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Welcome @frazac.bsky.social, new MSCA-PF postdoc fellow at IQCC

@univgirona.bsky.social #MSCA #QBIS-CAT

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Join our team in Cambridge (UK), Berlin (DE) or Amsterdam (NL)!

Yeah, we know he loves himself more than anything else

A white graphic with a blue border includes the following text: My Statement on Middle East Peace October 9, 2025 After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the U.S. and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace.

My statement on Middle East peace

Yes!!

I'm just going to pretend this is our official presidential statement and not depress myself with however the other guy manages to fuck this up and insert himself where he doesn't belong.

Seven IQCC researchers have been included in Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists
@miquelsola.bsky.social Miquel Costas @marcelswart.bsky.social Albert Poater @silviaosuna.bsky.social Lluis Blancafort Jordi Mestres

#IQCCproud @univgirona.bsky.social

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It will be accompanied by the back-cover!!!!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

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Reminder: British voters still don’t know who gave £850k cash for a house in Clacton where Kremlin gobshite r🐀t keeps his slippers next to a suitcase of rubles. #ukpolitics

@iqccudg.bsky.social

Yes, you see that correctly, R2=0.9965

Have a look at this correlation between theory and experiment. Great!

(SI, p. 5)

A straightforward route to hexagonal-boron nitride fibers - Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials Advanced fibers enable the fabrication of structures and composites for applications reliant on lightweight, oxidation resistant, mechanically strong, and electrically insulating materials, e.g. in all forms of land, air, and space transportation and in applications within extreme environments. Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) fibers harness these advantages, and in addition, offer ultra-high-strength-to-weight ratio and low density. Yet, existing precursors for polymer-derived BN fibers are limited to insoluble and air/moisture sensitive polyborazylenes, hindering fiber production at scale. In this contribution, we report a reliable, controllable, and scalable synthesis methodology for producing pure micro- and nano-h-BN fibers, offering a competitive alternative to NASA’s energy-intensive h-BN nanotubes production. The single-source precursor, N-methyl polyaminoborane (PMeAB), plays a pivotal role in this process. The catalytic, and scalable, synthesis of PMeAB with controlled molecular weights (Mw = 110,500–290,500 g·mol−1) enables the production of h-BN fibers by electrospinning method and thermolysis under ammonia. PMeAB molecular weight and concentration were identified as key factors dictating the viscosity and surface tension, and thus influencing the overall spinnability of the PMeAB solution. We reveal that the subsequent formation of a cross-linked intermediate during PMeAB thermolysis is essential to retain the fibrous morphology during the conversion to h-BN fibers. Comprehensive characterization demonstrated the purity and homogeneity of the h-BN fibers, with ~ 97 at.% of B and N contents combined throughout the fiber body. This newly disclosed route to h-BN fibers offers a route to potentially valuable multifunctional filler material for advanced lightweight composites suitable for applications in extreme environments.

It's finally out there .. #ChemSky
Paper with @nicolegrobert.bsky.social lab and Andy Weller lab

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Underway right now at @univgirona.bsky.social, the Science Slam of the @iqccudg.bsky.social

Toxic formalin or something else? Shining a light on the University Museum’s mystery jars Chemist Wesley Browne came up with a way to figure out which of the University Museum's wet specimens have been preserved in toxic liquid.

Nice!
@wesleybrowne.bsky.social used Raman spectroscopy to check if old samples are toxic

ukrant.nl/magazine/tox...

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

Zero out of three then.

Or add it to your website

Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers? Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that there was something in the water.

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and other infamous figures lived in and around Tacoma in the 60s. Did their psychopathy have a common cause?

For the first time in about 70 years, net immigration to America could be zero. Beneath the noise of tariff and budget fights, migration may well be the biggest economic story of 2025.

My latest for @economist.com: Welcome to Zero Migration America

Link: www.economist.com/finance-and...

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Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.

The Nobel Prizes award some of the world's best science. But they miss some, too.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-discoveries-not-all-science

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died.

A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner

His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio.

An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers

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Clarivate was wrong for #PhysNobel and #MedNobel, let's see tomorrow with #ChemNobel

ARE MACROSCOPIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM GOVERNED BY quantum mechanics? Our everyday experience tells us that a classical description appears to be entirely adequate. The trajectory of the center of mass of a billiard ball is predicted wonderfully well by classical mechanics. Even the Brownian motion of a tiny speck of dust in a drop of water is a purely classical phenomenon. Until recently, quantum mechanics manifested itself at the macroscopic level only through such collective phenomena as superconductivity, flux quantization, or the Josephson effect. However, these "macroscopic" effects actually arise from the coherent superposition of a large number of microscopic variables each governed by quantum mechanics. Thus, for example, the current through a Josephson tunnel junction and the phase difference across it are normally treated as classical variables.

Quantum mechanics of a macroscopic variable, published by today’s laureates in @science.org in 1988. In addition to the science, it’s remarkably lucid writing

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"Deported" is a very interesting way to say kidnapped, imprisoned illegally, abused, then released. 🤔