Ian Tonks

barebones website screenshot showing the NSF is down because they got evicted from their building by Trump sycophants

Research.gov looking *pretty* barebones these days... what a sad state of affairs.

Oh great. With this latest drawdown, there's only going to be 2000 masked agents terrorizing our city!

Hah, Agreed! I remember back in 2015 I put figures in my biosketch, which I only later realized (at renewal time) was a no-no. Oops...

Agreed. I really appreciated the old biosketch where I could discuss some of my contributions that have been building over the past decade that aren't necessarily "punctuated" by a single high-impact study. This seems/ed especially important/valuable for MIRA applications.

I appreciate how easy it is to use. I also think SciENcv is a great equalizer: it makes everyone's CV look like garbage. Win-win for ease and equity!

They could really step up by vocally lobbying and teaming up with key industry partners to push the government to stop their insanely damaging policies. I'm sure some of this is happening behind the scenes but I wish they were shouting from the rooftops.

I've made it clear the policy in our group is "no LLM/AI writing ever for anything."

I've also seen these in a few labs in Japan--recycling GPCs, circulating through a column many times to get separation. Beautiful, time consuming, great separation. Wish I had one!

The federal government is murdering our neighbors in broad daylight and carrying out a mission of terror against the Twin Cities. Schools and businesses are closed and people are staying home because they’re afraid of ICE. This is America in 2026: at war against its own people.

Chalcometallics? Oxymetallics?

Work with everyone’s favorite element!

sorry Kurtis, we live and die by Google Calendars, so you better get ready to eat for 27 h straight.

The deliciousness of a good pea is really forgotten in most American cuisine.

Indeed. I think that picture is very bimodal!

Unfortunately I don't think many departments operate in a "1-for-1" hiring model anymore. I'm sure it'd result in more jobs, but not as many as you think. And, the rest of us left behind get to do more work! 🥳

Top reaction scheme shows iminoanilines converting to 2H indazoles through FeCl3-catalyzed dehydrocoupling. Bottom scheme shows how N-N coupling can be used as a skeletal editing route to carry out CH for NR swaps in common bioactive indoles.

N-N coupling through Fe-catalyzed N-H dehydrocoupling! Check out our latest V2 on chemrxiv where we show you can catalyze PCET reactions using mild reagents below the thermodynamic limit of initial H• abstraction, make hard-to-access 2H-indazoles, and even skeletal edit! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Stupid boat rendered by a toddler

Who needs the NIH, NSF, CDC, air traffic controllers, weather monitoring, or health insurance WHEN WE CAN HAVE THIS!!!!!

Sunset pics would definitely require less rain.

I am happy to sit in the rain this week over it being -20 windchill! 😎

Hope to see you this week! Let me know if you need an AM running buddy!

I’m not sure this is the type of unicorn I’d like to be.

Indeed. I am (obviously) biased, but there's a need to shift the narrative back to orthogonal/unique reactivity and fundamental development. Of course, this is difficult (but not impossible!) to do given the desire (funding incentives) for everything to have utility or be translational.

Not breaking a lot of new ground here... lots of publications show the same thing, and with more LCA. This fails to capture how fundamental discovery with EAMs can drive *other* innovations, rather than simply 'replacement chem.' We need to get past the axe-grinding. Both warrant study/effort.

If anyone would like to give my startup 5% of that amount to *checks notes* commercialize an actual, existing molecule/material where we have lots of great data and applications, we are ready to roll!

With the holidays approaching, just a friendly reminder to get your nominations in for the Organometallics Distinguished Author Award by Dec 31! OM authors who published with us in 2024 & 2025 are eligible. Nominate your favorites today! americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Uuuuggghhhhhh

This is symptomatic of a dearth of Thanksgiving music rather than Christmas creep, imo.

Sad my NIH R35 renewal panel won't be meeting tomorrow. Hopefully, hopefully... someday. (and that they like our stuff, we have some really exciting chemistry coming up!)

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇

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Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky