Andrew Bissette
@andrewbissette.bsky.social
Recovering prebiotic chemist. Editor in Chief at Cell Reports Physical Science @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social. Personal account, views not my employer's, etc.
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STEM editorial & publishing starter pack: go.bsky.app/7aTGjKw
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“Across the world, strong and stable majorities continue to back ambitious climate policies…The problem isn’t a collapse in public support – it is the growing disconnect between people and politics, ..
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
COP 30 could be the ‘People’s COP’
This year’s conference is an opportunity to be remembered not just for new pledges or targets but for rebooting the relationship between citizens and the climate regime.
www.politico.eu
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Across the world, strong and stable majorities continue to back ambitious climate policies…The problem isn’t a collapse in public support – it is the growing disconnect between people and politics, ..
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
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The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Are there actually any good bluesky apps for android? Love the platform but the app itself is pretty bad. Unstable, loves to log me out.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Are there actually any good bluesky apps for android? Love the platform but the app itself is pretty bad. Unstable, loves to log me out.
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"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
The Last Word On Nothing | AI is Full of Bullshit. Now It’s Faking Science
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Chat GPT is not hallucinating, it’s bullshitting,"
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
ChatGPT is that guy in law school, dangerously wrong, deeply uninformed, and totally sure Debate Team is real life.
Except now, in 2025? Everyone trusts him. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/10/a...
By @cragcrest.bsky.social
So it turns out Barcelona has the greatest bookstore on earth
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So it turns out Barcelona has the greatest bookstore on earth
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#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
ALT: a woman in a suit says okay in front of a nbc sign
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD.
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?
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Taylor: i'm in love and it's so great
Lily: UH OH
Florence: no worries, I will convene a coven and strip the flesh from his bones
Rosalia: we all appear to be dead now
Lily: UH OH
Florence: no worries, I will convene a coven and strip the flesh from his bones
Rosalia: we all appear to be dead now
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Taylor: i'm in love and it's so great
Lily: UH OH
Florence: no worries, I will convene a coven and strip the flesh from his bones
Rosalia: we all appear to be dead now
Lily: UH OH
Florence: no worries, I will convene a coven and strip the flesh from his bones
Rosalia: we all appear to be dead now
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Another glimpse into the chaos that was the Conservative government and the HS2 project 🚂
Ex-minister for rail and HS2 Huw Merriman has admitted that the cancellation of Phase 2 of the UK’s flagship infrastructure project came as a “complete shock and surprise” as he was not involved in the decision
Full story:
Full story:
Ex-HS2 minister didn’t know Phase 2 was being cancelled until it was confirm | New Civil Engineer
HS2 Phase 2 was explicitly cancelled in October 2023, when former prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the construction of the line would not continue
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Another glimpse into the chaos that was the Conservative government and the HS2 project 🚂
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Addendum
I thank people who have commented on this thread.
I want to be clear about what I intended to convey and also to highlight some of the damaging aspects of Watson's misogynistic and racist comments.
1/13
I thank people who have commented on this thread.
I want to be clear about what I intended to convey and also to highlight some of the damaging aspects of Watson's misogynistic and racist comments.
1/13
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Addendum
I thank people who have commented on this thread.
I want to be clear about what I intended to convey and also to highlight some of the damaging aspects of Watson's misogynistic and racist comments.
1/13
I thank people who have commented on this thread.
I want to be clear about what I intended to convey and also to highlight some of the damaging aspects of Watson's misogynistic and racist comments.
1/13
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
I was recently asked why (good faith) changes to authorship are subjected to such scrutiny - the phrase used was "a pain in the ass". This post exhaustively documents part of the reason why: we can no longer assume good faith.
New guest post on my blog: Csaba Szabo plays cat and mouse with a paper mill
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing
The inner workings of a paper mill:
My Wuxi sting operation Guest post by Csaba Szabo Chair of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland After the limited success of...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I was recently asked why (good faith) changes to authorship are subjected to such scrutiny - the phrase used was "a pain in the ass". This post exhaustively documents part of the reason why: we can no longer assume good faith.
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Somehow I love these scientific sleuth stories.
