Sam Van Gele
@samvangele.bsky.social
PhD Student at in the Lotsch Group working on COF materials for a sustainable future, MPI FKF, Stuttgart 🧪 | Freelance Science Communicator | He/Him 👨🔬 | 🏳️🌈
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✨How can science be communicated live in a way that is both entertaining & scientifically precise?✨ #CRC1333 researcher @samvangele.bsky.social & Juliane Braig will be leading a workshop during this year's #fwk25, demonstrating how improv theater can be used in #scicomm.▶️ more: 🔗 bit.ly/4fUJ75w
August 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
✨How can science be communicated live in a way that is both entertaining & scientifically precise?✨ #CRC1333 researcher @samvangele.bsky.social & Juliane Braig will be leading a workshop during this year's #fwk25, demonstrating how improv theater can be used in #scicomm.▶️ more: 🔗 bit.ly/4fUJ75w
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Everyone needs Science, Science needs Everyone was our slogan at this years Pride! 🎉
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
August 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Everyone needs Science, Science needs Everyone was our slogan at this years Pride! 🎉
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
We do research together, we celebrate together. Science is better when everyone is seen and valued. 🌈🔬 #InclusiveScience #PrideinSTEM #chemsky
We just made the biggest quantum particle ever! 🧪
Well… if you count improv as quantum: all states exist until observed 🎭🌀
Mixing physics and theater for the Quantum Year turned out great! An evening full of laughs, gasps & wavefunction collapses. #SciComm
Well… if you count improv as quantum: all states exist until observed 🎭🌀
Mixing physics and theater for the Quantum Year turned out great! An evening full of laughs, gasps & wavefunction collapses. #SciComm
July 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We just made the biggest quantum particle ever! 🧪
Well… if you count improv as quantum: all states exist until observed 🎭🌀
Mixing physics and theater for the Quantum Year turned out great! An evening full of laughs, gasps & wavefunction collapses. #SciComm
Well… if you count improv as quantum: all states exist until observed 🎭🌀
Mixing physics and theater for the Quantum Year turned out great! An evening full of laughs, gasps & wavefunction collapses. #SciComm
What a great way to start off #MOFSchool2025. ☀️Fun questions and laughs the entire evening. This must be the nicest location I have ever hosted a quiz night. Thanks @valecolombo.bsky.social @stecanossa.bsky.social 🎉
Lovely evening, @samvangele.bsky.social smashed it as always... And the teams did remarkably well! Very close competition with lots of plot twists! ⚡ #MOFSchool2025
June 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
What a great way to start off #MOFSchool2025. ☀️Fun questions and laughs the entire evening. This must be the nicest location I have ever hosted a quiz night. Thanks @valecolombo.bsky.social @stecanossa.bsky.social 🎉
🔬 We celebrated 100 years of quantum physics with a few school visits! We discussed wave-particle duality and tried to understand Spin with over 200 teens!
If you ask them: Quantum is weird, but cool. The next generation of quantum scientists are on their way! 🧠 #Quantum #SciComm
If you ask them: Quantum is weird, but cool. The next generation of quantum scientists are on their way! 🧠 #Quantum #SciComm
June 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Don’t shake the tree for a paper.
Climb it to chase the unknown.
That's the point.
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Climb it to chase the unknown.
That's the point.
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The perils of low hanging fruit
The first time I heard the expression "low hanging fruit" in science, I got excited. Simple projects that seem to be straightforward – seemingly untouched by other scientists. Projects you could pluck...
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April 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Don’t shake the tree for a paper.
Climb it to chase the unknown.
That's the point.
Read the new post by @samvangele.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Climb it to chase the unknown.
That's the point.
Read the new post by @samvangele.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
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"Impact factor."
It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
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It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Law & disorder in academic publishing
Impact factor. The power of this term is unparalleled in academia. The word “impact” by itself is already so profoundly heavy.
And second in line to it, would be tenure. I put it in second place, bec...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Impact factor."
It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
Read the new post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
It decides who gets grants, who gets tenure, who gets to stay.
But we are not the sum of skewed metrics.
Read the new post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
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April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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We flatten ourselves to fit in, forgetting that passion is what made us start.
But conformity never sparked a breakthrough.
Read the new post by Andrea Fieschi, and subscribe if you like what you read.
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But conformity never sparked a breakthrough.
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The Flattening Soul-Crushing Effect of Cradling Yourself in a Bubble
I was recently at a conference – the friends-and-family kind. International, sure, but mostly populated by academically 'related' researchers. A chance to get all together, talk about new projects, sh...
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April 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We flatten ourselves to fit in, forgetting that passion is what made us start.
But conformity never sparked a breakthrough.
Read the new post by Andrea Fieschi, and subscribe if you like what you read.
www.themodernpeer.com/the-flatteni...
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
But conformity never sparked a breakthrough.
