Jim Pfaendtner @JimPfaendtner Twitter profile

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1 year

My mom actually did this with one of my early papers 😇🥲

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So many women do not feel safe in academia. It has never been that hard to understand why (you just need to listen and empathize a tiny bit), but today my fool (emeritus) colleague from another department here at UW painted it in neon.

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People always report just the mass of their new babies. Honestly, why can't we get other useful properties like length, density, thermal conductivity and permeability?

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2 years

I was today years old when I learned the names of 3-6th derivatives of position. 🫣🫣🫣

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3 years

As a side note, tomorrow I will submit his tweets to our EEOO/Title IX complaint office. I hope many other UW employees and students do too, and it can be the beginning of a disciplinary process to hold him accountable.

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3 years

NSF CAREER proposals are due in about 5 months. Now is the time to start planning! I wanted to share a bit about what I think is the most common mistake in CAREER proposals I have reviewed: misunderstanding "integrating research and education" and "broader impacts" (1/n)

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Jim Pfaendtner

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2 years

Well, here's the tweet! I am so excited about this next step and the opportunities to work with students, staff and faculty at NCSU. I will be forever grateful for the chance to have launched my career here at the UW and dearly miss my friends and colleagues.

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2 years

NC State welcomes @JimPfaendtner as the new dean of @NCStateEngr , effective Aug. 1. 👏 Learn more about Dr. Pfaendtner and his appointment: #ThinkAndDo

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2 years

ChemE faculty candidates: Most departments are now doing Zoom interviews (20-60 minutes) as a screen prior to making invitations for full long format interviews. Here are a few things I wish every candidate knew. Let's roll:

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1 year

My non-scientist cousin really chose violence today

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3 years

I have tried to develop mentee-centric advising and build a lab where people feel safe bringing me any sort of issue. (not that I can handle all issues, but my privilege means I can bring more resources if needed). There are 3 steps top of mind in tough mentoring meetings: (1/6)

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3 years

My second year as a prof, my group dressed up as me.

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2 years

Grad student desk. What do you notice?

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4 years

Faculty hiring 2020 is coming. Yes there will be TT jobs available. Yes there will be many fewer than last year. Should you apply this year? Wait it out? Give up altogether? A few thoughts (1/n) #AcademicChatter #phdchat

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5 years

Wife (After being split up in the grocery store for > 10 min): “what are you doing!?” Me: “I found a cool paper on twitter and I’m sending to my group” @AcademicChatter

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3 years

There is no greater kindness you can offer to someone at a conference than asking a thoughtful question after their talk

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3 years

Many faculty (esp. women and persons from minoritized and underrepresented backgrounds) do enormous amounts of hidden service work supporting the most vulnerable people in your departments. This year I added a specific call-out on our annual activity report and performance (1/4)

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3 years

Hello everyone, I helped create an REU program for students interested in computational molecular science. Applications are due March 21, please help spread the word.

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1 year

Just updated my LinkedIn profile photo and realized it is from the week I started as a faculty member.

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3 years

It is too easy to work too much. Please make sure you regularly learn new things and have fun.

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5 years

Good luck to all the faculty candidates getting ready for their on-site interviews in the coming weeks/months. Long(ish) thread on some suggestions for success. Reply with questions or clarifications. @AcademicChatter #PhDchat #ECRchat (1/n)

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4 years

Super excited that as of July I am a joint faculty in the @UWChemistry department (Professor of Chemistry). Excited to grow collaborations with existing and new friends and advise more Chem grad students.

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4 years

As CAREER drops keep coming in hot, I want to remind the disappointed assistant profs out there that you are much much more than any line on your CV. My first department chair relentlessly told me, "don't bet your career on a CAREER" and he was 100% right. (1/3) #AcademicTwitter

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5 years

Top 3 rules for successfully navigating academic conference calls: 1) mute your microphone 2) learn how to quickly unmute your microphone when you need to speak 3) remember to re-mute your microphone @AcademicChatter

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3 years

Special visitor in the lab today 😍😍😍

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I finished a presentation 3 days in advance. This is a new record by ~2.75 days.

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3 years

I spoke recently at a campus workshop on NSF CAREER writing and I’ve been reflecting on the types of questions we got from the jr faculty. A small 🧵 (1/11)

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3 years

Every faculty will eventually need a box of tissues and a bottle of ibuprofen in their offices

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Your career is much longer than a marathon. Pace yourself and prioritize self-care so you can be satisfied as much as possible and not just at the finish line.

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3 years

This is a note handwritten by Arrhenius in 1910. My wife gave it to my when I got my PhD.

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5 years

Just snapped a picture of a giant iguana pretending to be a 4th year PhD student

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I just got a phone call from my sister to help my niece with algebra and honestly I've been waiting for this longer than I realized

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2 years

Big graduation energy today! I shook a lot of hands and immediately used a lot of Purell.

