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...

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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 :)

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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...

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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) 😁

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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 :)

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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/...

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The group’s been going since 2017–to my great joy, it turns out Year 8 is when a running club self-assembles! ❤️ It also turns out to be when I’ve managed to injure both feet in different ways, but still!

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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

This is going to be a great meeting - join us there!

!New paper! We're delighted to see this finally out @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Chemistry #Supramol #Supramolecular (1/3)

I enjoyed this article, particularly this superlative quote: ‘To which he added: “I’m very thankful that I get to blow stuff up with giant lasers for discoveries. And that’s my job, you know.”’

Cat update: bloods taken, has been prescribed glucosamine/fish oil for her arthritis while we wait for results. Took one sniff of her fish oil-laden breakfast then immediately tried to bury it by pawing the nearby pedal bin. I have lost my position as Favourite Human. 🤷‍♀️

Very cool!

The task was: pick up my prescription 🤦‍♀️

oh no, I just remembered a really important but non-written-down task I had to do, then did another different task, and have forgotten the first one please shout at me if you think you are the beneficiary of the lost task. otherwise, i think it might be weekend time

Cat update: melted. And I’m going to need to get gabapentin into her later so she is less “wriggly” for the vet to take bloods. Tips welcome…

Great to see this out, thank you to Yu-Lin Lu for the cover art & congratulations to Liqun Guo & Qiang Zhu! Here, we summarise some advantages of combining flow & self-assembly, including some of our work in this area.

Anyone know what this fruit tree is in our front garden? Pretty sure it didn’t fruit last year. Guessing some kind of plum, but don’t want to poison myself 😅 #gardensky

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

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Today’s moment of…well…I’m not sure what to call this other than WTF - comes courtesy of Tidals daily discovery: tidal.com/browse/track... (I actually kind of love it)

Cat update: according to evidence found this morning, she outsmarted the cunning plan to obtain a sample by waiting until ~3am to use the litter tray, but then immediately lost all smarts points by trying to eat one of the non-absorbent granules.

today's small joy is: I finally managed to figure out how to draw a tube in powerpoint! The prompt was finishing off a TOC with George (not on Bluesky?) for resubmission of the review he's written with Alex and I. Hopefully coming soon...(in slightly higher resolution)

this is probably a bit niche but I am so excited that I just managed to get a whole blood test done and be back at my desk within 23 minutes

🎉 Today we reveal the 2025 RSC Prize winners! 🎉 Celebrating excellence across research, diversity, tech roles, apprentices and partnerships. Join us in congratulating the remarkable individuals and teams advancing chemistry for society. buff.ly/K2un4O1 #Chemistry #ChemSky

Always a joy to see awesome people win #RSCPrizes! Huge congratulations to everyone, including @drschniff.bsky.social @jelfschem.bsky.social @profdjadams.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social @donnablack.bsky.social @rebeccamelen.bsky.social & more 🥳🥳🥳

I’m really honoured to be the 2025 winner of the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize. Thanks to my current research group, past students and postdocs, and collaborators and mentors who have made this possible @rsc.org #RSCprizes