Numerous Chemistry World interns have gone on to fulfilling careers in science communication. If you need any more proof, last year's paid intern Mason Wakley is now a CW science correspondent. Apply at the link – deadline 22 February!

Today, for LGBT+ History month, I'm giving a talk - 'Hidden Stories of LGBT+ Scientists'. It's at 12:30 in the National Science Learning Centre on campus @york.ac.uk. You can also attend online! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-sto... How many of my magnificent 7 do you recognise?

AstraZeneca is hiring in Predictive Science, Digital, and Automation and you even get my face on your screen. Being real, this is an awesome department to work in though #chemjobs #UKchemjobs #EUchemjobs www.linkedin.com/posts/nessac...

Applications for the internship are open now!

Well, waddya know? 🤔😏

Fifty years of Chemistry - coming up at Burlington House on 10 March celebrating 50 years of the RSC Historical Group. Speakers include @rsc.org Past Presidents Gill Reid and Lesley Yellowlees and textbook legends Peter Atkins and Jonathan Clayden. #chemsky #chemchat www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Physics is under the cosh, Astronomy and Chemistry in peril, Geography is losing territory, English, Modern Languages and History are among the many shrinking UK disciplines. Surely it's time to have a concerted, structured conversation about universities and the national research base.

New Science Technology & Facilities Council (STFC) letters confirm major funding reductions to areas including particle, nuclear and astrophysics, with a similar process expected for national facilities and labs. While investment in quantum, AI and green tech is welcome, the IOP warns cutting (1/3)

Happy new year! We have some exciting news, the registration and abstract submissions for the 22nd Nucleic Acids Forum 2026 are now open! Join us on the 10th of July at Burlington House! Hurry before it sells out! 🧬 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

🧶Hellbent to Help is here. I’m dyeing a limited run of deep red yarn to pair with the Melt the ICE Hat. For every skein sold, $18 goes to Minnesota’s Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. One skein, one hat, one person kept warm, a little bit of resistance knit right in. LFG finchmod.com/products/hel...

Time is running out to submit nominations for this year's RAS Thesis Prizes ⏳⏰ Each year the RAS recognises the best PhD theses in astronomy and geophysics completed in the UK, with three prizes up for grabs. For info and to nominate now, visit: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

I'm trialling the new Outlook app for work, now that I've worked out how to turn off Copilot it's a lot less stressful - the omnipresence of it all was making me quite cross.

Bayeux Tapestry coming to Britain From the new Private Eye, out now.

Jane Richardson was born #OTD in 1941 + Developed the Richardson (ribbon) diagram to represent proteins' 3D structure (becoming a standard representation for protein structures) + MacArthur Fellow, 1985 + Elected, Nat'l Academy of Sciences, 1991 + President, Biophysical Society, 2012 #WomenInSTEM

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

The enemy - how they travel

Join our @errantscience.com #RSCPoster live webinar & pick up some tips for designing your poster. 🎨 The webinar is sponsored by the School of Chemistry& Chemical Engineering @unisouthampton.bsky.social#RSCPoster 👉 Tune in on the day via the RSC LinkedIn (https://rsc.li/49HZJL7) page to take part! #ChemSky

Potential collaboration with @rsc-cicag.bsky.social ?

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

I realise, by the way, that Twitter's growth was eventually what killed it, so it's not about expanding for its own sake. But there ARE lots of interesting, non-toxic people who would enrich this place but have just not really thought about it.

*FUCK JANUARY SALE* Not an excuse to stay in bed for five more minutes so I can pretend I am basing “productive” HONEST ko-fi.com/dippyfish/li... Have a browse in my ko-fi cave of wonders, full of art miscellany, originals, artists proofs etc #artsale #art #januarysales #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam

Some of the other random TINGS in the *January can fuck right off please buy my art* sale… ko-fi.com/dippyfish/li... #bsnm #artsale #art #miscellaneous #fuckjanuary #mhhsbd #ukgiftam

Exclusive: chemistry's international governing body is moving from its home of 25 years in the US to two cities in Europe.

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.” - Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos 2026

Women’s bodies, other people’s countries - what is it about the word ‘no’ that Trump finds so difficult to understand?

“She always worked hard. But we didn’t know anything about this until 2018 when it came out. Everything she did was secretive.“ Didn’t mom say anything when you used GPS?” Zebra asked. “She was concentrating on her map in the backseat!” Oglesby laughed.” Untouchable. thezebra.org/2025/03/13/m...

What an amazing woman, what a life, what a gift to the world she was.

#MentalHealthMonday #AcademicWellbeing

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked. I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

If I was President of the United States, the last thing I’d do is start questioning territorial claims based on ‘people arriving in boats hundreds of years ago’.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

You've got to admit he's good at distracting everyone from the Epstien files, which he is clearly in big time. Up to his weird neck. Look, Greenland! Look Venezuela! Look, Minneapolis! I haven't forgotten about the Epstien files, have you?

It’s Friday. Find some joy - even if the working week is a cynical construct. Sun’s out, you’re alive today. Do a thing that makes you happy. Have a coffee. A cake. Meet a friend. Go for a walk and see if the flaahs are starting to sprout (they are, the fools)… I miss my dad. But I’m so happy today

This includes our Volunteer Recognition Prizes - so many people doing so many awesome things that need recognition!

In the future ICE will be seen as America's Gestapo. That's because in the present ICE is seen as America's Gestapo.

Ready to go live with @newscientist.com today. Over 400 people have registered to hear me share my 16 rules of Sci Comm. Super excited, will be a great session!

The Main Group Committee is looking for nominations for the RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize (@rsc.org). Both Self and External Nominations welcome. Extra details provided on the flyer below:

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Guess I know what I'm doing once the boy's in bed tonight!

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

🚨 Attention PhD supervisors! 🚨 There's still time to nominate someone for one of our Thesis Prizes 🪐 🌍 🔭 They are: – Michael Penston Prize for astronomy – Keith Runcorn Prize for geophysics – Patricia Tomkins Prize for instrumentation science Nominate at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Snowdrop season is coming in the Northern Hemisphere! What links these winter flowers with Alzheimer's treatment and nerve agents? Find out in this infographic! www.compoundchem.com/2018/02/08/s... #ChemSky 🧪

Coverage in the Guardian of responses to Paul Nurse's comments on Musk & the Royal Soc Code of Conduct. Plenty of Nobel Prize Winners defending Nurse and Musk & Fellows seem uncomfortable to be named when they disagree. Also quotes from me & @scurry.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

For what it's worth I think all of the following can all be true at the same time: -Detection of microplastics via analytical techniques can be really challenging due to detection limits -Some scientific papers out there are poor and lack rigour -Microplastics are bad for human health

sources close to Downing Street say Keir Starmer has discovered the Ctrl+Z keyboard function and now won't come off the computer per one report, "he's been typing up entire manifestos before yelling PSYCH and undoing the whole thing. the main thing is he's having fun I guess"

Rubber ducks – made from rubber, right? Wrong! On #NationalRubberDuckyDay, this infographic unmasks the rubber duck's true chemical identity: wp.me/p4aPLT-8Uo#NationalRubberDuckyDay #ChemSky 🧪

There is always an XKCD

I treated both my brother and myself to copies of this for Christmas - most appropriate for every Scottish chemist and we love them. He's taken his into work to show off on his desk.

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