After a bumpy 2025, 2026 starts with a good story for us: “DFT calculations with Bayesian inference to improve the assignment and interpretation of vibrational spectra”, now out in Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the @emtccm.bsky.social program, we are organizing a Special Issue in Theor. Chem. Acc. This program has trained generations of scientists. Let’s celebrate it! ** Guest Editors: @laiavilanadal.bsky.social (@glasgow.ac.uk) and Ana Martin-Somer (@uam.es)

Buenos días, ojazos 👀 Me derrito...🫠

The internal angle of a pentagon is 108 degrees. The angle from my truncated tetrahedra is 109.5. This shoddy looking dodecahedral cluster might be a good example of cumulative errors, not just poor PVA-skills! 🧪

This one, a minimalist representation of the atomic structure of diamond (just 2 sheets of A4 paper). 🧪 #diamond #chemistry #scicom #sciart #art #papercraft

The world may be shaking 🫨 but summer means summer students! Fun experiments, learning, and fresh energy in the lab. I got them a little treat 🍪 As Voltaire said: “We must cultivate our garden.” Science, mentorship, life 🪴✨ #SummerStudents #LabLife #Voltaire #Mentorship

f you’re a chemist and want to see a discipline evolve in real time, check this out! They are challenging 200 years of chemistry, from human skill and endurance 💪🏻🧪⚗️to robot and code👩🏼‍💻🤖🦾 … so the human chemist can do the cool stuff 🏄🏻‍♀️

Try saying this next time you talk to a colleague, any gender: “You are sharp, rigorous, and your ideas changed how I think.” We’re in science for the ideas, not to be called “very organised” or “inspiring.” Compliment the mind.

The reviewer at Science found my writing "too bubby" for his tastes, but if you're not someone opposed to fun, you should check out The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog! Out one week from today!

Last week I got the news that I've been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at @mcgill.ca. Being a professor--research, teaching, service--is the best job to me. I'm incredibly grateful, especially for all the people who helped me get here & thrive here. ❤️

Back to the glamorous job of PI 😅 All authors replied with "fingers crossed" 🤞 Submission is officially in business!

Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Buenos días, ojazos 👀 Andáis por ahí, verdad? 🦉

I submitted a paper today! Yuhuuu. Is this celebrated here? I’m confused 🫣 LinkedIn, Twitter, 🦋?!? Anyhow! Fingers crossed 🤞 for us Very proud of my PhD and colleagues

🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting Day 19

Do something! Just do. An experiment, a figure, a paper, a book. Create and express yourself, have fun! We are just time in between oblivion. Oh, and if you can make it happen and it useful to others. This is next level happiness 😀 Enjoy ☺️ Primum non nocere! First do no harm

Feeling really tired and short of breath? It could be more than just a busy week. Pneumonia doesn’t always show up with a cough or fever. ⚠️ Don’t ignore the signs — book a GP appointment if something feels off. Early treatment matters. #PneumoniaAwareness #HealthTips

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about getting a half dozen likes on an esoteric post about the carbon opportunity cost of agricultural land use, and one mercy like on a cringe climate-themed lyrical rewrite of a song popular among 35-49 year olds

Cool mug to promote research culture, thanks to the InFrame project www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ri...

Just found out this one today in ANIE onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Training this algorithm for science stuff, so hi everyone!

Marginalized Jewish chemist 🧪 Dr Mildred Cohen earned a PhD under Nobel Prize-winner Harold Urey. She specialized in biochemistry using radioactive tracers, and was a pioneer in biochemical NMR methods. www.acs.org/education/wh...

Congratulations to Anne Spang @spanglab.bsky.social for being elected as a new #AAASFellow by @aaas.org ! The world’s largest scientific society recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field of cell #biology and #biochemistry. @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

Happy Birthday, Robert Bunsen! 🎂 He's best known for the eponymous Bunsen burner, which was actually constructed for Bunsen by instrument maker Peter Desaga. It was essential to the discovery of caesium and rubidium through their emission spectra. www.compoundchem.com/2023/03/31/b... #ChemSky 🧪

Publishing isn’t just about output—it’s about visibility, feedback, and progress. Losing access to quality journals accelerates the dismantling of Higher Education.

🚀 Who to follow in science? Looking for fun feeds :-) Suggestions? 🔬✨ #ScienceTwitter #WhoToFollow

Another excuse to procrastinate...