Jon Beves
@JonBeves
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Assoc. Prof. in Chemistry at @UNSW_science . Supramolecular chemist and heavy metal enthusiast. All views my own. he/him
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I am looking for some good CHEMISTRY WRITING exercises to use with my research group. e.g. re-writing sentences and paragraphs etc. Any suggestions? Thread below is the writing resources I use. 1/10
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
#writingtips
#ozchem
#chemistry
#publishing
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Our paper in
@angew_chem
is now online! Work by PhD student
@RayDinardi
and Honours student Anna Douglas, with a great team of others!
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Our
@J_A_C_S
paper is online today! PhD student Tom
@tscmacdonald
led this exciting project, the first in our collaboration with
@s_wezenberg
and
@FeringaLab
!
#anionbinding
#supramolecular
#molecularswitches
#diffusion
#NMR
#AEHB
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I hope everyone got reasonable
#DP22
comments, especially with 3500-word reqd. This is by far my favourite assessor comment!
#ozchem
#DP22
@ARC_Tracker
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When I'm about to leave work I often print stuff to read at home. I very rarely read it. Instead, I just carry it around in my bag for weeks, like an idiot!
#AcademicChatter
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Our paper is finally online! Visible-light photoswitchable metallosupramolecular assemblies, by
@RayDinardi
and
@AaronDWKennedy
, and assistance by the rest of us.
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.
@J_A_C_S
have published (I think!) their first comment/response!! Unlike other journals, they also include an independent statement from the journal, which is a very exciting development!
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We are hiring PhD students in supramolecular chemistry in Sydney, Australia!
Project together with
@PalliThordarson
@DeanAstumian
@ayusmansen
starting in September 2022.
RT appreciated!
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Our next preprint! "Visible light switching of metallosupramolecular assemblies"
#supramolecular
#molecularcage
#azobenzene
#photoswitch
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Fully funded chemistry PhD positions available in our group in Sydney! International students are welcome. Please RT.
#chemjobs
#chemphd
#phdchat
#supramolecular
#Inorganic
#catalysis
#photoredox
#ozchem
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Off to the Netherlands (Eindhoven!) today for the first of a series of seminars at Dutch unis. Really looking forward to it!!
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Our paper is out in
@ChemCommun
!!
@LauraWimberger
designed and synthesised a new merocyanine photoacid that could generate reversible pH changes from basic-to-acidic (pH 8.3 -> 5.2), or an even larger 3.5 pH unit drop at lower pH (pH 7.3 -> 3.8). 1/7
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Arrived!
#supramolecular
chemistry has developed out of sight since the last edition! Gonna be a great resource for both teaching and research.
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Our latest preprint is out, "Large, tunable and reversible pH changes by spiropyran photoacids"!
#spiropyran
#photoacid
@ChemRxiv
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Thanks, everyone! I have been exceptionally lucky to work with so many great students, supportive colleagues, and collaborators
@UNSWScience
, and within the
#ozchem
and international
#supramolecular
communities.
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A raining morning, and I made it here to
@univgroningen
! Looking forward to a fun day meeting people and discussing chemistry!
@wesleyrbrowne1
@tkudernac
@FeringaLab
@OttoLab
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New paper and it's a
#polymer
one! A fun project between
@Lucy_Fillbrook
and Mitch Nothling, part of fun collaborations with the amazing
@CAMD_Stenzel
and NMR guru Bill Price!
#NMR
#NMRchat
#diffusion
#RAFT
#photochemistry
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Can’t wait to see what good ideas this new book can inspire in our research!
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New preprint! This one uses
#photoacids
to control
#DNA
assemblies from unmodified DNA strands.
@LauraWimberger
did all the work - as usual! - and this is my first collaboration with
@UNSW
colleague and all-around superstar
@FelixRizzuto
!
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I totally forgot yesterday, but it was 10 years since I started at
@UNSW
! 🥳 Yikes, that went fast...
