Alex Bittner
@bittner-ass.bsky.social
Self-ASSembly group leader at nanogune, Ikerbasque prof, working on physical chemistry, electrospinning, melt electrowriting, viruses, water.
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❄️ Our ExoMars TGO spacecraft revealed water frost inside the summit crater of Mount Olympus on Mars. Before this observation, it was thought improbable for frost to exist in this area. 🧪🔭
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/Newfound_frost_atop_Olympus_Mons
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/Newfound_frost_atop_Olympus_Mons
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
❄️ Our ExoMars TGO spacecraft revealed water frost inside the summit crater of Mount Olympus on Mars. Before this observation, it was thought improbable for frost to exist in this area. 🧪🔭
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/Newfound_frost_atop_Olympus_Mons
🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/Newfound_frost_atop_Olympus_Mons
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gibt diesen spannenden Rechner, mit dem ich auch gerade spiele:
www.co2-modell.nlga.niedersachsen.de
www.co2-modell.nlga.niedersachsen.de
CO2-Modell
Das vom Niedersächsischen Landesgesundheitsamt angebotene CO2-Online-Modell berechnet den zeitlichen Verlauf der CO2-Konzentration in Innenräumen (z.B. Klassenräumen)
www.co2-modell.nlga.niedersachsen.de
December 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
gibt diesen spannenden Rechner, mit dem ich auch gerade spiele:
www.co2-modell.nlga.niedersachsen.de
www.co2-modell.nlga.niedersachsen.de
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Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway.
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Every year, people mock this tree. But I love it anyway.
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
It reminds us that if we stand together in tough times, we can overcome anything.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. 🎄✨
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Ein guter Zeitpunkt, um @hateaid.org zu folgen.
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ein guter Zeitpunkt, um @hateaid.org zu folgen.
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Giving the gift of negative data 🥰
Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them!
Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article!
www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them!
Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article!
www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
The value of publishing negative data - News
Scientific journals love news-worthy results. Editors want to publish studies with novel data that scientists will eagerly read and cite in their own work. Because of this desire for novelty, studies ...
www.rockefeller.edu
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Giving the gift of negative data 🥰
Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them!
Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article!
www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
Since I joined @lsajournal.org I have handled several stellar manuscripts that report null results. These papers do very well and reviewers almost always appreciate them!
Thanks @rockefeller.edu news team for the article!
www.rockefeller.edu/news/38829-t...
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We are looking for a team leader to join the cryo-EM facility work at the new Ernst Ruska-Centre 2.0 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We have a series of microscopes used by (@irene-vercellino.bsky.social, Schröder, @sachsegroup.bsky.social) and external users.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
Team Leader – Life Science Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) Facility
Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C) at Forschungszentrum Jülich houses some of the world`s most advanced electron microscopes and tools for nanocharacterisation. U...
www.fz-juelich.de
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We are looking for a team leader to join the cryo-EM facility work at the new Ernst Ruska-Centre 2.0 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We have a series of microscopes used by (@irene-vercellino.bsky.social, Schröder, @sachsegroup.bsky.social) and external users.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
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“Henry! Hurry or you’re gonna miss it—ghost riders in
the kitchen!”
the kitchen!”
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“Henry! Hurry or you’re gonna miss it—ghost riders in
the kitchen!”
the kitchen!”
Raffaella Bucci from Uni Milan and nanoremedi.EU, lecturing in our Basque peptide network P2net, @nanogune.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Raffaella Bucci from Uni Milan and nanoremedi.EU, lecturing in our Basque peptide network P2net, @nanogune.bsky.social
🇫🇷 flight attendant yesterday "cuarenta grados in Bilbao" ooooops "catorze"! Surely because of the 🇬🇧 announcement just before - a typical confusion in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.
December 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🇫🇷 flight attendant yesterday "cuarenta grados in Bilbao" ooooops "catorze"! Surely because of the 🇬🇧 announcement just before - a typical confusion in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪.
