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Prof. Nate DeYonker (he/him) @ University of Memphis Department of Chemistry. My words and thoughts. Always looking for new team members! synth/cat enthusiast

Memphis, TN
Joined January 2022
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
7 months
I'm tenured in the Dept of Chemistry at an R1-classified university. I didn't win a single award for my research or scholarship until my 3rd year as postdoc. Believe in yourself, find mentors and colleagues who believe in you, balance work/life but work your ass off when you can
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Dr. Suzanne Sindi
7 months
Reminder that you can do awesome stuff and be an amazing scientist without the NSF GRFP! But also congratulations to all who received one. Including my cousin here @ucmerced :)
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1 year
@jetfury The first truly bad take since I've started following you!
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
I had no papers, not even any in preparation, and a mediocre GPA when I applied to grad school. Don't let tweets like this scare you. Come to @memphis_chem and learn you can become a rock star at any stage of your life.
@pengpeng_xiao
Pengpeng Xiao
2 years
My jaws keep dropping as I go through 70 PhD applicant files. People w/ 2 coauthored papers & an interesting solo writing sample don’t even make it to the top 10 in my pile. The level of knowledge, research experience & passion these kids bring to the table is just remarkable! 🤩
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
@equalityAlec Copy and paste this thread into a document, format according to MIT Press requirements, submit as a Letter to the Editor or Letter of Concern? Anywho, damage is done when the right breathlessly cites these anti-quantitative efforts for the next 10 years.
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DeYonkerLab
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@macyagilliam Very crabby that this list stopped at 4 instead of 400
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10 months
@thatfrood Making a pee wee herman reference?
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
11 months
Hi all! No official job posting yet, but looking for an NSF-funded postdoc to start ASAP in Jan 2024. Anyone with biochemical modeling (MD, QM, QM/MM) experience is encouraged to contact me. A lot of graduations/turnover expected in the lab next year, so I need some help!
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DeYonkerLab
7 months
The group rocked their posters last night at #ACSSpring2024 so glad for the opportunity from #NSF and @memphis_chem to bring all my grad students to a national meeting for the first time (since when my group was tiny)
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
9 months
@newmanian2 @AHammoudMI @WSJ Are Jews allowed in Dearborn? It's a free country and most adults in Michigan have a car. There's great restaurants and book/comic/record stores in Dearborn. There are no Muslim-controlled roadblocks or checkpoints through Dearborn on the way to DTW airport. Weirdo.
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DeYonkerLab
10 months
Postdoc job posting is live! Consider joining my group at University of Memphis if yr interested in cheminformatics analysis of MD simulations, QM-cluster models of enzymes, or quantitative protein-ligand interaction energy calculations
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
@Lunchetime @jodieh07 @AndrewHilaryUS I've been on the same dosage of vyvanse since 2010 and it still helps me be a functioning human quite well.
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Was having an incredibly bad and frustrating week of work, but I just received notification that a manuscript was accepted as-is (first time since I was a postdoc). The only needed correction was that the Editor wanted us to shorten the title.
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DeYonkerLab
7 months
Dr. @dawappett arrived to tour the lab and campus and plan some science. Dr. Agbaglo successfully defended his dissertation and became the second PhD from my research group. A huge happy day!!!
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Atsu Agbaglo is my second grad student to defend his research prospectus. He's two forms away from being ABD! TJ follows in two weeks then group party time. Very proud of the hard work Atsu has done @memphis_chem
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@NoelFritsch @FirstHealth Point to the spots in the Bible where they discuss masks
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
My first PhD student's first first-author pub as a postdoc working with David Cantu. #firstfirstfirst Go Thomas! Great work, great journal
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Inorganic Chemistry
2 years
A team from UNR Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, with scientists at Argonne and Pacific Northwest National Labs, has resolved the structures of lanthanide-ligand complexes, in solution, with AIMD and EXAFS. Check it out: @unrchemicaleng
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@ryleywalker The Denton, TX Broadcast / Atlas Sound gig got cancelled because Trish had been sick. I was planning to propose to my now-wife on the drive to the show from Tennessee. So I had to make up some goofy-ass excuse to get her to drive to Texas anyway and ask her to marry me
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@elianadivakarr Boredoms were the first live band I ever saw
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
New paper in @JChemPhys ! A brief comment/suggestion from @cd_sherrill over Zoom two years ago has turned into a really exciting direction in the lab, and this is our first contribution.
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1 year
@joe_r_Odonnell @RebeccaBuxton Did they start dating while she was his student? Or did they start dating later after she graduated? It's a colossal difference
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
We got it funded today!!!!!!!!!!!
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2 years
It's true! #SERMACS2022 has been such a great time so far.
