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🧪 🔬 🔭 Calling all STEM students who studied in the UK! Our amazing freelancer (and former intern) Victoria wants to hear from you. How has your Plan 2 student loan affected you? Are you struggling with debt? Have you been forced to leave science? lnkd.in/e9RmuZgv
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A ban on most uses of DCM was finalised by the US EPA in May 2024, with consumer use of DCM to be phased out within 1 year and most industrial uses within 2. With the Trump administration seeming poised to continue the plan, labs are bracing for change.
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Almost 1000 events across 78 countries will be held on February 24 to support Ukraine.
Events to commemorate the third anniversary of the Russian invasion are already happening across the world.
I am grateful to all those who have come out to support Ukraine today and plan to do so tomorrow, especially at a moment like this.
The campaign Stand With Ukraine is organized by the Ukrainian World Congress. You can find an event near you on their website: uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcon…
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Next week we’ll also be bringing you a feature-length report on the winners, their work and their hopes and dreams for how it can change the world.
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The #NobelPrize as it happens!
Today our news editor @PatDWalter will provide updates, fun facts and news while we cover the awarding of the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry.
Follow his full live blog here: chemistryworld.com/news/the-…
Or check this thread for some highlights!
And we're off again! Christmas for chemists has arrived with the annual excitement surrounding the #Nobelprize in chemistry. We'll be talking predictions, trivia and all the latest news in the run-up to chemistry's biggest prize chemistryworld.com/news/the-…
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Tomorrow our news editor @PatDWalter will be covering the chemistry #NobelPrize as it happens on a live blog. Check it out tomorrow moring here: chemistryworld.com/news/the-… or watch our Twitter feed for all the latest updates! #NobelPrize2024 #NobelPrizeChemistry
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You’ve probably heard of semaglutide, or its tradename Ozempic. But what you might not be familiar with are the difficulties in making the peptides themselves.
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Rise and Fall of Oasis, simply an amazing music docu with knowledgeable presenters (Whiley & Lamacq) who were there and unrivalled access to the squabbling brothers at the heart of one of the 90s greatest bands. Amazing opener. For those that were there! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020y…
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Lovely bit of physics. The plates are in a so-called metastable state (low entropy) and need to be nudged over an energy barrier in order to roll down an energy hill to reach equilibrium (high entropy).
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Even the most famous scientists have rough days. Charles Darwin, for example wrote: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
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Please RT! @BrianHie and I are hiring joint @arcinstitute postdocs to work on ML in biology. Projects include reimagining synthetic gene circuits, mechanistic interpretability, and controllability. Recent work includes genome design with Evo, an AI foundation model trained on DNA to learn the language of evolution
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New Scientist is looking for a Head of Features to lead our world class features team, and take a leading role in how our longform journalism takes shape on digital platforms @newscientist newscientist.com/nsj/job/140… please do RT
Not often I listen to @BBCRadio4 docu-dramas as part of my background research when writing a leader, but it was worthwhile in conveying the human impact of the Flixborough Disaster. Would recommend. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zn…
The Flixborough disaster is 'a tale of incuriosity in the face of unsafe engineering, a lack of appropriate expertise in critical areas and a failure to respect the design precepts that informed the facility,' writes @PatDWalter.
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Despite legal threats, online trolls, and low pay, @MicrobiomDigest doesn't regret becoming a scientific sleuth. I caught up with her for @ChemistryWorld: chemistryworld.com/news/lega…
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Over 3500 volunteers have transcribed Humphry Davy's notebooks from the archives of @Ri_Science, revealing insights into his thoughts, feelings, and unsavoury aspects. @PatDWalter argues that 'the whole picture of the man – flaws and all – should be told.'
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One, two, wait is that THREE hydroxyl groups? On the same carbon atom!!? 🙀💣 Indeed! Researchers have managed to make methanetriol, an "impossible molecule", mimicking interstellar conditions. My latest for @ChemistryWorld, see link in tweet below. #realtimechem #chemtwitter
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Confused by circular dichroism? Our beginner's guide is here to help: doi.org/10.1042/bio_2020_105
ALT (a) Far UV (below 250 nm) CD spectra for a selection of proteins of different secondary structure content. (b) CD spectra for some DNAs with differing GC content. The Z-DNA was formed by adding spermine. (c) Melting curves of α-lactalbumin measured by CD (at two wavelengths) and fluorescence (presented as the ratio of 350 nm to 330 nm intensities).
I never knew him but the textbook was always the go to resource when you had any query on citric acid cycle or a refresher on delta G. RIP
Deeply saddened by the passing of Lubert Stryer, father of FRET, pioneer of DNA and peptide microarrays, author of the famous Biochemistry textbook used across the world. Many may not know that he was also an extremely generous supporter of the arts and deeply passionate about classical music. In every interaction I had with Lubert, he was brilliant, warm, insightful, generous, and full of life.
