Durham is pretty in winter too!

Can someone explain to me how one talks about “decency or division” and racism, while doing exactly the same thing as the ones they are campaigning against? Catching up with newspapers and I’m completely lost.

I’m sorry but why didn’t anybody like a photo of my hedgehog!

Getting ready for winter 🦔

Plus side of visiting the USA (apart from the National Parks) is that you can buy enough Maseca at Walmart to keep making tamales back home forever #ChemistsWhoCook

Hello, America! Goodbye, Internet! 👋

This whole age confirmation bs is gonna lead to so many data leaks 😬😬😬

I’m vibe coding my lecture notes and it’s definitely more fun than making slides 🤓

This one courgette keeps giving.

These courgettes allegedly appeared in just over one week 😱

Ok someone please teach my how to use electric cookers. I’d argue I’m pretty good with gas? 😅

First time having to always deal via agents rather than directly with landlords and I’m experiencing peak incompetence.

It’s easy to forget how much of emotional labour it is to follow all these rules and potential changes and how they might apply to you. Similarly, future planning is again difficult- does it make a sense to even try to buy a house if you dont have an ILR?

​Following our successful SF event, we (www.compmotifs.com) are running another hackathon! When? 7-8 June. Where? London, UK. Who? Builders and researchers from academia and industry. What? Develop innovative computational tools to advance the natural sciences. Join us: lu.ma/apsqlxlj?utm....

Wrapping up the weekend with some gnudi in sage (garden) butter (bought) to use up the remaining wild garlic (foraged) #ChemistsWhoCook 🤤🤤🤤

This weekend is to catch up on all yum yums, including @tjfellowes.bsky.social’s signature pancakes #ChemistsWhoCook

More cooking today and trying to find use for the bumper crop of Jerusalem artichoke - turned into a saag aloo type curry with wild garlic (foraged locally) and rhubarb chutney (from the garden). #ChemistsWhoCook

While waiting for new produce, still going through the last years tomato sauce #ChemistsWhoCook

Things are being born 🥹

One more shoutout from my catching-up-with-cage-literature day: another systematic experimental-computational study from @fjduarte.bsky.social and Paul Lusby with great mechanistic insights doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

Exciting paper by @annabelbasford.bsky.social (from @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social and @jelfschem.bsky.social groups) showcasing automated workflow for discovery of metal-organic cages that show guest binding! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interesting last-minute opportunity for PhD candidates who are excited about undergraduate teaching: durham.taleo.net/careersectio.... Chemistry automation lends itself perfectly well into teaching labs -anywhere from automating experimental setups, to data collection and analysis. Get in touch!

Sometimes reading papers I’m wondering why publishing reviewers reports is not compulsory. Some of my questions probably overlap with what has already been answered…

A short read today with quite a convincing narrative on why we mosty see “approachable” wines in the market these days: timatkin.com/the-truth-ab.... Also being a generation that keeps renting and moving, I can’t really age wines myself. But then who can do it for me at good price?

Last couple of days to apply! :)

I choose to believe this heart in Ashbury-Haight is for @professor-dave.bsky.social

Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social

Two weeks left - please get in touch if you’re interested!

Nice write-up (open access in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social) of our workflow for autonomous metal-organic assembly discovery in @nature.com

Big shoutout to @tpexpress.bsky.social - I reported a minor inconvenience missing feature in the app (remembering seating preferences) and I swiftly got a reply that it is planned to be fixed in a future release 😍

So apparently, when you’re over 30, gardening is a whole body workout and you can’t move after one day of weeding, planting, repotting, and the like …

You could also tap onto an unlimited supply of wild garlic, just waiting to be foraged when looking at the cathedral!

I’m told by @nicoladem.it that I could enter the wallpaper business.

Given that food photos are probably irrelevant to PhD recruitment: this is where you could be working!

Excited to be recruiting a PhD student at Durham! 🎉  Fully-funded position in digital supramolecular chemistry, combining machine learning and lab automation. Think robot chemists! 🤖🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #phd #chemistry #ai #machinelearning #automation #durham #research #science

Today I noticed that the bench at the stunning viewpoint by Durham train station is dedicated to some Robert Murrell MA - “advocate of integrated public transport”. Perhaps one of the greatest things to be remembered for by the local community!

We have a chemistry data undergraduate internship open in Macclesfield, only a couple of days left to apply! Don't contact me, follow the link: astrazeneca.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Emerging-Tal...

What’s with all those butter ads on Instagram? Or is it just a sign of getting old.

Not really a cooked dish, more of an assemblage but still #ChemistsWhoCook Friday night dessert 🧁

I got IDed earlier today so I guess it’s a compliment?

I missed the blind wine tasting scene, plus student societies are just so much more fun than tastings with “real people” - the nerdiness is very exciting!

Inspired by the recent trip to Italy and Rick Stein’s long weekend in Palermo - spaghetti with overcooked cauliflower sauce 🤣. Super yummy, totally recommend. Very filling as half of the sauce is soggy breadcrumbs. #ChemistsWhoCook

Travelling from Vienna to Venice and it is among the beautiful train journeys I have taken :)

We have definitely reached peak potato Europe now 🥰

New PhD opportunity in #CompChem at @uclchemistry.bsky.social starting October 2025... If you're interested in developing new theoretical models for excited states, then we look forward to hearing from you. Please share widely... and Merry Christmas!

This is now officially holiday season 🎅🎅🎅

“I’ve removed more lines than I added”