RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize is now open! Nominate now - the prize includes a guaranteed oral presentation, free registration and travel to this year's RSC Main Group Chemistry Meeting in Edinburgh, 8-9th April (www.rsc.org/events/detai...). Deadline for nominations 20th Feb.

We know what injustice feels like. That’s why women of every background are coming together in this campaign. You don’t need to know all the right words or have years of activism behind you. You just need to care. ✍️ Sign our letter at notinourname.org.uk #Feminism #TransAlly #WithTheT

The group will soon be advertising a 3-year PDRA position @imperialchemistry.bsky.social. The successful candidate will research the synthesis and reactivity of complexes with alkaline earth-metal bonds. Start date: 03/26. Please get in touch for infomal inquries.

PhD available in my group, in collaboration with colleagues in microbiology and computational chemistry - "Metals against antimicrobial resistance - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes". I'm very excited for this project, please repost! #Chemsky

We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Funded PhD position: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... This is an interdisciplinary project where you get to do coordination chemistry with bismuth and zinc, as well as some microbiology and some computational chemistry - all in the name of combatting antimicrobial resistance. Currently UK only.

📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated! My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry. 🔬 Fully funded (UK only) 📍 Manchester 🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9

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This looks cool

We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

PhD studentship at Uni Warwick with CENTA! Join us to study the decomposition of potent greenhouse gas N2O using Earth abundant Ti-based molecular photocatalysts. Exciting joint project with @chaplinlab.bsky.social group. Please contact Seb for details. centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Please re-post.

Grant application submitted. A good feeling, but also a little like sending a much cossetted child out to face wolves.

"A story full of holes but with an enormous capacity to absorb … all your attention" #ChemNobel #Chemsky

A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Things have got bad in UK HE when a department like Leicester Chemistry is facing these measures. Solidarity to all the staff picketing today.

"We sat down and ate the pears from the tree before the rain came." Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

Good to see you today @sandykilla.bsky.social, can't stop laughing at this photo where it looks like I'm your smaller second head

I am reminded this week of the Ben Elton novel Blind Faith, which, over a decade ago, seemed like one of the more far fetched dystopian novels I'd read. I don't think I'd feel so complacent, if I read it again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_F...

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky

Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky

Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅 wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin #ChemSky 🧪

Still time to apply for a #PhD in our group! Don't miss out!! 👇👇 #chemsky

📢 We are hiring!! 3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky @universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...

UCU are petitioning for a better funding model for UK higher education. It is a bad time to work for a UK university right now, and we are all feeling it. I'm not sure signing this will help, but it never hurts to try. stopthecutspetition.org.uk

RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize - a fully funded lectureship at Dalton conference. Spread the word among the PhDs! #chemsky

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience

#ChemTogether. Forever. #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

Just saying: there is a chemical society I have always found very strong wrt the chemical sciences generally and wrt DEI: @roysocchem.bsky.social 🥰

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

Every year during #LGBTHistoryMonth we reaffirm our belief that LGBT+ individuals should feel safe, seen & thrive in their place of work & study. #LGBT+ inclusivity is key to ensuring science continues to take inspiration from diversity of thought, experience & perspective rsc.li/3Q6aMo4 #ChemSky

Trump regime bans CDC scientists from publishing work that mentions trans or non-binary people. When fascists can't burn books anymore so easily because everything's electronic and international, they just ban people from writing them. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

I just feel frozen in horror watching what's happening in the US. I don't know how to help. I don't know how to stop the UK being next. I know we don't have equality, but here we still have the right to seek it. I'm not going to take that for granted any more.

Born #OnThisDay in 1903 was crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. She was one of the first two female scientists to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, along with Marjory Stephenson. She discovered the structure of benzene, and was a committed pacifist. #WomenInSTEM

It's not a salute that makes your regime fascist, it's removing legal rights from a marginalised minority, stripping citizenship from people born in your country who have spent all their lives in it, and insisting your country is the greatest and has the right to expand its borders.

worth a read chemsky ⚗️🧪 (thanks for the rec, @heydebigale.bsky.social)

This thread has made me quite upset this morning, albeit now better aware. I knew there was a lot of this stuff out there, but never dreamed it was this proportion.

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Vaccines are amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I always tell this story to my second years when we discuss aqua regia in lectures. They generally adopt tolerant expressions as I totally go off on one, get everybody's names slightly wrong, then forget where I was, but it is too cool a story to miss.

I'm going to try this question again now that there seem to be a lot more #crystallography people here. Anyone know? #chemsky

I may now have a new marking soundtrack. I really like how this is arranged by atomic number too.

Your regular reminder that Trans rights are human rights. If any human is "less than" then all humans are "less than." Fuck that. Science, including #ChemSky is an inherently political act. We can't pretend that bigotry and exclusion does not affect the way we solve problems. This is my lane.

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