Open PhD position in Tom Willhammar’s group on MOF synthesis and advanced electron crystallography @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, which I will co-supervise. Please spread and apply if interested! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📣PhD Position now available📣 🗓️Application Deadline 8.2.2026 📌The position will be hosted at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense) 🧪You will develop metal–organic frameworks as platforms for multi-electron redox chemistry 🔗 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Spotted in Rome: a researcher-sized Moka pot (possibly pun intended)

More interesting stats by anisota.net/harvest Cryptic combinations emerge, probably a message from a greater consciousness from a parallel (reciprocal?) dimension: "Lattice scientists" "Hope symmetry" "Paper crystals" "Disordered community" and most importantly... "Soon Science" 😌

"In a world where the cost of the answers is dropping to 0, the value of the question becomes everything" youtu.be/dcolM6W5Odc?...

📢!! After nearly a decade looking for my place in academia, I am incredulous to announce that in 2026 I'll start as research Professor at Ewha University in Seoul, and visiting PI at ShanghaiTech! I'm so thrilled to get closer to my Asian friends 🍻 and finally realize my scientific vision! 🎆 #MOFs

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

A nice correlated disorder pattern in the KLM airplane #BraggYourPattern

Turns out that in awarding the chocolate ones they are way less picky #NobelPrize 🪙

Time for possibly the fanciest thing I will experience in my lifetime: #NobelPrize concert is about to begin 🪙

"Everybody focuses on the useful, nobody pays attention to the useless." Susumu Kitagawa at #NobelLectures citing ancient Chinese philosophy on the use of the useless, the value of the empty... principles I have been cherishing since my early studies of Dào Dé Jīng (道德經) almost 2 decades ago 🫶🏻 🪙

"Nature is a nervous banker" John M. Martinis #NobelLectures 🪙

"Quite remarkably, the SLUG (superconducting low-inductance undulatory galvanometer) behaved like a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device)!" John Clarke #NobelLectures 🐌🪙

This picture competes for the least original or significant I have ever posted, but right there you see my last non-swedish coffee of the week: I'm coming for your Kanelbullar and Hallongrotta, Stockholm! Oh.. and for the #MOF #NobelPrize week 😌 see you soon, my friends!

Congrats @tillschertenleib.bsky.social! I feel honoured to have served as committee memeber in your PhD defence: truly fantastic work on #totalscattering & #MOFs 👏 actu.epfl.ch/news/doctora...

Among the worst sides of AI there's definitely the fact that I keep reading it "aluminium" #ChemSky

THREAD One Year of tracking research communication on @bsky.app This time last year we officially added the Bluesky social platform to the places where we track research communication and article sharing. Here are some of the most viral articles that gained traction in the last 12 months. 1/14

Still another month or so to apply to work with me: predicting the crystals and their properties on Titan!

The chemical connection for day 3 of #ChemAdvent is furfural: adding nutty flavours to both roasted chestnuts and turrón, the Spanish Christmas sweet 🌰 #ChemSky 🧪

Congrats again to Emily, I'm looking forward to your coming career milestones! A much deserved accomplishment, very much anticipated by anyone knowing her well 😊 If you don't, you might wanna keep an eye on her past and upcoming work... 💯✨ #MOFs #crystallography

Very cool feature! Lots of interesting stats to reflect on... for example, my alt-text attention could have been a bit better

🆕 Academic slop reporter! I'm going to start collecting and compiling A.I. slop graphics that have appeared in academic journals, similar to my collection of academic hoaxes. If you stumble across any slop in a journal, tell me about it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hugely deserved - a shiny tip of an iceberg built on unshakable commitment to quality in knowledge communication. As a long-time learner from @veritasium.bsky.social I'm so glad to see this news! 👏👏👏 #scicomm

As someone who squeezed useful info from quite a few patterns, I have to say that nothing is more useless than the sentence: "The crystal did not diffract" #chemchat #crystallography

The new PXRD optimize functionality enables the use of AutoFIDEL within the Mercury GUI to optimize a crystal structure against an experimental powder pattern. Use with routinely collected PXRD data in combination with CSP data to rapidly identify #CrystalStructures. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/3LQPnjI

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For the first time, scientists have shown that mechanoluminescence can occur in the absence of a crystalline phase and polymer matrix, using amorphous solids made from copper complexes.

Omg this is a goldmine of beauty and inspiration... 💚 tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection

What do the wrinkly skin of an elephant, the hardy shells of a virus, and the tropical fruit of a Swiss cheese plant have in common? They’re all built from tiny repeating tiles of proteins or other natural materials. https://scim.ag/4plsFPc

Final chance. Apply by tomorrow(!) for a contributed talk at our #MATSUS26 symposium on Halide #Perovskites for #Quantum Technologies. 📍Barcelona, Spain 📅23-27 March 2026 Abstraction submission link: www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring... @maksymuki.bsky.social @q-akkerman.bsky.social @nanoge.org

Learn how to select atoms using SMARTS in Mercury by watching this 2-minute video. You’ll learn how to: ✔️Open Mercury and load a structure ✔️Select a substructure using SMARTS ✔️Specify the stereochemical configuration 📽️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWv... #Crystallography #CompChemSky

📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

🧪 #chemsky A new single crystal was recently synthesized and obtained, featuring two individual crystals that grew together. This is the second time I have observed this kind of intergrown or concomitant single crystal pair. #Chemistry #SingleCrystal

How could you not love #crystallography? An approximation of the incommensurate structure of Y⅓TaO₃ #ChemSky arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01241

If you did not get enough on this year's #NobelPrize on #MOFs or just don't get what's all the fuss about, you might enjoy our dedicated Highlight for @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! 😊 A record-speed collab with Stefan Wuttke and Len Barbour 🙏 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I archive #PeerReview files since I started in 2018. Today I casually looked at a case from 2022. My review was ca. 1600 words, highlighting plenty of problems and guiding towards solutions. The study was eventually rejected, then published, unchanged, in another journal. Why am I doing this, again?

Note to Authors, Editors, anyone who cares: I enjoy scrutinizing features and noise (including that of white space, which is a thing for low-res images). If SI images are not sufficiently crisp, I see missing info that I will request, and the review process might have more rounds... ☕ #PeerReview 🫶

💼 Work opportunity We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems. Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA

Open PhD position at Chalmers, Sweden! Welcome to apply! www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...

They should make an H(ypnosis)-index for generative-art gifs, defined as the ratio between how long people get trapped in front of it and the actual length of the gif (this is 3 seconds)... For me, this gif has H in the range 20-25

Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27. 🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays

#compchem 🗳️ I'm making a series of exercices on “molecular simulation of materials”, focusing on classical atomistic methods. Other lecturers cover electronic structure and ab initio MD. What would be good (simple) systems to study, nice properties to calculate, analysis methods to showcase?

I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/... #Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry

And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects

While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern

Understanding geometry through model making

SAVE THE DATE! The 11th European Crystallography School (ECS11) takes place June 28–July 4, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction & 3D electron diffraction. Learn from leading experts through lectures and hands-on workshops! www.ecs11.org

A truly delightful piece indeed #chemsky

🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟 Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs. 👉 attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/482... #ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials

🎵 Sound-controlled crystals? In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience! 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Crystallography