My sweet little weirdo loves fireworks. He's watching them and loudpurring. In previous years he has actually meowed in an apparent request for me to turn them back on, when they stop... 🎆

Stille Life #chemsky #chemistry #realtimechem

I've been awarded my CChem! 😃🏅 If you're an @rsc.org member, you too can look forwards to becoming a Chartered Chemist. Info on the accreditation here: www.rsc.org/standards-an... #chemchat #chemsky

Ok, this has to be the worst/best NMR acronym I've ever seen: "MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)" (Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky

Our work with AstraZeneca on developing multi-task graph neural network models for cell permeability predictions is finally out in ACS Omega! #chemsky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Incredible. 1 week (ish) into my computational chemistry studies and I'm already being recognized as an expert. ☺️ ...Almost forgot to mention it was a LinkedIn spammer who wanted my "expertise". Still counts, right? Right?!!

@sykhalid.bsky.social thank you for an interesting talk today! 🎉

Later, peace is reestablished when an MBA accidentally enters the lecture hall. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

I did some very baby computational chemistry today :))) under the distinguished tutelage of @peonor.bsky.social. In many ways I am lucky to learn years later than most comp chemists do, because how many get to learn directly from the superstar 😉😄 #compChem

Hackathon time! Can you build an ML model for sigmatropic rearrangements of allylcatechols in flow? Teams of <=4; total prizes £2000; time limit 09 Jan. 🧪 #Chemsky Competition Link: www.kaggle.com/competitions... Example Notebook Link: www.kaggle.com/code/josepab...

Do you want to learn about the value of good data management? Join our guest speakers for the third ChemSpider webinar in a new series where they will share their thoughts about data management, what standards to follow & how to get everyone involved: https://rsc.li/4omff5y #ChemSky

As an organic chemist, how can you get extra value from data without having to transform your research into something else? Find out in this Beilstein webinar, "the value of data-sharing for reaction discovery & developmen" (Simon Coles, Sally Bloodworth) www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/org... ⚗️

Cute old post; good to hear from See Arr Oh again! I used to have lucky fuchsia NMR caps... ok I may not have 100% believed in their power but I still used them when I really needed the compound to be correct/pure 😂

Yesterday I was going through Euston station, and there was a bloke wearing a Superman t-shirt with the "S" logo on. He looked up at the display board, realized his train was about to leave, and started singing the theme tune under his breath as he broke into a light run 😂🦸

@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!

Excellent talk by @supersciencegrl.co.uk with insights on what will labs may become, and also a nice view on AI that will help scientists but never replace them. (And less admin for chemists!)

Proteomics folks - PTCR and PTR on a thermo eclipse tribrid. Is it the same thing? Is there a difference? Thermo seems to use the acronyms interchangeably and it's causing confusion. #massspec #realtimechem #chemsky

Finally, I have completed the maximum #Duolingo Early Riser badge. About 2 of these were actually rising early, the other 198ish were just staying awake late... #NightOwl

Opportunity for industrial #PhD student in agentic #AI for #DrugDiscovery at AstraZeneca (Gothenburg Sweden) in collaboration with EPFL (Switzerland) duration: 3 years | start: Feb/Mar 2026 | closing: 14-Nov-2025 #ML #cheminformatics #CompChem #chemsky 🧪 astrazeneca.eightfold.ai/careers/job/...

Revenge of the student! This time I got to ask the questions when interviewing @klchemistry.bsky.social about the group’s recent article. Read the Chemistry World article ‘A current ⚡️ take on the Swern Oxidation’ #ChemSky

Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) is hosting a virtual symposium on Friday, November 14th 3-4:30 pm EST. Keynote speaker Dr. Vy Dong will be presenting “Choose Your Own Adventures in Catalysis” #chemsky 🧪⚗️ Learn more about EWOC at EWOChem.org Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

"It’s normal that things are not easy. It’s normal that things are not equally fun every minute, every day. Don’t give up easily." I spoke with Odile Eisenstein for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/odil... #ChemSky #ScienceSky #SciSky

Python: The Documentary. A fascinating watch, I think even for non-coders (or the code-curious). Watched this last night and both enjoyed it and learned some new context to my programming! Apologies that I lost the info of whoever on here I saw post this first. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

It's good of #Duolingo to try and prepare me for funding decisions

Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky

Sigh. We're gonna need a bigger story...

