hands up if you also forgot to 'thinky think' ✋ #chemsky 🧪

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

here at Vetenskapens Hus today to prepare for the Forskar Grand Prix later this month! #outreach

had to walk past/through FIVE (not an exaggeration) separate dance troupes this morning at 8:30 on my way to the lab. the students are well and truly back... and there are some rather odd fresher's celebrations happening at KTH

In beautiful Jyväskylä together with @sgoldup.bsky.social and Fabien Cougnon holding a summer school on mechanically interlocked molecules! Brilliant students, great discussions and fantastic weather as a bonus 🤩🍀.

Great to see this paper published today !! Phenomenal work by @benjaminoacid.bsky.social in collaboration with Erica Del Grosso and Francesco Ricci at Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Many thanks to @epenocchio.bsky.social for contributing. 1/n rdcu.be/eyPBc

This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control. Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

Delighted to follow @mvdelius.bsky.social into the 1st issue of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit! Congrats to Jiankang, Enzo, Patrick, Axel, Andrei & Dan on the spontaneous assembly of catenanes lacking strong recognition sites🔗😃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Oh, you have a machine that goes bing? Well guess what chemsky? @science.org has a machine that goes RING! On the cover this week, Michael Kathan’s group use a Feringa-type rotary motor to produce catenanes! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

lab maintenance day 🛠️ @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and I took three barely working rotavaps and created two fully functional ones 👩‍🔬💪 demanding work, but well worth it #chemsky

note to self: there is enormous fikabröd in Norway... bigger than in Sweden

6) Organic chemistry is a language course with grammar and vocabulary and if it was presented that way it wouldn’t be as hard

Transition-path times of individual molecular shuttles under mechanical equilibrium show symmetry: Chem www.cell.com/chem/fulltex... Molecular machines operate out of thermodynamic equilibrium, but as molecules in solution (low Reynold's number) are always in mechanical equilibrium.

running prep TLC for the first time since the first year of my PhD... wish me luck 🤪

this is rather concerning, and a real shame for prospective undergraduates

Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors @fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content. www.nature.com/collections/...

what I see vs. what my vials see

back in Stockholm at KTH, working on my own projects again 💪🔗 it's much quieter (and cooler) over here than in Warwick, that's for sure! #heatwave

it was great to be at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social with @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and @fschaufelberger.bsky.social this week to FINALLY meet our new summer students in person! 😁 we enjoyed plenty of science chats, and a fantastic visit to @uobchemistry.bsky.social to catch up with old friends ⚛️👏

Amazing summer socials this week with group members from both Warwick and KTH! Highlights included a tour of the Leamington Elephant Bath and ET graffiti, cocktail by the river and of course tons of science chats 🍀🧪🧬. Just the best bunch of people ever #luckyPI

After leaving academia, chemist Daisy Rosas Vargas starting leading outreach to encourage Latina people in pursuit of science careers https://go.nature.com/4lwjkC6

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli that relies on small molecules from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles to survive. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

AWESOME!!!! 🤩 I cannot wait to get started with using g-xTB!!! superb work 👏👏👏 and fantastic for us supramolecular and/or MIM people as well 🤠

happy to be here in Västerås for the 3rd Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society 🤩 looking forward to networking (karaoke?! amazing) and hearing about the cool chemistry happening here in Sweden #SCS2025

y'all!!! the first work of my postdoc with @fschaufelberger.bsky.social is out!!! 🎉 we use the mechanical bond to sensitise lanthanide emission 💡🔗 huge congrats to @anjaramstrom.bsky.social for heading the project and all the authors! 🥳 give it a read here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie... Massive congratulations Anja, @daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃 Thread below --》

Gemini offered to draw a diagram of the transition state of an SN2 reaction. Like a fool I asked it to go ahead!

thank you #ISMSC2025 for a fantastic week of science in gorgeous Kyoto!! here we are sporting the very nice conference shirt atop Mt. Daimonji 🗻 I'm already looking forward to @ismsc2026.bsky.social

Awesome #ismsc2025 lecture from my @uobchemistry.bsky.social colleague @lewischemistry.bsky.social on controlling the formation of low symmetry cages by understanding subtle interactions. Beautiful science presented using beautiful slides (as ever)!

Schaufelberger group representation here in Kyoto at #ISMSC2025 ⛩️🌸 with Stan, Anja and myself... too bad we are missing @fschaufelberger.bsky.social

@profdaveleigh.bsky.social giving the Fraser Stoddart memorial talk at #ismsc2025

happy to be in Kyoto for #ISMSC2025 !! talking all things supramolecular

Thanks @chemistryworld.com, #Chemsky please vote to help @iupac.org to define key molecular machinery terms 👍 🔗 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/4021... Task Group Members: @aprahamian.bsky.social @deanst.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social Carson Bruns Pierangelo Metrangolo

📖 Molecular machines: terminology in turmoil. @chemistryworld.com 📝 Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social Dean Astumian @deanast.bsky.social Carson Bruns, Stephen Goldup @sgoldup.bsky.social Pierangelo Metrangolo, Daisy Pooler @daisypooler.bsky.social 🔗 iupac.org/what-is-a-mo...

🚨📢Out now in #Chem, @jiarongwu.bsky.social and I figure out how to perturb a non-photoresponsive reaction(🌚) out of equilibrium using our imine-based photoswitches🔦💡This is achieved using a light-responsive transimination!(🌝) #AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

The target molecule of the Nordic Retrosynthesis Challenge is revealed on www.nordicretrosynthesischallenge.com! Submit your retrosynthesis by May 7th, 24:00! May the synthetic force be with you!

for an introduction to the fundamental physics behind molecular motors in solution as they contend with viscosity and thermal noise, and then help Carson, Pierangelo, @aprahamian.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social and me propose sensible definition pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Ambiguities in chemical nomenclature can lead to misinterpretations that impact everything from data integration and intellectual property disputes to regulatory compliance and product safety. That's why Iupac is working to standardise the definitions of a molecular machine, and you can help!

are you a molecular machinist? have you been wondering, like us, what exactly a molecular machine is? please help us figure it out! read this article and answer the polls to help our IUPAC team: Carson, @aprahamian.bsky.social, @deanast.bsky.social, @sgoldup.bsky.social, and Pierangelo! 🔗

What are molecular machines? Something I have been thinking about for a while (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...). Now you can help us (@deanast.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social Pierangelo and Carson), maybe, define for @iupac.org Read the article and take the poll 🧪⚗️ #molswitch

New paper about the efficient synthesis of the most common molecular motor building blocks just out in JOC, have a look! 🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/acs....

guys... we did it

hahahahaha mischief managed 😌

Very excited to announce this Summer School organised by Fabien Cougnon in beautiful Jyväskylä, where @sgoldup.bsky.social and myself will be leading a course on the topic "Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Properties and Applications" from 4-8 August 2025. Free of charge, but limited to 30 spots.

Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know go.bsky.app/EwimNbK

congratulations Dr. Guinart!! 🥳🥳 after a fantastic defence of an absolutely beautiful thesis, it's very well deserved 🤩 so proud of you!!

super happy to back in Groningen! meeting old friends in @feringalab.bsky.social and reconnecting 🤗

I have no idea why, but there is eduroam at arlanda airport. that is awesome

This week was spent back at KTH, including a great group dinner (❤️) and finally cracking open the whisky I got when I left the leigh group in 2020 🤣. Love working with this great team!!