Read the new post by Andrea Fieschi, and subscribe if you like what you read.
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
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Once again, reviewer #2 makes you wonder if they even read the paper. How do you stay (relatively) sane when addressing peer-reviewer comments?
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
How to survive reviewers' comments. No, it's a question.
At times, critique could be mistaken as criticism, even though it’s not meant to be. Still, even critique is difficult to deal with.
With time, I learned to ask “What is the intention behind this co...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Once again, reviewer #2 makes you wonder if they even read the paper. How do you stay (relatively) sane when addressing peer-reviewer comments?
Read the post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Read the post by @lealoburoglu.bsky.social, and subscribe if you like what you read.
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
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#CRC1333 doctoral researchers Alina Bauer, Liam Rautenbach, Fabian Heck, and @samvangele.bsky.social attended the Spring Symposium by @gdch.bsky.social Junges Chemie Forum in Münster (March 12-15, 2025) where Fabian had the great opportunity to present his latest paper. ▶️more here: 🔗bit.ly/3FC9Upb
March 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#CRC1333 doctoral researchers Alina Bauer, Liam Rautenbach, Fabian Heck, and @samvangele.bsky.social attended the Spring Symposium by @gdch.bsky.social Junges Chemie Forum in Münster (March 12-15, 2025) where Fabian had the great opportunity to present his latest paper. ▶️more here: 🔗bit.ly/3FC9Upb
Does anyone check citations on research papers? What happens if one is wrong? 🤔
Check out my latest piece for @themodernpeer.com ⬇️
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #chemsky
Check out my latest piece for @themodernpeer.com ⬇️
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #chemsky
A claim gets misquoted, a source misread, and suddenly, a whole research thread is built on something that was never actually there.
Check out the latest blog post by
@samvangele.bsky.social:
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#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Check out the latest blog post by
@samvangele.bsky.social:
www.themodernpeer.com/wild-citatio...
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪
Wild citations and where to find them
Citations are crucial to academia. For me, they’re the literal way of saying, “I stand on the shoulders of giants.” They allow us to build on existing knowledge, floor by floor, forming an ever-growin...
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March 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Does anyone check citations on research papers? What happens if one is wrong? 🤔
Check out my latest piece for @themodernpeer.com ⬇️
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #chemsky
Check out my latest piece for @themodernpeer.com ⬇️
#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience #chemsky
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👏 Congratulations to @samvangele.bsky.social who has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most promising young scientists at the Inflection Award for his outstanding work on Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction.
➡️ More here: 🔗 bit.ly/4kLpBKO
#crc1333
➡️ More here: 🔗 bit.ly/4kLpBKO
#crc1333
Congratulations to CRC 1333 doctoral researcher Samuel van Gele for winning the 2025 Inflection Award! - Collaborative Research Center 1333
We are very happy to announce that Samuel Van Gele, a doctoral researcher within the CRC1333, has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most promising young scientists at the Inflection Award, for ...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
👏 Congratulations to @samvangele.bsky.social who has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most promising young scientists at the Inflection Award for his outstanding work on Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction.
➡️ More here: 🔗 bit.ly/4kLpBKO
#crc1333
➡️ More here: 🔗 bit.ly/4kLpBKO
#crc1333
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Congratulations Sam van Gele (@samvangele.bsky.social) on receiving the 2025 Inflection Award for his outstanding work on Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction. Read more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8659099/2025...
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congratulations Sam van Gele (@samvangele.bsky.social) on receiving the 2025 Inflection Award for his outstanding work on Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction. Read more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8659099/2025...
Humbled to be named one of the 30 best young scientists working on climate solutions and to stand alongside such an incredible cohort of researchers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. 🌍
Being in Paris for the Inflection Award was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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Being in Paris for the Inflection Award was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience.
shorturl.at/3hpgM
March 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Humbled to be named one of the 30 best young scientists working on climate solutions and to stand alongside such an incredible cohort of researchers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. 🌍
Being in Paris for the Inflection Award was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience.
shorturl.at/3hpgM
Being in Paris for the Inflection Award was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience.
shorturl.at/3hpgM
🔓 Open Access means open access…right? 🧐
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND...
In my latest piece for themodernpeer, I break down what I wish I knew before starting my PhD: the alphabet soup of OA licenses and why they matter. 📚📝
Check it out here:👉 shorturl.at/n6vcx
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND...
In my latest piece for themodernpeer, I break down what I wish I knew before starting my PhD: the alphabet soup of OA licenses and why they matter. 📚📝
Check it out here:👉 shorturl.at/n6vcx
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
Open Access ≠ Open Access - Navigating the License Alphabet
Publishing Open Access (OA) has always been something important to me. It stems from my utopian belief that science should be for everyone and that the funders (taxpayers) should have access to it. Mo...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🔓 Open Access means open access…right? 🧐
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND...
