Leo Betschart @betschart@qoto.org

Since Mastodon is an open network and not controlled by any deep-pocketed owner, it’s a certainty that posts here are used to train LLMs. That’s why it’s important to make sure you always rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog

Is there anything more delightful than remembering you get to create a new reference entry because you not only made the point that you now need to make in a new piece of work but backed it up in a large study 🥰

We've published over 60k words of openly shared original empirical research projects this year -- that's a book!

No, you are not 'antisemitic' if you don't agree with what the right wing warmongering Israeli government is doing in #Gaza. Nor are you pro-Hamas if you care about Palestinians not being treated like subhuman and killed by the thousands. Nor are you anti-American if you don't agree with the hypocrisy of the US government's double speak. You are simply using your judgement to see through the enormous propaganda machine and trying to think like a human of the 21st century.

#Israel #US #warcrimes

⚗️ Using the Bunsen burner for the final step of a complex total synthesis?

📰 #OpenAccess #TotalSynthesis of Euphorikanin A by Erick Carreira and colleagues from #ETH Zurich (#Switzerland) published in #JACS. A late-stage atrospecific cascade reaction led to the core structure of the terpene and pyrrolysis finally yielded the natural product.

#chemistry #research #science

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c11000

Terrific essay on Nazis and mouse poop (no really): https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-substack-nazis-laissez-faire-tech

Took me way too long in my career to add such a paragraph to a paper. Y'all should cite the software you use!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873323000825

#rstats #OpenScience

The strain on scientific publishing 📄:

The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?

Myself, @pablo, @Paolo, and @Dan have spent the last few months investigating just that.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

A thread🧵1/n

#AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #Elsevier #Springer #MDPI #Wiley #Frontiers #PhDAdvice #PhDChat #SciComm

Dismayed to notice that in 2003 I published an article containing a sentence with an unmatched left parenthesis so that everything I’ve published in the last twenty years has been part of one extremely long parenthetical remark.

It was one year ago today that David Smith emailed me out of the blue, asking about my work on computing Heesch numbers. A few days later he tipped his hand and showed me a drawing of the hat polykite for the first time. Happy Aperiodic Monotile day to all who celebrate.

If you're new here, and considering whether this space could become a social home for you:

Many of us have been here for a few years, since well before Threads, BlueSky, Spoutible, Post, Hive, Pebble, Cohost, Blurble, Blarble and Blorble.

We've made it through waves of user migrations, claims of imminent demise, and tech bros telling us we're doing it all wrong.

Years later, we're still here. Ad-free. Non-profit. Open source. Millions strong.

Stay a while. You might just like it. :)

I have seen all 4 of these lines of best fit in published peer-reviewed papers and oddly the top left is probably the rarest type 📉

If people keep telling you to meditate or “practice mindfulness” and listening to an improbably youthful Gwyneth Paltrow wannabe chat shit for twenty minutes on an overpriced app that makes dubious claims of efficacy doesn’t do it for you, a brisk walk in the park listening to drum’n’bass, hardcore breakbeat, jungle and so on may give you the same purported benefits without the aesthetic awfulness.

For those who aren’t into bleepy bloop music, I’m told fast/aggressive metal works well too.

I don't (ever) post Tumblr screenshots I found on other websites, but this is, the correct shit

post mortem on the Gino case, by a #whistleblower
https://www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statement/
#fraud #psychology

@betschart
Back in the days, obviously, girls seemed an obscure audience for chemistry books 🙄
@SRDas