For the first time, our Curiosity Rover rover has found crystals of pure sulfur on the Red Planet—after rolling over a rock and cracking it open: go.nasa.gov/4bLGG1v

We're hiring! Together with Prof. Marcus Drover we are looking for a motivated candidate ready to embark on a 3-y doctorate between France and Canada. Topic: molecular hybrid metal/main group donor-acceptor systems for small molecule activation.

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧪 We're hiring a fully-funded PhD student (3-year term)! Please contact Antoine Simonneau or I for information - an exciting collaboration awaits!! 🇨🇦🇫🇷 Thanks to the France-Canada Research Fund for support!! Embassy of Canada in France La France au Canada 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Western University Chemistry at Western

Practical suggestions on #CrystalGrowth: "There is always another thing to #try, right?"😀😀doi.org/10.1107/S20532… Structural Chemistry IUCr #crystallography #education

It was very fun being interviewed by #LaurierBiology Laurier Alumni Dr. Deanna MacNeil for this The Scientist article on #Drosophila as a model organism! #DrosLife Wilfrid Laurier University Laurier Research NSERC / CRSNG the-scientist.com/small-model-or…

Thrilled to see Victor's work on Graph neural networks for identifying protein-reactive compounds published in Digital Discovery pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The Pool of Crystals in Nettlebed Cave, located in New Zealand, is a stunning natural wonder. Among its many stunning features, the Pool of Crystals stands out. Read more here: geologyin.com/2016/12/inside…

Long weekend in #Ontario, so made the most of some extra time outdoors. Saw many things, including this green heron, killdeer, a hummingbird clearwing moth, and Caspian tern. #KWAwesome #WildlifePhotography

A good read: Tips for shipping research samples to a core facility for structural analysis😀😀doi.org/10.1107/S20532… Structural Biology Communications IUCr #crystallography #education

A refinement improvement OlexSys for small-molecule crystallography: "treatment of the #AnomalousDispersion as a free parameter leads to an improvement in the #StructuralModels"😀😀doi.org/10.1021/acs.in… Inorganic Chemistry IUCr #crystallography #education

Postdoctoral researcher positions (Grosvenor group, University of Saskatchewan) - CSC ID cscinorganicdivision.weebly.com/4/post/2024/08…

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Olex2 generated surfaces of excess charge, showing bonding and lone pair electrons. Elongation of density normal to the mirror plane, from so-called pi-bonding, adds to the spherical density in single bonds. The N-N bond has missing density, possibly indicating ionic character.

Spread the word!!! The #2024USCGC starts Oct. 21! Register today at uscrystalgrowingcompetition.org A fun and exciting STEM competition for US kids in grades K-12! Get ready to grow your biggest, best, and coolest crystals!!!! Benedict Research UB Fernando Uribe-Romo The Knope Lab Jeffrey Rack UBuffalo Science News

#Crystallography themed nails at the SCANZ Australasian Crystallography School, including diffraction patterns and …. left and right handed helices (geddit?)! #ozchem #AuXtlSchool #BraggYourPattern