Sven Kochmann 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇦🇹
@indianalytics.bsky.social
he/him. German Researcher from Canada to Austria. Analytical Chemistry and Data Stuff. Professor at University of Applied Science, Vienna.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-4609
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7423-4609
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Meanwhile the Ducks Flamingos conflict has gotten worse
Peace talks have collapsed
The Christmas truce is in jeopardy
Violence could erupt at any moment
Peace talks have collapsed
The Christmas truce is in jeopardy
Violence could erupt at any moment
December 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Meanwhile the Ducks Flamingos conflict has gotten worse
Peace talks have collapsed
The Christmas truce is in jeopardy
Violence could erupt at any moment
Peace talks have collapsed
The Christmas truce is in jeopardy
Violence could erupt at any moment
Love that!
Entry 3: A dating app for chemists
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Love that!
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Our Open-source Hardware Infrastructure for The Netherlands (OSHNED) has been granted :)
This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.
This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.
45 projects awarded to strengthen Dutch open science infrastructure! From connecting colonial archives to opening telescope data, these initiatives make research infrastructure more accessible, transparent and inclusive.
Read more👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
Read more👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...
45 projects strengthen Dutch open science infrastructure | Open Science NL
In its largest funding round to date, Open Science NL awards 45 projects that strengthen infrastructure for open science in the Netherlands. The projects make scholarly data, software and publications more accessible and help make science more accessible, transparent and inclusive.
www.openscience.nl
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our Open-source Hardware Infrastructure for The Netherlands (OSHNED) has been granted :)
This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.
This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.
Why is this career thing so difficult? Just want to do cool research projects :/
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Why is this career thing so difficult? Just want to do cool research projects :/
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Never forget: Elon Musk has blood on his hands.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Never forget: Elon Musk has blood on his hands.
Metal hydrides go!
And then there were 4! The semifinals are here.
Semifinal 1: Grignard vs. Metal Hydride Reduction
Semifinal 2: Fischer Indole Synthesis vs. Olefin Metathesis
Voting ends at 11:59pm on Dec. 17th
zurl.co/0DwQg
Semifinal 1: Grignard vs. Metal Hydride Reduction
Semifinal 2: Fischer Indole Synthesis vs. Olefin Metathesis
Voting ends at 11:59pm on Dec. 17th
zurl.co/0DwQg
2025 Organic Reaction Championship - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
zurl.co
December 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Metal hydrides go!
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My grading supervisor is sleeping on the job.
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My grading supervisor is sleeping on the job.
Nature's bookmarks make people nature-intolerant
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nature's bookmarks make people nature-intolerant
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Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Bluesky has also become the preferred social media platform for much of the scientific and medical communities.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Two opportunities for NLP data scientists, cheminformaticians or bioinformaticians at EMBL (Hinxton Cambridgeshire UK) ref: JR2866 | duration: 3 years | closing: 11-Jan-2026 #DataSci #cheminformatics #bioinformatics #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
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NLP Data Scientist/Scientific Data Engineer
About the team/job Safety and toxicology concerns remain one of the most persistent challenges in drug discovery. This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team on a project to deve...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Two opportunities for NLP data scientists, cheminformaticians or bioinformaticians at EMBL (Hinxton Cambridgeshire UK) ref: JR2866 | duration: 3 years | closing: 11-Jan-2026 #DataSci #cheminformatics #bioinformatics #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs #chemsky 🧪
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Blanking is very important
American scientists use it to calibrate their instruments
Trump keeps getting MRIs because he has the smoothest brain they've ever seen. It's like a marble. Incredible. They say you can see your reflection in it
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Blanking is very important
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In computer simulations, as an object slides along the surface of ice, a structureless, "amorphous" layer forms. Materials scientists at Saarland University in Germany argue that this process may be the cause of ice’s slipperiness. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-s...
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In computer simulations, as an object slides along the surface of ice, a structureless, "amorphous" layer forms. Materials scientists at Saarland University in Germany argue that this process may be the cause of ice’s slipperiness. www.quantamagazine.org/why-is-ice-s...
Maybe we should switch to German... bromieren, Silikat, ... 🤔
-ate is such a weird suffix in chemistry. Brominate is a verb but silicate is a noun. And oxygen is element eight. #chemchat
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Maybe we should switch to German... bromieren, Silikat, ... 🤔
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"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said"
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said"
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
science.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Would definitely watch a CSI crime scene-like show called "PI Back in Lab"
Today on "PI Back In The Lab After A Year", Lindsay tries to change the trap on a Neo Vanquish. Step 1: slack mass spec team and sheepishly confirm that this part is somehow the trap
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Would definitely watch a CSI crime scene-like show called "PI Back in Lab"
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
*sigh*
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
*sigh*
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all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”