@UNSWChemSociety
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One we were all hoping for - fantastic news!!!
#NobelPrize
#chemistry
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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This nice reviewer comment has really made my day: "For their efforts, care and thoughtfulness, the authors deserve the thanks of the community". Thanks, peer reviewer for these kind words, what a boost!
#peerreview
#AcademicChatter
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* We are hiring a synthetic organic post-doc! * Synthesis of single fission dyes for a new type of silicon solar cell, funded by
@ARENA_aus
, and working with our team at . RT appreciated!
@schmidtim
@UNSWScience
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Very cool presentation by
@stefano_crespi
showing how the mechanisms of photo-driven molecular motors can be understood with clever comp chem. Loads of great insights.
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Fantastic day of
#supramolecular
talks at
#RACI2022
, but highlight definitely
@BlochWit
’s amazing cage work - check it out!
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Great to be at
#MASC2022
in Nottingham! Looking forward to an exciting couple of days of
#supramolecular
chemistry and meeting old friends and new.
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The Australian govt is subjecting Iranian students to inhumane visa processing times - an avg of 14 months! Some of them have organised an open letter to
@ClareONeilMP
. Pls consider signing it.
Letter:
Sign it:
#HigherEd
#auspol
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Great to have our paper highlighted! Thanks
@ChemEurJ
!!
Pick of the Week, published
#OpenAccess
as a Hot Paper in
@ChemEurJ
by
@RayDinardi
,
@AaronDWKennedy
,
@JonBeves
and team:
"Visible-Light Switching of Metallosupramolecular Assemblies"
Also available on
@ChemRxiv
:
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Our new
@ChemRxiv
preprint discusses problematic NMR diffusion claims. All data and analysis are available online, so please have a look and let us know your thoughts!
#NMR
#NMRchat
#diffusion
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Wow!! Thanks
@Dereklowe
for highlighting our paper in
@angew_chem
, by PhD student
@tscmacdonald
with collaborators
@DeanAstumian
and Bill Price!
#diffusion
#NMRchat
#chemotaxis
#molecularmotors
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Wow! Making catenanes with peptides has been a huge goal for a very long time, but it is really, really hard. Amazing work!
#supramolecular
#NMR
My postdoc project is now available in
@NatureChemistry
! We make mechanically interlocked molecules (catenanes, daisy chains and more) solely from peptides using genetic engineering and self-assembly.
@ajlinklab
@Princeton
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Congrats to all the
#ozchem
@arc_gov_au
#DP23
winners!!
@NWhiteGroup
@Colebatch
@Malins_Lab
@ChalkerChem
@gakoutsantonis
@BarnerKowollik
Paul Donnelly (twitterless??),
@PayneResearch
and
@UNSW
's own
@CAMD_Stenzel
@KrisKilian
@martina_lessio
and Richard Tilley!
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PhD student
@AaronDWKennedy
's paper on new visible light photoswitches is now online in
@ChemEurJ
!
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Thank you, reviewers! Reasonable and very constructive comments to correct mistakes and make a better paper.
#AcademicChatter
#PeerReview
#HowItIsSupposedToWork
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@stuartcantrill
One of my favourite paragraphs about supramolecular chemistry is by Dunitz (from )
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My first PhD student Hasti Iranmanesh graduated last night! Congrats Dr Hasti!!
@UNSWScience
#ozchem
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Great day in Leiden visiting
@s_wezenberg
and his group! They have a fantastic new building with shiny labs and instruments (NMR 😍) and doing all sorts of cool switching and transport work. Great team of fun people too, thanks for having me!
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After a wonderful week at the
#supramolecular
@GordonConf
, it’s time to go! So much exciting science, but highlight was meeting so many new people from around the world, including someone from Normal!
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Our Comment in
@ScienceMagazine
today shows
#NMR
#diffusion
measurements can lead to exciting, but incorrect, results if you aren't careful!
