E. C. Sañudo
@ecsanudo.bsky.social
Personal opinions.
Molecular Nanosicience, MOFs and jokes.
Associate Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Molecular Nanosicience, MOFs and jokes.
Associate Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona.
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E. C. Sañudo
@ecsanudo.bsky.social
· Jul 10
New MolNanoLab group photo at the @in2ub.bsky.social annual workshop
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Having had more litigation experience now than I ever wished for: a great majority of it is attempts at intimidation. To get through successfully, you have to be willing to read ridiculous accusations against you, sip your coffee and go “aha. Your thoughts are noted.”
Trump cares nothing about weak legal cases, but he has a keen eye for weak institutions and their weak leadership.
He believes he can bully BBC into further concessions.
Sadly, he has a point. BBC is having one of its periodic crises, and is suffering an ongoing political and media kicking.
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He believes he can bully BBC into further concessions.
Sadly, he has a point. BBC is having one of its periodic crises, and is suffering an ongoing political and media kicking.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Having had more litigation experience now than I ever wished for: a great majority of it is attempts at intimidation. To get through successfully, you have to be willing to read ridiculous accusations against you, sip your coffee and go “aha. Your thoughts are noted.”
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#OpenAccess article by Adam Gorczyński 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. #UAM
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Lanthanide contraction-driven modulation of photoswitchable macrocyclic complexes reveals unprecedented glass-induced re-isomerization and luminescence thermometry
Designing light-responsive supramolecular architectures with lanthanide ions offers a promising route towards multifunctional materials with tunable photophysical properties. Here, we report a systema...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#OpenAccess article by Adam Gorczyński 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. #UAM
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Authors report a systematic investigation across the lanthanide series of macrocyclic complexes incorporating azobenzene-functionalized diaza-crown ether ligands.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QI01461A
Check out our latest #HOTpaper our paper in @jmaterchem.rsc.org C!!
@in2ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @icmabcsic.bsky.social #SpLine BM25 @esrf.fr #Boreas #Albasynchrotorn
doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...
@in2ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @icmabcsic.bsky.social #SpLine BM25 @esrf.fr #Boreas #Albasynchrotorn
doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...
Magnetic and luminescent lanthanoid (Ln = Tb, Dy) 2D MOFs on functionalized silicon
The controlled deposition of organized molecular materials on technologically relevant substrates is crucial for the development of innovative magneto-optical devices. In this work, we report the grow...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Check out our latest #HOTpaper our paper in @jmaterchem.rsc.org C!!
@in2ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @icmabcsic.bsky.social #SpLine BM25 @esrf.fr #Boreas #Albasynchrotorn
doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...
@in2ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @icmabcsic.bsky.social #SpLine BM25 @esrf.fr #Boreas #Albasynchrotorn
doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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The ICMM2025 in Bordeaux @icmm2025.bsky.social is over. A big thank you to the organizers Rodolphe @cleracr.bsky.social, Guillaume @switchmm-group.bsky.social, Corine and their groups @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social and ICMCB for their tremendous work. See you all in Ottawa in 2027 organized by Muralee!
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The ICMM2025 in Bordeaux @icmm2025.bsky.social is over. A big thank you to the organizers Rodolphe @cleracr.bsky.social, Guillaume @switchmm-group.bsky.social, Corine and their groups @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social and ICMCB for their tremendous work. See you all in Ottawa in 2027 organized by Muralee!
