I have a PhD position available in my lab at the University of Freiburg!! If you, or someone you know, might be looking for a position using modeling and simulations to uncover secrets in (glyco-)protein structure/function relationships please take a look at our website! www.kearnslab.org

I am super grateful to have had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Science Erlangen symposium this week about my career, my identity, and the work of the @gdch.de – and to sing and play the ukulele for a scientific audience for the first time in my life 😃 (1/3)

Due to popular demand, I am sharing my slide deck on #environmental costs of #ML in #compchem & #materials_science www.grynova-ccc.org/other.html - incl. work by @skepteis.bsky.social @pschwllr.bsky.social and others. Please send any other relevant resources my way, I’ll be maintaining this deck.

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

DiSenSu-Projekt erhält Hildegard-Hamm-Brücher-Preis für Chancengleichheit: gdch.app/article/dise...

This is such a good TED Talk. Especially if you know the YouTube channel There I Ruined It. Raises good questions about the role and value of AI in the creative process. www.ted.com/talks/dustin...

Interested in predicting magnetism in transition metal compounds? We have written a paper on how to use exchange heuristics in such models. We also show limits of current theoretical approaches. Please find our preprint here. doi.org/10.26434/che... #compchemsky

Kennen Sie nur 1 % Ihres Netzwerks? Zeit, die anderen 99 % zu entdecken! Die GDCh hat dafür Chem_Connect entwickelt: ein kostenloses Networking-Format, das Mitglieder per Zufallsprinzip zusammenbringt. Der Ablauf ist simpel: Anmelden, überraschen lassen, austauschen: gdch.app/connect

Scientific organizations (or any really): please be aware that if you host international conferences in the US, you will be excluding quite a few people from this point on, for whom the risk is just not worth it.

Dear friends and colleagues outside of Germany, I'd be very happy to work with more of you in the GDCh in the near future. Membership for new international members will be free in 2025 and 2026!

Eine chronische Krankheit zu haben, ist anstrengend. Eine chronische Krankheit zu haben, die geleugnet wird, ist noch anstrengender. — 2. Apotheken Umschau Kolumne jetzt auch online www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-...

Ich finde euch übrigens alle exzellent, egal was die DFG sagt 🫶

The @angewandtechemie.bsky.social workshop series continues! Today, our editors Shaista Tahir and Nathalie Weickgenannt will be in Erlangen to talk about submissions and publications. Do not miss out! 📍 Hörsaal C2 in the Chemikum 📅 May 22 ⌚ 16:00

#ChemJobs Theoretical chemistry (W1, tenure track) Giessen (DE) www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Deadline: June 26, 2025 #CompChem #ChemSky

Rechtsextreme setzen gezielt auf Transfeindlichkeit – zur Mobilisierung, als Brückenideologie & zur Aushöhlung demokratischer Rechte. Unsere neue Broschüre mit dem BVT* zeigt: Transfeindlichkeit ist kein Randphänomen, sondern politische Strategie, die weit über rechtsextreme Kreise hinausreicht.

New issue of @gdch.de Nachrichten aus der Chemie with focus on EDI and mental health challenges. Being in chemistry is more than just *doing* chemistry, so it's very nice to see all of these aspects in the spotlight, particularly these days! gdch.app/nachrichten-...

Happy to see ChemRxiv now has a Bluesky button! #chemsky

A big shout out to @cwpstr.bsky.social for this great article in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Mental health is something we talk way too little about in academia. I especially like how this article addresses the MH of academics themselves, as this is often overlooked. Must read! #ozchem #chemsky

This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

„Moin“ ab jetzt nur noch mit rheinischem Dehnungs-i („Mohn“) aussprechen

My main concern with ascribing DMS to 'life' is that there are many ways it could be easily made abiotically in plausible exoplanet atmospheric conditions (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ....). However, interrogating the data from the paper, it appears even its basic presence is far from proven.

The full letter where this quote on responsible use of language is pulled from makes it even more interesting and timely. Read it below 👇

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)

Seid ihr die Diskussionen, was Nord- und was Süddeutschland ist, auch leid? Hier kommt die endgültige Antwort: Alles, was nördlich der Benrather Linie (rot) und des Aldi-Äquators (blau) liegt, ist Norddeutschland. Alles südlich von beiden Süddeutschland. Alles dazwischen a secret third thing.

