Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)
@ewcspottesmith.bsky.social
Ad Astra Fellow, Asst. Prof. of Digital Chemistry, @ucddublin.bsky.social |
Editor, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social |
Personal: espottesmith.github.io |
Research group (@coreacter.org): CoReACTER.org |
orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-197X |
All opinions mine
Editor, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social |
Personal: espottesmith.github.io |
Research group (@coreacter.org): CoReACTER.org |
orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-197X |
All opinions mine
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The CoReACTER is hiring 1 PhD student (4 years, start date Sept. 1, 2026) to work on multi-scale modeling of reactivity in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Apply by Jan. 16, 2026
#PhDjobs #PhDSky #CompChem #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #BlackInSTEM #diversityinSTEM #LatinxSTEM #disabledinSTEM
The CoReACTER is hiring 1 PhD student (4 years, start date Sept. 1, 2026) to work on multi-scale modeling of reactivity in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Apply by Jan. 16, 2026
#PhDjobs #PhDSky #CompChem #WomenInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #BlackInSTEM #diversityinSTEM #LatinxSTEM #disabledinSTEM
www.ucd.ie
Come join me in Ireland @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdchemistry.bsky.social! Help us understand the messiness of cross-talk in metal-ion batteries!
#BattChat #NewPI #sustainability #electrochem
#BattChat #NewPI #sustainability #electrochem
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The #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program has almost an equal number of applicants for mentees and mentors!
Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜
Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The #DisabledInSTEM Mentorship Program has almost an equal number of applicants for mentees and mentors!
Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜
Just sad to see interest extremely low this year. I’m not sure how I could reach people better so please share within your networks! 💜
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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/1
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"… in the final stretch of the year, let’s recognize everyone who continues to do the important work of great teaching, despite the discouraging climate." writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3XeEqei
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"… in the final stretch of the year, let’s recognize everyone who continues to do the important work of great teaching, despite the discouraging climate." writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3XeEqei
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We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We know that, for a ton of reasons, a lot of folks don't have as much to spend as they'd like this holiday season. Sooooooo, here's a thread of things you can do that will support your local indie bookstore or other business WITHOUT spending any more than you intended...
"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity"" by Hernandez and Bell gives @floralashes.bsky.social a run for their money in the "best/funniest footnote in a paper on transness" category.
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Paper: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Released v0.2.0 of the @coreacter.org code SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a Julia package for dealing with my current mathematical obsession, directed hypergraphs.
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
GitHub - CoReACTER/SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl: An package for directed hypergraphs in the Julia programming language, extending SimpleHypergraphs.jl
An package for directed hypergraphs in the Julia programming language, extending SimpleHypergraphs.jl - CoReACTER/SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Released v0.2.0 of the @coreacter.org code SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a Julia package for dealing with my current mathematical obsession, directed hypergraphs.
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
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Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
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Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Waitlisting people can lead to inequality.
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A study of 274,316 students finds that low-SES students are much less likely to wait for offers to preferred schools. This led low-SES students to ultimately enroll in programs they liked less and that were less prestigious.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
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Looking for book club recommendations at the intersection of STEM and underrepresented communities, either as the author or in the plot. Fiction recommendations in particular. #QueerInSTEM
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking for book club recommendations at the intersection of STEM and underrepresented communities, either as the author or in the plot. Fiction recommendations in particular. #QueerInSTEM
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"Have the POWER of access to high quality masks!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Have the POWER of access to high quality masks!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
If you can't afford to spend $20 on a small pack of 3M Auras, which is true for a lot of people, contact your local Mask Bloc: maskbloc.org
But I guarantee you, the vast majority of the maskless in public are because "I don't wanna!"
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RT Yale Chemistry @YaleChem Yale Chemistry invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in chemical biology, energy sciences, and physical or theoretical chemistry, to start July 1 chem.yale.edu/about/job-op... #chemchat #chemjobs
Job Openings
chem.yale.edu
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
RT Yale Chemistry @YaleChem Yale Chemistry invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in chemical biology, energy sciences, and physical or theoretical chemistry, to start July 1 chem.yale.edu/about/job-op... #chemchat #chemjobs
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If we knew what we were going to find by doing cutting-edge research, it wouldn't be cutting-edge research.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If we knew what we were going to find by doing cutting-edge research, it wouldn't be cutting-edge research.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
If you want "research" outcomes to be a sure thing, you stop doing actual research & start stealing other people's results & commercialising them. But that will annoy them.
This has probably already been posted here (I haven't looked exhaustively), but just in case...
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
On Fleeing a queer person's workbook on how and when to go (print two-sided).pdf
drive.google.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This has probably already been posted here (I haven't looked exhaustively), but just in case...
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
"On Fleeing: A Queer Person's Workbook for How and When to Go" (made by Starlight, shared by Nope Brigade on Patreon)
#antifascism #LGBTQ #trans #queer #fleeing
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The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
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Unrelated to mim itself, but this is also the first preprint I've prepared in @typst.app rather than LaTeX. It was soooo much nicer. Folks; what are we doing? Why don't our journals accept manuscript sources in Typst!
Ok; mim (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...) preprint submitted! Excited for folks to see it and share thoughts. The key takeaway; mim allows the quick, one-time, building of a small auxiliary index that then allows scaling gzipped FASTQ parsing linearly in # of threads. 1/2
GitHub - COMBINE-lab/mim: A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing
A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing - COMBINE-lab/mim
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Unrelated to mim itself, but this is also the first preprint I've prepared in @typst.app rather than LaTeX. It was soooo much nicer. Folks; what are we doing? Why don't our journals accept manuscript sources in Typst!
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In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
NIH shake-up to grant decision-making draws concerns of political meddling
Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals
scim.ag
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval. https://scim.ag/48ck2zu
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Here's hoping some more people will get a wake-up call from this that the ✨antisemitism✨ mummery was always just that.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here's hoping some more people will get a wake-up call from this that the ✨antisemitism✨ mummery was always just that.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... / archive.is/ll6Md
(I'll hold my applause for Penn until the end of the presentation.)
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Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Conference registration fees are getting out of hand. I know its part of the tenure game but I can't justify dropping 800 USD to go give a talk.
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South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
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Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
telescoper.blog
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Money and Open Access
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!
Wouldn't you and your institution rather keep your grant funds to spend on research than hand it over - directly or indirectly - to publishers? I know I would!