@iseultlynch
Professor of environmental nanoscience at University of Birmingham. Director or Research at Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ). Bookworm, tea-drinker & world-traveller. opinions my own, interests diverse and expanding daily! she/her
More #daphnia today at #setacvienna! We’re diving into the grey area of #ecotox endpoints when assessing advanced materials (like graphene)
@iseultlynch.bsky.social 🔬🧪
#advancedmaterials #graphene
7 weeks to go until the @royalsociety.org Summer Science Exhibition! I’m very excited to be leading the #DaphniaDetectives session! Bringing Dearbhla, the Daphnia, very much into the public domain! 💙
#daphnia #publicengagement #environmentalscience #waterquality #microplastics
When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
@iseultlynch.bsky.social and co-researchers present the utility of #InstanceMaps for the planning, documentation & visualization of experimental workflows & data in several case studies dedicated to #nanomaterial #safetyassessment.
➡️ https://tinyurl.com/w996x5k3
#DataManagement #FAIRData
#BJNANO 💎 🔓
Susana is standing at a podium with the SETAC logo wearing a smart navy jacket speaking to the SETAC annual general assembly meeting about her vision for her presidency of SETAC Europe over the coming year.
Huge congratulations to @susanaloureiro.bsky.social on the commencement of her year as @setac.bsky.social Europe #president - looking forward to a great year ahead! And huge thanks to Sabine Apitz for her exceptional stewardship & service to #SETACeurope over the last year as president. 🎉🤩
Marco Baity-Jesi with Eawag discussed AI during Tuesday's plenary at #SETACVienna and concluded it has great potential in #ecotoxicity. He outlined limitations and suggested how they can be overcome.
Recording posted soon for attendees at bit.ly/3YLwe6u
#AI #environment #SETAC #machinelearning
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#ChemSky #ScienceSky #AcademicChatter
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It was very interesting to contribute to this opinion
From soil to table: How safe and sustainable by design metal organic frameworks can revolutionize agriculture and food security authors.elsevier.com/a/1kuWH9Cyxd...
With Swaroop Chakraborty, Pankti Dhumal, Zhipeng Guo, @iseultlynch.bsky.social
What an exciting way to kick off the year. Before the end of the month, a new paper led by Swaroop Chakraborty & @iseultlynch.bsky.social and together with, Iuliia Mikulska, @cpfrang.bsky.social and Superb K. Misra!
Published in @natrevmater.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7Xl5
@cebcambridge.bsky.social
Lovely to see this in press! @unibirmingham.bsky.social #nanosafety #SafeAndSustainableByDesign
Excited to be in London at the preparation meeting for the @royalsociety.org #SummerScience exhibition with @drkatiereilly.bsky.social - stay tuned for more details! #daphniaDetectives @unibirmingham.bsky.social
#publicEngagementInResearch
South Korea's first Nobel literature prize goes to a woman whose fiction regularly touches on dissident and rebellious/subversive behavior during a time when women are speaking out about misogyny and violence they are experiencing. The timing!
Infographic on everyday uses of nanotechnology. The uses showcased include silver nanoparticles in antimicrobial applications, titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens, UV-absorbing nanoparticles in clothes, carbon nanoparticles in sports equipment and quantum dots in TVs.
Today is #NationalNanoTechnologyDay
Here's an old graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looking at everyday uses of nanotechnology!
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. Proteins are important biological molecules formed from 20 naturally occurring amino acids. Proteins form folded 3D structures which are key to their function and properties, but the exact way in which they fold is hard to predict. A protein with just 100 amino acids could have 10^47 different 3D structures. In 2020, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and their co-workers unveiled an artificial intelligence model called AlphaFold2 to predict 3D folded structures of proteins. David Baker developed Rosetta, software that also attempts to predict protein structures, and used it to start with a protein structure and use the software to work out its amino acid sequence. By doing this proteins that do not occur naturally can be produced.
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry was awarded for computational protein design and protein structure prediction 🏅 Here's a brief explainer!
View and download this graphic here
#ChemSky 🧪 #SciComm
Infographic on the chemistry oof air on a plane. Airliners pressurize onboard air to make flights more comfortable. In the cabin, the air pressure is 75.1 kPa, compared with 101 kPa at sea level. Cabin air is a mix of fresh and filtered air and is renewed up to 30 times an hour. Filters remove bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Airplanes cruise in the lower stratosphere, where the ozone concentration is slightly higher than at ground level. This increases cabin ozone levels, which can cause headaches and breathing problems. Many planes use devices to convert ozone in air into oxygen before it enters the cabin. A chemical system produces the oxygen provided by masks that drop from an airplane’s ceiling in an emergency. Pulling the mask down releases a firing pin from the oxygen generator cylinder. This release ignites a mixture of an oxidizer and iron powder. The heat from burning iron decomposes the oxidizer, a process that produces oxygen. The generator produces oxygen for 15–20 min.
"In the unlikely event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the panel above your head." But where does this oxygen come from?
This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look at that and some other in-flight chemistry: bit.ly/3XBs9RZ
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Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes #BeMoreRussell
Nanosafety research is key to achieving the #SDGs and making data findable and accessible can unlock the full potential of nanomaterials for a sustainable future. Read more in this recent #RSCSustainability paper doi.org/10.1039/D3SU... #Nanotechnology #Sustainability #OpenData
📢 Submission is still possible until 📅 August 31, 2024:
Thematic issue “#Nanomaterials for #BiomedicalApplications” edited by Muhammad Anwaar Nazeer, Seda Kizilel and Filippo Pierini in the #BJNANO 💎🔓:
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