Was a pleasure to speak at UoManchester today for the chemistry department #IWD event - thanks to the lovely organisers

As more GiveToGain posts appear a reminder that it is a made-up theme by a for-profit company which makes money from theme based goods but has no charitable donations on its accounts for the past 10yrs The UN #IWD2026 theme this is: Rights. Justice. Action. www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol...

Today’s reason (#873053) we were late to school: the kids were arguing over who got to have my copy of @chemistryworld.com …

Oh geez am going through my photo library from 2020 for a talk this Fri where I reference 'things that helped during trying times' I totally forgot my increasingly unhinged attempts to make Joe Wicks/song lyric pun mash-ups

On my run home, Lou Reed’s Perfect Day and the starry sky were really helping me feel more one with the universe. Yeah, I thought. That was a long day, but I’m going to reap just what I sow 🎶 Then I made the mistake of opening my emails and what I sow is apparently DESK REJECTION 😂

We’ve had lots of fun messing about with non-thermal plasma for chemistry…like anything, it’s not magic, but high energy/low temp combo opens very interesting possibilities. Needs to be understood & controlled better via interdisciplinary collaboration! It’s got huge potential (pun intended 😅)

Half term scene: there’s nothing like watching our 11 year old lovingly lump our tubby fluffbag cat about, back paws stuck out under her arm, both busily going somewhere ❤️

This is the joy we all need at the moment

Please repost if you’re in the area of #AI or #chemistry. Funded by EPSRC. #chemsky

Some initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵 www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

Keeping a watchful eye on this, with my research director hat on…”Making those choices means that some activities will benefit from increased investment, but other areas will unfortunately experience some reductions, & you can expect to see UKRI making more of these decisions in the coming months”

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

📣 We’re looking for new members for our Board and Early Career Advisory Board (PhD / postdoc / PI) who care about EDIA and want to help guide the direction of WISC. 🗓 Deadline: Jan 31 👥 Open to all 👉 Apply here: www.womeninsuprachem.com/board-ecab-r... #WomenInSTEM #SupramolecularChemistry

Cheerful wave to those of us on this merry-go-round for the nth time...just keep swimming etc etc

Ok hold my flask: The Queen’s Headspace The Buchners Arms The Last Retort The Rose & Crown Ether #chemsky #chemchat

The 3rd Edition of the International Supramolecular Chemistry Summer School is scheduled on May 24th-29th 2026! Find all the infos for the registration at convegni.unica.it/iscsummersch... Hurry up, only 80 slots available!! PLS share this message @lucescostaction.bsky.social

Just spent ages cutting down a grant proposal to fit a page limit only to realise that, with the title page, I’d sold myself short by a whole side of A4. That’s it the year is done

Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D

Proposal rewriting currently powered by tidal.com/track/560269/u (emphatically not by AI - although I am wondering whether I am increasingly alone in this)

Interesting we don't seem to get a say in whether our proposals will be used to train the AI and release the confidential ideas into the AI world...

Submission deadline extended to 📅 April 30, 2026 Invitation to submit to the thematic issue #GreenChemistry III ed. by Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social#GreenChemistry Luigi Vaccaro and Yanlong Gu in #BJOC 💎 🔓 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yrc2nftt #sustainability #synthesis #HealthierPlanet 🌱 ♻️ 🌍

We are proud to unveil Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences, a new report exposing the barriers faced by disabled chemists & outlining why accessible labs are vital for the future of science. Read the report, its 15 recommendations and more: https://rsc.li/48iKLua #ChemSky

🚨(1/3) We are excited to announce that the 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award🏆 is to Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London, (@anbismillah.bsky.social) @rsc-masc.bsky.social mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed... #ChemSky #SupramolecularChemistry #WomenInSTEM #MASC2025

'The idea is that the installation always features people that are in the room at that time; the audience becomes a part of the installation'

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Registration for SupraChem2026 is open! Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

This is fantastic, well done Emma, I look forward to seeing this when I get back from Toronto. Co-sponsored by our @ukri.org / EPSRC @aichemyhub.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk - see news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...

First run of the season where I go “yep I absolutely should have brought my headtorch along with me when tf did it get so dark at 6:30pm”

Having spent the week talking about how technology is shaping synthesis it's great to see Abbie and Caitlin's review, "Enabling technology for accelerated discovery of supramolecular materials," published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org today! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery. Focus: 💻 Comp Chem 🤖 AI in Chem 🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning 🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details) #chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc

I had a great time - thanks for all the excellent talks, and big thanks to Luigi, Martí and @beilstein-institut.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and organisation. Hope to see new collaborations coming :)

Would you like access to cutting-edge knowledge, a global community of like-minded people, and the rest of 2025’s membership for free? Right now, a Royal Society of Chemistry 2026 membership is worth even more. Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/47lirIi #ChemSky

I am incredibly proud of this work published in @NatureComms. Reac-Discovery, is an AI guided platform for catalytic reactors' discovery. Combines POCs, 3DP and self-driving labs. Great job from Cris Tinajero, @marci_zanatta and collaborators t.ly/Rxotz

I appear to have academic-ed too close to the sun. Apologies for the faint air of chaos that is about the only response to emails I am currently managing...please poke me if there is a very urgent thing you think I've forgotten...

10 days left to submit your abstract! Join us and an impressive list of speakers at MRS spring 2026! Please repost! 🙏👍🙏 #conference #chemistry #MOF #Science #NobelPrize #MRS #EuroMOF #materials #sustainability #research #Hawaii www.mrs.org/meetings-eve...

"Inclusive design doesn’t just widen participation; it expands the very structure-function relationship of science itself. We all stand to gain from that." #NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

Join the FREE livestream 🎥 of next week’s Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025. Just register: 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 @annagslater.bsky.social

Good morning Bluesky. Today’s mood: tidal.com/browse/track...

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

A fine morning for #stationcoffee, off to Birmingham for a PhD viva (happily not my own)!

Invitation to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 @annagslater.bsky.social

Our Career Development Fellowships are now for applications. This scheme provides talented early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM with research funding and training opportunities to build a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

It has been a WEEK but this morning I am bopping along to tidal.com/track/776038... in the office and feeling much better :D 🎶things are never gonna be quite what you want, even at 25 (41!) you gotta start sometiiiiiii-hiiime 🎶

Just managed 10k for first time in ages! 🙌 @jochenbrandt.bsky.social, you were absolutely on the money with part a), thus it’s only right that I follow your advice in part b) 😁

🔬 Chemistry in higher education builds skills, knowledge & innovation the UK needs, but the sector is under strain #ChemSky The @rsc.org is calling for action on funding, access & student support to secure the future of chemistry 👉 bit.ly/4gtZoyw

Many congratulations to latest PhD from the group Nick Watson who passed with v minor corrections - we are very proud! thanks to @tomhasell.bsky.social & Matt O’Brien for examining & @sgoldup.bsky.social for the collaboration (Ch 4). Looking forward to getting the papers out :)

You are cordially invited to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 @annagslater.bsky.social

It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left. Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists! cen.acs.org/people/profi... #DisabledInSTEM

Ok bluesky I am in the market for a) miracle cures for plantar fasciitis and b) your most unhinged ways of getting yourself to keep going/snap out of a slump - thank youu

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...