Jon Beves

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

Mineral vs chemical sunscreens? Science shows the difference is smaller than you think New analysis shows one in three ‘mineral-only’ sunscreens contain UV-absorbing chemicals.

At UNSW, we’ve been looking into sunscreens. theconversation.com/mineral-vs-c... @jonbeves.bsky.social + Anna Wang. Also thanks to Thilini Ishwara.

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

Congrats! Well deserved, your group is really pushing the field into new directions.

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 290 tenure-track positions and 34 teaching-only positions:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcB_oy4jXVGaqenGU31KYTi2KxvryzR1wt4Oo-_OcQ8/edit?usp=sharing #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra).

My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.

ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

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Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

Calling all synthetic chemists! We are looking for a new colleague at York University in Toronto 🇨🇦 for a 3 year limited term position as Assistant Professor (Teaching stream) in synthetic chemistry.

www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...

I even thought the term “shigemi tube” referred to the flat bottom ones for fixed volume measurements…

Applications Scientist - NMR, Oxford Instruments, Shanghai, China jobs.oxinst.com/job/Shanghai... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

We’ve also been thinking about this a lot in recent years. Even “well mixed” solutions are really very heterogeneous, even though we synthetic chemists don’t like to admit it, and it can change reaction outcomes…. #ChemSky

Max Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany) has a tenure-track opening in chemistry (asst/assoc): chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/tenure-t...

#facultychemjobs #euchemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Basically banned now :(

It upsets me greatly because I love an em dash and now they just scream “I didn’t actually write this”!

Go Make Me Fifty Kilos of This Stuff

Scaling up like this takes attention to every little detail, and a willingness to question your typical assumptions. Not everyone is capable of it!

Yes! The media rang me up about it the other day. More shit balls!

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We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

A huge team of people on this one, but almost everything was done by PhD student Man Him Chak. Congrats Him!

Above a threshold concentration, the assembly time seems independent of concentration, with the ratio of isomers being key, and adding co-surfactants can tune this assembly time. This was a fun but often confusing system to work with!

Photoswitchable Merocyanine‐Amphiphiles with Programmable Self‐Assembly Times A merocyanine-based amphiphile self-assembles in water to form visible-light-responsive ellipsoids that can be disassembled with visible light and reform abruptly ∼70 minutes after the light is switc...

We just published a photoswitchable amphiphile that abruptly assembles into ellipsoids over 1h after the light is switched off! #ozchem #ChemSky

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat “Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

Love this story about the absurdity of citation metrics in @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti...

Everybody knows that LLMs suck in most science-related stuff. But maybe the are good in something that is Large (6000 entries) and Language (mostly)? Because they are Large Language Models.

Let's try few of them on mineral names, with great detailed databases (created by humans).
#minerals
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This is an excellent illustration of how useless the "Impact Factor" metric is.

The most influential multidisciplinary chem journals are JACS and Angewandte. They did not make the list.

In this short ad hoc 🧵 I will analyze in real time what made the list and why. I have a bad feeling about this.

Today was Dr Isis Middleton's last day with us! It's been a lot of fun working with Isis for the past 2 years and she's done a fantastic job on a wide range of crazy projects. Wishing her all the best for her next adventures! #ozchem

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Come be my colleague! Hope College Chemistry is hiring a tenure-track prof in General & Inorganic Chem starting Fall 2026. Great undergrad research culture, strong support, and a fantastic community. Apply by Sept 20: hope.edu/jobs #ChemJobs #facultyjobs #academicsky
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on behalf of Professor James Keeler (University of Cambridge) considering the possibility of revising the text and creating a third edition : Understanding NMR Spectroscopy, James Keeler - survey concerning a possible third edition cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #NMRbooks #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

We have just published a vacancy for a Scientist Chemistry - Oligonucleotide synthesis at Roche, Penzberg, Germany: www.organic-chemistry.org/jobs/offers/... - please check and share!