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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 4h

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded today for the development of metal-organic frameworks, molecular sponges with applications in gas storage, water purification and more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/08/2...

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Infographic on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks. The infographic explains that metal-organic frameworks are molecular sponges built up from metal ions and organic compounds that act as linkers. Small molecules such as gases can move into and out of cavities in these frameworks. The graphic highlights some of the MOFs the laureates have developed and concludes by looking at possible future uses of MOFs, including gas storage and extracting water from air.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10h

"You can just do things" is the rallying cry of wannabe "10× engineers" who ignore things like prioritization and maintainability to go off making cool shit. The team agenda becomes co-opted by one asshole creating problems everyone else needs to deal with, faster than they can deal with them.

Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 11h

As a principle, ‘You can just do things’ is both ‘broadly true, admirable, and helpful’ - and neoliberal, anti-social bullshit.

@jjvincent.bsky.social good on a phrase that's particularly buzzy in 9-9-6 grind Silicon Valley and EA communities.

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High-Agency Individuals | James Vincent

The exhortation to “just do things” is in part a response to the specter of automation.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.

Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.

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Origami Organelles @origamiorganelles.bsky.social · 14h

Get your head around cellular respiration by making our paper models! Link them together for a hands-on learning experience! Find out more here:
Electron Transport Chain: buff.ly/4u1KnvD
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Nature Protocols @natprot.nature.com · 15h

Congratulations to all three winners!
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

We are honoured to have a Nature Protocol from Prof. Yaghi
rdcu.be/eJ0Es

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-yield, green and scalable methods for producing MOF-303 for water harvesting from desert air

Nature Protocols - MOF-303 is a promising water-harvesting sorbent that can take up water at low relative humidity and release it under mild heating. This metal–organic framework can be made...

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Nature @nature.com · 14h

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi, who developed a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Chemistry Nobel for team who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 16h

We interrupt our regular programming to announce…

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Rahul K @theresearch.bsky.social · 14h

A good day to follow @mofpapers.bsky.social

MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 16h

We interrupt our regular programming to announce…

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · 3d

How do we evaluate LLMs?
I wrote up a new article on
(1) multiple-choice benchmarks,
(2) verifiers,
(3) leaderboards, and
(4) LLM judges

All with from-scratch code examples, of course!

sebastianraschka.com/blog/2025/ll...

Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)

Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling. John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip to make the breakthrough in the 1980s. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 1d

Game changer for cell-based plant genetics: the labs of Caixia Gao & Jin-Long Qiu have developed very efficient self-replicating vectors and they just published a very nice proof-of-concept paper.
#plantscience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 1d

(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics

🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs

🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs

interested/curious? DM or email [email protected]

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 1d

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community

@natcomms.nature.com from @oventurelli2.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community - Nature Communications

Here the authors leverage a crossfeeding, engineered microbial community to demonstrate that strain abundance cycles are robust across environmental conditions. They pair this with a nonlinear dynamic model to elucidate population cycles.

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Vector Institute @vectorinstitute.ai · 1d

🚀 Thinking about a career in AI?

Ontario’s universities offer world-class master’s programs in a thriving ecosystem where AI innovation is driving real business impact.

Vector Scholarship in AI - Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence is a $17,500 entrance scholarship for pursuing AI master's or related programs in Ontario

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Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev · 1d

The stable release of Python 3.14 is out now! Go, go, go update! 🙌

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

John M. Martinis, Michel H. Devoret & John Clarke recount the history of their milestone discovery, which today won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 1d

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion
of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as
superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each
governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

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

This year’s #NobelPrize laureates conducted experiments on a chip that revealed #quantum physics in action. Learn more about historical moments that were meaningful to the development of #quantum computers: cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪

Podcast: The mind-bending innovations that built quantum computing

Hosts David and Gina enter the quantum realm to trace the evolution of this futuristic technology

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Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com · 1d

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits?

Here it is: ($)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantum Josephson junction circuits and the dawn of artificial atoms - Nature Physics

In 1985, experiments revealed the quantum behaviour of a macroscopic degree of freedom: the phase difference across a Josephson junction. The authors recount the history of this milestone for the development of superconducting quantum circuits.

www.nature.com

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Tobias Müller @tobilg.com · 2d

Yup. Claude coded a complete DuckDB Extension for me during my lunchbreak with the help of three MCP servers and a handful prompts… Crazy.

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Michael Kennedy @mkennedy.codes · 2d

Very excited to announce the release of my first solo book:

Talk Python in Production: A Cloud-Agnostic Guide to Building, Scaling, and Managing Your Own #Python Infrastructure

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Talk Python in Production Book

Learn how to efficiently run Python apps in production using Docker, NGINX, and a stack‑native approach. Cut costs and stay in control, with no cloud lock-in.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 2d

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence

They consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mathematical discovery in the age of artificial intelligence - Nature Physics

In this comment, we consider how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the way mathematical research is conducted and discuss how future developments of this technology will transform mathematical practice.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 2d

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered regulatory T cells that prevent autoimmune disease

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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is here and it's a doozy: the discovery of regulatory T cells! I woke up at 2am to write this story so if you see any typos, no you didn't:

3 immunologists win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of regulatory T cells

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three pioneering immunologists for their work on regu | The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three pion...

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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 14d

It's soon #Nobelprize week !

My 2 cents 2025 prediction

#mednobel J. Bloch & G. Courtine for restoring function after spinal cord injury

#chemnobel S. Balasubramanian, D. Klenerman & P. Mayer for NGS

#physnobel J. Navarro, C. Frenk & S. White for Dark matter

#Literaturenobel M. Atwood

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