Piia Bartos

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Doctor of Pharmacy, Starting PI at University of Eastern Finland.

My research focuses on the computational modeling of proteins, RNA and small molecules that affect them.

My hobbies include cats, fish, bees, plants, knitting, crocheting, video and board games and reading.

For toots in Finnish, you can follow @piiabartos.

Orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6002-1856
"Not today!" Said #ORCA. #compchem
@ElisabethBik scanned 20621 papers for fraudulent figures 1995 to 2014, and found 2% of fraud. The real % is almost certainly much higher
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00809-16 #BC2basel
The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications | mBio

ABSTRACT Inaccurate data in scientific papers can result from honest error or intentional falsification. This study attempted to determine the percentage of published papers that contain inappropriate image duplication, a specific type of inaccurate data. ...

mBio

Fully funded PhD position on Computational Chemistry/Quantum Alchemy

University of Kassel

We are #hiring another PhD student! Come work with us on quantifying material and molecule properties using #compchem and Quantum Alchemy.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-kassel-27779-fully-funded-phd-position-on-computat...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-kassel-27779-fully-funded-phd-position-on-computational-chemistry-quantum-alchemy/?feed_id=56420

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Chemical reactions are like a dance between atoms and molecules. As the dancers bounce into each other, they may react. Or they may not.

To make things simpler – more like a line dance, less like a mosh pit – researchers at U of Chicago put all the reactants in the same quantum state. Et voila: the reaction went faster.

This speed-up is known as quantum superchemistry, and theorists had predicted it should be possible. Now we know it is!

https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-superchemistry-emerges-in-the-laboratory/

#physics #chemistry

Quantum superchemistry emerges in the laboratory – Physics World

Chemical reactions speed up when reactants are in the same quantum state, confirming theoretical predictions

Physics World

Good ol' "garbage in/garbage out"

'A key aspect of the aforementioned modeling approaches is that the accuracy of a model's translation to in vivo biology relies on the underlying data used as input in the model.'

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00113-8

I first noted this campaign on Twitter a week ago, when I saw an unusual number of tweets not just expressing the same idea, but using the same specific phrase (“fund Hawaii not Ukraine”) to do so. So I decided to look into it.

While I was doing that, right-wing media picked up the narrative…. Then Russian state media started amplifying it… And then a few days later, Chinese state media joined in, too.

At that point, I knew I was looking at something interesting…

I adore this comic by @elisegravel.

“So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!” #science #art #education

This meeting could have been a nap

Just came across this banner for #SciArtSeptember. I know @FlyingTrilobite has an account here, though rarely posts. But I'm not sure if Liz is here.

Regardless, we will be boosting #SciArt all September. Be it inspired by the daily prompts or not. Just has to be SciArt :)

Experimenting with different color combinations for this dragonfly motif. Yes, I'm having fun with it :)

#inkyDays #ink #drawing #art #mastoart #SciArt