I am posting an open letter to the membership of the @AmerChemSociety, signed by current/former Advisory Board & Editorial Board members, detailing our deep concern at the recent upheaval Chemical & Engineering News punctuated by the firing of Dr. Bibiana Campos Seijo & Dr. Jyllian Kemsley
#chemistry, #chemtoots, #chemiverse, #journalism
https://kitchenchemistry.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-membership

Nature Chemical Engineering, launching in January 2024, is looking for three Associate/Senior Editors.

For details of the broad areas of expertise we're looking for in candidates, please take a look at the job ad here: https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Associate-or-Senior-Editor%2C-Nature-Chemical-Engineering/882724901/

Closing date for applications: Jan 16, 2023

Locations: London, New York, Berlin, Shanghai or Beijing

Boosts appreciated!

#Chemistry #Engineering #ChemicalEngineering #ChemiVerse #Editorial #Publishing #Jobs

You're about to hear a lot about #NuclearFusion. I've followed the field for years & can offer context. Top line:
- NIF's "breakeven" does not generate more power than it consumes
- NIF is not a model for a commercial fusion reactor
- This news is a big deal all the same. 1/n

My piece putting tomorrow's #fusion announcement in context has just come out:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/department-of-energy-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-nif-livermore/672439/

(Paywalled, but 12ft.io works as a bypass.)

Quick summary: if this is really is 2.1 MJ laser light in to 2.5 MJ fusion energy out, then it really is achieving a decades-old definition of ignition in this type of fusion reaction (ICF, as opposed to magnetic fusion.) It'll be the first defensible claim of producing net fusion energy in the lab. BUT....

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DNA that's *2 million years old* [the oldest ever] recovered from frozen soil in Greenland, shows was then a forested ecosystem home to mastodons and reindeer. Work from Eske Willerslev's lab. by @ewencallaway@twitter.com | @nature@twitter.com https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04377-x

For those who like molecules: feast your eyes on these lovely 'Molecules of the Year' from C&EN: https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/Check-CENs-molecules-year-2022/100/i44
#chemistry #chemtoots #science

RT @Channel4News@twitter.com

We're seeing a "climate crime against humanity."

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas MP tells @krishgm@twitter.com, "I've never been as desperate as I feel right now," as a new coal mine in Cumbria gets the go-ahead.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1600576168838647808

I'm flabbergasted that the UK is building a new coal mine. Despite everything. It is truly shocking!

This report is ambitious and broad reaching. Gordon Brown should be commended for trying to do something that has been sadly missing from public life for years – articulating the problems and what good could look like for the whole of the UK | Jane Thomas

#Bylines #NewBritain #Labour #GordonBrown #KeirStarmer

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/labour-comes-to-leeds-to-unveil-plans-for-a-new-britain/

Wow Tory party political broadcast on fusion energy as it at the same time gives the go-ahead to a new coal power station. Beyond ludicrous

RT @Channel4News@twitter.com

New Cumbria coal mine 'is not embarrassing for Britain', says local Conservative MP Mark Jenkinson

@krishgm@twitter.com

https://www.channel4.com/news/new-coal-mine-is-not-embarrassing-for-britain-says-local-mp-mark-jenkinson

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1600597768199733249

UK govt approves first new coal mine in 30 years: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63892381

The mine will produce 'coking coal' for the steel industry. Advocates continue to claim there is no alternative carbon source for steelmaking.

Here's my New Scientist column from last year explaining why they are wrong: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133501-100-why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-new-coal-mine/

And here's a more in-depth look at the alternative, cleaner technologies: https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/steel-hydrogen-low-co2-startups/99/i22

Whither #ChemTwitter? @LaurelOld has the news for #CENmag on the #Mastodon migration, see https://cen.acs.org/education/science-communication/chemists-Twitter-goes-down/100/i42
#chemistry

@richvn This is one of the oddest things I've ever read. Is it a joke, I wonder? It's rather like walking into a supermarket, going over to the clothing section, and lamenting how little nutrition the T-shirts offer, or pointing out that there are no best-before dates on the shoes ...

RT @cshperspectives@twitter.com

John Ioannidis has discovered science journalism in prestige publications and has some concerns... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.517227v1

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cshperspectives/status/1595400814763327489

RT @Channel4News@twitter.com

“I’m a 16-year-old orphan from an East African country escaping a warzone and religious persecution... What is the safe and legal route for me?"

Conservative MP Tim Loughton asks Home Secretary Suella Braverman to explain how a refugee could reach the UK to claim asylum.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1595419553181224960

RT @floragraham@twitter.com

So this is a story all about how: I set myself a side quest to cycle at #COP27! 🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/floragraham/status/1593702650398269442

Electrons don’t actually spin – so why do they have ‘spin’? Brilliant exploration of this question in #ScientificAmerican by Adam Becker @freelanceastro@octodon.social

Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-particles-arent-spinning-so-where-does-their-spin-come-from/

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

The Butterfly Nebula from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing: William Ostling

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221121.html #APOD