It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left. Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists! cen.acs.org/people/profi... #DisabledInSTEM

Today in @science.org, @mikusp.bsky.social reports a method to replace the C2 of pyridines with N, affording pyridazines. The change from electronically consonant (pyridine) to dissonant (pyridazine) opens retrosyntheses not typically available to the latter. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A reminder that we have a fully-funded 4-year PhD project available! #PhD #ChemSky

PhD position available! #ChemSky #PiSky This project is highly interdisciplinary, using organic synthesis to work towards room-temperature quantum technologies. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... The funding is for Home Fee students, and covers 4 years at the UKRI rate (£22,780 tax free for 2025/26).

PhD position available! #ChemSky #PiSky This project is highly interdisciplinary, using organic synthesis to work towards room-temperature quantum technologies. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... The funding is for Home Fee students, and covers 4 years at the UKRI rate (£22,780 tax free for 2025/26).

Excited to share in @nature.com today: Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy - detecting the most subtle changes in light polarization over time with unprecedented sensitivity. Grateful for the team that made this possible!😊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chirality #light

The government response to this petition is infuriating. “Maternity and other types of Parental Pay are intended to provide a measure of financial security to support parents whilst they are away from the workplace; they are not a replacement of earnings” except they literally are??? Please sign:

🚨Just out in Nature! We have offered a general method for 1,2-difunctionlization of arenes via a differential 1,2-diborylation! rdcu.be/esXq8 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to Jingfeng!

Want another thing to worry about in organic chemistry reproducibility? How about stirring bar behavior?

Huge congratulations to Shain for passing his PhD viva! You did really well and should be proud of your achievements 🥳Thanks so much for all your hard work and for starting the group with me. (P.S. If anyone is confused about the timeline - the viva was on Friday but I only got the picture now)

The UK's paternity leave is the worst in Europe. It frustrates dads, burdens mums, and impoverishes us all. The fight for better parental leave is not just a demand for common decency, but for common sense. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky

Are you a chemist with 3-8 years of post-PhD research experience and want to join the amazing Chemistry Dept @qmul.ac.uk ? If yes, please have a look at our call for expressions of interest in the Royal Society University Research Fellowship scheme. #ChemSky www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/ccr/news/498...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm a bit late to the party but this looks like a very simple but fantastically useful reaction. Nice work! #ChemSky #PiSky

The Department of Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London is looking to support applicants for the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Fellowship. For people <4 years post PhD at the deadline (17th September). #ChemSky See www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/ccr/news/496...

For the avoidance of any doubt: trans women are women. Trans men are men. Anyone presuming to know more about someone’s lived experience than they do is in an unjustifiable position.

One of the most useful tables for a chemist to remember, and it illustrates why computational chemistry and drug design are hard: even a 1.3 kcal/mol error in calculating an equilibrium conformational or binding free energy difference will essential translate into a 90:10 estimation error

Congratulations to Afra and Yaroslavna on finishing their UG research projects and presenting their results at the poster symposium. And well done to Afra for winning the MSci poster prize - amazing work! Thank you both for your time in the group and to Katherine and Jayden for the supervision.

When we focus on intent, we give power back to the oppressor. Because we can’t read his mind. We need his help to dissect what he intended to do. When we focus on impact, we give power back to the oppressed. We can develop a whole list of things we should and shouldn’t do to stop the harm.

If you're interested in a break from the doom-and-gloom, may I recommend our article, online today @nature.com A solution to the pyrazole alkylation problem, leveraging S-to-NR atom replacement. Skeletal editing has strategic value, outside of late-stage! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There is a human tissue that builds itself up and breaks itself down every 28 days (on average) using non-scarring wound healing and instead of studying that and learning everything we can about it we think it's gross and look for other less relevant models to understand wound healing.

