Hej #chemchat, Yuka is looking for our views on working with chemistry automation. Non-automation chemists especially wanted for balance! It doesn't take long to complete ✨✨

Reading this as I spend 15 minutes and counting trying to load anything further than the title of a Fierce Biotech article on a >£100 CrossCountry train 😂 Why Britain's notoriously bad train wi-fi might soon be a thing of the past www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A tiny elderberry tree is shooting up under my pear tree, and I've been trying to figure out whether this is a bad thing or not. 🤔 (Ignore the avens and bramble "weeds" – what looks like the floor is raised above head height so they're not really too offensive)

My hot take is that "creates molecular complexity quickly" is 95% of the time a euphemism for "in a direction nobody wants and is essentially non-useful". However this paper - this is a very cool transformation. Great work! #chemsky

Doing admin outside on the patio; thought I'd Google whether a laptop parasol exists, since the screen is a little harder to see. Most are just little shades that attach around the screen, but one of the top hits was this, and I will absolutely not entertain anything less silly. Please take my money

I made a mistake not long after this, so screenshot for proof I did it 😆😆

We did this and did receive the $300! So it's well worth it!

I took this photo just now, in full knowledge that there is a cat there... And yet it still took me a few mins to find the cat in the image 🥷

When you're a cat, you can sleep any way you like, and you choose to sleep like this

First time I've seen substitution into DCM actually wanted! Only 3 equiv CH2Cl2 will mitigate problems, as amines + CH2Cl2 make thermally unstable products: a pain & explosion risk. CH2O byproduct not great for further low-level imps. But very innovative! #chemsky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

My chemistry hot take.... how do I pick only one?

Nature is brutal... congratulations to the sparrowhawk, sorry to this little prey bird. #UKWildlife (That is a sparrowhawk, right?)

Great summary of #SpudCell from @dereklowe.bsky.social. I had only read a secondary article (heavily based on the press release) on it, and despite the enormous hype inside could not figure out from that article whether it was even a top-down or bottom-up approach! www.science.org/content/blog...

Let's see where this takes us then.

Hey #chemsky - I am working on a book about women in chemistry and trying to track down an incident about a general chem textbook where the authors made a snarky comment about women in bikinis (and parenthetically called themselves out as sexist). Any hints for me??

I've never known somebody so committed to the faceplant. #FPotD

Something absolutely amazing has happened!!! After all these years of Faraday faceplanting cutely, RuPhos has now also decided to faceplant! Cannot believe this luck! Mind is blown! #FPotY

Ok one thing I need to get off my chest Drug discovery is the discovery of drugs Drug development is the development of drugs This is good to remember for when you're going to tweet/write/LinkedIn/talk about these! #chemchat

Omg, disco "photonic" stir bars! 🕺🪩 #chemsky chemablers.com

sSPhos is chiral? Sure, but you get it as a racemate so it's one of those chiral phosphines we just don't use in enantioselective synthesis, right? Not any more, thanks to my colleagues in early development, who have optimized a multigram resolution! #AZProud #chemsky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

My ISP has a p0rn blocker. Did I ask for it? Am I an adult living alone? Is it remotely their business? And why does it block random internet pages... today's is *gasps of shock* the Wayback Machine. Fun fact, I have to go into a physical shop and ask them out loud to let me view "adult content" 🙄

Finally, a measured article about what AI can and can't, and should and shouldn't, do in science. By @trantteam.bsky.social for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

Living next to a canal is amazing because today a group of schoolgirls found a frog* in the towpath vegetation & started daring their friend like "kiss! Kiss! Kiss!", and I get this entertainment for free** 😂 *Likely a toad, but I didn't see it **No amphibians were harmed

Ok now that's #altchemjobs, #chemsky PUI prof becomes World Cup ref www.chemistryworld.com/careers/from... via @chemistryworld.com

Straight out of Scooby Doo: researcher allegedly repeatedly switches name tags and "alters their appearance" to give different talks at a conference, pretending to be other people, who pocketed their intercontinental travel grants www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indones... 🧪

Meanwhile in American academia. I would guess almost no international students will have taken the same courses they TA.

Academic impostor: this is a whole ride www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is maybe not a joke?? Pharma R&D Manager, the game??? #chemchat (I got up to "select the continue button to continue!" and noped out of what feels like a mandatory training) www.linkedin.com/posts/sven-v...

Setting up a dog bowl as makeshift bird bath/place to drink (they've been doing both) and putting the camera there has been successful! Young magpie: "moooooom I want food" Mom: "nope" YM: "fine I'll have a bath then" #UKWildlife

Today, I learned a cool (pun not intentional) thing on Bluesky

I love teenage bird time. There are these crow "babies" that look exactly like adults but still insist on being fed by parents. 🤭 The juvenile robin now comes to hang out whenever I'm outside. And yesterday I saw a juvenile jay. I love jays any time but a ridiculously fluffy one is great #UKWildlife

Are manels in or something? I thought we'd got rid of them, but now I've seen two in a few months. And yes, in the UK. Apparently this latest one is "the best talents in <subfield>", too... funny, that

Don't step on the (very well-hidden) moth! #UKWildlife

Lmfao how are UK trains serious... the one I want to get is 0% on time 😭

I just got an email from Springer Nature offering me the "opportunity" to buy an exclusive A1 poster of my own paper for $189 with free shipping 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Absolutely obsessed by these foxes terrorizing a model village in Portsmouth and devouring tiny cricketers and cyclists 😁 Source: www.facebook.com/SouthseaMode...

Absolutely savage words from the Kremlin omg

Oh jesus christ I only just saw the news... not _again_

I've seen plenty of grey herons, but not seen one take off from the water before! #UKWildlife #CanalLife

This necklace is a 6π electrocyclization. And I won't hear otherwise #chemchat www.amazon.co.uk/sterling-hex...

@chemjobber.bsky.social You might enjoy this, if you have not seen it already: www.reddit.com/r/biotech/s/...

Ok this is kind of a funny email subject from RSC Member Discounts 😂😅 #chemchat

Juvenile robin (I think) came to hang out close by while I was gardening. Love the white tufts on the breast. It enjoyed watching me! #UKWildlife

My default browser language is Swedish to help me learn, but sometimes I need to use a translator extension back to English. The extension gives some funny phrases sometimes 😄 #ThatsHistorical

Debbie out there doing the lord's work. The critically important stuff that sometimes just gets missed for undergrads:

What manufacturing chemists think when looking at the Aldrich standard catalogue #chemsky

Understanding the molecular conformations involved in catalysis & building hypotheses to test experimentally has been ‘the privilege of the computational chemist’, says Varinia Bernales. @andyextance.bsky.social #ChemSky #catalysis #AI www.chemistryworld.com/features/ai-...

Omg the lovely cat whom I was hanging out with yesterday when he visited my garden is a missing kitty. I knew he seemed lost. Now I just really hope he will come back, because I have contact with his human :( poor lovely boy

For those friends who also enjoy bad translations 🤣🤣🤣

Currently finalising an article with a biography. Shocked to see that in proof setting, the editor, 'for clarity', changed my dead husband to a 'wife' - I've had to fix it back in the proof. The biography even notes I'm LGBT+ - they apparently don't believe two men can be parents. #LGBTSTEM #GayDad