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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 1d

When I learned about the cruelties of SS and Nazi's in school (I'm german) I always wondered, how this could happened... I never imagined seeing it happening again and getting the explanation in front of my eyes...

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 1d

congrats :)

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 1d

How much incremental research is published in high-impact factor journals, just because it is a long-term growing field...

is that how we think science is progressing????

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 1d

so: How many great new areas/ideas have been suffocated by this selection. Because next step:

Funding agencies and career assessment looks at impact factors of publications (which before looked only at likelyhood to get high citation).

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 1d

Do current publishing and carreer assessment practices limit scientific progress? Journals basically evaluate your recent citation numbers when you ausbmit to the editorial board...

HOWEVER: novel research areas have low number of participants and publications -> low number of citations

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 4d

It’s out :)
you thought it was weird for DNA to be 1% in a Hoogsteen base pair instead of a Watson-Crick-Franklin one?
Well there is more:

Rubin Dasgupta @rubindg.bsky.social · 4d

Check out our latest #NMR study together with @stonebutcher.bsky.social at @katjapetzold.bsky.social lab on an intermediate state of #DNA existing between the well-known Watson–Crick-Franklin and Hoogsteen base pairs stabilised by an anticancer drug Actinomycin D www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1H R1ρ Relaxation Identifies a Hidden Intermediate in DNA Base-Pairing

1H R1ρ Relaxation dispersion (RD) NMR experiments provide valuable atomic-level insights into transient, high-energy conformational states of biomolecules. However, cross-relaxation artifacts can hamp...

www.biorxiv.org

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks :)

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks 😊

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

thank you :)

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

thanks :)

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

thanks :)

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks 😊

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

thanks :)

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 15d

Big thanks to my group of doing all this wonderful research 😍 and to @uu.se and my department IMBIM for nominating me and the Fernström price organization.

www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

Eric K. Fernström Swedish Prize awarded to Katja Petzold - Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Edouard Hannezo @ehannezo.bsky.social · 22d

Core achievement unlocked!! Congrats to Fabrizio amd all authors!!

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 22d

Who knew that the perfect pasta sauce could lead to a Nobel Prize? Congrats to ISTA postdoc Fabrizio Olmeda and collaborators for winning the Ig Nobel Prize with their research on mastering Cacio e Pepe. Bravo! 🍝 🎉

Getting hungry? Here´s the recipe for delicious research: https://bit.ly/42vlpHm

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 28d

from the NMR in-cell spectra or the RNA decline spectra: the noise disappears - best guess they are just scaled down, but hard to proof as image tempering... I agree - we never get that nice in cell spectra (especially not as a one men show and with no funding...)

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 29d

#nmrchat

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 29d

@nature.com @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · 29d

please #NMR #RNA community, carefullly review papers! These are 2 blatantly manipulated papers that should have never gone through the peer-review system. Same for editors. If not us, who will stop this??

big thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social 😍 without you we wouldn't have scienc left!

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 9

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

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Marcel Swart 🟥 @marcelswart.bsky.social · Sep 10

#chemjobs #compchem

Assistant Professorship in Theoretical Chemistry at University of Cambridge

www.ch.cam.ac.uk/job/52637

University Assistant Professor | Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Applications are invited for a University Assistant Professor to work in the area of theoretical chemistry, broadly defined, to be taken up in October 2026 (or earlier, by agreement). The successful a...

www.ch.cam.ac.uk

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Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · Sep 11

@rfsu.bsky.social

For all Swedes: please sign this petition, so our kids also have in the future SexEd in school.
Thanks!

www.rfsu.se/engagera-dig...

Rädda sexualundervisningen! | RFSU

www.rfsu.se

Katja Petzold @katjapetzold.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks for the quick reply :)

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