I'd argue stir bars are essential in some "Pd-free" cross couplings!

Safer to use these turns of phrase? Perhaps, yes, but is that not just how your SCB was talking? I suppose I need to think more about what I think "life" is before engaging in further debate - which reminds me that I have your book on my bookshelf on that topic that I need to start!

Sounds similar to how some chemists describe metals "wanting" to be in a particular oxidation state, coordination geometry, or "preferring" X ligand over Y ligand, etc... it's rife. Speaking in this manner got driven out of me pretty quickly after a philosophical discussion with my PhD. supervisor

Though that isn't all that stealthy..

Patent watching, maybe?

Brings back fond memories of when I would submit notoriously weakly diffraction samples to the crystallographer week after week, then one day he inspected a new lot I had grown differently and he just beamed at me: "You could build a house with those!!" 😁

Apparently MS have a shady track record when it comes to this 🧵: bsky.app/profile/spin...

Are there any good examples of commentators accurately predicting huge successes of new therapeutic modalities?

It looks like Farage distancing himself from Laxley-Yennon was the wrong move for his Ltd company

It will provide the square root of f*** all, I'd wager. Though I'd imagine the rise of ChatGPT has led to a 2nd order "network effect" of sorts leading to other AI related startups coming out of the woodwork

It's somewhat off-topic, but I am also (only relatively recently) in the IP licensing / Tech transfer field and based in the UK; I wasn't expecting to come across someone in this area so soon after joining BlueSky!

Interesting. What are the differences in each replicate? I see there's a foiled one, presumably to control for sun/UV? exposure?

"...a secondary yet crucial
application of these findings is to educate future generations of beer enthusiasts and
to safeguard the quality of our beers" Hear, hear!

Could this 'deselection of genetic defects' approach be viewed as ethically similar to gene therapy technologies?

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'm certainly not comfortable with selecting for "superior" traits, but I am more comfortable (or more accurately less uncomfortable) with deselection of traits that lead to various genetic disorders. I suppose there are still questions on where the boundaries are

Give me a steam deck with a copy of Hades installed, and I'll be a very very happy guy

I've seen deathnote - enjoyed it but felt it went on for a lil bit too long? Idk though 😅 Still trying to broaden my horizons with various anime and manga.