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
I wish I had booed the transphobe at the end of #WATOC2020 as loudly as I applauded the Nobel Prize winner who subsequently skewered him
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
The three best pieces of advice I've received in academia: 1) don't hold grudges 2) invite yourself to or ask for invitations to things 3) steer clear of abusers Bonus advice that I struggle to ever follow: don't take setbacks so personally
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Took a few hours off from the chem conference to hit up Amoeba Records and have some really great pizza and wine with one of the best DJs in the world
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
New paper out today, it's very cool to be a part of the Electronic Structure special issue "Using Electronic Structure Calculations to Understand Biological Systems" curated by @KulikGroup , @Lab_initio , and Marc van der Kamp.
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
The groop did a fantastic job at SETCA2022. Such an inspiring meeting for younger comp chemists!
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1 year
A wonderful time finally. Finally! Getting my group to the Mid-South Biophysics Symposium. Big representation from @memphis_chem ! #MSBS23 Thanks for the invite @OleMiss_MBELab
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DeYonkerLab
11 months
Very proud of two of the newest undergrads in the group, Khawlah Almurisi and Zaid Hadidi, for presenting their MD/F-SAPT research at the UM Works in Progress symposium. Khawlah especially crushed it since she started her project only ~8 weeks ago! @uofmemphis @memphis_chem
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
I have my students make a 2-3 minute video at the beginning of every semester to help me learn their names, see how they're feeling about the course, and get to know them a bit. This semester I added that I wanted them to show me their pets. GOOD DECISION!
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
I am so glad that several of my chemistry heroes have finally published this. I hope that my chemistry heroes who have found themselves on the opposite side of the debate will soften their hearts. Let's focus on the true and relentless enemies to academic freedom and free speech
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Hrant P. Hratchian
2 years
What do we value as a community? I’ve joined John Herbert, Martin Head-Gordon, Teresa Head-Gordon, Rommie Amaro, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Roald Hoffmann, Carol Parish, Christina Payne, & Troy Van Voorhis in @JPhysChem Letters to share our view. #compchem |
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
The pupil has become the master! My Research Scientist, Dr. Qianyi Cheng, just got an NIH R35 proposal funded and she will be looking for 2 postdocs (along with the postdoc position available in my group!) It's an amazing time to join the University of Memphis Dept of Chemistry!
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
@tilliander no way, I've never met anyone in an aphex twin tshirt that I didnt like. But I met a lot of drunk shrivs at a recent New Order show wearing Unknown Pleasures tees and I wish my memory of them can be deleted
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The groop is heading towards New Orleans tomorrow for #ACSSpring2024 I talk about RINRUS in the general QM COMP section R04 at 2PM Sunday (1/4)
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
Kicked off #ACSFall2022 by... ditching the conference for a few hours and checking out the glorious Cezanne exhibit at the Art Institute with my mom and stepdad!
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Greetings from Pully, Switzerland!
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DeYonkerLab
3 years
Daniel and I have arrived at #ACSSpring2022
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
@jetfury No one on earth has ever said "geez I wish Portishead had let me go to bed after 35 minutes"
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DeYonkerLab
8 months
Free drinks, good food, new friends, science and life convo = @mia_rosenfeld threw an awesome party at #BPS2024
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
My postdoc search part deux is live! Great pay, low cost of living in Memphis, great team! Translatable skills in electronic structure theory, biomodeling, computational enzymology and data science! NSF support for 24-30 months.
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
I greatly enjoyed #ACSSpring2023 . I made new friends at all career stages, presented new work, ate too many French fries, did my Council duties, argued with Lee Woodcock, and am in desperate need of sleep. I love the gauntlet! Didn't take pictures of course... 😪
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
@RottenInDenmark The backstory on all this and the rift it made in my little corner of the STEM community is totally bonkers. Sorry if these are paywalled!
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
All three excellent postdoc candidates for my NSF CAREER funding have taken other jobs. I have to try again for January. Sigh... any of you have good Dec 2022 graduates looking for a job in biochemical electronic structure? Formal job posting coming in 2-4 weeks hopefully.
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
New work with Qianyi in @JPhysChem looking at QM-cluster models of glycine-N-methyltransferase. Part of the festschrift for Prof Krishnan Raghavachari, whose work has been a huge inspiration at all levels of my career.
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
@ohdearz I don't know you or who you're talking about, but when people talk about "cancel culture", I wish the phrase would get re-purposed to describe the lives/careers/dreams of people who are bounced out of our communities by harassment and abuse before ever getting to take part
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
@funkentechno ylt 40 years 2 bad albums, the dead 40 years 2 good albums
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Each year for my NSF CAREER funding we've had a virtual steering committee meeting with profs Abby Parrill (Memphis), David Sherrill @cd_sherrill (Georgia Tech) and Dr. Bernie Brooks (NIH). These meetings have been so valuable and put much wind in the group's sails.
