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Pim Puy
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Ex-Academic, still likes chemicals and crystals. Here for the ghost stories, fantasy and history.
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Fresh from Chișinău:

- ZdG investigated the “Patriotic Bloc” leaders — Dodon, Vlah, Voronin, Tarlev.

Behind their nationalist slogans lie Russian salaries, birthday “donations,” millions in banks, and property games.
INFOGRAFIC/ Averea „patrioților”. Dodon – venituri din Rusia, Tarlev –  salariu din România, Vlah – cadouri de zeci de mii de lei la ziua de naștere, Voronin – conturi de peste trei milioane de lei
Doi dintre cei patru lideri ai Blocului „Patriotic al Socialiștilor, Comuniștilor, Inima și Viitorul Moldovei” au raportat salarii din alte țări – Dodon din Rusia, iar Tarlev – din România, acolo unde recent i-a fost interzis accesul. Irina Vlah, altă lideră a blocului, a raportat că în 2024, singur
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September 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“I before e, except after c…”

…unless your neighbor weighs his eight-year-old in a sleigh.

This "rule" is best thought of as an easy way to remember the spelling pattern of words that came to English from French.
receive
perceive
conceive
deceive
deceit
conceit
receipt
August 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Bad. But how bad? I once asked myself, while finding fakes in the Scientific Report @natureportfolio.bsky.social.

So I decide to "do my our research" - I took 100 articles in a row from Physical sciences that contains diffraction.

Result - 15 fakes out 100.

Details in the 🧵
#ResearchIntegrity
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January 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Die drei Top-Uran-Import-Länder der EU sind übrigens Nigeria, Kasachstan und Russland. Wer also behauptet, Atomstrom mache uns unabhängiger von despotischen Ländern, hat entweder eine Gehirnwäsche durch die Nuklearia erhalten oder säuft Lack oder beides.
December 15, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Nieuw verhaal. De ongekende haatcampagne tegen viroloog Marc van Ranst gaat maar door. Wanneer is het eens genoeg en wanneer grijpt Justitie eens in? chrisklomp.nl/marc-van-ran...
Marc van Ranst: wanneer grijpt Justitie in? - Chris Klomp
Ik zit al geruime tijd met stijgende verbazing te kijken naar de ongeremde haat die de Belgische viroloog Marc van Ranst over zich heen krijgt. Als bloeddorstige hyena’s duiken dagelijks onvolwassen a...
chrisklomp.nl
December 4, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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February 9, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Yannik would like to spread the word about this fun collaboration between chemists from Bremen and Granada, which rekindled my interest in the photochemistry of heterocycles, and taught me a thing or two about helicenes: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #chemsky
Boosting Quantum Yields and Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Penta- and Hexahelicenes by Doping ...
The incorporation of boron–nitrogen (BN) units into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as an isoelectronic replacement of two carbon atoms can significantly improve their optical properties, wh...
pubs.rsc.org
October 27, 2023 at 7:30 AM