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NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · 2d

Sustainable research through digital lab environments - thats the topic of the new podcast with 2 of our leads/board members.

- What are ELNs – and what can they really do?
- Data as fuel for innovation
- Science vs. business
##chemistry #rdm #research #fairdata #openscience

https://t1p.de/ycxpg

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 2d

We always teach #dataliteracy right from the beginning... already for more than 5 years now ! #digitalchemistry

NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · 7d

Yesterday, 3 of us attended the OC Lab Connect meeting at Heidelberg University, an event for lab course coordinators of #organic chemistry, to present the ELN #Chemotion.
The response highlighted that making #RDM & the use of #ELNs is an integral part of #chemistry #curricula!

#researchdata

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy about this first #catalaix publication for us, supported by the Werner Siemens-Stiftung ! #bioplastics #circulareconomy
We also make the data openly available at @radar-service.bsky.social : radar4chem.radar-service.eu/radar/en/dat...
Thank you to @nfdi4chem.de !

Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 3d

New in Chemical Science!

"Depolymerization of PLA Catalyzed by Guanidine-Modified Microgels" by Andrij Pich and Sonja Herres-Pawlis et al. from RWTH Aachen University and Maastricht University. @herreslab.bsky.social

Read it for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

A pile of blue and yellow polylactide fibres on a surface. A box zooms into a section and shows a scheme for the depolymerisation of polylactide in methanol with a guanidine-modified microgel catalyst.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

Warrior and legend.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · 6d

Die GDCh schließt sich dem Klimaaufruf von DPG und DMG an:
gdch.app/article/gdch...

GDCh schließt sich Klimaaufruf von DMG und DPG an.

Die Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) schließt sich dem gemeinsamen Aufruf der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft (DMG) und der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) an. „Globale Erwär...

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 7d

So happy to be part of this great team and to drive this forward for #FAIRdata in #chemistry !

NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · 8d

Today, 1st October 2025, we officially start into the 2nd funding period of NFDI4Chem!

We want to welcome all previous and new members to this new period and look forward to continuing our successful road to accomplish our mission: All Chemists Publish FAIR data!
##chemistry #FAIR #research #data

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NFDI4Chem @nfdi4chem.de · 10d

Be a leader in chemistry! 🏆 ⚗️

It is already possible today to store your research data FAIR. Do you want to lead the way? Then apply with your FAIR data set for the #FAIR4Chem Award 2026 and a 500 euro prize! 💰

https://bit.ly/3sCGoct
##chemistry #FAIR

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 10d

New publication online on #bioplastics with #FAIRdata
@radar-service.bsky.social
Thanks for funding to @volkswagenstiftung.de !

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
More to read here:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Data here:
www.radar-service.eu/radar/en/dat...

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DALIA Data Literacy Alliance @daliaeducation.bsky.social · 27d

Two weeks ago, the DALIA team had an inspiring week at the CoRDI and the Base4NFDi User Conference. For details on our presentations, check out our new blog post on ➡️ dalia.education/en/news.

@nfdi4chem.de @nfdi4culture @nfdi4ing.bsky.social @nfdi4health
#CoRDI25 #DALIA #NFDI #RDM

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DALIA Data Literacy Alliance @daliaeducation.bsky.social · 29d

Dear all,

On August 25th, we held the DALIA Satellite Meeting to CoRDI in Aachen. For details, check out our new blog post on ➡️ dalia.education/en/news.

@nfdi4chem.de @nfdi4culture @nfdi4ing.bsky.social @nfdi4health
#CoRDI25 #DALIA #NFDI #RDM #dataliteracy

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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 18d

The plan for NSF is to demote its director to an advisory role to what a former senior figure compared to a Soviet political commissar.

Also, greatly reduce the role of rotators from academic departments to consolidate administration power.

This is a disaster for science and innovation.

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history

Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

www.science.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18d

Don’t publish or perish

EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

wapo.st

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Sustainability & Circularity NOW @suscircnow.bsky.social · 29d

🌍Meet Prof. @herreslab.bsky.social at #SCNOWSummit (Nov 6–7)! Chair of Bioinorganic Chem at RWTH Aachen, she pioneers #sustainablepolymerization & #circularchemistry.

Don’t miss her talk and register NOW
👉https://events.thieme.com/scnow-virtual-summit-accelerating-the-transition-to-circularity/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · Sep 1

Die GDCh macht zwei weitere deutsche Pionierinnen der Chemie sichtbar: Elisabeth Dane und Barbara Sandner gehören zu den etwa 30 frühen Chemikerinnen, deren Biografien auf der Internetseite der GDCh online zugänglich sind: www.gdch.de/publikatione...

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 27

It is an honour to host the InChI Trust Board here in Aachen ---- for the first time....but hopefully not the last ;-)
Thanks to @volkswagenstiftung.de !

InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks to all the participants in the InChI Trust Board meeting yesterday, and to @herreslab.bsky.social for hosting in lovely Aachen

Hybrid board meeting photo, nine in person with four online contributors shown on screen behind

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great conference! So wonderful to bring all RDM afficionados together.... #fairdata #NDFI @daliaeducation.bsky.social

German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) @nfdi.de · Aug 26

A few hours ago, #CoRDI2025 kicked off with a bang, and here are some of the first impressions from RWTH Aachen University. We wish all participants an enjoyable conference and many exciting discussions!

#NFDI #CoRDI #researchdata

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DALIA Data Literacy Alliance @daliaeducation.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dear all,

📢 We would like to announce the contributions to the #CoRDI on the 26th - 28th of August 2025 in Aachen.

@nfdi4chem.de @nfdi4culture.bsky.social @nfdi4ing.bsky.social @nfdi4health
#DALIA #NFDI #RDM #FAIRdata

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#cordi #dataliteracy #researchdata #dalia #cordi2025 #fairdata #openscience #datastewardship | Sonja Herres-Pawlis

🌸 🌸 Empowering Data Literacy: DALIA Satellite Meeting at #CoRDI 2025 🌸 🌸 Today, we organised the DALIA Satellite Meeting at RWTH Aachen University (close to the CoRDI 2025 conference). The event br...

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just fresh from the @daliaeducation.bsky.social satellite meeting today... www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-her...
Thank you to all speakers and participants! #fairdata #OER

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DALIA Data Literacy Alliance @daliaeducation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear all,

📢 We invite you to participate in our brief survey and share your thoughts with us. The survey is accessible from 25.08.2025 to 07.09.2025.

➡️ www.soscisurvey.de/dalia-cordi-...

@nfdi4chem.de @nfdi4culture.bsky.social @nfdi4ing.bsky.social @nfdi4health
#DALIA #NFDI #RDM #FAIRdata

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 23

Unfortunately, not all computer centers want to do this....

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 22

You can also install ELN instances in you group if your university does not support it....we have 8 Chemotion instances in Aachen running....

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Natural Sciences", open access, check here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2698...
This would be highly interesting!

Natural Sciences

Click on the title to browse this journal

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