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
Some parts of organizing a symposium are super easy and some are like "omg so my fires to put out, is this what being department chair feels like???" @Dodson_Group and I made a good team and we had great attendance considering how small our corner of #astrochemistry can seem.
@Dodson_Group
Dodson Group
2 years
That’s a wrap on the #astrochemistry symposium at #ACSFall2022 ! We’re so grateful to all of our speakers near and far. Thanks to @ACSAstrochem for letting us organize this meeting.
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DeYonkerLab
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She beat me to it! I am so excited for the opportunity to elevate Domi's career, and to welcome her to the strong (now stronger) biochem and comp chem communities in the southeast US
@dawappett
Dr Domi Wappett
8 months
Now that my visa has been approved it’s time to announce that I’ll be starting a postdoc in April with @de_lab at the University of Memphis! Really excited to shift focus and start applying what I’ve learnt from my benchmarking with @lgoer_compchem in some proper enzyme modeling.
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
So so so proud of Manuel, the first @memphis_chem undergrad in my group to seek a PhD in Chemistry. Blown away by the quality and quantity of work he's done with @EveryWhereChem in one year of grad school.
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
Sad to realize that Mimi Parker's passing technically lands on my wedding anniversary. When @lowtheband first entrenched themselves as an all-time favorite, I was a teenager who never truly knew love and never knew grief. Now I have been fortunate enough to find true love 1/
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
#acsfall2022 the group is ready for Chicago! Atsu: PHYS talk Tues 4:10PM & COMP poster ( #2765 ) me: COMP talk Wed 8:40AM ( #3731647 ) & w/ @Dodson_Group organizing PHYS inorganic astrochem symposium Qianyi: BIOL talk Mon 8:40AM ( #3737311 ) TJ: INOR poster ( #2151 )
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
#ACSFall2023 was another end to end gauntlet packed with great science, old friends, new friends, perfect SF weather, Council, sleep deprivation, gut expanding food and spirits. Stuck in DFW for a few extra hours tho. Blehhhh
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
3 years
@melissabaker712 Who on earth would mock this? Selecting my grad school and advisor were like two of the biggest decisions ever made in my life. Lord there is some raw nastiness on this medium
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DeYonkerLab
3 years
Come on! Look at these two grumps
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@de_lab
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@PlackBlague The skaters/punks that I went to high school with in suburban Detroit were the people who got me into electronic music/techno
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
10 months
2nd pre-print from the DeYonker group! Atsu's study of chorismate mutase with QM-cluster model building, how the active site/solvent interface affects QM models, and MD->QM sampling workflows. Feedback appreciated, unless you plan to B3LYP-shame us!
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
The current streak of pubs ends with our study of MgCCH and MgCCH+ with Prof. Lucy Ziurys at U Arizona! Part of the special issue in memory of Tim Lee. Lucy's and group add the five lowest energy rotational transitions
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DeYonkerLab
10 months
@beautypill Is this your smashing pumpkins application?
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
Poor lighting; legendary astrochemistry #ACSFall2022 day1
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DeYonkerLab
3 years
A nice example from my group where QM-cluster models performs well with "bioorganic" enzymes. I'm kind of surprised how many views the paper has received already in its first week online!
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
Didja know that my group publicly released software to automatically construct QM-cluster models of enzymes? We just pushed version 0.2.1 that can process protein-ligand F/SAPT calculations and quantitatively rank the importance of active site fragments!
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DeYonkerLab
3 years
@Phil_Knutson Tell us more about sp4 hybridization
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
3 years
Got to spend some quality time with my PhD advisor, @CCQC_UGA , pictured here with grad school officemate @hlwoodcock at #ACSSpring2022
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
I'm so glad that my research and teaching are at a stable trajectory. I have been able to focus all of my imposter syndrome energy on my musical endeavors.
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
@AzevedoAudio If you're lacking POC, Robert aiki Aubrey Lowe's soundtrack to Candyman. Aphex Twin Mt Fuji cassette, venetian snares traditional synthesizer music. Also kudos to everyone who has posted stuff I've never heard before here!
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DeYonkerLab
7 months
The only way this thing could be more awesome is if it helped me do computational chemistry
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11 months
machine gun x-ittering, sorry! End of semester research group dinner at High Point Pizza was so good.
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
3 years
Had a great zoom meeting with a potential undergrad researcher. Huge red flag though: no comments about how adorable my cat was being in the background. Not one. 🤣
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
Atsu's first first-author paper in my group! No transition metals in this tetraatomic molecule. What could possibly go wrong? Everything went wrong. But that's part of the fun with inorganic electronic structure theory, right? @UMAstroChem @memphis_chem
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
Post WATOC jams. #khruangbin
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1 year
Exquisite group dinner at #SERMACS2023
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3 years
Phys poster session was a great ending to my #ACSSpring2022 experience!
