Midwest Chemistry Professor & Rail Fan

Normal, Illinois, USA
Joined April 2012
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It's the most wonderful time of the year — #CSDWrapped is back! Get a personalized summary of your published crystal structures from Oct23-Oct24. Just ask us "What's my #CSDWrapped @ccdc_cambridge?" and tell us your publishing name. #Crystallography #Chemistry #MoveOverSpotify
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Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work. Here’s my invite link: invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5…
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Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work. Here’s my invite link: invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5…
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Hans-Beat Bürgi: Jack David Dunitz (1923–2021) and chemical crystallography @unibern ... #IUCr scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/pap…
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‘By mashing together highly efficient procedures based on his own and others’ ideas Sheldrick created a crystallographic ecosystem’ chemistryworld.com/opinion/s…
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#Chemtwitter folks who teach inorganic chem or related courses, this is your periodic reminder to check out the materials from your peers across the US on ionicviper.org! Also, we have a Discord server! ionicviper.org/blog-entry/sl…
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A 'Stunning' Level of Student Disconnection www-chronicle-com.eu1.proxy.… Wow, @bethmcmurtrie is bang on with this article. It captures very much what I have been experiencing as a chemistry faculty member this spring 2022 semester.
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Excellent opportunity for Tweeps and @ISUChemistry to all things chemistry, crystallography, machine learning, data mining, grad school and careers in science.
We're celebrating @usnccryst's online workshop series on crystallographic and structural databases with an AMA on Twitter: ⏰ April 12 2:30 – 3:30 PM ET 💬 @jeff_lengyel (CCDC) and Allen Oliver (@NDscience) ✔️ Tweet questions @ccdc_cambridge ✔️ Learn more: hubs.ly/Q017HcbH0
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Sometimes e-mails from my University hit my Inbox in ways that appear...well...you decide:
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See you on the other side Henry @MillerParkZoo . Squawk safe!
On Sunday, March 15, the zoo moved all of its bird species inside to eliminate contact with wild birds on zoo grounds trib.al/n7mi3mb
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Thanks Dave. Our University Periodic Tables we give away to kids at outreach events have the strapline “Be In Your Element” but TBH @ISUChemistry has it nailed! (and for a number of years now).
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Teaching Crystallography by Determining Small Molecule Structures and 3-D Printing: An Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Module pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… – at Tromsø, Norway
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You know it's 2022 when the weather report says "Winter thunderstorms with occasional hail and isolated tornados" like it's routine and no big deal. 🤣
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Ok there, so I gave it 1 go. Wordle 205 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@ternviz render C=C1C(=C)C(=C1c1ccc(cc1)C#N)c1ccc(cc1)C#N Ternviz computed structure after @ccdc_cambridge 293K observed solid state structure ORTEP of #CSDCommunication of 4,4'-(3,4-dimethylidenecyclobut-1-ene-1,2-diyl)dibenzonitrile by Bingzhi Chen. tiny.cc/IKINEY.
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@ternviz struggled a bit with the cyclobutadiene bonds but handles phenyl conformations