Leo Betschart @betschart@social.cleverlibre.org
live in Zurich, Chemical information consultant, organic chemist, Swiss, baker of breads, drinker of stouts, cooker of meals, enjoyer of coffee, reader of fantasy, listener of power and prog metal. MY opinions only.
#chemistswhocook #chemistswhobake #chemtoot #chemtoots #chemiverse
Joined Nov 2022
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Back in the days, obviously, girls seemed an obscure audience for chemistry books 🙄
@SRDas
And what audience is your most obscure chemistry book tailored to? #chemiverse #bookstodon
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This is the most balanced statement I have read all week:
"Of course we should also have sympathy for the palestinians, but we should have no sympathy for Hamas. It is crucial to separate these two: The Palestinians are not Hamas, and Hamas is not the Palestinians."
— Jewish Rabi of Denmark Jair Melchior.
Hey @steveroyle could elaborate on what you mean? I am curious to learn more. Maybe you could DM me an example or two.
We are pretty happy using Scopus data to feed an automated department publication list that can be filtered by faculty member and searched by any researcher name from the department: https://chab.ethz.ch/en/research/publications.html
I used that quote of yours again @ct_bergstrom and the students still love it.
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Shocking story about mRNA pioneer/Nobel winner Katalin Karikó, whose early advisor at Temple tried to have her deported & derailed her career because she dared to look for a better-paying job.
Later, UPenn demoted her, then forced her out, because her research wasn't bringing in enough funding. #NobelPrize #science [HT Paul Novosad]
@ct_bergstrom what kind of dystopian BS is adds at gas stations. I'm curious if that does exist all over tHe US these days?
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What's even the point of getting a PhD in the middle of a pandemic if you're *not* going to make a plague doctor mask and wander around campus wearing it along with your regalia?
Cheers to all of my fellow plague doctors from the class of 2021 or 2020!
As foretold by @cwebber ( https://octodon.social/@cwebber/107475000512669706 )
@Rhodium103 you have me laughing out regularly. Keep them coming! It's Highly appreciated.
Autumn is here! I love morning mist on my way to work!
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I just got a super strange e-mail today from one of the two candidates for the #ACS presidential elections, and I wonder why I got it? I unsubscribed and it says it was the "ACS member list", but what is that? I can't find it in my personal ACS e-mail preferences. Did ACS give my personal data to a third party? #AmericanChemicalSociety #chemistry #chemiverse
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When people tell me generative AI will solve real-world problems
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And here it is!
250g of dry soybeans have yielded around 300g of #tofu.
Plus a heap of pulp (okara) that I’ll prepare like fried rice.
@raphavisses That was a great, but at the same time horrifying talk. Kudos to you for keeping up your work!
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I am still mulling over the idea of doing a folktale bracket for October... Have people nominate their favorite tale types and find some fun stories for each type, maybe. What say you all?
My contribution to the Swiss Year of #Scientometrics is online! How can an impact factor increase by a factor of about 25 from one year to the next? https://yearofscientometrics.ethz.ch/shenanigans-with-impact-factors-1-the-curious-case-of-acta-crystallographica-section-a/
#impactfactor #impact #bibliometrics
@TPushic Sasscha Paeth's Master of Ceremony, SheWolf
@Drdonnayates when you unlock the next level, there will be a bouncer, too.
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@paninid I've said this a lot, but the reason people don’t think Excel is a real programming language" is because if we admitted that, we’d have to admit that a lot of the most important software in the world is written by underpaid women in pink collar jobs.
live in Zurich, Chemical information consultant, organic chemist, Swiss, baker of breads, drinker of stouts, cooker of meals, enjoyer of coffee, reader of fantasy, listener of power and prog metal. MY opinions only.
#chemistswhocook #chemistswhobake #chemtoot #chemtoots #chemiverse
Joined Nov 2022
