So grateful for this award, and for the chance to present our group's research at ACS in the Fall! #compchem #chemsky

An International Laboratory Comparison Study on Approximating the Enthalpy of Adsorption via the Clausius‐Clapeyron Approach Adsorbate–adsorbent interaction is often quantified via the isosteric enthalpy of adsorption, ΔHst. Commonly, ΔHst is determined indirectly by applying the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) equation to adsorpt...

I'm really pleased to have been involved in this interlaboratory study, now published in ChemPhysChem.

If you calculate and/or publish isosteric enthalpies of adsorption, please take a look. We found a lot of variation in determined values...

#chemsky

Check out @nicgaston.bsky.social work on the low melting temperature of gallium and how entropy drives the process!

Man sitting on a bed opposite if sign that says: „First pants then shoes“. A Gary Larson cartoon

In any case, it‘s good to remember that..

I forget: is the proper order:

Sock - shoe - sock - shoe

Or:

Sock - sock - shoe -shoe

First is more efficient in leg movement terms.

Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease 5k words, 23 minutes reading time

Note the analysis on the discordance between the health and economic burden of endometriosis vs relative federal investment in research. TL:DR, very bad.

www.owlposting.com/p/endometrio...

A black-and-white historical photograph of Dr. Maud Leonora Menten (1879–1960), the Canadian physician and biochemist who co-developed the Michaelis–Menten equation for enzyme kinetics. Taken in her laboratory (likely at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1910s–1920s), she stands with a serious, focused expression—lips closed, eyes direct and thoughtful—against a backdrop of wooden shelves filled with glass bottles, jars, scientific equipment, and a wire-mesh enclosure. She wears a dark dress with a lace collar, a string of beads, and her hair styled in a neat bun. Superimposed on the image is the Michaelis–Menten equation in white text:v=Vmax⁡[S]Km+[S]v = \frac{V_{\max} [S]}{K_m + [S]}v = \frac{V_{\max} [S]}{K_m + [S]} This iconic portrait captures Menten during her groundbreaking research in biochemistry and histochemistry, where she helped establish the foundational mathematical model of enzyme-substrate reactions still used today, while overcoming significant gender barriers as one of the first women in Canada to earn both an M.D. and a Ph.D.

Chemist/physician Dr. Maud Menten co-authored the seminal paper 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘨, 1931. This intro'd the Michaelis–Menten equation (image). It remains a cornerstone of #biochemistry, used in drug design, metabolic studies & enzyme engineering. She was born #OTD in 1879.

#WomenInSTEM

Colorado convention center and its blue bear sculpture behind the APS logo.

The APS Global Physics Summit is in full swing!

Such large conferences are always a bit overwhelming, so I'm starting a thread to digest it from my point of view as a computational biophysicist.

#APSsummit26
@apsphysics.bsky.social

Chuck Norris counted all the way to infinity. Twice.

Solving the puzzle of Long Covid Long Covid provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease

A 2024 #SciencePerspective identified key issues that need to be prioritized in the study of Long Covid.
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Learn more on #LongCovidAwarenessDay: https://scim.ag/3Pz63hl

Von @hauckundbauer.bsky.social.

😂 👍

📜 Treasures from the archive

To celebrate 100 years of Schrödinger’s equation, the Faculty of Physics is sharing archival documents connected to Erwin Schrödinger and the beginnings of quantum mechanics.

More materials throughout the year:
schroedinger100.univie.ac.at/treasures-fr...

A theoretical framework for random acceleration molecular dynamics simulations The dissociation of a ligand bound to a receptor is a rare event occurring on a timescale that is far longer than can be afforded by standard simulation methodo

We developed a simple theory and showed that Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics (RAMD) is consistent with a Smoluchowski equation with an effective temperature and diffusion coefficient that depend quadratically on the magnitude of the random force.
pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...

This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

I was invited, for July, to a scienctific meeting in Telluride (Colorado). I was told it is a wonderful place for a conference, and I was very much looking forward to an exciting meeting in a fantastic environment. I have just canceled my participation, despite having booked already everything.

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.

Keep sharing everywhere.

a picture of a penguin with the word hello on it Alt: A picture of a cartoon penguin waving 'hello'; with the caption 'hello' at the bottom of the gif

Lots of RSC journals popping up on Bluesky (with proper domain names - well done!) including @chemicalscience.rsc.org; flagging for #Chemsky

Today we have published BioEmu-Benchmarks (MIT license): a code to evaluate the multi-conformation sampling benchmarks, MD free energy landscape benchmarks, and folding free energy benchmarks shown in the BioEmu-1 paper with BioEmu or your own model. Some details below 🧵

github.com/microsoft/bi...

Was Rechte uns als Freiheit verkaufen | ZDF Magazin Royale YouTube video by ZDF MAGAZIN ROYALE

Wer Freiheit sagt, muss vorher Einigkeit und Recht sagen!

youtu.be/Lc0n7WuOwDs?...

The currently proposed budget changes to NIH and NSF have absolutely nothing to do with efficiency. They are a full-on assault on science. Trump and Musk want to kill it. Universities who have been silent for fear of losing funds: how’s that working for you? It’s time to fight back.

A view through many Prague towers towards a sunset.

Join us in beautiful Prague to study molecular physics. My group is offering a PhD position at UCT Prague, Czechia related to #protein - #RNA interactions. For more details, visit mhko.science/p/positions/ or contact us directly at positions@mhko.science.

In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the Kräusslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

This is very sad.

😄 Fantastic Idea from Hao!

Found this again thanks to Kieron.

The DFT Song
(with apologies to John and Paul)

When I find my model’s unpredictive, Walter Kohn just comes to me, speaking words of wisdom,
DFTee. ...

openscholar.huji.ac.il/sites/defaul...

I think I need to sing this more ... #chemsky #compchemsky

Welcome CECAM!🦋

Benoît Roux gave two fantastic lectures this week as part of our department's John Ferry Lectureship series in Macromolecular Science. I thoroughly enjoyed the exciting discussions on many topics in Stat Mech!

A view from my hotel room in Tokyo at night, showing white light illuminating a multitude of train tracks of all kinds passing aboveground at Tokyo Station. A sea of high-rise buildings are outlined in bright white lights, forming a Tron-esque landscape, punctuated by red lights on their top corners.

東京