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...

Riding My Bicycle (From Feddersensgate 5A to Møllerveien 31) tidal.com/track/843588...

Travel funding is available for our Trans+ in STEM symposium in London on 27th Feb! Huge thanks to @prideinstem.bsky.social and @proud-science.bsky.social for making this possible🔬🧪🔭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #lgbt #trans #lgbtSTEM open.substack.com/pub/transste...

Do you know any researchers that have made significant contributions to digital #chemistry, #AI, #machinelearning and #automation and has published in Chemical Science within the last five years? Find out how to nominate the for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship here: rsc.li/chemsci-lect...

Rowling extended an invite to Epstein for the "Cursed Child" broadway debut. Musk emailedEpstein begging to be allowed on the island. Epstein chatted with evo psych guys about the suitability of trans women for prostitution. Society is organized around the sexual exploitation of the vulnerable.

Or not. This has been removed for review by the University. (Who asked me to write it in the first place). You can find it here while they sort themselves out: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Wrote something about what we're facing in funding for fundamental science - and why it matters: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01... 🔭 🧪 #academicsky #Oxford cc @ox.ac.uk

Just shortly after the 3rd (😱) anniversary of my PhD defense, a work of my thesis got accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org 🚀 If you're interested in dual-responsive #photoswitches, check the link out, it's 💎🔓! #ChemSky #ChemPubs

Do you know any researchers that have made significant contributions to digital #chemistry, #AI, #machinelearning and #automation and has published in Chemical Science within the last five years? Find out how to nominate the for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship here: rsc.li/chemsci-lect...

Want to visualise steric repulsion in 3D? Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "A Visualizable and Widely Applicable Steric Repulsion Descriptor for Guiding Experimental Chemistry" by Éric Hénon et al. Read it here, free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky #CompChemSky 🧪

Happy to be a part of this collection. Here is the link of our article: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Very happy to publish my first first-author paper in this collection in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! We summarized the previous achievements in robust conjugated radical cations, and hope to offer new insights on high performance organic semiconductors and conductors. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship are now open! 🎉 Details here: rsc.li/chemsci-lectu... We’re looking for candidates who have made significant contributions to the field of digital chemistry, AI, ML, and automation within the last 5 years. Nominate before 2nd March! #ChemSky

Chemistry World has highlighted our recent Pick of the Week! The original paper is here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Let's try this #AcademicSky 1 fav, 1 funny, strange, or unexpected scientific anecdote about a paper, a scientist, a fact, hoping that some will be new to you.

The Next Generation of AI Chemists: a programme for penultimate-year UK-based undergrads from underrepresented backgrounds (women, gender minorities, LGBTQ+, ethnic minority, disability, carers, low socioeconomic background, first in family to uni). #chemsky aichemy.ac.uk/next-generat...

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.