The Department Celebration begins! Here's @clairecarmalt.bsky.social ready to welcome all our staff and students to the new academic year!

Congratulations to Lana Rawlings from the Palgrave group on winning the @uclchemistry.bsky.social Ramsay Medal for the best graduating PhD student in the department #chemsky

This afternoon we had the annual @uclchemistry.bsky.social Ramsay Medal symposium during which the winner of the Ramsay Medal for the best graduating PhD student in the department is decided #chemsky

Happy first day of the new academic year. Fantastic to welcome all the new undergraduate chemistry students to the department @uclchemistry.bsky.social this morning. Looking forward to meeting all the new postgraduate students later today!

What a lovely way to spend the evening seeing all our @uclchemistry.bsky.social students graduate. Lots of happy faces, clapping & great views from the Royal Festival Hall. Nearly 20K steps done due to the underground strike but it was worth it 🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

We’ve developed the first-ever method to control nucleic acid activity and gene-expressing synthetic cells with a deeply tissue penetrating alternating magnetic field 🧬 🧪 🧲!!! Published in *Nature Chemistry* Led by Ellen Parkes @syncelleu.bsky.social #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For decades, scientists have considered the main type of ice in space to be completely disordered, like liquid water. A new study by Prof Christoph Salzmann, Dr Michael B Davies @uclmaps.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social and colleagues upends that assumption, finding it contains tiny crystals

The end of the UCL Technical Showcase, celebrating fab #technicans who create + enable daily! #technicansmakeithappen @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclmedsci.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social

Some shots from #OpenDay two! Featured: @uclchemistry.bsky.social odour #experiment, @statisticsucl.bsky.social taster on #Bayesian #statistics, learning about angular #momentum with UCL Physics & Astronomy, and exploring #maths for #finance with UCL Mathematics 💡 #UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk

Congratulations to Professor Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social and Dr Guanjie He on being honoured by the @rsc.org for work on unusual but important DNA structures and for developing safer, greener batteries @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

🎉 Today we reveal the 2025 RSC Prize winners! 🎉 Celebrating excellence across research, diversity, tech roles, apprentices and partnerships. Join us in congratulating the remarkable individuals and teams advancing chemistry for society. buff.ly/K2un4O1 #Chemistry #ChemSky

Congratulations to Dr Guanjie He who has received the @rsc.org Harrison‑Meldola Memorial Prize! www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Learn all about how exciting an #OpenDay can be with @uclchemistry.bsky.social student Mayukh. Find out more about #lab tours and exploring the #campus. Be sure to wear your comfy shoes, and see you this Fri/Sat! www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... #UCLOpenDays

A new book on #molecular #dynamics (MD) by Prof Peter Coveney & Dr Shunzhou Wan (both @uclchemistry.bsky.social), which combines new probabilistic interpretation with cutting-edge simulations & highlights the role of MD in drug discovery, materials design & beyond: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

How do startups shape scientific progress? We put this key question to Stefan Howorka @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk his perspective offers valuable insights. Stay tuned! youtu.be/tirxhzsDmF0

UCL Chemistry Hackathon 2 is running 22nd & 23rd July. How to make Lab Environments FAIR? See www.inator-project.org/Events/event... for details

Have you got your ticket for our in-person #Undergraduate #OpenDays on 27 and 28 Jun? Join us to find out everything you need to know about what it's like being a UCL student: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social

Calling all inorganic (bio)chemists - come be my colleague at the fantastic @uclchemistry.bsky.social !!! (Lecturer = Assistant Professor) London is such an incredible city to work in ❤️ Anyone in the US looking for a new job abroad... 👀 #chemsky 🧪

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

How did life on Earth begin? 🌍🧬 New #LMBResearch from Phil Holliger’s group, including James Attwater (now @uclchemistry.bsky.social‬‬ @uclnews.bsky.social) shows how pH-freeze-thaw cycles enables RNA self-replication, overcoming a key evolutionary hurdle.‬ Read more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Chemists at @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social and @mrclmb.bsky.social have demonstrated for the first time how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth – a key process in the origin of life www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Chemical Research, and the kind of cutting-edge research you could be taking part in on this programme. 30th May 2025, 10:30-11:00 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Sustainable Chemistry programme, and hear how to tackle the major global challenges of today and tomorrow. 19th May 2025, 10:00-10:30 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Published today! Molecular Dynamics: Probability & Uncertainty by Peter Coveney & Shunzhou Wan, a new novel exploration of molecular dynamics simulations through the lens of advanced probabilistic methodologies. Order direct from OxUniPress

Register your place for our Online Applicant Event to find out more about our MSc Materials for Energy and Environment, and the kind of cutting-edge research you could be taking part in on this programme. 12th May 2025, 10:30-11:00 (BST) www.ucl.ac.uk/chemis...