New guest post on my blog: Csaba Szabo plays cat and mouse with a paper mill
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#fraud #publishing
The inner workings of a paper mill:
My Wuxi sting operation Guest post by Csaba Szabo Chair of Pharmacology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland After the limited success of...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Somehow I love these scientific sleuth stories.
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Our Phd student Jinghui Yang did DCC in living cells and monitored the process by fluorescence changes. Want to read more? See our recent pub in
: Cell Reports Physical Science www.cell.com/cell-reports...
: Cell Reports Physical Science www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Oxidation-driven synthetic molecular networks enable dynamic assembly and fluorescence modulation in living cells
Yang et al. present an oxidation-driven synthetic molecular network that undergoes
reversible macrocyclization and co-assembly with an aggregation-induced emission luminogen
to autonomously assemble i...
www.cell.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Our Phd student Jinghui Yang did DCC in living cells and monitored the process by fluorescence changes. Want to read more? See our recent pub in
: Cell Reports Physical Science www.cell.com/cell-reports...
: Cell Reports Physical Science www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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Fusing transcription factors (TFs) to intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), to drive the formation of transcriptional condensates that concentrate TFs at their target promoters.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Phase separation to buffer growth-mediated dilution in synthetic circuits
Fluctuations in host cell growth pose a critical challenge for maintaining reliable function in synthetic gene circuits. Growth-mediated dilution caus…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Fusing transcription factors (TFs) to intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), to drive the formation of transcriptional condensates that concentrate TFs at their target promoters.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
Share a reboot or remake television series you love! 📺
The correct answer is Battlestar Galactica but as @popher.bsky.social already called it, I'll go with X-Men 97, which was actually pretty good.
The correct answer is Battlestar Galactica but as @popher.bsky.social already called it, I'll go with X-Men 97, which was actually pretty good.
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Share a reboot or remake television series you love! 📺
The correct answer is Battlestar Galactica but as @popher.bsky.social already called it, I'll go with X-Men 97, which was actually pretty good.
The correct answer is Battlestar Galactica but as @popher.bsky.social already called it, I'll go with X-Men 97, which was actually pretty good.
The 1.3.0 update for Civ is so damn good. Turns out all we needed was a pirate mini-game.
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The 1.3.0 update for Civ is so damn good. Turns out all we needed was a pirate mini-game.
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Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning
🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)
#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry at Imperial College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry is available, as advertised on jobs.a...
jobs.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
Mate I gotta get me a job as a CEO, getting $1 tr for shitposting on social media and taking ketamine rather than doing literally any work is a pretty cushy gig.
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Mate I gotta get me a job as a CEO, getting $1 tr for shitposting on social media and taking ketamine rather than doing literally any work is a pretty cushy gig.
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I would like to move chemistry-related conversations to chemchat, seeing as how chem/sky is basically a promotion place now.
I would have liked that to have moderated, but it's bluntly clear that the publishing houses can't change their spots
I would have liked that to have moderated, but it's bluntly clear that the publishing houses can't change their spots
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I would like to move chemistry-related conversations to chemchat, seeing as how chem/sky is basically a promotion place now.
I would have liked that to have moderated, but it's bluntly clear that the publishing houses can't change their spots
I would have liked that to have moderated, but it's bluntly clear that the publishing houses can't change their spots
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If said women work for your competitors, I guess maybe
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If said women work for your competitors, I guess maybe
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It's almost like the aggressive attack on trans people was just a pretext for rolling back any kind of gender equality whatsoever
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's almost like the aggressive attack on trans people was just a pretext for rolling back any kind of gender equality whatsoever
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Freshly published: "Primitive genotype-phenotype coupling in fuel-dependent synthetic cells"
Amazing work and a critical step towards synthetic life by Hector Soria and Leonie Kauling. A thread will follow soon:
t.co/9LfrnVYzoq
Amazing work and a critical step towards synthetic life by Hector Soria and Leonie Kauling. A thread will follow soon:
t.co/9LfrnVYzoq
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Freshly published: "Primitive genotype-phenotype coupling in fuel-dependent synthetic cells"
Amazing work and a critical step towards synthetic life by Hector Soria and Leonie Kauling. A thread will follow soon:
t.co/9LfrnVYzoq
Amazing work and a critical step towards synthetic life by Hector Soria and Leonie Kauling. A thread will follow soon:
t.co/9LfrnVYzoq