Summary of quantum mechanics 😂

#chemsky 🧪⚗️ #chemchat

It did it again! And weirdly, numbers are in Swedish and words in English 🤣 Even more weirdly, this happened after I said "repeat that" about an entirely English message What is happening 😂

Good luck to her (seriously)

Two six-legged beauties this evening #UKWildlife

been fighting the 'NIH does it all' wars for 20 years now online and there ain't been no progress

The weave, added creases, blue lines for bonds, and it's a model of C60 fullerene. Potential #SciCom 🧪 #SciArt

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Check out this fuzzy little lady on my gate out to the towpath. About 4 cm wingspan. No chance would I have seen her if she had been on a tree trunk. #UKWildlife 🦋

Sorry, we call it what now? Never heard this in my life 🤣

What is "hydrogenated styrene/butyric acid copolymer"? Seen on skincare patch ingredient list. I can't imagine making a copolymer of those two things and having much left to hydrogenate. Perhaps it's the carbonyls somewhere? #chemsky

Me: *buckles up*

Opinion: Why polymer chemists hold the key to soft robots The future of next-generation robots that move like living systems will be shaped by advances in molecular design. cen.acs.org/materials/po... #chemsky 🧪

Well 😳 LinkedIn is currently mistakenly autoflagging multiple RSC events as containing "non-consensual s3xual imagery", and took a few of my posts with links down. (They're old so nbd, but I appealed regardless.) Here is one of the shocking images; they're all similar:

Excited for tomorrow’s 1-yr anniversary event for the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future! I first learned about it at last year’s GC&E conference and am proud to be signer #1367. Register free: www.stockholm-declaration.org #GreenChemistry #chemsky #academicsky #Sustainability

Now the songbirds have moved out (possibly blue tits again this year? I didn't actually see...), some tree bumblebees have made a nest in my bird box! 🐝🐝🐝 Several bees around the entrance, apparently males hoping to get lucky with the queen. Sadly this also means they are end of life span!

Submit your high-quality chemistry dataset, receive $300! It's (pretty much) that simple. Hopefully this will incentivize more, high-quality, open data to be made available! #chemsky www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

‘The simplistic idea of being either a leader or a follower falls away in a more complex matrix – and so it should,’ argues Nessa Carson. @supersciencegrl.co.uk www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/impl...

Odious though it be to cross-link to LinkedIn, I'm going to succumb in order to point to my commencement remarks. Hoping a few #ChemSky folks might find them worth the read... 🧪 www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

This paper from Lukas Gooßen's group is so good I just want to read it again. Logically designing the rapid-activation precatalyst [Pd(1-MeNAP)TFA2] & various testing (I would have very much liked comparisons with Buchwald G4, but hey) #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

No wonder there are leaves strewn all over my steps. It's this guy and his mates 🐦‍⬛ #UKWildlife

There’s only one week left to vote. If you’re an RSC member, you can decide on everything from our future President to who will serve on our Subject Community Councils. Shape the future of the chemical sciences – get your ballot in by 5pm UK time on 21 May: https://rsc.li/42jdBIb #ChemSky

Is anyone here expert in BODIPY synthesis? Could I ask them some questions? #chemsky #realtimechem #chemistry

Senior research scientist in ancient genomics! #chemjobs #UKChemJobs Also: "managing the lab’s specialised ancient DNA clean room facility" / hur hur I have definitely seen ancient facilities before biotechnologyjobs.co.uk/jobs/senior-...

‘The progression of ideas becomes much more dynamic as the number of stakeholders rises,’ explains Nessa Carson. @supersciencegrl.co.uk www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/impl...

Playing with rapidfuzz (Python library) for the first time. And I know allowing users a bit of grace in their queries and still finding the right results is old hat, but I'm still obsessed. Now I'm just tuning it by repeatedly making deliberate spelling errors 😀 #ChemistsWhoCode

Some thoughts I have had on the idea of ideas, as applied to science! Published in this month's @chemistryworld.com. #chemsky www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/impl...

"However, over 20% of those [academic ECRs] surveyed reported no negative relationships with their supervisor." 😶 www.chemistryworld.com/news/supervi...

I notice a particular UK CDMO has organized a 1-day manel, in 2026... on the plus side, they're not all white guys (n-1)

Free webinar coming up: along with Matthew Partridge, I'm speaking at the Society of Chemical Industry's "The art of the possible: Data, Digitalization, and AI" at lunchtime (UK time) on Thursday. There will be plenty of chance for Q&A. Please join in! #chemsky soci.org/events/ai-an...

The fake website full of lies is a bit much, but tbh we all know someone like this 😬😬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Concerns that sustained thought is under assault have become even more acute in the digital era. A feature in Nature reports on the research across psychology and neuroscience that has built up a more nuanced picture of what is happening to our attention spans. 🧪

Instead of assembling a peptide with traditional chemical approaches, we engineered a number of enzymes to do new chemistry and build it for us. Here's a good summary: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

A Science paper with 140 authors – and it's not physics, it's organic chemistry/chemical biology! #chemsky doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Just seen this odd skincare ad. Can a peptide really be blue?! On looking it up, it's actually a Cu complex of Gly-His-Lys. (The model calling it a blue peptide also used a very obvious, undeclared video filter that flickered off and on when he moved his head, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal...)

This is it

Learning English from the very start (ie: doing the English from Swedish course for more Swedish vocab) is great..... #Duolingo

Interesting job ad for someone. Asking for 8+ years of product management experience, plus deep chemistry/chemoinformatics subject knowledge! Clear drug discovery focus, 100% remote. #chemjobs #remoteChemJobs #EUChemJobs job-boards.greenhouse.io/xebiaspain/j...

Well that is a first for me. I had a quote in mind that I needed to cite. Couldn't remember where I had read it but knew I wanted to reuse it. So I searched, and discovered it was my quote originally. I wrote it. When do I get my stereotypical absent-minded scientist badge? #chemchat

My canal neighbours have had their babies! Somehow managed to get a pic of all 7, even though they are little bumbling balls of energy. The cutest is when they run, spreading their tiny wings as they toddle 🐤

Bluebell and forget-me-not season might be my favourite time of year in my garden 💠💠

Since changing my phone language to Swedish, Google Home has randomly been speaking Swedish about 5% of the time, with no discernable pattern. But just now, it randomly spoke English but with a lovely Swedish accent! I'm trying to get it to do it again but it's swearing blind it never happened...

You ARE all trolling @simonhammann.bsky.social , richtig? RIGHT? What is this dot abomination?

I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN ANYTHING ELSE AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT IS EVEN POSSIBLE

New poll: Thorpe-Ingold effect, or Ingold-Thorpe effect?

bsky.app/profile/jopa... If I had a nickel for every time psychedelics have been mentioned today, I'd have two nickels...

I certainly welcome investigation of psychedelic drugs for mental health treatment: there is a pressing need for reduced barriers to psychoactives in research. However, the mechanisms going on in the US around this are chaotic to say the least... www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/trum...

This cat has no need to conform to society's expectations

And now I'm lying to an owl, because I completed the Swedish course a while ago and think maybe learning English from Swedish might give me extra vocab. #Duolingo