🧵Teaching Students NOT to use AI So...I've tried to explain to my students why they aren't allowed to use genAI in MY class (even though the university seems to be encouraging them to) I've written this document to try to explain WHY it's a bad idea rather than just forbidden fruit. #AI #genAI

Following Sir Ian Chapman’s speech at the Innovation for Growth Summit about a renewed strategic direction for UK Research and Innovation, Dr Rebekah Smith McGloin (Chair) has made the following statement on behalf of UKCGE.

If my experience this morning of trying to deal with credit card fraud via my banking app is anything to go by I suspect the AI revolution is further away than some adherents would like to think.1/2

New trailer for ‘Fallout’ S2 ☢️ Premiering December 17 on Prime Video

This week’s free to read is comparing the three Axis navies… Is the Kriegsmarine the poor relation? open.substack.com/pub/jerijero... #history #ww2 #navalhistory

Which one is more English?

Even though I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, this is the first time making it into Chemistry World. www.chemistryworld.com/careers/the-...

We're kicking off our 3rd Conference on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in PG Research today in Leeds with a welcome from Louise Banahene PFHEA MBE: Director of Educational Engagement and Student Success at University of Leeds. #ukcgeEDI

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

#weeangus is watching the rugby with me this afternoon #caturday #proofofcat

Rob Jetten (in English) about his triumph: "We've now shown to the rest of Europe and the world that it is possible to beat a populist movement if you campaign with a positive message for your country."

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

It's been one year since my blog on the closure of Hull, which kind of blew up. A thread with some reflections on what's happened since then. 1/ www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2024/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified. #DisabledInSTEM #NDEAM cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

For my Year 1 lecture course this year, I used AI to produce an audio podcast to support student learning. I was amazed how listenable it was, and how broadly accurate it turned out to be. In this thread, I talk through the process I used to make the podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK36...

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing. Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing. Choose sanity. Vote Binface. (Photo dated 9th October 2025)

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall dies aged 91 such sad news a real beacon of science and one who was one of my very early influences #science #pioneer #womeninSTEM

We're excited to welcome our Oct #OUGradSch25 PhD cohort to campus today! We can’t wait to hear about their research journeys. On Fri, we’ll also welcome Professional Doctorate students. Also welcome to the first PhD by Distance Learning cohort! @oulibrary.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social

UKCGE's Director, Dr Owen Gower (pictured right) is currently presenting at the 2025 Strategic Leaders' Global Summit in Québec City, Canada. This year the summit is focussed on AI and other emerging technologies, and how they will impact on postgraduate education in the future.

Your regular reminder that genAI/chatbots not trained to do chemistry are bad at chemistry.

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

The Combat at El Bodon 25 September 1811 might not be a grand tactical battle, but it highlights Wellington's long front line, but it is perhaps best best known for the charge of the 2/5th Regt against French Cavalry! @redcoathistory made this youtu.be/nrZdOdIRKsM?...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The call for presentations is now open for our Annual Conference in July 2026; international participants are welcome. Please see our website for detailed themes and instructions on how to submit an abstract (closes November 7th 2025).

Sunday mode activated #proofofcat

A different look at the Women's Rugby World Cup with me and Jim Carter. Please consider reposting. youtu.be/64TWnAHSXOU?...

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves. www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...

Oh lovely Mahler 5th Symphony on #BBCProms glorious Friday evening

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

Postdoc position open for applications until 8th Sept! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

25 August 1944 | Auschwitz II-Birkenau: gas chambers and crematoria II & III (left), gas chambers IV & V (right) & bunker II (top) - an early gas chamber used in 1942-43 and reopened in late spring 1944. Watch a short video about the history of gas chambers and crematoria: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

A circular molecule made up of just 48 carbons has been stabilised using macrocycles. This has allowed this kind of normally fleeting carbon allotrope to be bottled and investigated www.chemistryworld.com/news/ring-of...

Impact factors and citation metrics across analytical, organic, physical and medicinal chemistry.

This is incredible

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

Tom Lehrer was a staple in my house growing up. What a talent. His satirical songs are insightful and biting but, as a chemist, "The Elements" will also have a special place in my heart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3...

From TimeHop, the first proofs of Ecko Rising. A magical moment, a world in my head, all brought to life. It's a portal #fantasy mash-up, featuring a hardbitten #cyberpunk assassin, Chosen to Save The World... And telling it to get stuffed. He likes blowing shit up, and he says #fuck a lot 🔥

I'll share what I've been up to in documentally.substack.com

As promised, postdoc positions at BristolUni.bsky.social available in homogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry exploring the replacement of palladium catalysts by Earth-Abundant Metals: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #ChemSky #CompChemSky #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs

perfect comedy timing from the Speaker at #PMQs calling Nigel Farage after Starmer promises to go after “the fraudsters, the grifters, the con artists no matter who they are” 😄

Having read and enjoyed all of Raynor Winn's books, I'd assumed that there was some poetic licence. But no, it went far beyond that. Great investigation. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

One of our cacti is full of the joys of summer!