Dr Nadal
@laiavilanadal.bsky.social
what is the verb here? Writer & reader of papers @UofGChem @UofGlasgow 🐥 mostly science, some chemistry, biochemistry & feminism. I’m a Catalan. Si hi ha xoriço, no és🥘 #Firstgen ☮️
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Buenos días, ojazos 👀
Me derrito...🫠
Me derrito...🫠
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Buenos días, ojazos 👀
Me derrito...🫠
Me derrito...🫠
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The internal angle of a pentagon is 108 degrees. The angle from my truncated tetrahedra is 109.5. This shoddy looking dodecahedral cluster might be a good example of cumulative errors, not just poor PVA-skills! 🧪
June 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The internal angle of a pentagon is 108 degrees. The angle from my truncated tetrahedra is 109.5. This shoddy looking dodecahedral cluster might be a good example of cumulative errors, not just poor PVA-skills! 🧪
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This one, a minimalist representation of the atomic structure of diamond (just 2 sheets of A4 paper). 🧪 #diamond #chemistry #scicom #sciart #art #papercraft
June 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This one, a minimalist representation of the atomic structure of diamond (just 2 sheets of A4 paper). 🧪 #diamond #chemistry #scicom #sciart #art #papercraft
The world may be shaking 🫨 but summer means summer students!
Fun experiments, learning, and fresh energy in the lab.
I got them a little treat 🍪
As Voltaire said: “We must cultivate our garden.”
Science, mentorship, life 🪴✨
#SummerStudents #LabLife #Voltaire #Mentorship
Fun experiments, learning, and fresh energy in the lab.
I got them a little treat 🍪
As Voltaire said: “We must cultivate our garden.”
Science, mentorship, life 🪴✨
#SummerStudents #LabLife #Voltaire #Mentorship
June 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The world may be shaking 🫨 but summer means summer students!
Fun experiments, learning, and fresh energy in the lab.
I got them a little treat 🍪
As Voltaire said: “We must cultivate our garden.”
Science, mentorship, life 🪴✨
#SummerStudents #LabLife #Voltaire #Mentorship
Fun experiments, learning, and fresh energy in the lab.
I got them a little treat 🍪
As Voltaire said: “We must cultivate our garden.”
Science, mentorship, life 🪴✨
#SummerStudents #LabLife #Voltaire #Mentorship
f you’re a chemist and want to see a discipline evolve in real time, check this out! They are challenging 200 years of chemistry, from human skill and endurance 💪🏻🧪⚗️to robot and code👩🏼💻🤖🦾 … so the human chemist can do the cool stuff 🏄🏻♀️
So we opened the worlds first Chemifarm today! www.chemify.io
June 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
f you’re a chemist and want to see a discipline evolve in real time, check this out! They are challenging 200 years of chemistry, from human skill and endurance 💪🏻🧪⚗️to robot and code👩🏼💻🤖🦾 … so the human chemist can do the cool stuff 🏄🏻♀️
Try saying this next time you talk to a colleague, any gender:
“You are sharp, rigorous, and your ideas changed how I think.”
We’re in science for the ideas, not to be called “very organised” or “inspiring.” Compliment the mind.
“You are sharp, rigorous, and your ideas changed how I think.”
We’re in science for the ideas, not to be called “very organised” or “inspiring.” Compliment the mind.
June 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Try saying this next time you talk to a colleague, any gender:
“You are sharp, rigorous, and your ideas changed how I think.”
We’re in science for the ideas, not to be called “very organised” or “inspiring.” Compliment the mind.
“You are sharp, rigorous, and your ideas changed how I think.”
We’re in science for the ideas, not to be called “very organised” or “inspiring.” Compliment the mind.
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The reviewer at Science found my writing "too bubby" for his tastes, but if you're not someone opposed to fun, you should check out The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog!
Out one week from today!
Out one week from today!
