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Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition: cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
How preservation scientists are using chemistry to save sounds of the past
Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition
cen.acs.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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hartman-plantlab.com
Stuck in the US as a postdoc due to the current political nightmare? Consider to join us in Freiburg @dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social #plantscience
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If you know postdocs in the US whose work is restricted or becoming difficult, there are new fellowship possibilities in the south of Germany. Please, forward this information to them:

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Our lab in Freiburg can also serve as a host — happy to discuss options.
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
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November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age.

The transformation of our pets championed by the Victorians through selective breeding actually started more than 10,000 years ago.

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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age
A new study suggests their physical transformation began much earlier than we previously thought.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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aylwyn-scally.bsky.social
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
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November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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compoundchem.com
Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?

Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...

#ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of poppies. The red colour of the common poppy is due to anthocyanin pigments. Other red poppies also contain anthocyanins but the yellow Iceland poppy and alpine poppy contain nudicaulin pigments. The opium poppy has been used in medicine for thousands of years, with the milky opium fluid which contains alkaloids such as morphine used as a painkiller. The common poppy contains different alkaloids, which only have very milld pain-killing properties.
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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rsc.org
Nominations are open for our 2026 Prizes!
This is your chance to help us honour individuals and teams driving progress and making a difference across the chemical sciences. Submit your nomination by 17:00 GMT on 14 January. Find out more: https://rsc.li/48byd87 #ChemSky #RSCPrizes
Three Royal Society of Chemistry awards displayed on a window ledge with bright sunlight, overlooking a classical architectural facade.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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universityofga.bsky.social
This October marks a major milestone for the UGA’s Small Satellite Research Lab — the fifth anniversary of launching UGA’s first satellite into orbit — with the lab’s 10th anniversary fast approaching in 2026! Go Dawgs!
https://t.uga.edu/4p0WxQB
Mini satellites, major impact - UGA Today
The University of Georgia’s Small Satellite Research Lab celebrates five years of student-driven space exploration and new CubeSat missions.
t.uga.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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existentialcomics.com
Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy -
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Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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rsc.org
Share your research on molecular excited states!

With early-career and established scientists in attendance, our Faraday Discussion #FD_ExcitedStates is an ideal forum to share what you’re working on.

Submit an oral abstract: rsc.li/excitedstates-fd2026

#ChemSky
Submit your oral abstract for our 'Molecular excited states theory and experiment' Faraday Discussion. Deadline is 15 December 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
New Tides of History: I chat with the fantastic Professor Eric Cline (@digkabri.bsky.social), author of "1177 BC" and the new book "Love, War, and Diplomacy," on the Amarna Letters and the late Bronze Age. I've learned so much from Prof. Cline over the years! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Love, War, and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Eric Cline
Podcast Episode · Tides of History · 11/06/2025 · 54m
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November 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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rsc.org
Benzene turns 200! 🎉

We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X

#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky
Promotional image for an event celebrating 200 years of benzene, featuring a molecular structure graphic of benzene in the background with text that reads 'Celebrating 200 years of benzene, guest edited by Ben Feringa and Nazario Martin. Submit now.' Logo of the Royal Society of Chemistry displayed in the corner.
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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scifri.bsky.social
📣 Calling all educators! Get experiments, lesson ideas, PD opportunities and more—delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free, monthly K-12 education newsletter today: buff.ly/gaW2Xht
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November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
Researchers have combined 3D ultrasound localization microscopy with a multi-lens array method to image blood flow dynamics in entire organs with micrometric resolution. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/ultrasound...
Ultrasound probe maps real-time blood flow across entire organs – Physics World
Multi-lens array probe visualizes the micro-vasculature of entire large organs without compromising image resolution or frame rate
physicsworld.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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cenmag.bsky.social
Making hexanitrogen contributes to fundamental scientific knowledge and could offer opportunities for energy storage in the future, say N₆’s creators. cen.acs.org/materials/in... #chemsky 🧪
A new nitrogen allotrope has been created at last
Chemists string 6 nitrogen atoms together to make hexanitrogen
cen.acs.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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juangallego.bsky.social
🚨Job alert🚨

The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour

This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909
3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
After about 2 years, electric cars become more environmentally friendly than their combustion-powered counterparts, according to research comparing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the two vehicle types. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
Pollution from electric-battery production mitigated by longer car use
Despite environmental costs from obtaining lithium to produce batteries for electric cars, gasoline-powered cars cause at least twice as much environmental damage over their lifetime
cen.acs.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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npr.org
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway
Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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physicsworld.bsky.social
Using a new type of low-power, compact, fluid-based prism to steer the beam in a laser scanning microscope could transform brain imaging and help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/fluid-base...
Fluid-based laser scanning technique could improve brain imaging – Physics World
Laser scanning microscopy using a fluid-based prism to steer the light could help researchers learn more about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease
physicsworld.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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christinebatchelor.bsky.social
📢 PhD opportunity at Newcastle University!

👉"Reconstructing past ice-sheet retreat and ice-ocean interactions from marine sediment cores".

This project will use new marine sediment cores to constrain the timing and drivers of past ice-sheet retreat.

More details: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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existentialcomics.com
The Alien Hive vs Existentialism -
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The Alien Hive vs Existentialism
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
existentialcomics.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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supersciencegrl.co.uk
As an organic chemist, how can you get extra value from data without having to transform your research into something else?

Find out in this Beilstein webinar, "the value of data-sharing for reaction discovery & developmen" (Simon Coles, Sally Bloodworth) www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org... ⚗️
Organic Chemistry - FAIR - Beilstein-Institut
www.beilstein-institut.de
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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princess-vimentin.bsky.social
This is encouraging!

A vaccine given to breast cancer patients 20 y ago has kept them alive. The 5 yr relative survival rate of women w/ metastatic cancer is 32%.

This vaccine elicited long term immune responses.

It is too expensive to be antivax.
🧪 corporate.dukehealth.org/news/could-c...
Could a Cancer Vaccine Developed Long Ago Hold the Key to Long-Term Survival?
DURHAM, N.C. – A small group of women with advanced breast cancer received a vaccine via a clinical trial more than 20 years ago. Today, they’re all still alive. Scientists say that kind of long-term ...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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cenmag.bsky.social
Almost a month into the federal government shutdown, stress is building for academic chemists who face uncertainties around grant funding, access to research technology, and basic necessities. cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪
For chemists in academia, federal shutdown compounds stress
The nearly monthlong stoppage of government activity is disrupting an already-chaotic funding year
cen.acs.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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stephaniehicks.bsky.social
Come work with me! @jhubiostat.bsky.social is hiring for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 🥳 Apps due Nov 15

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/176686

🧪🧬💻🧠 #StatsSky #WomenInSTEM
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October 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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helenkmatthews.bsky.social
📢 Fully-funded 4-year MRC DiMeN PhD opportunity in our lab.

🔬 Exciting cancer cell biology collab with @maiblab.bsky.social & Liz Smythe @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social to use recombinant biosensors to image active KRAS in #pancreaticcancer

👇Apply by 4th Dec

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Understanding the membrane recruitment of oncogenic KRAS in pancreatic cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM