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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 2h

30 minutes from now at 12 noon ET
#ChemSky

Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Coming up tomorrow! 🚨
12 noon ET Oct 15
The next @organicdivision.org Virtual Symposium ft. Prof. Marvin Parasram @ParasramLab & Prof. Brian Stoltz @thestoltzgroup
Thank you Beyond CCHF for hosting!
Free to watch
YouTube: orgn.link/watch
Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/185635071
#ChemSky

Illustrative flyer for the October Vitrual symposium

Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Coming up tomorrow! 🚨
12 noon ET Oct 15
The next @organicdivision.org Virtual Symposium ft. Prof. Marvin Parasram @ParasramLab & Prof. Brian Stoltz @thestoltzgroup
Thank you Beyond CCHF for hosting!
Free to watch
YouTube: orgn.link/watch
Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/185635071
#ChemSky

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 6d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2...

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Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.

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Xie @mrpen.us · 6d

Sir this is Massachusetts, all of them.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 7d

It’s the Pluto of the Seas

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 7d

Yes

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ACS BIOL: Division of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology @acsbiol.bsky.social · 8d

#ChemSky for the next 24 hours

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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · Feb 14

You: They did the math.

Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ

You: What was that?

Me: Nothing.

Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 7d

Ah…I miss the old #ChemTw…
I mean the before times

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 8d

"It's true that in previous reactions, many or most reactants have been balanced across the equation, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary" #ChemSky

a man in a tuxedo sits at a table with his eyes closed and his hands folded

ALT: a man in a tuxedo sits at a table with his eyes closed and his hands folded

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 8d

Calling your reaction “metal-free” just because the metal isn’t d-block is…certainly a choice
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a close up of a man 's face with the word interesting written below him

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the word interesting written below him

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 8d

Naturally

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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 8d

Final Nobel predictions:
- Installing a reactive handle in step 1, then calling it late-stage functionalisation after swapping some protecting groups around
- Adding a drop of water to your reaction mixture and calling it "green"
- Pioneering the use of "unprecedented" in paper titles

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 8d

The person who convinced so many that alkaline water is the answer

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 8d

I enjoyed the heck out of this…

Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 9d

Oh no sorry dude. Enjoy the barn I suppose - best of luck to you all

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 9d

Do you have one of the NE CT crumbling foundations?

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 9d

Do they sell them pre-splattered with wing sauce? Or do you have to do that by yourself?

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 9d

#ChemSky
>80% of my publications
All of my external talks, awards, ACS work, collaborative research, etc happened after 40
Keep moving forward - sometimes it takes a while to find your spot

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9d

When I turned 25 I was legit deeply concerned that I had not yet written The Great American Novel, now at 56 if I could time travel back to meet that young fellow worried about not having birthed a True Work of Timeless Art in his first quarter century, I would, lovingly, turn the hose upon him