iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🤔 Ever stared at an InChI string with no idea what it means? We built an open-source, browser-based tool to fix that. Draw or upload a molecule and it generates the InChI, color-codes each layer, and explains it. 🔗 tinyurl.com/j6vjkncc #BeilsteinChemInfoLabs #InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here comes the report on our Technical InChI meeting in july in Aachen .... a bit delayed due to the holiday season... @inchi-trust.bsky.social Thank you so much for support by @volkswagenstiftung.de , @nfdi4chem.de and @beilstein-institut.bsky.social !! #FAIRdata www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We have an InChI User Day ahead of the ACS Chicago meeting, come and join us on Friday 21st at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. Agenda and booking via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inchi-user...

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 29/05/2026

Do you know the importance of data standards in chemistry? Join our panellists to discuss community-endorsed standards, including chemical structure representations, in the last in this series of free ChemSpider webinars. Register now: rsc.li/4fe1e8h #ChemSky

ChemSpider webinar - Chemical standards & representation. 23 June 3.00 pm (BST) Register now.

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 24/04/2026

What does inclusion really mean in practice? Our new Inclusion & Diversity Strategy to 2030 sets out how we will embed inclusion and belonging across the chemical sciences. #ChemSky

1. Embed inclusion across the chemical sciences. From a standalone strategy to a shared organisational and sector-wide responsibility.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yeah, very productive Sunday thanks #darkstar

Big orange beach ball-like alien, black spotted with white highlights, sporting a well-matched pair of monster claws. In a kitchen. Probably nothing to worry about.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It was the blueskybookclub choice for January #AMonthOfDick, which definitely helped me through the peaks and troughs. People still catching up, good luck! 🐋🐳

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 26/02/2026

🌍 We are excited to announce that we have expanded our partnership with @silverchairnews.bsky.social – the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers – to bring our full @rsc.org journals portfolio onto their platform. Find out more: www.rsc.org/news/royal-s...

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thanks Jacob, and all - wouldn't have made it through without you all, has been great fun 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Looks like my recent searches will be my #monthofdick tattoo 🐋

Recent Kindle searches for quotes from Moby Dick, I can't remember half of these: pip, 95, oceanica, jereboam, Bulkington, squeezing, Don Pedro, allegory...

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

And when Bulkington came up earlier, you were all "yay Bulkington", so I was expecting some kind of exotic death, or a few more loving chapters from Ish, but.. 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ah, Ahab looking after Pip, how sweet, ah hang on "I do suck most wondrous philosophies from thee!" 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Shipmates? We're all married now! It's been fantastic. 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Beautiful and haunting 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Well, ITV2 have just shown me an Aldi ad with a family swallowed by a whale, and I'm losing my grip on reality🐋 Top ad targetting youtu.be/5EKvVDMoX84?

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ALDI 2026 | ALWAYS FINDING WAYS TO SAVE

YouTube video by AldiUK

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Best to try out whale law in every possible application, it's probably just a question of confidence 🐳

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just tried out whale law in a family discussion on the Elgin Marbles. Regret to report it had limited success 🐋.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Thanks for posting all these. This was a good additional view of the boat and ropes🐋 bsky.app/profile/andy...

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Monstrous whale (which looks like a fish) devouring humans, 1550 edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster 🐋

Fish with giant lower teeth is eating a man. Another naked man running away in some alarm. Woodcut from 1550

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

But at least invented Don Pedro may be pulling his leg "hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North.’🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Brilliant, bookmark this pic for later rope-related shenanigans

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it." ch45 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, [most landsmen] might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory." ch45 move on, definitely no hideous and intolerable allegory to see here 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"one gallon of good oil" per porpoise 🐋 will maybe make me think a bit next time I put a few gallons (of diff oil) in the car. And maybe a place to note that sperm oil was still used in jet engines in the 70s open.substack.com/pub/edconway...