In defense of silly science
A biologist pushes back against attacks on curiosity-driven research
www.science.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The reviewer at Science found my writing "too bubby" for his tastes, but if you're not someone opposed to fun, you should check out The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog!
Out one week from today!
Out one week from today!
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Last week I got the news that I've been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at @mcgill.ca.
Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️
Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Last week I got the news that I've been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at @mcgill.ca.
Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️
Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️
Back to the glamorous job of PI 😅 All authors replied with "fingers crossed" 🤞 Submission is officially in business!
June 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Back to the glamorous job of PI 😅 All authors replied with "fingers crossed" 🤞 Submission is officially in business!
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Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Testing the congruency hypothesis using meta-analysis: Are changes in oral contraceptive use correlated with partnered women's sexual satisfaction?
Based on claims that changes in women's hormone levels influence their mating psychology, the Congruency Hypothesis proposes that women in relationshi…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Buenos días, ojazos 👀
Andáis por ahí, verdad? 🦉
Andáis por ahí, verdad? 🦉
June 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Buenos días, ojazos 👀
Andáis por ahí, verdad? 🦉
Andáis por ahí, verdad? 🦉
I submitted a paper today! Yuhuuu. Is this celebrated here?
I’m confused 🫣 LinkedIn, Twitter, 🦋?!?
Anyhow! Fingers crossed 🤞 for us
Very proud of my PhD and colleagues
I’m confused 🫣 LinkedIn, Twitter, 🦋?!?
Anyhow! Fingers crossed 🤞 for us
Very proud of my PhD and colleagues
a man wearing a wig and sunglasses is wearing headphones
ALT: a man wearing a wig and sunglasses is wearing headphones
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June 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I submitted a paper today! Yuhuuu. Is this celebrated here?
I’m confused 🫣 LinkedIn, Twitter, 🦋?!?
Anyhow! Fingers crossed 🤞 for us
Very proud of my PhD and colleagues
I’m confused 🫣 LinkedIn, Twitter, 🦋?!?
Anyhow! Fingers crossed 🤞 for us
Very proud of my PhD and colleagues
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 19
Day 19
June 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 19
Day 19
Do something! Just do.
An experiment, a figure, a paper, a book. Create and express yourself, have fun! We are just time in between oblivion. Oh, and if you can make it happen and it useful to others. This is next level happiness 😀
Enjoy ☺️ Primum non nocere! First do no harm
An experiment, a figure, a paper, a book. Create and express yourself, have fun! We are just time in between oblivion. Oh, and if you can make it happen and it useful to others. This is next level happiness 😀
Enjoy ☺️ Primum non nocere! First do no harm
June 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Do something! Just do.
An experiment, a figure, a paper, a book. Create and express yourself, have fun! We are just time in between oblivion. Oh, and if you can make it happen and it useful to others. This is next level happiness 😀
Enjoy ☺️ Primum non nocere! First do no harm
An experiment, a figure, a paper, a book. Create and express yourself, have fun! We are just time in between oblivion. Oh, and if you can make it happen and it useful to others. This is next level happiness 😀
Enjoy ☺️ Primum non nocere! First do no harm
Feeling really tired and short of breath? It could be more than just a busy week.
Pneumonia doesn’t always show up with a cough or fever.
⚠️ Don’t ignore the signs — book a GP appointment if something feels off. Early treatment matters. #PneumoniaAwareness #HealthTips
Pneumonia doesn’t always show up with a cough or fever.
⚠️ Don’t ignore the signs — book a GP appointment if something feels off. Early treatment matters. #PneumoniaAwareness #HealthTips
May 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Feeling really tired and short of breath? It could be more than just a busy week.
Pneumonia doesn’t always show up with a cough or fever.
⚠️ Don’t ignore the signs — book a GP appointment if something feels off. Early treatment matters. #PneumoniaAwareness #HealthTips
Pneumonia doesn’t always show up with a cough or fever.
