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📢Our last issue of 2025 is online!

Check out the review behind the front cover by Yinan Zhang & co. from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine looking at natural tricyclic and hyper-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons #naturalproducts #secmet

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December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Two poisonous plants for day 10 of #ChemAdvent! ☠️

Brazilian farofa is made from cassava flour, made from cassava roots soaked to remove toxic cyanogenic glycosides.

Mistletoe is less likely to be eaten but is also poisonous due to the presence of toxic peptides and tyramine.

#ChemSky 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Isolation and Structure Determination of Two New Bioactive Lipids from the Gonads of a Sea Urchin, Stronglyo-centrotus droebachiensis | Journal of Natural Products pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Isolation and Structure Determination of Two New Bioactive Lipids from the Gonads of a Sea Urchin, Stronglyo-centrotus droebachiensis
pubs.acs.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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🔓Read in our latest issue a #OpenAccess paper by Jonathan H. George & co. at the University of Adelaide & @unisouthampton.bsky.social on the biomimetic synthesis of Sinularia meroterpenoids and photochemical reactivity of capillobenzopyranol #natprod

Find in full below👇
Biomimetic synthesis of Sinularia meroterpenoids and photochemical reactivity of capillobenzopyranol
Motivated by a biosynthetic proposal which suggests a chemical relationship between capilloquinol and capillobenzopyranol, our studies report the first synthesis of their probable biogenetic…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Accidentally made mint-earl grey tea instead of mint-green tea and am pleasantly surprised.
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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In the latest episode of Inflection Point, we travel back in time to relive three historical moments that ultimately led to our current understanding of antibiotic resistance. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Podcast: The ancient, ‘juicy’ origins of antibiotic resistance
Hosts David and Gina endure environmental extremes to understand how resistance emerged—and how we’re fighting it
cen.acs.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Chemists have found that attaching a small quinoline group to vancomycin lets it slip inside the bacteria and reach its target. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
Quinoline tag helps vancomycin breach gram-negative defenses
The work reveals how tiny structural shifts can deliver outsize biological effects
cen.acs.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I wrote a piece for Marginalia Review of Books, based on a talk earlier this year, about the role of narratives in science - something that I think deserves more attention than it gets.
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/theory-...
Theory, Metaphor, Narrative: How Science Creates the Stories it Tells
PHILIP BALL | Science is often not a competition between theories but a process of narrative creation in which the paradigm tends to be set by the most persuasive narrative
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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So I found a snickedoodle recipe that looks like mine. For the goddamn holiday part, put more cinnamon in the dough and then roll in green or red sugar.

If anyone starts about standard measurements or weird ingredients, so help me. #Recipe

www.modernhoney.com/the-best-sni...
The Best Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe
Soft and Chewy Snickerdoodle Cookies. The popular cinnamon-sugar soft and chewy sugar cookie recipe. Tips and tricks for making the best snickerdoodle cookie recipe that always receives rave reviews. ...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Love and compassion are forms of resistance- David Byrne

Pic of the day

#photography
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Hongkongers wrote handwritten notes and fold paper cranes during a memorial earlier this week to mark the traditional seventh day ritual for the 159 people who died in the massive fire at Wang Fuk Court: buff.ly/PGTV3ry Video: AFP. In full: buff.ly/iQPZDTM
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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100% THIS!!!!
December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Just found a 20 yr old flash drive filled with a bunch of music mp3s a friend gave me.

Feeling deeply nostalgic for that brief moment in time. The Internet was everywhere, imbued with hope.

Subscriptions were nowhere. Music was traded as tokens of friendship not playlists filling greedy pockets
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Each time,
the found world surprises
- that is its nature.

Jane Hirshfield
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🔓Don't miss in our latest issue this #OpenAccess review by @maximilianfrey.bsky.social & co. @ipbhalle.bsky.social, @unihalle.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social looking at the biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family #naturalproducts #secmet
Biosynthesis of biologically active terpenoids in the mint family (Lamiaceae)
Covering: 2000 to 2025 The Lamiaceae family, the sixth largest among angiosperms, is renowned for its rich diversity of terpenoids, many of which exhibit remarkable bioactivities, including…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Good night
NGC 346
NASA/Chandra Observatory
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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You’ll Be OK
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ok, nothing has made me feel like time is moving rapidly as to realizing the Wii came out almost 20 years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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You were just thinking - you know what we need? one more hot take on the Canada Alberta climate and energy hot take. Well we at @energyvsclimate.bsky.social have got you covered with a quick run down, and at the end some bonus takes from the EvC community www.energyvsclimate.com/hot-take-can...
HOT TAKE: Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
There are many takes on the big Carney-Smith energy agreement – we thought you could use one more. The new Canada–Alberta MOU unveiled last Thursday is already generating more chatter than a pipeline...
www.energyvsclimate.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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“Moments before her Nov. 20 flight, she was told there was a problem with her boarding pass. On the way to customer service, she was surrounded, handcuffed and ‘dragged out of the airport,’ Pomerleau says.” people.com/college-fres...
College Freshman 'Dragged Out' of Boston Airport and Deported While Trying to Fly Home to Surprise Family for Thanksgiving
College student Any Lucía López Belloza was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 and deported to Honduras two days later.
people.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.

Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.

www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
www.foodtechbiz.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM