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Mog Kar

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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Really happy to see this out! We synthesize graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges and embedded porphyrins—creating a hybrid π–d electron system. While it may have some cool applications, I just can't get over how beautiful this molecule is. Look at the lateral strain Modulation! rdcu.be/eBRkM
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Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions
Nature Chemistry - Graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges are key candidates for spintronic applications due to their tunable bandgaps and spin-polarized edge states. Now it has been shown that...
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Accelerator physicist Helen Edwards was born #OTD in 1936. She was the lead scientist overseeing the design, construction, and operation of the Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab. Numerous discoveries have been made with the Tevatron, including the top quark in 1995. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Fermilab
A color photo of Helen Edwards writing something on a poster-sized piece of paper with "The Last Magnet Installed In the Energy Saver" written across the top in calligraphic letters. Edwards is wearing a denim shirt and a blue jean jacket. There are pens in her breast pocket. She is smiling and looking sown at the poster. Edwards has a halo of short, curly hair. Two mean stand in the background, one in a dark suit and red tie, the other in a brown work jacket.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/05/2025
hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...
a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies
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Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 12/05/2025
Porphyrin-based organic materials have exciting optical properties and wide applications. In this study, the authors report a B(III) complex of a new sub-m-benziporphyrin with an unusual planar tridentate 14π-aromatic network. Read it for free 👉pubs.rsc.org/doi/D4S... #ChemSky
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Hello––Is A River Alive? is published in the US & Canada on 20 May. I am coming on tour––dates & locations below––& would love to speak of the book’s ideas, people & rivers to as many folk as possible while I'm out there. Please let anyone know who you think might want to come to an event. Cheers!
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
anyway, I would need a lot more evidence to believe that 90% of college students in early 2023 were using ChatGPT for homework, and if we are going to berate the Youth for intellectual laziness, let's at least make sure we apply some amount of rigor to the data we're using to do it, please
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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The story of biochemist Muriel Bristol aka "a lady tasting tea"! Milk or tea first? Does it matter? Can you tell? The null hypothesis was designed with that question in mind. The story is in Steeped, too. Conversations around tea also led to De Hevesy's development of isotopic tracing (Nobel 1943)
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Juan Carlos Sancho-García @quantumalicante.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
1+1=2? Not always! Topology matters to boost the Reverse Intersystem Crossing in extended #INVEST compounds. Thanks to Gaetano Ricci, Yoann Olivier, and Alessandro Landi for this nice work published in Advanced Optical Materials #theochem #compchem #OLEDs #theochemsky #compchemsky #chemsky
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Enhancing Reverse Intersystem Crossing with Extended Inverted Singlet–Triplet (X−INVEST) Systems
Extended systems with an inverted singlet–triplet gap (X-INVEST) are designed by merging two INVEST cores in a Uthrene-like architecture. The energy proximity characterizing the four lowest excited s....
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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Such a gorgeous cover this month 😍
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
To feel a better after listen to Casimir Pulaski Day, listen and watch this one: youtu.be/ltH3rI-G4n8?...
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Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - "Reach Out" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is right up there with the saddest songs of them all. Absolutely gorgeous, also.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (6?) with a Bluey backpack and an oversized pink baseball cap steps off a school bus and walks straight into her mum's outstretched arms. A big warm hug and an excited recounting of the day follows as they wander home.(1)
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
a good occasion to promote my truly timeless opinion article physics.aps.org/articles/v14...
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So, You Think You Discovered a New State of Matter?
Take a step back and double check; don’t jump to thinking that unexpected data indicate something new.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/02/2025
We are on the road for democracy and justice | Bernie Sanders
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We are on the road for democracy and justice | Bernie Sanders
What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated
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Quantum Bullshit Detector @bullshitquantum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This thread: not bullshit
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
is your market cap 3 trillion?
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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
After years of watching @floriangadsby.bsky.social make pots I had a chance to make one of my own. Absolutely loved it!
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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 11/02/2025
The International Day of #Women and Girls in #Science highlights equality and diversity in research. ETH Zurich also aims to highlight the achievements of female scientists through various initiatives and campaigns. ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science recognizes the importance of equality and diversity in research and innovation. At ETH Zurich, this day of action is also intended to raise awarenes...
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter. People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it. www.acs.org/about/divers...