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I left five group members in my office when I had to leave for a new meeting. They left me this handy list.

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Today a graduate student in my group told me, "I'm not really into memes and I also don't like Lord of the Rings" and I was like, "wow it is great you didn't share that before you joined the group"

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3 years

Hello I am in Idaho staying inside of this giant potato tonight. Amazing airbnb find by ⁦ @k98ja03 ⁩.

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When you come visit us in Seattle, we do not play games.

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2 years

Wearing my @JPhysChem hat and asking postdocs to please make sure their email address is available on a website, university directory or twitter bio. I love inviting postdocs with relevant expertise to review papers but >25% of the time I can't find contact info.

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5 years

I think my student Wesley ruined me for research paper titles. forever. @ACSCOMP @jk_rowling #FantasticBeasts

Fantastic Liquids and Where To Find Them: Optimizations of Discrete Chemical Space

We present a computational adaptive learning and design strategy for ionic liquids. In this approach we show that (1) multiple cycles of chemical search via genetic algorithm (GA), property calcula...

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3 years

Departments all over the country are working on seminar nominations for next year. Please remember to take an inclusive approach and look at your portfolio of prospective invites. It is great for students and postdocs when they see themselves reflected in your slate of speakers.

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4 years

I will not participate in submission or review to @angew_chem until the editorial board addresses why they let the "article" by Tomáš Hudlický go to press without additional editorial comment the repugnant views expressed therein. @AmerChemSociety @MJCliffe

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PhD recruits, if you are holding on to >2 offers right now I strongly encourage you to winnow down your list. Realize that your "maybe, but probably not", is someone else's dream school and most places can't make offers off the waitlist without early declines (i.e., soon).

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3 years

"What advice do you have for someone who is comparing different grad schools?" Great question this AM from a prospective @UWChemE student. No perfect answers here but I recommend getting a variety of viewpoints before digging in to make a final decision. Thoughts... (1/7)

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Profs and academic support staff: Last Autumn was hard and you are burnt to a crisp. It is ok to feel that way; it is real and not in your head. Many are feeling the same way Please find a way to take care of yourselves over the next few weeks and recover a bit.

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Facebook just reminded me how good I used to be at making homework problems. From AU 2014 mass transfer.

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I've been doing computational science research for > 20 years and I still randomly paste in commands I find on Stack Exchange.

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2 years

"Can you write a recommendation letter for a chemical engineering student to apply for graduate school. The student is one of the best in the last 10 years and would like to be a professor after they earn their PhD"

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3 years

Utmost quality visitors to Benson Hall today

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My boy giving me the deadpan of a 5th year PhD student when your ask for one more round of experiments.

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2 years

My first ever GRC is coming up in a few weeks! Is my planned outfit too much or not enough?

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1 year

Just under a week left as department chair. At this point, I will literally DocuSign anything and commit any resources to any project at UW ChemE.

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3 years

We have a new endowed fund in the department for community led DEI projects (link in thread). One of the first projects is led by a group of students in our department and me to create a seminar series about the intersection of ChemE practice with ethics and DEI. (1/4)

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2 years

Hottest day of the year so far, so why not 7 mile hike with 1800 ft gain with the group 😅😅😅. We all made it and several got to swim in ice cold Snow Lake 🥶

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3 years

spend 80% of your prep time working on the first 20% of your presentation

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3 years

It is a lot easier to give advice on self-care than to actually do self-care

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2 years

At @UWChemE , we have a very strong philosophy that the AIChE faculty candidates poster session is a time for us to answer your questions and for us to convince you to apply to our searches. We do not evaluate you or make decisions about next steps based on our interactions (1/2)

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4 years

I love seeing all the tenure announcements but also want to share condolences to those getting bad news about P&T. You gave your life to a goal for 5+ years. It is unspeakably painful to miss this mark, but by trying you did something most people are even unwilling to attempt.

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3 years

My niece asked me to make her a Lego car. We have exposed why I am a chemical engineer.

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3 years

AIChE ppl, I'm giving a talk at 8 am tomorrow in the Young Faculty Forum. We're going to talk about working too much and mental health. Come and get it! Sheraton Back Bay, Republic Ballroom A - 8 am!

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3 years

Many faculty find out they *didn’t* receive prestigious awards via Twitter. It is totally fine to feel disappointed and bummed about this. While at a major conference in my 3rd year I had around $2M in young investigator grants declined in 2 days. I drank a lot.

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Hypothesis rejected: “AIChE will not allow me to claim one of Sharon’s lesser titles on my name badge” Keep it or reprint?