ESS assesses impact of technical issues on its target station | ESS
ess.eu
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Detecting asteroid belts around distant stars? You can't do it by directly observing asteroids, but you *can* do it observing the dust that is created by asteroid collisions! New SPHERE gallery of debris disks:
SPHERE’s debris disk gallery: tell-tale signs of dust and small bodies in distant solar systems
Images of dust around distant exoplanets provide a glimpse of asteroids and comets in other solar systems.
www.mpia.de
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Detecting asteroid belts around distant stars? You can't do it by directly observing asteroids, but you *can* do it observing the dust that is created by asteroid collisions! New SPHERE gallery of debris disks:
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Fascinating outlook on similarities in aerosolization of microbes from the ocean surface and respiratory tract fluid by Dommer @rommieamaro.bsky.social @kprather.bsky.social
A new review explores one of the themes of my book Air-Borne: our lungs are like the ocean. Both send life into the atmosphere. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Fascinating outlook on similarities in aerosolization of microbes from the ocean surface and respiratory tract fluid by Dommer @rommieamaro.bsky.social @kprather.bsky.social
George Lomonossoff @johninnescentre.bsky.social giving the Evening Lecture at the Herrenalb nanoscience meeting, #PlantVirology
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
George Lomonossoff @johninnescentre.bsky.social giving the Evening Lecture at the Herrenalb nanoscience meeting, #PlantVirology
Ansage neulich im TGV Genève-Paris: "Die SNCF beglückwünscht Sie, Sie fahren deutlich ökologischer als mit dem Auto, aber viel schneller als mit einem E-Scooter" 😁
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ansage neulich im TGV Genève-Paris: "Die SNCF beglückwünscht Sie, Sie fahren deutlich ökologischer als mit dem Auto, aber viel schneller als mit einem E-Scooter" 😁
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A paper published in Scientific Reports has ...worrisome... methods. Some have raised concerns about the integrity of Sci Reports — maybe this will spur more in depth scrutiny. (Which sucks for all the good scientists who’ve published good papers there.) #AI Via @jeppsson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eR40o
rdcu.be/eR40o
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A paper published in Scientific Reports has ...worrisome... methods. Some have raised concerns about the integrity of Sci Reports — maybe this will spur more in depth scrutiny. (Which sucks for all the good scientists who’ve published good papers there.) #AI Via @jeppsson.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eR40o
rdcu.be/eR40o
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We have to start calling this what it is: Fraud.
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We have to start calling this what it is: Fraud.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
MSCA-ITN-EJD Nanoremedi.eu has a video! Here are our DCs ("doctoral candidates" in @ec.europa.eu speak):
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
MSCA-ITN-EJD Nanoremedi.eu has a video! Here are our DCs ("doctoral candidates" in @ec.europa.eu speak):
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
youtu.be/R2GTssMVjLk
www.nanogune.eu/en/nanogune/...
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
Technology Transfer Assistant
www.nanogune.eu
November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
www.nanogune.eu/en/nanogune/...
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
@nanogune.bsky.social is searching for a tech transfer specialist. This job is very much focussed on exploitation, intellectual property (IP), and market analysis for our project www.textadna.eu.
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🌟 ¡Atención estudiantes! 🌟
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌟 ¡Atención estudiantes! 🌟
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
La convocatoria para la Winter School 2026 de nanoGUNE se abre hoy. 🎓❄️
📅 4-6 de febrero de 2026
📍 Donostia
📅 Inscripciones hasta el 29 de octubre
¡No te lo pierdas!
🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/sjarmcdjtp
#WinterSchool2026 #nanoGUNE #Nanociencia
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🎉Jean-Marie Lehn ⚗️Yamuna Krishnan 🧫 Jack Szostak 🧬 Pedro Miguel Etxenike
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🎉Jean-Marie Lehn ⚗️Yamuna Krishnan 🧫 Jack Szostak 🧬 Pedro Miguel Etxenike
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
Inolvidable el encuentro top@DIPC Zientziarekin solasean! Curiosidad, creatividad y ganas de aprender! MUCHAS GRACIAS!
👀https://dipc.ehu.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/encuentros2025
#Gobierno Vasco #KutxaFundazioa #Telefónica
"Getting Hold of the Tobamovirus Particle—Why and How? Purification Routes over Time and a New Customizable Approach"
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Getting Hold of the Tobamovirus Particle—Why and How? Purification Routes over Time and a New Customizable Approach"
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
doi.org/10.3390/v160...
Great compilation of the purification of #TMV, the longest and arguably best known #virion, and its 'colleagues'!
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#Badinter #Panthéon
« Le fascisme ne se lève pas comme la tempête en une nuit. Il est d’abord rampant, dissimulé, ordinaire. Il progresse par les voix de la haine, avivée par les difficultés économiques. Il s’empare des cœurs avant de pervertir les esprits puis de prendre le pouvoir. »
À méditer☝️.
« Le fascisme ne se lève pas comme la tempête en une nuit. Il est d’abord rampant, dissimulé, ordinaire. Il progresse par les voix de la haine, avivée par les difficultés économiques. Il s’empare des cœurs avant de pervertir les esprits puis de prendre le pouvoir. »
À méditer☝️.
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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