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Marcel Swart 🟥
@marcelswart.bsky.social
▪️P @icreacommunity.bsky.social & UdG Prof TheoChem
▪️S @spinstatepapers.bsky.social
▪️F @rsc.org
▪️M @acad-euro.bsky.social
▪️E @ica-papers.bsky.social
▪️ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-8488
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▪️Pronouns: he/him/his
▪️Web: @marcelswart.eu
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Honoured and humbled, @rsc.org, for the Horizon Prize for the research groups of Alex (Yisong) Guo (@cmuchemistry.bsky.social), Larry Que (Minnesota), and myself

www.rsc.org/standards-an...
Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
2025 Dalton Horizon Prize: awarded for the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.
www.rsc.org
I am amazed that the passport readers at Heathrow Airport can not read Dutch passports properly

C’mon, it’s not rocket science. There’s regulations for what a proper passport should look like…

Ow wait, Brexit
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Yesterday evening, London

#publife
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Impeach, convict, remove.

And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Guess where…
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Tenim nou rector a la Universitat de Girona, el Dr. Josep Calbó Angrill, que ha obtingut un 57,04 % dels vots.

El Dr. Albert Ruda n'ha obtingut el 26,11 % i el Dr. José Manuel Fernández-Real n'ha obtingut l'11,2 %.

#eleccionsudg2025
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I have to reformulate my old justification of being an ACS member:

1. 12 issues of a still pretty great magazine
2. cheap life insurance
3. a vague sense of belonging
tbh I have found the life insurance to be reasonably priced and have been a customer of that for many years
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I WANT MY FUCKING BLANKETS BACK YOU MORONS
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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“Italians yelling in the supermarket”
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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One more view from an earlier storm that led to this intense sunrise in Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The rise of the cost of living erased the American dream.
Inflation made 100k a year for a family go from upper middle class to struggling. With most of this inflation happening since the turn of the century.
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Have we got your #RSCPrizes nominations yet?

Our prizes cover a huge range of contributions in the chemical sciences. If there’s someone you want to acknowledge, find the right prize for them and make them feel appreciated.

Nominate by 14 January ▶️ rsc.li/prizes

#ChemSky
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
To all those that are voting today for Rector of @univgirona.bsky.social and do so via mobile:

You have to rotate the mobile (from portrait to landscape) to be able to see the link and vote.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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According to a new Economist/YouGov poll, Trump's approval rating is underwater in the majority of states — including 20 states he won last year.

He's flailing on the economy and his party's odds for 2026 are crumbling.

Do not let him convince you he is all powerful.
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
And it’s only fitting (haniarani.bandcamp.com/album/on-gia...) that today, the same day as Hania Rani’s symphony at the Barbican, I saw Giacometti at Tate
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in the United States. I'd love for her to tell me that's different and then try to explain why without being racist.
Excuse my language but …

I am so fucking tired of shit like this.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?

Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.

#GorillaGirls #Tate
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The stage. The Barbican. Hania Rani.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.

Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Two photos before the first part and during the pause of Hania Rani’s classical concert at the Barbican tonight.

One word: Wonderful
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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New analysis by the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk library estimates that Brexit is costing the Treasury up to £90bn a year in lost tax revenue, and the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head between £2,700 and £3,700. /4
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Revenge is a dish…etc, etc
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Y'all, this race is going to come down to who shows up at the polls. Trump carried this district by 22 points, and @aftynbehn.bsky.social is within 2 points in this poll!

If you live in 7, GO VOTE! Today is the last day of early voting, or you can vote on December 2nd.
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yesterday, the world was quite close to an apocalypse.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM