Changing the incentives in Scientific Publishing: maybe a yearly limit on the total number of papers helps? here discussed by M. A. Cheema: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... #ResearchIntegrity
The case for researchers publishing less in the age of AI
AI has stripped away the effort it once took to produce an academic paper, and with ‘publish or perish’ pressures, it is driving chronic over-publ...
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Reproducibility in polymer science has not received the attention it should. Polymers do not have a clear identity like small molecules and batch-to-batch reproducibility of polymer synthesis is challenging, but this issue is practically ignored in the field. A preprint. chemrxiv.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Reproducibility and batch-dependent variability in polymer-based nanocarriers | ChemRxiv
Polymers are essential functional constituents in most nanomedicines. While frequently treated conceptually as defined compounds in this respect, polymers are intrinsically heterogeneous materials, as...
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Water confined in molecular crystals: structure and dynamics. Glad to see our study published for the Festschrift in honor of Prof. Christoph Dellago @chhdellago.bsky.social #dynamics #water #softmatter #statphys #orderparameters #hydrogenbonds pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/arti...
Structure and dynamics of confined water in naphthalene-diimide based molecular crystals
Under confinement, water changes its structure and dynamics, displaying new properties with respect to the bulk. We studied water confined in naphthalene diimid
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Chiara and Daniele presenting their PhD projects at the ICTP MARVEL College poster session! Intensive and constructive atmosphere, learning about materials simulations in the age of AI #modelling #compchem @fabrizianegri.bsky.social
Here today at the @unaeuropa.bsky.social Summerschool on Soft Materials in Bologna, I had the pleasure to sit in a really nice lecture by @gierschner.bsky.social, on the threats to scientific integrity posed by the uncritical use of metrics in science. Such an important topic....
When I was an undergrad student, one day one of my Profs greeted me in the hallway with "Herr Kollege.... " 25 years ago, in highly hierarchical Germany. It was weird, but really nice, too, and somehow, quite inspirational.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · last mo.A round of applause for inspirational teachers 🫶🏼👏🏼 #WritingCommunity #BookSky
👁️ #KeratOPrinter is combining world-class expertise to develop a 4D bioprinting suite capable of producing a fully functional, biocompatible, full-thickness, native-like human cornea. This will move regenerative medicine from concept to clinic.
Scientometric analysis of the heavily gamed so-called "Stanford" List of "2% Top Scientists" #ResearchIntegrity
Persistent anomalies in the Stanford/Ioannidis top 2% scientist’s database: empirical impact of publication-type filtering, temporal coverage correction, and retraction-rate thresholds - Scientometric...
The Stanford/Ioannidis database of standardized citation indicators, now in its eighth version (August 2025), ranks over 230,000 scientists in the top 2% by composite citation score. While this resour...
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Research Integrity Seminar @ Institute for Physical & Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. Tübingen, already 40th edition! Thank you again, Alfred Meixner & IPTC for the kind invitation, and the audience for the interest & discussion! #ResearchIntegrity
New research in Chemical Science! “Unraveling emission narrowing pathways in N-embedded polyaromatic systems via sequential π-interlocking for efficient electroluminescence” by Jun Yeob Lee, Rajendra Kumar Konidena et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...
Check out the our new preprint from Yuquan Chi and Surachet Imlimthan from @msarparanta.bsky.social lab and my lab. We report a boron cluster polymer conjugate with super high aqueous solubility and PET trackability! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
PET-Trackable Carborane-Conjugated Star-Shaped Poly(2-oxazoline) Scaffold with High Boron Payload and Improved Aqueous Solubility for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy | ChemRxiv
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) requires substantial tumor boron delivery, yet carboranes, boron-rich BNCT building blocks, suffer from poor aqueous solubility and suboptimal in vivo behavior despite exceptional boron density and stability. We report ...
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I have studied drug loaded poly(2-oxazoline) micelles for almost two decades. In the laat few years, we have focused in particular on the effects of the hydrophilic blocks/corona. Now, Maksym studied in silico the effects of swapping out the hydrophilic blocks, preprint: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Think Beyond the Core: Computationally Decoding the Hydrophilic Corona of Drug-Loaded Polymer Micelles | ChemRxiv
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This article is part of a special issue in JACS Au on flow chemistry, and I think this contribution, the main work of Gayathri's PhD within the IITB/Monash academy, is a wonderful example for fruitful collaborations between India and Australia! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Scalable Miniemulsion Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) in Continuous Flow
A scalable methodology to perform miniemulsion polymerizations is demonstrated for the polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA). Scalability of the miniemulsification was achieved by using a spinni...
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Super happy that after a terrible winter last year, this year it is better. Around -10°C for more than 6 weeks now, Baltic sea frozen maybe 50 cm think in our bay, perfect snow for cross-country skiing.
On my way to the PhD defenses of two of my students at the University of Würzburg, maybe the final endpoint of this chapter of my academic life. Finally daring to travel from Helsinki to Germany only by ferry and train. Right now riding the overnight train from Stockholm to Hamburg.
Just came across this very interesting paper on academic ethics by Yasemim J Erden. Perfect weekend or summer read for anybody interested in addressing the rampant issues in current academia around the replicstion crisis and the obvious failure of academic metrics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hyper-ambition and the Replication Crisis: Why Measures to Promote Research Integrity can Falter - Journal of Academic Ethics
This paper introduces the concept of ‘hyper-ambition’ in academia as a contributing factor to what has been termed a ‘replication crisis’ across some sciences. The replication crisis is an umbrella te...
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What a wrap-up of #EPF2025. Florian Kaps, PhD student in our lab, received one of the poster prizes. We are very proud of his great work and thankful to allwho voted for Florian! Also congrats to all other awardees, including Julian Schmidt (Frey Lab) and one from the Jordan group at TU Dresden.
That's fantastic!! In particular that you donated the prize money!
Jens Gaitzsch@jgaitzsch.bsky.social · last yr.Honored to be one of the Awardees of this years' Andrew Keller Award. Truely appreciate the acknowledgment of our work and the opportunity to give an invited presentation at the #EPF2025 The prize money got matched and donated to @missionlifeline.bsky.social, Break the Fake and Panama e.V.
This week our PhD student @celinekuchler.bsky.social is attending the 10th European #Crystallography School in Ohrid, Macedonia. She presents a poster "Controlled Crystallization and Morphological Studies of All-organic Salt Particles" and is looking forward to interesting lectures and discussions!
My train is my office! On the way to #EPF2025 in Groningen, enjoying my favorite music and the scenery were I grew up, Germany's flatlands...
And here is some science from @metrazymes.bsky.social members at the European Polymer Congress @epf2025.bsky.social: PI Prof. Nico Bruns @bruns-lab.bsky.social presenting enzymatic radical polymerizations!
It’s a great pleasure to host the group of Prof. Arn Mignon @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social under the support of @unaeuropa.bsky.social @helsinki.fi Looking forward to the trip to Leuven soon!
