How could I have missed Angine de Poitrine for so long. Glad to see them coming to Berlin in October. youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?...

Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP)

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Congrats Christian! Well deserved.

CEStieger.bsky.social@cestieger.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am excited to share that our manuscript on vinyl phosphonamidates (VPAs) as latent electrophiles for cysteine targeting has just been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi.org/10.1021/jacs... Thanks to my great colleagues who help me shape this project!

Seven new P(V)-stereogenic #organocatalysts synthesized! 🔬 Mathias Christmann ( @christmann.bsky.social ) & co-workers explore #squaramide & #thiourea linkers in asymmetric transfer hydrogenation & Mukaiyama–Mannich reactions — showing promising first results✨ #phosphorus 👉 buff.ly/zSmzJqJ

The "Ether Rim" 🔥 is an absolute staple of experimental lectures in Organic Chemistry and one of my favorites. Never gets old! 🧪 #ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Try to imagine chemistry without JJ Berzelius, who, after thousands of experiments, published the first precise list of atomic weights (1818). Yet Berzelius might have remained a mere physician had he never met Anders Ekeberg. Teachers can influence the course of history. 🧪 #chemsky #chemistry

8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history

Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified

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Don’t miss Timothy Noël @tnoel82.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) giving an online @gdch.de lecture organized by the Liebig-Vereinigung. #ChemSky Details and registration: gdch.app/event/from-b...

Beautiful blood moon over Berlin, captured from Drachenberg last night. #BloodMoon #Eclipse #NightSky #Berlin

Our collaboration with @riedellab.bsky.social @fubcp.bsky.social on photomediated C–H trifluoromethoxylation with bis(trifluoromethyl)peroxide has been published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #OpenScience #FluorineChemistry #RadicalChemistry #ChemSky

Kids have a special eye for spotting the little things we often overlook. Challenge them to ‘find something cool’ and you will be amazed at what they discover.

New research shows that simply changing how a reaction vessel is positioned on a magnetic stirrer can significantly change a reaction's speed and product quality, influencing the reproducibility of results. #ChemSky #ScienceSky #EduSky

Position of flask on magnetic stirrers can drastically affect reproducibility of experiments

Comprehensive examination reveals improper siting of reaction vessels can affect catalyst formation, alter nanoparticle formation and change yields

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Today, part of the team of the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry @fubcp.bsky.social enjoyed great food 🍽️ and discussions at Luise Dahlem before heading together to the university elections at FU Berlin. Thanks to everyone who joined for the wonderful gathering! #ChemSky #BiochemSky #CampusLife

Catch mass (m) & substance amount (n) errors in PDFs! This tool comes handy, but expect false positives for now. Link: huggingface.co/spaces/Match... Explore more #OpenChemTools: Accurate Mass: huggingface.co/spaces/Match... SI Check: huggingface.co/spaces/Match... #ChemPython #ChemSky

We demonstrate granular and steerable synthesizability control in molecular generation, allowing to specify reaction and building block constraints while optimizing for molecules with desired properties. Super proud of Jeff Guo and Víctor Sabanza Gil leading this exciting study! #chemsky

Jeff Guo@jeff-guo.bsky.social · last yr.

Generate property-optimized small molecules with 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 synthesizability control - allowing complete user-flexibility to impose various reaction constraints! Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08774 Code: github.com/schwallergro... (1/4)

In a world full of AI hype, Dr. Waku (@drwaku.bsky.social) is a calm, clear, and deeply thoughtful voice. Watch ‘On a knife’s edge’ for one of the most grounded takes on why AI might change everything. youtu.be/nTFMPWyN7gU

On a knife’s edge: why AI will change everything

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Are you interested in a PhD combining asymmetric transition metal catalysis and data-driven analysis? We have two PhD positions as part of the EU network CATALOOP (cataloop.eu) that are open to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/334833 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/334837 #ChemSky

