Jochem Smit

Jochem Smit

@jhsmit.bsky.social

Biophysics; protein dynamics/folding using smFRET and HDX-MS. https://jhsmit.org/

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Just updated my hikemap with our Ardennes hikes!🗺️🥾 One of the perks of living in Belgium: epic trails basically in your backyard 🇧🇪🌳 There are a couple of cool two-day hikes here as well which were (rather painful😅) training sessions for our Norway adventure 🇳🇴🏔️ jhsmit.org/hikes/hikema... #hiking

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I was invited, for July, to a scienctific meeting in Telluride (Colorado). I was told it is a wonderful place for a conference, and I was very much looking forward to an exciting meeting in a fantastic environment. I have just canceled my participation, despite having booked already everything.

theguardian.comFrench scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump foundFrance’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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Hi folks, I would like to know which EU universities are willing or planning to organise #standupforscience activities in solidarity with US scientists Please contact me if you are. Thanks for reposting!

Eve Seuntjens@eveseuntjens.bsky.social

What if we would organise a solidarity action at our universities all across the world? Who would be in? I am tossing this idea on the next council meeting for international affairs at KU Leuven, Belgium. Please spread #standupforscience

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

Here's a neat way to share you protein-annotated data 🚀🧪 Upload your .csv with residue/value data, select data column, colormap and norm to interactively color your protein model. Then, add title/description and click the button to open a shareable view with url-encoded data and settings.

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"In the Netherlands — where the Party for Freedom (PVV), led by the anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, entered a coalition government in July — researchers are bracing for €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) in cuts to the budget, the worst in decades."

nature.comFar-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in EuropeAnti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.

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