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No, Kerosene did NOT save the Sperm Whale

How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we'd stopped. Forgotten Material #1

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Are those steps too big? Of course not, just need "prodigious long upliftings of their legs". Growth mindset there. 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ch 40 felt pretty much like West Side Story

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We have had this serving plate for ages, but pulled it out today and realised... 🐋

Serving plate featuring engraving of a sperm whale. Can only be foreshadowing.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Whaling and related material in the Whitby Museum, incl Scoresby records, replica crows nest, scrimshaw, collected stuff from the south seas whitbymuseum.org.uk/collection/m... 🐋

"sea bishop" for gullible visitors, whitby museum

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hell yeah "special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts", he's not wrong 🐋.

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

And with InChI article featured on the cover, Happy New Year all

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Been looking forward to this bit 🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First time MD reading, so appreciate the collective comments and support to get me through. Very entertaining so far, was expecting more like 90% sermon.🐋

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I'm in, pls add me to the madness

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Join our monthly online InChI Discussion session - the first on Thurs 27th Nov at 5pm UK time. Sign up via Eventbrite (one meeting at a time, sorry), or join our mailing list and we'll send a recurring .ics file www.eventbrite.com/e/inchi-disc... mailchi.mp/inchi-trust/... @iupac.org #chemsky

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InChI Discussions

Monthly discussions on the InChI developments

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thanks to all the participants in the InChI Trust Board meeting yesterday, and to @herreslab.bsky.social for hosting in lovely Aachen

Hybrid board meeting photo, nine in person with four online contributors shown on screen behind

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Sonja Herres-Pawlis @herreslab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Highly intense 1st day of our Technical InChI Meeting comes to an end - thank you so much for the productive energy by the people here and those joining online! And thanks for support by @volkswagenstiftung.de and @nfdi4chem.de ! The @inchi-trust.bsky.social advances #openscience !

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We held the InChI Trust Board meeting yesterday, thanks to colleages at Wiley in Berlin for hosting #chemsky 🧪 @herreslab.bsky.social

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

InChI prototype for molecular inorganics #chemsky 🧪

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Great meeting, and good to see you too Brian

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IUPAC @iupac.org · 14/03/2025

Day 2️⃣ of #IUPAC meeting at @rsc.org Burlington House 🗒️ Units, Symbols, and Terminology in the Physical Sciences in and for the Digital Era 🌐 We have speakers from @unisouthampton.bsky.social, project discussions with @codata-isc.bsky.social DRUM, @psdi-uk.bsky.social, @iupac.org Green & Gold Book.

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IUPAC @iupac.org · 13/03/2025

How #AI will change the future of #Chemistry❓ First #speaker of this meeting 🎤 🔸 Dr Vanessa Seifert, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social, Research Associate, Department of #Philosophy, @bristoluni.bsky.social. 🔹 Prediction, explanation, and #chemical progress in the age of AI. 🌐 www.vanessa-seifert.com

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IUPAC @iupac.org · 13/03/2025

Dr Helen Pain #MBE #CChem #CSci #FRSC, Chief Executive of @rsc.org, welcomed everyone to #London 🇬🇧 and to Burlington House. She introduced the Royal Society of Chemistry and how #RSC supported #IUPAC activities and @iupac.org Divisions and Committees. Thank you Helen 👏 🌐 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

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PSDI - Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure @psdi-uk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

📕 Data Accessibility in the Chemical Sciences: Are We Doing Enough? In an era where #AI-driven insights and large-scale #data analysis are transforming scientific #research, data accessibility remains a critical challenge, especially in organic #chemistry.

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InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We'll be holding our next online InChI Discussion on Jan 29th 2025 at 6pm GMT - for details please sign up for our newsletter (mailchi.mp/inchi-trust/... if you're not already a subscriber) and joining details will be sent out beforehand. All welcome.

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great cheminformatics opportunity working at @BeilsteinInstitut.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy with @inchi-trust.bsky.social IUPAC and the wider InChI community #chemsky 🧪

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Rich Kidd @rkidd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The YouTube comments are really heart-warming - so much love for the track and the sport, then one of the kids' teachers chimes in.

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