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Niek Buurma

@niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social
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Physical organic & biophysical chemistry in water. Kinetics & mechanisms (Pd cat, racemisation), nucleic acid binders, biosensors, data analysis, ML. Father of 2 🇳🇱/🇫🇷

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/08/2025
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
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Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
TRUMP TO LILLY: DROP DEAD
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Osborne Cox @osbornecox.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
BREAKING: Putin calls for emergency mediation session between his two employees.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is like a football match between two teams you dislike so you support the referee. Apart from the fact there isn't a referee in this match, but at least both of them can lose!
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Steve Bannon wants Elon Musk deported, as per the NYT.
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
De VS hebben T.A.C.O., Nederland heeft W.A.C.O. #Wilders
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If you think Reform will solve the UK's problems, just have a look at what Wilders achieved in the Netherlands. 0 Zero Nothing Big promises, but in the end his only belief is islamophobia.
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Normally politicians want to stay in government as long as possible, to maximize the chances of delivering their promises and because being in power is nice. With Wilders the opposite applies: the longer he stays, the clearer it becomes that his pledges are undeliverable.
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A serious thing for Harvard to consider would be to relocate before the endowment is exhausted. Sell the campus land and move to another country and keep operating. Read the fate of CEU here below. They relocated several times and recently from Budapest to Vienna. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
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Central European University - Wikipedia
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Feringa Lab @feringalab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Proud to have signed the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future. A call to transform chemistry, where science empowers human well-being without degrading our ecosystems. Read it. Share it. Sign it. www.stockholm-declaration.org #SustainableScience #GreenChemistry
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
Chancellor Reeves: "Our biggest trading partners are our friends, our allies in the EU. For too long it's been too difficult to export, to bring in talent, to trade with our nearest neighbours and that's not good enough because it's held back our growth." Incredible that this even needs saying. ~AA
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Science teachers! If you want to prebook a place for your class to visit our upcoming large-scale pop-up shop event in the St David's Centre in Cardiff in July 2025 please get in touch! The microbial world in, on and around us - Information, demonstrations, live stage, art, games, fun. 🤒🦠🧫🔬🥼🧪👨🏻‍🏫📖🛍️
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Exciting times! 📢 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
At the end of June 2025 we will be opening a large “Pop-up Science Shop” in Cardiff Learn about infection, hygiene and untreatable ‘superbugs’ that are resistant to our medicines. We will take ov...
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
And me.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Bunny Vs Monkey book ELEVEN! Intergalactic Monkey Business is released in October, but available for preorder now! 🐰🐵🚀
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Cowards.
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Marlene Lokin @corsicamore.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Bavella, een bergketen in het zuiden van Corsica…
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Prof Mark Maslin @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Climate change is making fire seasons in Australia, the US, and Canada longer, and they’re starting to overlap. By 2050, the shared burden could grow by up to 29 days/year, straining firefighting partnerships (e.g. aircraft use) built on taking turns agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Increasing Fire Weather Season Overlap Between North America and Australia Challenges Firefighting Cooperation
A warmer climate increases overlapping fire risk between North America and Australia, potentially compromising firefighting cooperation Variability of Australian fire weather dominates the risk o...
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CONNECTS-UK @connects-uk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This year's Earth Day @EarthDay has the theme "Our Power, Our Planet". CONNECTS-UK's super power is linking researchers across all types of expertise to solve the renewable power puzzle and to show the power of research to the people.
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Volt Nederland @voltnederland.org · 19/04/2025
Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
You don't know what you have until it's gone - Brexit version. How I wish I had spoken out more and why I'm involved in @connects-uk.bsky.social now.
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is painful to watch, and I'm not even British. Mind you, I'm not claiming Dutch colonial past was better in any way, shape or form and I'm sure you'll find Netherlanders with similar attitudes to our past.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My thoughts on the “pharmaceutical tariffs” issue, and an explanation of just what a morass it is.
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Pharmaceutical Tariffs: The What and the How
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Don't you hate it when you accidentally post on Truth Social what you wanted to post on Signal?
