Imagine you are genuinely trying to recover from a major surgery and you just have your social media and PR team coming in with increasingly worse news

A new PhD position available at IMAP, focused on the synthesis and structural analysis of MOFs

Me: ok I’ll just repeat that simple experiment and I’ll be one step closer to finishing that paper. It worked last time so should work this time The experiment:

#DeMol Bpost: "je pakje ligt op een veilige plaats" Mijn pakje:

i am baffled by the american homeowners association thing. It feels like america is this place that empathizes freedom on every turn, and then has this bizzare hyperspecific entity that sticks its nose into everyone's business

Another great paper from our collaboration with MOF@IMAP

Our new contribution in the field of nanoMOFs : a green versatile route to prepare ultra-small NPs of MOFs with a high defect content (doi.org/10.1038/s41467…). A great collaborative work done with Group of Prof. Parac-Vogt - Bioinorganic Chemistry, Follow @LTANorth and C2N, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies

With any research project, it's really important to focus on the critical path and key goals 🐧 #Data #Penguins

Do bakers daydream about leaving their job to do a PhD in molecular biology?

Me talking to my friends who aren’t in academia and do ‘proper’ jobs

Ordered 43 items from GO Outdoors for a big trek in Greenland. In one day they have dispatched 4 parcels, 3 of which contain a single item - 1 flapjack, 1 pack of beef jerky, and one small jacket. How many parcels will arrive before my order is complete?

Questions at academic conferences:

Africa is huge

The PhD life (before and after getting the degree)

‘That’s broken’ should be more significant

1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

In chemistry we don't say "I love you." We say "I'm going to your 8am ACS talk," and I think that's beautiful.

Mapping the Lickability of the Periodic Table

Looking for an 'ORCA for dummies' guide. Any suggestions of basic guidance for those who are not computer wizards?

Shiny new project. Do you have the time? No: --> Don't do it. Yes: --> No you don't.