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Martin Rahm @rahmlab

Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at @chalmersuniv in 🇾đŸ‡Ș interested in chemical bonding, material prediction, and astrobiology.

Joined November 2018
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
15 Nov 2024
I am now (also) on @bluesky (rahmlab.bsky.social). In hopes that the scientific community will again meet under one roof. Too many in science have left X, and for good reasons. Long live (reasonable) #contentmoderation and civil discourse. Death to the #bots. đŸ‘» 4X.

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Finally!! Scientific evidence on the meaning of corporate bullshit. Share so we can collectively leverage cross-functional awareness, align our strategic narratives, and operationalize a paradigm-shifting roadmap for reducing BS across the value chain. news.cornell.edu/stories/202


Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS”...

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
26 Nov 2025
A great talk!
EurChemBond@EurChem
25 Nov 2025
Take a look at our new youtube.com/@EurChemBondSemi
 channel on YouTube , where we post the ECCB seminars. Our inaugural lecture is already posted: a talk by Prof. Martin Head-Gordon
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
16 Oct 2025
Press release! chalmers.se/en/current/news/


Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emerged

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowle...

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
28 Sep 2025
New #chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling and colleagues at @NASAJPL rahmlab.com/2025/09/28/polar


Polar Opposites Attract on Titan

As a scientist, it is a good feeling to come across something that contradicts textbooks. Better still to contribute to a discovery that could help explain chemistry on a  planetary ̔ 

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
26 Sep 2025
Proud of this one!
Angewandte Chemie@angew_chem
26 Sep 2025
(Super)Conducting Radical Pancakes! Bold predictions of structure, chemical bonding and conductivity, by @rahmlab at Chalmers University of Technology #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
25 Sep 2025
Could there be đŸ‘œ life in Venus’s clouds? Up to six missions are planned to explore our hot neighbor. In our latest #astrobiology paper, we ask: Could carbon-free heteropolymers be the backbone of life in sulfuric-acid–rich clouds? Check it out! 🔗 cambridge.org/core/journals/


On the possibility of carbon-free heteropolymers on Venus: a computational astrobiology study | QRB...

On the possibility of carbon-free heteropolymers on Venus: a computational astrobiology study - Volume 6

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
24 Apr 2025
Great energetic collaboration with Canadian friends! @FabFourLove & @BelangerChabot
Guillaume BĂ©langer-Chabot@BelangerChabot
23 Apr 2025
Dinitroacetylene: Can It be Made? - Harter - 2025 - Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/
 Check out our paper where we predict how (un)stable dinitroacetylene would be and what would be its favorite way of decomposing ;)
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
17 Sep 2025
Here is a related blog post: rahmlab.com/2025/07/23/a-que


A Quest for the World’s Most Energetic Compound

In a recent article, Lara Harter and Guillaume Belanger-Chabot (both at Université Laval in Quebec) and I computationally investigate the feasibility of making dinitroacetylene (C2(NO2)2; see Fig 1


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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
12 Aug 2025
A few last-minute spots opened for Telluride workshop, “Chemical Origins of Life as We Don’t Know It.” meetings.telluridescience.or
 Interested? Please email/DM me or @rcremsing a short note on your background & motivation. 📝 Travel, etc. not included. #astrobiology
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Simon Olsson@smnlssn
8 Jul 2025
Replying to @AntonFKockum @rahmlab @wacqt_sweden @WASP_Research @chalmersuniv @cse_gbg @UCPH_Research
Code is available now: github.com/olsson-group/Flow


GitHub - olsson-group/Flow-VQE: Generative flow-based warm start of the variational quantum...

Generative flow-based warm start of the variational quantum eigensolver - olsson-group/Flow-VQE

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
29 Mar 2025
#PhDposition in Computational #Astrobiology & #QuantumChemistry! Join us at Chalmers in 🇾đŸ‡Ș. Collab with @NASAJPL and @starsarecalling in đŸ‡ș🇾. @astrobiology @_phdpositions @BlueMarbleSpace @EAIastrobiology #chemtwitter #compchem chalmers.se/en/about-chalmer


Vacancies

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
26 Mar 2025
Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group - Sign the Petition! chng.it/C87PzN2cY6 via @Change

Sign the Petition

Oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
1 Feb 2025
27 million users and counting ”There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions”. In case you’re not yet convinced, here is some science on the best X-alternative. nature.com/articles/d41586-0


Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

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

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
2 Feb 2025
The fact that posts like this are clearly throttled, should make anyone seeing it - yes YOU - share it like mad. 😡
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
22 Jan 2025
$500 billion = Not peanuts. I think they have found something. openai.com/index/announcing-

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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
22 Jan 2025
The idea of a Boltzmann brain, a 🧠 spontaneously appearing someplace believing it is you granted the universe is large enough, is bogus. In contrast, here is evidence for the Boltzmann hut, a series of branches randomly assembling to form a hut. #Thermodynamics #chemtwitter
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
15 Jan 2025
Werner is great - check it out! #chemtwitter
Werner Dobrautz@dobrautz
14 Jan 2025
PhD/PostDoc in Quantum Computing for Quantum. Have a look if you want to develop quantum computing approaches to enable accurate quantum chemistry: dobrautz.github.io/jobs/ Sharing and endorsing would be greatly appreciated <3 @CASUSscience @HZDR_Dresden @BMBF_Bund @QuantenTech
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
4 Jan 2025
During the holidays, I revisited an idea I bring up (usually after a few drinks): A Theory of Food Evolution! đŸ„–đŸ• Just like species evolve, so does food. Which food risks extinction, and what food evolution will happens in zero gravity? #FoodForThought rahmlab.com/2025/01/04/a-the


A Theory of Food Evolution

During the holiday season I got reminded of an idea I sometimes bring up jokingly (usually after a few drinks): A theory of food evolution! It goes something like this: Food is an evolving story of


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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
21 Dec 2024
And it’s a shame many people don’t know we’re going back!! #Titan
Curiosity
@CuriosityonX
19 Dec 2024
Farthest ever landing. Titan landing. It's a shame many people don't know we landed on a moon of Saturn.
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Martin Rahm@rahmlab
18 Dec 2024
Raise your hands if your only problems running #Mac relate to #Microsoft! Here’s what Word had the balls to ask after failing to sync to OneDrive and proceeding to spinning-wheel-freeze on three separate attempts. Note how the “submit” button is greyed out. #1stworldproblems
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