Had the pleasure of speaking with students at the University of Guelph about science communication today.
Back in the olden days when I was in grad school (the first round), #scicomm wasn’t usually considered a viable career path. Many scientists blogged under pseudonyms so they wouldn’t be penalized before tenure.
20yrs later, I’m delighted as new generations of young scientists embrace the constantly changing media environment, including on #Mastodon.
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post.
This latest Chem Sci paper from Maria Alessandra Martini, James A. Birrell, Patricia Rodríguez-Maciá and colleagues highlights how the binding of exogenous cyanide can be used to determine new active sites in [FeFe] hydrogenases.
#NMROnline has a growing software library, with titles integrated into seamless and efficient workflows, built with industry standards and best practices.
In our ChemSci Pick of the Week, Matthew Langton et al report the first example of a halogen bonding (XB) membrane-anchored ion carrier in which transport is facilitated by the exchange of ions between lipid-anchored receptors on opposite sides of the membrane.
The mechanistic insight provided into the properties governing anion selectivity for both mobile and membrane-anchored carriers has the potential to provide a basis for the design of selective anionophores for future therapeutic applications.
Through analysing the transport rates and using asymmetric distributions of relay transporters in the membrane, it was revealed that anion exchange between transporters in the membrane interior was rate-limiting, and faster for chloride than hydroxide, leading to a higher selectivity for Cl− than OH− ; the origin of this selectivity was investigated in detail.
@swagpussc The basic thing to understand is that this is not a world of Windows.
There have always been other operating systems, and in particular there has been, since the late 1960s, a large class of operating systems that are: Unix; one of the many flavours of Unix that #Unix split into in the 1970s; or someone creating an operating system that's very much like Unix, from the ground up, a decade or 2 later.
#Linux is (the kernel of) the last sort of operating system.
@swagpussc (...continued)
Aside: There's a whole explanation about #Linux only being a kernel, not the whole of an operating system. The "kernel"/"shell" thing is a metaphor.
As requested by Reid Alderson, ChemEx is now in #NMROnline!
We would like to thank D. Flemming Hansen (@dflemminghansen) for providing the data, and Guillaume Bouvignies for his support with the ChemEx integration.
Supercapacitors are charged like a battery but release their energy more rapidly – and some of their components can now be built from old plastic bottles
Plastic bottles can be recycled into energy-storing supercapacitors (archive.is)
Supercapacitors are charged like a battery but release their energy more rapidly – and some of their components can now be built from old plastic bottles