We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026: Advert 2) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Congratulations to Alexis Bauer for passing her PhD defense yesterday! Started in Rochester, moved with the group to Oxford and did some outstanding iron (and uranium) chemistry along the way. Thanks to Simon Aldridge (Oxford) and William Jones (Rochester) for doing the honours.

Congratulations to our very own Maria Healy for winning the inorganic poster prize at the recent OxWiChem day showcasing research of the women in chemistry community @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social

We are hiring two PhDs on our EU SMOM project for a Sept 2026 start. The two projects will involve being trained, and becoming expert in, air sensitive, platinum group metal organometallics, single-crystal SMOM synthesis, reactivity, and deployment in sustainable catalysis. tinyurl.com/3yvk5jnd

(2/2) ..I increasingly encounter faculty that will not support their own students/postdocs in fellowship applications due to perceived competition on science. Maybe I am just getting old but isn't the idea of our jobs to create great scientists that can go on and do even better science than we have?

(1/2) I do not normally post personal comments but there is something in academic chemistry at the moment that really concerns me. I view the training and support of graduate students and postdocs as our ultimate contribution as academics (certainly it is for me). However, ...

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇

In addition, we will have some further fully funded DPhil positions as part of the normal DPhil application process to chemistry (www.chem.ox.ac.uk/information-...). Note these positions are for UK/home fees students only. Please apply by the January deadline and contact Mike for any questions.

Second, we have a cool project on Pushing the Boundaries of Low-Valent Earth-Abundant Organometallics for Chemical Synthesis together with my colleague at Oxford Tim Donohoe as part of the IMAT CDT. The application window is now open (imatcdt.chem.ox.ac.uk)

Exciting DPhil opportunities in the Neidig group at Oxford for 2026. First up, we have a fun project as part of the @cshp-cdt.bsky.social on Base-Metal Catalysed Enatioselective Construction of Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters with J&J. Application deadline 14 Nov (cshp-cdt.chem.ox.ac.uk)

The last stop on the tour of Spain was today in Alcala. Had a wonderful time travelling the country over the past two weeks. It truly is a special place for organometallic chemistry. Looking forward to many return trips in the future.

Had a wonderful visit to Valladolid yesterday. Thanks Ana for being such a wonderful host and to all the students for their excellent questions. A lot of fun!

Talk 4 of the GEQO lecture tour took me to Castellon and Universitat Jaume I for a wonderful day of meetings with both students and faculty. Thanks to Eduardo Peris for being such a gracious host and for the excellent paella! Four talks in four days so looking forward to the weekend to recover….

Had a great time today at Girona. Thanks to Miguel for being such a gracious host and for all the fun discussions on iron chemistry.

Second stop at ISQCH in Zaragoza. Had a fantastic day making new friends and discovering a very exciting department with lots of cool chemistry.

Had a wonderful start to my GEQO seminar tour in Spain at IIQ in Sevilla. Great science and a fantastic day of meetings.

Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!

We are very happy to announce that our collaboration with the Garden Group, Joseph Cockcroft's paper 'Highly Acyclic Selective Cobalt Catalysts for Butadiene Dimerization' has been published in ChemCatChem! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1002/cctc... #chemsky #chemistry

My old alma mater and a fantastic department. Could not recommend more highly!!!

JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq #chemsky

As promised, postdoc positions at BristolUni.bsky.social available in homogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry exploring the replacement of palladium catalysts by Earth-Abundant Metals: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #ChemSky #CompChemSky #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs

A huge congratulations to our very own @jospritchard.bsky.social for winning a poster award @eucomc2025.bsky.social!!!

Great to see EPSRC continuing to invest in the future of Earth-abundant metal catalysis. Looking forward to all the new catalysis this partnership will enable!

Last #plenary lecture by @mehtalab.bsky.social @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social on the unique opportunities of #zintl clusters in #catalysis #phosphorous #Al

A fantastic way to celebrate the @eucomc2025.bsky.social. The Neidig group representing with Jos, Alexis and Ben.

