Thank you Alán! Had an excellent time in Toronto. Really excited to work with you and your group!

Last but not least, thank you to the Orca team @orca-qc-official.bsky.social @faccts.de for making such a wonderful, powerful and easy to use program!
Thanks Kanthen for super useful advice to get all metal 3d-orbitals in the active space! Check out the Methods in the paper.
#chemsky #comp_chem 4/4

We also observed a very facile anion-mediated reduction of one of the copper corroles, and a considerable environment effect on the position of the Q-band, which makes this corrole interesting for photothermal applications in biological media.
Thank you to all co-authors for their hard work! 3/n

We analyzed the strong red/NIR Q-bands in deprotonated free-base corroles and reduced copper corroles, involving core-to-aryl transitions, using CASSCF/NEVPT2 methods with large-ish active spaces. We included the metal 3d, the corrole Gouterman and the meso-aryl orbitals in the active spaces. 2/n

It's nice how they steal the voices of people and try to steal their likenesses.

How about reading someone's application where they choose a few papers and explain their contribution?

Looks so good!

Thanks for the support!

We Argentinians are very resilient and resourceful, but after years of almost no funding, no scholarships, almost no candidates, it's getting hard. And we still have at least two more years of this! 7/7

This is so backwards!! They remove the funding, vilify scientists, pay lousy salaries and terrible scholarships and then pretend that we suddenly come up with industry partners to develop new technologies?? With what?? 6/n

My colleagues and I have many ideas which could perhaps lead to tech transfer, and some perhaps to products. But to test and develop those ideas takes years, a lot of people, and funding orders of magnitude higher than we have rn. 5/n

Without people starting their PhDs there is going to be a huge generational breach that is going to propagate over generations. There is also a freeze on hiring support staff of any kind (admin, technical, maintenance, etc). So how are groups going to deliver on these applied science projects? 4/n

There has been a reduction both in PhD and PD scholarships, but also on people interested in pursuing science. PhD scholarships in some cities like mine are not enough to live unless your parents or someone support you. Many labs are very empty. 3/n

My guess is that people will try to claim they are now doing applied science and technology, and we will see a lot of money wasted on failed attempts by people who have a resume but have no real applied science experience. 2/n