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Theoretical chemist | Transforming microscopic worlds into creative adventures | 🧪 Bridging science, art, and imagination | Exploring the fascinating narratives hidden in molecules

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Photo de tout nouveau docteur tenant son postote-bag sur l'épaule.

Photo de tout nouveau docteur tenant son postote-bag sur l'épaule.

tutoriel en français pour coudre un tote bag dans un poster textile

tutoriel en français pour coudre un tote bag dans un poster textile

C'est la saison des thèses et vous ne savez pas quoi offrir aux futur·e·s docteur·e·s de votre laboratoire ?
Sachez que vous pouvez recycler leurs posters (textiles) en tote bag et en plus je vous ai fait un tuto !

22.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 3

An LLM‑run robot vacuum hit an existential crisis while ‘passing the butter’ – only 40% success vs 95% humans. 🤖 What does this say about embodied AI? #ai #robotics

Read more → https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/llm-robot-vacuum-existential-crisis

20.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turns out woodpeckers are tiny hammer‑machines: neck, hips, tail & a rapid ‘grunt‑breath’ sync to slam 30× their weight into wood. Whole‑body power meets quirky respiration. 🐦💥#biology #ornithology #science newatlas.com/biology/wood...

20.11.2025 06:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI isn’t replacing us—it’s giving us a new team of smart agents to manage. The next‑gen talent will delegate, QA, and orchestrate multiple bots like a boss. Ready to upskill? 🤖 #aimanager #futureofwork #skills

Read more →

https://builtin.com/articles/ai-managers-job-skills

19.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Juno’s latest snaps of Jupiter are jaw‑dropping 🌌—and you can help turn raw data into art! Dive into the new images, add your own color tweaks, and share with the JunoCam community. What will you create? 🚀 #space #jupiter #citizenscience

https://www.popsci.com/science/jupiter-stuns-in-new-images/

17.11.2025 08:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Winter blues? Try 4 research‑backed hacks: schedule anchor routines, soak up daily daylight, actively cultivate joy, and add 10 min of mindful pauses. 🌤️✨ #winterwellbeing #mentalhealth
https://theconversation.com/4-research-backed-ways-to-beat-the-winter-blues-in-the-colder-months-265055

16.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ever met someone who can spot a face in a crowd instantly? Meet the “super‑recognizers”—the brain’s hidden eagle eyes that catch details the rest of us miss. 🧠🔍 #neuroscience #psychology

Read more →

https://nautil.us/how-super-recognizers-see-what-the-rest-of-us-miss-1246408/

15.11.2025 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quantum bits can be 0 and 1 until we look—super‑position & entanglement sound like sci‑fi, but hardware is fragile. The real win will be hybrid, auditable workflows turning quantum noise into insight. Ready? 🤔🚀 #quantum #computing

https://mindlab.marc-baaden.de/qubits-meet-reality

12.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Want to know exactly how many proteins fit in an E. coli cell or how fast a ribosome works? BioNumbers serves up thousands of curated biological constants—perfect for models, experiments, or trivia night. 🚀🔬
Read more → https://idees.moleculair.es/bionumbers
#bionumbers #biology #datascience

30.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚀 Cryo‑EM now reaches near‑atomic resolution, letting us watch molecules in real time—game‑changing for drug design and biology. What breakthrough excites you most? 👀 #cryoem #innovation #research

Read more → https://idees.moleculair.es/cryowonder

29.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI is turning molecular viz into a real‑time, chat‑driven 3D playground—anyone can spin proteins, predict interactions and simulate behavior on a laptop. 🚀 Democratizing drug discovery worldwide. What’s your experience? #ai #molecularscience #visualization

https://idees.moleculair.es/ai-molviz

28.10.2025 09:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Reproducible Molecular Dynamics: A Practical Playbook | Idées Moléculaires

Struggling to reproduce molecular dynamics results? 🤔 Clear documentation, version control, and containerization are key. Let's work together to strengthen our field! What have you found helpful for reproducibility? #reproducibilitymatters #moleculardynamics → idees.moleculair.es/reproduciblemd

27.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A decade of building scientific software taught me this: innovation lives where chemistry meets code—docs, UX, collaboration, and reproducibility are the real force multipliers. 💡🧪

#scientificsoftware #computationalchemistry What do you think?

https://idees.moleculair.es/chemistrycodes

26.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Publish or perish.. that was yesterday. How does the academic trade look nowadays? A small week-end animation to get a discussion going :)

#academia #publish #perish

25.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Beyond Algorithms: Diversity in Computational Chemistry | Idées Moléculaires

Diverse teams drive smarter computational chemistry—new ideas, better checks, faster progress ⚗🌍 Let’s champion inclusion and share initiatives that work. What’s moved the needle for you?

