Danjo De Chavez

Theoretical Chemist | Computational Catalysis | Simulation Specialist | Quantum Chemistry Nerd | Data Science Enthusiast |

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Updated my personal website. You can visit
https://t.co/iwid51M5LP

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It’s been a little over a month since I joined the @compsurfchem group at @uniofwarwick. Together with @reinimau, we’re embedding something new in @fhi_aims! 😉

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Today I learned Mac M chips dynamically changes its swap memory for demanding calculations.

[Reinhard Maurer @reinimau]

PhD students, postdocs, and early career industrial researchers in #PhysicalChemistry: the Faraday Community poster symposium is back again!
Find out more and submit your abstract by 29 September: https://t.co/eWAagM7o7A

[ESPA2024 @espa2024]

Everything set for gala dinner at @espa2024!🥂🍾

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Excited to present my latest work on electron correlation method during the @espa2024

[Pavlo Dral @PavloDral]

I am looking for a motivated postdoc extending the open-source MLatom program (https://t.co/Wl9vRoVMPM) capabilities to handle periodic boundary conditions with ML-based methods.

Please share with interested candidates!

More info:
https://t.co/nr91pSQ3o5

[Tuckerman Group @GroupTuckerman]

Our new paper in Nature Communications explores machine learning the 1-particle reduced density matrix based as a route to predicting electronic structure calculation results.
https://t.co/VYqeOBWPCw

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Symposium on ML for Quantum Chemistry here in Uppsala University. https://t.co/HG4BFv2hWK

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How my monitor looks like these days.
Terminal, text editor, git manager, web browser.

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My new paper is out!

One-centre corrected two-electron integrals in inner projection-based integral evaluations* https://t.co/RKNGXiWUhS

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First time to join the OpenMolcas Developers’ workshop. I’m happy to be part of the community.

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Happening now: 11th OpenMolcas Developers’ Workshop

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The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry https://t.co/I059GUsMb7

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Reading original paper of Löwdin on Perturbation Theory is so much better than textbooks I had in QM cause mathematical motivation and other details are also discussed which are left in textbooks.

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

No reward - no duties.  75% of respondents have reduced the hours spent on academic duties since 2020 (Nature polls).

Mostly due to burnout and unwillingness to work for free.

This included attending conferences, peer reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals, committees, mentoring and even teaching.

Why?

Because scientists are tired of not being able to do #science.

- Students are tired of being unappreciated and overloaded

- Faculties are tired of “community duties” that become overwhelming (conferences, committees, reviewing, outreach, etc)

And everyone is tired of small salaries, zero empathy and little credit.

The problem is greatly summarized by Isabel Müller (in the article):

“There’s so little acknowledgement that people have difficult, complicated lives outside of work.”

A year ago, Nature described how PhD students don’t want to be postdocs and faculties are leaving academia. Now, we see that those who stayed are trying to resist the system from the inside.

But the problem is - the system is too rigid, too traditional and too elitist.

So, as a community, we can change it only by raising our voices and expressing distaste with the status quo. I applaud Nature for writing about these issues so regularly. The academic world has too many interdependent parts which should be addressed concurrently.

This is why we should stay united and strong as a community.

Regarding the academic environment we all hope to have, I loved how Isabel Müller put it in the article:

- I hope it becomes the new normal to say: “My life matters. My work is an important part, but I decide what my life looks like, not my employer”.

#AcademicTwitter #education

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@adi_gajigan Well, tomorrow you can focus on writing since you finished a lot today.

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@Shun39yasumura おめでとう🎉

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My first work as a #postdoc with @RolandLindh here in @UU_University is now available as a preprint in the ChemRxiv.

One-Center Corrected Two-Electron Integrals in Inner Projection based Integral Evaluation | ChemRxiv https://t.co/lB140fDfbG