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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
4 days ago
Have you signed up to watch our webinar yet? This Friday, we'll welcome a handful of experts to join us at 3pm BST for an exciting and spontaneous webinar. If chemistry is your thing, you will not want to miss this!
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Nobel prize in chemistry 2025: Reaction
Join us for an exclusive look at the Nobel in chemistry 2025 prize-winning science - make sure you're there on 10 October
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Chemistry World
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Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.
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The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-2025-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-as-it-happens-live/4022193.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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It's the most exciting day of the year - the announcement of the Nobel prize in chemistry. Stay up to date on all the latest news with the
@chemistryworld.com
live blog
www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-202...
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The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-2025-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-as-it-happens-live/4022193.article
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Chemistry World
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Bayesian optimisation and related techniques offer great promise for data discovery. Phil Kay explains how understanding behavioural barriers and rapidly evolving tech is paramount to success. Learn more 14 October in our JMP webinar.
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Why understanding our foraging instinct is the key to using statistical tools
Your inner hunter-gatherer is stopping you solving problems
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-understanding-our-foraging-instinct-is-the-key-to-using-statistical-tools/4022140.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Chemistry World
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Are you still working like a scientist hunter-gatherer? Phil Kay explains how understanding our instincts can help us stop foraging for data and start using statistical tools – find out more in our JMP-sponsored webinar on 14 October.
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Why understanding our foraging instinct is the key to using statistical tools
Your inner hunter-gatherer is stopping you solving problems
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-understanding-our-foraging-instinct-is-the-key-to-using-statistical-tools/4022140.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Emma Pewsey
3 months ago
Inspiring discussion today at
#LINO25
with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage about how molecular machines will drive innovation across many different fields. But what is a molecular machine? Take 2 polls to help inform Iupac's upcoming definition:
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Chemistry World
4 months ago
Worried about your research? Check out this guide on how to identify and address stirring problems!
#ChemSky
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How to find out if your magnetic stirrer is affecting your results – and how to fix it
Valentine Ananikov explains how the humble stirrer bar may be altering your results
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/how-to-find-out-if-your-magnetic-stirrer-is-affecting-your-results-and-how-to-fix-it/4021725.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Philip Robinson
SellaTheChemist
4 months ago
A little more about why I returned the
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Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder.
#musk
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
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Why I returned the Faraday prize to the Royal Society
Andrea Sella explains how inaction over Elon Musk's membership motivated him to act
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Phillip Broadwith
4 months ago
UK chemicals industry has learned some lessons from the past & now sees relatively few serious incidents. But when incidents are rare, investment in safety is an easy target for budget cuts, whose impact may not be seen for years, but could be catastrophic.
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Safety is everyone’s responsibility
Maintaining culture and investment is key, especially in the absence of incidents
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Emma Pewsey
4 months ago
Life goal achieved: appear on the cover of a magazine
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Julia Robinson
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🚨 Today
@chemistryworld.com
launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative:
www.chemistryworld.com/collections/...
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Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
5 months ago
Historically, sex and gender have been ignored when it comes to medical research, and it's led to a big difference in our understanding of women's health.
@robinson-julia.bsky.social
talks to the researchers and clinicians trying to address that gap.
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Fixing medicine’s gender gap
For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/fixing-medicines-gender-gap/4021459.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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5 months ago
Trump wants more medicines be manufactured in the US. And he’s brandishing both tariff stick and red-tape-cutting carrot. But it takes years to build new plants, so investment decisions are unlikely to have been significantly swayed by Trump's policies.
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Rebuilding pharma supply chains
Multinationals are promising huge US investments, but it's not all because of Trump's policies
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/rebuilding-pharma-supply-chains/4021490.article
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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
6 months ago
Phil Kay has a small problem with how the chemistry community handles data. A lack of standardisation across data storage doesn't just hurt efficiency and collaboration, but potentially patient safety too. But there is hope of change on the horizon.
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We need to build the data that chemistry deserves - here's how we can do it
Creating a purpose-built repository of standardised reaction data is a tall order, but the reward would be huge
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/we-need-to-build-the-data-that-chemistry-deserves-heres-how-we-can-do-it/4021420.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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There is a chronic shortage of labs for UK companies that are starting up and scaling up. It’s been holding back growth for years. Declining demand for shops and offices in cities provides an opportunity to develop new labs, but they need to be flexible
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Giving companies room to grow
Can shopping centres and offices become urban lab spaces for innovative companies to grow and scale-up?
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/giving-companies-room-to-grow/4021428.article
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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
6 months ago
The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help!
#ChemSky
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Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines
An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/take-two-polls-to-help-iupac-define-molecular-machines/4021360.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Neil Withers
6 months ago
It's me, briefly touching on one of the craziest things in chemistry - 'disappearing' polymorphs!
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Jamie Durrani
6 months ago
Epi editors change the activity of individual genes without altering genetic code, and could help treat many diseases. To learn more, I spoke with scientists from four companies at the cutting edge of this entirely new type of medicine đź§Ş
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Epigenetic editors enter clinical trials
New wave of precision medicines amplify or silence genes, without altering genetic code
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/epigenetic-editors-enter-clinical-trials/4021267.article
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Phillip Broadwith
6 months ago
What happens in a bankruptcy when a company's main asset is its customers' personal genetic information? We're about to find out as 23andMe goes through a court-supervised sale process. Who will buy the firm's genetic databank, and what will they do with it?
www.chemistryworld.com/decoding-23a...
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Decoding 23andMe’s downfall
DNA testing firm's bankruptcy raises data security questions
https://www.chemistryworld.com/decoding-23andmes-downfall/4021216.article
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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
7 months ago
Get news that covers the breadth of the chemical industries with
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's unbiased expertise in our free weekly newsletter Industry Brief. Sign up today!
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Informed, convenient and free. Sign up to Chemistry World’s email newsletters and get the world of chemical science delivered to your inbox.
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Philip Robinson
Chemistry World
7 months ago
Official US shortages of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) have now ended, but the first generics are gearing up for launch in 2026 in some markets. So companies are looking for the next generation of drugs.
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Weight loss drug supply races
With official shortages ended, but the first generics gearing up for launch, companies are looking for the next generation of drugs
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/weight-loss-drug-supply-races/4021153.article?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Come and join us! Get a head start in science journalism with the
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Karen Hao
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Patrick Walter
9 months ago
Looking for all your favourite writers and editors on
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Come work with us! Great job as a science media producer
@chemistryworld.bsky.social
. Good pay and benefits and you can work from Cambridge or remotely and work with a very talented group of science communicators.
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Jobs at Royal Society of Chemistry
Find out more about working for us and view all vacancies including. We continue to ensure an inclusive workplace where opportunities are open to all, and where everyone can belong and bring their tru...
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Neil Withers
10 months ago
Today is my last working day of 2024! So here's a thread with highlights of the articles I've published this year – which also marked
@chemistryworld.bsky.social
's 20th anniversary! Let's start in January, with this feature on editing the backbones of polymers
www.chemistryworld.com/features/edi...
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Editing polymer backbones
Changing the chemical makeup of a polymer backbone could revolutionise how we make, use and even recycle plastics. James Mitchell Crow reports
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/editing-polymer-backbones/4018748.article
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Jamie Durrani
10 months ago
Last day in the office, so it's time to look back at 2024's highlights. Back in April, I reported on how the fascinating Davy Notebooks Project was offering new – and not all nice – insights into one of chemistry’s most well-known historic figures.
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Davy notebook project paints complicated picture of influential chemist
Humphry Davy was a prolific scientist, but could also be petty, selfish and prejudiced
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post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
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Chemistry World
10 months ago
To mark 2 decades of Chemistry World publications,
@broadwithp.bsky.social
speaks with 20 chemists who became members of
@roysocchem.bsky.social
in 2004, when the magazine launched. Their careers cover a multitude of different roles, countries and experiences.
www.chemistryworld.com/features/20-...
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20 years. 20 chemists. 20 stories. Part 2
How has chemistry changed in the last two decades?
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/20-years-20-chemists-20-stories-part-2/4020599.article
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Julia Robinson
11 months ago
Great to hear the news that the University of Reading council has decided that the department of
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will be retained/not be merged into the school of pharmacy. There will be some restructuring but for now the department will stay open. Full story to come soon
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