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David Amabilino
@damabilino.bsky.social
Research professor at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), sustainable materials, chirality and supramolecular chemistry. Group and other stuff, own views here.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-8462
The beautiful chemistry of autumn in Catalunya on the #UAB campus.
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Preparations in full swing for the #JPhD2025 meeting @icmabcsic.bsky.social this week. Thanks so much to the volunteer organisers forbtheir commitment, and good luck with the event!
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) 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 An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.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 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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New #ICMABResearch published in the journal #EnergyandEnvironmentalScience!

📌Amorphous coordination polymers for versatile Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, and Zn2+ cation storage

icmab.es/amorphous-co...

📜Read the paper here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🔝 Are you ready to shape the future of environmental and social research?

🤩We're offering six fully-funded PhD positions in the framework of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence.

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
November 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Thrilled to share the work of @clarencetankl.bsky.social and @antorna.bsky.social on elevating #sodium mediated deprotonative #borylation to #catalytic regimes with an insightful #mechanistic study in collaboration with Max Garcia Melchor @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Next Monday we'll have at @icmabcsic.bsky.social Reiko Oda to give us a lecture!

📌Mesoscopic and hierarchical « chiral » objects to measure chirality
🗣️Reiko Oda, @cnrs.fr, @univbordeaux.bsky.social, @tohokuunivda.bsky.social
📅Monday 3 November 2025
🕛12.00 PM

icmab.es/mesoscopic-a...
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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➡️ El #CSIC refuerza su protocolo frente al acoso laboral y crea dos unidades que mejoran la gestión de los casos

📃 La presidenta del #CSIC, @eloisadelpino.bsky.social, ha presentado hoy el documento en @icmabcsic.bsky.social 

👉 https://f.mtr.cool/nmqvpwlwjg
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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📢Des del 30 de setembre podeu veure l'exposició "Quàntica i l'ICMAB", per explicar la recerca que es fa al centre en Quàntica aprofitant l'Any Internacional de la Ciència i la Tecnologia Quàntiques.

icmab.es/quantica-i-l...

Qubits moleculars, spintrònica i superconductors!
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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🚨The Chemistry Europe Travel Grant offers €2,000 for a 1–2-month research stay abroad. Expand your network, gain lab experience, boost your career—apply now! 🌍🔬🧪

www.chemistryviews.org/chemistry-eu...
October 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'll be presenting this technical seminar with our head of communication on 5th November. This post is an experiment to test engagement on bluesky or the other place!
October 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This seminar is happening today!
This Thursday we have a new #MaterialsforEnergy Seminar!

📌Biomimetic Colour Engineering: from nature to applications
🗣️Silvia Vignolini, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany @mpici.bsky.social
📆Thursday 16 October 2025
🕛12.00 PM

icmab.es/biomimetic-c...
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

#ChemSky 🧪
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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⏰ 🐦Don’t miss out! The #EarlyBird registration deadline for #AMatS2025 is almost here — October 15!

Join us Nov 24–26 at @uab.cat Campus for the 4th Advanced Materials in Spain Conference, connecting top researchers in #AdvancedMaterials

👉 Register now: amats2025.com

@icn2.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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📺🎥El blanqueig de les petrolieres

TV3 es fa ressò que les empreses de combustibles fòssils només aposten per les renovables de cara a la galeria.

Gràcies Georgina Pujol 🙏

www.3cat.cat/3cat/les-pet...
Telenotícies - Les petrolieres i el sector gasístic, lluny de la transició energètica - 3Cat
Només el 20% de les 250 companyies de petroli i gas més grans té algun projecte d energia renovable en marxa. De fet, només representa el 0,1% de la seva extracció d energia primària, segons revela un...
www.3cat.cat
October 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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New #ICMABResearch published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!

📌Rare-Earth Silicates as High-Temperature Surfactants for the Controlled Synthesis of ε-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles

icmab.es/rare-earth-s...

📜Read the paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Avui!
This Friday we will have a #SustainabilityCommittee Seminar! ♻️♻️♻️

📌Towards a More Efficient Cycle of Materials
🗣️Laura Talens, @uab.cat
📅3 OCtober 2025
🕛12.00 PM

icmab.es/towards-a-mo...
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Over the past five years the RSC has evolved its prizes to better celebrate the range of excellence that can be found in the chemical sciences, including more recognition of team science and technical roles.
How the Royal Society of Chemistry is reshaping recognition in the chemical sciences
Changes over the past five years have enabled a wider variety of team and individual excellence to be celebrated
www.chemistryworld.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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This Friday we will have a #SustainabilityCommittee Seminar! ♻️♻️♻️

📌Towards a More Efficient Cycle of Materials
🗣️Laura Talens, @uab.cat
📅3 OCtober 2025
🕛12.00 PM

icmab.es/towards-a-mo...
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"The truth is that on a rapidly heating planet, a pragmatic approach means we are playing Russian roulette with all six barrels loaded. The only question is just how big a mess we will make when we pull the trigger"

In case you missed it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire
In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🎉 17 ICMAB researchers are featured in the career-long #StanfordCitationRanking, and 18 in the 2024 single-year list of the world’s top 2 % most influential scientists.

👏 Congratulations to all!

🔗 icmab.es/icmab-scient...

#ICMAB #StanfordRanking #ResearchExcellence
ICMAB - ICMAB scientists recognized in the 2025 edition of the Stanford Citation Ranking
icmab.es
September 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Many thanks Divisione di Quimica Organica of the @socchimita.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in the XLII meeting #CDCO2025, which was a great one! Fantastic science from all presenters including @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and @claudiabonfio.bsky.social.
My talk, dedicated to JFS.
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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It’s becoming a tragedy that we have to keep repeating this… or maybe a farce…

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/25/y...
You can lead people to data, but you can't make them think
Comment from Auckland University: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?
newsroom.co.nz
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM