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Axel Straube

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Editor-in-Chief of EurJIC & Deputy Editor for Chemistry-A European Journal of @chemistryeurope.bsky.social www.eurjic.org / www.chemeurj.org Classical music fan & singer, big-time supporter of DE&I & avid hiker All views my own (he/him/his)

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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am very much looking forward to the 6th Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social tomorrow. You can still register for free: events.zoom.us/ev/Ag1AUcW3n... Which speakers are you most looking forward to? #ChemBio #ChemSky #AnywhereChem #Science
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Heute Abend werten Miosga und Lanz die zwei (2) Wahlen in anderthalb (1,5) ostdeutschen Ländern aus. Sie haben acht (8) Gäste. Ratet mal, wie viele davon einen ostdeutschen Hintergrund haben. genau: Es sind genau Null (0).
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Attending this year's GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry in Jena? So is @axelstraube.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of EurJIC, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry! He's looking forward to meeting you and discussing all things publishing with our journals!
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🎉 Join us in celebrating 5 years of Chemistry–Methods! Check out the anniversary collection here: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wile… - All articles #OpenAcces!
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For #ChemistryEurope's Editor-in-Chief pick of the month, Prof. Lars Grabow picked “In(II) the Void: Mausolate Complexes of Diindium” by D. J. Berg, J. Scott McIndoe and team from Issue 7/26: bit.ly/4x3Y2lL Find all articles in the full issue: bit.ly/4f8BVnt
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felicitaslips.bsky.social @felicitaslips.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
doi.org/10.1002/chem... Have you ever thought about making a silicon cluster with ethanol? You can read about this and N-H or O-H bond activation with our beloved bicyclic ring compounds in this just released article. Thanks to everybody involved in this project!
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N─H or O─H Bond Activation With a Bicyclic Si4 Ring Compound
The bicyclic Si4 ring compound with zwitterionic character reacts with NH3, H2O, and selected alcohols to give functionalized saturated silicon rings, siliconoid clusters with unsubstituted Si atoms,...
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Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📍 Heidelberg | 30 June Interested in scientific writing and publishing? Join our workshop with editors Pilar Calleja Ramos & Laura Buglioni to learn more about the publishing process and manuscript preparation. Don’t miss it!
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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · 26/06/2026
Die neue GDCh-Kommission „Ethik in der Chemie“ hat sich am 18. Juni konstituiert. Glückwunsch an die gewählten Vorsitzenden Jennifer Strunk (2.v.l.) und Klaus Merz (4.v.l) ! Die Kommission schafft eine Plattform zum Austausch zu ethischen Fragen in der Chemie. JungesChemieForum
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MehtaLab @mehtalab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Check out recent work from the Mehta group, where PhD student Awais looks at the catalyst-free reduction of NO2. Congrats to the whole team! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Catalyst‐Free Selective Reduction of Nitrogen Dioxide to Nitric Oxide
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are excited to announce that our Special Collection on Metal-Binding #Peptides is complete and out for you to enjoy: bit.ly/CE_MetalBindingPeptides Check out the Guest Editorial by Emilie Mathieu & Christelle Hureau: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wile…
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🎉 We are delighted to announce the winner of the #EurJIC-Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026: Dr. Liu Leo Liu (@llliugroup.bsky.social) at SUSTech, Shenzen! The jury recognized Dr. Liu's work on Al(I/III) redox catalysis (go.nature.com/4dUbVeX) - find out more: bit.ly/4uW73fi
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are again looking for 3 Flash Talks for the 6th Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social. If you are a PhD candidate or postdoc in the field of #ChemBio, I strongly encourage you to apply via our abstract challenge: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/... #ChemBio #ChemSky #Competition
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Stark Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
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Moulin Rouge Moulin GIF
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
