Much looking forward to be, more closely than ever, working with the European & global inorganic chemistry communities! More musings on #EurJIC, its legacy and my biggest thanks to my predecessor, Preeti Vashi, in my inaugural editorial: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪

A reminder to please not use the JIF as an indicator of quality or at least consider presenting the metric in the context of a variety of journal-based metrics www.oajournals-toolkit.org/indexing/jou... @dorassessment.bsky.social and @coarassessment.bsky.social can provide guidelines here.

🚨 Early-bird extended! Don’t miss the 25th Anniversary Symposium of ChemBioChem & ChemPhysChem: 📅 Oct 23–24, 2025 📍 Charité, Berlin 🇩🇪 ✨ Cutting-edge talks, posters, networking & celebrations! Register now → cbc-cpc2025.org #ChemBioChem25 #ChemPhysChem25 #StructuralBiology #Biomolecules

Das letzte Mal, dass mir jemand vorschreiben wollte, wie ich zu sprechen habe, waren es DDR-Bonzen. 1989 bin ich auch für die freie Rede! auf die Straße gegangen. Wenn jetzt sogar öffentliche Förderung daran hängen soll, ob Herrn Weimer die Sprache gefällt, schränkt das Freiheit massiv ein. 1/2

Die Logik: Du darfst gendern – aber dann bitte ohne Subvention, Forschungsgeld, Theaterförderung, Projektzuschuss. Das nennt man auch: indirekte Zensur durch Geldentzug. Verfassungsrechtlich: höchst fragwürdig. 4/9

In praise of the strangeness of scientific research, which these days I think could use a few good words said for it:

Hello #ChemSky! We're the open preprint server for the global chemistry community and we're glad to be here. Follow along as we share exciting preprints and engage with the community. Learn more about us: chemrxiv.org

💬 🧪 Behind the Science Interview with B. Terzi and W. Teich (@rentmeisterlab.bsky.social LMU Munich): Light-Activated mRNA Cap Analogs Allow Timed Control of mRNA Translation Their work is published in @ChemistryEur - flagship journal of @ChemEurope www.chemistryviews.org/light-activa...

Meet the speakers of our symposium in celebration of the 25th anniversaries of ChemBioChem and ChemPhysChem. Register today to take advantage of our Early Bird offer! www.cbc-cpc2025.org/registration #ChemBio #ChemSky #Chemistry

“gravity itself the physical force isn’t political, but how we come to research and understand and then harness it absolutely is political, distributed by human relationships and negotiations of power” - @kawulf.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

Great article highlighted here by dereklowe.bsky.social on stirbar effects - hits home when your scale up doesn’t work because the K2CO3 wasn’t ground to powder with overhead stirring on large scale like it was with a stirbar in a flask or vial

Excited that we will have a "Scientific Publishing and Presenting" Workshop on June 26th. Thank you very much to David Peralta and Lisa Smith of Wiley-VCH for making this possible. If you are a PhD or postdoc at @leidenscience.bsky.social, register for free: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Call me old-fashioned, aber ich mags ja wenn meine Schokolade nicht komplett aromenfrei ist. Bisschen langweilig.

#TimelineCleanse - and a clear recommendation of Samy Moussa's "Elysium", here performed by hr Symphony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpaR... #ClassicalSky

Love today’s #xkcd comic on #MassSpec 🤣

If you're an EU citizen, please consider supporting this initiative on banning Conversion "Therapy" in the EU: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... The petition is open until May 17 and is just shy of 700k signatures (needed: 1000k).

I'm really excited to seeing all the great Gold chemistry - such a versatile element!

🚨 10 Ways to Lose Your Research Data All cases are real-life, verified, and foolproof. By @nfdi4chem.de — a must-read for every chemist. 👉 www.chemistryviews.org/10-ways-to-l...

»Die Verkrempelung der Welt« erscheint morgen. In dem Buch frage ich, was eigentlich mit den Dingen des Alltags los ist. Werden sie wirklich schlechter? Und wenn ja, warum? In meinem Newsletter gibt es einen Auszug aus dem ersten Kapitel. steadyhq.com/de/gabriel-y...

Saturday, making good use of the choir break reading the new @yoran.com and great coffee ☕

This week I joined the German Chemical Society @gdch.bsky.social as a coordinating manager of its divisions and I am very excited. This also means that my time at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social is over, so in this thread I would like to look back at the past six years. (1/22)

More hiking, making use of the almost summer-like weather: Weinheim to Heidelberg through the Odenwald and over Heidelberg's house peak, the Königstuhl (they way down is not more fun than up...) 🥾 #TheEditorIsHiking

Open letter calling to refrain from using the (by now rather toxic) term "ultraprocessed food" and the NOVA classification. I very much agree that the classification is deeply problematic, both in scientific discourse and public perception of food and food processing.

Beyond excited to announce our in-person symposium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ChemBioChem/ChemPhysChem! Advances in Structural Analysis of Biomolecules From Subcellular Imaging to Drug Design October 23-24, 2025, Berlin Please like and share: cbc-cpc2025.org

🧪✨ March 28, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Lydia Maria Sesemann, the first woman to earn a PhD in chemistry www.chemistryviews.org/lydia-sesema...

Hiking the Black Forest - I can very much recommend the "Kandelhöhenweg" which took me from Freiburg to Gengenbach (with a wonderful culinary stop in Waldkirch) 🥾 #TheEditorIsHiking (So many spring flowers!)

