Alexander Borodin co-discovered the aldol reaction and composed really good music too. 🎶 Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0U... This recording by Sorbonne University choir and orchestra feels appropriate for such a scientist :) #chemsky

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #1: it must have taken an incredible patience to make this packing masterpiece decorating Sungnyemun Gate 🌺

Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!! The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉). Save the date! 💎 #BraggYourPattern #Ozchem

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist, would be nominated for the Nobel 8 times, but you probably know him for his most famous invention, which never made him a penny, developed to hold ultra-cold liquified gases. You probably own a "Dewar vessel," but you know it as a Thermos™. Let's talk about it.

Hey #scicomm folks! I am looking for a diverse crew to represent their fields with their head shot and a fun fact they like from their field of study, but SPECIFICALLY: -a geologist/volcanist or gemologist -a zoologist -astronomer -a paleontologist -a structural engineer

We applied Advanced Crystal Harvesting Instrument aka a longer spoon and determined that it is indeed a sucrose.

#BraggYourPattern from Granatium museum in Austria, a fragment of the Garnet Room wall.

@ansto.bsky.social MX beamline workshop. Bottom lines - match your crystal size to your beamline! Dont shoot a moving target. Wait for the loop position to stabilise. Rasterize to find your xtals. You need training to use MX3! All pins in puck must be the same!!

Our paper on the instrument, beautifully named Wombat, is now published doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org - We're currently also open for experiment submissions - deadline 16th March neutron.ansto.gov.au

Yes I'm the weirdo that goes to the beach for the patterns #BraggYourPattern

Getting the beamline ready for x-rays to come back next week, so of course had to make a tiny pink cowboy hat for the robot. Coming soon will be a whole hatrack of hats depending on the mood of the robot 🤠🤖💎

Current read: The Mercy of Gods by James SA Corey. Asks the eternal question , what if you were stuck with just your lab mates during the alien invasion?

📢 One less molecular mystery - the crystal structure of diacetylene is solved, published in @iucrj.iucr.org today! Fantastic work by Larissa, and also I think will be the first structure deposit in @ccdc.cam.ac.uk from wombat! Read the OA paper here journals.iucr.org/m/issues/202...

Call for Papers: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Chemical Science (Australia & New Zealand) This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a collection that elevates Indigenous knowledge systems in chemical science. Please share widely with colleagues and networks.

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A tale in three parts- I was doing the end of year beamline clean and found paper towel to throw away. It was strangely heavy. Unwrapped it to find the word "NO" written on it. Unwrapped it further to find some screws. Where they come from or why they are "no" remains a mystery 🤔 🤦‍♀️🕵‍♀️

It's Christmas biscuit baking day! 🎄🎄🎄

“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡

Thrilled to announce publication of the crystallography children’s book illustrated by undergraduate Justine Wong! You can buy it here for $15: meitneriumpress.com 50% of profits will support undergrad education at the Cal Poly Pomona Crystallography Co-op. #chemsky #chemchat

I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/... #Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry

Are you a PhD/honours student in the Sydney area working with X-ray/Neutron techniques? Great (and very friendly) opportunity to present your work at the Australian X-ray Analytical Assoc's student day coming up on the 20th Nov www.eventbrite.com/e/axaa-nsw-s...

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky

Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem

My first MOF (or coordination polymer - it had both alright!) paper 🥰 I learnt a healthy respect for silver and did some fun ligand synthesis for this work that I did in my Honours year chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Making a MOF cake in honour of the Nobel Prize. Wish me luck! (Already some rotational disorder in some of the ligands)

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

I'm really happy to see that MOFs got the Nobel prize, & that they picked these 3 scientists, who really drove the field. Especially Richard Robson, whose visionary paper showed the first synthesis & predicted the design & functionality of these materials #ChemNobel #Chemsky @rsc-pormat.bsky.social

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

This is a fantastic day for Australian chemistry. First Australian chemistry Nobel prize since John Cornforth in 1975, but Richard Robson's work is at least as impactful. #ozchem

Been hoping for this for years!! Congratulations Robson, Yaghi, and Kitagawa- all founders of a field I'm very proud to be part of!! #OzChem

Big party at the other end of town, but very deserved! Glad some aussie science is shining this year in the nobels!

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks” Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

I hope to finish the rest of wallpaper groups cookies during this New Year holidays :)

Getting crafty preparing for our crystallography workshop. Less than 2 weeks to go, and only 2 bags made. 63 to go!

A great approach: "analysis of #CrystalStructures in science classes at #HighSchools offers a wide range of opportunities for illustrating and improving understanding of fundamental #StructuralChemistry concepts"😀 doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org #K12 #crystallography #Education

Slightly diminish a book The Line Manager of the Rings

So many patterns! 😍🥰 collecting some crystallography teaching examples at the Melbourne quilt fair. #BraggYourPattern

Science funding for workforce and infrastructure is a long term investment, in which Australia is getting further and further behind. This article articulates the problem beautifully: theconversation.com/new-report-r... #ozchem

Found some crystallites in a kids ball pool with my son #BraggYourPattern

Does this count for #BraggYourPattern ?

Wanna learn #Crystallography? Base in Australia or NZ? Worth noting that you've got another week or so to apply for this year's crystallography school

cm stacked on pm #BraggYourPattern

Researcher in Aus and want to (peak) sharpen up your crystallography skills. Then register for the upcoming Crystallography Workshop www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/cry... #ECR #crystallography

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