A productive and fun few days for @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social at @tcddublin.bsky.social - great collaboration discussions and School of Chemistry seminar today! Thanks to @tobiaskramer.bsky.social for hosting us so generously.

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 Exciting opportunity to develop titanium-based catalysts for bio-derived carbonate materials. Fully funded EPSRC DLA PhD studentship (4 years), based in my group at @leicesterchem.bsky.social. 🧪 More info: le.ac.uk/-/media/uol/... 🗓️ Deadline: 7 February 2026 #ChemSky #PhDChat

Congratulations to Kian Devani (MPhil) and Orville Cheuk Lun Lam (MSc), former masters students in the group, who graduated from @leicesterchem.bsky.social today! 🎓🎓

Massive thanks to the @ukcatalysishub.bsky.social and the organisers for the invitation to #UKCC at @lborouniversity.bsky.social A fantastic meeting - supportive, welcoming, and a timely reminder of just how central catalysis still is across science and industry. Easy to forget that sometimes...🙃

According to Keir Starmer, the New Year’s honours recognise people “who put the common good ahead of themselves to strengthen communities” with “quiet dedication” – yet higher awards went to party hacks and poorly performing executives. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

Morning lecture @leicesterchem.bsky.social & windy ride to @lborouniversity.bsky.social for #UKCC2026 … looking forward to the next 3 days!

@leicesterchem.bsky.social “Blown Off Course” in this fortnight’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Congrats to Sarah Lamorte for passing her PhD today! Many thanks to Drs Mark Chadwick and @fabortu.bsky.social for doing the honours #vivaforever A challenging project on titanium complexes and CO2 catalysis - tackled with real tenacity, skill and passion - & exciting papers on the way. Nicely done!

Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others.

Eminemi's preprint now online - Deep Eutectic Solvents as Recyclable Media for Metal Removal from Crude Oil | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

University of Leicester chemistry department could lose at least nine staff under merger proposals www.chemistryworld.com/university-o...

With an explosive subject showcase from Chemistry, today we conclude 5 weeks of strike action.

Final @leicesterucu.bsky.social strike day of 2025! Team Chemistry subject showcase at 10:30am on Victoria Park picket... expect whizzes and bangs from the REAL changemakers! 🧪🚀💥

Fears for future of students and lecturers as Universities make cuts | @itvcentral.bsky.social (East) youtu.be/iJCHq2tRKf4

Pickets across the country. A march through Leicester. Hundreds of jobs on the line. We’re not standing by while the sector burns. We will continue to fight. Congrats to all involved for yesterday!

Strong show of solidarity & support today from our superstar students @leicesterchem.bsky.social at the #UCU National Demonstration 🌟🧪 🥈🇬🇧 ✊

@leicesterchem.bsky.social dream team taking a stand ✊ Some of these fine minds are directly in the firing line! ☠️ 🪓 saveleicesteruni.com

@ucu.org.uk National Demonstration against job cuts at Leicester right now saveleicesteruni.com

Great turnout and feedback from prospective @leicesterchem.bsky.social students & guests today… the spirit of our staff volunteers and student ambassadors keeps the ❤️‍🔥 alive!

Leicester School of Chemistry bringing the sweet fire to Open Day 🧁🔥 as always!

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

Amazing to see Olympia's titanocenes featured as a HOT article 🔥 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... and Ginevra's awesome artwork on the inside front cover 🎨 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... of latest issue! @daltontrans.rsc.org

Fantastic @centa.bsky.social PhD scholarship co-supervised with @rmlab.bsky.social If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!

In January, Cardiff University laid out cuts to its chemistry department, including cuts to undergraduate numbers and a merger of the department with two other schools. The university has now scaled back the scope of these cuts.

Thank you to everyone who came to our vigil. It was an incredible display of support. Thank you also to City of Leicester UNISON and York St John UCU, the latest of many Union branches to donate and send messages of solidarity.

I don’t want to be on a picket line today. I’d rather be teaching my students or in the lab with @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social - not standing in the rain outside my own workplace. But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.

@ucu.org.uk @leicesterucu.bsky.social can't cancel Chemistry (or Modern Languages or Biomedical Sciences or History or Geography....) #nojobcuts

A great turnout to our amazing rally today, with emotional speeches and incredible support from students, staff, and trade unions.

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC project AGILE at the interface of inorganic, organic and organometallic chemistry. A vibrant Team, cool chemistry and everything takes place in the cultural capitol of Europe CHEMnitz. Apply now: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

Jamie’s paper on bulky [S,N] zinc catalysts for aldehyde hydrosilylation just published doi.org/10.1002/zaac... … part of the #ZAAC special issue celebrating @christianlimberg.bsky.social’s big 6️⃣0️⃣🎈🥳

Great result for @leicesterchem.bsky.social ranked 2nd for Chemistry in UK in @theguardian.com University Guide 2026. Hopefully helps sustain our bright future!

Olympia & Ginevra’s paper “Anti-Breast Cancer Stem Cell Activity of Titanocene Complexes of NSAIDs” is out in @daltontrans.rsc.org 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5DT... A tidy @leicesterchem.bsky.social collab: titanocene synthesis in our lab & bio from Rama Suntharalingam’s group — a great friend & colleague

Massive congrats to Jamie Allen - the first @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social PhD over the line! Humbling moments & still processing what this means to be a Doktorvater. Thanks to Prof. Adrian Chaplin & Dr Alex Pulis @leicesterchem.bsky.social for doing the honours #VivaForever

The RSC has some good un-pushy webpages for school leavers considering Chemistry as clearing looms. edu.rsc.org/future-in-ch...

Recommended holiday read for radiochemists. And everyone else…

Amazing first visit to Karlsruhe @kit.edu, thanks @townrowresearch.bsky.social for hosting and putting me through my paces! 🧪🍻🏃‍♂️🏃

Universities are the backbone of our future. With hundreds of jobs and vital faculties at risk in Leicester, we must demand long-term investment, not short-term cuts.

Jamie's latest preprint now online: Aldehyde hydrosilylation with ethylzinc complexes of bulky β-thioketiminate ligands | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

#ProudSupervisorMoment No.3 of the week… a V(ery) Ni(ce) talk from Hannah!

#ProudSupervisorMoment No.2 witnessing a masterclass in macrocycles from first @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social PhD student Jamie Allen #ECRMASC25 in the lecture theatre where I learned inorganic chemistry…

#ProudSupervisorMoment No.1 of this week!

Fun trip up to Nottingham Trent to visit @benjaminchem.bsky.social & lab!

Congratulations Sarah for winning the flash presentation prize in “homogeneous catalysis for sustainable solutions” at #ICSC-NZ 👏👏👏

Check out Sarah’s flash talk at #ICSC-NZ on anilidoimine titanium catalysts for CO2 conversion at 11:00 today!

New group photos... outside our home and in the wild!

Welcome to Cheera who is joining the group for a summer research project developing Titanium complexes for CO2 catalysis, funded by a @rsc.org Undergraduate Research Bursary. When not in the lab she can be frequently found singing at Leicester Cathedral or playing the organ.

Olympia & Ginevra’s preprint now online… Anti-Breast Cancer Stem Cell Activity of Titanocene Complexes of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

New UK-EU agreement just published. Promises to implement a new youth mobility scheme and resurrect the UK's membership of the Erasmus scheme

Thanks to alumni & staff returning to Leicester today to celebrate our Chemistry Centenary… a day of fantastic demos, culinary experiments and keynote talks