Sven T. Stripp

Announcement of a Chemistry department news story, with a photo of principal interviewee(s) and a QR code leading to Chemistry Stories at UofT.

Chemistry Stories: Doug Stephan publishes new Primer on Frustrated Lewis Pairs: www.chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/doug-st...

Last business trip for the year. Travelling to Bonn for the Heisenberg network meeting and toward Marburg for @fidelormz.bsky.social's PhD defense tomorrow.
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ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?

My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.

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Yeast [FeFe]-hydrogenase-like protein Nar1 binds a [2Fe–2S] cluster Nar1 is an essential eukaryotic protein proposed to function as an iron–sulphur (Fe/S) cluster trafficking factor in the cytosolic iron–sulphur protein assembly (CIA) machinery. However, such a role h...

For a more elaborate take see Joey's new paper in Chemical Science:
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Although the topic is interesting I belive no scientist with an understanding that hydrogenases differ from "[2Fe-2Fe] proteins" had this paper in peer review... 🫣
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Weihnachtlicher Appell an Schulen, Vereine, Eltern: Bitte lasst die Mitmach-Aufrufe im Advent Unser Leser wünscht sich eine ruhigere und besinnlichere Weihnachtszeit für Familien – ohne vermeintlich zu allerlei Feiern, Essen oder Märkten beitragen zu müssen. Und wie sehen Sie’s?

Was für ein ätzender Ansatz, @tagesspiegel.de. Weihnachten lieber in der Kernfamilie? Meet German Christmas:
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Hello fellow teenagers

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I am not religious but this is my Bible
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Also, I never fully truly appreciated how much earnest effort, and vulnerability, it takes to stand in front of a crowd of students and give a lecture in ones second language. That was certainly one of the hardest things I've ever done

Parents of teenagers know the drill

I am updating my discogs these days... About 3k entries 🥴 It's pretty heartbreaking to see how poor some of my favourite records would sell 😨

I've been writing about sulfide minerals the whole day, and then Hen Ogledd publish this gem of a Britfolk freak-out centred around a chorus about Fool's Gold 🌈 I looove how silly & serious these guys are ♥️
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Yeah!!

I had it coming, didn't I

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After 25 peer reviews this year, currently I don't have any of your manuscripts on the table. And believe me - the table will stay like this until the end of the year 🙏

Terrarium ist ein guter Tipp 😃

doi or it didn't happen

Die Gen Alpha LIEBT diese Automaten!

The 13yo places "subtle" hints in the flat regarding her favourite Christmas wish 🐸

Slop graphics in academic journals Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter

Traurige Nachrichten: die Angewandte Genetik an der FU Berlin wird geschlossen.
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Name this band #chemchat

Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Müge Kasanmascheff for her insightful talk on “Water as Modulator of Electron Transfer and Activity in Biological Systems”!
Afterwards, she offered a relaxed coffee chat to talk about her experiences in science, career paths, and opportunities for women in research.

Simulated early Earth geochemistry fuels a hydrogen-dependent primordial metabolism - Nature Ecology & Evolution In an iron-sulfide chemical garden experiment that mimics the kind of hydrothermal vents that might have occurred in the early Archaean, mackinawite and greigite are precipitated and abiotic H2 is pro...

Despite +30 years in and its speculative nature, the iron-sulfur-world theory remains to be a relevant framework in early-life-research
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am not religious but this is my Bible
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Sieben Jahre gewartet, glücklich 20€ bezahlt, never looked back 😊