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

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

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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

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

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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✨Spotlight✨ The Bob Hay Award Lectureship 🏆 Given in memory of Prof. Bob Hay by a chemist within 15 years of PhD completion, for exceptional research contributions to the MASC field and/or exceptional service to the community. Deadline 📆 5th Sep More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr... (1/4)

WTF @crystengcomm.rsc.org what is this AI-generated chemistry-defying monstrosity? 🤮

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

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It was great to contribute a Preview article on a new crystal sponge paper to the Matter Annual Researcher’s Choice issue, not least as it is paper number 100 for me and I shoe-horned a song title pun into the title: www.cell.com/matter/abstr...

We were over in Glasgow last week to run some samples on their electron diffractometer. Bit of a learning curve on the electron microscopy elements, but some promising initial data from some of the samples. Now planning our next trip! @forganross.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social

Colossal’s “de-extinction” work is ridiculous and completely overhyped by credulous readers of their press releases. I am happy to do what I can to make the above point of view more widely known.

Only if you promise to send it out for review gift wrapped and in a stocking.

Huge congrats to @forganross.bsky.social & the University of Glasgow team on their ChemRXIV preprint! Using 3DED/microED, they found 9 intermediate phases in MIL‑53(Cr & Ga) breathing in vacuum, uncovering structure PXRD doesn't see. Looking forward to full publication! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Our teams latest - we used in situ 3D electron diffraction to structurally characterise MIL-53-Cr and -Ga as they breathe, trapping transient intermediate states not observable under ambient conditions.

It was an absolute privilege today to accept the 2024 @rsc.org Peter Day Prize medal at #MC17, in my hometown no less, on behalf of everyone who has ever worked in our team.

On the plus side: we're returning to that blissed-out period in the noughties when a £ was worth two $ and we could holiday like kings in the US. On the down side: We can't actually go to the US because they'll arrest us.

Anyone who cares about nanoscience should know that registration for the @rsc-cnn.bsky.social Annual Symposium is open. Bargain of a conference (£120) in London's incredible Burlington House, with fantastic speakers including my old PhD boss Milo Shaffer from @imperialchemistry.bsky.social #chemsky

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Delighted to report the synthesis of a new class of materials in my lab. The metal nothing framework (M0F) structure comprises a single crystal of solely Ga atoms. It easily forms a M0F liquid and its shiny dark lustre suggests interesting absorption properties.

We are excited to announce details for the upcoming USIC & Scottish Dalton conference on the 28th and 29th of August at the University of Strathclyde. We have lectures from invited speakers @clairecarmalt.bsky.social @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Jupp. www.rsc.org/events/detai...