Digital Data Management in Catalysis: Funding for the NFDI4Cat Consortium is Extended The digital data management projects within the NFDI4Cat catalysis consortium as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) will continue to rece... weiterlesen

Digitales Datenmanagement in der Katalyse: Förderung des NFDI4Cat-Konsortiums wird verlängert Die Projekte zum digitalen Datenmanagement innerhalb des Katalyse-Konsortiums NFDI4Cat als Teil der Nationalen ForschungsDaten Infrastruktur (NFDI) w... weiterlesen

a new article got published using a nanomaterial identifier (JRCNM40011a) from a common controlled vocabulary: "Towards a harmonized testing strategy for nanofibers by integrating toxicological screening and proteomic profiling" https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-025-15423-9 "... harmonized test […]

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as you may have noticed, I updated the profile background picture some weeks ago. That picture was taken almost 25 years ago. You can see that it cannot have been more recent from the buildings in the background. That trip has quite some history. During this trip I gave my first conference […]

Like most times I said "I could hack that in an evening", I am now a week into my journey to bridge the @nfdi4culture and @NFDI4Chem knowledge graphs, inspired by Torsten Schrade's excellent keynote lecture at the NFDI4Chem 6.0 consortium meeting It required […] [Original post on scholar.social]

@HLdeJonge, you recently blogged "you] created over 1,600 Crossref Grant IDs with associated metadata. We are beginning to see them appear in publications." [https://doi.org/10.64000/dvqke-j4v69 How are you tracking that? Does PlumX or Altmetric track this and you can use that data? Or are you […]

reading about papercheck and the modules it has: https://scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/articles/papercheck.html (in interesting TDCC outcome already!) for checking which papers are retracted of which papers I am citing that cite a retracted paper, etc, I have solutions for that already […]

leuke serie over the chemische elementen in de @scientias-nl.bsky.social podcast: https://scientias.nl/nieuws/video/podcast/ #chemie #scheikunde #podcast

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

I wrote up my notes and results of my effort to collect information about the Internet Journal of Chemistry: https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/11/the-internet-journal-of-chemistry.html Feedback, curation, ideas, etc are all most welcome! #chemistry #wikidata

September 2025 WikiPathways update: 261 edits by 6 contributors and 13 new pathways in the last month. Accessible via #webservices, #rstats, #PathVisio and #Cytoscape. Supported by #AWSOpen. https://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/Download_Pathways #bioinformatics #openscience #opensource

#Molybdenite is the primary host for the element molybdenum in the Earth's crust. Molybdenum is part of the most effective biological molecule for nitrogen fixation (Mo-nitrogenase), which converts atmospheric N2 to a bio-available form. The grey sphere is Mo […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

nice new R-group SMILES enumeration feature in the upcoming JChemPaint release, see https://github.com/JChemPaint/jchempaint/pull/225 #openscience #chemistry

Interesting read: "The euroSAMPL1 pKa blind prediction and reproducible research data management challenge" https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CP01448D "The goal of the first euroSAMPL pKa blind prediction challenge was to promote and help develop good RDM standards for computational chemistry. To […]

Save the date and join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Organic #semiconductor materials: Challenges and opportunities” in Frankfurt/Main, 🇩🇪, 📅 Sept. 23–25, 2025. The scientific organizers Stefan Braese, @KIT_Karlsruhe, and […] [Original post on hessen.social]

multiple group members are already in Athens for the #elixireurope INTOXICOM workshop and will join the EUROTOX (https://www.eurotox2025.com/) meeting next week #eurotox2025 #elixirtoxicology

new preprint: "Fostering and sustaining collaborative innovation: Insights from ELIXIR Europe's life science Communities" https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.168288.1 "The ELIXIR Communities framework is made up of a suite of tools and processes that ensure […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

reading https://liberdon.com/@linux/115163461488053805 What if @zotero had a #fediverse plugin and that plugin would listen to certain hashtags, like #icanhazpdf, and would reply to the requesting account *and* the fediverse account linked to the person of the Zotero account, or just send the […]

the ASINA project published a new paper, about making their project output more FAIR. e.g. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17052010 and context in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.impact.2025.100583 They have been using European Registry of Materials (ERM) identifier, and I have started updating two […]

Forever chemicals are more acidic than we thought, study finds. Via @sciencex.physorg #ForeverChemicals #ClimateChange 🌎♨️ #Chemistry

flash talk #2: "Retracted articles in Wikidata and how to use them" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2025_Retractions_-_Egon_Willighagen.pdf (with huge thanks to Retraction Watch and @crossref !) #wikicite2025

Registration is OPEN! The preliminary agenda for the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop 2025 in Limburg an der Lahn is online. The workshop will take place on 📅 11–13 November, 2025 and is jointly organized by ,@NFDI4Chem, @NFDI4Cat, Physical Sciences Data […] [Original post on hessen.social]

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

but I think this letter says it more clearly: let's base this on what the Dutch Open Science Community is already doing and take time to do it right: https://akademienl.social/@meliimming/115105827393717696

flash talk #1: "Update on the Citation Typing Ontology citation intention annotations" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2025_CiTO_Update_-_Egon_Willighagen.pdf #wikicite2025

later today I will give two 8 minute talks at #wikicite2025 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2025 16:00 CEST: "Update on the Citation Typing Ontology citation intention annotations" 16:10 CEST: "Retracted articles in Wikidata and how to use them" I got some nice new screenshots lined up!

