Research Director CNR (Milan, IT). Seconded National Expert at ERCEA Brussels. Formerly Professor at Univ. of Aberdeen (Scotland). My views only

Joined December 2018
After 18 years #synform will be discontinued in 2025. Last issue will be published in December. It's been a great adventure and I will miss every bit of it. Many thanks to @thiemechemistry for the support, and to the fantastic Authors & Readers who made #synform so successful
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This is how quickly @proximus deals with internet orders. For a flat in the very centre of Brussels eh... not in some far away village in the Belgian countryside. 16 days and counting. Not even a email to explain what is going on. Zero. So poor...
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Another week passed by. 23 days after my order for fiber internet still not a squeak from @proximus. Meanwhile I am training carrier pigeons and learning how to send smoke signals.. at least no need to worry about the dangers of AI...
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Guys. Think very carefully about contacting @proximus for your home fiber internet, especially if you need it for telework. You might be retired when you finally get it...
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It's official: I am off to #Brussels from Jan. For the next 2 years you will find me at the #ERCEA headquarters. And occasionally at a nearby brasserie. When off-duty, of course 😉 🍻 @ERC_Research @cnr_scitec
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Another #brexit benefit #Indyref2023 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Ma quanto sono pedanti logorroici e noiosi gli opinionisti live di #dazn? Non se ne salva uno.. Non voglio deliranti lezioni tecnico tattiche, non faccio l'allenatore perdio, voglio solo seguire la partita!!! Imbavagliateli o mettete una funzione per escluderli dalla telecronaca!
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We have an exciting opportunity for a synthetic chemist to contribute to the development of new cancer therapies based on Tagworks’ Click-to-Release platform tagworkspharma.com/company/c…
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Erm... no mate. You seem confused. Perhaps it's because you are not very used to finals. It has nothing to do with war. It's just football. It's a sport you know... you win you lose. Nothing else happens. You just start the next tournament.. f7td5.app.goo.gl/K7fFtt via @updayIT
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Prof Matteo Zanda EU retweeted
New work in #JOC from @gordon_d_brown @zanda_eu et al reports synthesis of fungal naphthopyrones YWA1 and fonsecin B for the first time. A fluorescent functional construct was synthesized and used to study immune response to Aspergillus infections. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Goodbye #brexit 🇬🇧. Sad day, but your departure did not trigger the 🇪🇺 breakup. We are still together and more united than ever. Can 🇬🇧 do the same? NI is already more in 🇪🇺 than not. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 might soon say goodbye. You lost your influence, your credibility, our trust. Was it worth?
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Utterly hypocritical to close pubs and restaurants, when airlines and public transport companies are allowed to pack passengers like sardines. Yesterday I spent over 3 hours on a @British_Airways Flight packed full, with the crew ignoring several idiots wearing masks incorrectly
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Prof Matteo Zanda EU retweeted
4,4,16-Trifluoropalmitate: Design, synthesis, tritiation, radiofluorination and preclinical PET imaging studies on myocardial fatty acid oxidation (Elmore @AstraZeneca, Llop @CICbiomaGUNE, @zanda_eu @LboroScience) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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I still cannot believe these people have been elected with a crushing majority. #Brexit or not. England must have reached the bottom. And now is digging Prime minister apologises after struggling to explain lockdown rules f7td5.app.goo.gl/MNBmR2 Sent via @updayUK
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So now Italians do not love freedom and love to obey rules more than the British? 😂 Since when #BorisJohnson? You are either confused or don't know Italians well 🇮🇹 🕺 Boris Johnson suggests high coronavirus infection rates due to UK’s ‘love of freedom’ independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Congratulations to Alessandro on his PhD project just published in @ChemMedChem chemistry-europe.onlinelibra… @pet3dproject
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Social distancing during the #COVID19 pandemic on a @Ryanair flight. First hand experience. MOOO
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Congratulations to Beatrice on her PhD project just published in @BioconjChem Design, synthesis, conjugation and reactivity of novel trans,trans-1,5-cyclooctadiene-derived bioorthogonal linkers pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… @pet3dproject
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