At times, I did not believe this would ever see the light of day. Thanks to the unwavering support of Eva Hey-Hawkins, very pleased to see our review on multi-ferrocene-based ligands out #OpenAccess in Chem. Rev. : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#TheEditorIsHiking (And on much needed vacation - but there's always chemistry! 🧪)

Here's the write-up of our @chemistryeurope.bsky.social & @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #GWB25 event - happy reading! Many thanks again to @lisipea.bsky.social, all Wiley colleagues, our amazing speakers, and everybody who joined us in Weinheim and Berlin! 🧪

Now open for submissions: We're proudly presenting our new #OpenAccess journal #ChemFoodChem! bit.ly/ChemFoodChem Read more about the journal and its advisory board chairs and Editor in Chief @rubenragg.bsky.social on @chemistryviews.bsky.social: www.chemistryviews.org/launch-of-a-...

Looking back very fondly to October last year when I was part of a small chamber choir project where we did a baroque-only program including my fave Bach motet, "Singet dem Herrn" - now on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2w... #TheEditorSings

It was a great pleasure to visit the Inorg Chem department of @tumunich.bsky.social on invitation of @coburgerpeter.bsky.social for an extended publishing workshop a few weeks ago! Also a nice opportunity to visit @hadlingtongroup.bsky.social & co - Thanks for having me! 🧪 www.coburger-lab.de/news

The Young Scientist Award of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social of @gdch.bsky.social is open for nominations. If you know an excellent candidate, who defended their PhD or had a publication in 2024 in the field of biochemistry (or related), consider nominating them. #chemsky #ChemBio en.gdch.de/network-s...

Our review on photoswitchable self-assembled cages and macrocycles was selected as one of the most popular articles of 2023 & 2024! It's amazing to hear it being read and well received. @jonavoss.bsky.social @hhu.de Check out the review here: chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Zu den besonderen Quoren im neuen BT: - Union, SPD und Grüne haben keine 2/3-Mehrheit (für Verfassungsänderungen), -Grüne und Linke haben zusammen weniger als ein Viertel der Stimmen (für Untersuchungsausschüsse, Überprüfung von Gesetzen durch das BVerfG), - die AfD allein allerdings auch.

Die @dfg.de setzt die Ausschreibung für neue Schwerpunktprogramme (SPPs) für ein Jahr aus.

It's a wrap - Many thanks to all participants of our #GWB2025! Fantastic input talks by Schirin Hanf, @ralftonner.bsky.social & our director, Theresa Kueckmann were followed by not only more food for thought but also tasty snacks to fuel the networking! 📸 M Müller & G Tomasello #ChemSky

It was a pleasure to welcome guests from academia, industry, @gdch.bsky.social, publishing, and science communication to our Weinheim and Berlin offices. A special shout out to the whole organizing team, in particular my fantastic co-host @axelstraube.bsky.social for making this happen!

We're looking forward to #GWB2025 - only 6 days to go! Join us for stimulating talks on Academia & Parenting by Schirin Hanf (@kit.edu), @ralftonner.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social) & Theresa Kueckmann (Wiley-VCH). Join us in Weinheim or Berlin & register here: bit.ly/Wiley_GWB2025 #ChemSky

Dive into the latest trends in main group chemistry! 👨‍🔬✨ Frank Tambornino and I put together an overview of some 2024 highlights in Nachrichten aus der Chemie (@gdch.bsky.social). 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky #NewPI @humboldtuni.bsky.social

📢 Registration for our events in the framework of the @iupac.bsky.social #GWB2025, "Accelerating Equity in Science", is still open until February 7! Find out more and register here: bit.ly/Wiley_GWB2025 #ChemSky

📢 Come and join us for our events in the framework of the @iupac.bsky.social #GWB2025, "Accelerating Equity in Science"! There will be stimulating input talks on Academia & Parenting, food and drink, and plenty of room to network - Find out more and register here: bit.ly/Wiley_GWB2025 #ChemSky

+++ Großspenden-Ticker +++ NEU: Die #CDU hat erhalten ▶️ 100.000 Euro von Frank Gotthardt ▶️ 80.020 Euro von Brigitte Gotthardt Der Koblenzer Unternehmer Frank Gotthardt ist Gründer der Medizinsoftwarefirma Compugroup und Financier des Portals „Nius“ von Ex-BILD-Chef Julian Reichelt.

The Young Scientist Award of @gdchbiochem.bsky.social of @gdch.bsky.social is open for nominations. If you know an excellent candidate, who defended their PhD or had a publication in 2024 in the field of biochemistry (or related), consider nominating them. #chemsky #ChemBio en.gdch.de/network-s...

Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows - www.reuters.com/world/us/ger...

We're delighted to announce Stefan Grimme @grimmelab.bsky.social as the recipient of the 2025 Chemistry Europe Award! He'll be recognized "for his groundbreaking contributions that have had a profound impact on the scientific community” at #IUPAC2025. www.chemistryviews.org/stefan-grimm... #Chemsky

Viele gute Gründe für eine Zustimmung zur Namensänderung finden sich auch in den Testimonials verschiedener GDCh Mitglieder*innen, unter anderem von @lisipea.bsky.social @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social @christophjacob.eu @axelstraube.bsky.social und mir. www.gdch.de/gdch/ueber-u...