Some 2 years ago I was approached to write an article about being trans. Took a year to write, with many rewrites to keep up to date with the world. Long story short, got rejected. Was devastated. Took me over a year to recollect myself. Now it can be read: #idahobit medium.com/@Tanja.Junke...

“One report (found) that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer. Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

☕ Rückblick aufs #GWB2026 in Frankfurt: Rund 40 Teilnehmende bei GDCh & @nfdi4chem.de. Das GWB ist eine @iupac.org-Initiative – die GDCh ist seit 2019 dabei, passend zum Leitbild „Wir leben Diversität und Chancengleichheit". Nette Gespräche auf Augenhöhe inklusive.

Writing is thinking "On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

„Sie stehen bei den Selbstscannerkassen und machen: »mäh, mäh, mäh« Das ganze Interview ist so lieb! www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/p...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

It appears that the account jjajacjack.bsky.social is impersonating Larissa von Krbek vkrbek.bsky.social. I‘ve been in contact with her and she confirmed that this is not her. She reported it to Bluesky, but the account is still there, so it‘d be nice if y‘all could do the needful and report it too

"Demokratie schützt sich nicht von allein. Sie braucht Menschen. Sie braucht Haltung. Und sie braucht den politischen Willen, sie aktiv zu verteidigen und zu fördern – jeden Tag" erklärt Karamba Diaby. Sicherheit heißt, dass Demokratie lebendig bleibt und wir Haltung zeigen. Was das bedeutet:

Der Nachmittag in Bildern: Impulse vom VCW, von den SEC-Expert:innen und vom @jungchemikerforum.bsky.social. Dazu die Verleihung des Hildegard Hamm-Brücher-Preises durch Präsidentin @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social, eine musikalische Einlage durch Duo Modu und eine Podiumsdiskussion.

"Wir alle können zu Chancengleichheit beitragen!" Karamba Diaby appelliert in seinem Impulsvortrag an unsere Eigeninitiative. Unser Erlenmeyerchen hat sich feingemacht und hört gespannt zu.

Heute im Deutschen Museum München: Wir feiern 25 Jahre Chancengleichheit in der Chemie. Hilde Nimmesgern, Vorsitzende der Komm. Chancengleichheit eröffnet die Veranstaltung und Präsidentin @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social hält ein Grußwort.

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...