Our very last #BraggYourPattern Crystal Explorer kit has been ordered! After 3 years of working on this project, we have finished with 775 sets going to 697 primary schools across Australia and NZ, including some of the most remote schools in the world! A great legacy of #IUCr2023. #ozchem #IUCr

🎉740 Crystal explorer kits sent to primary schools all over Australia and New Zealand - the last 10 will get sent out this week! Thanks to everyone who signed up for one. #BraggYourPattern

Join us for the FIRST combined meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand + the Australian X-ray Analytical Association: Crystal36-AXAA 2026 29th Nov-2nd Dec 2026 - in the beautiful Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf. 🍻 Register & submit abstracts for early bird savings!

Had a great visit to my old high school, Wangaratta High School, a few weeks ago, to talk about #MOFs, #Nobels, and assorted study and career tips. Always a privilege to talk to kids about the joys of chemistry, particularly country kids who have few scientific role models. #outreach #ozchem

So here’s why my flight to #MOF2026 got diverted to Tahiti (not my video). Not shown is the hour of abusive screaming as he was sat on by passengers at the back of the plane until we landed. Fun times.

Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winner and crystallography pioneer, was born #OTD in 1910. Using X-ray crystallography she determined the structures of complex molecules including vitamin B10 and insulin: www.compoundchem.com/2019/05/12/h...#OTD#ChemSky 🧪

‼️Don't miss our latest Editorial – The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize Nathaniel Rosi, @furukawas.bsky.social & @sbattenresearch.bsky.social all share their experiences of working on MOFs in future Nobel-winning laboratories👏⬇️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5CE... #Chemsky🧪

Ever wonder what it was like to help create a new field of chemistry? Wonder no more... #ozchem #MOFs #BraggYourPattern The crystal engineering foundations of the MOF Nobel Prize - now published in CrystEngComm pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

Come and work with me! The Austron is hiring a chemistry focused beamline scientist on the MX beamlines! Get in touch if you are interested 💎🧪👩‍🔬 #ozchem careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Melbourn...

Congratulations to Helen Maynard-Casely and Team for the winning project Crystal-a-con in a Box 🙌 @crystallised-cricket.com

Great day yesterday talking to the kids of the LabRats Science Club (labratclub.com) about all things MOFs and Nobels. These weekend science clubs are so rare and wonderful - true diamonds in the rough. Still not convinced about the cardboard cutouts though... #OzChem

Here's the latest distribution map. 53 more schools have signed up since the post below! The most recent order is from a remote school in the Pilburra (NW part of WA), somewhere down the track in the photo. The Satellite view reinforces how remote it is. They also have an #elementsets on its way!

We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern

Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!! The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉). Save the date! 💎 #BraggYourPattern #Ozchem

No, you’re easily distracted! #crystallography #curling #winterolympics

That's a wrap from #Supramol26. #Supramol27 will be in Brisbane - see you there! #ozchem

All the award winners from #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Man Him Chak and Lara Holburn on receiving Poster Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Jess Algar on receiving the @chemcomm.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Svenja Buescher on receiving the @chemicalscience.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Nina Lawson and Sem Boulanger on receiving Best Talk Prizes at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Simona Capomolla on on receiving the Merck Best Talk Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Our paper on the instrument, beautifully named Wombat, is now published doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org - We're currently also open for experiment submissions - deadline 16th March neutron.ansto.gov.au

Congratulations to Witold Bloch on the awarding to him of the Fay and Len Lindoy Medal at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Oscar Williams, the second of our Supramolecular Division PhD Prize winners at #supramol26. #ozchem

Dev Chatham bringing us lipids and cartoons at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Emily Worobiej, all the way from Birmingham, telling us about some interesting MOF photophysics at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Packed room listening intently at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Bailey Richardson is throwing photons at peptides at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Congratulations to Will Murrell, the first of our Supramolecular Division PhD Prize winners at #supramol26. #ozchem

A quick word from our sponsors at #Supramol26. #Merck #ozchem

Steph Bird and Rosie Young working in tandem to update #Supramol26 on the latest developments on the MX beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron. #ANSTO #ozchem

Simona Capomolla keeping the cage theme going at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Sam Boulanger on dynamic coordination cages at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Taslima Binte Kamal taking us into the exciting world of Cucurbituril at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Tayyba Tariq from Swinburne U updating is on her latest research at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Catriona Thomson telling us about investigating Xe capture in porous materials at the Australian Synchrotron at #Supramol26. #ozchem #ANSTO

A busy poster session at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Chamalki Madhusha bringing the (self-) healing to #Supramol26. #ozchem

More cool cages at #Supramol26, this time from Logan Faulkner. #ozchem

Yazhuo Wang with some host guest chemistry at #Supramol26.

Nina Lawson showing her very cool octahedral cages at #Supramol26 . #RACI #ozchem

Are you a #Crystallographer and thinking about going to @iucr2026.bsky.social? Do you have a project/idea/discussion point about Crystallography outreach? Then submit an abstract by 15th Feb to MS15 'Engaging all with crystallography' event.fourwaves.com/iucr-2026/sc...

A colleague just incredulously emailed me this article and I, completely unsurprised, noted that while teaching I had at least two students try to eat copper sulfate crystals. Something about those blue crystals is clearly too alluring! www.tes.com/magazine/new... #ChatChemistry

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

How Big Can The Periodic Table Get Before Students Call Bullshit? PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/s/Longest-Pe...

Cotton & Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry.

A final #NobelPrize post - video of the post-banquet dancing. I hope you've all enjoyed all the photos and videos of the week - I wasn't planning to post so many, but everyone kept asking for more! Well that's it folks - I don't have any left. Back to the real world now. #ozchem

The #NobelPrize banquet ended with dancing in another room upstairs. #ozchem