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I talked about the first informal meeting in March but things are becoming a little more organized this summer.

The Blue Obelisk Movement now has an official website, mailing list, and is moving towards sharing data and algorithms. After years of mostly proprietary code, balanced with scattered code sharing among groups, open source chemistry is becoming [...]

Last week, the University of Oregon released a cool database of “green chemistry” materials for chemistry educators, GEMs

Green chemistry is the redesign of chemical transformations and processes to reduce or eliminate the use of materials that are hazardous to human health and the environment.

I think it’s fantastic to see more information on green chemistry for [...]

According to a recent Washington Post article, “many scientists admit to misconduct.”

Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.

The survey was sent out to “thousands” of NIH scientists and [...]

Reports of my demise are premature. I’m on a blogging hiatus for the moment, due to the combination of research, lots of manuscripts, and summer weather here in Ithaca. Expect a return within the next week.