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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 2h

gimme

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 2h

Let's hope Nobel Laureate parking doesn't become an issue!

Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

What were you expecting Martin, logic?

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a material world after all. And this year’s #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who created a family of materials that could help solve some of humanity’s most critical problems. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

Gerne

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry to disabuse you of that pleasant assumption

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

So yeah, they often append the words veggie- and vegan-

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

I am still sorry I missed this

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Overheard at C&EN @censays.bsky.social · 4h

I think I might've woken up in the middle of the night muttering "MOFs"

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 4h

Our current chancellor came up with this classic on Sunday TV this week: "Eine Wurst ist eine Wurst. Wurst ist nicht vegan."

Which is interesting because I had veganer Wurstaufschnitt on bread for my lunch today.

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 5h

It's ridiculous. Apparently, we might get confused and buy veggie burgers thinking we're getting meat or something.

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 5h

Immigration is good, actually.

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 5h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Eva Amsen @easternblot.bsky.social · 5h

Did you know that recent model iPhone Pros have a LiDAR sensor? You can use it to measure distances, and scientists in Spain used it to recreate a digital version of a cave filled with ancient cave art. 🧪 #scicomm www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...

Mapping Cave Art With A Cellphone

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings.

www.forbes.com

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 7h

Have we written about MOFs before? Um, quite a bit:

cen.acs.org/topics/mater...

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 7h

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪

The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks

cen.acs.org

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 8h

Happy #chemnobel day to all who celebrate. Let's see if any of our predictions and prognostications come true, or if we're all scrabbling when the #NobelPrize announcement comes in 15 minutes.
www.youtube.com/live/0d02ONE...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 8h

That's beautiful Stu

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Chris Gorski @scigorski.bsky.social · 1d

The @aip.bsky.social's oral histories are a great resource on the physics #nobelprize. Delighted to be able to read Michel Devoret's where he calls his work "low-energy physics" repository.aip.org/node/129778 - dealing with "ordinary matter consisting of mundane particles like electrons and atoms"

doi.org

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪

Quantum tunnelling trio win the 2025 physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale

cen.acs.org

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 1d

it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 1d

Pour out a coffee and enjoy Margaret's thread(s) while we wait for 11:45

Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, today is physics #NobelPrize day, so there's just enough time for another instalment of...

PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 2

In 1912, a Swedish inventor called Gustaf Dalén beat Albert Einstein and Max Planck (inter alia) to the biggest prize in physics. How? Well...🧵🧪⚛️

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 1d

I still love this nugget, but I also love the email I got yesterday evening (my time) that said "Dr. Ramsdell is currently living his best life and is off the grid on a pre-planned hiking trip."
I wonder if he knows yet?

bsky.app/profile/gilm...

Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 2d

Love this story about one of today's Nobel winners, Mary Brunkow.

(She and colleague Fred Ramsdell, working at Celltech (RIP), uncovered the role of Foxp3 in the development of Tregs.)

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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 2d

Love this story about one of today's Nobel winners, Mary Brunkow.

(She and colleague Fred Ramsdell, working at Celltech (RIP), uncovered the role of Foxp3 in the development of Tregs.)

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 2d

Immunity researchers win the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi receive the prize for understanding how the immune system is kept in check. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#chemsky #immunosky 🧪

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 2d

My betting is a more materials or physical chem flavour this year, but I am a big fan of Balasubramanian & Klenerman at some point

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Elizabeth Wood, PhD @lizbwood.bsky.social · 2d

For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

Nature @nature.com · 2d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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