Chemjobber

Go check out all the people participating in Lab PPE Day at the official Lab PPE Day Tumblr! Lots of great pictures of chemists that w...

A small list of useful things (links): Chemtips has a great post on scientific presentations. I loved this Wavefunction post on Robert ...

Credit: Calculated Risk blog Fresh electrons from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The May unemployment rate was up 0.1% from April to...

Did they really have 900 chemists, or did they just march the same 300 chemists through the courtyard 3 times? Credit: blindflaneur.com ...

From the august pages of the Wall Street Journal: [snip] Starting salaries at leading companies for average computer science grads from t...

An interesting study from Nature Jobs: The study, published on 2 May, surveyed life sciences, physics and chemistry PhD students at vario...

Good morning!  Uh, how's it going? Between May 29 and May 30, there were 12 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, ...

From the pages of Chemical Engineering Magazine , an interesting story about an extraction unit (I think this is somehow related to a petr...

In this week's C&EN, an article detailing ACS members' efforts to lobby Congress for more research funding. And what do we rea...

Good morning! Between May 24 and May 28, there were 42 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 2 (5%) were academically...

Good morning! Between May 21 and May 28, there were 7 academic positions posted on the ACS Careers website. The numbers: Total number of ...

Great Lakes National Cemetery (Credit: betterphoto ) It's Memorial Day in the United States, so it's a day off for the blog....

by Chemjobber I met a janitor from a run-down lab Who said: Two vast and peeling poster slides Hang in the hallway. Near, on the bench ...

The Washington Post has done the country a service by tallying White House visitor logs and putting them in a searchable form.* Being a cur...

It's the start of the summer student season right about now, and I think it would be great to get them into the habit of wearing PPE in...

From an astute reader, a terribly interesting article/story from public radio's Marketplace  on a little bit of a looming issue for ph...

Good morning! Between May 22 and May 23, there were 27 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 5 (19%) are academically ...

A list of small, useful things (links): I've finally (finally!) submitted my post on fluoroacetate for Matt Hartings' toxic blog...

In passing recently, I heard that it might matter which direction (clockwise/counter-clockwise) an agitator was stirring in a reactor. I wa...

Credit: Wikipedia I don't really have a favorite element, but if I had to choose one, I'd choose fluorine. It's such an int...