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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/xneDGxV
👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/xneDGxV
September 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/xneDGxV
👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/xneDGxV
I was prompted to write this post by a discussion on LinkedIn about some negative developments in recent scientific publication business. Perhaps I can start a similar discussion here on BSKY.
August 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I was prompted to write this post by a discussion on LinkedIn about some negative developments in recent scientific publication business. Perhaps I can start a similar discussion here on BSKY.
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🧠 Education boosts memory levels but not brain aging resistance
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries - Nature Medicine
In a large cross-national study, education was linked to better memory and larger brain volumes but not to slower cognitive or brain decline with age, suggesting that the association reflects early-li...
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🧠 Education boosts memory levels but not brain aging resistance
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study across 33 countries found more education links to better memory and larger brain volume, but not slower cognitive or brain decline.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm 🧪
Just in case you didn't know...
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July 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Just in case you didn't know...
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That was the #hydrogen and #water session of the DSL2025:
www.dsl-conference.com
Markus Wilde from Tokio University put together a great program, which linked hydrogen fundamentals and applications with the special behavior of water molecules at interfaces.
www.dsl-conference.com
Markus Wilde from Tokio University put together a great program, which linked hydrogen fundamentals and applications with the special behavior of water molecules at interfaces.
21th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids - DSL 2025
www.dsl-conference.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
That was the #hydrogen and #water session of the DSL2025:
www.dsl-conference.com
Markus Wilde from Tokio University put together a great program, which linked hydrogen fundamentals and applications with the special behavior of water molecules at interfaces.
www.dsl-conference.com
Markus Wilde from Tokio University put together a great program, which linked hydrogen fundamentals and applications with the special behavior of water molecules at interfaces.
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First impressions of Les Diablerets, Switzerland, are good.
Add in six days of #hydrogen storage discussions & it seems it could be a good week.
Add in six days of #hydrogen storage discussions & it seems it could be a good week.
June 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
First impressions of Les Diablerets, Switzerland, are good.
Add in six days of #hydrogen storage discussions & it seems it could be a good week.
Add in six days of #hydrogen storage discussions & it seems it could be a good week.
There are different ways to link people: hydrogen science & technology is one of them:
www.empa.ch/web/s604/aim...
www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/topics/in...
www.empa.ch/web/s604/aim...
www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/topics/in...
AIMR Joint Research Center an der Empa - 604 - Communication - Empa
www.empa.ch
June 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
There are different ways to link people: hydrogen science & technology is one of them:
www.empa.ch/web/s604/aim...
www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/topics/in...
www.empa.ch/web/s604/aim...
www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/topics/in...
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RFK Jr. claims that he can find THE cause of autism within a few months. When I hear someone claiming they have found THE cure for cancer, I have a 100 thoughts whirling in my head. Once misinformation takes flight it is so hard to refute it. Inaccuracy on multiple levels.
Brandolini’s law is 🎯🧪🧬
Brandolini’s law is 🎯🧪🧬
April 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
RFK Jr. claims that he can find THE cause of autism within a few months. When I hear someone claiming they have found THE cure for cancer, I have a 100 thoughts whirling in my head. Once misinformation takes flight it is so hard to refute it. Inaccuracy on multiple levels.
Brandolini’s law is 🎯🧪🧬
Brandolini’s law is 🎯🧪🧬
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New findings from the OCE on the design of energy-efficient alkaline electrolysis cells led by Manasa Rajeev!
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Here, Manasa used methods pioneered by the @boettcherlab.bsky.social to rigorously control dissolved iron in a zero-gap alkaline electrolysis cell.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Here, Manasa used methods pioneered by the @boettcherlab.bsky.social to rigorously control dissolved iron in a zero-gap alkaline electrolysis cell.
Impacts of Dissolved Iron on Alkaline Water Electrolysis Cells
Dissolved iron (Fe) species are prerequisites for the most active catalyst sites for the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline electrolytes, but the overall effects of dissolved Fe on energy-efficient advanced alkaline water electrolysis cells remain unclear. Here, we systematically control the concentration of Fe in a model zero-gap alkaline water electrolyzer to understand the interactions between Fe and high surface area catalyst coatings. Cells employing a platinum-group-metal-containing cathode and a high surface area, mixed-metal-oxide anode yielded an optimum voltage efficiency at elevated temperatures and in the presence of 6 ppm Fe, which reduced the cell voltage by ∼100 mV compared to rigorously Fe-free electrolytes. Increasing concentrations of Fe led to a systematic increase in anode activity toward the oxygen evolution reaction and a reduction in the electrochemically active surface area at both the anode and cathode. Metallic Fe was not observed to electrodeposit at cathodes which operate at overpotentials ≤120 mV, but dissolved Fe does reduce the apparent number density of sites available for hydride adsorption. These findings suggest that the energy efficiency of advanced alkaline water electrolysis systems can be improved by managing the Fe concentration in recirculating KOH electrolytes.
pubs.acs.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New findings from the OCE on the design of energy-efficient alkaline electrolysis cells led by Manasa Rajeev!
