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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 8h

💯 Academic social media was a game changer for scholars from traditionally less well-connected places.

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 9h

Twitter revolutionised my career.

I learnt a huge amount about causal inference through #EpiTwitter.

And I met many amazing people who I've since had the joy of working with (Eg @epiellie.bsky.social, @epidbydesign.bsky.social, @robertwplatt.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, etc etc)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 11h

I was thinking exactly the same....

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Nature @nature.com · 12h

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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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 12h

And we (me and @sandersays.bsky.social ) won :D

Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 12h

The group is ready :) #nobel #chemsky

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 12h

The group is ready :) #nobel #chemsky

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 1d

And also the third coloring book is ready. Now just waiting for the last Nobel to draw :) #chemsky

The three nobels in chemistry coloring books

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently it’s possible to make “non-screen printed” electrodes using a CO2 laser. And guess who has a laser cutter? :)
#chemsky

Electrodes with silver as reference electrode

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 1d

Attending? Shorts and flip flops

a man on a boat holding flip flops and saying i got my swimming trunks and my flippy floppies .

Alt: a man on a boat holding flip flops and saying i got my swimming trunks and my flippy floppies .

media.tenor.com

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 3d

I haven’t posted here in many months but LinkedIn is so depressing. Elon truly won, we had a space where we could talk without “keeping up appearances” now academics migrated to LinkedIn and it’s all polished edulcorated saccharine. Everyone back in the box. How is everyone getting on here?

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Marcel Haas 🟥 @harcel.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone here with experience with sli.dev for making slides using Markdown. I saw one example (by @fonnesbeck.bsky.social) that looked absolutely fantastic, so I'm quite interested in giving it a try. Any experience among my followers?

Slidev

Presentation slides for developers

sli.dev

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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 7d

It's official! We are in Open Hardware Month! 🎉 It's time to celebrate all the wonderful ways open source hardware can exist and get those projects certified ;) Also maybe snag a fun variation on our fundraiser merch?

www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Open Hardware Month Fundraiser, Supporting Open Source Hardware Association

The Open Source Hardware Association works to spread awareness and knowledge of open source practices. We work to help show people how and why sharing their work for everyone to make and iterate on is...

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 8d

As always, we advocate for Open Hardware. If you hack something, please let other people hack as well :D
If I forgot your research, please let me know, and I'll add it before submission. 5/5
I'll also tag @adrianbowyer.bsky.social as without him, most of those works would not have been possible.

a computer generated image of a robotic arm with a red and yellow hose coming out of it

Alt: a computer generated image of a robotic arm with a red and yellow hose coming out of it

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 8d

In the last part, we explain the hardware and software you can use to hack those printers (which are a lot). G-code is unbelievably simple and powerful to use. Or you can just use python :) 4/n

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 8d

Alternatively, you can add components such as a microscope, sample holder, or pipette, and use the printer's three axes to move them in a 3D space. 3/n

adding something on top of the printhead

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 8d

You can change the normal filament extruder motor to have new functionalities controlled by the same motor. For example, bioprinting or food printing, as well as more complex applications like electrospinning. 2/n

swapping the print head with something else

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 8d

Our 6-hands review/perspective: "Hacking 3D printers as laboratory robots" is now on ChemRxiv.
In there, we show how many robots you can make by simply modifying a 3D printer. #chemsky 1/n

with @sandersays.bsky.social and @supersciencegrl.co.uk
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...