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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

I cannot help it here, but every “real” organometallic chemist knows 18 electron rule never holds…

For anyone who had lived in the US in better days (like myself), this is sad to see. #chemsky

Looks great Jerome. Now can we make find a way to express this photosensitizer thing via genetic code?

@kay-severin.bsky.social I guess no more laughing gas parties?

Our entry to the field of solid oxide electrochemical cells. A field with new opportunities and we are here to stay. The work was led by a brillant postdoc Wenchao Ma and supported by collaborators around the globe.

We developed an encapsulated NiCo alloy catalyst for high temp CO2 reduction in solid oxide electrochemical cells. An voltage of 1.1 V at 1 A/cm2, corresponding to 90% energy efficiency. The reactions produce CO in 100% selectively and we run it for 2000 h. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky

Appreciate the clarification. I don’t think such a debate can be settled by arguing. It can only be settled by trying and either failing or succeeding. So supporters should work on their pro h2 technologies, and opponents should work on their alternative technologies - and see who wins!

I read with interest after your comment. I don’t quite get who you refer to as smart people as there is only one person quoted, and not even a chemist (so won’t understand that there are things that hydrogen does that can never be replaced).

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EU has made its choice clear and loud: the choice of science, freedom, and collaboration. Time for Switzerland and EPFL to follow suite. @snsf-ch.bsky.social

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This is too good to pass by😂

I am very pleased to announce the closing of a 9 M Series A financing round for our startup NovaMea. We are fully committed to develop critical materials such as membranes and catalysts for anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers, enabling green hydrogen production at large scale and low cost.

To be faire, this (homo-herero Pd) is known long time before Ananikov started to study it… my colleague paul dyson has papers before 2010 on them, and they are not the first one… I think the paper is about this particular reaction system.

Every rejection is different; every rejection is the same.

Bad things spread like viruses and infections. One thing might be better here is that universities are still not supposed to make money.

Great title: the rise of bullshit jobs in universities:-)

#chemsky I won’t go to US for a foreseeable future because I am guilty on several counts: 1. Being born in China; 2. Doing « sustainable » research; 3. Having infinitely negative opinion on MAGA cartels. I am genuinely afraid at the us border control. I am nostalgic of my previous life in US.

Thanks for this. You are totally right. Because they are alike.

WTF! It reflects not only the orange clown, but also a large amount of these people, who have no ethical standards. Because don’t tell me that there is doge putting a gun at the head of these people at the border control to force them to do that.

It is likely because LLM AI gives you this info on H-index. Which is of course wrong. A quick search jn wen of science shows his H-index is 143. In fact, his citations are high.

My wife asked me, should we stop Netflix because it is American? I said, I know we should boycott Disney because it is part of their gang, (and of course telsa, meta, amazon, Silicon Valley), but not sure about Nerflix. American friends, and #chemsky, what do you think?

You first.

The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture | TechCrunch Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing.

Excellent truth-telling from @dechant.bsky.social: “Now we have a better idea why Occidental was keen to pick up the pricey [carbon capture] technology: They want to use it to pump more oil.” Same as it ever was…

techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...

Congratulations!

Wow… the ancient Chinese sage! So true for many countries today.

When bureaucrates roll out policies that have never been tested for self-claimed noble goals, it takes a long time for some research to be done to show they are wrong. But damaged are done and hard to correct @snsf-ch.bsky.social yes I am talking about your policies.

Pleasure to contribute to this study led by @lingenfelderlab.bsky.social

Thank you for speaking up on this despite being on the other side of table. This sums up a major problem of the corporate culture we live in: the excessive rewards for the top executives and the squeeze on the hard working mass.