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Here, Manasa used methods pioneered by the @boettcherlab.bsky.social to rigorously control dissolved iron in a zero-gap alkaline electrolysis cell.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Here, Manasa used methods pioneered by the @boettcherlab.bsky.social to rigorously control dissolved iron in a zero-gap alkaline electrolysis cell.
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In the light of this announcement, worth quoting my favourite exposition of this 🧪 point from more than a century ago — it isn’t a new argument!
(I particularly like the footnote!)
(I particularly like the footnote!)
![In defence of pure research
JJ THOMSON
[The following is from a speech Sir J J Thomson made on behalf of a delegation from the Conjoint Board of Scientific Studies in 1926 to Lord Crewe, then Lord President of the Council.]
By research in pure science I mean research made without any idea of application to industrial matters but solely with the view of extending our knowledge of the Laws of Nature.
I will give just one example of the 'utility' of this kind of research, one that has been brought into great prominence by the War-I mean the use of x-rays in surgery. Now, how was this method discovered? It was not the result of a research in applied science starting to find an improved method of locating bullet wounds. This might have led to improved probes, but we cannot imagine it leading to the discovery of x-rays. No, this method is due to an investigation in pure science, made with the object of discovering what is the nature of Electricity. The experiments which led to this discovery seemed to be as remote from 'humanistic interest'—to use a much misappropriated word-as anything that could well be imagined.
The apparatus consisted of glass vessels from which the last drops of air had been sucked, and which emitted a weird greenish light when stimulated by formidable looking instruments called induction coils. Near by, perhaps, were great coils of wire and iron built up into electro-magnets. I know well the impression it made on the average spectator, for I have been occupied in experiments of this kind nearly all my life, notwithstanding the advice, given in perfect good faith, by non-scientific visitors to the laboratory, to put that aside and spend my time on something useful.
[G P Thomson says that he has heard his father use another example, that if Government laboratories had been operating in the Stone Age we should have wonderful stone axes but no-one would have discovered metals!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nbpntaipwqfpf4jwmu6rhgqe/bafkreiakpvcjhenbag54ey3dhniosdue22fjxdmav4uu3betl3ohv3vqfe@jpeg)
February 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In the light of this announcement, worth quoting my favourite exposition of this 🧪 point from more than a century ago — it isn’t a new argument!
(I particularly like the footnote!)
(I particularly like the footnote!)
Weekly hydrogen update 07/2025🧪
Hydrogen embrittlement is a complex phenomenon, in particular as modern host materials (e.g. steel) are complex, too (see, e.g., M. Koyama, et al. (2017) Materials Science and Technology, 33:13, 1481, doi.org/10.1080/0267....
Hydrogen embrittlement is a complex phenomenon, in particular as modern host materials (e.g. steel) are complex, too (see, e.g., M. Koyama, et al. (2017) Materials Science and Technology, 33:13, 1481, doi.org/10.1080/0267....
Recent progress in microstructural hydrogen mapping in steels: Quantification, kinetic analysis, and multi-scale characterisation - Motomichi Koyama, Michael Rohwerder, Cemal Cem Tasan, Asif Bashir, E...
This paper gives an overview of recent progress in microstructure-specific hydrogen mapping techniques. The challenging nature of mapping hydrogen with high spa...
doi.org
February 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Weekly hydrogen update 07/2025🧪
Hydrogen embrittlement is a complex phenomenon, in particular as modern host materials (e.g. steel) are complex, too (see, e.g., M. Koyama, et al. (2017) Materials Science and Technology, 33:13, 1481, doi.org/10.1080/0267....
Hydrogen embrittlement is a complex phenomenon, in particular as modern host materials (e.g. steel) are complex, too (see, e.g., M. Koyama, et al. (2017) Materials Science and Technology, 33:13, 1481, doi.org/10.1080/0267....
