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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 6h

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 10h

Three ... Two ... One...
The pre-ante-terminal edition of Science in Action airs any minute

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 11h

Science in Action, coming up, in which I get to revisit, thanks to this week's #NobelPrize, my enthusiasm for 3D organic framework structures, with archive of Omar Yaghi and commentary from @philipcball.bsky.social

And share with listeners that the prog dies in 3 weeks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 10h

I also got to talk, at the inspiring whitleyaward.org for Nature event this week, with conservationist Martin Wikelski about his ICARUS cubesat array to connect smart tags globally, which might launch in months - an "internet of animals". And a conversation I started with his team 20 years ago!

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 11h

Science in Action, coming up, in which I get to revisit, thanks to this week's #NobelPrize, my enthusiasm for 3D organic framework structures, with archive of Omar Yaghi and commentary from @philipcball.bsky.social

And share with listeners that the prog dies in 3 weeks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nicholas Whyte @nwhyte.bsky.social · 1d

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

www.bbc.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

Even if we didn’t use any UK air temperature observations we would still know how much the UK has warmed.

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

Monitoring changes in UK temperature

Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends

climatelabbook.substack.com

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats @mclellanlab.bsky.social !

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Jason McLellan

Characterizing and engineering viral protein structures to develop vaccines for infectious diseases.

www.macfound.org

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Many I'm already following, and now a few more.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

TBH I've always regarded this stuff as an offshoot of supramolecular chemistry, as per these pages from the review I wrote with Jean-Marie Lehn in 2000.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 1d

A Chemistry Nobel that many had anticipated: metal-organic frameworks! Writeup coming on the blog later this morning:

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Alex @stuffandpiffle.bsky.social points out that at the end of the interview "Nostradamus" Pease flagged up the certainty of a Nobel prize one. (But it wasn't a difficult call)

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a question of time. One of those Nobels that was always inevitable, and hugely deserved.

Nature @nature.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

God, I probably did handle that paper but for once I can't quite remember. He wasn't at the Paris meeting - an oversight by us, for sure. But that "crystal engineering" stuff of the 90s using coordination chemistry was very much in the same spirit. Jim Wuest may have been in Paris - I'll check.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting to see how, like yesterday's quantum prize, Omar's work was only slowly picked up on - 10 citations in 1996 - including one from Fraser - though 3440 today.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Did you handle Omar's 1995 paper? I imagine so.
In which case you've been on this topic longer than any of us.
And was he at the ('96?) Paris nano conference?
Otherwise I think I picked up on developments a decade later. He brought a sample into the studio c 2008; Andrea S helped me dispose of it ☹️

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

Because there's so much awful stuff to write about, I decided to write my latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about something interesting and removed from all that: the discovery of a blue pigment in a Neolithic artefact.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

How did cave artists get a brand new pigment?

The discovery of traces of a blue pigment on a stone shaped into a shallow dish at a Palaeolithic site in Germany is quite a find

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

They also quote the lovely Roald Hoffmann, surely one of the dominating, guru-like, figures in chemistry.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha . @philipcball.bsky.social - great to see John Maddox cited high up in the advanced info from the #NobelPrize committee. "It remains a scandal..." must have been one of his go-to phrases in our time at Nature.

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Omar was last on Science in Action a year ago, with an exceptional Organic Framework compound that gobbles up oodles of CO2 from the free atmosphere.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

Yay ... A long favourite of mine Omar Yaghi gets the chemistry #Nobelprize

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

If the idea was to mark the centenary of Quantum Mechanics, surely go for the big conceptual breakthrough of quantum computing - Bennett, Deutsch ++ or or ...
Themselves now ageing...
It is, after all, what all the commentary is defaulting to.
#Slow #Nobels

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

John Clarke, the senior of yesterday's laureates said "To put it mildly, it was the surprise of my life. I’m completely stunned.”

And on reflection me too. Wasn't macroscopic quantumness already celebrated with the more timely 2001 Bose condensate prize (1995 papers)?

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 1d

But of course, as any good empiricist might predict, 3 days before the big #R4Today revelation, was the the #Mail creation.

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