There are not a lot of scientific journals that support publishing of explicit CiTO citation intent annotations (all Springer Nature journals can), but you can make intent annotations to any of your articles with this @nanopub template […]

and with that, we also gained 3 new nanopublication, with the oldest discussed articles now in 1977 and 1978. More here: https://scholia.toolforge.org/cito/

scientific discussion moved from "letters to the editor" to PubPeer. There is a lot to be said about that, but one thing that must be said is that PubPeer can disappear. But Letters to the Editor are preserved, for better or worse. if not mistaken, it was […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

"Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump "Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov…was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process… […]

the current #wikicite2025 speaker, Fantoli if not mistaken, discusses some ambiguity of Perictione I and II in Wikidata and the Wikipedia's. This is a recurrent issue and why we need unique, persistent identifiers, just like Wikidata is providing. #wikidata is the only database that covers all […]

#uniprot The largest open+free #knowledgegraph in the life sciences. I will be talking about the why and the use cases at #semantics2025 5th of September 2025. Looking forward to seeing you all there! https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/sessions?page=1nZsC6p2V3Yk73axR9Jl1NWq1IhVpkqtN

Our paper on the Library of Identification Resources is out! In it, we describe how and why to record publications for the taxonomic identification of organisms in a FAIR database, and how to query that data to find applicable resources for an insect or a plant in NW Europe. Next, we will look […]

Just fresh from the @daliaeducation.bsky.social satellite meeting today... www.linkedin.com/in/sonja-her... Thank you to all speakers and participants! #fairdata #OER

I see a lot of people from my bubble head to #aachen today :) I will be there only today, to talk about #wikidata, at the @dalia satellite meeting

new blog post: "The eNanoMapper project deliverables" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/24/the-enanomapper-project-deliverables.html https://doi.org/10.59350/t7kmh-fc360 "This is a bit of an administrative post and historic, but keep coming back to the question, where are all […]

new blog post: "AI Technologies in Academia" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/18/ai-technologies-in-academia.html https://doi.org/10.59350/hr4y6-kwq16 About the "Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia" ( […]

New paper out: What little red riding hood can teach us about reading science. This is not a Nature advice column, but results from experimental research on how to teach to read scientific literature. Open Access. https://uplopen.com/chapters/e/10.1515/9783110782844-010

new blog post: "AI Technologies in Academia" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/18/ai-technologies-in-academia.html https://doi.org/10.59350/hr4y6-kwq16 About the "Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia" ( […]

Bacting 1.0.7 is out! https://github.com/egonw/bacting/releases/tag/bacting-1.0.7 "Major update release, fixing queries against Wikidata for the graph split, important updates including Apache HttpClient5, Oscar 5.3, NanoJava 2.0.5 and jQUDT 1.5.1." Bacting is the command line version of […]

@larsgw that patch is awesome! runs very quickly on the 276k IUPAC names! pv -l iupac-names.txt | groovy countVariants.groovy > iupac-names-counts.txt And thx for the following tip! xsv stats -n -d'\t' iupac-names-counts.txt Wow, from this 276k names we can generate 3.4 *billion* IUPAC names […]

Research detailing the development of universal AI-enhanced QM method 2, AIQM2, has just been published in Chemical Science. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC02802G This method can be used for transition state optimisations and full dynamics, at chemical […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

new blog post: "Integrating comments via the Fediverse" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/13/integrating-comments-via-the-fediverse.html https://doi.org/10.59350/r4mbg-yyb06 "Almost half a year ago I read this post by Bastian about, well […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

porting more content of the old Groovy #cheminformatics with the #chemistry Development Kit book to Markdown, here about substructure searching: https://cdk.github.io/cdkbook/substructure.html

new blog post: "Archiving blogs" https://doi.org/10.59350/vjvdy-6p110 or https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/12/27/archiving_blogs.html "Blogs come and go. Sometimes they move from one location to another. However, blogs have not been […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

as Marshall College Professor Jones could have said: "This belongs in a database!" https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c10413 Well, the first pKa column and all arsonic acids are now in @wikidata :) #openscience #chemistry #cheminformatics

new blog: "One Million IUPAC names #4: a lot is happening" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/09/one-million-iupac-names-4.html "A lot is happening. If you have been following this project more closesly, you may have already seen some interesting updates, but I will post it here […]