Read more → link : idees.moleculair.es/diversity

#compchem #diversity #stem

25.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Machine Learning for Molecular Dynamics: Accelerating Membrane Protein Conformational Analysis | Idées Moléculaires

Machine learning can spot and classify subtle membrane protein moves at scale—faster, sharper, and improving with each run 🤖🧪 What do you think? Read more → link #moleculardynamics #machinelearning #bioinformatics

idees.moleculair.es/md-ml

24.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Force Fields + AI: A Pragmatic Path for Molecular Simulation | Idées Moléculaires

AI boosts prediction, but force fields keep us honest—combine both for power + clarity ⚗🤖 What do you think? Read more → link below

#moleculardynamics #computationalchemistry #ai

idees.moleculair.es/aiforcefields

23.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Precision Over Polish in Molecular Visualization | Idées Moléculaires

Beautiful ≠ truthful: prioritize scale, color, and clarity over rainbow‑pretty proteins—function first, form second. 🎯🔬 #scientificvisualization #molecularscience What’s your top visualization pet peeve? Read more →

idees.moleculair.es/molvis-preci...

22.10.2025 10:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Human-in-the-Loop: Where Molecular Modeling Finds Its Edge | Idées Moléculaires

Human-in-the-loop turns raw models into smarter, creative science—experienced chemists guide edge cases, interactivity and visualization steer breakthroughs 🧠⚗ Read more → link. #molecularmodeling #humanaicollaboration

Idées Moléculaires ↗ idees.moleculair.es/humanloop

21.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

French modeling is leaning hard into multi‑scale: electrons in membranes, nucleosomal DNA damage, and α7 nAChR allostery—clear momentum 📈🔬 What do you think? Read more → Multi‑Scale Molecular Simulations at GGMM 2025: idees.moleculair.es/ggmm25-multi... ↗ #multiscale #computationalchemistry #france

20.10.2025 05:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Proteins in Motion: Static Structures Are Just One Frame | Idées Moléculaires

Proteins aren’t static snapshots—they’re dynamic ensembles driving function ⚡ Let’s think beyond single structures and embrace motion to truly understand biology. What do you think? 🔬 #proteindynamics #molecularmotion

idees.moleculair.es/proteins-in-...

19.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Day 1 at GGMM 2025 - Forges-Les-Eaux 🧬✨ | Idées Moléculaires

Day 1 at GGMM 2025: a retrospective on a milestone for the French molecular modeling community—spotlighting structural bioinformatics, AI, integrative modeling, and dazzling visualization, plus my MolPlay poster demo 🎯🧬 Read more → idees.moleculair.es/ggmm2025-day1 - Forges-Les-Eaux 🧬✨ ↗ #ggmm2025

18.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Free month of Comet Pro for research/coding/agentic browsing—try it here: pplx.ai/drbaaden7033 ↗ (opt‑in only; I get a small referral bonus; try if useful). ⚗️✨🧪 #ai #research #coding

17.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Curiosity vs Credibility: Rethinking Peer Review’s Boundaries | Idées Moléculaires

Curiosity vs credibility in peer review: should journals entertain whimsical ideas or enforce firmer guardrails? 🧪🛰️ What’s the strangest paper you’ve seen—and did it change your view?

Read more → idees.moleculair.es/saturn-neuro...

↗ #peerreview #openscience #academia

17.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Human Edge in Computational Chemistry | Idées Moléculaires

Human intuition still matters in computational chemistry: when the numbers look perfect but feel wrong, step back, sketch, let experience guide the model — breakthroughs may happen 🔬✨ What do you think? Read more → idees.moleculair.es/humanedge

#computationalchemistry #research #innovation

16.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
AI Retrosynthesis Falters on Low Synthetic Accessibility | Idées Moléculaires

AI retrosynthesis shines on easy routes but stalls when synthetic accessibility drops—hard molecules still beat smart models. ⚗️🤖 What’s your experience? Read more → Idées Moléculaires ↗ #chemistry #ai #retrosynthesis

idees.moleculair.es/retrosynthesis

15.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fête de la science au Grand Palais - Palais de la découverte Venez expérimenter les sciences avec les médiateurs du Palais de la découverte, discuter avec des scientifiques et découvrir l'exposition Transparence au Palais

Curiosity takes the stage at the Grand Palais: live demos linking chemistry, simulations, and hands-on learning—turn wonder into action 🔬✨ #fetedelascience #simulationmoléculaire Read more → www.palais-decouverte.fr/au-programme...

12.10.2025 07:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fête de la Science at LFIV Francfort: from deforming metals to virtual molecule journeys, students brought sharp questions and real wonder ✨🔬 Gratitude to CNRS and the Embassy teams. #science #education #vr

11.10.2025 22:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
MD Myths: Accuracy, Sampling, and Practicality | Idées Moléculaires

MD myth-busting: results hinge on force fields, smart sampling, and realistic scope—not just longer runs. Let’s share what’s worked (and failed) in practice. 🔬💡 What do you think?

Read more → idees.moleculair.es/md-myths

↗ #moleculardynamics #computationalchemistry #research

10.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Innovation Without Burnout: Boundaries for Better Research | MindLab by Baaden Scientific

Innovation thrives with boundaries—rest fuels better science and sustainable impact. Set limits, find mentors, track mental health, celebrate small wins. What’s your go-to balance habit? 💡🧠

Read more → mindlab.marc-baaden.de/noburnout

↗ #research #wellbeing #academia

09.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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