Stefano Canossa

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Awesome atmosphere 🎉 ! Personally, I say "when life gives you lemon, make limoncello" 😌

Hang in there, it's a brutal system but we are so many in all this and sharing makes it more manageable, so thank you! 🙌 Hope most reviewers have been honest and useful and you could see the quality of your work getting better and better

The leadership of sharing gaming/anime/geeky academic memes "before it was cool"... I love you folks 🫶

probably months... and it's easy to oversee the decrease in quality of their research due to the psychological toll of grant rejection: I guess more months of passion and new ideas vanished, unseen

Wow that's a cool cover Jules!

Not to mention postdocs who lead a project on behalf of the professor and (rightly) leave the first name to their PhD student and the last to the Prof... this *is* already a career killer; an index about it would further amplify this nonsense

A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky

Promotional graphic with a polyhedral depiction of a packed MOF structure (CSD Entry WEMBUN) with water and ethanol solvate molecules removed as well as photos of the 5 panellists.

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#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials

Promotional graphic with a sound wave and ball and stick representations of CSD entries AMBACO07 and AMBACO05.

🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?

In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!

👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#Crystallography

I wonder how many Japanese academics would drink a Sake called "Sake of clarity"; the romans used to say "In vino veritas", so they already took the lead... (yes, I mean Pb)

The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn AIs like Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae

Despite their sleek appearance, Audrey Moores found that AI generated chemical structures on second glance were consistently incorrect, despite multiple rounds of prompt engineering.

You could build a suprasquirrel

So beautiful... my main problem is that I would probably try to taste them 😅

Single-Crystal MOF

Single-Crystal MOF

Single-Crystal MOF

#chemistry#MOF Interconversion of single-crystal morphologies: initial state, intermediate state, and final state. #chemsky#RSC

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🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.

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#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc

hypertiling hypertiling is a high-performance Python library for the generation and visualization of regular hyperbolic lattices

One could try out, the program is open and can be installed with pip (pypi.org/project/hypertiling/)

No, random assignment using the GnBu_r color map... I did not try systematic but I have the feeling that this way it looks better and more "natural"

A Hyperbolic tiling of triangles, with variable colours from a grey-dark blue to a light bluish green.

As always, here's the real-space picture 🙇 You can find many more pairs on www.behance.net/specialdefects

A nearly isotropic pattern of lines irradiating from the centre. The colour scheme is a fresh combination of teal, light violet and blue on a white background.

Time for a new 57th entry in my #Reciprocart gallery! This time we look at the frequency spectrum of a Hyperbolic tiling of triangles 📐 Unsurprisingly (for the experienced) it's a bunch of lines... but the hexagonal symmetry is visible if one looks close enough 🧐 #crystallography #Braggyourpattern

ball-and-stick and line structures of a porphyrin nanobelt

Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪

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

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

A graph showing the process of single crystal diffraction analysis as a semicircle, starting from a crystal, and continuing with scattering data, Bragg intensities, average structure, and at the end average model.

Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎

#crystallography #MOFs

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Sometimes it even acts as dramatic saying something like "I need to update, it's been months and you still did not let me do it, there are viruses and all sorts of nasty forces trying to get you!" or something similar

uh, well then I don't know what, but something in my pc prevents it from acting on its own, last time I had a pc restarting on its own was a forgotten number of years ago 😶

Screenshot of the "Windows update > Advanced options" window, where all sub options are turned off.

You sure you did not have the automatic update option active? I remember it was on by default on mine, but once I changed it to "off" I feel like my laptop's Lord, granting update rights whenever I please 😑

I’m excited to join the IUCr Early Career Board for Acta Cryst. A, J. Appl. Cryst., and J. Synchrotron Rad. 💎🌐

Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the crystallography community through meaningful scientific exchange!

#IUCr #EarlyCareerBoard
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That's so cool Jiyeon! 👏👏👏

Oh true I remember that now...

very appreciated; on Word I have a keyboard combo, here I need to copy-paste it from somewhere else and I'm often shamefully lazy for dash-ethics