Can writing a scientific paper for the first (or fourth. Or fortieth) be a battle? Yes.

But knowing how to approach the process and what your collaborators, supervisors, and journals expect from you during that process lowers the barrier immensely.

very cool to be at #wipc+2025 this week on behalf of @canjphysics.bsky.social

The deadline for this awesome event has been extended to May 15th!

interestingly, all the publishers' metadata already links any paper to every paper it cites (and vice versa); my fave tool for looking at these "citation webs" is Dimensions - find a paper by DOI (or any Boolean search) and then off you go down the wormhole! e.g. app.dimensions.ai/details/publ...

Oh HECK yes - FAIR data time! There are TWO physical sciences modules - math/physics/chem and Materials/Chem.

Phys. sci. communities are a bit late in the wave of Open Data and repositories, with the interesting exception of strict adherence and support for the CCDC - time to expand that window!

It feels very inefficient and I don't think there's any way to reduce that number - unless anyone can convince my cat to like me or magically reduce the fire risk of anything touching the toaster.

Three separate appliances are currently holding temp at ~60 °C
1. Toaster oven, dehydrating seeds.
2. My heating pad.
3. My cat's heating pad, because he dislikes being near me during the day and if I turn it off he goes to sit directly on top of one of the few heating vents for the house.

oh gosh, are they not? the symbol for Feeds is a # !

Hey #chemsky! I've made the migration. Nice to see y'all are alive and well(ish)