Erik Strub
LightNews LightNews
banner
erikstrub.bsky.social
Erik Strub
@erikstrub.bsky.social
180 followers 200 following 420 posts
Nuclear chemist, interested in anything scientific, cycling, fermentation, music, and the rest. Ratio is always important.
Posts Replies Media Videos
erikstrub.bsky.social
Got this mug from my great working group to celebrate that this decade-old idea was finally realised.
🧪 @unicologne.bsky.social @chemunicologne.bsky.social
Coffee mug with headline of our recent article on Tc-98 electron capture
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
A fun to read and often enlightening. We urgently.need German words for #utepils #madárlátta, #bothántaíocht, and #erdaratze @languagewriter.bsky.social
Cover of the book "lingo" by Gaston Dorren
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
This time of the year again.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
#morningride #funnyclouds
street in a landscape running away from the spectator. In the middle of the sky 5 clouds, forming a string looking like spirelli pasta
October 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Hurra! Dominiks 1st first-author paper published in PRC. Technetium paper #10 since starting Tc chemistry & lifetime goal reached: recolouring 1 field of the chart of nuclides. @unicologne.bsky.social @chemunicologne.bsky.social 🧪

Electron capture decay of Tc-98

journals.aps.org/prc/pdf/10.1...
The field of Technetium-98 in the chart of nuclides, with a small red triangle added, indicating the newly reported ec decay
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Op art from Vasarely: circles of different sizes creating the optical illusion of a sphere
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
"pink" is the little sister of... I don't know. To use "pink" as descriptive for #tugtupite is an insult. Reindeer-bloodish is the least but I would just describe it as the most marvellous color on the R/M side of the RGB/CYM color scales. Vote #tugtupite #mincup25
A tugtupite, source: mindat.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:23 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
What can be better than SPACE ROCK? Gimme a Space! Gimme a Rock! Gimme SPACE ROCK!
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_R...

Vote #taenit #mincup25!
Picture of "Hawkwind", a space rock band
September 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
"Flammable" 🥸
First, organic chemists convinced inorganic chemists that cooking organic ligands is "inorganic coordination chemistry" and now they try to conquer mineralogy. What comes next? Sacccharose crystals?
Vote strategic! Vote inorganic! Vote #leucite! #mincup
Leucite crystal source: https://www.mineralatlas.eu/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?mineral=Leucite
September 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
by ‪@zachweinersmith.bsky.social‬
A cartoon, frist showing mice in a labyrinth, then scientists saying "poor little things, all that thought and effort just to earn themselves a little threat", then the scientists moving through the corridors to the canteen, there saying "oh, donuts!"
August 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
What the picture shows is just the city walls. The actual crater is like 20km in diameter
A map ot the Ries crater (source Wikipedia)
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Next time, try this 🙃 (no, don't. this was a joke)
Spokes in a bicycle wheel showing an unusual crossing pattern
July 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Day 12, lactobacillus still at work but soon to be drowned in hot honey.
A jar with whole walnuts, dermenting getting green-brown. 2 inserts with magnicatiins show tiny bubbles developing.
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
#BerlinEarlyBirdMidsummerFlight
June 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Day 3, before and after changing water. 🧪
A jar with whole-walnuts in water, changing from green to black A jar with whole walnuts in water, green changing to pale green
June 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
If you want to have black walnuts on Christmas you should start fermenting now (traditionally before Johannis, June 24th)
A jar containing green walnuts
June 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Rundumsorglospaket

Nachwuchsexzellenzbefristungsquatsch
Meme "They are the same picture"
June 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Exhibit 1. DeCecco (left) and Barilla (right).
2 fusilli, 1 right-handed and 1 left-handed
May 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Picture of the ESC stage 2025 with overlay of the text "EXCELLENCE - ESCIFYING SCIENCE SINCE 2025"
May 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Bild der Bühne vom ESC 2025 mit dem Text "Excellence - ESCifying Science since 2005"
May 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
A great result of #abandonolysis. From our Tc waste. Might be somepolyoxometallate embedded in sulfates. But that's just a wild guess right now. 🧪 @chemunicologne.bsky.social
A clear crysal cotaining sone orange-coloured inclusion.
May 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Nice UO2(NO3)2 (uranyl nitrate) crystal by @simonschemie.bsky.social, "almost 2cm !"

#abandonolysis #chemsky

@chemunicologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 🧪
Left: A neon-yellow xrystal, Right: the same crystal in a slide gauge, showing it is about 14mm in diameter
May 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
Oops, I did it again.
Unsual woven spokes in a bicycle wheel.
May 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
erikstrub.bsky.social
While it would maybe have been wiser (but politically complicated) to replace coal+lignit instead of nuclear, the reality is that not only nuclear has been more than replaced by renewables. Also coal+lignite went down after closure of the last NPP.
April 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM