Elisa Fadda

That's such a lovely memory. May all your #ChemNobel predictions ring true to soften the day 😊 but I am sure Prof Stoddard really admired Car and Parrinello 😁

A screenshot of text that reads: Fraser lived his life at a hundred miles an hour. But it wasn't always the best thing for him or for those closest to him. In an interview following the award of the Nobel Prize in 2016 he recalled his time growing up on a farm and said that that had instilled in him the work ethic of a honeybee. Nobody would doubt that he had that. He also talked about having the strength of a horse and the hide of an elephant; what he didn't mention is that he could also be as stubborn as a mule. He did things his way and was rarely persuaded to do otherwise. This bloody-mindedness undoubtedly contributed to his incredibly successful career. While those who didn't really know him will measure his contributions through the prizes he won, his real professional legacy is not those prizes, it is the people who passed through his lab and shared in his scientific journey. Yes, he changed science, but he changed lives too - including mine and many of those here today. I learned a lot from Fraser: some chemistry, how to make slides for presentations, how to always include a noun after the word 'this', and a few random Scottish words that I'm still not convinced he didn't just make up.

It’s #chemnobel day. For me, and for quite a few other people who spent time in the Stoddart group, it will hit somewhat differently this year.

Seems the right time to share a couple of passages from the eulogy I gave at Fraser’s funeral earlier this year.

The proteasome-substrate-shuttle protein UBQLN2 contains—like other quality control system proteins—a long region devoid of lysine (a lysine desert)

Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from @rhp-lab.bsky.social) et al show that introducing K here causes ubiquitylation and degradation

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Chemistry with Cats From Schrödinger's Paradox to Quantum Computing

2/2 my personal favourite,

2) Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman blog post about the pivotal contribution of cats to (quantum) chemistry:

hxstem.substack.com/p/chemistry-...

Happy reading! 😺🎉 🧪

The Chemistry of Cats | Reactions Science Videos - American Chemical Society A look at some of the key "meow-locules" that make up the chemistry of cats.

Tomorrow is #ChemNobel day!! 🥳🥳 While we are all waiting eagerly for the announcement, my cat Salem suggest to you #chemsky friends some important reading to quench the nerves,

1) ACS important content: www.acs.org/pressroom/re...

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Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshi...

Continuing my tour of books I should have already read, Calling Bullshit by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. Just a delight - an accessible, entertaining, insightful look at various forms of BS. Much like Weapons of Math Destruction, would love a 2025 update of this one.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical ...

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics is now live!

Congrats to all!! Brilliant 👍🏻🥳🥳👏🏻👏🏻

Wow! This is magnificent #glycotime Anne! I thought only I could see hydrogen atoms!! 😂😂🥳🥳

Neutrons are the best ... look at this histidine-galactose contact !! Our new neutron structure of lectin/gal is available as preprint in ChemRXiv chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr.... Thanks to @drmpblakeley.bsky.social @sebvidalchem.bsky.social and all colleagues for very fine collaboration

This sounds plausible to me. But if it’s true, it means that the age of social media might be over soon, with only the old and wrinkled (like myself) spending any actual time there.

This is fabulous #glycotime!! 😍 Super congrats to you all! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Check our new venture into drug discovery #glycotime!

Generative AI for computational chemistry: A roadmap to predicting emergent phenomena | PNAS The recent surge in generative AI has introduced exciting possibilities for computational chemistry. Generative AI methods have made significant pr...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Polar stereographic map of 2-m temperature trends in units of °C per decade over the Arctic for the month of October. Trends are calculated over the 1979 to 2024 period using ERA5. The largest warming is an areas of open water that were previously sea ice covered along the Siberian side of the Arctic. These trends exceed 2°C/decade in these areas.

October has observed some of the largest warming trends in the #Arctic. This is greatest over areas with a lack of sea ice cover (nearly all of the Siberian Arctic). Arctic amplification is largest in the boreal fall.

Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds.... Info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS....

Don’t Lose Hope: Jane Goodall’s Last Interview and Today’s Stories of Progress That Prove Her Right Plus: A Nobel Prize for genetic scissors, young climate activists triumph at the ICJ, a dinosaur caught mid-meal, and why women outlive men

Jane Goodall's last interview released: "Don't lose hope." Today's stories prove she was right.
Take a moment to listen to her words:

daybreaknotesandbeans.substack.com/p/dont-lose-...

Insect Architecture The essential illustrated guide to the ingenious techniques that insects use to construct an astounding array of natural structures, from nests to shelters to traps

This ⤵️ is on my XMas/bday 🎁 wish list! 🎄😍😍 @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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😉 #Booksky

New blog post. In which I analyze the new HHMI announcement and what it means for the science publishing ecosystem openrxiv.org/preprint-man...

Screenshot of Avogadro2 using the interactive AutoOptimize tool to minimize a molecule (n-pentane) using the UFF force field. Text reads UFF ΔE = -229.80 kcal/mol

If you've been wondering about the status of the AutoOptimize interactive optimization in Avogadro2 - coming later this month 👀

T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel

The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)

Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello are on my #ChemNobel ballot for 2025 and for every year until they'll get it 😎

#NobelPrize week starts tomorrow & the #chemnobel is Wednesday… used to be so much Nobel chat on Tw*tter, but that is not replicated here, alas. Anyway, for the record, I think MOFs will win at some point (maybe this year maybe not). Balasubramanian & Klenerman a good bet for next-gen sequencing too

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries ...

Our Collection celebrating the 2025 Physiology or Medicine #NobelPrize is now live!

Lead by postdoc in the lab Ruiqi Ge and in collaboration with Bob Coffey’s lab, we are happy to share rPAL-seq for rapid and sensitive sequencing based profiling of glycoRNAs @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

Diana Bianchi out at NICHHD. Hard to see a good reason for letting such a talented individual go www.science.org/content/arti...

Wow, this is a thing of beauty🧪 😍😍

Friday Forum – What is socially responsible science? What is science for humanity? Each Friday Forum (part of The Good Science Project) looks at one aspect of research culture at Imperial College London, and aims to foster discussion and debate about the way we work as scientists. T...

Join us at lunchtime @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on Fri 24th Oct to discuss the past, present and future of socially responsible science.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19845...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

"Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi made groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body"

Brilliant achievement 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏆

www.nobelprize.org