Let’s celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2026! Read all about Christina Dumitriu-Jackson, 2025 RSC Apprentice Prize winner for her work in analytical chemistry – a great example of the talent apprentices bring to the chemical sciences! ▶️ https://rsc.li/4kpA1jf #NAW2026 #SkillsForLife #ChemSky

But WHY

"My teenager's moped struggles to go up hills! I can't believe people want to use motor vehicles for international haulage." It's an analogy again.

What’s chilling isn’t just the evil of one man, but how easily he moved through so many centers of power. Unsure if that power comes from exploiting evil or if it corrodes ordinary people. Maybe both. But myth of the lone villain, matters less than the society that let this influence grow unchecked.

The mighty Salters' Company is looking for a Head of Education, a strategic leadership role #chemEd #chemjobs #UKchemjobs berwickpartners.co.uk/opportunitie...

Btw "my" owl has gone! I don't know where he went, but I don't hear him at night any more. As much as it wasn't fun to be woken repeatedly by incessant hooting at the top of his lungs, I miss the lil guy. 🦉 Maybe he met the owl lady of his dreams and they're building a romantic nest together?

We're delighted that AstraZeneca is back as a sponsor for the #RSCOrg subject category at this year's #RSCPoster! 🔗 Don’t miss out — get involved and register today - https://rsc.li/3XGGvzS #ChemSky

If the gas people turned off gas to my house today while working in the road (without access to the house), and left me a card saying they need access to the house to turn it back on, can I turn it back on by myself or do I really need to freeze until tomorrow? 🤔

📣 Thrilled to announce our incredible speaker lineup for the 2026 edition of #ETOC Online Symposium on April 29-30th.🗓️ Join us by registering today and to stay up-to-date! : tinyurl.com/ETOC2026-reg... (1/3)

Good morning! What instrument booking system are you all using? Any recommendations? #Chemchat 🧪

AstraZeneca is hiring in Predictive Science, Digital, and Automation and you even get my face on your screen. Being real, this is an awesome department to work in though #chemjobs #UKchemjobs #EUchemjobs www.linkedin.com/posts/nessac...

Ah yeah the classic Swedish sentence

Cool paper: oxidative synthesis of secondary amides from a wide variety of lipophilic aldehydes or primary alcohols + amines, using engineered oxidative amidases #chemsky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s: this protein helps explain why 🧪 Interesting article even for a non-biologist like me! Hopefully a start to being some way closer to improved treatments for Alzheimer's disease www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why, when you fix your laptop, are there always screws left over when you put it back together again 🙈🪛😱

Does anyone know where the money goes when you buy UK train tickets, since you can buy from any company? If I buy a TPE journey from Avanti, does TPE get the money? Does Avanti? Does it get distributed centrally? Asking because 1) I've never understood this, and 2) f**k TransPennine Express 😂

Nitration is one of those elementary organic chemistry reactions that is at times useful, hard to run properly and dangerous This #JOC shows nitrating reagents and the entire table is a list of “oh WOW that looks scary” (Nitro-triflate? Seriously?) [insert “Brave Sir Robin Bravely Ran Away gif]

If you have £2, and you give me £2, how much do you have left? The answer is NaN, of course

The Next Generation of AI Chemists: a programme for penultimate-year UK-based undergrads from underrepresented backgrounds (women, gender minorities, LGBTQ+, ethnic minority, disability, carers, low socioeconomic background, first in family to uni). #chemsky aichemy.ac.uk/next-generat...

Apropos of nothing, remembering how the first MS I looked after had the fancy auto-switch between tuning solution and analysis mode, but I didn't know this wasn't universal so when I switched jobs and it came time to tune another MS I was deeply confused 😂 #chemchat

I don't think I'd have written this article in such a positive way; I thought I'd noticed a cultural downturn recently (see also: Reform). Also, companies move here largely because land is cheap. Also, do we want to be southern?! But still - an encouraging read! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I am on a #UKTrains and none of us know where it's going 😂😂😂 This should be fun. I have just determined that it is not, in fact, going miles out of the way to Bolton as I feared

And incredibly few fucks were given, including as usual by at least one university share.google/rCd4BfpDjVo3...

Another W for chemistry

"en tung sten" 🥰🥰 #chemChat

Not a single one of these titles applies to me 😆

The Indiana Jones Oxidation. #chemsky #chemchat

Wow! It's going to rain pink sapphires on Friday (what does this even mean)

For this weekend only and only pushing on bluesky :)...get both chemscrapess book (PDF download) at 25% off when purchased together. #chemchat #chemsky

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Wat

His next Nobel prize will be in chemistry

I'm really not one to support politicians more than neutral but Emmanuel Macron seems really to have done some good work with this speech. "We do prefer science to plotism [conspiracies]" 👏 (apparently the glasses are because eye surgery) www.facebook.com/reel/1325641...

This thread is a hell of a ride (pun intended - but also actually)

Thanks to @spavel.bsky.social , at productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incred... , I saw an intriguing claim: "the more someone uses AI, the lower quality their outputs become" I am super interested in metacognition so I was hoping it was a metacognition paper and it is! So I read it

About to take off to Sweden via Denmark. With any luck Europe won't be at war by the time I land 🤞

Migration of the the second ChemScrapes book, "ChemScrapery Too" now completed. #chemsky #chemchat thechemscrapesshop.etsy.com/sg-en/listin...

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked. I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

I spoke to the Secretary-General of NATO, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni. Together we stand firm in our commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

Lol I went back on Twitter, because there are still essentially no customer service accounts on here, found some of the early Elon-era bugs still not to be fixed, and within an hour or two received a phishing scam related to my customer service enquiry🙃

Article is better than the headline, as usual www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's sweet that mayor-for-now of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, likes Warrington so much she proposes we get three of them 🥰 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

It's got to be unhelpful to spread misinformation about chemicals amongst a terrified population. The more clarity the people can have, the better

Hey #ChemSky! I have a lab student rn who has a cast. They can use their fingers ok on that side...but, our normal nitrile gloves do not fit over the cast. Any suggestions?

Meme summary of the last hour of my life #chemistsWhoCode #chemchat #RealTimeChem

Join us for a one-day symposium celebrating Trans+ students and researchers in STEM at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London on 27th February! Free to attend #trans #transstem #lgbtstem #lgbt #stem transstemuk.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

Who knew, when first starting a chemistry degree, that the humble hydrogen atom would give you more trouble than all the rest put together, yes, even the metals 😂 #chemoinformatics #chemistsWhoCode #chemchat

Hey #Chemsky, to start off 2026 I have made the first ChemScrapery book available for a download through the ChemScrapes Shop. It's just a PDF - but all ChemScrapes. Check it out. #chemchat thechemscrapesshop.etsy.com/sg-en/listin...

Surely a Chromcatogram?

Containing "data on chemical hazards, exposure, environmental sustainability, and uses; alternatives to substances of concern; and a range of regulatory information". I sincerely hope ECHA strongly considers all the letters of FAIR to make this as useful as it sounds #chemsky