Micaela Matta

@supersciencegrl.co.uk please tell my undergrads! I will make a T-shirt with this quote lol.

😏😏😏😏😏😏😏

excited for your #compchem era haha 😛

You can also run calculations in parallel:)

It finally happened…
We fed the dog dinner, twice 🤣

She’s timeless ☺️

Of all the reasons to ask for an extension on an assignment, this is a pretty good one.

Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas posts her email to her prof, asking for an extension.

Because she’s competing at the Olympics. Attached the press release for proof of participation.

Today I am getting my 🇬🇧 citizenship!!

If you want to learn about materials modeling, from DFT to MD, well marinated in a spicy ML sauce, don't miss out the @ictp.bsky.social / @nccr-marvel.bsky.social college. Details and application instructions here indico.ictp.it/event/11146/. See you in Miramare!

A round cake topped with orange slices

Turns out I can (sort of) follow a recipe #chemistswhocook

2️⃣ tinyurl.com/PDRAcatalystAI
1-year postdoc in collaboration with industry on #genAI and #catalysis
Deadline: Feb 22

Ideal profile: recent PhD looking to transition to industry, ML/AI and catalysis background 🤖

Not one but 2 (!) open #postdocjobs to work with me

1️⃣ tinyurl.com/EPSRCMattaPDRA

2-year postdoc on data-driven design and screening of organic mixed conducting materials ⚡️🔋
#omiecs

Deadline: Feb 8

Ideal profile: MD or DFT skills, experience in #high-throughput workflows, strong coding skills

Abstract Al assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of Al. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that Al-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation - particularly in safety-critical domains.

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Really inspiring to celebrate #womeninscience with #loreal at the House of Commons! Congratulations to all the applicant and winners.

intreprecating takes the cake

Happy to see our #melanin Perspective featured in this collection!

is this at the Dulwich Picture Gallery? noted!

But what about that great ASCII art 😂

Teams status: “I am doing focused work, meeting-free day”

Real status: *paralysed by overdue tasks, inbox overflowing, unable to focus on anything because the house is a mess*

all these admission essays read exactly the same 🫠 thanks genAI

The disclaimer on the webpage chemrxiv.org noting that “due to a high volume of submissions, processing times may exceed 2 days”

@chemrxiv.org tell me about it.. it’s been almost a week 🥲

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10% on a good day

UKRI FLFail
BBSRC 5/5 and 6/6 but still not good enough
URF so bad, not even sent for review
And many more!
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• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students. • Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7. • Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Remind us @nytimes.com, who is it that is ruining the workplace?

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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I love that stuff! It is what makes us human, and I bluntly assert there is a lack of a majority of humanity on chem sky as opposed to Publishing Houses Shoveling and I stand athwart it

A series of conference banners

A cube sculpture on the campus of Pukyong National University, Busan

A shaded area next to the engineering building with benches and picnic tables, surrounded by pine trees

Really enjoying #ACOE2025 Asian Conference on Organic Electronics in Busan 😍