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/04/2025
Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Death toll as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih rises to 18. Half of them, nine, are children. Absolutely heartbreaking. At the same time, Russian envoy in DC talks deals with the Trump's team. Russia senses impunity and will get more aggressive. Ukrainian kids will pay
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In need of a good news story? This lovely open science story is all that is good about collaborative science!
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Just a reminder that Wales pays to send its best pupils to study in England while universities in Wales avoid going bankrupt by making 14% of academics redundant. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'Talent' and 'money' leaving Wales due to scheme, universities warn
Critics say the Seren scheme focuses too much on Oxbridge and takes money and talent away from Wales.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Oh god it’s that day again isn’t it. The day when everyone tricks me and I fall for it. What joy.
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Guus Valk @guusvalk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Drie prominente fascisme-wetenschappers verlaten de VS, onder wie @timothysnyder.bsky.social. 'Ich befürchte, dass es zu einem Bürgerkrieg kommen wird. Und ich möchte nicht, dass meine Kinder da hineingezogen werden.' www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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Historiker Timothy Snyder verlässt die USA
Auch seine Frau, die Historikerin Marci Shore, kehrt dem Land wegen Trump den Rücken – ebenso wie Yale-Kollege Jason Stanley, der vor einer faschistischen Diktatur in den USA warnt
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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Eight weeks after launching its consultation which threatened 1807 academics with redundancy, Cardiff University has still not published the ‘critical friend’ report on Cardiff Business School promised in the consultation document. Meanwhile all Cardiff Business School academics remain at risk.
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Robin Bedford @bedcatalysis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Join us in condemning Elon Musk bringing the Royal Society in to disrepute
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025
what's the English translation of "Lebensraum"?
aggressive Trump statement about Greenland
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Ryan Poling-Skutvik @rpslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Welp. It happened. Our NIH training grant was terminated on Friday. Just highlighting this incredibly derisive language used in our termination notice. To focus on the positives, see some of the great things our undergraduates have done over the last couple of years: web.uri.edu/esteemed/
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QUAD Systems AG @quad-systems-nmr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Even the smallest contamination on an NMR tube can significantly impact your results. A dirty sample can lead to: - Poor shimming and reduced sensitivity - Potential contamination of the probe, requiring time-consuming maintenance #NMRchat #ChemSky #RealTimeChem
Illustration of the effect of dirty NMR tubes. The top shows a clean NMR tube and the corresponding "shim-map", which is very homogeneous. The bottom shows an NMR tube with a small black marker dot. The corresponding shim map shows a clear perturbation of several Hz around the dot.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It is hard to think of someone who has done more harm to US science in so short a time than Musk FRS. And it's still happening daily.
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John Chodera @jchodera.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.
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Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · 25/03/2025
📢Important announcement! Today, the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social consortium disclosed the structure of our preclinical candidate, ASAP-0017445, a promising broad-spectrum antiviral with potent activity against SARS-CoV2 and other viruses belonging to the same family. (1/10)
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
With apologies for the bad language, but the Dutch PM really is called Dick - and this is a proposal to make him Donald Trump's prime ally. #satire
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Hugo Reitsma @hugoreitsma.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Verontrustend, @ajboekestijn.bsky.social en @robdewijk.bsky.social
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Niek Buurma @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback. Or, in the recent case of the ACS, trust leaves on a high-speed train.
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Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chemistcraig.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Old chemistry labs be like #chemsky
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *The National Lottery *Freshpet *Dormeo *Ideal Home Show *Boxt *Raging Bull Snacks *Selectspecs *Cover Today *All Clear Travel *Trading212 *TrailFinders *Polish Tourism Organisation *Salus Mortgages *Lawn Master www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/time...
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Time for Sky to get its head out of the clouds
Pressure mounts on Ofcom and Sky to take action to end GB News’ campaign of hate.
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Carl Poree @cpchem.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Are you sure this isn't the Scandinavian airline SAS, rather than the special forces, @theguardian.com...?
"The Special Air Service or SAS, has said that it also impacted by Heathrow's closure."
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Quick - someone tell JD Vance that free speech is under attack in the USA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.
a Google search for 'the effect of UX on libraries' showing an AI overview before the search results a Google search for 'the effect of UX on [expletive] libraries' showing no AI overview, just the search results
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