ELLIS & ELIAS Alliance at AIS25 🇩🇰 - exploring how AI is transforming scientific discovery and its commercial potential. ELLIS Members will lead workshops across Life Science, Materials, Climate, Society & AI Policy. 👉 https://ais25.eu/ #AIS25 #RAISE ELIAS - Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability

I’ve had to fly SAS a few times this year and in terms of customer service and general operations they really are exceptional 👍👍👍

L2M3OF: A large language multimodal model for metal-organic frameworks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20976

Big meeting and a lot of people here in Copenhagen at #AIS25

I went tonight to see my PhD student Emma Brass’s fantastic AI art exhibit in Liverpool. It features a 4x4 m screen with a giant robot arm (see video below) and the whole thing is really fantastic!

Sorry to be leaving Toronto today - here is the sunset last night from the apartment where I stayed - many thanks to @accelerationc.bsky.social for hosting me!

This is fantastic, well done Emma, I look forward to seeing this when I get back from Toronto. Co-sponsored by our @ukri.org / EPSRC @aichemyhub.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk - see news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...

The legends are true - the new @accelerationc.bsky.social building being constructed in Toronto yesterday

Had to balance out my high brow & my low brow with some post-opera poutine. I think this might be how they resurrected Eurydice #toronto

Beautiful opera house in Toronto

Looking forward to seeing this tonight #opera #toronto

Various degrees of folly

My current routine. And I do indeed get a second cup on my way into my temporary @thematterlab.bsky.social office #toronto

🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery. Focus: 💻 Comp Chem 🤖 AI in Chem 🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning 🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details) #chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc

Beautiful morning in Toronto today on my walk to @thematterlab.bsky.social @accelerationc.bsky.social

I think I might’ve just found Organa on my way to the washroom @accelerationc.bsky.social

Happy thanksgiving, if you’re in Canada 🇨🇦. (If you’re in the US, please go about your regular business.)

For balance (and I had to go back to evil Tw@tter for this). I’ve never met Richard Robson.

This is the only photo I can find of me with Susumu, in the office of the great Mohamed Eddaoudi, whose contribution to the field of MOFs is also massive #chemsky #chemnobel

Congratulations to Susumu, Omar and Prof. Robson. Particularly delighted for Susumu, who has given me some great advice over the years and served on an advisory panel for one of our grants. 👏

Speaking next week in Toronto at the Acceleration Consortium (@accelerationc.bsky.social). It's possible to join online (link below). In part, I'll be talking about our new work on LLM reasoning for robotic experiments. I've teed this up below with a link to Noam Chomsky, who isn't an LLM fan.

Interlocked covalent organic cages: Design, synthesis, and self-assembly doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

Come join us in Oxford! Two positions open right now in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social It’s a great place to work. Really supportive colleagues, great students, colleges provide a unique social environment - in summary, it’s a lot of fun.

I don't normally indulge in Chemistry Nobel Prize speculation but this year I'm having a punt. £20 each way on Fréchet and Wilkinson for chemically amplified photoresists

Commercial SDL using a mobile robotic manipulator - I'm told that the company has installed 7 of these so far. I've no affiliation with this, btw, nor knowledge of its performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECt1... #chemsky #robots

Great to see @aicooper.bsky.social and @rosseinskygroup.bsky.social representing @liverpooluni.bsky.social at the @euromof.bsky.social 2025 conference in Crete.

Blink and you'll miss it (2'39") - played at the NVIDIA event in London last night: youtu.be/3GhckKPLDd4

Here’s where I spent my evening in London. Decent canapés. www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/pr...

Congratulations to Yushu Han on her paper on fast porosity screening using a multichannel colorimetric array. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @liverpooluni.bsky.social

You are cordially invited to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025. 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 @annagslater.bsky.social

A great outreach project led by Emma Brass in our group at last week’s Liverpool Science Festival. Visitors got the chance to paint collaboratively with a robot 🤖 ! Supported by our @leverhulme.ac.uk research centre and our @ukri.org / EPSRC AIchemy Hub / Programme Grant @aichemyhub.bsky.social

Weird. They just had to do a full reset of my train in Crewe & when the lights came on, a computer generated announcement voice said “Would Mr Sidmouth please come to the kitchen”, and this is now repeating periodically

> be a language model > all you see is tokens > you don't care, it's all abstracted away > you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams > tokens don't exist.

Iceland 🇮🇸

In my hotel room in Newcastle. I just ordered a coffee. It broke down 6 times but claimed to be faster than 100 human waiters

A full 98 minutes late getting to Newcastle ….

If you’re in Liverpool next week we have *two* interactive exhibits - a robot chemist and a robot artist. And not the art of chemistry- real art, with paint! #BritishScienceFestival #BSF2025 #Liverpool

Opportunity for senior lecturer (associate professor) in School of Chemistry at University of Bristol (UK) ref: ACAD108220 | closing: 30-Sep-2025 #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Amazing achievement @jelfschem.bsky.social, well done!! 🍾

Two blueprints for automating perovskite research Lab work is too manual. A new study shows how low-cost DIY robotics can change that: HITSTA: a 3D-printer-based tester for aging 49 perovskite films in parallel ROSIE: a pipetting robot built from a hobbyist arm pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

#FirstLineFavorites (22) #FirstNameInSong (22) #MusicChallenge “Lost your love of life? Too much apple pie” m.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNY...

Chemical Science wants to congratulate our Associate Editors Dmitri Talapin, Lin X Chen, and François P. Gabbaï, who have been honoured with national awards from the American Chemical Society!

Yep, writing a proposal is *just* like being a secret agent …. [IT Notes: (i) This code has expired; (ii) I was looking up a 2009 CrysEngComm]

In @science.org this week, Harry Anderson's group finally put their cyclic carbon allotrope into solution. The, well, solution to getting it there? Protection by catenation--have a look! chemsky🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A longer version of this @apnews.com video, featuring @liverpooluni.bsky.social superstars Ram, QJ and Abdoulatif. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSVt...

@apnews.com apnews.com/video/the-ro...

I have icon synaesthesia. Three applications that I use a lot - Endnote, Mercury, and Tidal (music) - all have white-on-black icons, and if I want to call up one of these, there is a 1-in-3 chance that it will be the correct one.