Three articles published yesterday in #Science, Science Advances & Nature 🤔

Women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8

Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
https://www.science.org/content/article/women-faculty-feel-pushed-academia-poor-workplace-climate

The Chemical Biology & Physiology 2023 Conference in Portland, Oregon is fast approaching! The meeting will be held from the 14 - 17 December and you have until the 30th of October if you'd like to submit a poster abstract.

Find out more at: http://bit.ly/46J0h0f

#Chemistry #Conference

MDPI journals were added to the predatory publications list

https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications?fbclid=IwAR2FbGSY4Dktl4X8GWkcfgAuBcBNZLk2uzmywGpv0CoJ8-2E9usR-3P8Glg

Nature's nutcracker can crush pesticide residue

Highly non-degradable chemicals such as PFAS and pesticides can have useful properties in some situations, but are be extremely difficult for nature to remove afterwards.

Inside E. coli bacteria, Ditlev Brodersen's (and Jan Enghild's) groups have now found an enzyme, C-P lyase, that enables the microbe to degrade highly stable chemicals.

Read more about the results in Nature Communications: https://mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-events/news-item/artikel/natures-nutcracker-can-crush-pesticide-residue

Happy to share our latest #PhosTAC paper where we target #Tau for dephosphorylation. #chemicalbiology #heterobifunctional

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c11706