please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher. At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.

Neue Daten widerlegen ein zentrales Narrativ der Impfgegner: Bei Kindern/Jugendlichen war nicht die #COVID19-#Impfung, sondern die Infektion das deutlich größere Risiko für Myokarditis/Gefäßerkrankungen. Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Storms🧵 theconversation.com/even-weak-tr...

Yay! Ore Cup is here! 😍 @amphibol.bsky.social

Bundespräsident Steinmeier ist heute in #Angola. Ich war schon vor ihm da und habe mich umgehört: Wo steht das Land 50 Jahre nach der Unabhängigkeit? Zu hören im Deutschlandfunk: www.deutschlandfunk.de/angola-reich...

Sorry. 🤭 #3I/Atlas (Photo by Lotem Loeb, I hope this counts as fair use)

In unserer WWAS-Halloweenfolge mehr als nur ein Hauch von Frankenstein. 🧟‍♂️ Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen. Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

While this scanning electron microscope image may look like a harbinger of doom—perhaps a symptom of a haunted instrument or a cursed lab—Gustavo Porrata Caraballo says there’s a perfectly rational scientific explanation for it: cen.acs.org/materials/po... #CENChemPics #Halloween #chemsky 🧪

Der neue Haderer - morgen in der Wochenendausgabe der Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten. Zeichnerisch wieder grosse Klasse.

🧪 I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!

Apply for an @esa.int Living Planet Fellowship to work with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social! Canada is 'Associated State' and so we can host fellows who use Earth Observation data in their research. 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ @igsoc.bsky.social @gaphaz.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...

Steampunk is all well and good, but it is really a bit like a cargo cult version of the real thing.

🔴⚠️🌀🇯🇲With landfall in Cat.5, #Melissa is the strongest #hurricane to hit #Jamaica, with winds at almost 300km/h & first below 900mb in the Atlantic for the last 95 years. Stunning 📸#Sentinel2 of it with an eye of more than 20km on Oct.28

I just read about zoonotic UTI with poultry E. coli and now I'm trying very hard not to jump to conclusions...

Listening to stories about trying to get a mining operation started in germany. The number of conspiracy theories and other bullshit ideas voiced at hearings is truly insane.

Okay so as promised... let's go through this paper and why it matters 🧵 #medsky #immunosky #idsky

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

Recycling concrete is actually a thing: gravel from recycled concrete.

Visiting a gravel production area near Erfurt. The gravel is dug up, cleaned and directly processed into concrete here. Kilometer-long conveyor belts transport the gravel to the central processing hub. It's about 12 m of gravel, so it's much less impressive than other open pit mines.

Made my day! 😄

Everybody talks about raw materials these days. Mostly about rare earth elements. But there are many less glamorous, but equally important resources. In the next days, I will visit sites in thuringia where sand, gravel and salt are produced, among others. I love it! 😀

Also wenn der MDR die Kaftwerksprengung schon Live überträgt, dann hätten sie für den Kommentar auch noch Heribert Faßbender aus dem Ruhestand holen können.

Ich bin ja bekennender Fan von Industriearchitektur und nehm jede Führung bei BASF mit... Aber, Diggi, komm ma klar. Weißt du wie viele hyperboloide Kühltürme es auf der Welt gibt? 🤣 Aber krass. Bojanowski war früher echt mal ernstzunehmender Wissenschaftsjournalist.

Revolutioniert KI die Chenie? @fischblog.bsky.social weiß es. #Podcaast overcast.fm/+AA21MJTHbzM

Das hier ist meine private Lieblingsapokalypse: irgendeine obskure Industriechemikalie, die sich nach und nach in der Umwelt anreichert. Irgendwann stellen wir fest, dass sie schon in kleinen Konzentrationen unfruchtbar macht. Aber dann ist es zu spät, weil wir sie nie wieder los werden. 😁 1/3

Since I just got my covid and flu shots, here's a curious observation. The covid shot improves my joint pain. The effect is so pronounced that I always make sure to get the jab in the arm hat hurts more. So this report about cancer immunotherapy doesn't come completely unexpected. 1/5

Whenever there is talk about building a permanent base on Moon or Mars there is one very simple question you should ask first: Has anyone yet built and tested a habitat that is resilient, reliable and self-sufficient enough that you don't have to resupply like every 10 weeks or so?

So, *checks notes* if someone sneezes on the train I cut them in half with my chainsaw. Got it.

It definitely piqued my interest to see Clark et al's reconstruction of sea level for the past 4.5 million years, something I first heard about several years ago. However, upon reading it, I am very surprised that this was published. 🧵 1/11 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The result is not new, but it shows how large parts of german politics and media have already given up on their own political ideas.

On today's @sciam.bsky.social science quiz, we've got space shuttles and cryptography puzzles. Share your score below! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/game/scienti...

Winter Is Coming! It caused me quite a bit of trouble to find masks that have both a foam nose pad and a clip for connecting the elastic bands behind the head.

Beautiful. Also, it looks a bit like vacuum tubing that's been used for far too long. #ChemSky

It has become fairly common these days to claim that something (usually AI) predicted something after the fact. That's bullshit. That way cute animals can "predict" soccer results as well. Apart from the headline, the SciAm-Article is well worth reading, though. And it's not about prediction.

This is not surprising. We already know direct carbon compensation doesn't work. And carbon credit trading schemes are just a more elaborate version of the same thing.

Since the US was the only country doing this at scale and noone else will even attempt to step in, the next decades will be interesting. Emerging diseases need to be lucky only once. We have to be lucky all the time.

What does an accessible lab look like? Many research labs are inaccessible to disabled scientists, but they don’t have to be. #DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Nein das norwegische Friedensnobelpreis-Kommittee „trollt“ Trump nicht, sie „wischen“ ihm auch nicht eins aus und haben das nicht „extra“ gemacht. Preisträgerin Machado steht seit Wochen fest. Dieser ganze Vorgang hat nichts mit Trump zu tun. Es sind eigene Verdienste. Bringt ihn nicht rein.

So, unser Hintergrundbericht zum Chemie-Nobelpreis ist online. :-) Leider hinter der Paywall. Dafür tun wir nicht so, als wären all die großen Versprechungen schon Realität. Sind sie nämlich nicht. www.spektrum.de/news/nobelpr...

Awarding a #Nobel to porous materials and leaving out zeoliths completely is a rather odd choice in my view. 🧪 #chemsky

Es geht los! Chemie-Nobelpreis in 5 Minuten. Hier noch mal meine Prognose: scilogs.spektrum.de/fischblog/ch...

Spoiler: die Antort auf die Frage hängt davon ab, was man mit "demnächst" meint. Nächste 50 Jahre: sehr sicher nicht Nächste 500 Jahre: etwa fifty-fifty Nächste 500 000 Jahre: sehr sicher ja

Did I already bring Plagdle to your attention? Found today's disease in 4 guesses. 😎 www.plagdle.com

Is there something historians are not telling us? Or cephalopod researchers, for that matter? 🤔 #constantine #cuttlefish

As in every year since 2013, I published my guess who will get the #nobelprize in #chemistry, to be announced next week. This year I deviate from all other polls and predictions out there: John Warner and Paul Anastas for formulating the concepts of Green Chemistry. (article in german) #chemsky 🧪

Tugtupite is in the lead with half an hour to go. #subnautica players now need to come together for kyanite!

It's so close, literally every single vote counts now! Join in!