Niek Buurma
@niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social
Physical organic & biophysical chemistry in water. Kinetics & mechanisms (Pd cat, racemisation), nucleic acid binders, biosensors, data analysis, ML. Father of 2 🇳🇱/🇫🇷
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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BREAKING: Putin calls for emergency mediation session between his two employees.
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
This is like a football match between two teams you dislike so you support the referee. Apart from the fact there isn't a referee in this match, but at least both of them can lose!
Steve Bannon wants Elon Musk deported, as per the NYT.
Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.
De VS hebben T.A.C.O., Nederland heeft W.A.C.O. #Wilders
If you think Reform will solve the UK's problems, just have a look at what Wilders achieved in the Netherlands. 0 Zero Nothing Big promises, but in the end his only belief is islamophobia.
Normally politicians want to stay in government as long as possible, to maximize the chances of delivering their promises and because being in power is nice. With Wilders the opposite applies: the longer he stays, the clearer it becomes that his pledges are undeliverable.
Dutch News@dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · last yr.Wilders: PVV will quit cabinet unless it agrees to asylum plan www.dutchnews.nl?p=252588
A serious thing for Harvard to consider would be to relocate before the endowment is exhausted. Sell the campus land and move to another country and keep operating. Read the fate of CEU here below. They relocated several times and recently from Budapest to Vienna. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
Central European University - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Proud to have signed the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future. A call to transform chemistry, where science empowers human well-being without degrading our ecosystems. Read it. Share it. Sign it. www.stockholm-declaration.org #SustainableScience #GreenChemistry
Chancellor Reeves: "Our biggest trading partners are our friends, our allies in the EU. For too long it's been too difficult to export, to bring in talent, to trade with our nearest neighbours and that's not good enough because it's held back our growth." Incredible that this even needs saying. ~AA
Science teachers! If you want to prebook a place for your class to visit our upcoming large-scale pop-up shop event in the St David's Centre in Cardiff in July 2025 please get in touch! The microbial world in, on and around us - Information, demonstrations, live stage, art, games, fun. 🤒🦠🧫🔬🥼🧪👨🏻🏫📖🛍️
Exciting times! 📢 — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
At the end of June 2025 we will be opening a large “Pop-up Science Shop” in Cardiff Learn about infection, hygiene and untreatable ‘superbugs’ that are resistant to our medicines. We will take ov...
superbugs.online
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Bunny Vs Monkey book ELEVEN! Intergalactic Monkey Business is released in October, but available for preorder now! 🐰🐵🚀
#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years
Climate change is making fire seasons in Australia, the US, and Canada longer, and they’re starting to overlap. By 2050, the shared burden could grow by up to 29 days/year, straining firefighting partnerships (e.g. aircraft use) built on taking turns agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Increasing Fire Weather Season Overlap Between North America and Australia Challenges Firefighting Cooperation
A warmer climate increases overlapping fire risk between North America and Australia, potentially compromising firefighting cooperation Variability of Australian fire weather dominates the risk o...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This year's Earth Day @EarthDay has the theme "Our Power, Our Planet". CONNECTS-UK's super power is linking researchers across all types of expertise to solve the renewable power puzzle and to show the power of research to the people.
Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen.
You don't know what you have until it's gone - Brexit version. How I wish I had spoken out more and why I'm involved in @connects-uk.bsky.social now.
Anna Napolitano@anna83nap.bsky.social · last yr.#Brexit changed many things, especially people's lives!For @nature.com, I explored how it changed scientists' careers. Thanks to @niekbuurmah2o.bsky.social; Sergi Castellano; @doctordianap.bsky.social, and all the researchers who gave me their testimony. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is painful to watch, and I'm not even British. Mind you, I'm not claiming Dutch colonial past was better in any way, shape or form and I'm sure you'll find Netherlanders with similar attitudes to our past.
My thoughts on the “pharmaceutical tariffs” issue, and an explanation of just what a morass it is.
Pharmaceutical Tariffs: The What and the How
science.org
Don't you hate it when you accidentally post on Truth Social what you wanted to post on Signal?
Ben Coates@bencoates1.bsky.social · last yr.Twenty minutes before he paused the tarriffs Not even trying to hide the insider trading at this point
Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.
Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
Death toll as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih rises to 18. Half of them, nine, are children. Absolutely heartbreaking. At the same time, Russian envoy in DC talks deals with the Trump's team. Russia senses impunity and will get more aggressive. Ukrainian kids will pay
In need of a good news story? This lovely open science story is all that is good about collaborative science!
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · last yr.At #ACSSpring2025, Ed Griffen of MedChemica disclosed the structure of a pancoronavirus antiviral that targets the main protease of the two different coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19. cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... 🧪
