🧪 Publication Alert ❗ 📄 High-Performance Recyclable Polyester Elastomers Through Transient Strain-Stiffening 📚 Advanced Materials 🔗 Read the research article: doi.org/10.1002/adma... #PublicationAlert #AdvancedMaterials #SustainableTech #GreenChemistry

We recently caught up with Prof Charlotte Williams, Director of the @ukri.org EPSRC-funded SCHEMA Hub about the big challenges it seeks to tackle and how it will work with university partners and industry to achieve this 🎬#sustainability #materialsscience #chemicals #chemicalengineering

I am incredibly honoured to have won the Jon Weaver Prize! I am so grateful to the Royal Society of Chemistry Macro Group UK for awarding me the prize, and to my supervisor Prof. Charlotte Williams and my external examiner Prof. Andrew Dove for nominating me!

So excited to see this paper out! Unbelievably proud of @bonny-gao.bsky.social and so grateful for the I22 team at Diamond Light Source for their incredible assistance! 💚

Our latest work on "Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes" is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 🧪🪢♻️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to @kampoon1.bsky.social for receiving 1st Prize for his #RSCPoster in the #RSCMat category! 🏆💚 @rsc.org www.linkedin.com/pulse/rscpos...

Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3

Oh my 2,3-dihydrofuran, I don’t know know any monomer cooler than Thee. Your cyclic vinyl ether, Makes thermosetting so much easier For me: You ROMP in the dark, Crosslink in the light, Recycle to monomer under vacuum overnight. Degrade in acid or with a lot of O2, Oh DHF this is an ode to you.

Thank you @newsagents.bsky.social for a fantastic evening last night! The perfect way for @maryknewman.bsky.social and I to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. Brilliant to cap the trip off by bumping into @lewisgoodall.com in the hotel lift this morning! @maitlis.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social

Welcome to BlueSky @mmwestwood.bsky.social! 🧪 And thank you for a wonderful long weekend in Gothenburg 🇸🇪

Recovering from a brilliant and tiring week at Diamond Light Source’s I22 beam line! We can’t wait to share our exciting results soon… 😁

Yesterday I presented the latest work from the @williamsgroupox.bsky.social at The Sustainable Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing Hub (SCHEMA)’s Sustainable Elastomers & Plastics Workshop. 🧪♻️

What an incredible week at #GYSS in Singapore! I had a wonderful time presenting my recent work and moderating the discussion on Advanced Materials. I got to know so many incredible young scientists and am leaving Singapore inspired by all the outstanding talks!

So excited to be in Singapore for the Global Young Scientists Summit 2025! Honoured to have been selected to represent @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social this week 🧪💚

This #ChemSci TOC managed to work in a dual-wielding Mexican shark. As such, I give it 10/10. Feliz Navidad. #chemsky

A very merry Christmas from the Williams Group! 🎄💚

Very exciting work! Using machine learning to predict the mechanical properties of sustainable polymeric materials 👇

A very exciting day getting to pick up these beauties 🤩🧪📚

It's been known in the sector for some time, but finally the BBC has caught up with the impending closure of Chemistry at Hull - a well-regarded department with very high local value to the East Yorkshire economy and chemicals industry. www.bbc.com/news/article...

UCL quad looks best on a crisp winter day

An open letter to the microplastics living in my body

Very important interview with Kim Leadbeater, well worth a listen. She speaks with knowledge & compassion about this subject. She’s an impressive MP, drawn to public service by personal tragedy. Well done @lewisgoodall.com

DMA or snow machine? ☃️ #ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Hi #ChemSky! 👋 We see you! Please give us a moment to get settled here.

I forgot to pack my notebook today and I leant I’m unable to function without it… can’t think without my little book of scribbles 🥴

Our latest work on “Understanding the Effect of M(III) Choice in Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalysts” is out now in Inorganic Chemistry! Congratulations to Kat and Fran! 🥳🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Fully funded PhD in biomaterials and polymer chemistry. Come join us at UCL 😊 rhoresearchgroup.uk www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The PERIODically podcast has won the RSC's 2024 Horizon Prize for Education. www.rsc.org/prizes-fundi... You can find the podcast on major platforms here: t.co/YjvpoL2Pbq. Season 1: having periods while studying. Season 2: how reproductive health relates to careers. #iTeachChem #ChemSky

crazy how this app is actually pretty good

Istanbul. What a magical city. ✨

Our final full day in Istanbul: After a cruise down the Bosphorus and Golden Horn, we explored beautiful Galata, and enjoyed a final meal with a stunning view overlooking the city 😍

Day 3 in Istanbul: A day spent exploring the historic and beautiful mosques of the city, the Blue Mosque Sultanahmet and the Hagia Sophia! 🕌

I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.

Day 2 in Istanbul: Exploring the basilica cistern, meeting the many wild cats, checking out Topkapi Palace, and lots more incredible Turkish food… 😋

Day 1 in Istanbul: Here to celebrate my wonderful girlfriend’s birthday in this beautiful and chaotic city! 🇹🇷 @maryknewman.bsky.social

I’ve added quite a few new polymer scientists to this starter pack over the last couple days! Check them out! #chemsky #polymersky Also, always appreciate the help in finding people! Comment/DM to be added and continue to share :) go.bsky.app/AgjxzFa

The Williams Group are now on Bluesky! 🦋🧪♻️💚 @williamsgroupox.bsky.social

Out of office email setup, time for a holiday… 😌

Might as well come out with it here on the samizdat site. I have a 500-ish page book on the carbon cycle over all of Earth and human history coming out next year. The cover looks like this. Will have more to say about it once I finally wrap it up soon and the publisher takes the bounty off my head.

So excited to share I’ve been awarded a Doctoral Graduation Prize from Trinity College Oxford for my DPhil thesis “Carbon Dioxide Utilisation: Unlocking Enhanced Properties for Oxygenated Polymers”!

The absolute relief I feel having "left" Twitter. I log on here and it's full of joy and a lot less hate?

I’ve started to assemble a starter pack of polymer scientists! It’s by no mean complete so please let me know who’s here that I’m missing… #ChemSky #AcademicSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/PAiUPxg

I have made a ChemSky starter pack and am posting here to help boost visibility. This list is not exhaustive, but should hopefully help newcomers or rejoiners find some accounts and feeds to follow go.bsky.app/C9BtrLj

#RealTimeChem has officially left X formerly known as Twitter. It’s original home since 2012. BlueSky 🦋is now the official social media platform. Don’t expect a great deal of activity from us for a bit, but we’re hoping to relaunch in 2025. See you around!

Has someone made a starter pack for BlueSky using chemists yet? #RealTimeChem

A beautiful, crisp, autumn morning here in Oxford. 🍂🍁🧡

Hello Bluesky! I’ve finally bitten the bullet and am migrating over. Excited to (re)discover the chemistry/academic community here! I’m a polymer chemist developing new sustainable plastics and elastomers. Expect lots of pictures and videos from the lab! #AcademicSky 🧪