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Nidhi Subbaraman @nidhisubs.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ science, STEM education more inclusive." www.science.org/content/arti... @meredithwadman.bsky.social reports
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Science | AAAS
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Johannes Gierschner @gierschner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Again a case of data manipulation in chemistry with > 40 flagged papers over 14y Again a broken review process Again little/no editor reaction in some journals Again diffusion of responsibility ...time for change #chemsky, #researchintegrity
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Wahl group account @wahlgroup.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Interested in an exciting PhD project working in a stimulating environment in the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials, combining cutting-edge experiments, bespoke instrumentation, complex data analysis and numerical modelling? Any questions get in touch, apply at www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgr/home.htm.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (18?) and a woman (20s?) are walking down the street. As they pass a pharmacy she throws up her hands: "You HECKLED a poetry recital. WHO DOES THAT?!" He shrugs: "I dunno. Uhm. Me... Sorry?" and laugh-yelps when she thumps him in the ribs. (1)
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Wholeheartedly agree with this work! It is common sense and should be standard practice.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Spent a few days feeling bad because I thought the grant I was applying for one could add up to 10 achievements, and I didn't have that many. Then while uploading my "achievements" realized the maximum is just three... Well clearly reading comprehension isn't one of mine.
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nanotech@surfaces Lab @nanotechsurflab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Empa has opened the CarboQuant Lab, a cutting-edge hub for exploring quantum effects in carbon! Supported by the Werner Siemens Foundation and the @snsf-ch.bsky.social, CarboQuant aims to create a materials platform for carbon-based quantum technologies.
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New year!
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year 2025 @science.org
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tykwinskigroup.bsky.social @tykwinskigroup.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Very, very happy to finally see our wires, ahem, act like wires. Thanks to the crew at IMDEA, and congrats to 'soon to be Professor' Yueze Gao for his first "*" pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Length-Dependent Conduction of Polyynes: Searching for the Limit of the Tunneling Regime
Rigid, conjugated molecules are excellent candidates as molecular wires since they can achieve full extension between electrodes while maintaining conjugation. Molecular design can be used to minimize...
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Ken Itami @kenitami.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hello! Just created an account on Bluesky. A chemist believing the power of molecules. Synthetic chemistry, molecular nanocarbon science, catalysis, and chemical biology. Be unique, go crazy, be happy!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A quote relevant to today (From George Washington's farewell address, 1796.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good story with @robertkelchen.com and me. “reduction in employment in these college towns... have very big implications for those states and for the people in Congress... a general slowdown in scientific progress when we have so many pressing challenges.” www.chronicle.com/article/a-fe...
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A Federal Funding Pause Sent Shockwaves Through Higher Ed. Here’s What We Know.
After hours of confusion, the Education Department clarified Tuesday that the order does not apply to student financial aid. Still, the pause affects billions of dollars that go to colleges.
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Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo-abad.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Programmable simulations of molecules and materials with reconfigurable quantum processors. Maskara et al. harness Floquet engineering and hardware-native gates to replicate complex multi-spin interactions. Snapshot spectroscopy reveals key spectral properties. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Programmable simulations of molecules and materials with reconfigurable quantum processors - Nature Physics
Quantum simulations of chemistry and materials are challenging due to the complexity of correlated systems. A framework based on reconfigurable qubit architectures and digital–analogue simulations pro...
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I almost fell off my chair laughing. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot
Emergence of DeepSeek raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This cast looks like a delightful mess. So excited! Ideally Fatiha, Jason and Mathew would be on a team together to maximize the chaos. But any combination of these people is bound to be very fun. As a long time listener of No Body Panic, I am hoping for a Stevie win (but it's probably Rosie's)
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Eli Zysman-Colman @chemguyeli.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A very quick and delicious meal of Szechuan noodles with bork and green beans following a recipe from @recipetineats. Sauce is ketchap manis, oyster sauce and sambal oelek. #chemistswhocook.
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UK Surface Analysis Forum @uksaf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hello World! The UK Surface Analysis Forum is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for updates on our next meeting at the National Physical Laboratory, July 15-16 this year, as well as interesting updates from our community!
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.
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Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
@royalsociety.org what the fuck does it take?
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Saw a toddler cry because his dad didn't let him tricycle into traffic.
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Mog Kar @mogkar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I wonder if Musk's takeover of Twitter created a crisis in the tech world. He fired a large fraction of the employees and the site still "worked". So many firms started laying off tech workers... At the same time the advances in AI made it seem even less workers will be necessary in the future.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New Sci Rep paper with odd-looking figures that don't look like any image conversion issue I've seen before. Has some AI vibes (fonts, line spacing of legend), but there are likely better explanations. Any thoughts? @nature.com pls investigate (who copy-edited this) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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tykwinskigroup.bsky.social @tykwinskigroup.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Over 10 years in the making, finally live! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A Half Century of the Sonogashira Reaction
Conjugated alkynes are valuable intermediates in the synthesis of natural products, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and organic molecular materials. Since its introduction in 1975, th....
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/01/2025
Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033
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Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I am Qwæsian. youtu.be/xKm77n0WcB4?...
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A La Mode // Jazz Emu
YouTube video by Jazz Emu
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