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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 23d

Much looking forward to be, more closely than ever, working with the European & global inorganic chemistry communities!

More musings on #EurJIC, its legacy and my biggest thanks to my predecessor, Preeti Vashi, in my inaugural editorial: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · Aug 30

Mist, direkt verpasst. War trotzdem schön.

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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · Aug 13

A reminder to please not use the JIF as an indicator of quality or at least consider presenting the metric in the context of a variety of journal-based metrics www.oajournals-toolkit.org/indexing/jou... @dorassessment.bsky.social and @coarassessment.bsky.social can provide guidelines here.

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Boris Vauzeilles @borisvauzeilles.bsky.social · Aug 10

🚨 Early-bird extended!
Don’t miss the 25th Anniversary Symposium of ChemBioChem & ChemPhysChem:
📅 Oct 23–24, 2025
📍 Charité, Berlin 🇩🇪
✨ Cutting-edge talks, posters, networking & celebrations!
Register now → cbc-cpc2025.org
#ChemBioChem25 #ChemPhysChem25 #StructuralBiology #Biomolecules

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Katrin Göring-Eckardt @goering-eckardt.de · Aug 8

Das letzte Mal, dass mir jemand vorschreiben wollte, wie ich zu sprechen habe, waren es DDR-Bonzen. 1989 bin ich auch für die freie Rede! auf die Straße gegangen. Wenn jetzt sogar öffentliche Förderung daran hängen soll, ob Herrn Weimer die Sprache gefällt, schränkt das Freiheit massiv ein. 1/2

Screenshot von Deutschlandfunk.de vom 8. August 2025: Weimer: Wer öffentliches Geld erhält, soll nicht gendern. Nach dem Genderverbot in der eigenen Behörde drängt Kulturstaatsminister Weimer alle öffentlich geförderten Institutionen, dieser Linie zu folgen. Es gehe dabei um eine gemeinsame Verantwortung für die Verständlichkeit staatlich geförderter Kommunikation, sagte der parteilose Politiker der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.

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Michael Küper (#SchutzschildDerDemokratie) @mkueper.de · Aug 8

Die Logik: Du darfst gendern – aber dann bitte ohne Subvention, Forschungsgeld, Theaterförderung, Projektzuschuss.
Das nennt man auch: indirekte Zensur durch Geldentzug.
Verfassungsrechtlich: höchst fragwürdig.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Aug 7

In praise of the strangeness of scientific research, which these days I think could use a few good words said for it:

In Praise of Weirdness

www.science.org

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ChemRxiv @chemrxiv.org · Jul 1

Hello #ChemSky! We're the open preprint server for the global chemistry community and we're glad to be here.

Follow along as we share exciting preprints and engage with the community. Learn more about us: chemrxiv.org

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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · Aug 7

💬 🧪 Behind the Science Interview with B. Terzi and W. Teich (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social LMU Munich): Light-Activated mRNA Cap Analogs Allow Timed Control of mRNA Translation
Their work is published in @ChemistryEur - flagship journal of @ChemEurope
www.chemistryviews.org/light-activa...

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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · Jul 17

Meet the speakers of our symposium in celebration of the 25th anniversaries of ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem. Register today to take advantage of our Early Bird offer! www.cbc-cpc2025.org/registration

#ChemBio #ChemSky #Chemistry

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · Jun 26

“gravity itself the physical force isn’t political, but how we come to research and understand and then harness it absolutely is political, distributed by human relationships and negotiations of power” - @kawulf.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen

Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · Jun 18

Great article highlighted here by dereklowe.bsky.social on stirbar effects - hits home when your scale up doesn’t work because the K2CO3 wasn’t ground to powder with overhead stirring on large scale like it was with a stirbar in a flask or vial

Stir Bars Can't Be Ignored

www.science.org

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · Jun 11

Excited that we will have a "Scientific Publishing and Presenting" Workshop on June 26th. Thank you very much to David Peralta and Lisa Smith of Wiley-VCH for making this possible.
If you are a PhD or postdoc at @leidenscience.bsky.social, register for free: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · Jun 8

Looking forward to meeting you in person, then, and to listen in on all the exciting developments in the nucleic acid community!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Jun 8

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A six panel cartoon.

Panel one:
Title: Learn to read with Physics
Lesson One: two and three-letter words
(image of a smiling book and particle)

Panel two:
A friendly scientist enters a colourful lab carryinh a coiffee and papers.
Text: The Doc is in the lab.

Panel three:
She has put on eye protectors and started a machine
Text: She put on the ion ray.

Panel four:
The machine has caused a small fire. She looks aghast.
Text: Pop! The ray lit the gas.

Panel five:
She runs from the burning lab
Text: The lab is too hot!

Panel six:
She sits on the grass. In the background the ruins of the lab smoulder.
Text: The Doc is sad.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · May 30

Call me old-fashioned, aber ich mags ja wenn meine Schokolade nicht komplett aromenfrei ist. Bisschen langweilig.

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · May 28

#TimelineCleanse - and a clear recommendation of Samy Moussa's "Elysium", here performed by hr Symphony:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpaR...

#ClassicalSky

Moussa: Elysium ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Manfred Honeck

YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · May 27

Love today’s #xkcd comic on
#MassSpec
🤣

BEFORE THE BATHROOM SCALE WAS INVENTED, THE ONLY
WAY TO WEIGH PEOPLE WAS MASS SPECTROMETRY.

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · May 15

If you're an EU citizen, please consider supporting this initiative on banning Conversion "Therapy" in the EU:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

The petition is open until May 17 and is just shy of 700k signatures (needed: 1000k).

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

eci.ec.europa.eu

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · May 9

I'm really excited to seeing all the great Gold chemistry - such a versatile element!

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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨 10 Ways to Lose Your Research Data
All cases are real-life, verified, and foolproof.
By @nfdi4chem.de — a must-read for every chemist.
👉 www.chemistryviews.org/10-ways-to-l...

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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · Apr 13

»Die Verkrempelung der Welt« erscheint morgen. In dem Buch frage ich, was eigentlich mit den Dingen des Alltags los ist. Werden sie wirklich schlechter? Und wenn ja, warum?

In meinem Newsletter gibt es einen Auszug aus dem ersten Kapitel.

steadyhq.com/de/gabriel-y...

Die Verkrempelung der Welt: Das Buch ist da

In “Die Verkrempelung der Welt” frage ich, was eigentlich mit den Alltagsdingen los ist. Werden sie wirklich wieder schlechter? Ein Auszug aus dem ersten Kapitel.

steadyhq.com

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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · Apr 12

Saturday, making good use of the choir break reading the new @yoran.com and great coffee ☕

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Lisa Pecher @lisipea.bsky.social · Apr 5

This week I joined the German Chemical Society @gdch.bsky.social as a coordinating manager of its divisions and I am very excited. This also means that my time at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social is over, so in this thread I would like to look back at the past six years. (1/22)

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