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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

new Nobel Laureate in chemistry and all round good egg Jennifer Doudna, just emailed my 6 yo to thank her for her congrats on winning!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

All y’all are wrong…

TeamGolder

@golder_team

1 year

some controversy in the Golder Lab today!!!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

For the cheap seats… sexual harassment isn’t simply “touching” - asking lab members to rank postdocs attractiveness or if they would date your brother IS sexual harassment. These aspects are always ignored by his defenders.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

@linluv5 @MorganJerkins That’s just a Domino’s

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Big News! @findlatergroup is moving to @ucmerced in Summer 2021. We’ll miss lots about Lubbock, but mainly the friends we’ve made over the last 10 years. Now we look forward to exciting new opportunities & colleagues that await us when we relocate to California! @mindyfindlater

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Michael Findlater

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1 year

Professional update 3: I've been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry ( @RoySocChem ). Many thanks to my letter writers @Gassensmith and @_iainmcculloch - a wee write up below

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

Available now for your viewing pleasure! My first corresponding author publication in @J_A_C_S Cobalt (II)-Catalyzed Stereoselective Olefin Isomerization: Facile Access to Acyclic Trisubstituted Alkenes

Cobalt(II)-Catalyzed Stereoselective Olefin Isomerization: Facile Access to Acyclic Trisubstituted...

Stereoselective synthesis of trisubstituted alkenes is a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry, due to the small energy differences between E and Z isomers of trisubstituted alkenes (compared...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

9 months

@ProfDAHammer Dan, I don’t think either of us really can speak to all the details of decisions made a couple of decades ago. However, when Dr Karikó says she was told her research was not of faculty caliber that’s on Penn. When she was mocked upon leaving for industry, that’s on Penn. 1/n

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

When you see your new glovebox driving down the road… hoping it won’t fall

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Paper accepted today with minor revisions!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

7 months

@Simon_Hammann There is none, trains are always on time in Germany 😉

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

It’s actually just the exit door…

Carla Holcomb

@carla_holcomb

2 years

I wonder what kind of paradise lies beyond this door?! It’s locked though…

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Michael Findlater

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2 years

official notice of MRI award from @NSF to support our acquisition of a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer! Huge thanks to co-PIs @RebecaA61689283 @MehmetZBaykara Jennifer Lu and Yanbao Ma and of course @ucmerced for generous cost share contributions (a real team effort!)

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Today I turned in my keys and shipped my Schlenk lines to California. I’m done.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Big thanks to ⁦ @SigmaAldrich ⁩ for the chocolates!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

all hail the manuscript pizza trackers! #PubsNotPizzas

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Excited to be able to announce the #EFRC funded by @doescience lead by the amazing @icjennikins "Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle (4C)" we will be a part of @UCMChemistry @ucmerced @UCMerced_NatSci via @energygov

DOE Announces $420 Million to Advance Clean Energy Breakthroughs at Energy Research Centers Across...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $420 million funding opportunity for DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC).

www.energy.gov

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Well, that’s that then… ten years (2011-2021) and today was my last day at Texas Tech

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

School closed until May 4... somehow, the fact it’s May has hit me hard - like it seems so so far away that I just don’t know how I’ll cope. I can’t do 2 kids at home, write papers, teach remotely (for the 1st time), write grants and review papers / proposals. I just can’t.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of moving to Merced!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

I'm hiring! Come join us in sunny (and not at all hellaciously hot) Merced! If you're interested in a postdoc in synthetic chemistry, focused on projects related to organometallic catalysis, then please apply! #chempostdoc

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

*reviewer rant* special place in hell for people that put figures at the end of the manuscript rather than in line where they are mentioned

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Recommended for award! Details to follow - oh happy days.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

5 years

after 39 years, ~50 peer-reviewed journal articles and 1 dissertation I've finally decided to learn how to use EndNote

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Happy dance! “Publish in JACS without change” - thanks reviewer!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

Incredibly sad news this morning. My phd advisor, Professor Alan H. Cowley FRS, passed away in his sleep at the age of 86. Here are a couple of links to learn a little more about Alan’s remarkable life and career: and

