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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

One must change the timezone by >5h for it to be

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Submitting your paper mid December

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Martina Preiner @preinerin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Group's 1st paper out! CONGRATS to Delfina Pereira & all coauthors: Xiulan Xie, Kerstin Volz, Jürgen Belz @unimarburg.bsky.social, Sarah Stewart & Valentina @erastova.bsky.social, Tuğçe Beyazay, Harun Tüysüz @imdeamaterials.bsky.social, Nicole Paczia & Zainab Subrati @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

👨‍🎓#PhD in my group @edinburghchem.bsky.social via E5 DTP Nature-Inspired and Computationally-Informed Design of #Clay-#Biochar Systems for Heavy Metal Remediation 🌍 Supervised by Margaret Graham, Ondrej Masek & Valentina Erastova Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: 14 Dec 2025

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Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🌍👨‍🎓#PhD: Design of #Biochar for #Sequestration of Emerging Pollutants via E5 DTP @edinburghchem.bsky.social Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 2025

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Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Having missed Andrey Kalinichev’s talks this summer at both Goldschmidt and International Clay Conference due to overlap of our parallel sessions, it is great to finally catch up at small but scientifically charged @cecamevents.bsky.social in Vienna @bokuvienna.bsky.social

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Talk at @cecamevents.bsky.social at @bokuvienna.bsky.social by recently defended Dr Hannah Pollak on ClayCode - software she developed during her PhD at @edinburghchem.bsky.social Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Extra special day in the group @edinburghchem.bsky.social y’day Congratulations to Dr Audrey Ngambia🎓 for a brilliant PhD defence! Thank you for joining my group & trusting me as very new PI that we can make these pesky biochar models - we did it thanks to your dedication and hard work🍾

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Congratulations to our PgT students of @edinburghchem.bsky.social for completing their studies! I am extra happy to see that students undertaking #compchem projects - Yifei and Samuel (our group) - have won awards for best taught part and best project talk! 🏆🥳

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Yesterday we were visited by Ellen Porter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophical Transactions A of the @royalsocietypublishing.org, to discuss real hurdles of #publishing in #science with our #PhD & #PostDoc at @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social

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CECAM @cecamevents.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The workshop "Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application" has started in Lausanne! After a short welcome by CECAM and the organisers, V. Sierra Jimenez, C. M. Grottola & P. Giudicianni have kicked off today's program. ➡️ www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 25/05/2025

Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪

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#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I have a badge and, therefore, I am working

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Suddenly found yourself wanting to build a snowman in May? Sure thing - welcome to northern Iceland ☃️ where you can do it in day light 24h a day!

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Off the beaten track onto þjóðfell for permafrost samples with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social ⛏️🗻 Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Another hard day at the office. Starting the Iceland trip with @theukca.bsky.social

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Still a few places left on our workshop in June!

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Been sent into a pond for water testing. No crocs🐊 here, just turtles🐢 (at least they said so).

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If anyone is wondering - team @edinburghchem.bsky.social is here to work, even if it looks like a holiday retreat and the conference is like a wedding venue

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wearing off my [whole one hour of] jet lag in J’burgh

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Team @edinburghchem.bsky.social touristing around rights after landing in Johannesburg

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Such an interesting seminar today by Martin McCoustra at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If you are interested to learn more on what molecular modeling can do to support origin of life research, the recording of my lecture "Computational Chemistry – Space & Time Travellers Tool" at the @vwscc.bsky.social is now on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1493...

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Computational Chemistry - Space & Time Travellers Tool

Valentina Erastova EaSTCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Group website: www.erastova.xyz Abstract: 'Where to land the next Mars rover?', and 'I found a peptide on a rocky pla...

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application 4-6 June, Lausanne, CH This is the first-ever @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop dedicated to the emerging field of #biochar molecular modelling - please circulate! www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

📢We are organising a super exciting session at the 18th International Clay Conference in Dublin, 13-18 July dedicated to the role of #clays in #astrobiology 🪐 To register & more info here: icc.aipea.org/icc-03/ please share!

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Absolutely fantastic and very important **I Belong in Chemistry** event at @edinburghchem.bsky.social tonight. Great inspirational speakers! Thank you for organising #stem #womeninscience #WomenInSTEM @rsc.org

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I never knew that particle on a ring can be this exciting 🙊 Thank you Igor Roncevic from @manchesterup.bsky.social for such interesting talk today at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

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Clay Minerals Group @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The International Clay Conference, Dublin will host 4 pre-conference workshops. All workshops will take place on Sunday the 13th July 2025. Kaolin – Everywhere PDF-5+ & JADE Pro 1D Modelling of Clay Methods in Clay Science For full workshop details icc.aipea.org/workshops/ @minersoc.bsky.social

Text in centre reads '#ICCDublin25 Pre-Conference Workshops. 13th July 2025.'

Top left image is of 2 SEM images of kaolin plates and tubes.
Top right image is of XRD patterns in the Jade software.
Bottom left image is of screen shots of 1D modelling software.
Bottom right image is of schematic diagrams of determinative methods in clay science.

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And upon this, my friends, my teaching is done till November🧘‍♀️🍹 [I still have labs, field trip, essays & exams to mark] Last 4 wks have been 11 contact hrs weekly of new material; 4 courses simultaneously +hosting #RAPC +talk at @vwscc.bsky.social Whatever doesn’t kill you, tries again next year!

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Looking forward to our session at #ICCDublin25 dedicated to the role of minerals in the abiogenesis

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

On thin ice, but still skating. With universities starting the year in financial straits, the sector must tread carefully, writes @sarahr100.bsky.social. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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