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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14h

Wer bekommt nächsten Mittwoch den Chemie-Nobelpreis 2026? Wie jedes Jahr gebe ich hier meine Tipps ab. Dieses mal mit einem klaren Favoriten. Dabei geht es um eine ganz technische Leistung, ohne die moderne Biotechnik und Medizin nicht existieren würden. Wer davon wäre euer Favorit? #chemsky 🧪

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Chemie-Nobelpreis-Prognose 2026: Gensequenzierung » Fischblog

Mein Favorit für den Chemie-Nobelpreis 2026 ist eine bemerkenswerte technische Leistung, die unverzichtbare Grundlage der modernen Biowissenschaft ist.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 18h

AI doesn't cure cancer. Researchers do.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One reason why AI is still useless for text work despite increasing skill levels is its tendency to behave like a lazy intern. For example, the first third of a translation is usually excellent, but then the model starts to get sloppy with language, drops sentences and whole paragraphs.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading this I feel compelled to remind everyone that back in the 1970s, respected scientists became convinced telekinesis was real after they met with "psychic" Uri Geller and even published an article in Nature about it. It took a stage magician to debunk them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would appear that the investing classes are slowly starting to realize that, even under very optimistic assumptions, SMR have very limited economic prospects.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Denkt noch mal drüber nach. :-) Sind noch Plätze frei und ist vermutlich vorerst das letzte Event in Frankfurt.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Denkt noch mal drüber nach. :-) Sind noch Plätze frei und ist vermutlich vorerst das letzte Event in Frankfurt.

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 24/09/2026

The new structure expands diamond’s rigid 3D lattice by incorporating alternating single and triple bonds between the connection points and is one of the only carbon form capable of covalently bonding across all three dimensions. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/meet-di...

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Meet diamondiyne, the new diamond-like carbon allotrope predicted 35 years ago

Unusual mix of sp and sp3 bonding could furnish porous material with unique properties

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some folks just lament that the chemistry community on bluesky is dying while others (the author of the paper) actually try to do something about it

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching AI agents going rogue step by step in full public view actually feels a bit like watching climate change unfold.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ahoi! 😀 Mein nächstes wissenschaftliches Whiskytastig ist in #Frankfurt. 6 Whiskys und zwischendurch kurzweilige Physik und Chemie von mir. Vermutlich vorerst letzter Termin in FFM. 😔 Sa, 10. Oktober, 15 Uhr nahe Hbf, d.h. ihr kommt noch gut nach Hause. 😉 Anmeldung hier:

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Tasting und Vortrag am 10. Oktober in Frankfurt: Die Wissenschaft vom Whisky in Frankfurt

Am 10. Oktober wird der Chemiker und Journalist Lars Fischer die molekularen Hintergründe des Whiskys bei einem Tasting in Frankfurt erklären.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wir werden sehr bald die 1,5-Grad-Grenze durchbrechen, auf die sich alle Staaten geeinigt haben. Aber es gibt Hoffnung: weltweit wachsen die Lösungen wie Erneuerbare, Elektromobilität und Wärmepumpen exponentiell! Es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, die #Erderhitzung zu stoppen.

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anafae @anafae.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Ceramics Garden. I think this is the title now 😄 Original drawing, Din A4. Have a great day everyone! anafaearts.etsy.com #art #arts #ColorfulArt #weirdart #whimsy #whimsicalart #abstractart #illustration

Colorful abstract drawing with lots of funny little characters in it. Lines from shapes and figures. Quite funny and light and funky and fun.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wir hatten ja grad bundesweit die Woche der Klimaanpassung. Ich hab da mal was zum Thema geschrieben. Spoiler: es wird teuer und hilft nicht so wirklich.

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Klimapolitik: Anpassung wird uns nicht retten

Anpassung an den Klimawandel kann die Defizite beim Klimaschutz nicht auffangen, kommentiert Lars Fischer.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People have this perception that #HIV is kind of defeated and under control these days. It's very much not. It took a lot of time, money and effort to suppress it to the current level, and if we drop the ball, HIV can surge back to disaster levels really fast. I fear it will.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a tough choice. Two amazing and important minerals in today's #mincup26 match. But the #Graphite people have mobilized their armies, so I feel compelled to call uponn all of you to vote #Cassiterite! www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Vote in Round 1 Match 16 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote in Cassiterite vs Graphite Credit: Domenico Preite / M. Castello and Carles Millan

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now: Chilling with the new book. 😍 Cool new release on one of the most underappreciated extreme climate periods in earth's history. And free to download as epub.

Book cover:
Late triassic konservatlagerstätten within the carnian pluvial episode, ed. A. Lukeneder

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 13 It's a match between a mineral you want to be cautious breathing near and one you eat every day as arsenic-rich #arsenopyrite is against table salt #halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo between angular arsenopyrite, metallic and abundant in parallelogram faces and halite in its classic perfect cube shape, but tinted deep blue.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hopper crystals form when the outer edges of a crystal grow much faster than the center of its faces, creating a hollow, stepped, or staircase-like skeletal structure. More at: www.geologyin.com/2019/06/what... #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

Pink Hopper Halite crystal from Searles Lake, Trona, California.
Photo: Crystalminer

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Here's a link the video: youtu.be/plVk4NVIUh8?... and the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)

YouTube video by Harvard Medical School

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If it wasn't so horrible it would be absolutely funny how ragtag fanatics like the Taliban or the Houthis keep winning against super-rich countries that ultimately care about little else than money. Almost like there was some kind of lesson there.