💬🧪 Behind the Science Interview with Sara Rojas and Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez (Spain). They discuss a novel and stable agrochemical MOF designed to integrate plant growth regulation, micronutrient delivery, and antibacterial properties www.chemistryviews.org/advancing-ag...
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Advancing Agrochemical Applications with MOFs - ChemistryViews
Sara Rojas and Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez, Spain, discuss a novel and stable agrochemical MOF designed to integrate plant growth regulation, micronutrient delivery, and antibacterial properties
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coburgerpeter.bsky.social @coburgerpeter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Very happy to see this one finally out in print: A modular approach to unique cyclobutadienyl analogues, providing a promising platform for reactivity studies! Congratulations to everyone involved :) chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Modular Design Enables Access to Onium‐Substituted Diphosphacyclobutadienyl Complexes
A modular synthetic approach affords a series of cationic cobalt and manganese carbonyl half-sandwich complexes bearing onium-substituted diphosphacyclobutadienyl ligands. In this strategy, the onium....
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Chemistry Europe & @chemistryviews.bsky.social brought together selected European ECRs, nominated by the chemical societies that form Chemistry Europe, and editors at the Wiley office in Weinheim for exchange and mutual learning - Thanks, everybody, for stimulating discussions!
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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · 04/03/2026
🔬 Die Chem[X]Chem Familie – eine ganze Reihe interdisziplinärer Journale. Die GDCh ist an allen beteiligt. Und ja, auch Titel wie Batteries & Supercaps gehören dazu. Das Namensschema ist flexibel. 😉 🔗 Zu allen Zeitschriften der GDCh: gdch.link/journals
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Nominations for the #EurJIC-#Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026 are open! 🏅 You're a tenured researcher/industry professional & know of a talented Early Career Researcher in any field of #InorganicChemistry - Nominate them! All info 👉 chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Ruben Ragg @rubenragg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We are hiring an Editor‑in‑Chief for our in-house chemistry portfolio to lead journals in the wider field of phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and natural products. Please like, share, and apply! wiley.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/wiley_career...
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Editor-in-Chief - Physical Sciences
Job Description: Editor-in-Chief - Physical Sciences Location: Remote, GBR Our mission is to unlock human potential. We welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and we embrace individual...
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@iupac.org #GWB2026 is on for Feb 10! Join us in Weinheim, Berlin or virtually for stimulating input talks by Prof. Eva Blasco (@uniheidelberg.bsky.social), Svjetlana Jerkovic (ICL Amsterdam | IMAGINE ) & Charlotte Gerischer (@jungchemikerforum.bsky.social). Register here 👉 bit.ly/Wiley_VCH_GWB26 🧪
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
💬 🧪 Behind the Science Interview with Christian Hering-Junghans and Robert Kretschmer, Germany. They discuss the ambident reactivity of the bis(gallylene), demonstrated by the reactions with azobenzene and the triphosphirane (PMes)₃ @chemistryeurope.bsky.social www.chemistryviews.org/bis-gallylen...
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Bis(gallylene) Reactivity: Insights from Reactions with Azobenzene and (PMes)₃ - ChemistryViews
Christian Hering-Junghans and Robert Kretschmer, Germany, discuss the ambident reactivity of the bis(gallylene), demonstrated by the reactions with azobenzene and the triphosphirane (PMes)₃
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you're in the greater Weinheim or Berlin area, consider joining us for a set of exciting talks in the Wiley-VCH offices - or tune in just for those talks through the live stream! Registration links are available through the original post :) 🧪
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Take a look at ChemistryViews' most viewed content published during 2025 www.chemistryviews.org/the-content-...
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The Content You Liked Best in 2025 - ChemistryViews
Take a look at ChemistryViews' most viewed content published during 2025
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Much looking forward to be, more closely than ever, working with the European & global inorganic chemistry communities! More musings on #EurJIC, its legacy and my biggest thanks to my predecessor, Preeti Vashi, in my inaugural editorial: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪
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YourJIC, MyJIC – OurJIC!
Newly appointed Editor-in-Chief Axel Straube reflects on EurJIC's legacy and its way forward as a truly global forum for excellent inorganic chemistry made in Europe – for the world.
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Wendy Patterson @wendypatterson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A reminder to please not use the JIF as an indicator of quality or at least consider presenting the metric in the context of a variety of journal-based metrics www.oajournals-toolkit.org/indexing/jou... @dorassessment.bsky.social and @coarassessment.bsky.social can provide guidelines here.
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Journal and article-level metrics - OA Journals Toolkit
Depending on a journal’s subject area, readers and authors may expect to find certain publication metrics published directly on journal websites. The
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Boris Vauzeilles @borisvauzeilles.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
🚨 Early-bird extended! Don’t miss the 25th Anniversary Symposium of ChemBioChem & ChemPhysChem: 📅 Oct 23–24, 2025 📍 Charité, Berlin 🇩🇪 ✨ Cutting-edge talks, posters, networking & celebrations! Register now → cbc-cpc2025.org #ChemBioChem25 #ChemPhysChem25 #StructuralBiology #Biomolecules
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Katrin Göring-Eckardt @goering-eckardt.de · 08/08/2025
Das letzte Mal, dass mir jemand vorschreiben wollte, wie ich zu sprechen habe, waren es DDR-Bonzen. 1989 bin ich auch für die freie Rede! auf die Straße gegangen. Wenn jetzt sogar öffentliche Förderung daran hängen soll, ob Herrn Weimer die Sprache gefällt, schränkt das Freiheit massiv ein. 1/2
Screenshot von Deutschlandfunk.de vom 8. August 2025: Weimer: Wer öffentliches Geld erhält, soll nicht gendern. Nach dem Genderverbot in der eigenen Behörde drängt Kulturstaatsminister Weimer alle öffentlich geförderten Institutionen, dieser Linie zu folgen. Es gehe dabei um eine gemeinsame Verantwortung für die Verständlichkeit staatlich geförderter Kommunikation, sagte der parteilose Politiker der Deutschen Presse-Agentur.
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Michael Küper #Antifaschist, #SchutzschildDerDemokratie @mkueper.de · 08/08/2025
Die Logik: Du darfst gendern – aber dann bitte ohne Subvention, Forschungsgeld, Theaterförderung, Projektzuschuss. Das nennt man auch: indirekte Zensur durch Geldentzug. Verfassungsrechtlich: höchst fragwürdig. 4/9
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In praise of the strangeness of scientific research, which these days I think could use a few good words said for it:
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In Praise of Weirdness
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ChemRxiv @chemrxiv.org · 01/07/2025
Hello #ChemSky! We're the open preprint server for the global chemistry community and we're glad to be here. Follow along as we share exciting preprints and engage with the community. Learn more about us: chemrxiv.org
ChemRxiv logo in yellow and white text on a dark gray background
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
💬 🧪 Behind the Science Interview with B. Terzi and W. Teich (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social LMU Munich): Light-Activated mRNA Cap Analogs Allow Timed Control of mRNA Translation Their work is published in @ChemistryEur - flagship journal of @ChemEurope www.chemistryviews.org/light-activa...
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Meet the speakers of our symposium in celebration of the 25th anniversaries of ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem. Register today to take advantage of our Early Bird offer! www.cbc-cpc2025.org/registration #ChemBio #ChemSky #Chemistry
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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“gravity itself the physical force isn’t political, but how we come to research and understand and then harness it absolutely is political, distributed by human relationships and negotiations of power” - @kawulf.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
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Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen
Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Great article highlighted here by dereklowe.bsky.social on stirbar effects - hits home when your scale up doesn’t work because the K2CO3 wasn’t ground to powder with overhead stirring on large scale like it was with a stirbar in a flask or vial
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Stir Bars Can't Be Ignored
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Excited that we will have a "Scientific Publishing and Presenting" Workshop on June 26th. Thank you very much to David Peralta and Lisa Smith of Wiley-VCH for making this possible. If you are a PhD or postdoc at @leidenscience.bsky.social, register for free: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
A six panel cartoon.

