Gently: I think the sweet little leftist fiction that right-wing politics are the result of epistemic gaps---that you can just newsletter and educate and evangelize your way to leftism---is dead. Consider: many people want to hurt others. Want to feel superior. Want to inflict pain on the lesser.

16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/

🚀In solid‑state batteries, size matters! Check out our study where we show that larger particles lead to faster lithium transport in solid electrolyte sheets!⚡ #chemsky #RSC #EESBatteries

Kemi, this is just a population density map

Great news in the fight against antimicrobial resistance! Two oral antibiotics have been approved by the FDA for uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. As Neisseria gonorrhoeae is becoming resistant to all known antibiotics, such breakthroughs were urgently needed. (1/4) www.fda.gov/news-events/...

How your email finds me, finals week edition.

Year End Meme Review from yesterday's webinar by @lukegeorge.bsky.social and @culturebullet.com. Shout out to @drmeagantyler.bsky.social for collecting many of these. Full webinar being posted shortly.

Hey #chemsky - NMR people! At King's we're hiring an NMR technical manager! Come join a lovely department and get to work with some fantastic chemists! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/134186-...

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Tremendously happy to finally see this work published! A wonderful collaboration with colleagues from the University of Vigo. Very proud of the team and the journey behind this study. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Just been laughed at by an entire vet’s waiting room when the receptionist loudly welcomed me and ‘ASTEROID DESTROYER!’ to the building. Look guys. She’s even in her space suit. They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾 👩‍🚀 ☄️🐈‍⬛

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

Good news! Our paper with Joseph Cockcroft, 'Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation,' was included in the 15th anniversary collection for Chemical Science.

When transphobic “academics” complained about a “chilling effect” on their “research” they meant people describing their transphobic “research” as transphobic. Now there is a REAL chilling effect for trans academics of top-down establishment measures like fines & toilet bans. archive.is/oYqXS

Awesome to see this research in @chemicalscience.rsc.org being picked up by @chemistryworld.com! The original work was actually a #ChemSciPicks - doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

How does water transform next-gen battery electrolytes? Read our @chemicalscience.rsc.org paper on hydrated deep eutectic electrolytes for the Zn-ion battery. doi.org/10.1039/d5sc06…#SustainableChemistryr#BatteryTechc#ZincBatteryr#Electrolytese#2DIRI#2DNMRMR

Excited to share that our work on the Barrel Assembly Machinery protein BamA is now accepted in Chemical Science!

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A manganese mystery in the Antarctic could unlock secrets of global nutrient cycles. Discover how scientists aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough tackle this challenge in some of the harshest conditions on Earth. rsc.li/manganese-mystery

Sky News doing their best to distort reality and lobby government too. I have to confess as a trans person it’s so scary to see near the entire media engaged in blatant lying and trying to form false narratives and not just behind opinion pieces. We need regulation overhaul

It's that time again: @cenmag.bsky.social 's molecule of the year poll is now OPEN! Check out the contenders, lovingly curated by yours truly from past C&EN stories, and vote for your favorite by Dec. 11 #chemsky #scisky #moty2025 cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

So fucking bored of the eternal grift of 'this country is shit now, and we're going to make it more shit, please read my column where I get paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to tell you how shit things are, and also it's the migrants/disabled/transes' fault' in the UK. Empty, pathetic, weak.

A Magical Scottish Christmas- one year later youtube.com/shorts/GCmet...

No judgements, but you don’t want to be a sugar baby or a trad wife. You want universal basic income and affordable housing.

We have been here before - damaging the economy by undermining science www.nature.com/articles/d41... @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 🧪

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Apparently it is spotify wrapped time. I don't use Spotify - I do not like their focus on podcasts or where the money goes. I use Tidal. It is okay. So in lieu of a wrapped thing, here are some Last.fm stats for the past year:

Fellow chemists, scientists, and lab rats, Next semester, my Crime Scene Chemistry class is focusing on miscommunication. Do you have any stories about improperly labeled items in the lab that led to confusion or an accident?

THREAD One Year of tracking research communication on @bsky.app This time last year we officially added the Bluesky social platform to the places where we track research communication and article sharing. Here are some of the most viral articles that gained traction in the last 12 months. 1/14

Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Chemical Science team welcomes Xianfeng Li from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China as an Associate Editor! Professor Li will be handling research on electrochemical energy storage and batteries.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Excited to share our book chapter "In silico Catalyst Design within Asymmetric Organocatalysis", published with Wiley. It covers computational methods from basics to data-driven approaches. @iiribarren.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Compchem #CatalystDesign

Labour is desperately trying to appeal to Reform supporters. In October, we asked people in the UK if they perceive a party as a "party for someone like them". Only very few people say this for both Labour and Reform. The correlation is negative. Labour is chasing an electorate that does not exist.

new trolley problem just dropped: Elon vs. 10^58 randomly chosen people. let's see what Grok has to say

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🪐Children of Strife 🪐 Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social The only spiders I would like in my bookshelf are these ones. Problem is, then I become emotionally attached to them but hey ho, I'm looking forward to Kern's rivals 💜 Publishes March 2026 #Gifted by @panmacnews.bsky.social

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happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Congratulations to the poster prize winners of the 2025 Chemical Science Symposium! Celeste Fion @chemicalscience.rsc.org prize ✨ Niamh Oliver @analyst.rsc.org prize✨ Sara Staudhammer @sensorsdiagnostics.rsc.org prize ✨ 🎉 Congratulations! 🎉

Burlington House needs bigger stairs for symposium photographs😌 Thank you so much to all of the attendees for joining us for a wonderful exploration of sensing, diagnostics and bioimaging! We will be closing out the day with our publishing panel and a very special invited talk from Chris Chang!

We're back with a bit of an ad-hoc solution after some technical difficulties. Dr Michelle Ma opens our afternoon session of the first day covering theranostic radiotracers in oncology, focusing on 99mTc and 188Re.

There has been so much fantastic bioinorganic chemistry research presented as part of the #ChemSciSymposium. If you'd like to discover more state-of-the-art research in this area, do make sure to check out our spotlight collection with @daltontrans.rsc.org: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

Last night was pretty great for Scottish Terrorball