Our editors Suzanne Tobey and Jeanette Loos look forward to meeting you at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego. Visit the Wiley booth (#3946) and talk to them: 24 March 2025: 11:00AM-12:00PM 25 March 2025: 11:00AM-12:00PM 26 March 2025: 11:00AM-12:00PM (local times)

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

Elevating top-tier chemistry research! Charlotte Gers-Panther, Frank Maaß, and Nathalie Weickgenannt introduce the unique concept of #AngewandteChemieNovit in their Editorial. Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/anie... @gdch.bsky.social

The GDCh (@gdch.bsky.social ) und Wiley-VCH launch Angewandte Chemie Novit, a highly-selective journal with a unique selection process to give the best research extra visibility www.chemistryviews.org/how-to-find-... @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the launch of Angewandte Chemie Novit - An #OpenAccess journal dedicated to elevating the most significant advances in chemistry. For more information, visit angewandte.org/novit. #AngewandteChemieNovit @gdch.bsky.social

The AgTC (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie) is joining the blue sky. We will post about theoretical and computational chemistry-related topics. To find out more about us, visit agtc.univie.ac.at #AgTC #TheoChem #CompChem

Weekend reading: The graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea by @ursulakleguin.com. Still the best fantasy novel about a boy attending a wizarding school, and much kinder and human than the other novel series with a similar premise which came out decades later. This adaptation is beautiful.

For everyone who missed the Global Women‘s Breakfast last month on academia and parenting hosted by @angewandtechemie.bsky.social and @chemistryeurope.bsky.social: Our article about the event is now online on ChemistryViews. Happy reading! @ralftonner.bsky.social @axelstraube.bsky.social

Project idea: Nomnomics approach for classification of cake and pastries

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Quick follow up to the paper: here is GOAT doing a conformational search of a ligand on a protein pocket, including a few waters. The protein was frozen but does not need to be. All done in ORCA6 using QM/MM for the PES. Have fun with it! 😀 #compchemsky 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A shame - the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD has to cut 2500 stipends because the federal government is not willing to financially compensate for increasing stipend rates. Affected are programs supporting Ukrainian refugees and students from African countries, among other things.

Wirklich schade, aber 75% Zustimmung sind auch eine sehr hohe Hürde. 69% Zustimmung zeigen aber auch, dass einem Großteil der GDCh-Mitglieder dieses und ähnliche Themen wichtig sind. Ich bin dankbar für alle, die sich für die Namensänderung ausgesprochen und eingesetzt haben!

Hab gewählt. Und ihr solltet auch.

I've written a "behind the paper" column to celebrate the story and the people behind our paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., and discuss some little details we couldn't fit in the paper itself. It's here pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~skeja/behin...

The paper on ORCA 6’s Global Optimization Algorithm GOAT is finally published at Angewandte Chemie! Feel free to try Bernardo's (@bernadsz.bsky.social) algorithm to generate conformer ensembles and much more. doi.org/10.1002/anie... Tutorial on GOAT: www.faccts.de/docs/orca/6.... #ORCAqc #ChemSky

My latest column in EMBO Reports @emboreports.org , co-authored with Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social : "Using AI to prepare for academic interviews – don’t trade authenticity for polish." www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The Global Optimization Algorithm (🐐) paper is out on Angewandte Chemie. In the following days, we will try to take some time to show more of what it can do. For now, you can find already many examples on the paper. It is already fully available on ORCA6! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ihr seid gefragt: Noch bis zum 22.2 können GDCh-Mitglieder über die Namensänderung der GDCh abstimmen. Helft uns dabei, unserer GDCh einen Namen zu geben, der uns und unsere vielfältige Mitgliederschaft optimal repräsentiert! www.linkedin.com/posts/gdch-d...

My two most common editorial suggestions for manuscripts I handle are: (i) improve writing style by avoiding exaggerated terms, and (ii) ensure machine learning studies include a repository for reproducibility and reuse of models and data #EditorLife #ChemSky

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

Busy day at Wiley today! This morning we had our #GWB2025 event focusing on Academia and Parenting. Lots of great conversations and connections were made! Even better when old friends could join us in person! Thanks to @chemistryeurope.bsky.social and @angewandtechemie.bsky.social for organizing!

Many thanks to everyone who made the #GWB2025 by @angewandtechemie.bsky.social & @chemistryeurope.bsky.social so amazing today! The talks on Academia & Parenting by Schirin Hanf, @ralftonner.bsky.social, and Theresa Kueckmann were inspiring and showed us a human side we often don’t see in academia.

In the light of the US dismantling DEI, if there are any US chemistry departments/companies who would like an online webinar on #LGBTSTEM issues, I can give one. I offer three variants (details in AltText). Happy to do at no personal charge, but will insist on a donation to local US LGBT+ charities.

The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. www.acs.org/about/divers...

It's ChemPhysChem's 25th birthday! Check out this anniversary collection featuring papers by the board members. Contributions from @trujillo-group.bsky.social @svetlanatsogoeva.bsky.social @vanwijng.bsky.social @aomullane-echem.bsky.social @ibonalkorta.bsky.social & others🧪 tinyurl.com/2p8ynjs3