Closing ceremony of @icmm2025.bsky.social
This has been a great conference 👏👏👏👏
This has been a great conference 👏👏👏👏
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Closing ceremony of @icmm2025.bsky.social
This has been a great conference 👏👏👏👏
This has been a great conference 👏👏👏👏
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💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
⏰ Deadline: November 30
Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org
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When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops grown downwind of a small-scale gold-mining operation in Nigeria, the scientists discovered that the plants were taking up mercury from the air, not the soil or water. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
How gold prices cause mercury contamination in crops
As small-scale gold mining increases to meet demand, local crops absorb gaseous mercury emitted by the illegal and semilegal operations
cen.acs.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
When David McLagan’s team sampled mercury isotopes in cassava, maize, and peanut crops grown downwind of a small-scale gold-mining operation in Nigeria, the scientists discovered that the plants were taking up mercury from the air, not the soil or water. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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I think I should quote this post every week
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I think I should quote this post every week
My hotel is in a an area full of #brutalist architecture in Bordeaux, so I am enjoying the commute to @icmm2025.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My hotel is in a an area full of #brutalist architecture in Bordeaux, so I am enjoying the commute to @icmm2025.bsky.social
Following the signs I made it to @icmm2025.bsky.social #Risingstars session!
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Following the signs I made it to @icmm2025.bsky.social #Risingstars session!
Going to Bordeaux for
@icmm2025.bsky.social
@icmm2025.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Going to Bordeaux for
@icmm2025.bsky.social
@icmm2025.bsky.social
Wewroutinely see conferences with less than 25% females presenters. This might be unconcious, but it is a decission the organizing committees make over and over again. And no, it is not that there are not female researchers in the field. We are not living in 1920's anymore.
#womeninSTEM #equality
#womeninSTEM #equality
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Wewroutinely see conferences with less than 25% females presenters. This might be unconcious, but it is a decission the organizing committees make over and over again. And no, it is not that there are not female researchers in the field. We are not living in 1920's anymore.
#womeninSTEM #equality
#womeninSTEM #equality
searching the @ccdc.cam.ac.uk for a ligand+Ln combination, thinking there aren't any that I know.... and PUM, a few hits come up!!!
Panic, until I realize most are my old compounds. 😎
Panic, until I realize most are my old compounds. 😎
October 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
searching the @ccdc.cam.ac.uk for a ligand+Ln combination, thinking there aren't any that I know.... and PUM, a few hits come up!!!
Panic, until I realize most are my old compounds. 😎
Panic, until I realize most are my old compounds. 😎
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Libraries full of books on every subject have existed for centuries. Why does anyone need a person to teach them calculus? Just read the book. What’s the matter, you can’t teach yourself everything? Now imagine thinking you don’t even need to try & read it 🙄. Knowledge is free when you don’t know 💩
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Libraries full of books on every subject have existed for centuries. Why does anyone need a person to teach them calculus? Just read the book. What’s the matter, you can’t teach yourself everything? Now imagine thinking you don’t even need to try & read it 🙄. Knowledge is free when you don’t know 💩
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It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better
Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech
www.polygon.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
www.polygon.com/strange-days...
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Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#crystallography #MOFs
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Something that has made my life better:
When I googled things probably 90% of the time I'd end up on Wikipedia. Now I just go to Wikipedia first and search there.
If I want a definition of a word, I go to Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) and l search there.
I now use a search engine as a last resort.
When I googled things probably 90% of the time I'd end up on Wikipedia. Now I just go to Wikipedia first and search there.
If I want a definition of a word, I go to Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) and l search there.
I now use a search engine as a last resort.
October 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Something that has made my life better:
When I googled things probably 90% of the time I'd end up on Wikipedia. Now I just go to Wikipedia first and search there.
If I want a definition of a word, I go to Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) and l search there.
I now use a search engine as a last resort.
When I googled things probably 90% of the time I'd end up on Wikipedia. Now I just go to Wikipedia first and search there.
If I want a definition of a word, I go to Merriam-Webster (m-w.com) and l search there.
I now use a search engine as a last resort.
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
Very good news for coordination chemists, the @nobelprize.bsky.social of Chemistry in 2025 goes to Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi for #MOFs!!!!!!
October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Very good news for coordination chemists, the @nobelprize.bsky.social of Chemistry in 2025 goes to Kitagawa, Robson and Yaghi for #MOFs!!!!!!
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It’s a material world after all. And this year’s #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who created a family of materials that could help solve some of humanity’s most critical problems. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
October 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s a material world after all. And this year’s #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who created a family of materials that could help solve some of humanity’s most critical problems. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