📣 Calling all chemists/catalysis peeps! 📖 Ever considered working in scientific publishing as an editor? ✅ If yes, @natcatal.nature.com is hiring! 📍Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune 📅 Deadline: July 12 🙏 Reposts appreciated 🧪 #Chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis

Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan and Pune – hybrid working model Application Deadline: July 12, 2026 (Candidates will be considered as they apply...

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I have a biology joke but it only worked once and we could never figure out why.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have a scientist joke, but with an n of 1, it's not that significant.

Abstract submission NextGenBiocat is open! 👉 nextgenbiocat.org/abstracts-su... Are you a young researcher working in Biocatalysis or related fields? Join us in Munich on 10-11 June for two days full of enzyme research and networking, followed by the BiodeCCodiNNg satellite symposium on 12 June.

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Mark shares a really valuable analysis here. Plus the acronym game is top-notch.

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Join us for #Biochemistry2026 by @gdchbiochem.bsky.social with a great lineup of speakers: J. Andexer, H. Bode, S. Hammer, A. Kawamura, A. Deliz Liang, C. de Oliveira Mann, S. Raunser, S. Schwartz, P. Stallforth, C. Tisné, S. Virdee and W. van der Donk. (1/2) veranstaltungen.gdch.de/microsite/in...

GDCh Division of Biochemistry@gdchbiochem.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are you interested in cutting-edge #Biochemistry and #ChemBio? Join us for the GDCh #Biochemistry2026 conference in Würzburg on March 16th to 18th, 2026. Registration is now open and you can submit an abstract until January 10th, 2026: veranstaltungen.gdch... (1/2)

This is spectacularly cool work from @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social!

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Yamuna Krishnan@krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

Look if you had one ring with one Pd in it, and pull everything onto one thread in one moment. would you break it or just let it slip? Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Template‐Controlled Mechanochemical Dissociation of a Rotaxane

The presence or absence of the Pd template used in rotaxane formation selectively leads to two different mechanochemical dissociation pathways. The Pd maintains a smaller cavity size that favors diss....

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for the dutchies: liever kopen dan koken!

For my fellow Germans: Kaufen statt kochen.

Frederik Haase@frederikhaase.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Organic Chemists: If you can buy it, you can also make it. My opinion: If you can buy it, don't make it. Your salary, time spent on optimization & synthesis and the unseen cost of solvents, consumables and equipment justify buying even expensive chemicals in most cases.

If you were going to teach a class involving photoredox chemistry, and metallophotoredox chemistry, to grad students, what would your must-have reviews be?

For those who like this work: There are still 2 weeks left to apply for the PhD position in my group! www.chemzymes.com

Felix Kaspar@chemzymes.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today @chemrxiv.org we write about two major innovations that facilitate in vitro prenoid and terpenoid analogue biosynthesis. doi.org/10.26434/che... Thread below 👇

Today @chemrxiv.org we write about two major innovations that facilitate in vitro prenoid and terpenoid analogue biosynthesis. doi.org/10.26434/che... Thread below 👇

Everyone loves high-throughput experimentation until they're writing a metadata file for 5000 kinetic experiments. On that note, we've got some cool work coming to a preprint server near you *very* soon!

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We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3

Obviously I'm biased here but Münster IS beautiful 😉

Nicolas Cornelissen @nicocorn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us as the first PhD student in my group! Based in the beautiful city of Münster, Germany, you will develop the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of modified nucleotides, which are used as building blocks of mRNA. Here is the link: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/6... #chemsky #chembio

Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky

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I believe this is ColabFold's way of saying "mate, what kind of garbage did you find in that database?" 🤔

Psycholog:innen aufgepasst🧑🏽‍🔬💬👩🏻‍💻! Du kommunizierst aktiv über deine Forschung und trägst dazu bei, dass die Psychologie als Wissenschaft sichtbar wird? 📣 Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) @dgps.bsky.social schreibt auch 2026 wieder einen Preis zur Wissenschaftskommunikation aus!

