And the Pikachu is *atrocious*! The Charizard/Venusaur/Blastoise though 👀

The anomeric effect is well known to chemistry students. But do we need to be more subtle when we think about what causes it?

Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "High-yield Synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots from Spent Graphite and Application in Hydrogel Zn Batteries" by Hongshuai Hou et al. from Central South University. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Applications close on 12 January (that's next Monday) – don't miss the chance to further your sci-comm career by working with our team.

HNY from Chemical Science! We wish you all a successful and peaceful 2026! Thank you to all of our readers, authors, and reviewers for making 2025 a huge success! We were delighted by the excellent papers in our 15th anniversary collections and we're excited for 2026! #ChemSky #HNY #2026

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

This week's Chemical Science Pick of the Week is from Tristan Rawling, @profphilgale.bsky.social, et al. "The role of transmembrane proton transport rates in mild mitochondrial uncoupling by arylamide substituted fatty acids" Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky

2025 has been another fascinating year in the chemical sciences. Here's the best of our content throughout the last 12 months.

Looking for an exciting sci-comm gig? Digital content assistant at the RSC's Chemistry World magazine could be it. Position closes on January 12, 2026 – new positions at the magazine don't come very often, so this could be a great opportunity.

Jennifer Newton looks at three recent studies that come from fields that illustrate an important notion.

Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

Awesome to see this research in @chemicalscience.rsc.org being picked up by @chemistryworld.com! The original work was actually a #ChemSciPicks - doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

We would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations! Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...

The approach, which has shown promise in animal and human cell models, might one day enable transdermal delivery of other biological drugs.

Proud to be part of this team recognised by @rsc.org with a Horizon Prize for our work to decolonise and diversify the way chemistry is taught. www.rsc.org/standards-an... #STEMEducation #ChemEd #ChemistryEducation #Chemistry #Decolonisation #HorizonAward #Diversity #EDI #DEI #HigherEducation

🧪This is definitely one that #compchemsky will like! It took me a hot minute to get my head around the different behaviour at different length scales but I love me some fun bonding! #Chemsky

who says science can’t be fun

RSC Advances is delighted to announce our 2024 Outstanding Student Paper Award winners 🏆 These awards recognise outstanding research in 2024 conducted by a student. Discover our winners: doi.org/10.1039/D5RA... Read the articles: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/... Congratulations to all of our winners!

At slightly short notice, I’m very excited to be attending day 2 of the @chemicalscience.rsc.org #chemscisymposium! Be sure to keep an eye on the ChemSci feed to keep up-to-date on today’s great lineup of talks! #Chemsky

My first ever submission to @materialshorizons.rsc.org is “With Editor” - oh my gosh, it’s been so long since I was last on this end of the peer review system and I keep clicking ‘refresh’ 🤣 #ChemSky

Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "Direct measurement of covalent three-center, two-electron M–H–B bonding in Zr and Hf borohydrides using B K-edge XAS" by Jason Keith and Scott Daly et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSciPicks

🧪 Great to see that alkyl groups are still being talked about! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... I’ve been intrigued to see what would develop here after interviewing @markelliottcardiff.bsky.social for @chemistryworld.com earlier this year! www.chemistryworld.com/news/time-to... #ChemSky

This Chemistry World is covering the work of @kozuchsebastian.bsky.social, published in Chemical Science. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky

Lots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This has got to be the best GA I’ve seen this year! #ChemSky

#chemnobel #chemsky #ozchem

A pleasure to talk to Janek Betting about his research on nitrate/nitrite reduction for @chemistryworld.com Big thank you also to Charlie Werth and @jennifernewton.bsky.social! #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/hydroxy...

It’s the last day of #ISF2025 😱 It’s time for Erwin Reisner’s Tilden Prize Lecture! I actually worked on the same corridor as @reisnerlab.bsky.social for 5 years; let’s forget the time that someone from our lab accidentally hit their emergency power-off button 😅 #ChemSky #solarfuels

Day 4 of #ISF2025 and Sideshow Bob in @chemicalscience.rsc.org Editor-in-Chief @aicooper.bsky.social’s plenary lecture was *not* on my bingo card! #ChemSky #solarfuels #TheSimpsons

Day 2 of #ISF2025! Really looking forward to hearing keynote talks from @chemicalscience.rsc.org Associate Editor Vincent Artero and Advisory Board member Elizabeth (Libby) Gibson! #ChemSky #solarfuels

The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...

