Nominations are now open for the 2026 EES Lectureship until 1 July 2026! Find out more about how to nominate at rsc.li/ees-lectures...

Polls are open in Scotland. You don't need ID or your polling card, just pop along and place your votes. All across Scotland you can vote Scottish Greens on the peach ballot.

Jesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future

Sandie Peggie *still* getting front page stories and sympathetic interviews while Beth Upton has had to flee to Australia is so unbelievably grim.

Join us and make an impact in your field. Registration for the Chemical biology symposium 2026 closes on 27 April. Register now for the chance to showcase your work and discover the latest research. Register now: rsc.li/cbs2026 #ChemSky

Short and strong piece on why user friendly edtech, AI tutors and the like, endangers learning by removing the productive friction. Constrained AI might be seen as a solution, but is that then really better than education without AI? a roundtable chat in a room? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In #JMCA Issue 23, you can find a new Review published by @jmaterchem.rsc.org A Editor Subrata Kundu and co-authors, titled Electronic Frontiers of borophene: a computational mini-review on properties and emerging applications Read their exciting Review here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...

They lack both ethics and compassion, *and* scientific expertise That's why as a trans geneticist and science communicator, I just launched @beyondxandy.bsky.social to fight unscientific, transphobic nonsense Because older trans folk like me need to fight for trans kids...

Kezia Dugdale has launched into her new role with a commitment to making Stonewall even more toothless and irrelevant than it was already. www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

Chlorine Triflourode is a “molecule” in the same way a guy, his wife who he cheated on, his mistress who just dumped him, and the raccoon in his back yard are a “family.”

Join our next Americas Emerging Investigator webinar, part of the Desktop Seminar series, next Wednesday, April 8th at 11am EDT/4pm BST. Xinle Li and Paulo de Oliveira @uspoficial.bsky.social will discuss "Applications of Mechanochemistry". Sign up for free here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

I thought this was an April Fool’s joke but seems to be the genuine Microsoft ‘Terms of Use’ for Copilot. Many thanks to @lifewinning.com for finding this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

most brands on April 1st: half-arsed 200 word blog post Warhammer: www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Developing understanding uncovering the truth ‘relies on open sharing of information, being able to interrogate, examine & criticise ideas, to test how closely they describe our reality,’ writes Derek Lowe. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

2026 RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper award submissions are now open! These awards recognise outstanding work published in the journal across our 12 subject categories, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student. Find out more 👉 www.rsc.org/standards-an...

The news makes me think about this scene every single day.

Urgent journo request: for @goodlawproject.org I'm looking to speak to friends of #trans ppl in the UK who have died whose #gender was not accurately recorded on their death certificate. I’m particularly interested in cases from the last year. I promise to handle your story with care 🖤

Some photos from @guy_heath_ rock pooling at Hannafore, Looe! The elusive Rainbow sea slug (Babakina anadoni), found by @oops_robin 🌈

Interested in data chemistry? Come hear @olexandr.bsky.social talk about AIMNet2 today at 8:40AM! Talk title: AIMNet2: Foundation neural network potential for molecules and CADD-related tasks Location: Georgia World Congress Center C209 #chemistry #datachem #ACS #ACSspring2026 #chemsky

Something possessed me

When people text me like "heyyy we've not hung out in a while, how are you?" I'm gonna send them this image

Hey chemsky. I'm updating my talk ahead of a visit to Bonn and Groningen next week. Feel like I've given largely the same publishing talk basically forever. What topics would you want an editor to cover? AI? Ethics? The sandwich argument?

I was looking for something about agricultural diets but found this Victorian version of the Distracted Boyfriend meme

Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢 #data #gender #trans #police #Scotland

Symbiotic relationship, a definition : - For the zoanthid coral : acquire mobility, can feed on different areas - For the hermit crab : a cool hat

⏳2 days to go! Nominations close on 13 March for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship in digital chemistry. See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details about eligibility and how to nominate. We look forward to receiving your nomination. #CompChem #MLChem #AIChem #MachineLearning

Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week is "Active control of forward/backward charge transfer in Z-scheme water splitting: manipulating electrostatic affinity/repulsion between photocatalyst surface and electron mediator” by Akinobu Nakada & Ryu Abe et al. Read it for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

⏳3 days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship in digital chemistry close on 13 March. See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details about eligibility and how to nominate. #CompChem #MLChem #AIChem #MachineLearning

Just published today, we are delighted to share our paper entitled “Chemical Softness as a Predictor for Reactivity at Metal Surfaces” #ChemSky #CompChemSky

We are inviting self-nominations for the 2026 @rsc-photochem.bsky.social group Early Career Researcher Lectureship, which recognises outstanding research contributions and excellence in communication by early career scientists in the area of photophysics and photochemistry. (1/N) #chemsky

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

The Yiddish Lit professor I TA'ed for in grad school used to say that most people vastly underestimate the degree to which violent millenarianism was going to affect the rest of our lives. That was in 2007 & everybody thought he was nuts. One of the smartest people I've ever met.

This exceptionally bulky ligand features trityl groups and a benzylated backbone that together create steric shielding that allows the isolation of rare low-coordinate metal complexes. www.chemistryworld.com/news/benzyla...

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Check out recent work from the Mehta group looking at structure of Ar-P=P-X molecules, the compositional all P analogue of aryldiazonium halides. Published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Thanks @ukri.org @erc.europa.eu for funding! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#RSCPoster 2026 is next week (3-4 March). Don't forget to register to be eligible to win a prize! Go to our webpage and register today ➡️ https://rsc.li/3XGGvzS

I’m happy to share that the first paper of my PhD - "20 years of microfluidic technology for advancing plant sciences” has been published in Lab on a Chip. Many thanks to Dr Claire Stanley and Dr Eleonora Moratto for their support throughout this work. doi.org/10.1039/D5LC...

Probably The Creator. I had such high hopes for it and it was rotten. Narrowly beats out Rise of Skywalker.

Delighted to announce that I'll be attending Bunsen-Tagung 2026 in Dresden from 30 March - 1 April, and I've teamed up with the Young Physical Chemists to present a Meet The Editor workshop on how to publish with impact! More info: veranstaltungen.gdch.de/microsite/in... #ChemSky #MeetTheEditor

Ryosuke’s paper was featured on the cover of the latest issue of @chemicalscience.rsc.org! With the support of his loving family, he is spreading the wings of a once-bent kite and sending it soaring into the sky💫 Congrats, Ryosuke!! pubs.rsc.org/en-ph/conten...

Check out our subject-specific collections of our most popular Chemical Science content published in 2025! These collections highlight some of the exceptional research published in Chemical Science and they are free to read. Read our blog post: blogs.rsc.org/sc/ #ChemSky #ChemSciMostPopular

As hyaluronic acid is in the news this week (thanks ski jumping) here's a quick reminder about what it is from a recent @cenmag.bsky.social story. You can also read more about the polysaccharide in a feature story from 2021 by @craigofwaffles.bsky.social cen.acs.org/business/con...

New #ICMABResearch published in #ChemicalScience!🧪 📌Addressing first cycle irreversible capacity in lithium-rich layered oxides by blending with delithiated active materials icmab.es/addressing-f... 📜Read the paper here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Now out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org ! First paper by Léna Triestram in our group, “Identifying phase transitions in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks” by advanced #compchem methods. #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...