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@baoilleach.bsky.social
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#cheminformatics
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Kohulan Rajan
about 11 hours ago
Our new paper now 🎉 Published: Cheminformatics Microservice V3! Paper:
doi.org/10.1186/s133...
🛠️ Web app + API: RDKit, CDK, Open Babel — NO install, 100% open-source. Try now:
app.naturalproducts.net
#Cheminformatics
#OpenScience
#Innovation
#CompChem
#Opensource
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Cheminformatics Microservices UI
Cheminformatics Microservices UI - A modern interface for chemical data analysis
https://app.naturalproducts.net
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Noel O'Boyle
Chemical Biology Services
5 days ago
We've just released a webinar that provides background on the
#chembl
database alongside worked examples highlighting some common scenarios in drug discovery initiatives.
chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/make...
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Make the most of the ChEMBL interface with our newest webinar!
Before starting a new drug discovery project, it’s useful to compile existing data on compounds and targets of interest. Open access bioacti...
https://chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/make-most-of-chembl-interface-with-our.html
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I've gone from a review a year to being asked 6 times in as many weeks. The honeymoon period of returning to academia is well and truly over... :-)
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Noel O'Boyle
Chemical Biology Services
8 days ago
We have gone back in time and generated SQLite files for all releases of
#ChEMBL
from version 1 onwards making it easier to carry out analyses across ChEMBL versions.
chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/sqli...
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https://chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/sqlite-versions-now-available-for-all.html
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Want to work with me on cool stuff?
#ukchemjobs
#chembl
#chemjobs
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about 1 month ago
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Where's the best place to advertise a (computational) postdoc position? (asking for a friend...)
#chemjobs
#chempostdocs
about 2 months ago
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Jess Ewald
about 2 months ago
Check out this opportunity to join my lab as a postdoc!
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
Every year, faculty from EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute co-develop projects that allow fellows to be part of ✨both✨ of these amazing research institutes.
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EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships (ESPOD)
The ESPOD fellowship builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, offering projects that combine experimental (wet-lab) and computational (dry-lab) appr...
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/postdocs/espods/
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#cheminformatics
#chembl
#surechembl
#chemjobs
#chempostdocs
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about 2 months ago
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Blog post on "A new job, a postdoc opportunity, an open biological curator role, and a user group meeting"
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A new job, a postdoc opportunity, an open biological curator role, and a user group meeting
Almost exactly 6 months ago, I took over the leadership of the Chemical Biology Services team at EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK. This is the team th...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-new-job-postdoc-opportunity-open.html
about 2 months ago
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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
2 months ago
Selfie with
@baoilleach.bsky.social
in severe violation of CADD GRC policy 😀 Cool things are coming to ChEMBL, stay tuned 🤖
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Very excited about this!
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Blog post: "A 16-year time loop"
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-16...
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A 16-year time loop
Next week I wlil be attending the Computer Aided Drug Design Gordon Research Conference (CADD GRC) in the US (Maine). The last (and only)...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-16-year-time-loop.html
2 months ago
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Chris de Graaf
3 months ago
Closing the loop on
#GenAI
for
#GPCR
#SBDD
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
tinyurl.com/yeyhfr7j
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Identification of nanomolar adenosine A2A receptor ligands using reinforcement learning and structure-based drug design - Nature Communications
Here the authors combine a deep generative model with structure-based drug design and prospectively validate functionally active, nanomolar, A2A adenosine receptor ligands and solve their crystal stru...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60629-0
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️🌈
3 months ago
CASP is the main reason the protein structure prediction technology and research field advanced over the last 30 years. And the main reason AI based methods have been accepted and widely applied in biology. So shortsighted of NIH to postpone or even halt funding. John Moult is a scientific hero.
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Chemical Biology Services
3 months ago
The ChEMBL-og: Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey!
chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/supp...
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Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey!
If our data resources have ever been of use to you, here’s your chance to give back! EMBL-EBI’s impact survey aims to understand the usage,...
https://chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/support-chembl-embl-ebi-user-survey.html
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Nathan Brown
3 months ago
🚀 Healx is launching a new blog series on practical, open-source workflows for drug discovery! First up: a KNIME + ChEMBL pipeline to explore compound-target interactions. Big thanks to
#RDKit
, ChEMBL, UniChem & KNIME! 🧪 Read more:
medium.com/low-code-for...
