John Swierk

Photoredox, electrosynthetic reaction mechanisms, and photochemistry of tattoos. New(ish) PI at Binghamton University (SUNY), father of two. Ally 🏳️‍🌈 BLM

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Ever wonder what’s in a tattoo ink? Turns out lots of things that shouldn’t be there. Our latest in @an_chem finds that 90% of the tattoo inks we looked at had major discrepancies with the listed ingredients!!! 1/n

https://t.co/91bPXZhFZ4

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Feeling proud of ⁦@binghamtonu⁩ today for assuring that graduate student admissions continue unaffected and that we deliver on our commitments to admitted students!

[Blake for the North Country @BlakeGendebien]

I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District.

Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

[Blake for the North Country @BlakeGendebien]

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District.

Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Trump's proposal is ILLEGAL & amounts to an indiscriminate funding cut for research centers of all sizes, NOT just Ivies. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, & derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.

[John Swierk @swierklab]

@demyanpro @NSF Congrats!

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Grad students on this project get a pretty broad exposure to different techniques (TAS, qNMR, echem) and will work in a really supportive group environment. Previous students have done well w/ publications (both number and impact)

https://t.co/8nSj1KFf9Y

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Just putting this out there but next fall my group will be taking on a new grad student for our mechanistic photochemistry work so if you have undergrads that are interested in studying mechanisms and kinetics, encourage them to apply to our PhD program (link below👇)

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Overall, we think this is the first step in understanding how to rationally design photoredox chain reactions. Huge congrats to Annemarie for her first 1st author paper and on bringing this cool study to completion!

[John Swierk @swierklab]

Proud to share our latest in @J_A_C_S. We report an in-depth kinetic and mechanistic investigation of a [4+2] chain photoredox rxn. 1/n

Mechanistic Investigation of a Photoredox Cycloaddition Chain Reaction | Journal of the American Chemical Society https://t.co/GgULSu4J9T

[John Swierk @swierklab]

This could mean that some reaction run under intense light conditions could show chain reactivity under less intense conditions. Also, the modeling shows that QY for a chain reaction changes with light intensity - unlike non-chain reactions. 6/n

[Jonathan L. Kuo @JonathanLKuo]

The first manuscript from our group at Penn State has appeared today in @ACSCatalysis!

Heroic effort by graduate student Karli Sipps, Wyatt Gibbs and Elvira Sayfutyrova (@PSUScience @psu_chemistry)

https://t.co/cR5pZIXUN8

[John Swierk @swierklab]

@JonathanLKuo @ACSCatalysis @PSUScience @psu_chemistry Congrats!!

[Dennoh @CFC_dennoh]

How Dangerous was Prime Iron Mike Tyson🤯💀.

A thread💀.

[John Swierk @swierklab]

This is such a smart, reasoned discussion about the election.

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

1. The debate continues over why Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris. So far, it seems to be centered on two related arguments. One is that the vice president didn’t do enough to appeal to white working-class voters and their concerns about the economy. So they voted for Trump.

[John Swierk @swierklab]

If you raise a billion plus dollars and lose the election maybe don’t ask me for more money right away…?

[John Swierk @swierklab]

I have to agree. Politics is about storytelling and AOC and Mayor Pete are probably the best at it in the DNC right now. AOC gives this clearly thoughtful, articulated vision of progressive politics centered on working people. I’m starting to think she might have the right vision

[Max Cohen @maxpcohen]

This has a really struck a nerve among many Dems.

I've heard from countless House Dem sources telling me they couldn't disagree more with this take. Many pointed out AOC appeared with Pat Ryan close to the election and that Ryan cruised to victory in a tough seat