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!

🪔 Happy Diwali 🎇

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

Check out Sarah’s talk (SUS-07) today at 11:20am #Dalton2025

Check out #Dalton2025 posters tonight from Lydia (CODG-P26) and Hannah (CODG-P47) et al.

U knows it! Great invited seminar talk by @lisavondung.bsky.social at Leicester School of Chemistry today!

This was a great 1-dayer last year (2 years ago?)

Patricia Rodríguez-Maciá holds an interest in [FeFe] hydrogenases and has published a number of works exploring the catalysis of these systems. Her latest Perspective on these enzymes is available to read here: doi.org/10.1039/D4SC... #ChemSky

Can't get access to any subscription-based @pubs.acs.org articles 😱 ... this a University of Leicester thing?

Latest paper by Jamie Allen et al. @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social is now published in Organometallics @pubs.acs.org doi.org/10.1021/acs.... … a good chunk of Jamie's PhD has been dedicated to the organozinc #synthesis and #catalysis explored in this work... 📄✨

Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are recruiting for a 30 month 0.7 FTE Postdoc position working on metallo-antifungals as part of the RAFT project. tinyurl.com/3mtxwx8h Looking for skilled synthetic (bio)-inorganic chemists! For more details on the project check out www.jpiamr.eu/projects/raft and feel free to reach out!

Great fun trip to Oxford with @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social! Sunny skies, great looking EPR spectra & lovely to check-in with old friends & mentors! Many thanks to Will and CÆSR for the collab

Team Chemistry looking forward to meeting future students at our University of Leicester #OfferHolderDay today! #MeetYourTutors

Please follow these lovely people @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social for latest news from our lab! 🥼🧪 Not sure which account I'm gona use at this stage. 🤔

Hi there #ChemSky! It's nice to be back on the socials... I'm mostly here for science chat, friendly gossip & the odd bit of shameless self-promotion. 🦋