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PFAS in the blood of the Dutch population
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/07/06/pfas-in-the-blood-of-the-dutch-population.html
Published: July 6, 2025 00:00
A recent report by the Dutch RIVM, PFAS in the blood of the Dutch population (doi:10.21945/RIVM-2025-0094), writes that seven PFAS compounds are found in blood samples of all tested people. Another nine compounds are found in at least 1-in-10 people.…
Curation is an essential part of doing research
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/29/curation-is-an-essential-part-of-doing-research.html
Published: June 29, 2025 00:00
Depending on your exact definition of doing science, keeping track as precise as possible of your observations is an essential part of doing science. The precision should be high enough that mistakes are obvious. This pattern is, of course, not limited to…
All BioHackrXiv preprints and BioHackathon RSS feeds
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/22/all-biohackrxiv-preprints-and-biohackathon-rss-feeds.html
Published: June 22, 2025 00:00
One thing I was still missing in BioHackrXiv was a place with an overview of: 1. all biohackathons, 2. all preprints linked to a biohackathon, 3. an RSS feed for new papers of a biohackathon. Of course, there is the BioHackrXiv discover service, but the…
One Million IUPAC names #3: the 200 thousand milestone and 1 million IUPAC names
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/09/one-million-iupac-names.html
Published: June 9, 2025 00:00
I could not find the time earlier to report (reason), but three weeks ago we passed the fourth milestone release of the CCZero IUPAC names found in literature collection. This release contains 200026 IUPAC names, 168702 unique names, reflecting 116207…
Retracted articles cited in Wikipedia
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/08/retracted-articles-cited-in-wikipedia.html
Published: June 8, 2025 00:10
Last week, the Wikidata and Sister Projects event tooks place. The presentations are recorded, and I strongly encourage you to check the schedule. One presentation I liked (there are more), was the one by Mike Peel with the title “Best practices for…
ICCS2025: back in Noordwijkerhout
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/06/08/iccs2025-1-back-in-noordwijkerhout.html
Published: June 8, 2025 00:00
This week the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures took place (see also this Scholia overview or this overview of the full ICCS history). This is the conference I first joined 20 years ago as a PhD student presenting a poster (see these…
New preprint: “Scholia Chemistry: access to chemistry in Wikidata”
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/05/25/new-preprint-scholia-chemistry-access-to-chemistry-in-wikidata.html
Published: May 25, 2025 00:00
Two week ago I uploaded a paper that has been in the works for some time. In fact, I first mention it as conference paper for the special issue of the 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures, you know, the meeting held in 2018, of which the…
INTOXICOM Workshop #4: Training Materials for Toxicology
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/05/12/intoxicom-training-material-collection.html
Published: May 12, 2025 00:00
INTOXICOM is an ELIXIR Toxicoloy Community (doi:10.12688/f1000research.74502.2) implementation study, organizing five workshops, each one with a different topic. The first three workshops were in Utrecht (doi:10.37044/osf.io/un2rw), Basel, and Uppsala. The…
One Million IUPAC names #2: the 100 thousand milestone
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/04/27/one-million-iupac-names-2-the-100-thousand-milestone.html
Published: April 27, 2025 00:00
Two and a half month into the One Million IUPAC Names project, we passed the third milestone, the one for 100 thousand IUPAC names (doi:10.5281/zenodo.15266459). Time for an update.
The April 2025 Scholia hackathon
https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/04/20/the-april-2025-scholia-hackathon.html
Published: April 20, 2025 00:00
This is the third weekend I am working on Scholia, the first two part of the April 2025 hackathon. It follows the hackathons last year October and November hackathons. There is some urgency for this unpaid work, because Wikidata is splitting the RDF into…