Martin Rahm

Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at @chalmersuniv in 🇸🇪 interested in chemical bonding, material prediction, and astrobiology.

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

I am now (also) on @bluesky (https://t.co/ZqQQQZspPL). In hopes that the scientific community will again meet under one roof. Too many in science have left X, and for good reasons. Long live (reasonable) #contentmoderation and civil discourse. Death to the #bots. 👻 4X.

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Finally!! Scientific evidence on the meaning of corporate bullshit. Share so we can collectively leverage cross-functional awareness, align our strategic narratives, and operationalize a paradigm-shifting roadmap for reducing BS across the value chain. https://t.co/LHEcVRYSNo

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

A great talk!

[EurChemBond @EurChem]

Take a look at our new https://t.co/vlp3RN9j02 channel on YouTube , where we post the ECCB seminars. Our inaugural lecture is already posted: a talk by Prof. Martin Head-Gordon

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Press release! https://t.co/N2e8IpK2DC

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

New #chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling and colleagues at @NASAJPL
https://t.co/q1Stfp2Bid

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Proud of this one!

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

(Super)Conducting Radical Pancakes! Bold predictions of structure, chemical bonding and conductivity, by @rahmlab at Chalmers University of Technology #openaccess 🔓 https://t.co/lTYgc9KS7e

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Could there be 👽 life in Venus’s clouds?
Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor.
In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out!

🔗 https://t.co/z5jPgGV9v2

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Here is a related blog post: https://t.co/7AzIxCOxHo

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Great energetic collaboration with Canadian friends! @FabFourLove & @BelangerChabot

[Guillaume Bélanger-Chabot @BelangerChabot]

Dinitroacetylene: Can It be Made? - Harter - 2025 - Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/VqLBtab5su

Check out our paper where we predict how (un)stable dinitroacetylene would be and what would be its favorite way of decomposing ;)

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

A few last-minute spots opened for Telluride workshop, “Chemical Origins of Life as We Don’t Know It.”
https://t.co/bHkSeot583
Interested? Please email/DM me or @rcremsing a short note on your background & motivation.

📝 Travel, etc. not included.
#astrobiology

[Simon Olsson @smnlssn]

@AntonFKockum @rahmlab @wacqt_sweden @WASP_Research @chalmersuniv @cse_gbg @UCPH_Research Code is available now: https://t.co/8wbFapXasD

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

@AstroBio_Ben Thanks Ben!

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

#PhDposition in Computational #Astrobiology & #QuantumChemistry! Join us at Chalmers in 🇸🇪. Collab with @NASAJPL and @starsarecalling in 🇺🇸. @astrobiology @_phdpositions @BlueMarbleSpace @EAIastrobiology #chemtwitter #compchem
https://t.co/SeF6NWdj52

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/oxgwgLfupg via @Change

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

The fact that posts like this are clearly throttled, should make anyone seeing it - yes YOU - share it like mad. 😡

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

27 million users and counting ”There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions”. In case you’re not yet convinced, here is some science on the best X-alternative. https://t.co/RNjvyNNvnF

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

@skdh @damianoram Are you advocating for this, or do you only mean it as a prediction? If yes to the former: What about basic science, long term and curiosity driven research? There is no profit in astrobiology. Fat luck getting anywhere as a species if we skip out on the visionary.

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

@UllaJansen Good question. I wouldn’t say snowflakes are that random, as their hexagonal shape is largely a reflection of the crystal lattice of water ice. So maybe wind erosion!

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

The idea of a Boltzmann brain, a 🧠 spontaneously appearing someplace believing it is you granted the universe is large enough, is bogus. In contrast, here is evidence for the Boltzmann hut, a series of branches randomly assembling to form a hut. #Thermodynamics #chemtwitter

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

@UllaJansen In fairness this is most probably just a poorly made actual hut, not caused by random motion. But the point stands, if you wait long enough randomness might build some structures. But not brains. The latter requires causality through selection, evolution.

[Martin Rahm @rahmlab]

$500 billion = Not peanuts. I think they have found something. https://t.co/H6sRnMyWZY