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The 5 stages of grieving a rejection
I’m naturally talking about papers/grants/prizes/applications/orders rejection. Open you email and search for “regret” and “pleased” and you will unequivocally see that “regret to inform you”...
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some journals….
Because we reviwed the papers, not the webpage…. Shall we put a star on micropump. Why not?
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some journals 2
Please, please, please, when you are little bit depressed read this paper : http://innovativejournal.in/index.php/jpro/article/view/678 , it’s a laughing-tears-paper (LTP). It should have dealt with...
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The Feng-Shui Lab
Planning to renew your lab? New space to fill? New instrument to set-up? Did you think about the energy flow of the lab? No? Then do not complain if the phds are fighting each other, the rotavap is...
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#RealTimeChem 2014
Another year, another #realtimechem week. If you don’t have a twitter account, this is the proper time of the year for getting in touch with many many chemtweeps. Here you can find the FAQ, infos,...
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Summer 2014
P.S. as I’m enjoying a lazy “holiday” in the lab I’m not going to write anything here. Luckily for you Matthew (@MCeep) wrote a nice post about researcher holidays. If you are not that lazy to read...
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Go the f*ck to work
Happy new academic year to all of you!!! May this year be full of 50 hours days and even less holidays than the year before, bless referee number 3 for his great comments and so on and so on… It’s...
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Dance your PhD in Groningen
Amazing “dance your PhD” done by different chemistry groups in Groningen (Feringa, Otto et. al.) Enjoy the photoswitchable zinc-finger dance:
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How to deal with Lab Thieves
Disclaimer: this is (as most of the case on this blog) a funny, non-serious post. DO NOT do the following things in your lab! You are ready to set up a reaction, open the flask drawer and…. Nothing…...
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Twitter for Chemists
This is a special post for Chains 2014, the biggest chemistry conference in the Netherlands. You can see the 2011 videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBkSEYSPT4&list=PL1249D16AE757DEE0...
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Unknown Compound Competition
As our paper has been accepted and it will be published soon, we decided to run a small chemistry competition. We tried to synthesize a substituted azobenzene using a literature procedure….. Naturally...
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Holidays 2014
Another year wandering in the lab is finished. Have great holidays, eat like no one business, drink till you get great ideas and have a lot of fun. A lot of referees are waiting for your papers in...
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Fast Update…. quantum dots frenziness
Just a fast update (pretty busy at the moment): Tomorrow the contest will be officially closed, so far we have 2 winners. Will you be the third???? As I’m pretty busy with teaching, here some nice...
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And the winners are….
I’m naturally talking about the “unknown compound competition“. Let’s crunch some numbers first: the post was viewed c.a. 1000 times, 11 chemists participated in the competition and we now have 2...
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Sugru in a chemistry lab
Screaming voice from the back of the room: “What the hell is sugru????”. Sugru, my dear friend is an amazing material that has millions, if not billions, different applications, from preparing old...
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Me and my thermal camera
Recently I’m working on some hot hot hot reaction and I needed something fast to monitor the heat, what better excuse to buy another toy??? I’ve got a seek thermal camera for my iphone...
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Another TEM “problem”?
Do you remember the 2013 TEM scandal ? Well, today we may have a new one. Everything started with this post on reddit…. and in all honesty some of the pictures look little bit strange…. People are...
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CoverTime: 80s vs 90s
Let’s start a new category: It’s CoverTime!!! The first topic of this category is ’80s versus ’90s…… In the beautiful cover for the last issue of ChemElectroChem the Spanish group headed by Ibon...
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