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?

🧪In a 5-4 divided decision, the Supreme Court blocked the policy used to terminate certain NIH grants. However, the ruling allows existing grant terminations to stand, leaving affected researchers and their projects without funding for the time being. #NIH #AcademicSky

Very nice to have our paper on superfluorescent upconversion nanoparticles highlited in the RSC Nanoscale Horizons summer newsletter :) #ChemSky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Very excited to announce that I will be a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF)! This will enable me to expand my team and purchase the specialist equipment required to make upconversion nanoparticles easier to synthesize and to develop them as biomedical research tools. #ChemSky

If anyone's heading over/up/down to @vicephec.bsky.social next week, check out the presentation by Strathclyde student sgchem.bsky.social , who used TikTok to punch up our prelabs! Previously of the YouTube Paper fame, with @lemackz.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

My colleauges are reporting this seems to be a systemic issue. Anyone else experiencing this for ACS? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Remember to use #preprints, because sometimes ACS are automatically blocking IP addresses for no good reason? WTF? #ChemSky

I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly: It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System. It’s behaving like a comet. There is no evidence it’s artificial.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

There is nothing worse than trying to buy some innocuous lab supplies via Agilient from Germany. Quote was for 1 week dispatch. In reality it is 3-4 business months. It's like dealing with Vogons! Quite literally wanting things rubber stamped... #ChemSky

More impressive optogenetics results utilizing #upconversion nanoparticles to help repair spinal cord injury www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tiny treasure revealed by the low tide at Cove today. Uranium glass #Everydayelements 🧪 Popular and fashionable between 1880-1920, which coincides with the post industrial movement of wealthy Glaswegian merchants out of the city to large country houses in this corner of the Firth of Clyde.

🏫 University startups ≠ corporate startups A new review shows academic entrepreneurs face unique hurdles; unlike corporate founders they must reinvent their identity to succeed in the market. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SciComm #HigherEd 🧪

New elegant chiral spectroscopy approach by group of Robert Cameron (Strathclyde): chirality of small molecules can be assessed via circular polarisation signals in Rayleigh scattered laser light (probing and detecting at same λ) #ChemSky #Optics #Physics preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/pre...

Some photos from The Clyde today

Are there any polymer research groups or suppliers in the UK capable of making/selling deuterated polyethylenimine (PEI)? 👀 I'm looking to buy or collaborate if possible #ChemSky

Nice paper by group of Nick Kotov on using graph theory to map complexity in nanomaterials pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

The astrophysical equivalent of this Simpsons bit www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Reptile Emotion' would be a great name for an hardcore-Emo band

Bioscience folks - are there any low costs fluorescent biology things I could safely use for outreach displays and which don't actually involve culturing things? #fluorescenceFriday

Dr June Almedia was responsible for the first-ever image of a coronavirus, yet she is not well known in Scotland, where she grew up. So it is great to see that the Royal Society of Edinburgh have an early career medal in her name! rse.org.uk/award/rse-ju...