Hi Bluesky! We’re the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin. Follow us for a look into research, teaching, and life at our institutes—plus news and events. Welcome to all students, researchers, employees – and every other curious species out there! 🦠🪲🍃🧪🧬

Gemini 2.5 Pro's reasoning on domain-specific topics is amazing (and a bit scary, too). Tested it with today’s Chemdl #182 (reaction scheme). The logical steps to the correct answer were spot on. Wow. #AI #ChemSky #LLM

Impressed by Gemini 2.5 Pro to create lecture material: "Can you write a python script that generates a ball and stick model of a rotating water molecule that also show the two planes of symmetry and the c2 axis in a semitransparent Fashion“ #AI #GeminiAI #ChemPython #ChemSky #SciVis @GoogleAI

A fantastic day celebrating my PhD advisor’s retirement with friends and the academic family. So many great memories! #ChemSky

Great to have Prof. Xiaoguang Lei of Peking University at FU Berlin for his talk, “Opportunities for Merging Chemical and Biological Synthesis”! #ChemicalBiology #Synthesis #ChemBioSky

Need to proofread a thesis or lengthy SI? 📄✨ Just drop your PDF into the SI-Check demo on Hugging Face! 👉 huggingface.co/spaces/Match... DM with feedback or suggestions and help making the tool better! #Proofreading #AcademicWriting #HuggingFace #OpenScience #ChemSky

We are delighted to support Benjamin Pölloth's Comp-Chem-Lab project, which uses ORCA to introduce high school students to quantum chemistry. Check out the article and the website of the project: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... www.comp-chem-lab.de/en #ORCAqc #ChemicalEducation #CompChemSky #ChemSky

High School Students Experimenting with Computational Chemistry: Design-Based Research on and through the “Comp-Chem-Lab”

Despite the profound impact of Computational Chemistry (CC) on chemical research and understanding, it plays a negligible role in high school chemistry curricula. Integrating CC into high school educa...

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I was surprised by the positive response to our Org. Lett. on analyzing mass data from 3000+ SI files: 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... For those who’d rather not install Python, you can now check PDFs using a simple #Streamlit app, hosted on Hugging Face: ⚡ huggingface.co/spaces/Match... #ChemSky

Thanks to everyone on #ChemSky who shared suggestions via DM or in the comments on expanding 🧪 SI checking. It’s evolving, thanks to #vibecoding #ChemPython

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Lab report grading got you down? 😩 We're building an automated feedback tool! Share your common lab report errors that drive you nuts as regular expression (regex) in combination with a comment line. Example: r'\b\d+(?:.\d+)?\s+ml\b' catches "ml" vs "mL". #ChemEd #LabLife #LLM #ChemSky #ChemPython

LLM-assisted tool generation is awesome. To extend the HRMS checker (doi.org/10.1021/acs....) to automated experimental checking, a peptide sequence parser function (ca. 200 lines of code) was generated in under 2 hours. #ChemSky

Fantastic talk, ‘Organic Chemistry to Shine Light on Biology,’ by Johannes Broichhagen (@broichhagenj.bsky.social) from the Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin. For a comprehensive overview of his work, check out: doi.org/10.1002/anie... #ChemSky #ChemBioSky

Intriguing yet strange to watch a large language model deconstruct the steps to provide the simple answer ‘No.’ A brilliant comparison by @emollick.bsky.social to Marvin, the paranoid android from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. #ChemSky

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2y ago

No matter how much you fight it, I find that the visible chain-of-thought from DeepSeek makes it nearly impossible to avoid anthropomorphizing the thing The visible first-person "thinking" makes you feel like you are reading a diary of a somewhat tortured soul who wants to help. Weird interaction

This #OrgLett cover by Guillermo Correa Otero demonstrates human error in mass spec report checking. Instead use CheckAMM! Editorial by EIC Marisa Kozlowski introducing CheckAMM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... What @christmann.bsky.social found checking AMM reports: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...