Very excited to be representing @chemicalscience.rsc.org and @rsc.org at this year’s international #solarfuels conference! I’m looking forward to meeting everyone in Newcastle later today! #ChemSky #ISF2025

✨Spotlight✨ The Bob Hay Award Lectureship 🏆 Given in memory of Prof. Bob Hay by a chemist within 15 years of PhD completion, for exceptional research contributions to the MASC field and/or exceptional service to the community. Deadline 📆 5th Sep More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr... (1/4)

‘Within the inorganic crystal community there’s been a strong sentiment that you cannot have chiroptical effects under centrosymmetry,’ says Roel Tempelaar, a researcher at Northwestern University. New research on crystalline lithium cobalt selenium oxide challenges that. #ChemSky

Come and find me at #WATOC2025 at the @rsc.org booth 🥳 I'm representing @pccp.rsc.org and my colleagues from @chemicalscience.rsc.org and @digital-discovery.rsc.org will join me tomorrow! #chemsky Come and chat #compchem and grab a freebie while you're here! 🧪 #compchemsky

The most energetic molecule ever, and only the second ever neutral nitrogen molecule, hexanitrogen, has been isolated and characterised by researchers in Germany. #ChemSky

23% of first-generation students said they felt like impostors, compared to just 2% of non-first-generation students. They were less likely to be invited to summer lab placements and less likely to report having family support.

Very excited to be representing @chemicalscience.rsc.org at the 6th ERC Grantees Conference in Porvoo, Finland! Nobel prize winner @feringalab.bsky.social is kicking us off and I’m telling myself not to be starstruck! #ChemSky

It’s wonderful to see so many personal reflections from the community! @callyhaynes.bsky.social was my day-to-day supervisor when I started my PhD and I also adore Larissa and Marion so the narrative here is very close to my heart! #ChemSky

The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky

Ambiguities in chemical nomenclature can lead to misinterpretations that impact everything from data integration and intellectual property disputes to regulatory compliance and product safety. That's why Iupac is working to standardise the definitions of a molecular machine, and you can help!

PCCP and @digital-discovery.rsc.org are delighted to be providing poster prizes at EuChemS CompChem 2025 this September! Submit your oral and poster abstracts by 30 April for a chance to present your work at this excellent conference! Find out more at www.eucompchem2025.unina.it

Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Gerard Roelfes (@roelfesgroup.bsky.social, @stratinghinst.bsky.social) et al.! ‘Genetically Encoded 3-Aminotyrosine as Catalytic Residue in a Designer Friedel-Crafts Alkylase’ Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciPicks #ChemSky 🧪

Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Travis Dudding, Adam Huczyński and Thomas Lectka et al.! ‘A Highly Selective C-H Bond Fluorination Unlocks Conformational Reporting in a Complex Natural Product Derivative’ Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciPicks #ChemSky 🧪

Chemical Science is excited to announce this year’s Chemical Science symposium, on the topic of imaging, biosensing and diagnostics! Alongside celebrating 15 years of the journal, the winner of our first Chemical Science Lectureship will be presenting their […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Check out our coverage of this exciting research here: www.chemistryworld.com/news/ball-mi...

Working week - done #Switch2 - preordered Piranha Plant camera - 💯

Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks from Rui Hao. The team based at Southern University of Science and Technology, China, report a new approach for constructing stable water-air nanointerfaces using FIB-fabricated Janus nanopore electrodes. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

After accidentally leaving a sample out overnight, University of California researchers found that their germanium wafer now featured a ‘stunning’ series of microscopic patterns. #ChemSky

From Michael Faraday to Rosalind Franklin, here are 11 chemists who have had their contributions to science honoured with the erection of a blue plaque on the building where they lived and worked. #ChemSky