Now online & open access: Article by R Güdük, N Kehl, C Stavagna, MJ. Tilby, O Turner, A Ruffoni, HP. Caldora & D Leonori A three-step strategy for the conversion of pyridines into benzonitriles www.nature.com/articles/s44... #ChemSky

As others have noted, the life of Carl Bosch is worth a look in these times. Fritz Haber demonstrated that nitrogen could be reduced to ammonia, but Bosch’s work turned that into a technology that changed the world with sudden new supplies of fertilizer (and of explosives). (1/8)

Check out our latest review on Chiral Light-Matter Interactions in Solution-Processable Semiconductors, now out in 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮! @natrevchem.bsky.social A huge team effort led by our @zacharyvanorman.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access link: rdcu.be/eagsq

🧵 As so much of my follower-base is here for watching @shufflersunite.bsky.social burn me on a regular basis (I love you Dear!) I thought there might be some overlap for our jointly authored content! doi.org/10.1021/acs....

'In Germany in the 1930s, scientific institutions and societies failed at every level to offer any significant resistance to Nazism,' writes @philipcball.bsky.social. 'Donald Trump’s United States is not Hitler’s Germany. But the point is surely to learn from it anyway.'

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

Welcome to #pisky all those of you pi people that recently made it over @michaljuricek.bsky.social @kenitami.bsky.social @tomsolomek.bsky.social If you tag posts with #pisky (besides the more general #chemsky) your post should show up on the feed dedicated to all things pi bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thanks a lot to Dr Fern Ruamyart, who worked with us for a week to learn our photochemical helicene synthesis in flow. It was great to meet you and to learn about your research with Alyssa Avestro in York! Looking forward to hearing more about this work 😀

In the light of Trump's attack on LGBT+ rights and his ban on DEI initiatives, if there are any informal groups in US chemistry departments/companies who would like to hear one of my webinars discussing #LGBTSTEM issues, I would be happy to arrange. [1/5] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK universities might misattribute changes in their rankings to their institutional strategies when random fluctuations in the ranking system are a more likely explanation. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... BSky author: @tvpollet.bsky.social #UKHE #AcademicSky

Come and join my new group! We have two funded PhD positions available in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology. See fieldengroup.net for more details! Reposts much appreciated!

Dear meeting organizers: Picking the same senior PIs to keynote/give talks at meetings, who's talks I've seen a dozen times already, is not a great use of everyone's time. Nor does it highlight all of the rich talent in your field from more junior folks and peeps not at "elite" institutions.

PhD projects available in a range of areas - something for everyone! Join us to do cool chemistry using the mechanical bond in catenanes and rotaxanes for real world applications in the shiny shiny new Molecular Sciences Building @uobchemistry.bsky.social 😊 Reposts appreciated! #chemsky

Our preprint on the Faraday rotation of chiral organic polymer films is out! Wonderful collaboration with Tim Swager and his group @mitchemistry.bsky.social and Jess Wade. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social. #Chemsky 🧪 #Physics doi.org/10.26434/che... We learnt a lot in this one, so here's a short 🧵 1/11

Paper submitted, group lunch, and group outing - Tuesday was a busy but fun day. Thanks to Shain, Katherine, Jayden and Afra for all your hard work! And congratulations to Jayden for bowling the game of your life (and putting us all to shame).

Don't use red and green data lines/surfaces in the same panel please #chemsky. It can be difficult for some colorblind readers to differentiate them. I've accepted (in principle) 2 papers today, and both sets of authors were asked to remove red/green colour contrasts www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This thread from Altmetric (yea, really) reminds me of old Twitter in the best way possible 👏❤️

It's a little bit late, but I'm really excited for my first paper! For reaction monitoring by NMR, signal-averaging can be applied *after acquisition*, and results in better S/N *and* data density without the typical trade-off. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat #NMR @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

I'm proud to present our group's first independent paper! 🥳In this preprint, we show a scalable (> 2g, almost 200 mg/h) synthesis of thia-, oxa-, and azahelicenes in continuous flow. Well done, Katherine, Chenyu, Shain, and Yang! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Please repost: We've got a 4-year PhD position funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council. Come work with me @ QMUL Chemistry on synthesising helicenes and/or measuring room-temperature spin transport! #CISS #CSC #PhDposition #chemistry www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/phdrese... (1/n)