In my latest piece for themodernpeer, I break down what I wish I knew before starting my PhD: the alphabet soup of OA licenses and why they matter. 📚📝
Check it out here:👉 shorturl.at/n6vcx
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND...
In my latest piece for themodernpeer, I break down what I wish I knew before starting my PhD: the alphabet soup of OA licenses and why they matter. 📚📝
Check it out here:👉 shorturl.at/n6vcx
#OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing
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What can we capture with COFs next? Check out this piece featuring our recent study led by Andrés Rodríguez-Camargo on sunlight capture boosted by smart COF functionalizations!
www.e-conversion.de/smart-synthe...
www.e-conversion.de/smart-synthe...
How smart synthesis improves sun catchers
Getting more out of energy materials: Researchers at e-conversion have recently taken a significant step toward this goal. The research team, led by Prof. Bettina Lotsch, Professor at the Max Planck I...
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February 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
What can we capture with COFs next? Check out this piece featuring our recent study led by Andrés Rodríguez-Camargo on sunlight capture boosted by smart COF functionalizations!
www.e-conversion.de/smart-synthe...
www.e-conversion.de/smart-synthe...
How thick can we make oriented COF films? 🤔
Check out our recent work that looks at synthesizing micrometre-thick 2D COF films. ⬇️🧪
This project reminded that me that collaborations can be really cool and help you meet awesome scientists along the way. 🌍
#chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Check out our recent work that looks at synthesizing micrometre-thick 2D COF films. ⬇️🧪
This project reminded that me that collaborations can be really cool and help you meet awesome scientists along the way. 🌍
#chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Synthesis of micrometre-thick oriented 2D covalent organic framework films by a kinetic polymerization pathway - Nature Synthesis
Micrometre-thick oriented 2D covalent organic framework (COF) films are prepared via kinetically trapped 3D covalent adaptable network (CAN) intermediates. Imine-linked CANs are formed through solutio...
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February 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How thick can we make oriented COF films? 🤔
Check out our recent work that looks at synthesizing micrometre-thick 2D COF films. ⬇️🧪
This project reminded that me that collaborations can be really cool and help you meet awesome scientists along the way. 🌍
#chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Check out our recent work that looks at synthesizing micrometre-thick 2D COF films. ⬇️🧪
This project reminded that me that collaborations can be really cool and help you meet awesome scientists along the way. 🌍
#chemsky
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Keep fighting for equality!
February 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Keep fighting for equality!
Testing a new #SciComm workshop game on my colleagues: Chem-speak vs. Common-speak! 📣
When I say 'CO₂ reduction,' I think electrons. My non-chemist friends? Lessening the amount of CO2. ⚖️
This game helps scientists spot double-meaning words and break out of the chemistry bubble! 🫧
#chemsky
When I say 'CO₂ reduction,' I think electrons. My non-chemist friends? Lessening the amount of CO2. ⚖️
This game helps scientists spot double-meaning words and break out of the chemistry bubble! 🫧
#chemsky
February 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Science needs more bridges to the global south 🌍! Do share this great opportunity we are offering @mpifkf.bsky.social! Last year was a great success: www.fkf.mpg.de/8350642/2024...
We are so excited to be able to offer it again
Science benefits from diversity!
#STEM #Chemsky #SciSky #PhySky
We are so excited to be able to offer it again
Science benefits from diversity!
#STEM #Chemsky #SciSky #PhySky
February 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Science needs more bridges to the global south 🌍! Do share this great opportunity we are offering @mpifkf.bsky.social! Last year was a great success: www.fkf.mpg.de/8350642/2024...
We are so excited to be able to offer it again
Science benefits from diversity!
#STEM #Chemsky #SciSky #PhySky
We are so excited to be able to offer it again
Science benefits from diversity!
#STEM #Chemsky #SciSky #PhySky
What do #COF materials really look like? Well ... It's tricky.
Check out our recent article about disorder effects in COFs and how refinements are important, yet not really straightforward...oftentimes coming up short from the big picture.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Science #Chemsky
Check out our recent article about disorder effects in COFs and how refinements are important, yet not really straightforward...oftentimes coming up short from the big picture.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Science #Chemsky
The Devil Is in the Details: Pitfalls and Ambiguities in the Analysis of X-ray Powder Diffraction Data of 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks
X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) data of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) seem to be simple and apparently do not contain a lot of structural information, as these patterns usually do not show more t...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
What do #COF materials really look like? Well ... It's tricky.
Check out our recent article about disorder effects in COFs and how refinements are important, yet not really straightforward...oftentimes coming up short from the big picture.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Science #Chemsky
Check out our recent article about disorder effects in COFs and how refinements are important, yet not really straightforward...oftentimes coming up short from the big picture.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Science #Chemsky