Panel one:
Title: Learn to read with Physics
Lesson One: two and three-letter words
(image of a smiling book and particle)

Panel two:
A friendly scientist enters a colourful lab carryinh a coiffee and papers.
Text: The Doc is in the lab.

Panel three:
She has put on eye protectors and started a machine
Text: She put on the ion ray.

Panel four:
The machine has caused a small fire. She looks aghast.
Text: Pop! The ray lit the gas.

Panel five:
She runs from the burning lab
Text: The lab is too hot!

Panel six:
She sits on the grass. In the background the ruins of the lab smoulder.
Text: The Doc is sad.
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Call me old-fashioned, aber ich mags ja wenn meine Schokolade nicht komplett aromenfrei ist. Bisschen langweilig.
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
#TimelineCleanse - and a clear recommendation of Samy Moussa's "Elysium", here performed by hr Symphony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpaR... #ClassicalSky
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Moussa: Elysium ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Manfred Honeck
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
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Andrew Burgess @drandrewburgess.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Love today’s #xkcd comic on #MassSpec 🤣
BEFORE THE BATHROOM SCALE WAS INVENTED, THE ONLY
WAY TO WEIGH PEOPLE WAS MASS SPECTROMETRY.
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you're an EU citizen, please consider supporting this initiative on banning Conversion "Therapy" in the EU: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... The petition is open until May 17 and is just shy of 700k signatures (needed: 1000k).
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European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'm really excited to seeing all the great Gold chemistry - such a versatile element!
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a man wearing a green sweater is sitting in front of a shelf with a box that says dominoes
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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a group of people are dancing in a room with the words `` spectacular ! spectacular ! '' written above them .
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 10 Ways to Lose Your Research Data All cases are real-life, verified, and foolproof. By @nfdi4chem.de — a must-read for every chemist. 👉 www.chemistryviews.org/10-ways-to-l...
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Gabriel Yoran @yoran.com · 13/04/2025
»Die Verkrempelung der Welt« erscheint morgen. In dem Buch frage ich, was eigentlich mit den Dingen des Alltags los ist. Werden sie wirklich schlechter? Und wenn ja, warum? In meinem Newsletter gibt es einen Auszug aus dem ersten Kapitel. steadyhq.com/de/gabriel-y...
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Die Verkrempelung der Welt: Das Buch ist da
In “Die Verkrempelung der Welt” frage ich, was eigentlich mit den Alltagsdingen los ist. Werden sie wirklich wieder schlechter? Ein Auszug aus dem ersten Kapitel.
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Saturday, making good use of the choir break reading the new @yoran.com and great coffee ☕
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Lisa Pecher @lisipea.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This week I joined the German Chemical Society @gdch.bsky.social as a coordinating manager of its divisions and I am very excited. This also means that my time at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social is over, so in this thread I would like to look back at the past six years. (1/22)
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Axel Straube @axelstraube.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More hiking, making use of the almost summer-like weather: Weinheim to Heidelberg through the Odenwald and over Heidelberg's house peak, the Königstuhl (they way down is not more fun than up...) 🥾 #TheEditorIsHiking
A map of the hike including an elevation profile and basic stats (total time including breaks, total distance [34.3 km], total elevation up and down)Photos of white and blue sprongflowersA sunglassed selfie in front of blooming cherry trees
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Open letter calling to refrain from using the (by now rather toxic) term "ultraprocessed food" and the NOVA classification. I very much agree that the classification is deeply problematic, both in scientific discourse and public perception of food and food processing.
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Open letter: Food and nutrition science should avoid using the term “ultraprocessed foods” and the "NOVA classification"
Science must be objective, neutral, and verifiable. As outlined in the "Open letter" (see below), the NOVA classification and the term "ultra-processed foods" do not meet these criteria. We therefore ...
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Ruben Ragg @rubenragg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Beyond excited to announce our in-person symposium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ChemBioChem/ChemPhysChem! Advances in Structural Analysis of Biomolecules From Subcellular Imaging to Drug Design October 23-24, 2025, Berlin Please like and share: cbc-cpc2025.org
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