It's worth remembering that recycling more than a small part of all plastics is a pipe dream anyway. New kinds of polymers designed for recycling might increase that fraction, but I believe that a significant part of all plastics will always be one-way products.

It’s 4 in the morning, at the end of May, Warsaw is warm and a pigeon is casually walking across the zebra crossing.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Happy to see that the Polish senate rejected the president’s proposal to hold a referendum about implementing the EU’s „Green Deal” with a a completely neutral question…

Looking out the window at work it looks like it’s snowing when the aspen seeds are blowing down the street.

Robert Reisz isn't an anomaly. There are many versions of the same man, ruining lives of young people using public money. And you, as a junior member of this community, no matter how ethical you are, how much evidence you have against a monster, will risk a lot by reporting, but achieving nothing.

Poland's foreign minister Radosław Sikorski is among the various international politicians - and many Israeli ones - who have criticised Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for the video he shared showing him taunting detained activists from the Gaza aid flotilla

TIL that Fahrenheit (the person) was born in Poland. But the meme is a little misleading as the temperature scale seems to have been developed mostly in Denmark (or in Amsterdam, or in England…).

I have a 35 min bike commute, and I love it. It's long enough to get me going in the morning, but not too long to be a burden. The few times I need to take the car (about 40-60 min in traffic), it's enough to ruin my whole day.

Very interesting! In addition to flooding journals and reviewers with a deluge of slop, LLMs have also made scientific articles significantly harder to read.

A government minister! Tell me again about why supporting Israel is a moral imperative…

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Bara en kvartalsrapport till. Sen spelar det ingen roll om världen brinner upp. Bara en bra kvartalsrapport till!

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

I hope other preprint hosts and, even more important, journal publishers follow suit!

like any chemistry 'what is that?!?!' situation, it's already been answered by the good folks at @cenmag.bsky.social: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Wordle 1,790 X/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 The frustration when playing on hard mode…

The Kid is big enough to borrow my Doc Martens to his end-of-school exam. They grow up so fast…

You know AI is evil when it has me rooting for elsevier

En effekt av att växa upp med odiagnostiserad autism och ADHD är det som förväntas vara lätt är svårt. Att färdigheter och förmågor som vuxna tar för givet bara utvecklas av sig själva inte gör det kan medföra att stöd och strategier uteblir. I stället blir det skam, skuld och bestraffning. (1/)

Idag har The Kid skrivit slutprov i polska i grundskolan. I tre dagar har man slutexamina i polska, matte och engelska. Resultatet på proven är avgörande för vilka gymnasier man kan komma in på - betydligt viktigare än betygen. Proven är nationella och sker samma tid i hela landet.

Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough. 100 years old today. Passion, sincerity, empathy and very funny. Aren’t we lucky to have lived in his time ♥️

what’s extra fun about this is that everyone forgets Zendaya’s performance of 24K Magic right before it and it was stunning! would easily have won most episodes of the show and then Tom came out and did… that

A campaign has started among Polish scientists to persuade the government to increase funding for research. The campaign has the keywords "3% for science, 100% for Poland". At present, R&D spending in PL is ~1.5%. A protest is planned for May 27 at the sejm.

Polens domartvålopera fortsätter…

Kastanjerna blommar i Warszawa. Kastanjeblomningen förknippas med studentexamen (matura). Den här veckan är det examenstid och över hela landet skriver abiturenterna samtidigt sina examina; måndag - polska, tisdag - matte, onsdag - andraspråk. Under de kommande veckorna skriver man 1/4

Sie war das Gesicht des freien Deutschland. Als Hollywoodstar sang sie an den Fronten des Zweiten Weltkriegs für die alliierten Truppen. Als sie gefragt wurde, warum sie Antifaschistin geworden sei, antwortete sie: „Aus Anstand.” Marlene Dietrich, gestorben am 6. Mai 1992

Turns out that this was my article no 💯! A good round number to celebrate...🥳 www.charge-transfer.pl/people/marti...

When we did cryogenics experiments as undergrads, we heard that liquid nitrogen is the price of milk and helium of whisky. And often there is no alternative: "Helium is unique - there is no replacement gas in these applications, so the price is the price, and you pay it or you shut things down."

Interesting about Poland’s current efforts to build its first nuclear power plant. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

This whole thread!

"We wouldn't ignore a 50% chance of a financial system collapsing without preparation." Well, we absolutely would, but I agree that we shouldn't.

Jag har börjat samla ihop nödvändiga dokument för att ansöka om polskt medborgarskap och en sak jag gillar är att det finns en tydlig lista med villkor för att polskt medborgarskap ska ”erkännas”, inte beviljas.

Idag läser vi @isobelhk.bsky.social som skrivit ledare om nåt jag själv tjatar mycket om: våra skenkonservativa som skiter i kulturarvet. www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...

Här i Polen är det vanligaste myggmedlet ”Mugga”. För många år sedan var MyggA vanligt, med den försvann och ersattes av Mugga - båda baserade på DEET. För mig känns namnet så fel, men mygga betyder inget på polska, så Mugga fungerar väl lika bra, antar jag.

This article just got accepted in Dalton Transactions. (doi.org/10.1039/D6DT...) Veronika did a great job, even doing additional experiments at a time when Dnipro is under extensive attack from rockets and drones. I really wish I had funding to have her back working here in Warsaw.

Very cool. I guess with LED lights it will shrink even further. But, gah, what a godawful graph!!

I USA monteras instituioner som står för kunskap och vetenskap ner. Men våra politiker har hittat ett mycket smartare knep. Genom ständigt ökande vinstkrav på Akademiska hus och Statens fastighetsverk knäcker man institutioner under ståndigt ökande hyror.

Whenever I come across discussions like this, I like to point out that Benjamin Franklin once said of his electricity experiments, "Chagrined a little that we have been hitherto able to produce nothing in this way of use to mankind..." skullsinthestars.com/2010/10/17/b...

Yesterday I went to a pre-screening of the documentary film "The signs of Mr Plum" ("Znaki Pana Śliwki") about one of the most influential (and relatively unknown) graphical artist. He was the designer of many of the most known logos of post-war Poland. Highly recommended!

Excellent editoral in ACS Sensors by Justin Gooding, asking the somewhat provocative question "Why Do We Make Bad Electrodes Better When We Could Just Use Good Electrodes?" doi.org/10.1021/acss... The point he makes is that much of what is published in sensing journals isn't really new #electrochem

Amnesty is not mincing words here.

Very cool application - Orbitviewer - where you can see the orbits of tons of objects in our solar system and play them forwards and backwards. (orbitviewer.app/en/)

Very nice photo essay about the coal districts in Silesia.

Oh shit! Massive Attack and Tom Waits, Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

The big difference here between Hungary and Poland is that Tisza managed to reach the support to overturn a presidential veto. In Poland, the Tusk government never had the number of votes in parliament to do that. That inability to rewind the PiS "reforms" was a big reason Nawrocki was elected.

Seriously hard to concentrate on work after a week climbing with such views! Getting rolling updates from the group that stayed on another week isn’t helping.