Alan Cowley Has Long Been a 'Main' Player

Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds

cen.acs.org

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

@faherreraur Only question, not addressed here: were they able to start on time? As the last speaker, if earlier speakers ran long then it would be unfair to cut them off as they had less time than others.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 months

🚨 professional news update 🚨 I’m delighted and honoured to announce that from April I will be the Interim Dean of the School of Natural Sciences. I am excited to work with the fantastic staff, students and faculty across the school as we begin the search for a permanent Dean!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Me: publishes paper Journal: cool stuff, can you write a review on this topic? Me: I’d be happy to! Journal: Rejected - reviewer says topic is too narrow Me: IT WAS THE TOPIC YOU ASKED ME FOR! Journal: Yeah, still nah. We’ll transfer it for you - will go to same reviewer 🤬

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 months

For a kid that grew up working class in Scotland and on welfare, this is a pretty spectacular place to end up @WhiteHouse

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

Paper accepted... pending revisions, including new experiments - 🤔 how?

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

rant ahead... look away if not interested in NSF GRFP related content.. be wary of well intentioned "I didn't get one and look at me now" tweets... when all they had to fall back on was their Berkeley/Harvard/Caltech PhDs and postdocs to help open doors for them (1/n)

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

our LFRP Proposal, "Direct Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Captured CO2" was recommended for funding! Congratulations to our fearless leader @ChemLABerben and collaborators @icjennikins , @GAALabatUCR (and lots more not on Twitter!) @ucmerced @UCMerced_NatSci

Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

got some very good news today... just waiting on it being "officially, official"

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Michael Findlater

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4 years

paper accepted!!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

got some good news tonight - a small award got “recommended” for funding!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Online and open access in @J_A_C_S thanks to @UofCalifornia , an electrochemical (and mild) way of generating carbanions and how we use them @UCMChemistry

Electrochemically Generated Carbanions Enable Isomerizing Allylation and Allenylation of Aldehydes...

The direct coupling of aldehydes with petrochemical feedstock alkenes and alkynes would represent a practical and streamlined approach for allylation and allenylation chemistry. However, conventional...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Just found out we had a small grant funded! Wahoo

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

We will be hiring at least one PD in any of 3 areas: main group catalysis, electrosynthesis or, transition metal catalysis. Start flexible but late fall 2021 ideal. DM w/ questions and I’ll share the job ad as soon as it is ready! @BlackInChem @latinxchem @chemjobber

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Michael Findlater

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1 year

OMG - she won!!!

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@FindlaterGroup

1 year

and of course she was awesome!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Paper accepted with v. minor revisions!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

PhD #11 - hooded

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

Random CV thoughts: I don’t need you to tell me the impact factors of your journal pubs and, if one of your referees is a Nobel prize winner you don’t need to list them as “Prof So-and-So, Nobel Prize winner”

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

11 months

Our @NSF funded diffractometer is installed! Thanks @rigaku - just some paperwork to get sorted and we can start collecting data on this beastie! @ucmerced @UCMChemistry

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… new glovebox, rotary evaporators and a bunch of new vacuum pumps

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

oh hey, JACS paper not desk rejected... fingers crossed!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

paper accepted - pending revisions!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

so some very good news... I won't share all the details as it isn't entirely my news to share... but a small collaborative grant got impact score 20 and 4th percentile in study section this week

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

I HAVE A FUNCTIONING GLOVE BOX!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

hooray! another paper accepted (pending minor revisions)!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Chuffed to get this in the mail this afternoon... one step behind you ⁦ @DrTodd_Hudnall ⁩!! ⁦ @RoySocChem ⁩

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

@KrishnanYamuna @CHarmer_MGE I don’t necessarily disagree with you... but this was your takeaway from this thread!? Right or wrong, the confidential comments box exists - use it or not. But the editor effed up and allowed a junior researcher to be identified and harassed, pretty sure that should be the focus

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Congrats to grad student @Arpita1391 on her new paper! I'm excited to share our latest work in @Orgmet_ACS This is a special one, it's my 70th publication and is dedicated to my postdoc advisor Maurice Brookhart on the occasion of his 80th birthday!