⚠️ Don’t ignore the signs — book a GP appointment if something feels off. Early treatment matters. #PneumoniaAwareness #HealthTips
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Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about getting a half dozen likes on an esoteric post about the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use, and one mercy like on a cringe climate-themed lyrical rewrite of a song popular among 35-49 year olds
May 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about getting a half dozen likes on an esoteric post about the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use, and one mercy like on a cringe climate-themed lyrical rewrite of a song popular among 35-49 year olds
Cool mug to promote research culture, thanks to the InFrame project www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ri...
April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Cool mug to promote research culture, thanks to the InFrame project www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ri...
Just found out this one today in ANIE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Why Mental Health Literacy Can Improve STEM
Despite its widely appreciated significance, most research on mental health is published in journals focusing on education, social science, psychology, or psychiatry. This contribution intends to enh...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just found out this one today in ANIE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Training this algorithm for science stuff, so hi everyone!
March 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Training this algorithm for science stuff, so hi everyone!
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Marginalized Jewish chemist 🧪 Dr Mildred Cohen earned a PhD under Nobel Prize-winner Harold Urey. She specialized in biochemistry using radioactive tracers, and was a pioneer in biochemical NMR methods. www.acs.org/education/wh...
Mildred Cohn - American Chemical Society
Mildred Cohn pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to determine how enzymes and other proteins behave during chemical reactions in the body.
www.acs.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Marginalized Jewish chemist 🧪 Dr Mildred Cohen earned a PhD under Nobel Prize-winner Harold Urey. She specialized in biochemistry using radioactive tracers, and was a pioneer in biochemical NMR methods. www.acs.org/education/wh...
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Congratulations to Anne Spang @spanglab.bsky.social for being elected as a new #AAASFellow by @aaas.org ! The world’s largest scientific society recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of cell #biology and #biochemistry. @unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
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Anne Spang awarded distinction of AAAS Fellow
The AAAS has elected Prof. Anne Spang at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, as a Fellow. With this honor, the world’s largest scientific society recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field...
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch
March 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congratulations to Anne Spang @spanglab.bsky.social for being elected as a new #AAASFellow by @aaas.org ! The world’s largest scientific society recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of cell #biology and #biochemistry. @unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
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Happy Birthday, Robert Bunsen! 🎂
He's best known for the eponymous Bunsen burner, which was actually constructed for Bunsen by instrument maker Peter Desaga. It was essential to the discovery of caesium and rubidium through their emission spectra.
www.compoundchem.com/2023/03/31/b...
#ChemSky 🧪
He's best known for the eponymous Bunsen burner, which was actually constructed for Bunsen by instrument maker Peter Desaga. It was essential to the discovery of caesium and rubidium through their emission spectra.
www.compoundchem.com/2023/03/31/b...
#ChemSky 🧪
March 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Robert Bunsen! 🎂
He's best known for the eponymous Bunsen burner, which was actually constructed for Bunsen by instrument maker Peter Desaga. It was essential to the discovery of caesium and rubidium through their emission spectra.
www.compoundchem.com/2023/03/31/b...
#ChemSky 🧪
He's best known for the eponymous Bunsen burner, which was actually constructed for Bunsen by instrument maker Peter Desaga. It was essential to the discovery of caesium and rubidium through their emission spectra.
www.compoundchem.com/2023/03/31/b...
#ChemSky 🧪
Publishing isn’t just about output—it’s about visibility, feedback, and progress. Losing access to quality journals accelerates the dismantling of Higher Education.
March 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Publishing isn’t just about output—it’s about visibility, feedback, and progress. Losing access to quality journals accelerates the dismantling of Higher Education.
🚀 Who to follow in science? Looking for fun feeds :-) Suggestions? 🔬✨ #ScienceTwitter #WhoToFollow
February 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚀 Who to follow in science? Looking for fun feeds :-) Suggestions? 🔬✨ #ScienceTwitter #WhoToFollow
Another excuse to procrastinate...
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Another excuse to procrastinate...