Turculet Group

Twitter account for the Turculet research group at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada). 🇨🇦👩‍🔬

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@ChemMouse @KozyCanuck Seems like a lot of these are left up to PIs, but what if they don’t (or won’t) do a good job? We’ve certainly seen high profile examples where the PI perpetuates a culture of questionable ethical conduct. These are the cases we know about…

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

Do we still teach students about ethics in research/science?? Seems like something that should be a requirement in every science program…If you haven’t previously seen/read “On Being a Scientist” (The National Academies Press, https://t.co/0ktOjM3t8r ) it’s a great resource.

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@ChemMouse @KozyCanuck But then there are so many other things that also need to be addressed, such as:
- mentoring
- data management and manipulation
- how do we address errors
- authorship and allocation of credit
- competing interests
Etc. Even chemical safety has a role…

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

I mean, come on! Isn’t it enough that we chemists draw the ire of so many doctors who had to survive organic chemistry? Now the astrophysicists are after us??? 🤣🤣🤣 /3

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

An astrophysicist (Pauline Barmby) over on Bluesky shared this with me today. Fellow chemists, I am affronted. I am deceased even 😵😵😵 /1

https://t.co/e9eKaO8oAW via @YouTube

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

To make things even worse, it all started from a reply to this post /2

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@Karl33ta @chitnislab This is the “squirrel” graveyard in our family room 🙄🐶

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@MoranLabChem Yes, I see this now, but not the best table lol!

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@MoranLabChem I think it was just presented poorly, ie not clear that PGSD is no longer a thing

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@MoranLabChem Huh. Was looking at Figure 4.2 here https://t.co/QbgBqZStMF

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@TimHoustonNS in attendance looking about as excited to be here as any accountant would be 🙄

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

Let’s go Tigers!
⁦@DalTigers⁩ ⁦@DalhousieU⁩

[Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. @RJGilliard]

Yesterday #maingroup chemistry was on full display at the @bruker-@MIT ⁩symposium! Excellent talks by ⁦@organomimetic⁩, ⁦@tbaumlab⁩, Jane, and ⁦@chitnislab⁩! It was also great to see students and faculty from nearly all of the Boston area schools.

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@chitnislab @sean_t_barry @KMMarczenko Every time I walk by Saurabh’s office I see some new gadget. The other day he had his monitor in portrait mode, and…I…did not know you could do that 🤯🫨🙀

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@cscinorgdiv

Join us in Halifax this July!

https://t.co/JPBoF1NOd2

[Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab]

📢The IRIS conference will be in Halifax (🇨🇦), July 21-25, 2024!

The org team, led by Charles Macdonald and Jason Clyburne, invites you to this premiere, long-running main group chem series.

Info: https://t.co/0wFfG4RyWt

@ACSINORDivision @InorgChem @DaltonTrans @angew_chem

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

@sean_t_barry @chitnislab @KMMarczenko

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

This article is a must read on higher ed
https://t.co/LkxNpybqz4

[Turculet Group @TurculetChem]

“Celebrity academics” - Why is this a thing?!? I get the part about educating the public about academia and esp. about science. But the glitz and glamour and tabloids bit? Not so much. It’s gross. Do not condone.