Very lukewarm take: AI cant do research. Research is a human endeavor. It is political. The questions asked, the biases employed, the views taken. AI has none of that. It cant make a fresh argument. It cant design and execute experiments. It cant iterate on tangible data.

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Classic Reviewer Tale #ChemChat

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One of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague.

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We are hiring a Postdoc to work on new synthetic methodologies for electron-deficient materials and to study their optoelectronic properties and supramolecular chemistry. Do not hesitate to share this opportunity or contact me if you are interested! @erc.europa.eu @univangers.bsky.social

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🎚️ Light up, switch on! What if light could remotely tune electronics? A graphene–diarylethene hybrid film turns light into a reversible electronic switch, paving the way for smarter light-sensing devices and neuromorphic computing ⚡️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acso...

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