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
#chemtwitter I am struggling heavily to improve the writing of my research group. It is affecting my mental health and the morale of the lab. I'm starting to worry about grant renewal prospects. Advice?
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
3 years
My favorite thing about giving a talk in the #ACSSpring2022 symposium honoring John Stanton was that I was able to say "the electronic structure of this molecule is super weird but I bet John Stanton could help me fix it" and then John Stanton was like "I can help you fix it"
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
New astrochemistry-related heterogenous catalysis modeling from me and my long-time collaborator Marco! "Nitrile regio-synthesis by Ni centers on a siliceous surface: implications in prebiotic chemistry" - now published in Chemical Communications
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
3 years
Just one of the four ladies waiting for Dad to get home
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Harry Gray could have said it better but the social media blowback is wack. Find things you are compelled to become great at doing. For me, it's being a good dad/husband, doing computational chemistry research, and making electronic music.
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DeYonkerLab
8 months
On the way to Philly where i get to be the oddball talking about DFT again! Poster B462 on Wednesday morning! #BPS2024
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
Lab kudos #2 , Atsu passed his prospectus meeting and was voted Outstanding 4th year grad student researcher by dept faculty, Chris Barksdale, an undergrad/now post-bacc won an ACS PHYS undergrad research award and just lined up a sweet job!
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Partially obscured at camp Kia Kima
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@AcademicChatter Don't wait until year 3 of grad school to start seeing a therapist
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DeYonkerLab
2 years
My daughter (age 7 + 4 months) slept the entire night four nights this week. A feat she has not accomplished since she was age 10-14 months. Needless to say the overall household energy level has been a BIT higher than normal.
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2 years
@nickysmithers @lowtheband So nice you had to troll twice
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9 months
@EdFuller_PSU I've never fallen asleep on the couch in my dress clothes with the lights on until I started teaching
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DeYonkerLab
6 months
@misterminsoo I'm always whining about how no good bands come to Memphis, and it wasn't until I checked their tour dates for the upcoming that I realized they were here last November. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
Classes start in seven days and I still haven't read my teaching evaluations from the Spring. It's the third time I taught undergrad level Inorganic Chem but the first time I felt like I did a good job. I'll be sad if my perception was wrong
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
@lowtheband since u seem to be in an AMA mood lately, I dove deep into and found a show from 2014 (!!!) Where u played don't walk away and disappearing, sounding nearly complete. Why didn't yall think they were ready for 1s and 6s or double negative?
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
The groop! Not including Qianyi, who hopefully has allergies and not covid, and Kaustubh, who is vacationing in India with family. Bonus visitor, Paige B from the Herbert group @OSU_CBC ! @memphis_chem
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
Have I ever used every long cable I have in a single patch? Yikes. #eurorack #dayoff
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
I can get grumpy when students call me Nate. Dr. Nate is fine, and either way I'm not going to ignore or attack someone for not understanding convention. Also, I delayed starting undergrad research for an entire semester because of anxiety over how to start my email to the prof.
@ZJAyres
Dr Zoë Ayres
1 year
I can't believe that I need to have this conversation, but judging people's professionalism by the opening line of an email, when they are simply using a variant of "hello" is just gatekeeping. It's bias, pure and simple.
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2 years
A tiny reminder that @DevineJessalyn and I will give virtual talks on our #astrochemistry research as part of the #acs AstroCheminar series. It's tomorrow at 1PM Central. Free to register! #spectroscopy #space
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DeYonkerLab
1 year
@kingbritt External hard drives in triplicate
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
Patti made this box she calls "the time warp" and sometimes I wonder if Sara sits in there hoping to be taken to a time before we adopted her
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
2 years
44 years old. Beautiful family. Successful career. Satisfying hobbies. Has never successfully used saran wrap.
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
1 year
Overdue to recognize Taylor Santaloci @tsantaloci12 who has been doing a fantastic job as a postdoc in the group since January! Learning about F-SAPT, snake venom metalloproteinases, and helping with huge QoL leaps in our enzymology model creation code. Yay!
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DeYonkerLab
3 years
@BldnBoneMarrow @FouadChouairi This is a vastly kinder and more diplomatic way to make a comment on readability. I will start using it. If language or grammar obfuscates meaning or slows down my ability to read the paper, I feel obligated to comment. If not, it becomes the job of the editor instead of author
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DeYonkerLab
7 months
Just a normal night at #ACSSpring2024 being forced to join the NOLA St Patrick's Day parade with @DePrinceFSU for a few blocks because the sidewalk was closed
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@de_lab
DeYonkerLab
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@ronnui_ big time same. There's been less than 5 times in the last 5 years where I forget whether or not I took my vyvanse in the morning and then take a second one and I'm a tweaked out anxious mess the entire day.
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