mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Science journalist for Chemical & Engineering News focusing on the molecules of life, and what we can learn from them. Dusting off this account following the news from the bird app. Views are mine, all mine.
Interests: #Chemistry, #ChemicalBiology, #Proteins, #Proteomics, #StructuralBiology, #Genes, #Smells, #DrugDiscovery and more
Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.
I'm using these quiet days in the office to catch up on reading and thinking time. The first paper I've gone through is this on the changing landscape for med chemists in industry (HT Keith Hornberger) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c02035# What other papers/editorials/articles would the #chemistry crew here recommend?@chemistry@a.gup.pe
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Mates, I work in science journalism. I DON'T KNOW
Dad's on a Flixbus from Munich to Innsbruck today due to the train strikes in Germany. I'm fascinated to think of my dad on a Flixbus TBH, can't really picture it
Train math: OEBB just refunded me the (almost ?) whole ticket price for our delayed sleeper to Budapest a couple of weeks ago. So that's half our train back to the UK for Christmas paid for.
@DrFerrous@hachyderm.io added to the pile, thanks!
Crosspost to Chemistry mastodon (cc@chemistry@a.gup.pe): I used to be more tapped into the UK chemed than I am these days, so when a friend (40s) asked about sites to brush up on their A-level chem, I realised some of my ideas were a bit out of date. Can you help? Thanks in advance