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Shiny new Schlenk line day!! #itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬

Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social (doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️

Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers." What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals. Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...

Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪 via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️

Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.

#IneedAltText I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.

Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩‍🔬

Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄 #RealTimeChem 🧪⚗️

Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone: touchgrass.now

We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty #chemistswhocook

Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men. Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...

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First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄) This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬 #newPI

Today is the international day for women and girls in science. This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go. #womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social

oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻‍🔬

"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions." #WomenInSTEM

Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...

My to do list today: New research fellowship started ✅ Independent research career started ✅ Safety trainings ✅ Profile updated on bsky ✅ Schedule budget meeting ✅ All the big feelings: joy, fear, curiosity, pride, fear, more fear ✅✅✅✅ #chemsky #newPI 🧪⚗️

Privilege is not all inclusive. You might have experienced privilege in one or more areas, while being under resourced in others. Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it

Went looking for fossils on our local beach (a known site for fossils), and found an ancient fossil of a tree stump and a root, I think from a lepidodendron from the Carboniferous era. ⚗️ 🧪

We have two openings for PDRAs working in iron catalysis for organic synthesis as part of a funded EPSRC Fellowship. Applicants with strong backgrounds in inorganic synthesis and organometallic chemistry are strongly encouraged to apply. Link below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Finally got around to making the sloe gin… now just need to wait til Xmas ‘25 #chemistsWhoCook

I am advertising a fully funded chemistry PhD scholarship in my group at @aucklanduni.bsky.social to study titanium catalysts attached to sold supports. For more details see: tinyurl.com/FalconerPhD Please repost and share! #chemsky #inorganicchemistry #PhD #PhDscholarship #catalysis #greenchem

Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.

#chemsky our paper is apparently doing quite well rsc.altmetric.com/details/1703...

Happy to see that our paper on the first organometallic erbium bismuth cluster complex is currently among the "Most Read" in the Inorganic Chemistry journal 😊😎. Check out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #openaccess

Would you like to spend the next summer in beautiful Hamburg doing some uranium chemistry? If you're an undergraduate student from the UK, Ireland or North America, you have 11 days left to apply for two fully funded research internships via the DAAD: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise... #chemsky

A project I was involved with while in the Ingleson group just got published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. check it out if you are interested in mental boron chemistry (Clement has magic hands) #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine my spatula:

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’” True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.

We definitely need to introduce scientific literacy earlier in education 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🍎

Ginger and sesame pork burgers with roasted broccoli tonight- the soy and honey glaze hits the spot #ChemistsWhoCook

I feel seen 😅

#ChemistsWhoCook Sunday night baked gnocchi with red peppers and cherry tomatoes - tasty and easy!

#FluorescenceFriday reminder that if you sprinkle turmeric into alcohol while shining a UV light on it, you get a brilliant fireworks display in a glass 🎇 #ChemSky 🧪

Hello! I’m new to Bluesky (having left the other place a long time ago) and am looking to connect with other chemists #ChemSky As a brief intro; I’m an inorganic f-block/ main group synthetic chemist. I like food, the outdoors and I’m passionate about outreach and teaching