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Frontier Molecular Orbitals... Never underestimate the fear factor! #chemsky #chemchat #chemistry

Yes, but hear me out: My favorite faculty profile pic is the one where I brought a probe with me and refused to put it down for one single shot, so they had to use it on the website.

The trees have clouds for leaves

Been training for this moment my whole life.

SCAFFOLD REMOVAL👷‍♂️💎 In the past years we developed a #MOFs synthetic approach inspired by #architecture & applied it at the molecular scale. We've been asked many times whether we could remove these molecular scaffold/falseworks. Yes, we can! Fresh off the press in @natchem.nature.com

My decades-old save twitch has become useful once again, it seems.

I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end. (this is an experiment in thread transfer)

Our new paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org - Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Today's odd little moment of University governance query was "how much academic data sovereignty do we have in a major Canadian university" I have reached out to a colleague, but with the far reaches of the CLOUD act - I suspect very little. Most of our systems are delivered by US subsidiaries.

Squirrel riding invisible Tron bike:

Another guessing game - what #mineral I found here? And what I didn’t find in the bottle?But that is simple. #chemsky #chemchat #crystallography

DeCOFpose is an automatic #fragmentation tool for covalent organic #frameworks - whether you want to analyse, fragment, or reconstruct them! Great work with @chemwedding.bsky.social and @michelle-ernst.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

In this map @undertheraedar shows us the current UK centre of population. Several ways to define the centre point: BBOX centre = UK bounding box geometric centre Land Centre = centre based only on UK land Pop Centre = population weighted centre of the UK Source: buff.ly/sT7MqPi

We’ve had lots of fun messing about with non-thermal plasma for chemistry…like anything, it’s not magic, but high energy/low temp combo opens very interesting possibilities. Needs to be understood & controlled better via interdisciplinary collaboration! It’s got huge potential (pun intended 😅)

Just out on ChemRxiv our new preprint, “Can We Automate Scientific Reasoning in Closed-Loop Experiments using Large Language Models?” @liverpooluni.bsky.social @aichemyhub.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

#ChemSky if you're considering which science conferences to attend this year, take a look at the Faraday Discussion series. Organised by @rsc.org, Faraday Discussions are unique scientific meetings where most of the meeting is devoted to discussion and debate. www.rsc.org/our-events/a...

It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences. There are currently 564 conferences in the list. supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat

Lauren Hatcher uses time-resolved crystallography to understand how photoactive molecules change structure when exposed to light.

This is very clever! Put a MOF particle on an AFM tip, dunk it in polymer solution, then see how sticky the tip now is - repeat and you can get a polymer uptake isotherm on a single particle. Love the idea.

It's the most wonderful time of year #MASC2025

all academic applications should have consolation prizes. doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020” or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

Funded PhD position: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... This is an interdisciplinary project where you get to do coordination chemistry with bismuth and zinc, as well as some microbiology and some computational chemistry - all in the name of combatting antimicrobial resistance. Currently UK only.

In the latest publishing madness, I had a manuscript returned to me because it scored >15% in a 'similarity test'. On careful inspection, it was mostly matching the published thesis of one of the authors containing the results, and our own previous related study published in the same journal.

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

From memes to valuable methods in chemistry. Reminiscent of the halcyon days of chemtwitter. Culminating in a very useful bit of knowledge if you ever find yourself with spare POCl3 #ChemChat

#chemchat i need your best inorganic memes. Go

In the spirit of #ChemChat, here is one of my favourite bits of physical chemistry out in the real world: the 4th century Roman Lycurgus Cup. Green in reflection, red in transmission, due to gold/silver nanoparticles in the glass, I finally got to see it for real a few weeks ago. Beautiful.

I have recently added #ChemChat as a feed thanks to @stephy.bsky.social (and to @chemjobber.bsky.social for the concept) If that's your sort of thing, here it is: bsky.app/profile/did:... I warn you though, mere moments in and I'm considering bread concepts (again). Enter at your own risk.

After a break over summer, we finally managed to reinstate baking for group meetings. Thanks to Emily for the chocolate cake! #ScienceFuel

Google Scholar has introduced a 'Sh-index' metric that scores papers higher if you are first or last author. Apart from the fact metrics are generally bad, this one explicitly punishes PIs who often collaborate, publishing with 2 or 3 equal PIs at the end of the list. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is quite the collection of papers on #MOFs and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 by @natureportfolio.nature.com, and it was a delight to see our review among the resources on offer. www.nature.com/collections/... There's around 100 papers to peruse, I'll be recommending them to my group 😀

#TalkLikeAPirateDay Pirate goes to the dermatologist "How can i help you, Captain?" "Well doc, arr! arrr! I be 'avin' some moles on me back, see?" Doctor "Well, I've examined them. And they're benign" "Arrr! Arrr! Count again, ye Scurvy Doc! There be Ten"

Porous materials researchers adsorbing onto lunch table. #EPoMM_2025

In which I just learned that we consume more concrete than food per person each year.

@epomm.bsky.social The 2nd EPSRC EPoMM* network meeting has started! A warm welcome as always by Alex O'Malley to two days of holes. *Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

Our new themed collection explores molecular photoswitches for energy storage, guest edited by Professors Rachel Evans, Grace Han, Tao Li and Professor Dr Hermann A. Wegner. Read the articles here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... Read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA... #matsky #scisky

Me: "I wrote this." Carbon dioxide: "It sucks. It's utter trash. A child could have done better. Plus your outfit is horrible. Did a cavefish dress you?" Me, to other guy: "Who is this jerk?" Other guy, the one who says the punchline: "That's supercritical CO₂."

Please apply on jobbnorge by the 18th of September! @postdocposition @xrayabsorptionspectroscopy www.academicjobs.com/university-j...

Fantastic scheme, and I'm biased saying that because we're one of the awardees of a Network Strengthening Grant, but it will really make a difference to a lot of people!

UK chemistry industry professionals Please fill in this short survey to help CAMS help us all by modernizing what graduates are taught with respect to data handling. Which can be as simple as organizing yourself and naming files sensibly! #chemsky forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Fro the last few years, as part of a final assignment in my senior biophysical chem class I ask students to share a class-related memes, with ones they make themselves highly encouraged! For everyone's enjoyment, here are some of my favorites! #chemistry #biochemistry #sigfigs #units 🧪

Somebody at lab seminar - “Fourier transformation is a black box”. Totally wrong, because: (a) two boxes, not one (b) brown, not black en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beevers... Maybe @glazer1.bsky.social knew someone who was using such tools? #crystallography

Two for one mechanophore! 4-membered ring mechanophores broken 2 ways with a rotaxane actuator for the generation/release of diverse functional molecules! Great work from Lei Chen now as a #VIPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky #OA

Remember those annoying puzzles where you had to move square tiles around until the desired image appears? Well, now you can play this puzzle based on a map of your home town. Source: buff.ly/rPIioTN

Does anyone in the #chemsky community have strong opinions on the abbreviations UV-Vis, UV-VIS or UV/VIS? I need to resolve a conflict between two co-authors 😀 It seems the first is more common, but is there a "correct" version? IUPAC seems undecided 🤔https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.L03638