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Some photos of the boss and his Nobel Medal, taken immediately after the ceremony. #NobelPrize #ozchem

This is a great dive into anthocyanins, tannins, and the oxidation chemistry of port in @chemistryworld.com 🍷

Richard Robson always had very small research groups and limited, sporadic funding. This has never been better illustrated than by the acknowledgement slides to the Nobel lectures of Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi (only 1 of 4 slides shown below). We punched above our weight! #ozchem #NobelPrize

I noticed exactly this walking from Kings Cross to Nature Towers last night: a queue of buses, taxis, cars and vans (cos roadworks) - but so quiet. Used to be deafening on York Way.

Don't have nightmares

I heartily agree. Worth it for the part-finished raised carvings alone – incomplete art, frozen in time. But also: a four-odd thousand year old dress! In pretty good nick! Rameses III's girdle!!

Glad to see AI has finally found its niche www.aptaclub.co.uk/baby/baby-to...

That's all folks!

This is a very well-written piece on this year's MOF Nobel prize with a lot of personal accounts from the community

Last week Susumu Kitagawa, Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson were awarded the #Nobelprize in #chemistry for their work developing metal-organic frameworks. Here I tell the story of how MOFs came to be - incl. an interview with Kitagawa himself! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how... @chemistryworld.com

Here it is! The full #LongRead feature article on this year's #ChemNobel - @robinson-julia.bsky.social managed to speak to Kitagawa yesterday! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

A fun read while getting my #MOF fix #chemsky #MOFs #NobelPrize #chemistry @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/news/i-worke...

Ooh, looking back at the Nobel nominations database, which now goes up to 1974, John Goodenough was first nominated *in 1974* - before he'd even made a battery, and 44 years before he won it....

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

Can't wait to see the write-up of the MOF/[porous] coordination polymer/whatever nomenclature debate on the BBC!!!

I always say that although the Nobel gets criticised it is definitely good for one thing: getting some proper chemistry* in front of people's eyeballs, once a year. So it's great to see this real in-depth reporting from the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Oh. *and biology

I didn't realise Robson was from Yorkshire! Just 12 miles (as the crow files) from where Geoffrey Wilkinson was born...

Another person who would surely have been in contention is Gérard Férey, who sadly passed away in 2017. His MIL-53 and MIL-101 structures continue to wonder and show new applications.

Always good to remember that the T in BET adsorption is Edward Teller, 'father of the H bomb'

In all seriousness, I've long been impressed by how MOFs bring together so many different bits of chemistry - a well deserved prize!

Ah, but is it [organic, solid state, coordination, physical] chemistry?

So what meeting has Kitagawa got to go to?? Hopefully champagne is involved!

I predict a lot of happy #OzChem ists

MOFs in a box

It's MOFs!

What's in the box?? #ChemNobel #ChemSky

Morning all. An exciting day in the chemistry calendar. The #NobelPrize in chemistry will be announced in a little over an hour. We're keeping track of all the developments as they happen at Chemistry World #chemnobel www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-202...

The laureates' 'prize-earning' papers in Phys Rev Lett, Phys Rev B from 1985 + 1987 have 276, 342 and 518 citations [Scopus] - low for Nobel-winning work, maybe? [1/2]

Electrons go wheeee

It's a good day for Johns in California! #PhysicsNobelPrize

Well that's perfectly clear. WTF??

Well that's perfectly clear. WTF??

In my very early days as a journal editor, somebody had a Word doc – several pages long – with the best comments from referee reports. It was pretty funny, but some of them probably belonged in this article www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While alchemy is increasingly seen as a precursor to modern chemistry, 'witchcraft' – practised by lower-status women – is still ignored. But was the 'magic', from flying ointments to healing potions, grounded in real pharmacology?

Number four in Multidisciplinary Chemistry (Excluding review journals) Will Surprise You !1!

It’s amazing who you bump into on a sunny day in London… #ChemSky

Former NIH director Elias Zerhouni says that the Trump administration's plans to slash research spending will 'create havoc and destruction'.

It's a Small World in The UK Establishment part 5745: this Biographical Memoir of John Davidson FRS, chemical engineer, vice-master of Trinity College etc etc, was checked for family details by inter alia his son-in-law the Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin doi.org/10.1098/rsbm...

Who/what to blame for current state of UK? Nigel Lawson, imo, not blamed enough for 3 policy doctrines which caused long-term damage: 1. Energy is just another commodity that can safely be left to the market 2. Financial services industry should be deregulated 3. The trade deficit doesn't matter

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Interesting to see how things have changed since 2017, which sources tell me is 8 (eight) years ago... www.chemistryworld.com/features/mof...

Don't look back, Ilan Gur

Are any of you good people going to the ABSW awards shindig next week? I'm planning to attend to cheer on @rachelbrazil.bsky.social and her nom for specialist feature. Hope to see some familiar faces...

I think I missed this when it came out late last August, but great to read about how Jane Richardson invented protein ribbon diagrams in Quanta: www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful...

In which I meander from 'carbon-based lifeforms' (argh) to refineries, MOF carbon-capture and end up at liquid carbon.

'Our reliance on carbon-containing compounds, especially as fuel, has come at too high a cost,' writes @neilwithers.bsky.social. 'Efforts to decarbonise our economy are progressing, of course, but where does that leave the places and people who produce carbon chemicals?' #ChemSky

It's the benzentary. Benbizentary? Bizenetenary. Happy 200th birthday benzene!

'US science is suffering a destruction from within.' Andrea Sella explains why he returned the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday prize over their inaction regarding Elon Musk’s membership. #ChemSky #SciSky #ScienceSky