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Posts by Joachim Breternitz

You must have a good scientific practice Ombudsperson at the institute. They are probably the best people to contact for advice. On the other hand, the agreement appears fairly watertight from what I see on your screenshot.

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A scientist chases the origins of life | Inorganica
A scientist chases the origins of life | Inorganica YouTube video by Aeon Video

Check this gem starring Lee Cronin (one of them):

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf34...

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Hm, the genre...

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That it shows phosphorescence?

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Ooh, the irony of having 'structure-property correlations' and '0D perovskites' in the same title.

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It bothers me that structural naming is not regarded as stringent as that for properties. No one would come to the conclusion of calling a metal a superconductor, just because the resistivity drops in a phase transition (looking at you: Sn).

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As 2nd order phase transitions are profoundly symmetry driven, I would even go so far to say this system works, because it is *not* a perovskite.

4 weeks ago 2 0 1 0

That's a fascinating piece. As a self-proclaimed crystallographer, though, I would argue that there are no 2D perovskites.

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Hm, is that what the physicist call "bake out"?

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Where have you gone, Toto diMaggio?

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This paper is for you, Dorothy!

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Literally laughing my backside off...

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40% more sounds a lot like one of the ligands is missing?

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And 40 odd percent Mg? By weight or molar? Or was it that, what they confused?

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Is it a pure compound or mixed with something else, say carbonate/oxide?

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Yep. I once saw a talk at a conference showing a crystal structure of isolated coordination complexes with a profoundly molecular UV-VIS spectrum, where the authors tried to determine an optical bandgap.

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I wonder if you have the option to hand abstracts over to other suitable sessions? I remember that some sessions were not completely using all their talk slots, while others were packed with abstracts in Melbourne.

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Maybe you would like to invite fellow X to attend?

3 months ago 0 0 0 0

And hand the golf courses over to Denmark?

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Same here, though I was even more irritated when I found out that IUCr journals are using that, too. I specifically asked, after they changed my draft.

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Hahaha! I just saw the question mark at the end of the first sentence. How am I supposed to know if they are short of articles?

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Btw. I am intending to disappoint whoever "us" is referring to. Sorry...

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Screenshot of a mail from an allegedly ransom journal starting with "Dear Dr. Respected Author" and containing the phrase "We hope you don't disappoint us."

Screenshot of a mail from an allegedly ransom journal starting with "Dear Dr. Respected Author" and containing the phrase "We hope you don't disappoint us."

The address is (science) comedy gold, though I have to be exact and demand that it should be "Dear Prof. Respected Author".

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I am not sure about treating their pattern as two independent structures despite being related through a group-subgroup relationship. Would need to check if there isn't a subgroup that explains all reflections.

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Yes, I do have questions.

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Invitation for the "Journal of Skeleton System"

Invitation for the "Journal of Skeleton System"

Clearly, I am more flattered by some journal invitations than by others. However, I cannot take the fame for this one, since the article "Customizing Multicolored Orbital Angular Momentum Combs" that the skeletons lived so much is nothing I ever published...

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Is that the one opposite park bar?

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Or to put it more profanely: I'd rather thank the engineer than the screwdriver for holding my wheels in place.

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Not a fan of the premise - a machine does not invent or craft anything, it does what it is told and built to do.

The precision of e.g. James Webb is neither a coincidence nor it's own achievement, but a result of scientists' development. Those building such machines should get the acclaim.

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