Michelle Ernst
@michelle-ernst.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Bern.
Computational Chemist & Crystallographer. Simulating molecules, reactions, and materials.
Computational Chemist & Crystallographer. Simulating molecules, reactions, and materials.
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"From 2026, the Swiss Federal Council plans to slash federal contributions by 460 million francs per year in universities, the ETH domain, universities of applied sciences, and funding bodies such as the SNSF.
We urge politicians to reconsider these cuts."
"From 2026, the Swiss Federal Council plans to slash federal contributions by 460 million francs per year in universities, the ETH domain, universities of applied sciences, and funding bodies such as the SNSF.
We urge politicians to reconsider these cuts."
Action day – October 1st | actionuni der Schweizer Mittelbau
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September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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"From 2026, the Swiss Federal Council plans to slash federal contributions by 460 million francs per year in universities, the ETH domain, universities of applied sciences, and funding bodies such as the SNSF.
We urge politicians to reconsider these cuts."
"From 2026, the Swiss Federal Council plans to slash federal contributions by 460 million francs per year in universities, the ETH domain, universities of applied sciences, and funding bodies such as the SNSF.
We urge politicians to reconsider these cuts."
Translated by a mineralogist?
September 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Translated by a mineralogist?
Reposted by Michelle Ernst
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 15 - It's a mineral found mostly in the farthest reaches of space vs one so common an exhaustive list of localities is nigh impossible as alloy #taenite faces off against clay #nontronite.
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 15 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Taenite vs Nontronite Photo credits: Harold Moritz and Joan Garcia Santiago
www.mineralcup.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 15 - It's a mineral found mostly in the farthest reaches of space vs one so common an exhaustive list of localities is nigh impossible as alloy #taenite faces off against clay #nontronite.
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
What a beautiful day. Enjoy the sun and then join us at the Night of the Research @unibe.ch @geologyunibern.bsky.social
Check out the program under: www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch; it looks amazing!
Check out the program under: www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch; it looks amazing!
September 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What a beautiful day. Enjoy the sun and then join us at the Night of the Research @unibe.ch @geologyunibern.bsky.social
Check out the program under: www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch; it looks amazing!
Check out the program under: www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch; it looks amazing!
Reposted by Michelle Ernst
Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben!
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Nacht der Forschung 2025
Die «Nacht der Forschung» ist ein «Fest des Wissens und der Forschung», bei dem die Universität Bern die Vielfalt und Breite ihrer Forschung der Öffentlichkeit näherbringt.
www.nachtderforschung.unibe.ch
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Am Sa, 6.9.25 öffnet @unibe.ch ihre Türen – Forschung live erleben!
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Wir sind auch dort, mit Mikroskopen, Pflanzen und Origami-Mikroskopen zum selber basteln - im Hauptgebäude im 2. Stock, Raum 206/208 - mein Vortrag um 17.00 und um 20.30 im Raum 205 🌾🔬🌵
👉 unibe.ch/ndf
#ndfunibern
Excited to be in Poznań for #ECM35. Would have also loved to go to Lviv as originally planned. 🇺🇦
Interested in COFs? I'd be happy to see you at my talk on Wednesday.
Interested in COFs? I'd be happy to see you at my talk on Wednesday.
August 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Excited to be in Poznań for #ECM35. Would have also loved to go to Lviv as originally planned. 🇺🇦
Interested in COFs? I'd be happy to see you at my talk on Wednesday.
Interested in COFs? I'd be happy to see you at my talk on Wednesday.
Happy to share the 6th common paper with my long-term collaborator and friend, Tomasz Poręba!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Structural adaptation in a cadmium-porphyrin MOF through solvent-driven change of interpenetration
Cadmium–porphyrin metal–organic frameworks combine the structural rigidity of the porphyrin core with the coordination flexibility of closed-shell Cd²⁺ centres, enabling diverse framework topologies a...
chemrxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Happy to share the 6th common paper with my long-term collaborator and friend, Tomasz Poręba!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Journal Impact Nonsense | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
Journal Impact Nonsense
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Journal Impact Nonsense | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
Reposted by Michelle Ernst
Congrats to @benshi.bsky.social on this new work now out in Nature Chemistry! Beyond-DFT results without breaking the bank. 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An accurate and efficient framework for modelling the surface chemistry of ionic materials - Nature Chemistry
Simulating molecular adsorption on surfaces presents considerable challenges, as computational methods typically suffer from either insufficient accuracy or prohibitive computational costs. Now, with ...
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Congrats to @benshi.bsky.social on this new work now out in Nature Chemistry! Beyond-DFT results without breaking the bank. 💪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michelle Ernst
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Reposted by Michelle Ernst
@esivienna.bsky.social is proud to announce that the ESI Medal 2025 goes to Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH Zürich & IIT Genova) for his groundbreaking computer simulation algorithms that advanced condensed matter physics, chemistry & biology.
Ceremony: Nov 7, 2025, Vienna
More: www.esi.ac.at/news/n65
Ceremony: Nov 7, 2025, Vienna
More: www.esi.ac.at/news/n65
May 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
@esivienna.bsky.social is proud to announce that the ESI Medal 2025 goes to Prof. Michele Parrinello (ETH Zürich & IIT Genova) for his groundbreaking computer simulation algorithms that advanced condensed matter physics, chemistry & biology.
Ceremony: Nov 7, 2025, Vienna
More: www.esi.ac.at/news/n65
Ceremony: Nov 7, 2025, Vienna
More: www.esi.ac.at/news/n65
Another COF preprint:
doi.org/10.26434/che...
doi.org/10.26434/che...
Extensive band gap tunability in covalent organic frameworks via metal intercalation and high pressure
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are materials of growing interest for electronic applications due to their tunable structures, chemical stability, and layered architec- tures that support extended ...
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Another COF preprint:
doi.org/10.26434/che...
doi.org/10.26434/che...
Fragmenting and analysing COFs - preprint out: doi.org/10.26434/che...
Fragment to Framework: Bottom-Up Engineering of Band Gaps in Covalent Organic Frameworks
Understanding structure-property relationships in ordered functional materials is essential for their rational design and optimisation. Fragment-based approaches relating materials’ properties to thos...
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Fragmenting and analysing COFs - preprint out: doi.org/10.26434/che...
Came to Birmingham to give a talk on reactions in confinement and catch up with my former supervisor @grynova.bsky.social — and ended up being treated to a proper British Christmas dinner.
December 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Came to Birmingham to give a talk on reactions in confinement and catch up with my former supervisor @grynova.bsky.social — and ended up being treated to a proper British Christmas dinner.
Excited to attend the SCS Symposium on "Critical Use of AI in Chemistry" at my Alma Mater in Fribourg. Perfect occasion for my first Bluesky post. #ChemSky #compchem #CompChemSky
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Excited to attend the SCS Symposium on "Critical Use of AI in Chemistry" at my Alma Mater in Fribourg. Perfect occasion for my first Bluesky post. #ChemSky #compchem #CompChemSky