...and on a completely different note, I'm grateful for Theon Cross, tuba player extraordinaire. Everything the dude's involved with is incredible! (3/3)

theoncross.bandcamp.com

Today, I'm grateful for the PhD students in my lab that are writing fellowship applications. It's inspiring to see them pour so much into developing creative research directions, especially in a lot of research is under threat. I'm truly excited by their ideas and energy! (2/3).

Briana and Sean both have exciting stories to tell in which they have used high throughput screening, deep sequencing analysis, and rigorous follow-up experiments to "discover the unexpected." We're looking forward to sharing this work at the conference! (2/2)

Congratulations, team Lang! This looks extremely exciting!

Thanks especially to organizers Ryan Mehl, Richard Cooley, and John Lueck, for the thoughtful speaker selection (and to Ryan and Rick for getting up very early once a month!). (2/2)

@johndlucky.bsky.social #ChemSky

Thanks especially to Tufts ChBE faculty member Prashant for organizing (with assists from Nat and Graham) and for the impressive number of colleagues that traveled long distances to be at the symposium (2/2).

@pauldauenhauer.bsky.social @eagannat.bsky.social @grahamleverick.bsky.social

Also this. Size-matched amino acid; key controls for fancy hydration dynamics studies required a new noncanonical amino acid to confirm the importance of fluorine's unique electronic, not size, effects on protein-water interactions.

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It is extremely unfortunate that the Nobel Prizes can be awarded to a maximum of 3 individuals (even though these individuals are deserving!). We can combat this by ensuring that we look beyond the individuals that win the prizes and celebrating the accomplishments of an entire field (4/4).

There are always so many people that made key discoveries possible! This includes people in the labs of awardees, competing investigators, people that died before a prize was awarded... (3/n).

The more detailed scientific background is useful for understanding about scientific underpinnings as well as for celebrating the numerous people that made the prizes possible beyond the individuals awarded the prize (2/n).

I've also really enjoyed Jessica Winter's @jessicaowinter.bsky.social frankness and honesty about technology commercialization. The determination and persistence is incredibly inspiring! (2/2)

Shoot, I almost forgot the link to the show:

www.bmes.org/podcast/offi...