Delighted to see our work on anion-switchable palladium cages, used to purify single pharmaceuticals from complex mixtures, out in ACIE today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - great work from lead author Zhe, and brilliant crystallography from Tanya!

Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹

Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.

Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!

Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬

Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337

When liquids freeze, ions normally grind to a halt — but not in our new materials! Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr Aisha Bismillah @anbismillah.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural MASC/WISC EDIA Award 2025! @wisuprachem.bsky.social #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

🚨WISC is excited to announce we are changing our name to Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry! ➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com #WomeninSTEM #EDI #SupramolecularChemistry #ChemSky

Delighted to see our work on dual cavity cages online @chemicalscience.rsc.org - tinyurl.com/yatjzpnc - we explore how subtle changes in peptide sequence and chirality transform cage formation and isomer selectivity, with unexpected results. Congratulations to @benebarber.bsky.social Ellen and Leah!

Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.

New preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/yyadfcdv - Zhe has been working on anion switchable palladium cage systems, and used them for separating active pharmaceuticals!

🚨 Final reminder to submit your abstract for an oral and/or poster presentation for a chance to showcase your research at this year’s MASC meeting (15th–16th Dec 2025) at the Open University, Milton Keynes! ⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025 More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...

I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r... We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

2026 PhD recruitment is now open. As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting! Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below) More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho... #RSC_MASC #RSC_MASC_2025 (1/2)

Happy to share this cover finally online in the September issue of chem. Thank you @vivesgui.bsky.social and @msollogoub.bsky.social for the design and drawing of such nice cover👏👏👏

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣 We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series. Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025 Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

Imagine a small molecule that degrades a target protein like PROTACs, but does so independently of any of the host cell's degradation machinery, so you can go and do targeted protein degradation in gram-negative bacteria: doi.org/10.26434/che...

🔊 We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to work @ciqus.bsky.social in drug delivery by superchaotropic boron clusters. We offer a great working environment, in an excellent center and an exciting research field, www.nature.com/articles/s41... euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/360505 Sharing 🙏

Great to see our Review on using Peptides to build Discrete Supramolecular Architectures online at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with a great Frontispiece from Ben! Congratulations Ben Ellen and Leah!

Come and join our team at @crick.ac.uk Help commercialise phenomenal science! #biotech #techtransfer

Second role live in our Group - a PDRA @crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten

Two roles live in our Group - a S/PLRS @crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn

Join our lab, as a S/PLRS @crick.ac.uk /KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead projects, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/5n8ek33x closes 25/6! 24month, possible exten

Had a great time at #ISMSC2025 last week; it was great to talk about the group's work, and to see all the posters up on new projects!

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out... ...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

Our first photoswitchable channel, controlled by three separate stimuli, is now up on ChemRxiv! tinyurl.com/3m4umy3d - we use fluorinated azobenzenes and a pillar[5]arene core to modulate ion transport using light, pH, and guest, modulating initial rates 170-fold. Collaboration with Wallace Lab@KCL!

We're excited to share our latest paper, just accepted in ACS Catalysis! 🎉 in which we describe how positionally addressable peptide libraries (SPOT libraries) can be used to discover artificial metallopeptide catalysts that work inside living cells. 👇 #ChemSky pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

🚨📢Out now in #Chem, @jiarongwu.bsky.social and I figure out how to perturb a non-photoresponsive reaction(🌚) out of equilibrium using our imine-based photoswitches🔦💡This is achieved using a light-responsive transimination!(🌝) #AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Join our lab, as a SLRS/PLRS @crick.ac.uk /KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead project, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/4f4zhw9d closes 29/4! 24month, possible extn

Researchers at the Crick, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @unifr.bsky.social have designed a new saltwater filter inspired by the body’s own filtering system. If this new system can be scaled up, it could be used to help filter seawater into drinking water. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

The Kilbinger Group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is seeking two highly motivated PhD candidates to join our research team. more information at: kilbinger.net

Delighted to see our first collaboration with @kilbinger-group.bsky.social on foldamer water channels with high salt exclusion online at @angewandtechemie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ez352x99

Our next seminar will be from Giulia Lavarda (TU Eindhoven) and Simon Webb (UoManchester) speaking Thursday 27th March 14:30 (UK). Register at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/ to attend - We are migrating mailing lists, so signup is essential!

An enzyme overexpressed in cancer cells, transforms an inert large supramolecular complex into a DNA Junction Binder! With NAND logic control, and a fascinating role for entropy in controlling binding, read it at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503683 @uobchemistry.bsky.social

Great to see work started during my postdoc coming to fruition, driven by Andrew and Sam - www.cell.com/chem/fulltex... - unusual silver clusters strike again, and guide understanding of some design rules for these systems!

Last call to join our lab @crick.ac.uk /KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist/Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead our chemical biology/biology work, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/5n8d6ufb closes 2/3! 24month, possible extn.

🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

Come join our lab @crick.ac.uk /KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist/Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead our chemical biology/biology work, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic and translational science tinyurl.com/5n8d6ufb closes 23/2! 24month, possible extension

First pre-print out from our collaboration with @kilbinger-group.bsky.social @saquiblone.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/yu6k4my3 - looking at how aromatic foldamers can be highly effective, salt excluding, water channels!

Come join our lab @crick.ac.uk/KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist #chembio, to lead our chemical biology work, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic and translational projects tinyurl.com/5n8d6ufb closes 23/2! 24-month position