Elect Dave Leigh as President of the RSC! Honestly cannot think of anyone better suited to this incredibly important job! Vote, and vote now!

We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬

Just out: 2025 Editors’ highlights

A late Christmas gift - our new paper on using dynamic covalent pericyclic reactions to control host-guest chemistry in water has just been accepted in @commschem.nature.com. Massive congrats @mariusgaedke.bsky.social @anjaramstrom.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Two amazing days at #MASC2025 in Milton Keynes with outstanding science and amazing people! Great to see both old and new friends from all over the world! Our team also got not one but two poster prizes - congrats @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and @nicolesdlt.bsky.social - you rock 🤩🍀🥳🎉!

great to see @fschaufelberger.bsky.social present our recent work on our lanthanide chelate rotaxane emitters pioneered by @anjaramstrom.bsky.social! 📡💡 and a sneak peek into the main work of my postdoc too 😉 #MASC2025

Welcome to the lab to our first Warwick PhD student Jack, and master students Nicole (from Uni Heidelberg), as well as Gabriel and Marilyn (MChems). We're so happy to have you all here and wish you lots of fun and productive times in the lab 🍀🎉🦝🤩

RIP Jane Goodall! Amazing scientist, even more amazing human being! Your LEGO avatar watches over me in my office every day ❤️

We were incredibly honored to welcome Dr. Isabel Torres from Mothers in Science to #UniversityofWarwick this week! Dr. Torres presented deeply insightful and frankly quite horrifying studies on the treatment of mothers in academia and how parenthood impacts STEMM careers. Great discussions!!

In beautiful Jyväskylä together with @sgoldup.bsky.social and Fabien Cougnon holding a summer school on mechanically interlocked molecules! Brilliant students, great discussions and fantastic weather as a bonus 🤩🍀.

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣 We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series. Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025 Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

🚨✨We're excited to advertise the first 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for excellence in equality, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (#EDIA).🏆 📅 Apply by September 5th, 2025! 👀Learn more at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed... @rsc-masc.bsky.social #ChemSky #SupramolecularChemistry #WomenInSTEM

This is one of those true jawdropping moments in science - absolutely crazy cool work from Michael and team 🤩

Our collection on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules is now online @commschem.nature.com ! Wonderful working on this with @jbernicano.bsky.social Serena and Victoria! Lots of very interesting content in the final collection, please have a look if you are into interlocked molecules and materials😄

Amazing summer socials this week with group members from both Warwick and KTH! Highlights included a tour of the Leamington Elephant Bath and ET graffiti, cocktail by the river and of course tons of science chats 🍀🧪🧬. Just the best bunch of people ever #luckyPI

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We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

I am taking part in the #FathersWhoCare campaign, organised by @mothersinsci.bsky.social. This will amplify the voices of men who are redefining fatherhood in the STEM workplace. There is a free webinar about caregiving and inclusive workplaces - sign up here: www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats

In addition to her paper being accepted (see other post), @anjaramstrom.bsky.social is also now on bluesky 🤩🎉🍀! Give her a follow if you like cool rotaxanes, there's some incredibly stuff from her brewing in the lab at the moment

Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie... Massive congratulations Anja, @daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃 Thread below --》

Massive congrats to Anja for her poster prize at @ismsc2025. Very proud supervisor, you're doing incredible work Anja🎉🥳🎊

Job Alert 📢📢📢 Systems chemistry lab is hiring! We are looking for motivated candidates to do a PhD with us. It will be on the effect of (large) aggregation on chemical reaction networks, more details here: systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr/vacancies/. Repost very much appreciated 🙏

Heinrich Baumhauer’s 3D periodic table from 1870 may soon come to life as a Lego playset, if a Spanish scientist's 'Periodic Tower of Elements' bid comes to fruition. #ChemSky

Our first photoswitchable channel, controlled by three separate stimuli, is now up on ChemRxiv! tinyurl.com/3m4umy3d - we use fluorinated azobenzenes and a pillar[5]arene core to modulate ion transport using light, pH, and guest, modulating initial rates 170-fold. Collaboration with Wallace Lab@KCL!

