Peter Saghy

PhD candidate at Brown University 🐻 Chen and @JRRatBrown labs 🧪🥽 I make organometallic lanthanide complexes and nanocrystals. Aspiring to understand CASSCF🤔

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@MilliporeSigma @ABrownChem 👀👀👀 🍫 #SigmaAldrichChocolate

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@HematianLab Omg congrats!!

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@ABrownChem Lanthanides are the best 🔥

[Peter Saghy @saghy_peter]

A series of Pr, Nd and Eu compounds with the most beautiful crystals.

#realtimechem #chemistry #chemtwitter #lanthanide #crystals

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@HematianLab @UConnChem @BrownUniversity @Ung_Group @AABChemistry @JRRatBrown @whoisBMH It was great having you, I hope you enjoyed your visit!

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@JustinCWedal UO2 is generally black, UO3, however, is red or orange, so I think you might have the latter.

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Friday afternoon crystals of a mystery europium compound 👀

#ChemTwitter #realtimechem #crystals #lanthanide #fblock

[Peter Saghy @saghy_peter]

@NickelCarbon Not sure to what extent this has been said in publications explicitly, but trispyrazolylborate ligands around lanthanides have a reputation to pick up very low levels of adventitious water in the glovebox.
An example is here: https://t.co/b9z6o95sb5

[Bryan Hunter @whoisBMH]

We’re hiring a postdoc to join our efforts in combinatorial nanotechnology! Stipend is $75k/yr. Contact me for more information.
https://t.co/dEi3ZAB0Eu

[Peter Saghy @saghy_peter]

@SigmaAldrich @NileRed2 you should make "pure" cookies with these 🍪
#LabChocolateContest

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Fear of retaliation in academia goes well beyond our workplace.

During the Lindau meeting, Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel prize for NMR) argued against the meeting’s focus on diversity and even mentioned that discrimination against men is real. Here, I would just cite the statistics that says it all: only 60 women become Nobel Laureates, compared to 892 men.

Now, I want to draw your attention how Science describes a comment from one researcher:

- Another attendee who asked not to be identified over FEAR of damaging his career, tells Science he looked forward to the meeting for the peer networking opportunities: "I also want to learn some life lessons from these excellent laureates about navigating a research career and how to be a responsible scientist. We’re not discriminating against white men — we’re criticizing the system, but they take it very personally.”

As you see, this attendee didn’t say anything that can damage his career.

He didn’t say anything bad about his advisors, funding agencies, department, etc.

He just said he is against the system that doesn’t help women in #science become equally represented.

And yet there is fear. Real fear of getting retaliated against.

Unfortunately, this dark side of academia is so common that many people think it’s a norm.

This is not about one specific researcher. This is about all of us, the scientists and educators:

Academia is a place where people are afraid of saying any statement in public that someone may find questionable or system-damaging. Even one on one, VERY few people are ready to discuss issues in academia.

Scientists are not afraid to discuss science! But we become paralyzed when the topic is about academic environment.

There is a tiny faction of researchers who are not afraid.

Yet the vast majority stay in total silence. Many seem afraid of their own shadow.

Please, BE brave!

Don't just focus on your own research in your labs. Take a stand.

Remember, your words hold power. They help reshape the system.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Peter Saghy @saghy_peter]

@vivianjyuen All you need to do is to mix random things in your waste vial, and wait for something to crystallize over the weekend #science #reproducibilitysucks

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On today's episode of "I forgot to throw out my waste, so it grew crystals": divalent europium

#fluorescence #lanthanide #RealTimeChem #chemtwitter #luminescence #crystals #Chemistry

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@druselabs1 https://t.co/xxMZO99QmB hmm this looks familiar 🙈🤷

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Some Monday mornings are not so bad I guess?

@JRRatBrown
#chemtwitter #realtimechem #Crystals #lanthanides #fblock

[Brian Rotermund @RotermundBrian]

The alexandrite effects of plutonium! In select elements, by changing the light emitting conditions, different colors are observed from the sample despite no chemical changes occurring! @Jsperling91 @TEAS_Actinides #Plutonium #colorfulchemistry #actinides

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@TEAS_Actinides @JRRatBrown I just need them to hold on to their interstitial ether for EA 🙈

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Some Monday mornings are not so bad I guess?

@JRRatBrown
#chemtwitter #realtimechem #Crystals #lanthanides #fblock

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@vivianjyuen @JRRatBrown Just wish I could repeat this for my other compound, it has been evading me for months 🙈🤷

[Robinson Group @JRRatBrown]

Check out this fantastic collaborative study (@JRRatBrown & Chen group / @chematbrown / @saghy_peter @ABrownChem) on Ln double perovskite nanoparticles! 1/2
#chemtwitter #perovskite #nanocrystal #lanthanide #luminescence #ultraviolet
https://t.co/G5DEdIYmMd

[Peter Saghy @saghy_peter]

Today's crystals in the Robinson lab. The color comes from interligand charge transfer ✨️
Bit of a shame that they don't fluoresce 🤔🤷🙈

@JRRatBrown

#RealTimeChem #fblock #lanthanide #chemtwitter #organometallics #crystals