Henrique C. S. Junior

A four-panel comic strip illustrating the ironic contrast between the monumental scientific effort required to create satellite internet and the way it is sometimes utilized. Panel 1: A scientist works diligently at a desk late at night. She is looking at papers, a calculator, and a computer monitor displaying a graph. A caption box at the top reads: "THE EFFORT OF MANY SCIENTISTS". Panel 2: A large rocket launches from a coastal launchpad on Earth, heading up toward space. A caption box reads: "ONE OF THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES". Panel 3: A satellite is shown orbiting a clearly spherical Earth against the black backdrop of space. A caption box reads: "ALL OF THIS TO DELIVER INTERNET...". Panel 4: An angry-looking man is recording himself with his smartphone. A caption box reads: "TO BILLY". Billy has a speech bubble that reads: "THE EARTH IS FLAT!!!!".

Shut up Billy!

And if you look at the papers, some actually seem quite interesting. There was no reason to cheat, but....

But of course. Nobody could accuse him of wrongdoing.

Really? he is quite famous at PubPeer: pubpeer.com/search?q=Hit...
And I am a bit sad that this gives Comp Chemists a bad reputation.
Well... ai least I had the chance to make my "worse than Hitler" joke.

MeCN for the win.

To be honest I was not expecting to be able to really work with it this fast and for the software to be THIS good. O am already pointing my peers to www.fhi-aims.org

Hi, Volker. Just to let you know that I am already getting great results using #FHI-aims. The compilation to use GPU was easy enough and it is now moving to more serious jobs.
Thank you so much for the suggestion.

donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and is making a funny face . ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and is making a funny face .

Pessoas que falam de si mesmos na terceira pessoa do singular... Que bando de esquisitos.

Some very solid acting in Gideon too. I am quite impressed.

#compchem colleagues,

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Yes, I did. #QuitGPT

#literature

The CI iterations failed to converge haha. But after some tweaks it is going forward right now.

Photograph of David Waldeck - in the background is the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning

I share the sad news that Prof. David H. Waldeck passed away after a battle with cancer. Dave was an extraordinarily creative scientist, a devoted educator, and to all of us a friend, mentor, and leader.

He will be deeply missed

#chemsky #chemchat

I just received the slurm alert that my SA-CAS(20,25) has finished in 23:48:38.
Yeah, right. Not even ORCA with ICECI is that fast.
I have a baaaaaaad feeling.

Chemist nears three dozen retractions for image duplication, self-citation and more A screenshot of Louis’ LinkedIn profile before we reached out to him. Racking up 35 retractions in just 24 months, chemist Hitler Louis has scored a place on our leaderboard.  The papers…

I guess the phrase "worse than Hitler" don't apply here. #chemchat

retractionwatch.com/2026/02/24/c...

In this recent paper, authors introduce a new geometrical descriptor for covalency. They use Q-Chem's EDA, a well-established descriptor for covalency, as a point of comparison for their new metric. doi.org/10.1039/D5DT...

Try EDA in Q-Chem: q-chem.com/try/

What a time to be alive! Students preparing reports made by AI and we can start grading the reports using AI. Soon, on an university close to you!

CAS(20,25) with ICECI surprisingly fast.

Postdoc position (Marseille) — Nonadiabatic dynamics of excitonic states in chiral hybrid interfaces A postdoc position (two years) will be available at Aix-Marseille University (amU), Marseille, co-supervised by Prof. Mario Barbatti (ICR, amU/CNRS) and Dr. Josene Toldo (LCH, Lyon1 University). The s...

Postdoc position in Marseille. #CompChem

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412917

My first time using F12 😑

#VISTAtalks on #CompChem 🧪
Wed 25 Feb 2026, 10:00 Buffalo / 15:00 London / 16:00 Paris / 23:00 Beijing
* Pedraza-González, U Pisa: Excitation energy transfer in microbial rhodopsins
* Pimentel, U California Irvine: Thermodyn. consistent coarse-graining
quantum-dynamics-hub.github.io/VISTA/

#chemchat
I remember when I used to be a decent Python coder.
At this rate, I may be writing the last lines of code I’ll ever write. LLMs are getting so good that soon my main skill will be knowing how to spell “function.”

YouTube video by Teacher Therapy 8th Graders Can’t Read or Think and Teachers Are Warning America 😭

I see the same almost every semester:

www.youtube.com/shorts/YzA27...

I just watched Frankenstein by Guilhermo del Toro. 7/10.

Lawful Neutral

Such a great work Pavlo. Congratulations.

Did they get at least 50% of the question?

16th Edition of the European Symposium on Computing pi-Conjugated Compounds (CPiC), organized by Silvio Osella, CeNT, Univ. of Warsaw cpic16.cent.uw.edu.pl
#CompChemSky

Thanks again, Silvio, for the great organization!