Tanja Junkers
@polymerreaction.bsky.social
Polymer affectionada, believer in a digital chemistry future. Goes with the flow. Coffee addict, consequential Melbournian. Born 🇩🇪, proud 🇦🇺, 🏳️🌈 and 🇧🇪 flavoured. She/her
Never forget the real dangers!
(found in Stellenbosch, SA)
(found in Stellenbosch, SA)
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Never forget the real dangers!
(found in Stellenbosch, SA)
(found in Stellenbosch, SA)
LEGO presented their 400 dollar NCC 1701-D model and I cant lie, I am tempted.
Luckily I'd have nowhere to put it, so that saves me.
Luckily I'd have nowhere to put it, so that saves me.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
LEGO presented their 400 dollar NCC 1701-D model and I cant lie, I am tempted.
Luckily I'd have nowhere to put it, so that saves me.
Luckily I'd have nowhere to put it, so that saves me.
Ok, let's see if the community thing works on Bluesky.
Is there anyone I know in Stellenbosch already tonight (friday) for the CRP conference who would like to meet up for a drink and light dinner?
#polymer #CRP2025 #stellenbosch
Is there anyone I know in Stellenbosch already tonight (friday) for the CRP conference who would like to meet up for a drink and light dinner?
#polymer #CRP2025 #stellenbosch
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ok, let's see if the community thing works on Bluesky.
Is there anyone I know in Stellenbosch already tonight (friday) for the CRP conference who would like to meet up for a drink and light dinner?
#polymer #CRP2025 #stellenbosch
Is there anyone I know in Stellenbosch already tonight (friday) for the CRP conference who would like to meet up for a drink and light dinner?
#polymer #CRP2025 #stellenbosch
The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant.
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant.
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
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Seeing some aussie legends tonight #CrowdedHouse
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Seeing some aussie legends tonight #CrowdedHouse
Went for pool laps for the first time in like 3 months, while keeping my weight training up in between. Amazing how weights impact your ability to swim (positively). I have been swimming all my life, but never combined the two. I probably should!
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Went for pool laps for the first time in like 3 months, while keeping my weight training up in between. Amazing how weights impact your ability to swim (positively). I have been swimming all my life, but never combined the two. I probably should!
Paper alert!
It's a study that had been in the making forever! We created polyHIPE particles in continuous flow with remarkable tunability and functionality. All plug and play, easy for everyone to build their own setup!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ozchem #flowchem #polyHIPE
It's a study that had been in the making forever! We created polyHIPE particles in continuous flow with remarkable tunability and functionality. All plug and play, easy for everyone to build their own setup!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ozchem #flowchem #polyHIPE
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Paper alert!
It's a study that had been in the making forever! We created polyHIPE particles in continuous flow with remarkable tunability and functionality. All plug and play, easy for everyone to build their own setup!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ozchem #flowchem #polyHIPE
It's a study that had been in the making forever! We created polyHIPE particles in continuous flow with remarkable tunability and functionality. All plug and play, easy for everyone to build their own setup!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ozchem #flowchem #polyHIPE
Playing my ritual "füćƙ yeah, we got funding for our research" song
Happy days!
Happy days!
a man playing a guitar in front of a drum set with the words " don 't stop me now "
ALT: a man playing a guitar in front of a drum set with the words " don 't stop me now "
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Playing my ritual "füćƙ yeah, we got funding for our research" song
Happy days!
Happy days!
I suggest a multiplier for the age of the researcher and bonus points if the author list is all white and male
I’ve got an idea.
(Number of times a paper is cited/number of authors on a paper) x Impact Factor of the Journal the paper is published in = a metric that tells you how hard an author worked and how good their science is
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(Number of times a paper is cited/number of authors on a paper) x Impact Factor of the Journal the paper is published in = a metric that tells you how hard an author worked and how good their science is
✨
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I suggest a multiplier for the age of the researcher and bonus points if the author list is all white and male
Congrats to everyone who got a DP project funded today! Very well done!
Then also, my heart goes out to everyone who was hoping for good news today, but was disappointed. Hang in there, and keep doing awesome science!
Then also, my heart goes out to everyone who was hoping for good news today, but was disappointed. Hang in there, and keep doing awesome science!
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Congrats to everyone who got a DP project funded today! Very well done!
Then also, my heart goes out to everyone who was hoping for good news today, but was disappointed. Hang in there, and keep doing awesome science!
Then also, my heart goes out to everyone who was hoping for good news today, but was disappointed. Hang in there, and keep doing awesome science!
Translation for last year PhD students: You want to watch the ARC webpage tomorrow to see who will be looking for postdocs in 2026
ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra).
My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.
ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs
My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.
ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs
October 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Translation for last year PhD students: You want to watch the ARC webpage tomorrow to see who will be looking for postdocs in 2026
Despite having been overseas for a conference, I managed to fit 6 gym sessions in the past 14 days. Today Im actually sore. Anyhow, it feels good to know that even if travel screws my calorie counting, my sports habit is unbroken.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Despite having been overseas for a conference, I managed to fit 6 gym sessions in the past 14 days. Today Im actually sore. Anyhow, it feels good to know that even if travel screws my calorie counting, my sports habit is unbroken.
I recently learned what rejection sensitivity dysphoria is, and holy forking shirtballs, does that make sense to me and explain many of my experiences.
Whenever you think you finally understand yourself, there is another layer that comes off.
Whenever you think you finally understand yourself, there is another layer that comes off.
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I recently learned what rejection sensitivity dysphoria is, and holy forking shirtballs, does that make sense to me and explain many of my experiences.
Whenever you think you finally understand yourself, there is another layer that comes off.
Whenever you think you finally understand yourself, there is another layer that comes off.
Had a great time the last days at the Beilstein conference on future synthesis technologies. So much good science! Thanks again for the invitation and the organization, Martí, Anna and Luigi!
#Ozchem
#Ozchem
Thanks to all our speakers & participants for making the #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 Symposium in Limburg an amazing event! Special thanks 🙏 to our scientific organizers Anna Slater
@annagslater.bsky.social & Luigi Vaccaro for assembling such an excellent program.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
@annagslater.bsky.social & Luigi Vaccaro for assembling such an excellent program.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
October 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Had a great time the last days at the Beilstein conference on future synthesis technologies. So much good science! Thanks again for the invitation and the organization, Martí, Anna and Luigi!
#Ozchem
#Ozchem
Reposted by Tanja Junkers
Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.
How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize
From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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This is a significant “dumbing of a nation, just dig up dirt to sell instead” graph that is easily reversed and #Australia would reap the benefits. Australians invented wifi and were early designers of solar panels. We have really really inventive smart people that we SHOULD invest in. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is a significant “dumbing of a nation, just dig up dirt to sell instead” graph that is easily reversed and #Australia would reap the benefits. Australians invented wifi and were early designers of solar panels. We have really really inventive smart people that we SHOULD invest in. 1/
The other day someone told me they hate Frankfurt airport. Making my way from T2 to the train station I start to see why
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The other day someone told me they hate Frankfurt airport. Making my way from T2 to the train station I start to see why
Why the eff do I always say yes to conference invitations
Im sure the conference itself will be great, but why again will I sit in a plane for 48h.....
Im sure the conference itself will be great, but why again will I sit in a plane for 48h.....
October 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Why the eff do I always say yes to conference invitations
Im sure the conference itself will be great, but why again will I sit in a plane for 48h.....
Im sure the conference itself will be great, but why again will I sit in a plane for 48h.....
Big party at the other end of town, but very deserved! Glad some aussie science is shining this year in the nobels!
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Big party at the other end of town, but very deserved! Glad some aussie science is shining this year in the nobels!
It is great honour to be this years recipient of the RACI HG Smith Memorial Award. Looking at the list of previous awardees, I am very humbled to be named among many heroes of Australian chemistry.
Thanks to my entire group for making all the wonderful research happening!
#ozchem
Thanks to my entire group for making all the wonderful research happening!
#ozchem
October 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It is great honour to be this years recipient of the RACI HG Smith Memorial Award. Looking at the list of previous awardees, I am very humbled to be named among many heroes of Australian chemistry.
Thanks to my entire group for making all the wonderful research happening!
#ozchem
Thanks to my entire group for making all the wonderful research happening!
#ozchem
bless your, Jane Goodall. If humans overall would just be 5% of what she was, we would be in a much better place
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 9:11 PM
bless your, Jane Goodall. If humans overall would just be 5% of what she was, we would be in a much better place
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This week's #ChemSciPicks is "Synthesis of Biodegradable Vinyl Copolymers via Enforced Regular Sequence Distribution from Automated Radical Ring Opening Polymerisation" by Tanja Junkers et al. @polymerreaction.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This week's #ChemSciPicks is "Synthesis of Biodegradable Vinyl Copolymers via Enforced Regular Sequence Distribution from Automated Radical Ring Opening Polymerisation" by Tanja Junkers et al. @polymerreaction.bsky.social
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Given how scarce it is (and on sale immediately) makes me think im the only person who actually thinks this flavor combination works well.
Anyhow, happy find at the shops!
Anyhow, happy find at the shops!
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Given how scarce it is (and on sale immediately) makes me think im the only person who actually thinks this flavor combination works well.
Anyhow, happy find at the shops!
Anyhow, happy find at the shops!