🚀 First Liverpool, then Scotland… & now it’s time for London! After two fantastic Inator Hackathons, we’re bringing the energy to UCL on 7–8 July for another round of Raspberry Pis, remote sensing, & machine learning. Join us for two days & let’s make London the biggest one yet 👇 buff.ly/3033cYT

IUCr Electron Crystallography School 2026 🔬 📅 8–10 Aug, Calgary (same venue as the IUCr Congress) 3 days on 3DED/MicroED, structure solution, dynamical refinement & 4D-STEM. Lectures + practicals. Registration open 👇 sites.google.com/view/iucr-sa... #3DED #microED #4DSTEM #IUCr2026 #IUCr #chemsky

The four things it takes to be really successful, and why the most important one isn't what you'd expect. Taken from his address to graduates while accepting an Honourary Doctor of Letters at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social earlier this year

Daily reminder not to stop at the google AI summary. It’s often bollocks. And it’s killing the thing it brainlessly scrapes for actual human thoughts

Electron crystallography is having a moment. Don't get left behind. IUCr Satellite School · Calgary · 8–10 August 2026 sites.google.com/view/iucr-sa... #chemsky #iucr #iucr2026 #3DED #4DSTEM

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Last year, The Royal Society, together with our colleagues Profs Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Mike Glazer, made a film on Kathleen Lonsdale, that is now nominated for a Webby Award by the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.  Scan the QR codes. Thank You!  @royalsociety

Hear from real technicians who are using AI in their day-to-day roles. In our free upcoming webinar, you’ll find out how AI is helping technical professionals automate processes, write procedures, and develop research and software. How could it help you? ▶️ https://rsc.li/4c7u4Ut #ChemSky

The Royal Society film on Kathleen Lonsdale featuring footage from the @IUCr archive, was recently nominated for a Webby Award by the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Voting is open until Thursday 16th April. see tinyurl.com/msddeem8

Register here: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina... This session is intended for researchers generating, analysing, or reusing biomolecular simulations who want to improve transparency and reproducibility in their workflows. All details & registration link: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...

New series of #Taskmaster starts next Thursday on Ch4 at 9pm ( and goes up on YouTube at 10pm, I believe)

We have published the results from our International Microscopy Facility Survey in the @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @australianmms.bsky.social @ausbias.org @micro-au.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

We're delighted to share that University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives have joined the Open Journals Collective! They are one of our founding members, and their support is hugely important to us. We look forward to working with them as we build a brighter future for academic publishing!

A PI who still hopes to spend time at the bench

BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories. Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...

🚀 Inator Hackathon 2026 - Highlights! Last week at Strathclyde University, brilliant minds came together for Round 2 of our Inator Hackathon. A huge thank you to all participants and organisers for making it such an inspiring event. 💡 Read More ➡️ buff.ly/l0wkJp8

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Deadline for early registration discount for the Electron Crystallography workshop in Venice on the 20th of March Fantastic workshop, amazing venue, hope to see you there. warwick.ac.uk/research/rtp...

Data visualisation can change the way we see the world. One of the most famous examples from history is Dr John Snow's (born #OnThisDay in 1813) map of a cholera outbreak in Soho, which changed our understanding of microbes. Watch our video with #BBCIdeas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtmCXgNqG4

"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.

me: if z is the length of a slice and a is the area of the pie, then pi(zz)=a PhD advisor: this is what you’ve been working on for three and a half years?

Join us for a one-day symposium bringing together researchers from AI, catalysis, and energy materials to explore how data-driven approaches are accelerating discovery and innovation. 🗓 13 May 2026 📍 Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London 👉 Register: buff.ly/r40QnId

🚀 Inator Hackathon at Strathclyde - 18th March After Liverpool SOLD OUT, we added a second Inator Hackathon and it’s shaping up to be amazing. Whether you’re curious about sensors, AI, automation or data projects, this is for you. 🎟️ Secure your place: buff.ly/9spLS0r

"… watching these students, I am reminded how transformative that moment can be when someone finally sees in you what you could not yet see in yourself." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/46GFzAr

