Laura Gagliardi

A few members of the group with Brandy

Brandy attending a class on density functional theory

I have been quiet for a while because these are hard times. Today I thought I would cheer up my group and my class by bringing this cutie to the office. Her name is Brandy. My friend allowed me to take her with me for one day. So soothing. She came to class and learned DFT

From my new colleague @djasras.bsky.social Dipti Jasrasaria "The Jasrasaria Group at the University of Chicago is recruiting postdoctoral researchers with backgrounds in chemistry, materials science, physics, or other related disciplines. www.diptijasrasaria.com " Please apply!

Very excited to participate to this event! #ACSSpring2025

Thank you @chemprofcramer.bsky.social best husband, colleague and friend! I am sure the students will love you and it will be hard for me to conquer them after your lecture!

Maybe another useful entry point for this recent article about why several very successful academics have left Harvard to more efficiently bring their science to patients.

NIH is amazing, but it's not intended for making medicine.

www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

#medsky

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Save the Children official says Trump's 'disorderly' aid cuts are devastating its work The Trump administration's slashing of foreign aid has had a devastating effect on groups like Save the Children. To discuss the impact on children around the world, Nick Schifrin spoke with Janti Soe...

This is so depressing www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

It is important at this pivotal moment to @standupforscience.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on why this should be a national priority at tomorrow’s rally in SF:

Pinpointing the Onset of Water Harvesting in Reticular Frameworks from Structure Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as promising atmospheric water harvesters, offering a potential solution to the pressing global issue of water scarcity, which threatens millions of lives worldwide. This study presents a series of 2D COFs, including HCOF-3, HCOF-2, and a newly developed structure named COF-309, designed for optimized water harvesting performance with a high working capacity at low relative humidity. To elucidate their water sorption behavior, we introduce a hydrophilicity index directly linked to intrinsic properties, such as the strength and spatial density of adsorptive sites. This index is mathematically correlated to the step of water adsorption isotherms. Our correlation provides a predictive tool that extends to other microporous COFs and metal–organic frameworks, significantly enhancing the ability to predict their onset positions of water adsorption isotherms based on structural characteristics. This advancement holds the potential to guide the development of more efficient materials for atmospheric water harvesting.

Focusing on science keeps me sane in these worrying times. Here is the latest study on water adsorption in COF/MOF with amazing Lac Ha, Saumil, Andrea and the Yaghi group pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Thank you Thomas et al for this wonderful collaboration!

Cat Merlin in a tiny little box changing position left to right

It is so hard to change position but this is my favorite bed at the moment! - Merlin says

Scientists care about data/facts and not empty words. “Comprehensive study, realistic models, accurate prediction, careful consideration, quantitative benchmarks, unveil…..” add little to understanding and inspiring. Think about every word in your manuscript and ask yourself if it is really needed.

In the 1930s, as researchers fled German universities, which were then the world’s best, American foundations and universities offered them fellowships and jobs, laying the groundwork for the rise to preeminence of the postwar American university system

Very excited today to give the inaugural lecture of the Solvay Chair in Chemistry for 2025. www.solvayinstitutes.be/html/chair.h...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.

Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH

Members of the Gagliardi group wearing the sweatshirt with group logo

We have our new group sweatshirts. Ready for graduate student first visit!

New method improves quantum chemistry simulations

Our latest multiconfiguration pair-density functional MC23 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... has been featured also for non experts pme.uchicago.edu/news/new-met...

It has my name with “no onions & garlic”

At my dinner seat last week for ACS editors conference. Can this become my badge for all future conferences?

All editors in chiefs of ACS journals in the conference room in DC

It was so great to get all these colleagues and friends at @pubs.acs.org Editors in Chief meeting in DC where we discussed about the forefronts of chemistry Lots of friends: @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social @cathleencrudden.bsky.social @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social and many more!

This is why I am not an experimental chemist. I wanted to have a boiled egg for lunch. Microwave was not a great idea and I had to deal with egg explosion .

Always a blast to see ‪@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social‬
We look so Italian both of us!

A sausage wrapped in a crust

I usually don't post about food but this is one of a kind and we will have it tonight for new years eve: "cotechino in crosta di puree" typical Bolognese dish; a kind of sausage in a mashed potatoes crust. Happy New Year!

The members of the Gagliardi group after dinner at Sofi restaurant in Chicago

We had a fun night during our group holiday party. Grateful to do science with these excellent scientists and human beings gagliardigroup.uchicago.edu

Sunrise in Millennium Park Chicago. You can see the bean and the Xmas tree and the lake

So much in love with this view. Good morning Chicago!

The department of chemistry at U Chicago featured our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
on using covalent organic frameworks for CO2 capture. Wonderful collaboration with Omar Yaghi
chemistry.uchicago.edu/news/co2-cap...

We are hiring postdoctoral associates for lnkd.in/ePm4h4pE Project in collaboration w Mario Motta IBM lnkd.in/e6qpbUSb on Localized Quantum Chemistry Algorithms for Quantum Computers. LASSCF will be integrated with use sample-based quantum diagonalization, recently developed by Mario and IBM

Shall the ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation pubs.acs.org/journal/jctcce join bsky #ChemSky ?

At security in Pasco airport where a sign reads: "guns are not carry on"

A man in a sweatshirt with logo saying "Machine guns montana"

I was visiting PNNL. Great scientific day, but this is at the airport nearby. Unfortunately this is the country we live in.

A picture of the Gagliardi research group in front of an ivied wall and doors at U Chicago

So excited that two new graduate students, Hellen Clifford and Youghwan Kim, joined our group last week. There is hope for the future. I am looking forward to embarking on the journey of their Ph.D. with them and the rest of our amazing group. gagliardigroup.uchicago.edu/members/ #ChemSky