It gets earlier every year... Next Wednesday, join me and an expert panel to discuss who might win the 2025 #ChemNobel. Free to attend. Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Time: 2–3 PM ET Register here: lnkd.in/eD8cdWRS

A Perspective from @gabegomes.bsky.social and colleagues covers the opportunities for LLMs to advance chemical research and the challenges that must be overcome to effectively use LLMs as scientific partners. #chemsky ➡️ nature.com/articles/s43... 🔓 rdcu.be/etcqs 🧵(8/13)

🚨Our September issue is now live, and it includes a Focus that examines the current state of the art and some of the potential pitfalls and biases of implementing and using LLMs across different domains. #ArtificialIntelligence ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... 🧵(1/13)

We are seeking an Associate or Senior Editor to join the Nature Nanotechnology team within Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Closing Date: October 12th, 2025 - Candidates will be considered as they apply. For more details👇 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

For those gin connoisseurs who don’t want any of that inorganic or supramolecular gin nonsense. I mean, if you’re not drinking gin ‘tuned at the molecular level’, can you even bear to look at yourself in the mirror?

Labour MPs posting about the Hillsborough Law being laid before Parliament – including Nick Thomas-Symonds on X/Twitter. In this spirit, can one of the Labour MPs on here get Nick to answer questions he's being asked on X/Twitter about the #contaminatedblood scandal & interim payments for estates?

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

“Let’s not speculate as to his motives”— Nah I remember 25 hours ago when you were happy to speculate without knowing anything at all, and now you know MORE but want to say less? Fascinating.

I have the best friends (thank you, you know who you are 😀)

I’ve seen worse sunsets…

Tonight I did not enjoy drinking >>>

The not-quite Borromean rings of Fontainebleau (if you closed the circles they would be Borromean rings). I’m forever cursed to see interlocking in patterns in things…

TRUTH

Current status: (Graphic content warning: includes my feet 🫣)

Pupillin - where (some of) the roads are named for grapes! #jura #jurawine

In the Stephane Tissot shop in Arbois when this stack of books is delivered… cc @winklorch.bsky.social

🚨✨We're excited to advertise the first 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for excellence in equality, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (#EDIA).🏆 📅 Apply by September 5th, 2025! 👀Learn more at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed... @rsc-masc.bsky.social #ChemSky #SupramolecularChemistry #WomenInSTEM

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors @fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content. www.nature.com/collections/...

Would you pay $150 per article to post your preprint on @bioRxiv @aRxiv @medRxiv @chemRxiv etc.? Currently it’s free but a small cost could help offset running costs and also work as a barrier against paper mills and AIs just posting all the time and filling these sites up.

Thank you @theguardian.com for this delightful detail about the Bayeux tapestry… ‘The tapestry features … 623 figures, 994 animals, 37 buildings and 41 ships and other vessels, plus 93 or 94 male genitalia depending on which expert is counting.’ I feel there is a story within a story here 😂

And in lighter news…

A government spokesperson said: “This additional report reflects the unprecedented nature of the infected blood scandal and the thoroughness of the inquiry’s investigation.” Erm - nope. It reflects the utterly woeful and inadequate response by the Government in delivering compensation to victims

'Sir Brian's new report found victims had been "harmed further" by the way they had been treated over the last 12 months.' #ContaminatedBlood

Amazing. Gen Z has invented vacation. I’m dead.

There are worse ways to spend the first of 12 weeks off work…

So long Lisbon, it’s been lovely!

Hey @chemistcraig.bsky.social - saw this and thought of you 🤣

After ruling the NIH grant cuts were illegal yesterday, Judge Young, a Reagan appointee on the bench since 1985, ended the hearing with a blistering 15-minute speech. I've cleaned up my notes — here are his remarks in full. 🧵

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky

Father’s Day #wine - an orange savagnin (from the #jura) of course!

Here's an anniversary worth celebrating!

Hmm. Is the topology of a ‘Hopf Perplexane’ any different to the numerous examples of other interlocked cages like the Fujita example below? What say you @profdaveleigh.bsky.social? Maybe the Trefoil Perplexane mentioned is a new molecular topology, but I don’t know for sure #chemsky 🧪

Companies selling authorship slots thrive in a culture that equates success with a strong publication record. Here’s an in-depth piece in which customers, sleuths and the shadowy owner of a paper mill explain why 🧪 #AcademicSky @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Picked up my first Welsh pinot today. Lovely label too.

Another banger from @iandunt.bsky.social; I'll forgive him for mixing up @natcomms.nature.com with @nature.com (two different journals, same publisher - paper was published in the former). Nice to see some science in the newsletter! And love the sentence in the pic below 😂

I'm sorry to be so graphic, but if I kidnapped the children of 20 full professors and said "you get your kid back if you give me a definition of 'molecular engineering'", I would get 40 different definitions. That someone at the National Academies think these projections are credible is concerning.

I mean, who doesn’t love an OH₃ group?

Time for wine; lovely #jura pinot pairs well with the Champions League Final.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

In our May Focus issue, we asked 7 experts working across automation, control and robotics to share their view on an aspect of their field that they believe will drive transformative progress within these interconnected domains. #chemsky #compchem Link here (🔓): www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A comprehensive analysis of gender representation along the publishing process at @natureportfolio.nature.com journals, specifically Nature, Nature research journals, Nature Reviews journals, Nature Communications, Communications Series journals, and npj Series journals 👇🧪

New on my CV: “Partially Successful Submission to Nature.”

I think we’ve got enough of a crowd* to make this work. Shall we say 8pm, Saturday 24th May. Pizza and wine optional. Bend and snap compulsory. *i.e. me and the cat

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We are dying at pace, the government needs to be working at pace, not just talking about it," one campaigner said on Tuesday as a letter calling for action was handed in to the prime minister. #contaminatedblood #infectedblood

Get a bloody move on #contaminatedblood #infectedblood www.itv.com/news/london/...

This documentary airs tonight on ITV1, 9 pm UK time. If you want to know more about the #contaminatedblood scandal, this is a must-watch. #infectedblood www.itv.com/presscentre/...