Tehshik Yoon
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Tehshik Yoon
@TehshikYoon
Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Associate Editor, ACS Catalysis. Nerd-in-Chief of @uwyoongroup. πΊπΈπ°π·π¨π¦π³οΈβπ (he/him/his)
- In my profile, I said that I could draw a straight line from my coping strategies as a gay child to my scientific career. In support of this claim, a Twitter thread: Many of the most important things I know about being a scientist I learned from being a musician. π§΅
- Colleagues. There is a concerted effort to weaponize anti-Chinese sentiment for political gain. It impacts our Chinese students, postdocs, friends, and coworkers. Our silence is complicity. Speak out, act up.
- What is perplexing is that scientists continue to assert these opinions without evidence when a large body of data show the opposite: that diverse teams are more creative, more productive, and more innovative. Examples below.I am very disturbed and disappointed by Prof. Hudlickly's comments in this article in @angew_chem where he makes the case that βdiversity of the workforceβ has a βnegative impactβ on the field of organic synthesis (see the ridiculous figure!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10β¦
- Literally every time I post something pro-immigrant, some shit for brains troll asks "Well how do they treat immigrants in YOUR country?" This is my damn country. I'm an American citizen, you fetid turd biscuits.The J1/H1B visa ban is a symptom of the same racist white nationalism that we've all been outraged over for the last month. I invite you to remain outraged. This is a violation of what it means to be an American.
- I'm really proud of the group's first paper of 2022: Cu(II) photochemistry enables a new decarboxylative coupling of acids with diverse nucleophilic partners. Thanks to @bagphos and Pfizer for a great collaboration! doi.org/10.1038/s41557β¦
- The neatest thing about putting together this special issue on LGBTQ+ chemists for @cenmag is that we had -a lot more- highly visible out LGBTQ+ chemists we wanted to highlight than we had space to include. I don't think that would have been true even a decade ago.
- The J1/H1B visa ban is a symptom of the same racist white nationalism that we've all been outraged over for the last month. I invite you to remain outraged. This is a violation of what it means to be an American.
- The students who stayed after class to ask questions today all wanted to know about the Nobel Prize.
- Our second paper of 2022, published on Twosday 2/22/2022, is about double stereodifferentiation in dual catalytic [2+2] photocycloadditions, with two great collaborators (@Toste_Group and @christine_m_le)
- Hey LGBTQ+ grad students and postdocs, are you feeling inspired by this year's announcement of the first TWO out LGBTQ+ science Nobelists EVER? Do I have an idea for you! (Abstracts due 10/17).
- The @UWMadisonChem grad program will not require the GRE this year. Official announcement forthcoming.
