We need someone to come and run our SAXS facility at Glasgow - brand new machine to be installed, perhaps with your help running it? If interested: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

When Chemistry depts are being decimated at Universities across the UK, the govt needs to focus on resilience further up the chain and fix decades of disastrous mismanagement of higher education. No point safeguarding industry jobs if there’s no graduates coming through to fill them.

Not just chemistry - one of the UK's major departments of materials science & engineering department is facing a 20% reduction in full time academic faculty positions - or to be more specific 8 Faculty positions are due to be cut. 🔬🧪 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie...

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

Online petition and open letter to the University of Nottingham in response to its plans for redundancies in the School of Chemistry. nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/

PhD opportunity (unfortunately UK home students only) to work on nanoparticles to combat AMR with @forganross.bsky.social and me in Glasgow Uni. If you have a microbiology background and an interest in chemistry this would be a perfect project for you! Please share! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Reminder: It's far, far cheaper and easier to not emit the stuff in the first place than it is to pluck CO2 molecules out of the air.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

Incredible video made using images taken by the Artemis II crew shows satellites in orbit around Earth. This is at 30x speed x.com/i/status/205...

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Nominations for the 2026 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship are open until 5 June 2026: www.rsc.org/standards-an... This prestigious annual award recognises an early career researcher who has made major contributions to materials chemistry through research and community service.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

On @filmaffinity.com, the photo on the “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” page shows the wrong Lee Cronin. #mummyputers

Come and join my group at @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social! We have an opening for a postdoc position in photopharmacology. Prior experience with photoswitches and photopharmacology essential. Deadline 27th April. For more details see my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #Chemsky

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

🚨PhD position available! We’re seeking a motivated student to study MOF/COF synthesis and catalysis with us. Please spread the word📢 careers.uni-stuttgart.de/job-invite/1...

Dear friends, I'm delighted to announce open PhD positions at Ewha Womans University! If you know someone looking for a PhD or a MSc+PhD position, has a passion for the beauty of MOF structures, and doesn't mind the unbelievable nature, food, fun, and cultural marvels of Seoul, feel free to share 🌟

The Royal Society of Chemistry Porous Materials Interest Group in collaboration with the British Zeolite Association (BZA) and the Society of Chemical Industry, are delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 Barrer Award, Dr Alexander O’Malley, University of Bath @rsc.org @bathchem.bsky.social 1/4

NEW: We are publishing the disgusting homophobic joke Malcolm Offord told and had to apologise for. It is in the public interest that people know the abhorrent language the Reform UK Scotland leader chose to use Refusing to publish this would effectively be protecting him.

Very excited that Cecilia Hong's first first-author paper has been accepted as a Hot paper in #RSCMat. She showed: ❄️💎MOF isomers matter for refrigerant properties and their mechanical stability: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

We are excited to be recruiting into 3 Associate Professorship's in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. Come join us as a colleague and benefit from our vibrant and multidisciplinary environment. Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! (tinyurl.com/48deybuu) (tinyurl.com/4pdvjaft).

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Come be my colleague :)

I don’t want a single penny from British taxpayers to pay for wealthy tax-dodgers in Dubai to safely come home. They thought they didn’t need us because they greedily refused to pay their fair share … let Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott come crawling back with their own money.

We are looking for two talented people to join us at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick as assistant professors. Permanent positions. 🧪🍎🥽 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

A PhD is available in the Sutherland group to develop synthetic methods to access novel amino acid and peptide-based probes to start in October 2026. Deadlines for applications is 31st March. See link for details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The group is advertising for a new postdoctoral research fellow/associate to join our team on for 18 months, looking into new structures and functions of metal-organic cages. Deadline Friday 6th March 📆 Full details can be found here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM785/r... Informal enquiries welcome

I have a 2 year PDRA position available in my group focusing on synthetic organic chemistry for supramolecular materials. Please apply using the link below if you’d be a good fit for the role in Glasgow @uofgchem.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Candy cages? Edible MOFs are so 2010.

I prefer my MOFs that don’t have coordination chemistry.

If the particle size is the same or smaller than the unit cell length then it’s really not a framework.

Join us at Oxford Chemistry! Apply by 13 March:

🌟 Applications are now open for the Next Generation of AI Chemists Programme, a funded opportunity for penultimate-year undergraduates from backgrounds under-represented in chemistry. 📍 Imperial London | 📅 6–7 July 2026 (in person) 👉 Apply here: buff.ly/MLfs9Zg

It was never a real fish anyway

📢 Just a few days left to send your oral abstracts for #UKPorMat2026, deadline on the 31st January 📢 With Sanjit Nayak we are looking forward to welcoming you in the beautiful city of Bristol 🌉 on the 9-10th June 2026 for what promises to be another excellent and fun porous materials conference.

1/2 "The most striking finding we had is that the students that practiced math problems with ChatGPT without any guardrails did 17% worse on immediate subsequent exam where they did not have AI assistance." Hamsa Bastani of @upenn.edu at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/hamsa-...

Congratulations to everyone involved in this study, particularly our collaborators, Adriana Tavares and the Edinburgh team. Great to see our TSPO PET tracer LW223 take another big step forward with the first set of successful clinical trials in healthy patients (@uofgchem.bsky.social).

Paper Alert! 4Y in the making. Anion sensing with highly luminescent Boron-Lanthanide MOFs. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Well done to Sarah Englehart and Dr Mason Lawrence. @unbresearch.bsky.social Thanks to @forganross.bsky.social and Dr Russell Main for their 3D-ED [email protected]

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Multi‐Crystal X‐Ray Diffraction (MCXRD) Bridges the Crystallographic Characterisation Gap in Chemistry and Materials Science: Application to MOFs https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202523233?af=R

It was great to attend and see the wide range of science within this grouping, and a lovely opportunity to discuss the team’s research. Many thanks for the invitation!

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n