Light-activated pain-free drug delivery into skin using #upconverison nanoparticle constructs - exciting work! This specific application is for IVF drug release. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

Bad antibodies are a major roadblock in biomedical research, harming reproducibility and wasting resources. The International Antibody Validation Meeting was created to fix it. Watch the talks from the 5th Antibody Validation Meeting (2025) tinyurl.com/AntibodyVali... #Integrity #reproducibility

Cool use of hybrid upconversion nanomaterials!

Trio of yellow Victorian (1870s) uranium glass vases in string directional daylight. The green fluorescence can be seen even in this bright sunlight! #uraniumglass

The subgenre deep dive for this week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social is Villain-as-hero. @tpneenan.bsky.social is our guest and he just watched the new Predator movie where one of the ruthless murder-monsters is Our Cool Protagonist. Let me know your favourite villain as hero texts!

Clever assay format - using a pipette tip as cuvette and incubator/reactor! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Wake up babe, a new maths maguffin just dropped www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔭 🧪 #EduSky A paper conical #sundial From the Sun's altitude and azimut, this sundial derives solar time, & the position on the map where the Sun is directly overhead. Here its approx.4:20pm local solar time ; the Sun is approaching the Brazil-Bolivia border. 1/☀️

This building has a strange kind of charisma (Livingston Tower, University of Strathclyde)

What an awesome conference week for #SHIFTtenerife! I can highly recommend it for anyone into lanthanide luminescence and upconversion! Excellent science, a wonderful community, and beautiful location! #chemsky

Very excited to be at the #SHIFT conference in Tenerife! Going to be lots of lanthanide and upconversion talks, as well as a big speech from Ben Ferringa this morning! #chemsky #SHIFTtenerife

There's still time to apply for our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances. #RSGrants https://bit.ly/4h1hzf3

The connection between Nobel-prize winning MOFs and Mudéjar maybe goes beyond beautiful geometric structures – @davidfairen.bsky.social believes the first ever metal-organic framework could be a compound discovered in my hometown, Zaragoza, in 1973. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a...

If anyone wants some numbers on this: a study I led found that ~70% of chemistry YouTube channels are geared towards revision/learning, and that the creators largely do not clearly state their own professional background/qualifications. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

On train listening to obviously smart teenage boys discussing homework on “how is conflict presented in Romeo and Juliet” and one boy says to another “I’ll send you two good videos on this” and I am not sure teachers are fully aware of how young people revise etc these days.

@alicefraser.bsky.social scunnered to hear about the extremely crap way you've been treated by your publisher, but I'm so excited about the 'A Passion for Passion' audiobook! I can't wait to buy and listen to it! 🤩🎧

🧪⚒️ “the complex organic molecules Cassini detected…are not just a product of long exposure to space, but are readily available in Enceladus’s ocean.” As ever - these observations show some intriguing chemistry is going on, but that isn’t necessarily life.

Benzyl chloroformate is not trivial to come by. Been waiting on an order from Acros. Does anyone know 1. where to get it from fairly quickly and/or 2. alternatives to benzyl chloroformate for making Cbz-protected amines. (Yes it needs to be Cbz protected.) #chemsky 🧪

Another beautiful #uraniumglass trinket set 🤩

Finally found the back of my knee on Anthony Boudain's Parts Unknown S5 E1

#Mars A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the Martian surface. www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025... 🧪 #PlanetSci Video: field tests with the Tumbleweed Science Testbed. Credit: Team Tumbleweed/Sas Schilten.

Does anyone on Bluesky research proteins that are stable at high temperatures? 👀 #science #biosky #chemsky

Does anywhere sell sound-proof enclosures for sonic baths?

Really important new paper on how AI can be used to fake nanoparticle images #chemsky #science #nanotech www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Nanotechnology never ceases to amaze: stealing plant gubbins and cell membranes, and then combining them with upconversion nanoparticles to repair mitochondira in kidney injury! Controlled by trans-tissue near infrared light #science #nanotech #chemsky #biosky pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #DevBio #Zebrafish

How much is too much to ask when refereeing a paper? I don't feel like the authors quite did what I asked them to in the first report, but they've done *some* stuff. Also, some of the new plots show some potential new issues with the paper. But, I also don't want to be too mean...

Celebrating 1st authorships in the group. Congratulations again to 2nd yr PhD student Tali Skipper on her paper out in Cellular Oncology - "Revealing genetic drivers of ovarian cancer and chemoresistance: insights from whole-genome CRISPR-knockout library screens". doi: 10.1007/s13402-025-01102-4 🎉🧪

Delighted to receive some national press coverage of my Royal Society University Research Fellowship - I am trying to make upconversion nanoparticle technology more accessible for biomedical research #Chemsky #Nano www.heraldscotland.com/news/2547411...

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

The Technology Innovation Centre at the University of Strathclyde now has a robotic coffee barista! ☕

Sometimes I wonder if this sort of automated cooking system would be good for chemical synthesis? 🤔🤷

Scientists pioneer ‘animal internet’ with dog phones & touchscreens for parrots. Experiments enabled several species, from parrots & monkeys to cats & dogs, to enjoy long-distance video & audio calls. 🧪🦜😺🐶☎️ #TGIF www.ft.com/content/10dc...

First time I've seen a clothes brand sponsor a conference (entymology conference)

Excited to be at the Photonics and Quantum Accelerator co-creation workshop at Heriot-Watt University today!

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anyone know a Khodijah Baik/Bouk who did biochem lab work circa 2018? I found their lab book lying on the street at Glasgow's Barras market #Glasgow #science

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we scale neurotech. Current approaches (e.g. DBS for PD) aren’t meeting the need. Emerging ones may fare even worse. That’s why I’m scoping a new @aria-research.bsky.social programme to develop neurotech built for scale. Check out my post +share feedback!👇

Great paper from NanoLetters setting out a roadmap for the next 25 years in interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology #nano #chemsky #physics #biology #engineering

Next time you tell your boss all their micromanagement is killing you, would you like to back that with studies? Job stress, esp. if you already have a cardiometabolic disease, is shortening one's life expectancy (men having it much worse). 🧪 Link: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

These succulents got a glow up from researchers who injected the plants with inorganic phosphor particles. The researchers patented their technology and hope that it could lead to living light features in the future: cen.acs.org/materials/ph... #FluorescenceFriday #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

Really nice paper on optimising water-dispersible UCNPs for red emission for biomedical applications. Importantly it is made via easy-to-use autoclave apparatus. Complementary to my own team's work. 👀🍿 #Chemsky #Upcon pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

1 year alocasia glow up #houseplants

Cool paper showing strong circularly polarised luminescence (#CPL) from quantum dots at room-temperature via altering crystal lattice symmetry #chemsky #physics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What sort of software is used to make nice looking optical bench diagrams like this?

Molymod DNA kit

UK microscopy folk, where do you buy your water disperisble quantum dots from?