Meanwhile, in other carbon material news... Really glad @dalmeet.bsky.social took this on for us.

I see a black car and I want to paint it blacker? Please welcome @theanageorgescu.bsky.social to the @cenmag.bsky.social team, and enjoy her first story for us cen.acs.org/materials/na...

Animal health companies are repurposing old drugs to kill the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite affecting cows, sheep, and other mammals that was detected in the US last week. #chemsky 🧪

My mates and I went to Glastonbury when I was in lower sixth FFS.

First Germany match of the tournament and we're already at the "cheers from neighbours arrive before the live stream shows the goal" paradigm

Gawd I miss working with Lisa, but I love that I still get to read her smart takes

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

Microscopy nerd alert: two scopes in California can now do phase contrast cryoEM - potentially fixing the tech's very low signal/noise ratio. The phase filter they used is a laser. Which is also the brightest thing in the solar system (outside of the inside of the sun). cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

Breaking: EU Council presidency proposes 4% smaller budget for 2028-34 research and innovation programme and Erasmus+ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

There is World Cup chat in my very American work slack and there is no way I can just start shouting EAT MY GOAL or LIQUID FOOTBALL. I mean, you probably can't just do that at work anyway, but at least in the UK someone might get the reference. Sigh...

It is infuriating to me that energy efficiency has become a party political football in Germany. In an alternative universe, a pro business and innovation CDU would position Germany to benefit from an energy transition that is already happening. Instead, we have this ideological mess.

Good news: US consumers finally get a sunscreen molecule that's been available over here for years. Bad news: None of the other UV filter molecules used elsewhere in the world are in the FDA approvals pipeline cen.acs.org/business/spe...

I have a theory that Millennials are vexed by video because they conceptualise the web as reference library whose purpose is rapid information recall, even though it has long since moved on to being an entertainment space whose purpose is filling the hours

This 👇

Call me crazy, but i think people selling food to the public should be held to basic hygiene and business standards?

"If you have a technology that you believe in and that you see a prospect in, go for it. This is your chance." cen.acs.org/business/sta...

Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog: "In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes." More: cen.acs.org/research-int...

Brits in Germany, we can give blood now!

I'm back after a week of vacation and catching up on my reading, this was sobering: Why I left the FDA and fear for its future as told to @cenmag.bsky.social by Stephanie Springer cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...

Starts in 1hr. You can register and listen in www.who.int/news-room/ev...

Excuse me if I'm tired today, I stayed up too late liking Arsenal fan posts on Instagram

I'm so happy for all of us

Look, I'm not proud of the carbon footprint, but it turns out if you trap me in a metal tube in the skies for an hour and a half i can actually get some work done that I've been failing to find the time for for about a month.

This is a truly lovely article

ICYMI: Update on the helium scramble caused by the war in Iran. Asia is shopping for North American helium, supplies are getting shaky in Europe, and GCMS is hit harder for now than NMR. cen.acs.org/business/spe... #helium #chemistry #NMR #GCMS #Iran #news

They’re here! Introducing the Talented 12 Class for 2026. These early-career scientists are taking on big global #chemistry challenges. Meet the 2026 Class: cen.acs.org/people/profi... #CENT12 #chemsky 🧪

Marty Makary resigned on Tuesday after a tumultuous year as FDA commissioner. He leaves behind a mixed legacy, as @rowanwalrath.bsky.social reports for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/regul...

Psst — I’m posting German-language content while North America is still asleep: My great colleague Sharin has written about her experiences regarding racism as a German person of color. If you read German, be sure to check it out: www.spiegel.de/panorama/ges...

Hi #chemsky were you affected by the Canvas outage? We at @cenmag.bsky.social would love to hear from you for a potential story! My DMs are open!

First genome sequence from Andes hantavirus strain from ongoing ship outbreak posted on Virological: virological.org/t/complete-s... courtesy Swiss National Reference Centre for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Zurich

Biocatalysts can build big molecules. A team at Merck & Co. developed a suite of enzymes that stitch together their oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky

Not sure how much of Timmy's fate has broken out from German media, but I appreciate @martinenserink.bsky.social's reporting of the sorry tale. www.science.org/content/arti...

Human proteome mappers 10 years ago: Aw shucks, this ORF isn't actually translated. Time to reduce the count of human proteins again. Human proteome mappers today: MOAR miniproteins! cen.acs.org/biological-c...

We are staring down something serious in the short and long term. BUILD THE EFFING RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE ALREADY.

UK greens now apparently pro short haul flights. Yes private jets should probably be curtailed, but that isn't going to fix the broader problem. I'd really like some grown up policies somewhere instead of people implementing subsidies for something that's in increasingly short supply.

Fantastic article from @katie0martin.ft.com. “Lots of governments passed up the chance to borrow for nothing in the zero-interest-rate years…Most of the world failed to get the green energy memo after Russia’s assault on Ukraine. It is entirely plausible that Europe will miss this chance too”

FIVE TARGETS. ONE MOLECULE. (It's a peptide-small molecule conjugate, so we're looking at 2+3=5 instead of one incredibly polypharmacological binding interface, but STILL.) cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

For our obit of Craig Venter, @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social dug up pre-HGP drama that I had never even heard of (spoiler: it's to do with patenting genes.) And @phylogenomics.bsky.social graciously shared remembrances of a complex, but really influential scientist. cen.acs.org/people/obitu...

Celebrating 1. Mai by doing my tax return.

Lots of people are talking about this study, this headline, this picture (!), and ultra-processed foods. It’s been my job for 25 years to understand nutrition. I think there are 5 - count ‘em, 5! - things that you need to know about UPFs and health. Here they are. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Read everything you write out loud. It helps you spot clumsy sentences and non sequiturs.

Credit where credit's due. 1 month since I put the application in, and 20 days since the passport office received my docs, and then new dark blue passport was just delivered. So I am yet again able to travel back to the home land.

Trump hasn't just waged war on US media; he has transformed it in his image. Billionaire allies now own major outlets. Tech titans indulge him. Fox News dominates. "He did this in a totally free society," says one historian. "It’s extraordinary". Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/jLYsNAn

Really interesting to see the role the Berkeley grad student union has played in this case: cen.acs.org/research-int...

"peptide biohacking"

Is it life? No. But is it a first of its kind chemistry experiment done more than 100 million miles from Earth? Hell yah!!🧪 (Plus, finding new organics on Mars is pretty neat too) cen.acs.org/physical-che...

Hey, UC Berkeley chemistry department: C&EN would like to hear from you. DM, or signal Laurel_Oldach.07 (amplification appreciated!)

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

I actually think there're going to be transformative uses of AI and science. But i'm not convinced that souped up dataset and literature searches are, in and of themselves, going to revolutionise the science and business of making and testing new pharmaceuticals.