Leopards and their spots.

Si Wu et al. propose a reversible, sorption-driven dissolution refrigeration cycle with promise for cooling, heating and thermal energy storage.

I'm simply dying to set up a reaction

I have never wavered in my position that there can be no compromise with RFK Jr. He is a dangerous fraud who has caused incalculable damage to public health. It’s extremely disappointing that the President of the American Medical Association was doing a photo op with RFK Jr. this morning.

Your soy-milk latte not only tastes different than the whole-milk version—it flows differently too. How milk flows affects everything from how long it lasts on a shelf to how it feels in your mouth. #chemsky 🧪

I heard the audio. He said it. Lord. What have y'all done.

Three million pages of Epstein files were released. Around the world: arrests, investigations, resignations. In the U.S.? Officials say there’s “nothing there” and the person who appears in the files the most goes unscrutinized. @gloriouslygloria.bsky.social examines the silence.

The religious right has infiltrated far into our military with disturbing consequences.

European leaders have concluded that the Russian politician Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison in 2024 because he “was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” epibatidine. #chemsky 🧪

Benzene at 200: From oil by-product to aromatic icon The history of ‘everyone’s favorite hexagon’ illustrates the resonance of basic science and how discoveries build over time. #chemsky 🧪

#Horses near Vosbergen #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs

Cuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu... #chemsky 🧪

The scientific evidence is clear. #ClimateChange poses serious risks to human health. To understand how climate change affects human health, and why limiting fossil fuel emissions is important, see: royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

"beautiful clean coal" keeps whispering through my psyche like pennywise

Northern Lights over Greenland.

I'm taking a moment to appreciate NS conductors. Every day, they show professionalism and friendliness. Often they even have a little personal touch for each person on the train: if they see that you have an NS business card, they say: 'werk ze!'. Good vibes all around.

Alchemy was not just the cliché of would-be wizards failing to turn lead into gold; alchemists' workshops enabled them to achieve important discoveries in the study of chemistry. Explore our visual tour of the history of chemistry research funding to learn more: cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky🧪

Exclusive: chemistry's international governing body is moving from its home of 25 years in the US to two cities in Europe.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

If anyone is looking for a postdoc, feel free to slide into my dms :)

A fully funded PhD position is available in my future research group at the University of Bern (start between May and September 2026). We are developing polycyclic aromatics for semiconductors, sensors & more! Please spread the word! More information here: tinyurl.com/4n9ere6h

“Academia should prepare you for the real world” is just code for normalizing exploitation. Why are unpaid labor, toxic hierarchies, and abuse considered preparation instead of problems to fix? 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat

✨ COLOR THAT THINKS. Just out in Nature Communications: a hydrogel that changes color, fluorescence, and shape — all controlled by light-gated redox switching! 💡🔋💜 From transparent to deep purple, from still to moving — chemistry meets soft robotics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great project on the combined use of light- and redox-switching in hydrogels is now published in Nat. Commun. We can generate all types of stable redox patterns and actuation under ambient conditions using light for spatio-temporal control!

Check out the most colourful work of my PhD, available now from Nature Communications! (It's open access, you have no excuse not to read) Thank you to my collaborators, among others @robertheinchem.bsky.social @feringalab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I would, more broadly, love to read something on why women are seemingly the ones with all the hobbies - it strikes me once in a while but noticed it most recently in my film camera shop, where *every single customer* was a woman, when film photography doesn't strike me as especially female coded

The sun can provide limitless heat for buildings and industrial processes. But using that heat on demand means capturing and storing solar thermal energy for when the sun isn’t shining. Researchers have designed an effortless way to do this. cen.acs.org/energy/solar... #chemsky 🧪

Excited to share the publication of our automated characterisation platform for measuring the quantum yield and half life of molecular photoswitches. The method is easy to use and reduce also the needed amount for characterisation. #chemsky #molswitch pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Pigpotrait #tSwieneparredies #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZoology #animals #pig #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

Een shirt van schimmels: een goede stap richting een duurzamere mode-industrie 👕 Marleen Kamperman (FSE/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social) en Marijke Leliveld (FEB) kijken hoe het bruikbaar kan worden gemaakt, én interessant wordt voor de consument 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat... #Fashion #Science

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Just published in @natcomms.nature.com! We developed a photoswitch amphiphile that self-assembles in water. In presence of cations, this amphiphile forms a hydrogel that bends like muscle under UV-light and self-recovers without any external stimulus. @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

A few firms are developing lab coats in a wider range of sizes and with features that enhance comfort: cen.acs.org/safety/lab-s... #chemsky #phdsky #academicsky 🧪

Designing for climate change | Podcast for MoMA on the inspiration for the climate spirals and warming stripes www.moma.org/magazine/art...

Stephanie Beaupark is working to analyze the chemistry of natural dyes made from eucalyptus plants. This Ngugi researcher gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities to track changes in plant pigments. #ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay cen.acs.org/environment/...

🧪Here are our current open positions: www.benferinga.com/vacancies/ - PhD on Functional DNA-Rotator Motors - PhD in the Origin of Homochirality - PhD on Expanding Prebiotic Chemistry Through Reactivity in Oil Droplets - Postdoc Molecular motors based DNA-walkers

Last Tuesday, I defended my PhD thesis titled "Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Storage: Powered by Molecular Switches" A huge thank you to my two beautiful paranymphs who supported me the entire day, and my amazing opponents for the great questions. Hugs, Dr. Roza

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

More is more when it comes to bisthioxanthylidene 😍

Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

Icon and idol