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Comment: The ACS Strategic Plan in action Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

In December 2024, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors approved the 2025–29 ACS Strategic Plan to guide the organization over the next 5 years. This strategic plan is intended to be a living document that upholds the needs and priorities of the society.

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@ucddublin.bsky.social 🇮🇪 had two professors 💚🤍🧡 who gave talks in the ACS Singapore Youth Challenge 2026 as invited keynoted speakers! 😄

is that a Bingo sheet? 😄

The Fung Lab ~ SenpaiLearn welcomes US-exchange students Annette and Sienna to the group for their semester research at @ucddublin.bsky.social . We celebrated lunar new year 🧧 with members who celebrate in their traditions 🍊🍊Happy New Year of the Horse 🐎

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Chemists share a love of science at 2026 ACS Singapore Chapter Youth Challenge cen.acs.org/acs-news/Che...

Congratulations!

Lived in Singapore for most of my life but it feels great to give my first (two) talks at NTU Singapore 🇸🇬 last week. Celebrating 🎉 #ACS150 @acs.org with the ACS Singapore Youth Challenge. So happy to see young chemists presenting their research 🔬 @mbsullivan.bsky.social @chemscrapes.bsky.social

At UCD Chemistry, we also organised our inaugural GWB!
Credits to the EDI Committee at the School of Chemistry.
@ucddublin.bsky.social

Knowing what information to trust is important these days.
Develop critical thinking skills!
@ucddublin.bsky.social

Too bad this didn't show up earlier for the #ACSSGYC26

Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate! @chemfunman.bsky.social @chemscrapes.bsky.social @ruiagoncalves.bsky.social @rochellesilva.bsky.social

YouTube video by CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society How Scientists Learn to Tell Their Research Story | CAS Future Leaders™

Did you know that narratives can generate interest in your research? @storycollider.bsky.social provides #CASFutureLeaders with skills for effective storytelling. If you're a Ph.D. student or postdoc, apply for the 2026 program by January 25. www.cas.org/about/future... youtu.be/3J9LvBqM8XY?...

*1st paper of 2026*

Think more, Think Critically!

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Integrating the CRAAP Framework to Support Critical Thinking and Information Literacy The rise of fake news, encompassing misinformation and disinformation, threatens societal progress, particularly in environmental science and the pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development ...

Integrating the CRAAP Framework to Support Critical Thinking and Information Literacy | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Happy birthday 🥳 ACS!!

See you tomorrow!

Re-upping this, and also sharing a new position open in my department @ucdchemistry.bsky.social. We're looking for an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Closing date is March 31, 2026.

⚗️ 🧪 #chemjobs #euchemjobs #facultychemjobs

Beers 🍺 aren’t very affordable there..

AY25-26 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemical Engineering Faculty Jobs List (run by Arvind Ganesan and Todd N. Whittaker) has 96 research/teaching positions and 19 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemEjobs #chemsky

I credit 🇮🇪 @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdscience.bsky.social leadership for their foresight in investing a professorship in Chemistry Education - it elevates people around @ucdchemistry.bsky.social ! 💚🤍🧡

Chemistry is Everything!
#ACS150
Proud to be a Chemist, Proud to be a member of @acs.org 👨‍🔬

Lecturer / Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, UCD School of Chemistry, Permanent Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer / Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry within UCD School of Chemistry. The successful candidate will have research interests in any area of Organic Chemistry, and these include, but are not limited to, the development of novel methods in synthetic chemistry, sustainability, supramolecular chemistry, natural products chemistry, green chemistry, catalysis, and industrial chemistry. The candidate will contribute to our undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in particular, curriculum development of our BSc programmes in (a) Chemistry, (b) Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology and (c) Chemistry with Environmental and Sustainable Chemistry. The candidate will supervise and perform cutting edge research and contribute to administration of the school. 95 Lecturer / Assistant Professor (above the bar) 2010 Salary Scale: €64,753 - €102,539 per annum. Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 27/02/2026. Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned. Note: Hours of work for academic staff are those as prescribed under Public Service Agreements. For further information please follow link below: https://www.ucd.ie/hr/t4media/Academic%20Contract.pdf

Come be my colleague @ucdchemistry.bsky.social!

We're currently looking for an organic chemist (broadly defined) to start as a permanent (i.e., tenured) assistant professor.

Job reference (www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...) is 019237. Due date Feb. 27, 2026

Reach out if you have questions!

Evan is my colleague at @ucddublin.bsky.social !

Organic-Dominated Nanozymes for Pesticide Detection: Toward Sustainable Agricultural Monitoring Nanozymes are synthetic enzymes that mimic natural enzymes with superior stability and cost-efficiency. Organic-dominated nanozymes overcome key limitations of inorganic variants, such as toxicity and...

This latest front cover features UCD School of Chemistry's Dr Fung review article on organic-dominated nanozymes for pesticide detection, aimed at sustainable agricultural monitoring.
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First author Eslam (Egypt) is outstanding. He earned himself a visit to the 2025 Lindau and IUPAC 2025 World Congress. Immensely proud of this promising young scientist.

Beautiful picture looking out of the chemistry building at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg Germany. The old cathedral can be seen in the distance with a backdrop of a blue sky with clouds and distant foothills of the black forrest with fall colors showing through in the trees

picture of the Münster at dawn in the Altstadt of Freiburg, Germany, with a still dark sky in the background and moon over the Münster, in the foreground a well-lit flowers stand can be seen preparing for the daily morning market

I have a PhD position available in my lab at the University of Freiburg!! If you, or someone you know, might be looking for a position using modeling and simulations to uncover secrets in (glyco-)protein structure/function relationships please take a look at our website!
www.kearnslab.org

ACS members elect Christina Bodurow as next president Four other members were also elected to serve on the ACS Board

📰 BREAKING NEWS: American Chemical Society members have elected their 2026 president-elect. cen.acs.org/acs-news/ele...

Hydragen: An Open-Accessed, Personalized Learning Platform for Mass Spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is essential in analytical chemistry education, but effective mastery requires extensive personalized practice, often limited by availability of resources. To address this const...

[Open-Accessed] AI-ML-Mass Spec Platform to learn. Personalized Learning is the Digital Futures

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Hydragen: An Open-Accessed, Personalized Learning Platform for Mass Spectrometry | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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I just wanted to take a moment and say that @petercarlton.bsky.social, @cesapo.bsky.social, and @chemfunman.bsky.social are absolutely amazing friends and I am super super grateful for them! 😊

#HappyMonday #Grateful #Blessed

We are inviting motivated postdoctoral researchers to apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with us as your host institution! We’re happy to support your application process✌️
📅 Call opens: May 8, 2025
✉ Write to me
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[All are welcome] This Tuesday, April 8th, I will speak at UCLA Chem, the teaching powerhouse at UCLA. I'm so thrilled to be meeting education legends Garg, Russell, Courey, Kusenko, Caram 😍, hosted by Pr. De Weese #CER, see you there friends!