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Unveiling Biological Targets with KNIME
A Hands-On Workflow Powered by ChEMBL Data
https://medium.com/low-code-for-advanced-data-science/unveiling-biological-targets-with-knime-96562922aeb1
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Noel O'Boyle
pen(Taka)
4 months ago
Use MCP for making query of Database
#cheminformatics
#AI
Recently I have interest to MCP. Because MCP can engage task and API with natural language so we don't need code (BTW, I love writing code!!!!). Today I tried to make SQL query with MCP. I used Claude desktop. At first I modfied config file…
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Use MCP for making query of Database #cheminformatics #AI
Recently I have interest to MCP. Because MCP can engage task and API with natural language so we don't need code (BTW, I love writing code!!!!). Today I tried to make SQL query with MCP. I used Claude desktop. At first I modfied config file shown below. postgres part is added. $ vim ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "weather": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/home/iwatobipen/dev/weather", "run", "weather.py" ] }, "chemblmcp": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/home/iwatobipen/dev/chembl_mcp", "run", "chemblmcp.py" ] }, # this part is used for communicating postgres!!!
https://iwatobipen.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/use-mcp-for-making-query-of-database-cheminformatics-ai/
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pen(Taka)
4 months ago
Compile GAMESS from source GAMESS is one of the major program of open source program of quantum chemistry. My former boss is QC/QM expart and I learned usefullnes of GAMESS. So I like GAMESS but recently I don't have opportunity to use GAMESS. Today I tried to compile new version of GAMESS on…
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Compile GAMESS from source
GAMESS is one of the major program of open source program of quantum chemistry. My former boss is QC/QM expart and I learned usefullnes of GAMESS. So I like GAMESS but recently I don't have opportunity to use GAMESS. Today I tried to compile new version of GAMESS on Ubuntu24 because FMOKit is publised 🙂 At first, I registered GAMESS HP…
https://iwatobipen.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/compile-gamess-from-source/
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Noel O'Boyle
Chemical Biology Services
4 months ago
Just one week left to apply for this position in our team, as frontend developer:
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Frontend Developer
We are looking for a talented frontend developer to join the Chemical Biology team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. T...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hinxton-Cambridgeshire/Frontend-Developer_JR970
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Great to be working with Daniel again.
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4 months ago
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Geoff Hutchison
5 months ago
Too bad you can't give a Nobel prize to the PDB. How much science and medicine has been enabled because of this open resource?
#OpenScience
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Noel O'Boyle
Matthieu Schapira
5 months ago
@thesgc.bsky.social
is generating large/open screening data and inviting data scientists to train their ML models via DREAM challenges: 1- train your model on DEL data 2- retrospectively predict 138 ASMS true positives 3- predict new hits. We will test them and publish together.
bit.ly/3YXVKoT
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First DREAM Target 2035 Drug Discovery Challenge
'First DREAM Target 2035 Drug Discovery Challenge' (Synapse ID: syn65660836) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomedic...
https://bit.ly/3YXVKoT
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Noel O'Boyle
5 months ago
The patent database SureChEMBL has been updated
macinchem.org/2025/05/04/s...
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SureChEMBl update – Macs in Chemistry
https://macinchem.org/2025/05/04/surechembl-update/
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Noel O'Boyle
Barbara Zdrazil
5 months ago
In this review we are thoroughly discussing pros&cons and applications of different NLP/ AI methods for drug discovery….hoping it’s of use!
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Noel O'Boyle
EMBL-EBI
5 months ago
Welcome, Noel O’Boyle! Joining as EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Resources Team Leader, Noel brings with him a background in chemistry, programming, & data-driven drug discovery 💊 Find out more:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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Welcome: Noel O’Boyle
EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Biology Resources Team Leader aims to encourage community engagement and explore AI-driven approaches.
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/perspectives/welcome-noel-oboyle/
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Noel O'Boyle
6 months ago
We have two
#postdoc
positions open to join my team at
@ebi.embl.org
in beautiful Cambridge! We are a mission-driven, highly collaborative and dynamic team located at the Wellcome Genome Campus, one of the most exciting hubs in the world focused on biomedical research 👇
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Your group The Cortes-Ciriano group studies the mutational processes and mechanisms of genome instability underpinning tumourigenesis, immune escape, and drug response through the analysis of high-thr...
https://embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/details/Postdoctoral-Fellow_JR351?jobFamilyGroup=e80afa7e65f51007291b04914c520000&locations=e80afa7e65f5100729542eddd1ff0000
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Over on LinkedIn, I am polling people on whether they are interested in attending a ChEMBL UGM in person or remote. Leave a message here or follow the link if interested. (Stupid LI, you need to view desktop version of this site if on phone):
www.linkedin.com/posts/noel-o...
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Noel O'Boyle posted on LinkedIn
Noel O'Boyle posted on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/noel-o-boyle-2a32474_activity-7313438505894883328-ed07?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAC_TNsB7DVeylV8kDmyK08Rj5YdkMW5Rfw
6 months ago
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Noel O'Boyle
7 months ago
Well worth a read.
rdcu.be/ec7xt
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Fifteen years of ChEMBL and its role in cheminformatics and drug discovery | Journal of Cheminformatics
https://rdcu.be/ec7xt
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Christopher Southan
7 months ago
Essential reading
jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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PubMedCentral down.
nih.gov
in general seems to be down. Also
cancer.gov
(National Cancer Institute).
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the ...
https://nih.gov
7 months ago
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7 months ago
How to create a local copy of PubChem and run searches.
macinchem.org/2025/02/17/s...
