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Sam Nunez
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Passionate about Chemical Biology to improve people’s lives! Piano player. T1D since 8. Introvert trying to hide it :P
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The annual Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group Forum will be in Bristol next year (18th Feb)!

Talks spots are open to new group leaders and postdocs - so get your abstracts in by 8th December!

Please share 🙏 🧪 #chemsky

www.rsc.org/events/detai...
2025 RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Group (CBBG) Forum
www.rsc.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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really can't be overstated how much decades of mRNA work breaking through just before 2020 saved humanity's collective ass. we never would have been able to stay locked down for long enough to get a vaccine, even China couldn't manage it
Nobel for mRNA Vaccine Shows Power of Perseverance
The Covid-19 shots that seemed to appear overnight built on decades of work by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.
www.bloomberg.com
October 2, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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#nobelprize Sleeping beauty (a paper whose importance is not recognized for several years after publication)

(scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
October 2, 2023 at 1:01 PM
#Nobelprize in Physiology or Medicine 2023.

mRNA vaccine pioneers, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

Guess that’s one to take off the Chemistry poll.

www.nobelprizemedicine.org/the-nobel-pr...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concer...
www.nobelprizemedicine.org
October 2, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Will Bluesky app get a new icon? I feel current is very nice, like an oil painting, but not very recognisable.
September 29, 2023 at 12:24 PM
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Today, you can order four free COVID tests.

Go here: www.covid.gov/tests

Pass it on.
September 25, 2023 at 10:03 AM
Trained my first object recognition model! 💻😊 not bad for a humble chemist!

Took me a lot of ChatGPT and sweat to get the virtual environment/dependencies right
September 21, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Listening to PM’s speech on delaying green targets.

A big mistake to gain voters in the short term, missing the opportunity for the UK to lead the change for a green economy.
September 20, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Really cool (and/or concerning) analysis of Direct Air Carbon Capture Technologies from physics perspective

youtu.be/EBN9JeX3iDs?...
September 19, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Concerned about where twitter (x?) is going, really important we can build a science community for sharing ideas without the constant drama.
Also appalled and saddened by the way people were laid off when Musk took over…
September 19, 2023 at 11:49 AM