| Twitter account | https://twitter.com/JochenRBrandt |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7082-6201 |
We need CO₂ removal (#CDR) to reach net zero, but it's incorrect to say we must ramp up both decarbonization and CDR today.
Minimizing CDR deployment will decrease fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution.
For climate and human health, we should focus current efforts on deploying renewables, electrification, carbon-neutral/negative fuels, and efficiency, instead of betting on our ability to scale CDR in the future.
Why is this area interesting? A better understanding of CISS might allow us to
- make faster/more efficient computers through room temperature spintronics or quantum tech
- split water for hydrogen production more efficiently
- better understand e-transport in proteins
Both projects are for a start in September 2024. They cover tuition fees and a studentship for living expenses. The deadline for both applications is 31/01/24; however, please contact me as soon as possible if you're interested.
Please boost - two 4-year PhD position funded by the Royal Society and the Chinese Scholarship Council. Come work with me at QMUL on synthesising helicenes and then measuring room-temperature spin transport! #CISS #CSC #PhDposition
The first is for Home Fees only and will investigate helicenes in molecular junctions with colleagues in our Physics department. It's multidisciplinary but you only need to have an organic synthesis background to start. More details: https://findaphd.com/phds/project/helicenes-for-molecular-junctions/?p159074
Very proud to read this interview of my dear colleague and friend @jesswade
From the opening paragraph: "I learn two things about her. Number one: she walks and talks fast, as if she is running out of time. Number two: she is incredibly modest." 😂
I cannot but say that I am very impressed with the improvements since last year. DECIMER works great with article figures, but also from the phone. I just tried (like last year) a photo of a picture on my laptop screen (causing interference stripes), and it still worked! Number annotation? No problem.
Really, try it now: https://decimer.ai/
(I learned it was trained on 1B (!) different chemical graphs, not just many drawing differences)
“29 scientists write about 'merit' in science and use this figure to 'measure' it. First, I should emphasise we all want great science. Also, merit is not opposed to diversity as the authors suggest - noone wants bad science. The problem is those axes... https://t.co/3eMMFHPmT2”
Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps, and improving the quality of life globally. This perspective documents the ongoing attempts to undermine the core principles of liberal epistemology and to replace merit with non-scientific, politically motivated criteria. We explain the philosophical origins of this conflict, document the intrusion of ideology into our scientific institutions, discuss the perils of abandoning merit, and offer an alternative, human-centered approach to address existing social inequalities.
David Ho
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Roomey
Egon Willighagen