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Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹
the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years.
if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.
Is #AI turning grant evaluation into a lottery? 🎲
The 2025 generative AI improvement coincides with ~20% of proposals scoring >95% in EU #MSCA call.
We’ve reached "excellence saturation."
Time to rethink funding?
👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...
w/ @birder158.bsky.social
#MetaScience #AcademicSky
Queda dicho en esta red social, para la posteridad 😆.
Congrats @emiliomperezlab.bsky.social!
In our first paper of 2026, @aliceieong.bsky.social puts NHC organocatalyst in action with mechanical force in ACS Catalysis!
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar
Enhorabuena, @puigcerverjulio.bsky.social!!!Un reconocimiento muy merecido a una etapa predoctoral brillante. Tus directores de Tesis y compañeros de @socumu_lab qosumu.wixsite.com/socumu-lab estamos muy orgullosos de tu trabajo, dedicación y talento.
bsky.app/profile/rseq...
Team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan show that mechanoluminescence can occur in pure amorphous photoluminescent solids.
2025 Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry announced by @iupac.org to showcase the value of #chemistry and informs the public about its potential to foster the well-being of Society and the sustainability of our planet. See the 2025 finalists at iupac.org/what-we-do/t...
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Las legiones romanas, la infantería púnica, los ejércitos godos, las tropas musulmanas, las huestes cristianas, los ejércitos imperiales, los tercios, los austracistas, los borbónicos, las tropas de Napoleón... no iban por Zaragoza y Madrid para moverse por el litoral mediterráneo.
Ratio militaris
Situación en Twitter:
Habían sacado una pestañita en cada perfil con el origen de la cuenta (país)
Han tenido que retirar hoy la pestañita pq la gente ha descubierto que mogollón de cuentas pro republicanas, supremacistas etc tienen origen en India y otros países inesperados.
Look
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?
Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky
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This graphic describes the smelly chemicals in skunk spray and how to get rid of the stink. In the first column, the graphic describes the thiol compounds responsible for skunk spray’s smell. The second column explains why the smell persists because of a chemical reaction between some skunk spray compounds and water. The third column outlines chemistry-based methods for eliminating the stinky skunk compounds.
The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem.com explores the smelly chemicals in skunk spray and how to get rid of the stink. cen.acs.org/biological-c...
#chemsky 🧪
‼️ BUSCADOR | Así queda el horario de salida y puesta de sol si se acaba con el cambio de hora, municipio a municipio www.eldiario.es/1_c1d905?utm...
Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2...
#ChemSky 🧪
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.
Image showing all of the Compound Interest Nobel Prize in Chemistry infographics from 2015 to 2024.
This morning, the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry will be announced!
Here are my brief infographic explainers of the past ten years of chemistry Nobel Prizes: www.compoundchem.com/category/nob...
#ChemSky 🧪
John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics
go.nature.com/4gVswyS
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues
go.nature.com/48QDdAJ
a graphic depicting Alan Turing
Celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test 🧠
“Can machines think?”
In 1950, at @manchester.ac.uk, Alan Turing posed the question that defined a field.
His paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence introduced the Turing Test - one of the first big steps in AI.
A 3D periodic table model by Enrique Barrajón (aka Boolchemist) has been submitted to LEGO 🧪🧱. If it reaches 10K votes, LEGO will consider commercialisation. Support and share to bring it to classrooms! 👉 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Our recent papers are now published back to back in issue 37 of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social supported by a front cover designed by @drawimpacts.bsky.social
#chemsky #openaccess
Read the papers here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills
go.nature.com/3VxA1SD
Can I flip it? Yes you can!
Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force!
An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social !
Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485
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