#cheminformatics
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Searching a local copy of PubChem – Macs in Chemistry
https://macinchem.org/2025/02/17/searching-a-local-copy-of-pubchem/
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Follow up post: "MMPA: The case of the missing group Part II"
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/02/mmpa...
#cheminformatics
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MMPA: The case of the missing group Part II
I was reading over my recent blogpost on MMPA when I started wondering whether the approaches I described actually were the best ways of fi...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/02/mmpa-case-of-missing-group-part-ii.html
8 months ago
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Noel O'Boyle
8 months ago
Mychem a chemoinformatics extension for MySQL
macinchem.org/2025/02/09/m...
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Mychem a chemoinformatics extension for MySQL – Macs in Chemistry
https://macinchem.org/2025/02/09/mychem-a-chemoinformatics-extension-for-mysql/
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Noel O'Boyle
Greg Landrum
8 months ago
This week's
#RDKit
blog post looks at measuring the similarity between documents in ChEMBL by using the similarity between the compounds in the documents.
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...
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ChEMBL Document Similarity – RDKit blog
Using compound similarity to define document similarity
https://greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/posts/2025-02-02-chembl-document-similarity-1.html
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SmiZip v2.0 released
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/02/smiz...
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SmiZip 2.0 released
SmiZip is a compressor for SMILES strings that uses the unused characters from the extended ASCII set. So, for example, while the character...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/02/smizip-20-released.html
8 months ago
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Post on MMPA: The case of the missing group
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/mmpa...
#cheminformatics
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MMPA: The case of the missing group
An efficient approach to Matched Molecular Pair Analysis (MMPA) consists of fragmenting molecules at a subset of single bonds and then colla...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/mmpa-case-of-missing-group.html
8 months ago
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#cheminformatics
#compchem
#medchem
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8 months ago
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ReplaceR - a webapp that suggests R group and linker replacements
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/repl...
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ReplaceR - common R group and linker replacements
Introducing ReplaceR , a webapp that suggests R group or linker replacements that a medicinal chemist might consider making after the query...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/replacer-common-r-group-and-linker.html
8 months ago
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Here's a paper on ZSMILES, a compression method for SMILES that is definitely not a rearrangement of the letters of smizip. :-) I guess they missed it, but they do reference SMAZ, which is basically the same, but don't talk about the differences:
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19391
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19391
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A new release of partialsmiles - the validating partial SMILES parser
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/rele...
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Release of partialsmiles v2.0 - A validating parser for partial SMILES
A while back , I wrote a library called partialsmiles to parse and validate prefixes of SMILES strings. I've just updated it with a minor e...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/01/release-of-partialsmiles-v20-validating.html
8 months ago
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Christopher Southan
9 months ago
Is HELM (Pistoia) still under active development/upgrades?
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Daniel Probst
9 months ago
In case your new year's resolution is to do a PhD—there's still time until the 6th to apply 😉
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9 months ago
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Blog post on a tool to bookmark directories
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2024/12/push...
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push and pop directories
Here's a tool that I've been using daily since 2005 at least. I had a write-up on my old website, but its recent disappearance seems like a ...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2024/12/push-and-pop-directories.html
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Blogpost on the effect of ties on evaluation of virtual screens
baoilleach.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
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The effect of ties on evaluation of virtual screens
For a virtual screening method where the associated score is prone to ties (e.g. a fingerprint comparison), care must be taken to handle the...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-effect-of-ties-on-evaluation-of.html
9 months ago
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Geoff Hutchison
9 months ago
Trying to squash some annoying bugs to get a new release out. If you've had problems on Windows, please let us know on the forum.
discuss.avogadro.cc
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Barbara Zdrazil
10 months ago
chembl.blogspot.com/2024/12/here...
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Here's a nice Christmas gift - ChEMBL 35 is out!
Use your well-deserved Christmas holidays to spend time with your loved ones and explore the new release of ChEMBL 35! This fresh...
http://chembl.blogspot.com/2024/12/heres-nice-christmas-gift-chembl-35-is.html
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Noel O'Boyle
Francesca Grisoni
9 months ago
Open
#postdoc
position in *Organic/Medicinal Chemistry* for generative
#AI
in Drug Discovery — join us
@tueindhoven.bsky.social
💪🏻 Funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Deadline: Jan 15, 25
jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/...
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Postdoc In Organic/Medicinal Chemistry for generative AI in Drug Discovery
De TU/e is voortdurend op zoek naar wetenschappelijk en niet-wetenschappelijk personeel om haar ambities waar te maken. Kijk hier voor ons actuele vacatureaanbod.
https://jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/postdoc-in-organic-medicinal-chemistry-for-generative-ai-in-drug-discovery-1133083.html
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It's Noel's all the way down.
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Blogpost comparing engagement on X vs Mastodon vs BlueSky
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Engagement on X vs Mastodon vs BlueSky
Egon posted recently on the situation with scientists leaving X and moving to another microblogging platform. He pointed out some pros and ...
https://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2024/12/engagement-on-x-vs-mastodon-vs-bluesky.html
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