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1 year

My work friends+family at @UWChemE held a surprise going away party for me yesterday. It was super fun to see everyone and a little emotional when I had to make a few impromptu remarks (but this OK in the end since I needed a little more salt for my margarita). 🤗🤗🤗

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2 years

Looking forward to seeing everyone at #AIChE2022 ! We will be actively recruiting applicants for our PhD program (grad fair) and open faculty position (MTFC session) and hosting a reception Monday evening. Please say hi if you see us! @ChEnected @UWChemE

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4 years

Virtual grad recruiting today! Looking forward to meeting 15+ prospective grad students. I decided to just do a quick FAQ and answer the most common questions before we dig into research.

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One time a senior faculty told me, “by the time you’re as old as me if your h-index isn’t equal to your age you should just do something else.” This is filed in my long term memory under, “not great.”

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1 year

We drove over 3K miles in the last 10 days. Finally here! Can't wait to start on Monday.

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2 years

Now attending possibly the largest class that has ever been taught at @uwengineering ! Welcoming more than 1k new engineering freshman 🤯🤯🤯

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4 years

When you send a private chat to someone in Zoom, how scared are you of accidentally sending it to everyone?

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4 years

Just joined a zoom meeting 24 hrs late

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My laptop doing calculations in an hour that took a week on my whole cluster in grad school

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2 years

Is it too late to just setup one big group text with all the academics on Twitter before this whole thing is gone?

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3 years

Hey academics. During the next two weeks if you can schedule your email for January, do it.

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People know when you have their back and are trying to help. Do your best and apologize when you make a mistake. For many of us, today is still a day when we can make a difference in our workplaces and labs. Let his comments spur you on toward good, not despair. (6/6)

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3 years

Final slide to new @UWChemE grad students. I wonder I oversold self-care.

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1 year

Haven't had the chance to come up for air much on here or 🧵s since getting started two months ago. I am absolutely over the moon with how my new job is going! I find the work interesting and energizing and the team of staff and faculty I am working with are stellar. (1/4)

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Group retreat in San Juan Islands. The first time we've all been together since 2/2020.

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5 years

Hey @AcademicChatter , here is a laundry list of things we've done in @UWChemE to transition to all online education and nearly all staff teleworking. I suggest department chairs and associate deans plan in advance and be proactive vs reactive (1/18)

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3 years

“This one’s going on Twitter”

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It is Friday at 6pm. Tell me you’re a department chair without telling me you’re a department chair.

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Nominating your colleagues for awards is a sure-fire way to feel great

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Encouragement: there is a fine line between denying the lived experience of someone who is struggling AND reminding them of the (likely) many excellent things they have going for them. "This doesn't take away from your struggle today, but I was just thinking of how you..." (3/6)

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1 year

So I just found this poster

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3 years

Happy Memorial Day from Millie and Boltzmann

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I submitted the final report to the NSF 1 month before it was overdue!

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Call me old fashioned, but I refuse to stop using 4:3 PowerPoint aspect ratio. @AcademicChatter

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3 years

Hey molecular simulation ppl, abstracts are due 3/18 for the 2022 FOMMS (Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation) conference. Please RT, and plan to join us in WI! This is my favorite conference! @aichecomsef @ACSCOMP

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One last big Cascades hike before we leave the state. Appreciate everyone putting up with me being a big baby the whole time 🤗🤗🤗

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2 years

I have literally assigned this scenario as a homework problem multiple times in my life as a professor

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4 years

Yesterday I drive around Seattle and delivered an Oculus headset to almost all the grads and postdocs in my group (a few stragglers are left). Looking forward to figuring out Zoom-less ways to collaborate and do some science together! @recroom

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4 years

Some people see 8 cups of coffee. I see 1 cup of coffee and 7 cups of garbage.

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I will never stop being delighted at getting asked to review papers from outside my discipline. Frontiers in Psychology? Hold my 🍺

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2 years

#chemtwitter my friend texted me this comic and we have been arguing about what it means. Please share your interpretations.

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4 years

I think writing your first paper is the hardest thing you do in grad school

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2 years

@JPhysChem was where my first paper was published (after 4 rounds of revisions 🙈) and I have always been excited to submit and review for these journals. It is a huge honor and privilege to serve as an editor here. Thank you to the JPC team for the invitation!

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2 years

Join us in welcoming Jim Pfaendtner (Univ. of Washington) @JimPfaendtner as Senior Editor of JPC! He brings expertise in molecular simulation and stat mech analyses of complex fluids, soft matter, biomolecular phenomena and theory/modeling of chemical reactivity. Welcome, Jim!

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Extremely relieved to find out "pfaendtner @ncsu .edu" was still available

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I’m back to being a rookie traveler

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A simple, but straightforward framework to think about your CAREER proposal is: 1) I will lead some research ; 2) I will integrate this research with my activities as an educator ; 3) I will use my research and educational activities to achieve these "broader impacts" (6/n)

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Serious question: if these massive science funding increases happen, who is going to do all the work?

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