Our work on lactonase biocatalysts is finally out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congratulations to our team (Jingyue and Michele) @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and pur collaborators at CNR Milan and Zymvol. #biocatalysis #greenchemistry #sulfur onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

One #scholarship of £63,000 is available to assist a student from #Jordan, #Lebanon, #Palestine or #Syria who has applied to study MSc #Sustainable #Chemistry or MSc Advanced #Materials #Science ( #Sustainability)! Apply by 8 May: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... @uclchemistry.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce the Bseisu-UCL Scholarship, offered in conjunction with the Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation for applications for MSc in Sustainable Chemistry. Open for candidates in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Syria. Deadline 8 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

I'm really excited that ACS Bio & Med Chem Au has made me one of the 2024 Rising Stars in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry! So much credit goes to my group past and present ❤️ 🧬 What a fantastic list of people to be included with: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New paper out in JCIS 🚀 Check out how surface conduction in #microfluidics #diffusiophoresis enables passive and continuous separation of #nanoparticles with identical chemistry but different surface charge group concentrations @uclchemistry.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I you (a) like really fancy AFM, (b) like 2D nanomaterials, and/or (c) need a PDRA job in the near future, then boy do I have good news for you. Advert is now open for an 18 month PDRA position in my group in UCL, London. Closing date 20th May, informal email inquiries encouraged #chemsky #nanosky

Applications for our MSc in #Sustainable #Chemistry are still open. See the link below to apply and join @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and study #greenchemistry #biocatalysis #biomass #vslorisation #biotechnology www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...

🌍 This #EarthDay, we’re awarding £200,000 in Sustainable Laboratories Grants to support 25 new projects. This funding will drive work in seven countries to inspire green changes in labs, using everything from AI to low-impact techniques & more. Learn about the projects: rsc.li/slg #ChemSky #ED2025

@royalsociety.org released a beautiful #documentary on #KathleenLonsdale, partly filmed at UCL's Kathleen Lonsdale Building, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the election of the first women Fellows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf... @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Our ‘ice chemist’ Christoph Salzmann stopped by the BBC’s Infinite Monkey Cage to talk all things ice, including the 20 phases of ice – three of which he discovered! Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy to be at #Dalton2025 conference. Gave my talk yesterday and was presented with my shiny medal 😊 #Chemsky

22 March 2025 saw the 80th anniversary of the first women scientists being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Head to our YouTube channel to see our new short documentaries celebrating the lives and work of Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS:

Happy #WorldMathsDay! Learn about the #IslamicGoldenAge and how the scientific discoveries of this era still influence our understanding of the world today with UCL IMD student Pierette: youtu.be/YIWhYZMG5Ps #mathematics #maths @statisticsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclchemistry.bsky.social

"Lonsdale’s dedication to promoting ethics in science is something which I found particularly powerful and moving,” said Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The films kick off a year of activity celebrating, supporting and empowering women in STEM. Find out more here: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

In the second of our films celebrating the first women elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock returns to our archives with astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell to explore the life and career of Kathleen Lonsdale FRS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf...

Thinking about doing a masters degree in Chemistry? Applications are still open. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/st... #chemistry #postgraduate

New group preprint live on ChemRxiv in which we use GW-BSE to predict how the optical and electronic properties of CdS 'quantum dots' change with particle size and how this is related to the character of the excitations in these nanoparticles. doi.org/10.26434/che... #chemsky #compchem

Congratulations to Dr Fabrizia Foglia, the winner of the 2025 Science Award for her innovative use of neutron techniques to understand and improve the performance of membrane nanotechnologies for sustainable applications. www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/News25...

New #CompChem preprint... I've been working with the @cortogantese.bsky.social group on new ways to model multiconfigurational states by forcing UHF to break spin symmetry, even when it doesn't want to! Work led by the excellent Amir Ayati. arxiv.org/abs/2503.12548 @uclchemistry.bsky.social

This work is the prequel for our spin-projected constrained UHF theory introduced in arxiv.org/abs/2412.16458. Some beautiful theory showing how spin symmetry breaking incrementally splits one electron pair at a time. @uclchemistry.bsky.social #CompChem

One week to go to the abstract submission deadline (24/03/25) for contributed talks at the 5th International #SolarFuels conference, which we're organising together with the @rsc.org in Newcastle, UK, this September. #chemsky #photocatalysis

Don't miss the recent #OpenAccess paper by Jeremy K. Cockcroft et al. featured on the front cover of issue 10! "Non-covalent interactions in solid p-C6F4Cl2 and C6F5Cl" 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D4CE... 📍 @uclchemistry.bsky.social #ChemSky 🧪

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 We have developed an entirely new mechanism of action for ASO gene knockdown -> lysosomal trafficking! Works with non-DNA ASOs (unlike RNase H mech) and higher activity than corresponding gapmers! #chemsky 🧪 @uclchemistry.bsky.social sky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

New preprint 🎇 We developed oligonucleotide PROTACs (OligoPROTACs), which show comparable activity to small molecule equivalents - but can be *switched off*, using DNA nanotech, to restore protein levels! Last of Disha's trilogy! #chemsky 🧪 @uclchemistry.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...