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky

This has filled up rapidly, but we still have a few spots to go for the summer school in Jyväskylä! Registration open until end of this week! Can't wait to join everyone for a fantastic week of MIMs in the gorgeous Finnish summer 🍀

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation on dynamic peptide self-assembly. 📄 Full position ad: bit.ly/4jAIrmg 📅 Application deadline: May 31, 2025 #Postdoc #ChemistryJobs #SystemsChemistry #AcademicJobs #Freiburg #livMatS

That feeling when you get a chemicals and consumables order to approve from your group. For goods worth 15 000 EUR. And it includes "chocolate horse blood". And urine beakers. And morphine. And then you realise what day it is...😂. Well played team!

Very excited to announce this Summer School organised by Fabien Cougnon in beautiful Jyväskylä, where @sgoldup.bsky.social and myself will be leading a course on the topic "Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Properties and Applications" from 4-8 August 2025. Free of charge, but limited to 30 spots.

Our article "Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics" is open-access at Advanced Materials! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Major shout to my co-first author Rujie Sun and all our wonderful collaborators who helped realize this dream!

I’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at [email protected], any shares would be appreciated! www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-us

🧪Come join us for a PhD making and studying functional molecular capsules! We have a fully funded position (UK home fees eligible only) available in the group to start in September 2025 (start date is flexible). Links 👇 www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/chem... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #chemsky

🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

So after a long travel through Europe, the lab raccoon has finally arrived in Warwick. He's now hanging out on my fumehood, waiting for new co-workers to arrive 😁

Come join our lab @crick.ac.uk/KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist #chembio, to lead our chemical biology work, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic and translational projects tinyurl.com/5n8d6ufb closes 23/2! 24-month position

A 2-yr postdoc is available in our group! The successful candidate will have a strong background in organic synthesis and <6 years after a PhD. The research will focus on novel mechanochemical organic reactions. Questions/applications: email Lukasz (address in the pic). Deadline: 7th March 2025.

This week was spent back at KTH, including a great group dinner (❤️) and finally cracking open the whisky I got when I left the leigh group in 2020 🤣. Love working with this great team!!

We are happy to announce that a 3.5-year fully funded PhD position is open within our team at the University of Warwick - fees are covered only for home UK students, and the deadline is 29th April 2025. RTs are appreciated! 🙏🏼 Enquiries: [email protected] www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ466/p...

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Come and join my new group! We have two funded PhD positions available in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology. See fieldengroup.net for more details! Reposts much appreciated!

Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀

Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n

Huge congrats to Anja for receiving a poster prize for her amazing work on mechanically interlocked luminescent emitters 🍀🎉🍾💖! Very well-deserved, we're so happy for you!!!

What an amazing #MASC conference up in York! Wonderful science, expert organisation by @professor-dave.bsky.social Alyssa Victor and Paul, and an all around incredible amd stimulating atmosphere 🍀. I've missed the UK suprachem community a lot, feels great to be back!

🚨 #PhD opportunity in Systems Chemistry!🚨 Please Share! Interested in creating new decision-making materials based on electrochemically programmable protein networks? Fully funded 4-year PhD supported by #ERC at @uobchemistry.bsky.social for UK-home student. Check out link for details: #chemsky

Hi there: we're happy to be on BlueSky now, too! Stay tuned as we're getting set up here for the #ChemSky community - more to follow soon!

Lovely discussion on benefits of molecular knotting by the Cougnon group🪡🖇🔗 www.cell.com/trends/chemi...

Hey hey #Chemsky! 🧪 I'm gonna see if this works better than the other place to look for expert comments 🤗 I need someone who works in chirality and proteins for a story I'm working on - my DMs are open 📬 Reposts appreciated to boost visibility! Thanks 🙏🏼🔄

Wonderful talk by Filip Du Prez on sequence-defined polymers today at Warwick Chemistry. Including the world's most expensive 3D-printed duck, which also happens to show why sequence specificity in polymers are so important for properties.