Cobalt-Catalyzed Alkylation of Nitriles with Alcohols

Herein, we report an operationally convenient, cobalt-catalyzed alkylation of aryl nitriles employing primary and secondary alcohols (>30 examples, up to 86% yield). The use of readily available...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

New group picture! We may not have permanent lab space yet, but being around these talented scientists make things a little better!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

9 months

Part of the reason I’m so annoyed by this weird AF nature paper… is that we’re doing some really exciting chemistry right now and somewhere deep in my cerebellum I’m telling myself - this is legit worth a shot to science or nature… and then pish like this comes out and I (1/2)

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

It’s been a crazy hectic 7-10 days… just kicking back and enjoying the 42nd anniversary of my arrival on planet earth!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Bioinorganic chemistry is just coordination chemistry with good PR (and funding)

Joe Milliano

@MrJoeMilliano

1 year

Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

can't reveal the exact details as it is currently in submission - but this was a very cool result using organo electrochemistry to deliver previously inaccessible products :) #MyChemMoment #EurJIC25

EurJIC

@EurJIC

1 year

We'd love to see pictures of your favorite moments in the lab! Share them with #MyChemMoment and tag us! #EurJIC25

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

We got discussed! Highly likely not fundable score… but after a long string of “ND” I’m gonna take it as a small victory!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

18 days

This is the look of a man that loves cake - huge thank you to my wonderful group members! We have lots of great news to share too, stay tuned!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Yay! Paper accepted!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Paper rejected; it’s hard publishing in a new area y’all! But, we got really detailed feedback from the reviewers and fast editorial handling… onwards and upwards!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

11 months

I treated myself to a wee thing for my office wall...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

The time I got sprayed head to toe with SiCl4 and ran coughing and spluttering to the safety shower… only to immediately regret that choice (SiCl4 + H2O = HCl) and whip off my clothes down to my undies… did I mention the shower was in the hallway too? 🤦‍♂️

Carly Anne York, Ph.D.

@BiologyCarly

1 year

What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to a public bathroom with it in my hands and sobbed over its body in a stall.

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Michael Findlater

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3 years

My PhD advisor died last year. I'll always be grateful for the time I spent in his lab. This was a surprisingly emotional piece to write in hopes of honouring his legacy. It was also fun to learn a little more about Alan and some of the chemistry (1/n)

Pioneers and Influencers in Organometallic Chemistry: Dr. Alan H. Cowley and the Renaissance of...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

I know this will prompt a few "Scottish" jokes... but, I just got prompted in an editorial note to possibly have a native English speaker review my manuscript 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

now available online for your viewing pleasure: @angew_chem

Electrochemical Arylation of Aldehydes, Ketones, and Alcohols: from Cathodic Reduction to Converg...

Electrochemical approaches to the direct arylation of carbonyls and alcohols through less-explored cathodic reduction and convergent paired electrolysis are presented. This protocol features:...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

my 4 yo, who is supposed to be napping is singing Uptown Funk... but readers, she ain't saying "Funk"

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

5 years

it's officially official, very grateful to receive funding from @doescience to look at rare earth element separation! A collaborative effort with @KM_Hutchins and Weile Yan.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Great news today, another small grant got picked up for funding! Lucky I get to work with amazing colleagues like @MartiniTribos

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

"Seth Marder, a professor of chemistry, materials science and engineering at Georgia Tech, said the policy of not mandating masks is "irresponsible and puts the Georgia Tech community at significant health risk.""

