Structural Analysis of Coordination Cage/Guest Complexes Prepared with the ‘Crystalline Sponge’ Methodology www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/14... Well done Chris Taylor and James Williams for finishing up these structures for a nice paper in Crystals.

It’s amazing how faithful The Muppet Christmas Carol is to the original novel.

Lift broken this week so the SuperNova has mostly been drinking hand hauled moonshine out of an Onion Dewar.

Strike action continues this week! Please join us for the following events as we withhold our labour from a university that continues to unnecessarily threaten our livelihood:

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖 australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

About last night… 💙 (Been drawing since the final whistle and now we’re finished & we’ve made NEW mugs and fellow Spurs fans if you feel like sharing the heck out of these we would appreciate it so so much #COYS #COYS #COYS) 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/spu...

Remember to vote early if you're a chow chow, as it's too blinking hot to be doing much after 9am #dogsatpollingstations Broxtowe Beeston North

Many thanks to @benjaminchem.bsky.social for the kind invite to cross the river and visit Nottingham Trent University Chemistry to collect some diffraction data for a naughty incommensurate crystal on their rather marvelous @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social Synergy-DW.

Couldn't wait to get back from a holiday in Lisbon to start taking Fourier transforms of all the lovely azulejo tiles I saw! 1/999

On #NationalScrabbleDay, this periodic table shows what every element's name would score during a game. Can you spot the highest scoring elements and the only element that scores the same as its atomic number? www.compoundchem.com/2019/07/07/p... #ChemSky 🧪

Spring is coming. Hopefully.

RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize - a fully funded lectureship at Dalton conference. Spread the word among the PhDs! #chemsky

Just enjoyed a very productive day at the National Electron Diffraction Facility at the University of Warwick where our host Jere Tidey helped us solve some amazing structures and spot an exoplanet. Today I also learned why orienting a crystal on a zone axis is bad thing even though it looks pretty.

It's that time of the month when web hosting fees for compoundchem.com leave my account. They've increased again this year, so it now costs me almost £60 per month to keep all the graphics freely available. If you'd like to support these costs, I'd hugely appreciate it! ko-fi.com/compoundchem

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

Now that's the wreath of a crystallographer. Lab B15 is nearly ready for Christmas (i.e. everything's stopped working and there's no hope of fixing any of it before January).

To all members of the Inorganic Chemistry community, please save the date for the #Dalton2025 meeting. The registration link will be live soon. @roysocchem.bsky.social #chemsky PS: for the bioinorganic folks out there, consider following the IBDG account for news and events 👇

So, as a new member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, I've been tasked with looking into workforce development. So I'd like to ask you #chemsky peeps how you learned about crystallography? Reply and retweet, I wanna hear from as many of you as possible!

📢Want your own personalized graphic with a summary of the structures you published in the CSD this year (Oct23-Oct24)? Just reply with "What's my #CSDWrapped?" and tell us your publishing name. This week only!👀 #ChemSky #CompChemSky #Crystallography #StructuralChemistry #ChemData #SmallMolecules

Friday fun with some zinc MOF crystals that look like Minecraft swords. The fun being that they diffracted just as nicely as Monday's Pd octahedral crystals #cursedcrystallographer

A perfect octahedral-shaped crystal of a palladium metal-ligand coordination cage gives a perfectly baffling diffraction pattern.

The PANalytical X'pert powder X-ray diffractometer has never looked lovlier now that it is decorated with a new poster reminding users what all the slits and masks do.

Somewhere over the rainbow is hopefully some sort of cubane-esque mad nine-cornered polyhedral cage.

Amazing tool for extracting crystals from the neck of a Young's NMR tube: the bent Pasteur pipette! Thanks Kieran. No thanks to the chemist who thoughtlessly grew crystals in such an awkward place. Now let's hope they actually diffract.

Been playing with the diamonds today. Scale not to scale.