Choosing a title for your PhD thesis is tricky but don’t make it too accurate #AcWri

Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin on International Women's Day! While Fleming found the mold, Hodgkin solved the 3D atomic puzzle of Penicillin. Using X-ray crystallography, she mapped the molecule's structure, allowing it to be mass-produced and saving millions of lives! 🔬🗺️ #WomenInScience

🚀 Strathclyde, we’re coming for you! After Liverpool SOLD OUT, we added a second Inator Hackathon and it’s shaping up to be amazing. Whether you’re curious about sensors, AI, automation or data projects, this is where ideas turn into reality. 🎟️ Secure your place: buff.ly/9spLS0r

That smile speaks volumes - as always. Congrats Felix Hol (a lab alum) to be selected for TEDFellows class of 2026. From the swamps at Stanford to villages in Madagascar - I have so many memories with Felix - but his joyful laugh is one that rings again and again. Let's go catch some mosquitoes.

A rock band can’t stop a missile. But it can keep Ukraine in the world’s ears. U2 released “Yours Eternally” with Ukraine’s Antytila and Ed Sheeran, alongside a short film by Ukrainian filmmaker Illia Mykhailus using real frontline footage. Attention is a form of support.

'Ukrainians are a strong nation – we persevere and continue to live and work.’ Four years on from the full scale invasion by Russia, Ukrainian scientists have hope and plan for the future.

For half a century, researchers suspected treetops on Earth might glow because of thunderstorms. But the phenomenon, an electric outburst called a corona, has only ever been spotted in the lab--until now. Cool story from @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org

It was a wonderful experience to receive my Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist medal in the gorgeous Banqueting House this week! Then give a public lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine! A giant thank you to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the The New York Academy of Sciences

@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

📅 Date: 26th February 2026 ⏳ Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 🌏 Location: Virtual Event, Online 📍 Registration Link: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina... 🚨 Last few days left to register! 🚨

❄️ Your research is too cool to miss Calgary. 3 days left to submit your IUCr2026 abstract. Final deadline, no extensions. No registration required. 📅 Feb 22 at 11:59 PM ET 👉 event.fourwaves.com/... #IUCR #IUCR2026 #crystallography

One of my goals for 2026 is to draft/write a novel based on forensic scientometrics, following a couple of meetings i had with people who were - i kid you not - working with 2 "security agencies" as forensic scientometricians ... anyway, some colleagues just published this - arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Oh I love some respect for language, we're all guilty of some misuse, it's never too late to acknowledge and be patient and informative to others! I could bring up "lattice", "Bragg reflections", and "n-dimensional" (n=0,1,2,3), but I already discuss it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... #chemsky

SNEWS xkcd.com/3208/

If you do not have an expectation for the result of an experiment, you cannot find unexpected results. It is an easy way to miss something new or interesting.

Best reason to never be famous - or say anything in public ever, really - is that the modern world won’t let you say the most anodyne stuff without willfully misconstruing it into a scandal.

If you are interested in inclusion and equity in citizen science 🧪, this will be a really important community discussion. We will explore our definitions and interpretations in both theory and practice, with the key results being interpreted by the fantastic visual illustrator Ruth Graham. Join us!

Dublin for EM-UKI 2026 @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #CoreFacilities

💻 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Join us for a thought provoking online meeting to share knowledge around the practicalities, benefits, and success stories of ERN adoption. 📕 More details: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/electr...

Crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale 1 of 1st women elected Fellow of RoyalSociety 1945. 1st woman tenured professor @ucl.ac.uk 1st woman president IUCr & BritSciAssoc. Elected Womens Eng Soc member 1946 in recognition of “brilliant & important work" b #OTD 28 Jan 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

Excited to share our latest @nature.com: How does naloxone (Narcan) stop an opioid overdose? We determined the first GDP-bound μ-opioid receptor–G protein structures and found naloxone traps a novel "latent” state, preventing GDP release and G protein activation.💊🧪 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art #AI #ChemSky

The humanist meaning of life with A C Grayling 🔍