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

Decided to do this for the first time since we won’t be in California for the holidays this year

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

manuscript accepted! waiting impatiently on the galleys so I can share it with y'all!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Professional update 2: I am now an Editorial Advisory Board member for @ACSSustainable and I'm excited to contribute in sustaining and growing the journal (see: ). 1/2

ACS Sustainable: A Design for Life!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

4 years

A very early heads up... we have approval to conduct two searches (assistant prof), one in organic chemistry and one in (experimental) physical chemistry. Hopefully details to follow soon - we are putting the search committees together now! @Chemjobber

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

I watched a sh*t ton of TV growing up… like, a lot of TV. Now I’m a professor of chemistry. #isthisacoincidence

Dr Katie Musgrave

@dr_musgrave

2 years

My 8 yr old is never given access to a mobile device. She has, however, read Narnia, Harry Potter, Through the Looking Glass, and countless other books. I don’t think this is a coincidence. #screentime #screensharmkids #booklover #developingbrains

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Boom! Proposal submitted - just remember… I really really need an xray diffractometer yall!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Thanks to some new funding… I’m actually hiring TWO NEW POSTDOCS - you can apply at the link below! #ChemPostdoc

Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

I'm hiring! Come join us in sunny (and not at all hellaciously hot) Merced! If you're interested in a postdoc in synthetic chemistry, focused on projects related to organometallic catalysis, then please apply! #chempostdoc

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Michael Findlater

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4 years

paper accepted (pending minor revisions!) - woohoo

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Manuscript accepted - pending (minor) revisions! Yay! Desk rejected twice, then got some very nice reviews and accepted.

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

metal free Suzuki reaction

Ella Marushchenko

@Ella_Maru

3 years

Write a horror story for your Scientific Field using just four words

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Looks like it’s officially official! Congratulations to @mchacon233 our amazing postdoc on being recognized as a 2023 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! We are so proud of you! @merck @ucmerced @UCMChemistry

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Now available for your reading pleasure in @ACSCatalysis and open access courtesy of @UofCalifornia , our new review on electrochemically driven HAT catalysis! @UCMChemistry

Electrochemically Driven Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis: A Tool for C(sp3)/Si–H Functionalization...

Electrochemically driven hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysis provides a complementary approach for the transformation of redox-inactive substrates that would be inaccessible to conventional...

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

It is highly unlikely I’ll get the thing I applied for today… but I’m proud of myself for applying anyway :)

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

9 months

@ProfDAHammer and when Penn abrogate their responsibility on tenure / retention to NIH that’s on Penn. To celebrate Dr Karikó’s research and Nobel Prize while remaining UTTERLY SILENT on how Penn treated her is criminal. There is no excuse for trying to sweep it under the rug. 2/2

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Hooray! Paper accepted pending minor revision!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Grand Canyon selfie!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

8 months

woohoo - proposal status updates to “recommended”!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Some more great news, our seed grant for climate action was funded! Looking forward to exciting new catalytic chemistry with CO2!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

got some very good news today... just waiting on it being "officially, official"

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Just finished this book, wonderful lessons from plants but also got me really excited to know how plant biochemistry can help my own research! @BerondaM thanks!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

woohoo - paper accepted

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

A really lovely paper just came out describing iron-catalyzed olefin metathesis… I’d like to say a big thank you to the reviewers who said my proposal to do the very same chemistry would never work (declined by NSF, NIH and ACS-PRF)

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2 years

TFW a grant proposal gets rejected after the reviewers clearly did not read the proposal

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Twelve months later… made it to Yosemite!

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Again and again I see phenomenal industrial (pharma and pharma-adjacent) chemists talking up base metal chemistry and the need to move away from precious metals… yet every damn NIH review I get is like… “works just fine with Rh mate”

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Wee celebratory dram

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

Postdoc position just went live! Come work with us @ucmerced @Chemjobber

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

3 years

It's always good learning what your old grad school friends are up to... 🤦‍♂️ via @cenmag

Former chemistry professor jailed for making meth

Bradley Allen Rowland must also pay restitution to Henderson State University

cen.acs.org

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

My phone absolutely does not do justice to the view from right outside my office @ucmerced ⁦ @UCMChemistry ⁩

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

1 year

Professional update 1: As of July 1st I am now the graduate group chair for Chemistry & Chemical Biology @UCMChemistry - so if you have questions about graduate studies, how to apply etc. to our amazing campus please get in touch! 1/n

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Michael Findlater

@FindlaterGroup

2 years

Paper accepted! This one has been in the works for almost 5 years… more details to follow, but huge thanks and congratulations to @KM_Hutchins non-Twitterer Weile Yan and @kotosora1011 @deepika2705

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