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Chris Taylor

@dftchemist.bsky.social

Comp chemist/mat sci, applied science director, and assoc research professor. Enthusiast about all things Quantum, Star Wars, Sustainability, Chemistry, and Corrosion. Views my own.

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Wrong. We need to provide everyone access to universal healthcare.

04.10.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes thatโ€™s how we do it. NEVER BACK DOWN

03.10.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s gross and disqualifying

03.10.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Planetary boundaries The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth

The planetary boundaries approach tries to flag side by side the various threats from our technocentric, industrial carelessness - loss of insects would be part of the danger zone we are already well past for biosphere integrity www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla...

02.10.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice

01.10.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats on all the good things. ๐ŸŽ‰

30.09.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even worse, he actually endorsed intimidation and harassment of new recruits.

30.09.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hegseth declares an end to 'politically correct' leadership in the US military Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military officials to an in-person meeting to announce directives for troops that include โ€œgender-neutralโ€ or โ€œmale-levelโ€ standards for physic...

you know what probably isn't great for military readiness? turning a blind eye to violent hazing, sexual assault and bigotry, while purging leaders on the basis of race and gender.

30.09.2025 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3746    ๐Ÿ” 727    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

Oh good Iโ€™m glad to see he is taking veteran homelessness seriously and will give all vets the support they need.

30.09.2025 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œMedian paper is mildly negative result presented as positiveโ€ sounds about right. touchรฉ

30.09.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow signing into Facebook for the first time in โ€ฆ a long time was eye-opening

29.09.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An Introduction to Generative Deug Discovery by Sean Elkins (Ed.) cover of the book, photo taken on my desk with Computational Drug Design by David Young and a little Easter egg QR code to Promethium peeking out

An Introduction to Generative Deug Discovery by Sean Elkins (Ed.) cover of the book, photo taken on my desk with Computational Drug Design by David Young and a little Easter egg QR code to Promethium peeking out

New read. Pretty curious to see whatโ€™s covered in here giving itโ€™s an evolving state of the art #genai #drugdiscovery #chemsky

28.09.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Benchmark of Approximate Quantum Chemical and Machine Learning Potentials for Biochemical Proton Transfer Reactions Proton transfer reactions are among the most common chemical transformations and are central to enzymatic catalysis and bioenergetic processes. Their mechanisms are often investigated using DFT or app...

Maybe not yet! :-) doi.org/10.1021/acs....

28.09.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing this. Proton transfer and coupled proton-electron transfers are quite challenging to model!

28.09.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

28.09.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great day to be at the beach. I guess everyone else in town was watching the Ohio State game or something

28.09.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know that many of these folks want to keep serving and of course keep their livelihoods, but at the same time, I would be happy to not have to work for this particular government any more, furthering their agendas

27.09.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess with MLIPs and xTB crushing it right now, I might have to change my 25+ year old user name from dftchemist to something else, or just stay the ๐Ÿฆ• in the room

27.09.2025 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also a big deal here in Ohio. Do our senators and congress people care?

27.09.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

By checks and balances they mean giving the president a blank check to maximize his bank balanFe (and their own). Classic

26.09.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Poetic

26.09.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Funny. I was a student at UM and walked all over town. No problems

25.09.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whatโ€™s the hold up? Everyone can see it. Get him out

24.09.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll say this as a cishet man: I've never heard a valid argument against medical gender transition, because every one boils down to "I don't want my children to change." Sorry to inform the bigots, but you can't make your children stay the same forever.

22.09.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 369    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The thing is, improved, more curious diagnostic practices around autism that are finding it broadly in the human population suggests to me that it's just a normal part of being human in the same way that left handedness is.

22.09.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 418    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.

Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.

It's like his work never happened.

22.09.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2898    ๐Ÿ” 650    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 62    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

Model building as a kid and teen is what ended up putting my oldest son on to a path where he is now doing his MS in naval architecture. Such a great hobby (except for the paint and glue fumes)

17.09.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rolife hobby kits are amazing. my sons have always got into model building of boats, aircraft and WH40k, but this is something my 11 yo daughter can get into with similar complexity but with more color and aesthetics

17.09.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Various compositions of the electrolytes in LIBs and SIBs.

Various compositions of the electrolytes in LIBs and SIBs.

We've been trying to make sodium batteries for a long time, mostly because sodium is so widely available (1.1% of the mass of seawater). But finding just the right mixture of materials to make it work and be economical, is still rather elusive. ๐Ÿงช

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.09.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heโ€™s definitely not writing these tweets any more. I think we might be transitioning to a Vance/Miller leadership sooner rather than later. Vanceโ€™s ranting today was scary AF

16.09.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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