🚀New PhD Opportunity!🧑‍🎓 I am excited to announce a project on the molecular-scale ageing of biochar starting Sept 2025. 🌍International applicants welcome! Please RT/Share with your students www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Molecular‑scale ageing of biochar in soils: evolution of functionality, performance, and implications for carbon credits at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Molecular‑scale ageing of biochar in soils: evolution of functionality, performance, and implications for carbon credits at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Oded Rechavi@odedrechavi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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Nice to start the year with a paper published from a collaboration started last year with Mehdi Ghasemi, supported by Clay Minerals Group of the @minersoc.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Molecular Insights into Caprock Integrity of Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: Perspective on Hydrogen-Induced Swelling and Mechanical Response

The geological storage of hydrogen (H2) requires reliable long-term caprock sealing, yet the nanoscale interactions between H2 and clay minerals remain critically underexplored, despite their importan...

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Submitting your paper mid December

Group's 1st paper out! CONGRATS to Delfina Pereira & all coauthors: Xiulan Xie, Kerstin Volz, Jürgen Belz @unimarburg.bsky.social, Sarah Stewart & Valentina @erastova.bsky.social, Tuğçe Beyazay, Harun Tüysüz @imdeamaterials.bsky.social, Nicole Paczia & Zainab Subrati @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

Communications Chemistry@commschem.nature.com · 9mo ago

Just out: Reduction of NAD and NMN on mineral surfaces with H2 reveals a functional role for the AMP moiety in a prebiotic context

👨‍🎓#PhD in my group @edinburghchem.bsky.social via E5 DTP Nature-Inspired and Computationally-Informed Design of #Clay-#Biochar Systems for Heavy Metal Remediation 🌍 Supervised by Margaret Graham, Ondrej Masek & Valentina Erastova Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: 14 Dec 2025

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🌍👨‍🎓#PhD: Design of #Biochar for #Sequestration of Emerging Pollutants via E5 DTP @edinburghchem.bsky.social Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 2025

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Having missed Andrey Kalinichev’s talks this summer at both Goldschmidt and International Clay Conference due to overlap of our parallel sessions, it is great to finally catch up at small but scientifically charged @cecamevents.bsky.social in Vienna @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Talk at @cecamevents.bsky.social at @bokuvienna.bsky.social by recently defended Dr Hannah Pollak on ClayCode - software she developed during her PhD at @edinburghchem.bsky.social Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987

Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!

Extra special day in the group @edinburghchem.bsky.social y’day Congratulations to Dr Audrey Ngambia🎓 for a brilliant PhD defence! Thank you for joining my group & trusting me as very new PI that we can make these pesky biochar models - we did it thanks to your dedication and hard work🍾

Congratulations to our PgT students of @edinburghchem.bsky.social for completing their studies! I am extra happy to see that students undertaking #compchem projects - Yifei and Samuel (our group) - have won awards for best taught part and best project talk! 🏆🥳

Yesterday we were visited by Ellen Porter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophical Transactions A of the @royalsocietypublishing.org, to discuss real hurdles of #publishing in #science with our #PhD & #PostDoc at @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social

The workshop "Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application" has started in Lausanne! After a short welcome by CECAM and the organisers, V. Sierra Jimenez, C. M. Grottola & P. Giudicianni have kicked off today's program. ➡️ www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos! www.instagram.com/reel/DKNDlYw...

Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪

#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers

Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.

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Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us! www.instagram.com/reel/DKDBluT...

Another day from @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip www.instagram.com/reel/DJ46gJG...

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Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam www.instagram.com/reel/DJv33ri...

Home 🖤

After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home

Suddenly found yourself wanting to build a snowman in May? Sure thing - welcome to northern Iceland ☃️ where you can do it in day light 24h a day!

Off the beaten track onto þjóðfell for permafrost samples with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social ⛏️🗻 Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday

Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall

In the lab again

Another great day sampling with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social and Pam @theukca.bsky.social ⛏️

Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future