#SynTech2026 is coming! 📅 6–8 July 2026 | Old Royal Naval College, London (UNESCO site) The first SynTech Summer School & Conference will unite world leaders in synthesis: electrosynthesis, flow, photochem, AI & more. Pre-register now 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/klchem... #ChemSky

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Our LGBTQ+ STEM Day Celebrations are taking place at @zslofficial.bsky.social and then at Zodiac Bar! Join us! Free tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/31027/... #PrideInSTEM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔭🧪

Breaking news: mass transfer still exists #chemsky

Please help Filip! If you're a STEM industry researcher or R&D professional who sometimes does things with universities (guest lectures, workshops, hosting students/postdocs), please fill in his survey for a pedagogic project on academia/industry interface #chemsky www.linkedin.com/posts/fmiljk...

Thank you @drjameschums.bsky.social! Turns out it's this option. I had seen that but assumed it was about standard valence as default, so thought I wanted it on. I did not! Lifesaver for people who draw complexes and reuse in various representations #chemsky

Does anyone know how to automatically allow abnormal valences in ChemDraw? I'd like this to be my default. NOT the same as suppressing the invalid valence warning, which you can do in Preferences! (They appear identical to the user of course, but you can see the difference if you create a molfile.)

More than 20% of chemists have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during peer review, a new study has found. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @nanoporous.net, @freddie2310.bsky.social #ChemSky

Following on from the PDRA post a little while back, we also have opportunities for PhD students.

I love this extremely tired amorphous blob.

Oh dear, Peeriodicals is down. Sadly, we've had great difficulty posting to our Peeriodical for months, all support requests receiving radio silence. I'm wondering whether it's dead for good – has anyone heard? peeriodicals.com

If you read anything, however compelling, about pharmaceuticals from someone who doesn't actually really know a whole lot about pharmaceuticals, general reminder that honest to god >80% of the time it's just made up 😩

If you want to hear data standard success stories from leading experts, join the second webinar in our new ChemSpider series and hear how those stories further scientific advancement. Register now: https://rsc.li/48aa5UU #ChemSky

Would you like access to cutting-edge knowledge, a global community of like-minded people, and the rest of 2025’s membership for free? Right now, a Royal Society of Chemistry 2026 membership is worth even more. Apply today 👉 https://rsc.li/47lirIi #ChemSky

The most English thing has just happened to me A nice man has left me a load of jam and stuff and a note asking whether he can pick my quinces (probably not a euphemism)

There are people that clearly think “mustard gas” is edgy slang, as opposed to a specific, if misnamed, thing

Just over a week in Gothenburg :P always the best to meet my Gothenburg colleagues, and even better now we're officially a team doing great science together 💙💛 Hej då Sverige igen, plane is about to take off! 😿

Last drawing for the 2025 Nobel prize in #chemsky done. And last book of the series submitted. Next week it should be available online :)

These are the new fungi I saw using Seek today. It reads just like a goth cocktail menu 🍹

Today I met a cat called Sara, which is the most wtf name I've ever heard for a cat (At the Gothenburg cat café - so if you live round here you could adopt little Sara!)

🧵 A nice circumhorizontal arc (informally known as a fire rainbow, which is a misnomer) over West Virginia captured by Christa Harbig! It is an optical phenomenon belonging to the family of ice halos, so it is neither fire nor a rainbow. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap21083... 🔭 🧪 #science 1/3

As I suspected! While putting in yet another Delay Repay claim, I have learned that Macclesfield is in the bottom 3% of railway station performance in the UK. :( That's over the past 12 weeks – at least at the times I've travelled, performance was very noticeably worse in the past!

I'm currently trying to switch to Three Broadband, but their website is totally failing to let me do so, with all kinds of server-related error messages. Now wondering whether this could be a red flag or a one-off 🤔🚩😬

Anyone on #chemsky have thoughts or insights into fully remote jobs that still live in the process development chemistry realm? May potentially need to transition to a remote position next year and trying to plan ahead