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Bissiges Mäuschen 🐭 @bmauschen.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

IT-Sicherheit: Derzeit laufen Angriffe über die "Terminal-Fix-Kampagne" - dabei wird auf kompromittierten Seiten ein gefälschtes Captcha eingebunden, das Nutzende auffordert, Kommandos in das Windows Terminal oder Power Shell einzugeben! MERKE: www.allianz-fuer-cybersicherheit.de/SharedDocs/C...

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Warum der #Warntag in dieser Form nichts taugt (und ich Prepper bin 😁). Mein Kommentar bei Spektrum über Katastrophenschutz. (frei 🙂 ) www.spektrum.de/kolumne/der-...

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Katastrophenschutz: Der Warntag läuft ins Leere

Im Notfall bekommt man eine Warnung aufs Handy – doch was dann?

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is interesting, to say the least. The unusual furin cleaving site has been a hot topic in Sars-CoV-2 genetics, so finding one in the wild suggests that it may not be that unusual after all. There are a few open questions about what is actually going on here, though. 🧪

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A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats - Nature Communications

There is still limited data reported on virus diversity in South American bats. In this study, the authors report a divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American ba...

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Mela Eckenfels @felicea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Grooming for abuse.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't like people that much, but I have to admire their dedication to blowing stuff (and themselves) up at every opportunity.

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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Vielen Dank!! und ja, genau - lest und abonniert gerne... (Noch kostenlos 🤗)

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Tanni @tanni.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Proud to be part of the first ever #CSDOdenwald in Michelstadt. Good turnout today and brilliant weather, too. #pride #csd Nice to meet @fischblog.bsky.social in person and thank you @federkatz.bsky.social for organising the whole thing

People marching in a street, wearing pride flags, sky is blue

A tricoloured corgi peering around its owners legs. The owner wears a pride flag as a cape

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gute Analyse von Albrecht v Lucke. 👇

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Still a fan of the mercator projections. People seem not to realize that maps have actual uses beyond comparing sizes of continents like with cars or dongs.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TIL: Der Begriff Möwe kommt von Miau. 😻

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Älter werden: Früher hab ich mich auch über die "klassische" Sammlung lustiger Ortsnamen (Darmstadt, Tittenkofen etc) amüsiert. Heut find ich eher sowas wie Weil der Stadt oder Au (Sieg) witzig.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Aaaah, jetzt sind ihm die Kopfhörer eingefallen.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Im ICE formiert sich ein Lynchmob. Typ hat ernsthaft nen Drumcomputer rausgeholt und komponiert jetzt vor sich hin. 🤣 Hab mein Hörgerät ausgeschaltet, damit ich die Schreie nicht hör.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that the first step in a Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling isn't always the classic oxidative addition we all memorzed. There's also a one electron radical mechanism that gets more important with sterically hindered substrates. 🤯🤯🤯 🧪 #chemsky

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last call! Unser wissenschaftliches online-Whiskytasting am 17. September. Ihr kriegt vier Fläschlein Whisky und ein Glas zugeschickt. Dann treffen wir alle im Videocall, und ihr könnt entspannt zu Hause meinen Vortrag hören, euch von einem Experten die Whiskys vorstellen lassen und trinken.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

British politics ruined medieval reenactment for me. Or to be more precise, I can't look at 13th century knights' barrel helmets without seeing Count Binface.

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Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Roadcuts need help to keep looking their best -- geology clubs take note.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dank des heldenhaften Einsatzes von @lingenhoehl.bsky.social ist die Anmeldeseite für die Whiskytastings nicht mehr zerschossen! 🤩 Alleine für den ungewohnten Anblick solltet ihr draufgucken. 😅 Und vielleicht sprechen euch ja auch die Termine an. www.spektrum.de/alias/whisky...

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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In the continuing onslaught of in-your-face AI, it is now almost impossible to open a scientific paper without an AI-summary coming up. Your first instinct may be “Ah that is useful”, but is it really close to the truth or what the author intended? (contd. - full "rant" on lnkd.in/p/euwbwNgY)

Snapshot of how the article “Improvements to Seismic Monitoring of the European Arctic Using Three-Component Array Processing at SPITS“ by S. J. Gibbons et al. (https://doi.org/10.1785/0120110109) appears on line with an AI-generated summary. The author has highlighted each of the highlights listed by the AI with criticism to how useful it is, even to the point of distracting from the true key points.

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey. :-) I'd like you to give a rough estimate, just to see what kind of image people have in mind. You know that the #Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly. There is ongoing transmission in six provinces in eastern DR Congo. What do you think is the total population of these six provinces? 🧪

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Whisky-Tastings coming soon! 😀 Am 12.9. seht ihr mich in Düsseldorf, am 17.9. Machen wir ein Tasting per Videocall. Ich erzähle über Physik und Chemie, und ihr trinkt währenddesstem ausgezeichnete Whiskys. Meldet euch bitte zeitig an, bei uns ändert sich grad viel. :-/ Anmeldung für beide hier:

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026