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"Another critical tool taken down by the Trump administration but preserved for the American people: FEMA’s Future Risk Index. This tool shows how much #climate change will cost American communities (actual dollar figures!)...[and] the near-term economic stakes of climate change and why […]

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new paper: "Extending Chemoinformatics Techniques With JMolecular Energy: A Robust CDK-Based Force Field Library" https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.70071 " This paper introduces JMolecular Energy (JME), a novel, open-source Java library designed to implement MMFF94 with a robust and extendable API […]

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how do people focus on work with Microsoft software? Aren't they distracted with the regular advertisement? It this CIA playbook and it is only people outside the USA getting all that advertisement?

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right in time for the upcoming User Group Meeting? CDK code running in your webbrowser, with JavaScript... how cool is that? https://github.com/BobHanson/cdk-SwingJS?tab=readme-ov-file #javascript #cheminformatics

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At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer: Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.

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Omdat de ervaring heeft geleerd dat Nederlanders ‘ferrie smard piepel’ zijn die dit soort verzoeken heel serieus nemen… Oh. Wacht….

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Mom: “No videogames, go play outside” Me: “Ok”

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#GoodWords “What radicalized you? Nothing. Not wanting people to starve and suffer is not radical, it’s normal. Stop saying it’s radical to be base level empathetic, and start asking what made people into sadists. Call out sick behavior, because I’m tired of people thinking kindness shouldn’t […]

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hi all, we know how busy everyone is. And while it is really important for the organization, books, etc, to get your abstract in, upon request, we have extended the abstract submission deadline to 28 February. https://iccs-nl.org/ So, please reply here and let us know what abstract you are […]

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A nearly-infinite virtual museum of "all things", powered by Wikipedia, created by Maya Claire. "Every exhibit in the museum corresponds to a Wikipedia article. The walls of the exhibit are covered in images and text from the article, and hallways lead […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

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"Top Editors Resign from Springer Journal to Launch Nonprofit Immunology Journal" https://scholarlyworld.com/top-editors-resign-from-springer-journal-to-launch-nonprofit-immunology-journal/

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My #SPARQL query of the day: List all known organisms in the #uniprot taxonomy database for which the donor of a sample depicted in #OMERO is a host. Promptly answered by federating local #OMERO Virtual Knowledge Graph and https://sparql.uniprot.org/sparql. I […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

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In totally unrelated news, my university has set a 10% annual increase in "research outputs" as a key performance metric in our current strategy. That's a doubling time of 7 years.

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of course, much of the USA cloud is based on #opensource developed in the EU. This is so sad :( https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114063366114466853

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#MAGA weighs in on my blog post. "Rather than bitch about USA cloud storage, build out your own the way you want on what you have stolen from the USA during the past four years." "I, like most Americans, do not care if Russia takes over Europe. The EU will be getting what it deserves".

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hi #chemsky and #Fediverse, one has to have some goals, right? We think so too: we are going to collect 10M parsable and unique #IUPAC names as a unique CCZero dataset https://github.com/BlueObelisk/iupac-names/issues #openscience #chemistry

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new paper: "Food-grade titanium dioxide exposure between age groups and in global regions: a systematic review and meta-analysis" https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2025.2467823 "Despite its ban in food within the European Union (EU), TiO₂ remains prevalent globally amidst safety debates. This […]

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De hele maand maart staat in het teken van LHBTI+ en queer onderwerpen op Wikipedia! Op WikiVrijdag 28 februari kun je alvast een vliegende start maken. Meer info: https://www.wikimedia.nl/actueel/nieuws/queer-geschiedenismaand-op-wikipedia/ #QueerGeschiedenis […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

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Jo, a přesně proto čtu 😉

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(Rescheduled from 27th February) We are delighted to invite you to the first FAIR COFFEE event of 2025, organized by the Open Science Community Maastricht! Join us on April 3rd from 13:00 to 14:00 (CET) for a hybrid event featuring an exciting lecture by Dr […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

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Tonight, on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, #Mastodon and #PixelFed got a call out for not falling in line with Trump and as an alternative to Meta products. #USPol

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hi #chemsky cheminformaticians in NL, BE, LUX, and DE. I hope you saw the announcement of the upcoming Chemistry Development Kit User Group Meeting too? See https://fosstodon.org/@cdk/114057578556163067

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Publishers face antitrust lawsuit with potential implications for peer review, duplicate submission, and dissemination practices | Health Affairs Scholar | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/2/qxaf018/8002321

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I started creating @nanopub for journal articles (well, one, and two columns) citing my blog, using DOIs from @rogue_scholar and have three of them now: - https://w3id.org/np/RAjbzcuKMdpSbPBFVQ6TJLy4fxsi3PjRw8KqgZX9w7FhI [cito:discusses] - […]

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finding authors in scientific journals on #mastodon, here the Journal of Cheminformatics: https://edu.nl/fg388 (I count 29) Also easily done with #chemsky (count: 7): https://edu.nl/kexn8

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is there already a Trump edition of Cards Against Humanity?

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My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

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Anyone on #chemsky still running a blog? I really wish more chemistry blogs would join @rogue_scholar

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I just made a journal article 2 blog post citation FAIR with @nanopub: https://nanodash.knowledgepixels.com/publishconfirm?9&template=https://w3id.org/np/RA43F9EoOuzF0xoNUnCMNyFsfIqlsuWDdPHCnN0wCdCAw More about about this in these two blog posts: https://doi.org/10.59350/er1mn-m5q69 and […]

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I wish all my German friends a good and progressive election weekend!

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Fact Check: No the AfD didn't win in fictional German youth elections. Elon Musk has retweeted a post saying AfD won a landslide majority in the German youth elections. Firstly, this is a mock poll run in German schools to teach students about politics. Secondly, the results are never […]

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I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️ "On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) […]

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Dit boek hoort in elke boekenkast, en zéker in de boekenkast van nazaten van de tot slaafgemaakte en het kolonialisme in Suriname. SPREAD THE WORD!! En wat een geweldig initiatief!

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no, I would not have written that and certainly have commented on it as a reviewer: "Dataverse implements rich metadata schemas, such as Schema.org, DataCite, and Dublin Core."

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Two photos of the same male Anna’s hummingbird. The photos were one second apart. The feathers’ iridescence is structural, not from dyes. It’s caused by layers of tiny granules of melanin in the feather barbules. The melanin is dark brown or black. The structure of […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

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IANAL, but reading law now and then, because it affects my daily research. I had not read "Article 179(1) TFEU of achieving a European Research Area" (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tfeu_2016/art_179/oj/eng) before The third part reads: "All Union activities under the Treaties in the […]

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Upcoming presentation and panel discussion on Recognition & Rewards to your attention that will feature UM's President, Prof. Rianne Letschert! It's part of the Netherlands Research Integrity Network series "NRIN-on-Tour". NRIN-on-Tour aims to engage the Dutch and international scientific […]

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hi hivemind. let's say we want millions of unique IUPAC names from (organic chemistry) literature, how would you do this? Nothing else needed than the full, complete IUPAC name? #openscience #chemistry #textMining

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no AI without API

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Did you know: in prep for 45's admin, Project 2025 trained people, now in almost every federal agency's leadership, how to not take notes or write things down so they wouldn't be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests or subpoenas? Well, now you know they were trained in how to […]

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American health research reduction, thanks to mister Trump:

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