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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 14h

Lost Science

“This disruption is, as far as I can tell, unprecedented in US history. There are echoes from the history of other countries—Soviet science under Lysenko, for example, or German science in the 1930s”
🧪 #Scicomm
buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

Friday's Elk: Lost Science

Photo by Jeekc/Wikimedia Last week, Jane Goodall died. I contributed to the coverage at the New York Times with a story that I co-authored with Emily Anthes....

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10h

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
#GiftLink

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 1d

A most excellent molecule with which to conclude the week #SynChem #BB #MedChem #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #cheminformatics #chemsky 🧪
enaminestore.com/catalog/EN30...

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of thinking too much about Her Late Majesty's odious uncle (lower panel) or her half-witted Third-Born let's, for the safety of everybody on the planet, pray that the Princess of Wales (upper panel) got it wrong (I hope @rgpoulussen.bsky.social enjoys the #hitlergram 😁😁😁)

Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 1d

“On the morning of 7 October 2023, I was sitting on a train with my son and husband on our much anticipated way to pick up a new puppy. Life seemed predictable enough.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

www.theguardian.com

Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 1d

Opportunity in computer-aided drug design at Johnson & Johnson (USA: San Diego CA/Spring House PA) ref: R-036349 #CADD #cheminformatics #CompChem #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
www.careers.jnj.com/en/jobs/r-03...

Senior Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - In Silico Discovery

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments...

www.careers.jnj.com

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 1d

Research associate opportunity: Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry of Membrane Proteins at University of Manchester (UK) ref: BMH-029573 | duration: 24 months from 01-11-2025 | closing: 22-10-25 #HDX #HDXMS #AnalChem #ChemBiol #chemsky 🧪
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate in Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry of Membrane Proteins:Oxford Road

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

War, is indiscriminate. (#OTD in 1940. A member from the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) carrying a dead baby in wrapped in a cloth. #WW2 #HISTORY)

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

A captured Junkers Ju 88. (One of the most versatile combat aircraft of #WW2. It served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb. #HISTORY)

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 1d

A beautifully preserved skeleton found near Golden Cap on England's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur 🧪 #palaeontology #paleontology #jurassic

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

'Sword Dragon' ichthyosaur had enormous eyes and a lethal snout

A beautifully preserved skeleton found on the UK’s Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of the marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs

www.newscientist.com

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 2d

A related problem is when they (or their descendents return to the wild a long way from where they were originally caught). Lionfish are considered an invasive species in the Caribbean and I've seen them in Tobago which is a long way south.

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 2d

2005 Chemistry Nobel #chemsky 🧪

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 2d

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3d

The 2025 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry have created MOFs, which are useful for storing and purifying gases, separating hydrocarbons, capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas streams, mediating catalytic reactions, and soaking up uranium from seawater cen.acs.org/articles/91/... #chemsky 🧪

Materials Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks Go Commercial

Porous materials used for gas storage and catalysis can now be made on a ton scale, but producers still seek opportunities for large-scale use

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 3d

Li et al (2025) Structure-Guided Design of a Bioactive Covalent Small Molecule Targeting a Riboswitch. JACS ASAP #RNA #DrugDiscovery #MedChem #ChemBiol #cheminformatics #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Structure-Guided Design of a Bioactive Covalent Small Molecule Targeting a Riboswitch

Small molecule ligands targeting structured RNA elements hold promise for modulating RNA function, serving as chemical probes and potential therapeutics. In this study, the characterization of phenylg...

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Michigan State University Department of Entomology @msu-entomology.bsky.social · 4d

MSU Entomology professor Dr. Rufus Isaacs and former graduate student Dr. Gabriela Quinlan collaborated with a team of 80 researchers on a global study examining pollinator habitat needs in agricultural landscapes!

Read more: www.canr.msu.edu/news/spartan...

#Entomology #Ecology #Conservation 🧪🌎🍁

Spartan scientists contribute to global examination of pollinator habitat

MSU Entomology professor and former graduate student collaborate with team of 80 researchers to examine global pollinator landscape needs

www.canr.msu.edu

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 4d

Klose et al (2025) #Electrophilic #fragment screening using native mass spectrometry to identify covalent probes for surface cysteines. Aust J Chem 78 CH25081 #FBD #FBLD #FBDD #MS #ChemBiol #MedChem #cheminformatics #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1071/CH25...

Electrophilic fragment screening using native mass spectrometry to identify covalent probes for surface cysteines

Covalent chemical probes form a covalent bond with a target protein of interest to elicit an effect and methods to identify and characterise them are needed. We developed a native mass spectrometry (n...

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like The Three Wise Ls of Drug Design will need to wait another year but will the J Med Chem Editors call for a stewards enquiry?
doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Property-Based Drug Design Merits a Nobel Prize

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 4d

2025 #Nobel in Physiology of Medicine 🧪

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 4d

The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)

T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel

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Parasite - The Journal @parasitejournal.bsky.social · 5d

New paper today: 🧪
Trypanosoma evansi infection in Tunisia: current situation
doi.org/10.1051/para...

Dromedaries in Tataouine, South Tunisia around a drinking source. Note the presence of small “islands” of humidity and organic matter from animal faeces, representing a suitable microhabitat for the development of larvae of different blood-sucking flies.

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 5d

It's that time of year... when I wish I knew some phone numbers and could do a passable Swedish accent 😁 😁 😁

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 5d

Former WI cricketer Bernard Julien has died aged 75
www.espncricinfo.com/story/bernar...

Bernard Julien, West Indies World Cup winner, dies aged 75

He appeared in 24 Tests and 12 ODIs, which included vital contributions during WI's triumph in the inaugural 1975 ODI World Cup

www.espncricinfo.com

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 5d

Opportunity in mass spectrometry at UCL (London UK) ref: B02-09220 | closing: 22-Oct-2025 #MS #AnalChem #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 5d

Opportunity in liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry at Waters (Wilmslow Cheshire UK) ref: 24015 #LCMS #AnalChem #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
internationalcareers-waters.icims.com/jobs/24015/s...

Waters Corporation

See how ions move through our mass spectrometers. Learn how to advance your chromatography skills. Watch how Waters scientists use our analytical technologies for differing applications. Listen to our...

internationalcareers-waters.icims.com

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 5d

Eastman et al (JMC 2025 ASAP) Membrane Perturbations and Assay Interferences by #Ivermectin Explain Its In Vitro #SARSCoV2 #Antiviral Activities and Lack of Translatability. #MedChem #DrugDesign #DrugDiscovery #cheminformatics #OpenAccess #chemsky 🧪
doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Membrane Perturbations and Assay Interferences by Ivermectin Explain Its In Vitro SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral Activities and Lack of Translatability

The antiparasitic drug ivermectin was proposed as a repurposed drug for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection based on in vitro studies, but proved ineffective in high-quality clinical trials. When ex...

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