Advancing #earthAbundantTransitionMetal catalysis for innovation in #alkene isomerisation and cyclisation with #GrahamDeRuiter @technion.bsky.social #eucomc2025 #PlenaryLecture #Fe #Co

Just out…a fun collaboration with the de Bruin group. Congratulations to Jens and Alexis! doi.org/10.1002/ceur...

Second one for the day. Always fun working together with the Song group. Congrats to Jack and Alexis! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This afternoon is all about rational design and mechanistic understanding #eucomc2025 Looking deeper into the intricacies of #ironcatalysed #crosscouplings with @theneidiglab.bsky.social @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social #NoMoreIronInBrackets

Enjoying a fantastic meeting in Bern! Thanks so much to Eva and Martin for organising this amazing event. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @evaheviagroup.bsky.social @albrecht-lab.bsky.social @eucomc2025.bsky.social

Excited to welcome the newest postdoc to our group, Dr. Fáinché Murphy, following an outstanding PhD in the Weetman group at Strathclyde. Looking forward to lots of fun iron chemistry over the next three years!

Had a wonderful time @ukcatalysishub.bsky.social summer conference presenting on the research from our group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social and hearing about all the wonderful catalysis research going on in the UK!!! A wonderful community to be a part of.

New paper from the group and a fantastic collab. with the de Visser group where we explore the iron-catalyzed hydroboration of nitriles via metal-ligand cooperative catalysis Congratulations Laura, Yi, Ryan, Sam. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A huge congratulations to our very own Maga who is now Dr. Magali Gimeno after passing her PhD defense today!!! Very proud!!!

Celebrating the start of Mike's EPSRC Open Fellowship with a new group picture! Looking forward to all the fun iron chemistry for organic synthesis this will enable the group to pursue @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social over the next 5 years thanks to EPSRC @ukri.org.

Great group for a PhD!

Had a wonderful set of visits to the Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion this past week. So much exciting chemistry going on ! Thanks to Samer Gnaim, Zack Nairoukh and Graham de Ruiter for hosting…and a huge honour to give the Ginsburg Lecture at the Technion.

We're recruiting a PDRA to work with our team at Oxford Chemistry @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social ! If you are interested in synthetic inorganic chemistry and catalysis research, Apply! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Excited to have the first installment of our high-valent iron oxo chemistry in print at @jacs.acspublications.org! Congrats to first author Chris Hastings and the rest of the team. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We were excited to start Hub III last week and we are looking forward to a packed calendar of events this year. Join us for our summer conference on 1st - 2nd July 2025 at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. Register for free at tinyurl.com/summercatcon... #catalysis #chemistry #ChemSky

Just one week left to apply for both of these PhD studentships (UK applicants only) to join our group @edinburghchem.bsky.social

We have a PhD scholarship opportunity to look at remediation of fluorine-containing pesticides available through the @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial. More details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/edu...

We have an open 3rd year Research Associate position in the group to work on heterometallic complexes for C–H activation. Come join us and have fun playing with metals. Deadline to apply is 3rd of April. More details here. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ763/r...

Now online: News & Views on the Article by Laurean Ilies, Eva Hevia, Sobi Asako & co-workers www.nature.com/articles/s44... Coupling reactions using iron–sodium pairs by by Jos Briggs-Pritchard & Michael Neidig www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) #Chemsky

🚀 Join Us! We have an exciting opportunity to join our research group! This fully funded PhD position is part of the IPCat training programme. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more information. 👉 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #compchem

Just over one week remains to apply for a PDRA position in our group at Oxford focused on computational and experimental approaches to mechanism in iron catalysis for C-C and C-heteroatom bond forming reactions. www.chem.ox.ac.uk/jobs

We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Just a few more days to apply for this fully funded PhD position!

Our first collaboration with the Aldridge Group @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social is now out in Chem. Eur. J. Lots of fun and looking forward to many more collaborations in the future! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...