solarchemist  

The "International Year of the Periodic Table" is well under way, and it feels like something new is posted daily. It's great fun!
This "visual history" by Science magazine does a good job of visualising the many shapes the table has taken so far. vis.sciencemag.org/periodic-ta
(The animations didn't work properly in Firefox ESR, but Chromium seems to handle them fine).

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Arjen P. de Vries  

Quit using Mendeley people!

They started encrypting your database so you cannot easily move it over to other tools any more.

See:
zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley

That link also helps you saving your data before it's too late.

(Elsevier are a bunch of crooks, blocking interoperability one-way and not the other. Almost as bad as Google blocking uBlock for your safety...)

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solarchemist  

@Thepunkgeek Please add me to Chemistry.

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Ultraviolet ☀️ Photons  

Unpaywall is a handy little open source project, available to use as a browser extension, which makes it easier to find open access copies of journal papers.

I just thought I'd share this here for those who may need it. I find it very useful!

unpaywall.org/

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Ultraviolet ☀️ Photons  

I recently learned about hematene. It's a 2D material similar to graphene, and made in the same way, except instead of carbon it's made from α-Fe2O3 (hematite). It also looks like it has excellent potential as a photocatalyst.

Makes me wonder what other 2D materials we might have yet to discover.

(Balan et al, 2018)
nature.com/articles/s41565-018

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solarchemist  

Interesting study by Wikimedia Foundation into the availability of Wikipedia's references across different subjects. Sad to see that Chemistry ranks very low, with a high percentage of pay-walled references.
wikimediafoundation.org/2018/0
Should also link to the twitter thread: twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1

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matthew_d_green  

RT @dotMudge@birdsite.link
Don’t disclose information such as your date and year of birth publicly. twitter.com/suhail/status/1030

twitter.com/dotMudge/status/10

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GIM  

Please boost:

Where are all the Mastodon ?

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solarchemist  

That was my first toot, btw. Yay :-) More scholarly stuff to come in the future.

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solarchemist  

Installed my first ever Git server . I published a short write-up of the setup process on my blog. Easy enough, and looks great.
chepec.se/2018/07/24/self-host

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