Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!

Extra special day in the group @edinburghchem.bsky.social y’day Congratulations to Dr Audrey Ngambia🎓 for a brilliant PhD defence! Thank you for joining my group & trusting me as very new PI that we can make these pesky biochar models - we did it thanks to your dedication and hard work🍾

Congratulations to our PgT students of @edinburghchem.bsky.social for completing their studies! I am extra happy to see that students undertaking #compchem projects - Yifei and Samuel (our group) - have won awards for best taught part and best project talk! 🏆🥳

Yesterday we were visited by Ellen Porter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophical Transactions A of the @royalsocietypublishing.org, to discuss real hurdles of #publishing in #science with our #PhD & #PostDoc at @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social

The workshop "Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application" has started in Lausanne! After a short welcome by CECAM and the organisers, V. Sierra Jimenez, C. M. Grottola & P. Giudicianni have kicked off today's program. ➡️ www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos! www.instagram.com/reel/DKNDlYw...

Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪

Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us! www.instagram.com/reel/DKDBluT...

Another day from @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip www.instagram.com/reel/DJ46gJG...

I have a badge and, therefore, I am working

Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam www.instagram.com/reel/DJv33ri...

Home 🖤

After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home

Suddenly found yourself wanting to build a snowman in May? Sure thing - welcome to northern Iceland ☃️ where you can do it in day light 24h a day!

Off the beaten track onto þjóðfell for permafrost samples with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social ⛏️🗻 Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday

Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall

In the lab again

Another great day sampling with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social and Pam @theukca.bsky.social ⛏️

Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future

Another hard day at the office. Starting the Iceland trip with @theukca.bsky.social

My bestest friend 🖤

Still a few places left on our workshop in June!

Been sent into a pond for water testing. No crocs🐊 here, just turtles🐢 (at least they said so).

Wizard level of hiding 🦒🌳

If anyone is wondering - team @edinburghchem.bsky.social is here to work, even if it looks like a holiday retreat and the conference is like a wedding venue

Wearing off my [whole one hour of] jet lag in J’burgh

Team @edinburghchem.bsky.social touristing around rights after landing in Johannesburg

Such an interesting seminar today by Martin McCoustra at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

If you are interested to learn more on what molecular modeling can do to support origin of life research, the recording of my lecture "Computational Chemistry – Space & Time Travellers Tool" at the @vwscc.bsky.social is now on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1493...

Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application 4-6 June, Lausanne, CH This is the first-ever @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop dedicated to the emerging field of #biochar molecular modelling - please circulate! www.cecam.org/workshop-det...

📢We are organising a super exciting session at the 18th International Clay Conference in Dublin, 13-18 July dedicated to the role of #clays in #astrobiology 🪐 To register & more info here: icc.aipea.org/icc-03/ please share!

Absolutely fantastic and very important **I Belong in Chemistry** event at @edinburghchem.bsky.social tonight. Great inspirational speakers! Thank you for organising #stem #womeninscience #WomenInSTEM @rsc.org

I never knew that particle on a ring can be this exciting 🙊 Thank you Igor Roncevic from @manchesterup.bsky.social for such interesting talk today at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

Here is the latest episode of Tartan Tardigrade where Mia from UK Centre of Astrobiology interviews @andrewbissette.bsky.social , editor-in-chief of @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The International Clay Conference, Dublin will host 4 pre-conference workshops. All workshops will take place on Sunday the 13th July 2025. Kaolin – Everywhere PDF-5+ & JADE Pro 1D Modelling of Clay Methods in Clay Science For full workshop details icc.aipea.org/workshops/ @minersoc.bsky.social

And upon this, my friends, my teaching is done till November🧘‍♀️🍹 [I still have labs, field trip, essays & exams to mark] Last 4 wks have been 11 contact hrs weekly of new material; 4 courses simultaneously +hosting #RAPC +talk at @vwscc.bsky.social Whatever doesn’t kill you, tries again next year!

Looking forward to our session at #ICCDublin25 dedicated to the role of minerals in the abiogenesis

On thin ice, but still skating. With universities starting the year in financial straits, the sector must tread carefully, writes @sarahr100.bsky.social. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

How far can nonadiabatic simulations go with proper initial state sampling? We comment on the strategies in the recent Accounts of Chemical Research paper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NonadiabaticDynamics #SimulationScience #compchem @insilphotochem.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org

☺️very kind words from @andrewbissette.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social in the Editorial celebrating the 5th anniversary of the journal www.cell.com/cell-reports... It was a pleasure working with you on our unusual format papers. I look forward to more science to come!

Appropriately enough, one of the two highlights I picked was working with @erastova.bsky.social on back-to-back biochar papers www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Many interesting sessions at the International Clay Conference icc.aipea.org/sessions-list, incl. ours on the role of layered minerals in the origin of life. Plz share, apply and I look forward to seeing you in Dublin! @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @oolen.bsky.social @astrobiology.bsky.social

Thank you for hosting!

Very informative talk by @andrewbissette.bsky.social from @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social at our RAPC meeting hosted at @edinburghchem.bsky.social

Starting RAPC 2025 @roysocchem.bsky.social Faraday Council meeting at @edinburghchem.bsky.social Looking forward to the next three days with many exciting talks to hear rapc-rsc.github.io