Steven Silverman

Congratulations to the @organicdivision.org Industrial Early and Mid-Career Investigator Awardees! This year, we were able to partner with @acsmedi.bsky.social and ANYL to recognize even more outstanding scientists. Looking forward to hearing everyone’s award talks next month in Washington, DC!

After not posting for a while, I figured five simultaneous fireworks displays around lower Manhattan was a good start. Perk of living a couple blocks from the Hudson :)

Early Career Investigator Award - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry The Early Career Investigator Award Symposium is for investigators who are in a non-academic setting and are no more than 10 years into their career.

Just one more week to submit nominations for the 2025 Industrial Early and Mid-Career Investigator Awards, so nominate a colleague today! Looking forward to a great set of award talks this fall!

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Sanders asks RFK Jr. about his former org. selling anti-vaccine baby onesies | CNN Politics During the Senate confirmation hearing for HHS nominee Robert Kennedy Jr., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questioned Kennedy’s support for the Children’s Health Defense, an organization that Kennedy chair...

Let’s be clear, any asterisk RFK puts on his newfound pro-vaccine stance (“we just need to ask questions”) tells us exactly what his HHS intentions are. He is profoundly anti-science and has zero credibility. One of the more telling moments from today’s stream of lies… www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

Agency heads must ask employees “if they know of any efforts to disguise (DEI) programs by using coded or imprecise language.”

Sounds like he’s still a dictator on day 2. Who would have guessed?

Also no naphthene. So anti-science :)

Aww, come on @nytimes.com! I’m sensing some alkane bias.

A flexible and scalable synthesis of 4′-thionucleosides 4′-Thionucleosides (thNAs) are synthetic nucleoside analogues that have attracted attention as leads for drug discovery in oncology and virology. Here we report a de novo thNA synthesis that relies on...

So excited to see this published! Thionucleosides can be incredibly challenging to make due to the need for oxidation state changes at sulfur during the synthesis. Collaborating with the Britton group, we’ve been able to make them using a short, selective sequence!
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Travel Awards - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Awards are offered for undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at PUI for travel to ACS National Meetings

Reminder: On December 1

Applications for Travel Awards to Spring ACS are Due
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Person, woman, man, camera, TV

It says they’re stable…chicken.

I’m so excited to be serving the DOC as next year’s chair-elect! Thanks to everyone who voted and who ran for office. Looking forward to continuing to volunteer for the community!

Wow, I’m old. I would have gone with the original 8-bit NES…

What’s a radio?

It got good towards the end!

Thanks Nick! So excited for the new ACS role!

The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry has joined the Chemsky community!

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried | CNN Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post se...

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America "healthy" has health experts worried, and advocates for public health are not mincing words with their criticism

Oh no, that one is true. You haven’t been asked to bury fake fossils yet? I’ll add you to the group :)

So you’re saying the anti-vax comments that punctuate scientific conversations on Twitter weren’t based on fact? :)

Early Career Investigator Award - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry The Early Career Investigator Award Symposium is for investigators who are in a non-academic setting and are no more than 10 years into their career.

Nominations for the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award are now being accepted! This year we’ve partnered with the Divisions of Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of industrial research. Nominate a colleague today! www.organicdivision.org/earlycareeri...