Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Gonna show this to anyone who asks why they should study organic chemistry.

Dalton Transactions is very pleased to support the upcoming RSC Scottish Dalton/USIC Conference which will be held at Heriot-Watt University on 1-2 September 2026 🚨 Read more & sign up here: www.rsc.org/events/find-...

“I was a slam dunk until I publicly affirmed my bigotry” and somehow this is meant to be positive press for Forbes as she jumps aboard the inevitable right wing grievance grift gravy train. www.bbc.com/news/article...

when AI companies go bankrupt

Weird right. Who could have predicted that. But no matter how grim Fifa tries to make it - from humiliating itself in front of Trump to pricing out fans - you can't take away the basic beauty of people from a bunch of different cultures meeting each other.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Elon Musk FRS @royalsociety.org is directly involved in radicalising these white supremacist terrorists.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

If you think this is in any way enforceable can I remind you how many kids at your high school smoked.

Can only assume Starmer and co have massive stockholdings in VPN providers.

I don't usually post about my day job, but the University of Sheffield is planing a restructure and compulsory staff redundancies within Chemistry. 20% of staff are under threat. You can sign an open letter opposing this decision here #SaveSheffieldChemistry savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app

Our group has 2 PhD positions (funded 3 years) available from October 1 working on stimuli-responsive and spin-crossover cages. Details and how to apply are in the links below (deadline June 30) jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research... jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Violence on the streets of the U.K. incited and enabled by Elon Musk, a fellow of the @royalsociety.org. When will our national academy stand up for the values it claims to espouse?

We’re pleased to be attending UKPorMat tomorrow! This conference brings together the porous materials community to explore advances in materials, characterisation, and applications. Read more ⬇️ hidenisochema.com/events/hiden... - - #ukpormat #PorousMaterials #MaterialsScience

I will just recrystallize this iron food supplement, maybe I will get crystals. Few days later, looking on the crystals: - WTF? What The Framework, I mean? Why MIL-88A? I did not ask for it or any other MOF! Looks like #MOF are inevitable. #chemsky #crystallography

Not being dramatic, but this probably signals the effective end of Chemistry in English Universities. An *efficient* Department loses something like £2k per Chemistry student per year; this change will roughly double that loss. Universities would be mad to keep teaching Chemistry.

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...