Northern Lights over Greenland.

I'm taking a moment to appreciate NS conductors. Every day, they show professionalism and friendliness. Often they even have a little personal touch for each person on the train: if they see that you have an NS business card, they say: 'werk ze!'. Good vibes all around.

Alchemy was not just the cliché of would-be wizards failing to turn lead into gold; alchemists' workshops enabled them to achieve important discoveries in the study of chemistry. Explore our visual tour of the history of chemistry research funding to learn more: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky🧪

Exclusive: chemistry's international governing body is moving from its home of 25 years in the US to two cities in Europe.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

If anyone is looking for a postdoc, feel free to slide into my dms :)

A fully funded PhD position is available in my future research group at the University of Bern (start between May and September 2026). We are developing polycyclic aromatics for semiconductors, sensors & more! Please spread the word! More information here: tinyurl.com/4n9ere6h

“Academia should prepare you for the real world” is just code for normalizing exploitation. Why are unpaid labor, toxic hierarchies, and abuse considered preparation instead of problems to fix? 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat

✨ COLOR THAT THINKS. Just out in Nature Communications: a hydrogel that changes color, fluorescence, and shape — all controlled by light-gated redox switching! 💡🔋💜 From transparent to deep purple, from still to moving — chemistry meets soft robotics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!

Check out the most colourful work of my PhD, available now from Nature Communications! (It's open access, you have no excuse not to read) Thank you to my collaborators, among others @robertheinchem.bsky.social @feringalab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I would, more broadly, love to read something on why women are seemingly the ones with all the hobbies - it strikes me once in a while but noticed it most recently in my film camera shop, where *every single customer* was a woman, when film photography doesn't strike me as especially female coded

The sun can provide limitless heat for buildings and industrial processes. But using that heat on demand means capturing and storing solar thermal energy for when the sun isn’t shining. Researchers have designed an effortless way to do this. cen.acs.org/energy/solar... #chemsky 🧪

Excited to share the publication of our automated characterisation platform for measuring the quantum yield and half life of molecular photoswitches. The method is easy to use and reduce also the needed amount for characterisation. #chemsky #molswitch pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Pigpotrait #tSwieneparredies #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZoology #animals #pig #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

Een shirt van schimmels: een goede stap richting een duurzamere mode-industrie 👕 Marleen Kamperman (FSE/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social) en Marijke Leliveld (FEB) kijken hoe het bruikbaar kan worden gemaakt, én interessant wordt voor de consument 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat... #Fashion #Science

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Just published in @natcomms.nature.com! We developed a photoswitch amphiphile that self-assembles in water. In presence of cations, this amphiphile forms a hydrogel that bends like muscle under UV-light and self-recovers without any external stimulus. @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

A few firms are developing lab coats in a wider range of sizes and with features that enhance comfort: cen.acs.org/safety/lab-s... #chemsky #phdsky #academicsky 🧪

Designing for climate change | Podcast for MoMA on the inspiration for the climate spirals and warming stripes www.moma.org/magazine/art...

Stephanie Beaupark is working to analyze the chemistry of natural dyes made from eucalyptus plants. This Ngugi researcher gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities to track changes in plant pigments. #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay cen.acs.org/environment/...

🧪Here are our current open positions: www.benferinga.com/vacancies/ - PhD on Functional DNA-Rotator Motors - PhD in the Origin of Homochirality - PhD on Expanding Prebiotic Chemistry Through Reactivity in Oil Droplets - Postdoc Molecular motors based DNA-walkers

Last Tuesday, I defended my PhD thesis titled "Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Storage: Powered by Molecular Switches" A huge thank you to my two beautiful paranymphs who supported me the entire day, and my amazing opponents for the great questions. Hugs, Dr. Roza

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

More is more when it comes to bisthioxanthylidene 😍

Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

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We would like to bring our EVOLVE consortium with its PhD positions to your attention again! Sharing is also much appreciated.

This is what we’ve become. In just a single decade.

For International Women's Day 2025, celebrate the enduring legacy of Rosalind Franklin as Liz Sockett FRS, Chair of the Royal Society’s Rosalind Franklin Award committee and Isabelle Moss, Royal Society Diversity and Inclusion Officer, take a look at her remarkable career: #IWD2025

It's happening!!!!!!!!!

just ordered printed copies of my thesis! it's really happening!

Stephanie Beaupark sees #chemistry through an Indigenous lens: This Ngugi researcher from University of Wollongong gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities to track changes in plant pigments. cen.acs.org/environment/... via @cenmag.bsky.social

New paper about the efficient synthesis of the most common molecular motor building blocks just out in JOC, have a look! 🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/acs....

As to be expected of MAGA snowflakes.

An important point to keep in mind.

super happy to back in Groningen! meeting old friends in @feringalab.bsky.social and reconnecting 🤗

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Remember that today is not only a moment to celebrate the amazing women around us, but also to think about how YOU can make a difference.

Welcome FSE! Make sure to give them a follow 👇

this is how I look at all my rbfs

We just added another position: - PhD Towards Human-Made Molecular Machines: Functional DNA-Rotator Motors www.benferinga.com/vacancies/