I am looking for a PhD student interested in enzymes! For the full annoucement: www.chemzymes.com

@mariehuber.bsky.social reflektiert ehrlich und direkt über die schwierige Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaftskarriere und Sorgeverantwortung. Ich würde es sogar einen Interessenskonflikt nennen. Den Kindern ist egal wie der nächste Antrag aussieht, aber können wir jetzt bitte zusammen ein Buch lesen?

Amrei Bahr@amreibahr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

„Dauerstellen sind notwendig, aber nicht hinreichend für echte Gleichstellung“, so @mariehuber.bsky.social in dieser eindrücklichen Replik auf uns, die reich an Bsp. ist, was bzgl. Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft nach wie vor schiefläuft — & Vorschläge macht, wie es besser geht. 🙏 #IchBinHanna

I don't know anything about energy but the observations made by the folks over at @acs.org Energy Letters carry over really well to other areas of chemistry. ... Please write fewer review articles, folks 🤷🏼

Paul J. Dauenhauer@pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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In February, we reported "Heterologous Expression of a Cryptic BGC from Bilophila sp. Provides Access to a Novel Family of Antibacterial Thiazoles". This full journey from bioinformatics via heterologous expression & mutasynthetic studies to new NPs is available here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Heterologous Expression of a Cryptic BGC from Bilophila sp. Provides Access to a Novel Family of Antibacterial Thiazoles

Human health is greatly influenced by the gut microbiota and microbiota imbalance can lead to the development of diseases. It is widely acknowledged that the interaction of bacteria within competitive ecosystems is influenced by their specialized metabolites, which act, e.g., as antibacterials or siderophores. However, our understanding of the occurrence and impact of such natural products in the human gut microbiome remains very limited. As arylthiazole siderophores are an emerging family of growth-promoting molecules in pathogenic bacteria, we analyzed a metagenomic data set from the human microbiome and thereby identified the bil-BGC, which originates from an uncultured Bilophila strain. Through gene synthesis and BGC assembly, heterologous expression and mutasynthetic experiments, we discovered the arylthiazole natural products bilothiazoles A–F. While established activities of related molecules indicate their involvement in metal-binding and -uptake, which could promote the growth of pathogenic strains, we also found antibiotic activity for some bilothiazoles. This is supported by biosensor-experiments, where bilothiazoles C and E show PrecA-suppressing activity, while bilothiazole F induces PblaZ, a biosensor characteristic for β-lactam antibiotics. These findings serve as a starting point for investigating the role of bilothiazoles in the pathogenicity of Bilophila species in the gut.

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Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...

Early Career Research (ECR) Group Leader position (m/f/d) with the thematic focus on “Catalysis” within the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV

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Be a leader in chemistry! 🏆 ⚗️ It is already possible today to store your research data FAIR. Do you want to lead the way? Then apply with your FAIR data set for the #FAIR4Chem Award 2026 and a 500 euro prize! 💰 https://bit.ly/3sCGoct #chemistry #FAIR

Hey #AcademicSky, advice for a #NewPI? How do you introduce a project to a new MSc student? PhD student? Postdoc? You've spent months, years developing an idea and getting funding for it. How much information, and what kind, do you present first? How do you make sure the project becomes theirs?

This invitation isn't necessarily relevant to me but this whole thread is full of reasons why Bluesky is awesome. Scientists helping scientists. Shared enthusiasm. Me learning about topics I otherwise wouldn't have come in contact with.

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

YES! 🔥 I got a sneak peek at this book as a beta reader so I feel qualified to say that it is amazing! Jen is a fantastic leader and shares so many useful lessons, insights and pieces of practical advice. Definitely a must-read for every (future) PI.

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Jen Heemstra@jenheemstra.bsky.social · last yr.

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

Has anyone done a "how to work with me" 1-pager that has actually worked, and been useful in the workplace? It's been mentioned to me before and I can't decide if it's a helpful thing

Preprint alert! With #PFAS contamination becoming an environmental crisis, we dared to engineer natural defluorinases towards degradation of (un)natural organofluorides. How? Check out our robust growth-based selection platform here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... thanks to @mayerlab.bsky.social !

Engineering fluoroacetate dehalogenase by growth-based selections to degrade non-natural organofluorides

The widespread use of organofluorides in modern society has inadvertently led to the bioaccumulation of harmful pollutants, most prominently per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). In princi...

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