@Lucy_Fillbrook
@tscmacdonald
and collaborators at
@MPI_IS
and
@westernsydneyu
. Thread below!
#NMRchat
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Our latest group member, PhD student Him Chak
@ChakManHim1
only just arrived in Australia and is already making some new photoswitches. Welcome on board!!
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Now out in final polished form!
Kennedy (
@AaronDWKennedy
) and co-workers (
@JonBeves
) report visible-light photoswitching by azobenzazoles
@UNSW
@chalmersuniv
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Amazing as ever from
@rafalklajn
! Photoswitches in simple cages can achieve PSS states otherwise unachievable, and other wonders!
#MASC2022
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#PhDscholarship
available in our
#chemistry
group
@UNSWScience
in
#Sydney
. Open to domestic and international students for research in
#supramolecular
#photoswitches
#moleculardevices
#moleculamachines
. Applications close 12th October, start June 2019.
@Chemjobber
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This is insane. Will
@NatureChemistry
be next? Researchers should refuse to pay such outrageous fees - just publish elsewhere!
#AcademicTwitter
#ozchem
In this scenario, the cost of publication is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid at the time of publication. The APC for Nature Neuroscience in 2022 is €9,500/US $11,390/£8,290.
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.
@ChemistryNathan
here
@UNSWChemSociety
today talking PFAS, supramolecular and SciComm! Always fun to see awesome the stuff his team
@UTAS_
are doing!
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My last day in Bologna! After a great chat with Alberto,
@JessGrops
and Serena was the highlight of my trip: a tour around the Ciamician dept labs and museum! Such amazing stuff, and so much fun to see where all the photochemistry magic happened here. Thanks for having me!!
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Celebratory group lunch for
@RayDinardi
who recently submitted his PhD thesis! Congrats Ray on a stellar job, and thanks for being so much fun to work with during these covid years!
#ozchem
@UNSWChemSociety
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Congrats Dr Kennedy!!
@AaronDWKennedy
is now a doctor. So proud of Aaron and glad we could finally celebrate!! No other people are included in the photo to protect the innocent.
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Great fun to be at Ed and Catherine’s retirement party yesterday in Basel! Such amazing supervisors, even though they hate photos!
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Had such a great time at
@ISOP2023_Nara
seeing all the amazing photoswitching work from around the world, and meeting so many new people. But now time to head home again!
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@ccanonne_
@bipr
@JasonClareMP
Currently:
1 PhD student waiting for 11 months
1 PhD student waiting for 6 months
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End of year group party yesterday! I’m super lucky to work with this great team of researchers, but didn’t know
@RayDinardi
and
@LauraWimberger
were also secretly very good at bowling too!
@Lucy_Fillbrook
@ChakManHim
@drjessalves
#ozchem
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Really proud of this work led by PhD student
@LauraWimberger
!!
Large, Tunable, and Reversible pH Changes by Merocyanine Photoacids
@UNSWScience
@UNSW
@JonBeves
#Photoacids
#Merocyanine
#pH
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End of year group painting! My lack of artistic talent soon to be revealed!
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Congrats to all the winners at
#ISMSC2033
, especially
@RayDinardi
for his beautifully presented work on photoswitchable cages!! Ray is a absolute wizard at both chemistry and making cool pictures.
#ProudSupervisor
#ozchem
Ray DiNardi
@RayDinardi
from
@JonBeves
group
@UNSWChemSociety
wins a poster prize! at
@ISMSC2023
#ISMSC2023
#ozchem
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Wonderful to be with Honours student Anna Douglas for her graduation today! Good luck for the future!
@UNSWScience
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Whitesides' priceless tips is always a great place to start. 2/10
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At home with covid kids, but at least I can still be at the
@RACInational
#supramolecular
and
@UNSWScience
meetings!
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Super excited to be here in Berlin today, of chemistry and Rammstein fame!
