Darren Derksen

When your spouse is the social one, and decides she doesn't want to go to a social obligation/event because she's tired from her marathon walk, it's important to modulate your response carefully: supportive but not to obviously enthusiastic and relieved

Everyone, stop being annoyed by "6-7". Instead START SAYING IT. Fastest way for it to become uncool 😆

UCalgary fifth-ranked research university in Canada: Research Infosource The University of Calgary has been named one of the top five research universities in Canada. The fifth-place ranking is one spot higher than the previous year.

I normally try to stay out of University rankings of any kind but this is encouraging for all of us pushing research at U of C www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Essentially every airline in Canada…🙂

Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation - Nature Synthesis Heteroatom insertions into chemically inert carbon–carbon single bonds are rare compared to their unsaturated analogues. Now, ligand-to-metal charge transfer offers a promising entry point for oxygen ...

Really excited to see this in print - super work here by the wonderful team here from the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social
It was a real pleasure to watch this work evolve from a "what if" discussion to a @natsynth.nature.com paper
I truly appreciate being included #Chemsky

Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.

I think about this post every day 🧪

Post from farmers almanac saying they are shutting down after 200 years

I wonder if they saw that coming

Research Scientist, Synthetic Technologies Internal Job Title: Research Scientist I/IIPosition Location: Cambridge, MA, onsite #LI-onsiteJob DescriptionWe are seeking a highly talented and motivated synthetic / medicinal chemist to join the Sy...

Novartis is hiring a BS or MS synthetic / medicinal chemist to join the Synthesis Technologies Team - looks like a great early career opportunity #chemjobs www.novartis.com/careers/care...

Amazing

Professor Emeritus Axel D. Becke @dalhousieu.bsky.social has passed away at age 72.

Literally every kids dream at bat. Let’s go #BlueJays 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to Americans

We have just published a vacancy for a Process Chemistry Senior Principal Scientist at Vertex, Boston, MA, USA: www.organic-chemistry.org/jobs/offers/... - Please check and share!

BRD4

Assistant Professor of Chemistry - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Come be my newest colleague!

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Stone-skimming championship in Scotland gets rocked by cheating scandal | CBC Radio At the World Stone Skimming Championships off Scotland’s west coast, hundreds of contestants go the distance to be crowned champion. But at this year’s event, on the tiny car-free island of Easdale, s...

Risking it all for a "shot of skimming immortality

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Tiny Crystals from Small Extracts

Using a faster workflow for micro-electron diffraction discovery of new natural products. They’re hiding out there!

Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition

Simon Fraser University invites applications from world-renowned researchers for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 competition, offering up to $8M over eight years to support innovative and impactful research. Learn more and apply by June 30: www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

Great to see this paper out in print. We have been curious about changing the properties of borates and this collaboration with Jeff and Warren @wpiers.bsky.social crosses a few different disciplines to synthesize and characterize these intriguing molecules

Our pre-print on hypoxia-activated PROTACs (HAP-TACs) is now on ChemRvix: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

We used the indolequinone bioreductive group to protect VHL- or CRBN-recruiting BRD4 degraders rendering them inactive. This group is removed selectively in hypoxia, revealing the active PROTAC.

Dad's On The Dancefloor

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

New on my CV: “Partially Successful Submission to Nature.”

In contrast to all the bad news in the world, kid 2 hit his first out-of-the-park home run today and it’s basically a perfect afternoon in the sunshine

As a practicing chemist, how often do you calculate the pH of a weak acid (or base) solution based on the initial concentration and Ka(b) value?

Because that's like 75% of the acid/base chapter of most textbooks.

Very proud of the newest PhD from the lab! Huge congratulations to Dr. Leonie van de Wouw (O’Sullivan). It was a privilege to have her work in my lab and I know she will go on to do great things in science!! Thank you to @avenaross.bsky.social for being the external examiner 🙂

All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.

This is a noble goal, but I think policy is getting way ahead of reality on the ground here

Congratulations on your new position!