I would like to move chemistry-related conversations to chemchat, seeing as how chem/sky is basically a promotion place now. I would have liked that to have moderated, but it's bluntly clear that the publishing houses can't change their spots

"We have hoarded an amazing assemblage of materials, molecules, mixtures, complexes, and elements that now pose a number of significant challenges we must recognize and manage," writes Peter Licence. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

"The number of publications and number of proposals submitted to a beamline isn’t really a very good metric of the importance of the research that’s done there..." My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/researc... #ChemSky

Hear from the Editorial board who invite you to read and consider signing the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future & learn about how the declaration’s themes align with the mission and scope of RSC Sustainability 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SU... #Sustainability #Chemsky #SustainableChemistry

Beautiful. Also, it looks a bit like vacuum tubing that's been used for far too long. #ChemSky

’Tis the season for eerie-looking experiments: check out these uncannily ocular copper dendrites growing inside a hydrogel scaffold. Dhruv Bhandari captured the image when he was a research intern at EPFL this past summer. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/3-... #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

In the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

"Review articles are a relic of the past" - overheard in a meeting yesterday. Deep research tools give a focused & referenced report to your specification. @kamat.bsky.social wrote a nice piece (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...), which emphasises that the key ingredient is saying something new #ChemSky

Feeling the pressure? Let Professor Steve Howdle, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, & @asynt.bsky.social take the strain & guide you through a comprehensive webinar on “Working Safely with High Pressure in the Lab.” Wednesday 1st October 3:30pm UK time 🔗 bit.ly/3Inx8ks #pressurevessel #chemsky

Celebrating Faraday's birthday at his lab ⚗️ #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #SciSky

This short, two-page refresher on significant figures is a useful resources/reminder. #ChemSky #OzChem

#chemsky Dr. Tom Blanton's “Powder X-ray Diffraction – Better Data Equals Better Results” webinar is now available on YouTube and ICDD.com - Sign up for September 17th's FREE Webinar here: www.icdd.com/in-session/

Tattoo idea for the dedicated vacuum distiller. #ChemSky

Was great attending this in person last week! Looking forward to the next instalment!

Rotovap or rotavap? #chemsky

There should be some kind of award for the most disturbing slide of the conference. #dreamreactions #chemsky

#ICBIC #ChemSky Harry Gray: “If you make a mistake, and you will, own up to it, and move on.”

Gabor A. Somorjai, known for his pioneering work in surface chemistry and catalysis, died July 7 in Palo Alto, California. He was 90 years old. cen.acs.org/people/obitu... #chemsky

Ok well, I'm giving this a go #chemsky 🧪 #NMRchat for buying an autosampler. Allegedly the tariff on this would be ~$3100. I'll link to the form below, but sections 7,8,9 require longer-form response. Here's my draft, you should be able to comment. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hours spent on chemical reactions can’t be recycled. Let’s make sure we conserve the ultimate nonrenewable resource: cen.acs.org/synthesis/gr... #chemsky #chemistry #chem #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter 🧪

The mystery of em‑dashes: part two with quantitative evidence open.substack.com/pub/msukhare...

Well worth a watch. www.birs.ca/events/2025/...

The stunning visuals of flame tests and clock reactions aren't accessible to visually impaired students. At the 75th Yusuf Hamied Chemistry Camp for Visually Challenged Students, educators reimagined experiments to engage touch, smell and sound. #ChemSky

UK chemistry industry professionals Please fill in this short survey to help CAMS help us all by modernizing what graduates are taught with respect to data handling. Which can be as simple as organizing yourself and naming files sensibly! #chemsky forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

For all #ChemSky community! A new game 🎮 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Spent many a happy (and productive) hour at the SSSC during my time at the UofS, enabled by the great facilities and more importantly by the flexible expertise of the hard-working personnel. Great to see them being recognised in this special issue, congrats to Sammy and all.

Our scientists decoded how #sodium is stored in battery anodes: ❌it doesn't intercalate btw material layers ✅it follows a 3-stage process inside hard carbon In perspective: + efficient #anode materials based on hard #carbon for optimized 🔋 performance #energystorage #chemsky tinyurl.com/kev2jun5

Love today’s #xkcd comic on #MassSpec 🤣

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FAIR WARNING: It’s ground squirrel kiddo season and excessive cuteness levels may occur or be occurring 🌿

ChemDraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw @Revvity Signals

My latest #BadKeyboard: The MCKeyb! I built a keyboard in modded Minecraft, then hooked it up through a webserver and a wireless microcontroller, so it appears as a USB keyboard on a different computer. I then used it to post "Hello World!" to bluesky, from minecraft.

ACS has a "Why do You Support Science?" form - not really clear how it will be used, but there is an anonymous option: connect.discoveracs.org/Why-do-You-S... #chemsky 🧪⚗️

look at this absolute unit

Share with US students who had their offers of admission withdrawn for PhD programs: Apply to Canada. Check out Canadian professors, and contact us. Our system works differently here, and we are all still, technically, able to accept students for Fall 2025.

Northvolt, the Swedish maker of battery cells for electric vehicles, said it has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden, bringing to an end Europe's best hope of developing a rival to major Asian EV battery players reut.rs/3FihCEA

A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat. Two pairs of beavers are making a new wild home in Studland #UK & their unrestricted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #nature #climatecrisis

Support is growing in Japan for allowing couples to keep their own surnames after marriage, a Nikkei poll shows, with more than half of the married women surveyed saying they would have taken the option if they could. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Soc...

"The Nagoya High Court on Friday became the fourth high court in Japan to rule the country's lack of legal recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional"

The lights are green and the skies are blue.