📢 Last call for today's CSMB Colloquium on '
#Photoswitchable
#self_assembly
' ✨
🗣️ Meet
@JonBeves
@UNSWScience
for his enlightening talk at 5pm 💡
☕️ Come along early at 4:30pm for coffee and a chance to chat with him about
#chemistry
🧪
See you there 👋
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Finally ending the day,
@leonard_prins
shows how the concepts introduced together with
@giuliosflask
have lead to design and operation of out of equilibrium systems. Inspiring stuff!
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Very proud of our publication led by PhD student
@tscmacdonald
measuring changes in diffusion over time by NMR!
#diffusion
#DOSY
#nonequilibrium
#transient
#ozchem
Time-Resolved Diffusion NMR Measurements for Transient Processes (Beves)
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Congrats Dr Ray
@RayDinardi
! Unfortunately, I couldn't be there in person for Ray's graduation (overseas)... but thankfully the group showed up! I appear to be there regardless... although shorter than I remember?
#ozchem
@UNSWScience
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Just finishing
#teaching
#supramolecular
chemistry for the first time at
@UNSWScience
. Big thanks to
@amar_flood
for sharing some excellent lecture material! Some thoughts below.
#ozchem
#chemed
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Last stop in Germany is Munich! I’ve had another packed day of fun science including chatting about some spectacular self-assembly and photoswitching work. Thanks
@ThornSesholdLab
for organising and
@BoekhovenLab
for coming over to meet me too!
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Always happy to get these thank you emails from
@angew_chem
!! An automated email that somehow makes me feel like humans notice.
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Donna Blackmond talking about homochirality - from space? Fascinating, but poorly reported in popular media.
#organic18
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Fantastic news that
@LMacreadie
will be joining our School of Chemistry! Can't wait to see the awesome stuff she'll do here! Welcome to the team, Lauren!
#ozchem
@UNSWChemSociety
@UNSWScience
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A few days late to post this, but on Thursday we were treated to
@jishan_wu
3rd presentation
@UNSWChemSociety
, this one about highly twisted chiral macrocycles. Some of the most beautiful molecules ever made also challenge concepts of aromaticity. Really inspiring work!
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This looks like a great review on NMR methods for analysing mixtures, in a tutorial review style. Published a few days ago in
@ChemCommun
#NMR
#supramolecular
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Super cool talk by
@GraceGDHan
on energy storage in solid photoswitchable systems. Amazing heat propagation triggered by light too. Can’t wait to see the full paper!
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Our first paper (review) of the year! The wisdom of coordination chemists of decades past applied to modern
#ruthenium
#photoredox
#catalysis
. Free access.
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Always the best part of an
@RACI_Inorganic
meeting is the Stranks Award PhD student presentations.
#ozchem
#icbic
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That ends
#ISMSC2019
. It has been a really wonderful meeting and not only for the great science. Thanks
@TeamISMSC
and hope to see many of you next year in Sydney for
#ISMSC2020
!
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@guido_clever
wraps up
@SupraParis2024
with an outstanding talk on heteroleptic cages with functions including chiral memory and amazing selective assembly. Fantastic end to a wonderful conference!
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Amazing as ever from
@DumeleLab
! All organic spin state switching. Really cool to see how their research has progressed from initial surprises to fully visible light switchable systems with spectacular data for switching.
@Switches4Energy
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The ever entertaining
@PrestonChem
from
@ANUChemistry
making
#supramolecular
chem look easy! Super cool self-sorting for orthogonal self-assembly.
#RACI2022
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Our paper in
@angew_chem
, first on
@ChemRxiv
, is now properly online!
@tscmacdonald
@DeanAstumian
#diffusion
#NMR
#NMRchat
#molecularmotors
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Next pre-print! "Following Molecular Mobility During Chemical Reactions: No Evidence for Active Propulsion"
#NMR
#diffusion
(let's try again with the TOC?)
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