Leo Betschart @betschart@qoto.org

#chemistwhobake #bakingbread

I'm about a month behind for this, but it is never too late to tout a nice piece of work, to which I contributed a tiny fraction. "What is the state-of-the-art in weaning postoperative patients off opioids and thus prevent addiction?" To address this question, Sarah and Marcel had to scrutinize 2000+ papers. Kudos to that! And only 8 studies within the big pile fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

https://rdcu.be/dPwao

Here's something that might be beneficial to the scientists out there, doing research in chemistry, material science, life sciences or pharmaceutical sciences: three times a year, we hold series of nine coffeelectures, 10 minute intros to a database, a software tool or some other thingy closely related to science. We show some reasonable use cases and give pointers to other related resources. Since last year, we also make these available via youtube. Check out our backlog on our channel: www.youtube.com/@icbpeth
#coffeelecture #science #scientist #chemistry #chemiverse #biology # lifesciences #materialsciences #pharmaceuticalsciences

Hey #library folks out there,
What do you make of this graphic used to announce the closure of the earth science university library location at ETH Zurich?

Paper out! Only 7.5 years after defending my theses. Finally I can close that chapter of my life.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202315423
#TotalSynthesis #naturalproducts

Spätzle-time. Of 3 kg flour came 8.3 kg of Spätzle. Around half of that is in the picture. All prepped now for venison season. #chemistswhocook #cookstodon

Morning atmosphere on Stoos.

And what audience is your most obscure chemistry book tailored to? #chemiverse #bookstodon

I used that quote of yours again @ct_bergstrom and the students still love it.

Autumn is here! I love morning mist on my way to work!

Here is the belated picture of the complete meal: Pork loin roast in a red wine sauce seasoned with ginger, coriander seeds, cloves, curry powder and cinnamon; 100 #garlic curry; carrots with cardamom; semolina polenta. #chemistswhocook

Hey #medlibs out there. I have a dumb PubMed question on term explosion with subheadings: In the 4 queries on the first pic (see ALT-Text for a copyable version) the numbers for the exploded codeine search are much higher than the combined numbers of the other three.
The behavior is different if I don't work with subheadings (cf. second pic). Then the numbers of the non-exploded main term and two more specific terms add up to a little more than the exploded main term. This makes sense as I would expect some papers to be on both levels of the hierarchy.
Anybody out there got an explanation for the behavior in the first picture.

In case anybody was wondering what 229 cloves of garlic look like. Here you go. #chemistswhocook

Char Siu turned out tasty, but the meat got too dry. Next time, I have to concentrate the marinate to a more sirupy constency, before putting it into the oven. Then I hopefully get that beautiful glaze on more quickly. Served it with rice and red cabbage. #chemistswhocook

Trying to make Char Siu for the first time. Marinated three chunks of pork shoulder now till Saturday morning. #chemistswhocook

Wanna know what competitive whip-cracking looks and sounds like? Here you go! Every Jan 6th, on the town square of Schwyz, central #Switzerland, the annual "Priischlepfä" takes place. #traditions #chemtoots #chemiverse

So I tried the Stable diffusion text-to-image algorithm and wanted it to create a pic of a rotavap. What I got looks more like a dyson hoover, but I would really want I rotavap like that. #Chemtoots #chemtwitter #realtimechem