Weekly hydrogen update 06/2025🧪
The dark side of hydrogen: The cause of the collapse of the Carola Bridge is hydrogen-induced stress corrosion cracking, as discovered by researchers led by Steffen Marx. Prof Marx explains the phenomenon here: www.youtube.com/shorts/kOqot... (in German)
The dark side of hydrogen: The cause of the collapse of the Carola Bridge is hydrogen-induced stress corrosion cracking, as discovered by researchers led by Steffen Marx. Prof Marx explains the phenomenon here: www.youtube.com/shorts/kOqot... (in German)
Ursachen für den Einsturz der Carolabrücke ⚠️ | Prof. Steffen Marx über die Untersuchungsergebnisse
YouTube video by TU Dresden entdecken
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Weekly hydrogen update 06/2025🧪
The dark side of hydrogen: The cause of the collapse of the Carola Bridge is hydrogen-induced stress corrosion cracking, as discovered by researchers led by Steffen Marx. Prof Marx explains the phenomenon here: www.youtube.com/shorts/kOqot... (in German)
The dark side of hydrogen: The cause of the collapse of the Carola Bridge is hydrogen-induced stress corrosion cracking, as discovered by researchers led by Steffen Marx. Prof Marx explains the phenomenon here: www.youtube.com/shorts/kOqot... (in German)
Weekly Hydrogen Update 05/2025:
High Entropy Metal Alloy Hydrides: high entropy by metal atoms but low entropy by hydrogen:
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
High Entropy Metal Alloy Hydrides: high entropy by metal atoms but low entropy by hydrogen:
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
Hydrogen Induced Phase Transition in TiZrNbHfV1–xTax High Entropy Alloys
Two extensively researched high-entropy alloys (HEAs) TiZrNbHfV and TiZrNbHfTa have been reported for their high hydrogen capacities yet have shown different behaviors with regard to hydrogen sorption...
doi.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Weekly Hydrogen Update 05/2025:
High Entropy Metal Alloy Hydrides: high entropy by metal atoms but low entropy by hydrogen:
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
High Entropy Metal Alloy Hydrides: high entropy by metal atoms but low entropy by hydrogen:
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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What’s laughter for? It’s one of those things, like breathing, that can be hard to see as strange and worth wondering about.
“The quest for the essence of humor is older than the alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone.” 🧪
“The quest for the essence of humor is older than the alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone.” 🧪
Why Is That Funny?
How evolution made us laugh.
nautil.us
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What’s laughter for? It’s one of those things, like breathing, that can be hard to see as strange and worth wondering about.
“The quest for the essence of humor is older than the alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone.” 🧪
“The quest for the essence of humor is older than the alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone.” 🧪
With Trump being back in office, is the fight against climate change lost? A look back in history on the fight agains smog in LA gives some hope (purple: science, red: politics)
January 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
With Trump being back in office, is the fight against climate change lost? A look back in history on the fight agains smog in LA gives some hope (purple: science, red: politics)
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January 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Es muss nicht immer Wasserstoff sein: System zur thermo-chemischen Wärmespeicherung über den Winter erhält Watt d'Or Preis 2025:
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Gewinner des Watt d'Or 2025
Die Gewinner des Watt d'Or 2025 sind gekürt!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Es muss nicht immer Wasserstoff sein: System zur thermo-chemischen Wärmespeicherung über den Winter erhält Watt d'Or Preis 2025:
www.bfe.admin.ch/bfe/de/home/...
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I'm a big science fiction fan. Apart from being entertaining, SF plays with human behavior without being confined to a "correct" setting of the world, but still reveal some truth.
I recently read Foundation by Isaac Asimov again. The key scene with Hari Seldon at court triggered me.
I recently read Foundation by Isaac Asimov again. The key scene with Hari Seldon at court triggered me.
January 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm a big science fiction fan. Apart from being entertaining, SF plays with human behavior without being confined to a "correct" setting of the world, but still reveal some truth.
I recently read Foundation by Isaac Asimov again. The key scene with Hari Seldon at court triggered me.
I recently read Foundation by Isaac Asimov again. The key scene with Hari Seldon at court triggered me.
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This should be standard for all businesses and organizations.
Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.
January 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This should be standard for all businesses and organizations.
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A repost from "Fermat's Library" on LinkedIn: Jimmy Carter's message on the Voyager 1 probe
December 31, 2024 at 9:46 AM
A repost from "Fermat's Library" on LinkedIn: Jimmy Carter's message on the Voyager 1 probe