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Good morning! Between January 5 and January 10, 2012, there were 25 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 17 (68%) are...

It's a little unfair to ask ACS presidents to be completely versed in the data on chemistry jobs -- but just a little sensitivity mig...

From this week's Chemical and Engineering News, their World Chemical Outlook edition and a look at the domestic chemical manufacturing...

Over at The Pump Handle , a fairly detailed post on the worker safety aspects of the Sheri Sangji case. The most noteworthy thing, I feel, ...

I see (via SeeArrOh) that the American Snuff Company is hiring a chemist ; do you think they give you all the tobacco products that you wan...

Credit: Calculated Risk Fresh electrons from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: the unemployment rate is down 0.1% to 8.5% for December. ...

Janet Stemwedel is a current professor of philosophy; (updated*) before she moved into philosophy of science, she obtained a Ph.D. in phys...

Interesting ripple effects from the charging of Professor Patrick Harran in the death of Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji at UCLA: A m...

There's a lot of human hands that move your waste after you pour out your bum reaction. (Credit:  Heritage-WTI/C&EN ) When I ...

Good morning! Between January 3 and 4, there were 19 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, there were 4 (21%) were aca...

A list of small, useful things (links): SeeArrOh on pharma R&D spending trends  and their relationship to market cap.  Former chemis...

An interesting graph of moving patterns within the United States and Canada from a not-very-scientific sampling of customers of Atlas V...

Kilomentor posts on splitting experimental batches for workup comparisons: Split run does not appear to be a widely understood term; how...

From mid-December comes an WSJ unemployment story from an older academic chemist (which I find pretty unusual): Many older Americans fea...

Good morning! Between December 30 and January 3, there were 27 new positions posted on the ACS website. Of these, 24 (89%) are academically...

Good morning! Welcome to the Ivory Filter Flask; there were 24 new academic positions posted on the ACS Careers website. It's not inten...

Description:  Looking for a synthetic chemist to prepare small-molecule organic targets for a proprietary drug-delivery platform. Backgroun...

For those of you who haven't been reading blogs over the last week, but rather have been uh, living life and spending time with family,...

I find it interesting that SOCMA wants the Chemical Safety Board's budget to increase. From Jeff Johnson's article in this week...

I know, I know, it's a " Worthwhile Canadian Initiative " sort of headline, isn't it?  From ACS president Bassam Z. Sh...