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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 57m

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...

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry, Shawn. But it's MOF and not MIF. Clearly an organic award </sarcasm>

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1h

Speaking of which ... zeolites have MOFs beat by a long-shot in terms of applications and probably should have won a Nobel years ago.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine that all you needed for a building was brick and mortar, you mixed them together, and they assemble themselves into enormous buildings with rooms and hallways. It is really very whimsical when it comes right down to it, regardless of any application.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1h

MOFs are great for a lot of reasons. But the basic chemistry drive of it all ... How do we build really cool and unique shapes and structures with these tiny building blocks? MOFs and zeolites are such great examples of molecular architecture (in the literal sense of that word).

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 2h

Hahahaha

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 2h

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

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

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3h

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

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 3h

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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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 3h

If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.

Cover of the journal Nature Chemistry with the cover line "Every MOF you make"

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 3h

A Chemistry Nobel for the invention of MOFs! Here’s a great article on what these materials are and why they’re now being used to eg harvest water and suck up carbon dioxide. Congrats to Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi! #ChemNobel
By @kms163.bsky.social | @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 3h

Well my jr/sr lab students (who are all working on MOFs this semester) will all be very thrilled.
Although, they had a paper due last night. This news could have filled some space in what they needed to write.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 3h

Well done @neilwithers.bsky.social and @stuartcantrill.com

A picture showing timeline convergence and two Brits cheering "It's MOFs" at the Nobel announcement

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Nature @nature.com · 3h

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 15h

Yikes 😬

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 16h

Awesome!!

Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Me. Naturally.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Also ... A great day for DMV folks to subscribe to @bannermoco.bsky.social / @thebaltimorebanner.com or @51st.news or both!!

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 1d

Next up at WaPo:
As more and more people own private jets, does it make sense to continue using tax dollars to pay for paving roads?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

There is growing consensus that France’s economy is stuck in a spiral of low growth and high spending.

The country’s uniquely generous social welfare system may be part of the problem.

Europe’s high quality of life is getting hard to afford. Just ask France.

The cost of Europe’s way of life — health care, affordable education and a dignified retirement for all, through high social spending — is becoming unbearably high.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 3d

I find I have to do this myself ALL THE TIME. If I need to read the literature for a study I'm working on. Or if I just want to sit and enjoy a book for a bit. I need to reorganize myself first. And it's never as easy as I think it should be.

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 4d

Just started @scalzi.com's 'When the Moon Hits Your Eye' and chuckling to myself thinking about how other, normal, non-Ohio people reading it are pronouncing 'Bellefontaine.'

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 5d

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 5d

This October I’m drawing one molecule a day inspired by proteins in pdb @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

Day 2/31
Prompt WEAVE

N-terminal domain of a Fibrion - a building block of silk fiber produced by silkworms.

Pdb: 3UA0

Next prompt is CROWN and I would love your suggestions!

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5d

See also Joey's thread about what this "deal" means for the schools that *don't* take it.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status.

It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 8d

Came by just to see this gif

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 8d

ChemSky
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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 8d

Fascinating chemistry! non-polar molecules chilling out inside the crystals formed by a very polar molecule.
Also ... Morgan - @starsarecalling.bsky.social - is the best!

Martin Rahm @rahmlab.bsky.social · 9d

New chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling.bsky.social and colleagues at NASA-JPL. #chemsky
rahmlab.com/2025/09/28/p...

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 8d

Fascinating chemistry! non-polar molecules chilling out inside the crystals formed by a very polar molecule.
Also ... Morgan - @starsarecalling.bsky.social - is the best!

Martin Rahm @rahmlab.bsky.social · 9d

New chemistry on an alien world, set to rewrite textbooks. Cooler than clathrates! Great Collab with @starsarecalling.bsky.social and colleagues at NASA-JPL. #chemsky
rahmlab.com/2025/09/28/p...

Polar Opposites Attract on Titan

As a scientist, it is a good feeling to come across something that contradicts textbooks. Better still to contribute to a discovery that could help explain chemistry on a planetary &#821…

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