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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has reported that it was hit during an Iranian air strike on Sunday. cen.acs.org/people/Missi...

Missile strike hits Weizmann Institute of Science lab buildings

Extent of damage unclear as conflict between Israel and Iran continues

cen.acs.org

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 22

Not in the EU, but in Oslo you'd be able to call the vaccination center even without being a resident, and get a shot. If you're not in a risk group it would cost you 30 dollars.

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 17

"I'm fine, just a little tired"

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 13

I thought that CRYOprobes were able to reach sample temperatures lower than 281.4 K

Smh at "insufficient chiller power"

#NMRchat

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 12

PhD position in Bergen on MD+NMR of oligosaccharides with Markus Miettinen, an excellent supervisor. DL: June 1st. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry (279884), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · May 12

Finally, we're recruiting!
If you'd like to do a PhD using NMR structures to study the dynamics of a metalloenzyme, then you're in luck! Come to Warsaw for this project, in collaboration with Simone Ciofi-Baffoni's group at CERM, Florence: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 6

Cathartic right? Maybe I should begin using it.

During my PhD we did sing along to "Bad Project" (a cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance").

Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 6

All proteins that don't look like spaghetti.

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 5

youtu.be/so49WpSj9bo?...

Let It Go - from Frozen (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli)

YouTube video by Frog Leap Studios

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Art Edison @artedison.bsky.social · May 5

NSF is in trouble. Here is my latest Substack post. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/artediso...

This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country

Academic science in the US is being gutted by Trump

open.substack.com

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 3

Data: kfo-hkdir.quarto.pub/samordna-opp...

Studier med høy konkurranse om plassene – Samordna opptak april 2025

kfo-hkdir.quarto.pub

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 3

Happy to see that the 5-year biotech master’s (which we coordinate) tops Norway's 2025 natural sciences programs in applicants-per-spot! It’s great to see that biology & bioscience are popular at other unis too. Thanks to all students & colleagues—looking forward to welcome you to NTNU in August!

Boblediagram som viser realfagprogrammer i Samordna opptak 2025, der hver boble representerer ett studieprogram.

X-aksen angir antall førstevalgssøkere (fra ca. 5 til 200).

Y-aksen viser antall førstevalgssøkere per studieplass (fra 0,4 til 4,0).

Boblenes størrelse tilsvarer antall studieplasser (store bobler som «Biovitenskap» ved UiO har over 150 plasser, små bobler har under 20).

Fargene koder institusjon (NTNU i mørkeblå, NMBU i lys grønn, UiO, UiB, UiS og UiT i egne farger).

De mest annoterte punktene inkluderer:

«Bioteknologi, Trondheim» (NTNU, ca. 135 søkere, 4,0 søkere/plass),

«Honoursprogram, Realfag» (UiO, ca. 78 søkere, 3,9 søkere/plass),

«Geovitenskap, retning geofysikk» (UiB, ca. 45 søkere, 3,8 søkere/plass),

«Biovitenskap» (UiO, ca. 195 søkere, 1,25 søkere/plass),

«Biologi» (NTNU og UiO, ca. 175 og 125 søkere, hhv. 2,35 og 1,25 søkere/plass).
Diagrammet viser at noen programmer har høy konkurranse (over 3 søkere/plass), mens mange samler moderat interesse (1–2 søkere/plass).

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · May 2

😳 "This manuscript is an embarrassment to the reader"

(Happened to us)

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · May 2

Can't wait for reviewer #2 🤬

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Apr 29

Never have I ever embarrassed reviewer #2.

𝑠𝑘å𝑙! 🍻

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Nathalie Reuter @nathaliereuter.bsky.social · Apr 28

We have an open PhD position in molecular modeling to work on the recognition of pollutants by fish receptors. More information and application procedure: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Come and work with us ;)

PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in molecular modeling (279265), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 4, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Apr 3

Work from Ingrid M. Bolstad's MSc thesis is now a preprint! We show how protein secretion from V. natriegens can be used to screen for PET hydrolases. Also, we include negative results on de novo enzymes generated with RFdiffusion+ProteinMPNN.

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Apr 3

Development of a Vibrio natriegens-based plate-clearing assay for rapid screening of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646774v1

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Mar 13

TIL that business cards weigh about 80 mg, thanks Microsoft Word.

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Mar 2

E-flat major, my hero

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Feb 19

- Very interesting peak shapes, what kind of spectrometer do you have?
- Microsoft Paint

Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · Feb 18

🤨 another hand-drawn 1H-NMR spectrum in #chemsky with unphysical nonsense (e.g. black line, 3.3 ppm) 🙁
...all junk, and no one at this "scientific journal" cares about #researchintegrity

doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Feb 18

From CERM, Florence: selective aliphatic 1H decoupling in 15N-detected TROSY experiments results in significant increases in sensitivity and resolution for IDPs

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

15N-detected TROSY for 1H-15N heteronuclear correlation to study intrinsically disordered proteins: strategies to increase spectral quality - Journal of Biomolecular NMR

Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions are central to many biological processes but difficult to characterize at atomic resolution. Nuclear magnetic resonance is particularly well-suite...

link.springer.com

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Jan 26

Me: procrastinating by reading fantasy

George RR Martin:

Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · Jan 25

George RR Martin and the physicist Ian Tregillis published a paper deriving a Lagrangian to model the spread of the wild card virus

Goes to show both the power of the variational principle and how creative G.RR.Martin has become in avoiding to write winds of winter

pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe

Editor's Note: Looking for a new way to engage your students' imagination, encourage their exploration and curiosity around open-ended physics research question

pubs.aip.org

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Gaston Courtade @gcourtade.bsky.social · Jan 23

PhD position in molecular modeling at NTNU with Titus S. van Erp. The position is part of the ∞RETIS project, developing algorithms for faster molecular simulations, integrating path sampling simulation techniques with novel parallelization methods. DL: 1st March
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...