Confinement in metal-organic frameworks as a route to harnessing liquid barocalorics in the solid-state https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18541

I’m delighted to share with everyone that my out of office is about to go on.

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Great headline

this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

1. Did they ask everyone’s permission? 2. This is the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard this week. And it’s been a dumb fucking week.

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Multifunctional Fe‐Doped MOF‐808 Nanocomposites for Chemo/Chemodynamic Synergistic Therapy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202512728?af=R

I just turned 44 and got tested by my GP at my request as we have a family history too. There’s no reason not to.

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Now this is some top-quality misunderstanding of physics, right here.

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To quote my PhD supervisor - it’s always cheaper to buy bonds than make bonds.

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Does @royalsociety.org agree with one of its highest profile fellows on this?

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My HPLC was definitely overlooked www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Next reaction - oh shit I have to go update my undergraduate lecture notes

Pro tip for aspiring academics - this is how to ensure your papers always make it into high impact journals

My delight at seeing MOFs win the Nobel is tinged by sadness that Sir Fraser didn’t live to witness it. He was my introduction to the world of MOFs, and I know he would have been overjoyed.

Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks” Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone

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Britain’s meritocracy. Heaven forfend we should ever try to mitigate these effects…

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Genuinely the first time I’ve seen a post get good old fashioned ratioed on Bluesky.

I suspect that indeed they have just made this matter worse for themselves. The trouble with this statement from Adrian Smith is that it conflicts with the RS's Code of Conduct (e.g. below).

They deserve to lose every fucking penny they've spaffed away on this abomination of an idea

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Sanjit Nayak announcing date for UKPorMat-2026, which is 9 to 10th June 2026 at University of Bristol.

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Perhaps someone can explain this to me because I thought the government was concerned with growth on.ft.com/4gkup84

Really happy to see this team effort out in Angew. Chem., where we used 3D electron diffraction to observe a metal-organic polyhedron-to-polymer transition, and observe the activated phase. Big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting our work on this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

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