Fantastic talk from @marklautens.bsky.social, our 2025 T Y Shen Lecturer! Ably supported by…

A trip “home” - back to the area my family emigrated from in 1951! They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers. I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social

Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting! Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below) More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho... #RSC_MASC #RSC_MASC_2025 (1/2)

Great people and great science at the annual MACRO group meeting in Manchester this week. Congratulations to my colleagues @labgibson.bsky.social, Niamh Fox, and Daniel Toolan for organising an excellent meeting.

Our recent papers are now published back to back in issue 37 of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social supported by a front cover designed by @drawimpacts.bsky.social #chemsky #openaccess Read the papers here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to Rob who won the ACS @pubs.acs.org poster prize at the Macro group UK annual conference! #chemsky

Can I flip it? Yes you can! Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force! An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social ! Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485 #chemsky

In @science.org this week, Harry Anderson's group finally put their cyclic carbon allotrope into solution. The, well, solution to getting it there? Protection by catenation--have a look! chemsky🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🎉 Thrilled to share our first @angewandtechemie.bsky.social cover! Huge congratulations to @guillaumedebo.bsky.social and Lei Chen on this beautiful work!

We are delighted to see our recent work highlighted on the front cover of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! Great collaboration with Emma Vidal from @drawimpacts.bsky.social ! Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The 2025 MASC Group Awards are all open for nominations, with the following deadlines: 🏆 MASC Group Supramolecular Chemistry Award. 📆 5th Sep 🏆 Bob Hay Award Lectureship. 📆 5th Sep 🏆 MASC Group PhD Thesis Award. 📆 7th Nov 🏆 MASC/WISC EDIA Award. 📆 5th Sep More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...

Dual release with a bit of logic! We show the release of a double cargo payload with 2 stimuli, force and water, with an AND gate mechanism. Great work from Lei Chen, now available in #openaccess as a #HotPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky

Really excited and honored to be this year's recipient of the RSC Robert Robinson Prize!! #RSCPrizes @rsc.org A huge thanks to everyone in the group, collaborators and funders, as well as to @manchester.ac.uk for providing such an amazing environment to work in.

Two for one mechanophore! 4-membered ring mechanophores broken 2 ways with a rotaxane actuator for the generation/release of diverse functional molecules! Great work from Lei Chen now as a #VIPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky #OA

Many congratulations to @esmeward.bsky.social and her colleagues. We, the @manchester.ac.uk community are lucky and proud to have this museum.

Shut up and take my money!

🎉 Registration is now open!! 🎉 Come join us this year at UCL for a fantastic programme in polymer science. It's a great way to extend your network in the field. Link: www.raps.org.uk/raps-meetings

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out... ...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

It’s an honour to be one of the recipients of the 2025 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Investigator Award ! And congratulations to my co-awardee Julia @kalowlab.bsky.social ! #chemsky

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

Loking for an Editor handling our organic chemistry content. Ideally based in any of our US offices or in our London office. DM me if you want to have a chat about this position. Application deadline is April 22nd. If you want to learn more about the role and apply click here: shorturl.at/ZkML4

'Researchers have reported signs of recovery, including an increase in the populations of lobster, brown crab, angelshark and short-snouted seahorse.' After a new ban on trawling coastal areas along the south coast of the UK 2021, wildlife has been returning! 🐟🥳🌊🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are now LIVE on #ChemSky – joining @pubs.acs.org, @acs.org, and @cenmag.bsky.social! Follow us for the latest significant research from the world’s preeminent journal of chemistry and interfacing areas of science. Learn more about JACS: buff.ly/efZCTEt

🇬🇧 UK #scicomm community, I need you! We've rebuilt a small community here for @pintofscience.uk , but it's nothing like what we had on Twitter 🫠 🙏If you feel like it, please share yesterday's post, follow the account, spread the word, etc.. It would help us A LOT to launch #pint25!! THANK YOU 🫶✨️

Our next seminar will be from Giulia Lavarda (TU Eindhoven) and Simon Webb (UoManchester) speaking Thursday 27th March 14:30 (UK). Register at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/ to attend - We are migrating mailing lists, so signup is essential!

I had a great time at the MBB Symposium in Brussels last week. Great to be back home to meet old and new friends. Congratulations to Charles-André Fustin and team for a successful meeting in the beautiful Palais des Academies!

**SAVE THE DATE** @MacroGroup_UK Annual Meeting and Medals Symposium 8/9th September at Manchester. We look forward to welcoming the polymer community. Details coming soon.

Check out our 🔥 paper. Many thanks to my supervisor @guillaumedebo.bsky.social for the incredible support!

A mechanochromic rotaxane that releases azetidine-trityl-maleimide, a new fluorescent probe with rigidochromic properties and excellent stability! Great work from @mengjiaowu.bsky.social now as a #hotpaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social #chemsky #OA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Last month I had a great time interacting with staff and students of IUCINQUIMA at the University of Valladolid @uva-es.bsky.social to talk and teach about polymer mechanochemistry! Many thanks to @hectorbarbero.bsky.social for the invitation and for the culinary tour of Valladolid! #chemsky

Follow all your favorite @rsc.org journals now on Bluesky! Let the posting begin! 🥳🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3

Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives. An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at [email protected], any shares would be appreciated! www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-us

#MASC2025 will be held at the Open University, 15th-16th December 2025, so keep the dates free! As more info comes out (this'll be later in the year), it'll be posted at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025/.

Meet all 50 of our inspiring scientists from 2024. Their names and handles are threaded below. www.cell.com/topic/cell-d...

Interested in carrying out postdoctoral research at the interface of artificial intelligence, organic chemistry and catalysis? Join us in this collaborative project with the Bures group!! Please follow the link below for further information: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📣 Fancy stretching molecules? Come and join our group at The University of Manchester @official-uom.bsky.social. We have several PhD studentships available in synthetic and synthetic/computational mechanochemistry 📣 Check our vacancies page: www.deboresearchgroup.com/joins-us---v...

« The molecules he made were beautiful, sometimes astonishing. They made you dream of what could come next, and yearn to design and build it. » Concludes @profdaveleigh.bsky.social in a tribute to Fraser. #chemsky

Thanks to @profdaveleigh.bsky.social for writing this tribute to Fraser #Chemsky

Proud of Danny who successfully defended his thesis today 🍾 Many thanks to Alyssa Avestro and Igor Larrosa for the close examination!

Come and join my new group! We have two funded PhD positions available in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology. See fieldengroup.net for more details! Reposts much appreciated!

🚨New job opening 🚨 Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an editor on the cross-journal team to handle papers in organic chemistry & related fields 📍 Shanghai, Beijing, Heidelberg or Berlin 🗓️ Closing date: Feb 4th ❔ DMs open if you have questions www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

Molecular #machinelearning or #molecularmachine learning? #chemsky

'Physics for Cats' is my next collection of science cartoons. It'll be out in the autumn. More details and an excerpt are here: www.drawnandquarterly.com/books/physics-for-cats/

Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n

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...

Best wishes for this New Year 2025 ! 2025 is the year to evaluate, compare, discover, share... New forces in #Mechanochemistry 🛠️🔩⚙️🗜️ Join us in Montpellier: mechchem-2025.sciencesconf.org

RIP J. Fraser Stoddart and Martin Karplus.

Another @natureportfolio.bsky.social Chief Editor opening; closing date Dec 31 👇