@laurahowes.bsky.social
Editor (she/her) @cenmag.bsky.social into biomolecules, drug discovery, and biotech. Also beer, skiing, and the joys of being an immigrant in Germany. All views expressed here are absolutely mine, especially when they're right. DM for Signal.
@mannyfoxmorone.bsky.socialReposted by @laurahowes.bsky.socialI spent 1.5 hours playing with this Nobel graphic. So so so many stories behind the data: blacklisted scientists, the Swedes behind the curtain, and a long, embarrassing history of misogyny: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
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@beebrookshire.bsky.socialReposted by @laurahowes.bsky.social"It was not lost on me, even in reporting this piece, that every phone call, every email, is predicated on a faith in ordinary interactions that AI is fast eroding."
@laurahowes.bsky.socialI mostly travel to the UK on the train when I'm travelling for private reasons and can take a work day train journey (although wifi on the eurostar is completely unusable and the overfilled departures areas are a PITA). If I need to actually go to the UK office, I fly. But I am travelling from BW
@laurahowes.bsky.socialTracy, have you not seen the price of fresh egg pasta and artisan pesto at the local deli? And I've run out of pecorino.
@alexwitze.bsky.socialReposted by @laurahowes.bsky.socialScience journalism FTW
@laurahowes.bsky.socialyup
@laurahowes.bsky.socialStory up, podcast due tomorrow
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@laurahowes.bsky.socialOne reader out of the ~600 guessed this. They didn't leave us their name, so we'll never know who our mystery clairvoyant was.
@laurahowes.bsky.socialShe 100 per cent did
@bribarbu.bsky.socialReposted by @laurahowes.bsky.socialit was all hands (get it??) on deck for #ChemNobel coverage this morning--Henri Kagan and Henso Soai winning for work related to chiral catalysis was not on my bingo board but we love a good fundamental chem prize with big commercial apps over here!
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
@laurahowes.bsky.socialWe definitely want our work to keep being updated with new data releases (and new data clean up, as I'm sure our readers will let us know if they spot errors)
@laurahowes.bsky.socialYes, but this is a good reminder
@laurahowes.bsky.socialMe too
@laurahowes.bsky.socialOh, that would be amazing! There's so much data to play with in that archive and so many stories you can tell. You have a very cool job.
@laurahowes.bsky.socialSomewhere I still have Harry's autograph that I got during a "get the school kids interested in chemistry" day out, I was so excited to meet him! I think that Horizon doc was part of the reason why!
@laurahowes.bsky.socialWe don't know who's been nominated this year, but we have been playing around with the publicly available nomination data from 1901-1975. Why don't you have an explore while we wait for today's news?
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
@laurahowes.bsky.socialMeanwhile, a poll of the viewers of our prediction webinar last week predicted that DNA sequencing scientists will be getting a call from Stockholm this morning
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
@alexis-verger.cpesr.frReposted by @laurahowes.bsky.social@laurahowes.bsky.socialWe've now closed the poll we ran of @cenmag.bsky.social readers. We got over 600 votes. For them, Chi-Huey Wong is miles in front
@laurahowes.bsky.socialOne hour to go #chemnobel watchers
And last predictions?
