank and recognize others for all they do.

More Fe(Cpᴺ³) chemistry now out in Organometallics!! Each H− reagent yields a different complex, and we observe Fe formyl complexes by NMR. DFT collab with Grimme Lab was vital to understand rxn mechanisms. 💻 Congrats Andy VanderWeide and Hagen! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Today, we celebrate the 33rd Independence Day of Ukraine. We are confident that Ukrainians will always celebrate this holiday in their free capital and within their own sovereign state. Ukraine will always remain independent—this is beyond question. Together, we have given a

Great news today at Chemistry at UofT University of Toronto U of T Arts & Science as two colleagues are recognized by the American Chemical Society Andrei Yudin awarded the A.C. Cope Scholar Robert (Bob) Morris the Organometallics Award cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS-a…

Congrats Bob Morris and Andrei Yudin !! University of Toronto Chemistry at UofT cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS-a…

But the fad of placing these on tables at weddings was awesome.

Are low coordination numbers required for stabilizing Ni=C double bonds? Check out the work of Pablo Pérez-García and María L. G. Sansores Paredes together with bonding experts Pascal Vermeeren and Célia Fonseca Guerra, just accepted in Chemistry! …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Today I learned that one of my childhood ice cream faves is a niche Canadian flavor: Tiger Tail 🐅 foodnetwork.ca/article/tiger-…

Achievement unlocked: PhD student #1 just successfully defended her thesis! Great work Dr. Bhumika Goel !! #proudPI Rutgers University-Newark Rutgers-Newark Chemistry Rutgers Research

Ukraine has done nothing wrong to deserve this—except believe that Europe and the United States would defend them.

AWESOME!! 🥰

Meanwhile in Chicago.