🎉We are delighted to share the latest in our series of Tutorial Review articles: "Identifying and characterising flexible crystals" Read our blog post to learn more about this work from Atiqur Rahman, John C McMurtrie, Sajesh P Thomas & Jack K Clegg 👇 blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/11/1... #Chemsky 🧪

This is who the next element on the periodic table needs to be named after.

A bit of an #outreach win today - orders from Flinders Island, a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, for both a Crystal Explorer Kit (for their primary students) and an Elements Set (for their secondary students)! #elementsets #crystallography #ozchem #BraggYourPattern

We measured the percentage of drivers who waved us while driving across a desert, and extrapolated some findings about vehicle choice and personal fulfilment. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2025/fingering

Just dropped! A virtual collection from #AustJChem celebrating Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Robson, pioneer of MOFs. Explore 60 years of his groundbreaking work, free to read until 27 Feb 2026. @csiropublishing.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social connectsci.au/ch/collectio...

MOFs have been celebrated as a suitably chemical discovery to win the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry. But what makes a scientific breakthrough truly chemical?

Third and final day! Refinements, cifs and lots of delicious food 🍰Congratulations to the brilliant flash talks winners! Now time to sleep 😴

Before Richard Robson created the field of MOFs, he created what are now known as "Robson macrocycles", probably the first binucleating and tetranucleating (terms he invented) macrocycles. To create one field of chemistry is amazing, but to create two new kinds of chemistry across a career....

Julia Robinson spoke to Stuart Batten – Richard Robson's first PhD student to work on coordination polymers – and also had the pleasure of discussing the award-winning work behind this year's Nobel prize with none other than Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa.

A proud moment for Australian science! We were honoured to celebrate Prof Robson’s remarkable achievements in our 2019 Special Collection, and are thrilled to see him now recognised with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #AustJChem Which you can revisit here: www.publish.csiro.au/CH/issue/9431

Workshop day 2: splitting into protein and chemical crystallography streams, beamline practicals and beautiful weather for a bbq 🌞 Also 40 absolutely brilliant flash talks in 40 min- astounded by all the amazing science people are doing! 💎👩‍🔬🧪

Happy to share this little tutorial review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #crystals #flexible #chemistry

Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem

Richard would always pop into the lab to see how our reactions were going. He’d take anything that was promising across to the door to the sunlight to peer at it with a hand lens, followed by “I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Stuart”. I think you’ve got useable crystals there, Derek.

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I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:

Oh, I just realised that I've actually published with two of the three 2025 Nobel Prize winners. How did this not occur to me before? Should I try for the complete set?

I flippin' love that they chose a picture of arrow pushing #chemsky 🧪⚗️

I and many others will be on the panel for this, so do tune in. It will be 1am Saturday morning Australian time, so it will be a challenge for us #ozchem panelists, but it should be an interesting chat after a whirlwind few days.

Hard to have a big ego in Australia. I mentioned to my hairdresser that my old boss just won the #NobelPrize. "Oh, that's nice", then proceeded to talk about much more important things, like how they weren't very busy, the weather, looks like a lot of folk will be gardening this weekend. 😂

#MOFcake !!

#chemnobel #chemsky #ozchem

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for IUCr 2026 are officially OPEN 🎉 🗓 Deadline: February 15, 2026 📍 Location: Calgary, Canada 🔗 Submit your abstract today: www.iucr2026.org/ #IUCr2026 #CallForAbstracts #Crystallography #StructuralScience #science #IUCr

tiny glassware makes me so happy

Setting out today on a road-trip with the prototype 'Crystal-A-Con in a box', all you need to keep 50 exciable primary school kids #Crystallographically entertained and informed for an hour at a time??? Wish us luck!!

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

"Good day Sir, here are today's options. Would you like anisotropic peak broadening, diffuse streaks, superstructure peaks, or twinning?" "Yes, please" #Crystallography #totalscattering #TheCuteLittleCrystal

The #Braille periodic table is such a cool project. #chemistry #ACSFall2025 #accessibility

Wanna learn #Crystallography? Base in Australia or NZ? Worth noting that you've got another week or so to apply for this year's crystallography school

Nice demo originally proposed by J D Bernal and first demonstrated by W L Bragg at the RI. Gravity acts like a bonding force keeping the balls together and the flat faces occur because of maximum packing of the balls. see also www.iucr.org/__data/asset...

It's #ScienceWeek here in Australia, and in an update we're doing fabulously in sending out our crystal explorer kits to primary schools over Aus and NZ. If you know a school that might like one - direct them to braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl... today!

Researcher in Aus and want to (peak) sharpen up your crystallography skills. Then register for the upcoming Crystallography Workshop www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/cry... #ECR #crystallography

Big Buckyball’s back baby! #MonashOpenDay

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖 australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

Hmmm. Maybe I should do a version with interpenetrating networks? Could be really cool...

The ARC has “announced” an update on the proposed changes to its grant schemes. Key changes, in response to “nearly 350” submissions” (!) on their proposal, are 👇 More here: www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

This review by Lindoy et al. explores recent advances in building heteronuclear nanocages with tailored properties and functions. Prof Lindoy was recently appointed Officer of the Order of Australia for his outstanding contributions to chemistry. #AustJChem www.publish.csiro.au/ch/pdf/CH19279

Another little article on the #elementsets project, this time from the great Alice Motion in @chemistryworld.com. #outreach #ozchem Helping remote schools be in their element www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/help...

Welp, it's official. I don't get to see AC/DC's last tour of Australia because I wanted to take my wheelchair-bound daughter along too. If I'd have just ditched her and gone with just my son I would have had tickets last week. #disabilitylife

#BraggYourPattern | Montreal 2024

Have a kid in a wheelchair, wanted to take her to AC/DC at the MCG. Ring the "accessibility hotline". Kicked off that, have to fill in the "accessibility form", so do that. Two days later 150K have tickets but we've heard nothing and have almost certainly missed out. Shitty, tiresome and typical.

Wonderful to talk to David Astle @dontattempt.bsky.social tonight on the chemistry of winter, including frost, wood fires, toasting marshmallows and chemical hand warmers. Read more about the chemistry of frost in this article from ABC Lifestyle. #OzChem #ChemSky

Chemists from ANU and the University of Manchester have engineered a new type of molecule that can store information at temperatures as cold as the dark side of the moon at night, with major implications for the future of data storage. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...