I keep hearing that we are expecting an exponential growth in energy use due to AI like it's some phenomenon that we have no control over and it makes me so fucking angry. We don't have to do it!! We can choose not to do this and not to lose all we've gained in the clean energy transition! fuck!!

Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others.

Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always

Structural chemistry and environment-dependent fluorescence of a tetratopic pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ligand http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/CE/D5CE00926J

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all.

Huh, next month it'll be 10 years since moving to this hemisphere, time sure does fly!

Congratulations to Dr Ruby Morel on passing her PhD viva today 🎉 Noone is more deserving and watch this space for her papers on porous liquid crystals 🙌 Thanks to @annagslater.bsky.social and @g-craig.bsky.social for examining!

George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Nothing so irritating in academia as the low key flex re group size. Look at my empire….🙄

My latest 3d print and paint project was the crystal structure of a classic lanthanide dota complex (dotarem/gadoteric acid), it's a nice case study for teaching about stability constants and their relevance which I use in year 2 inorganic but mainly I just think it's a cool looking molecule

Massive congratulations to my Unimelb #InorganicChemistry colleagues Richard Robson & Paul Donnelly #OzChem #ChemSky #MOFs #BioinorganicChemistry www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

I see your immediate vacancy and call with one of my own! Immediately available PhD studentship (Home fees & stipend) on a MOF/polymers/neutrons/computational project with ISIS, Cardiff and the Ada Lovelace Centre. Original student unable to start so post re-advertised. #ChemSky spread the word!

OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!

Not often I'm in the first 10% of something, I'll take that

Took a break from this for a bit but back to printing and painting some crystal structure models, I'm a big fan of the flat cartoon look from matte varnish and black highlights on the bonds #chemsky

Come and work with us in Te Kura Matū at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, in Christchurch New Zealand | Ōtautahi Aotearoa. #Chemsky jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Been trying some new styles with these 3d printed crystal structures recently: used Blender to add infill to aromatic rings for coordinating cyclopentadienyls, and this weekend tried some matt paints for a change with black outlines on the bonds for a more cartoony style

Those'll do, I guess

Welcome to Chemsky @jamieagould.bsky.social !

Huge week for me, I bought a 9 pack of mini kitkats for my office over 48 hours ago and there's still one left, please clap

I caved and bought a Kobo. Annotating on PDFs on the e-ink screen is so cool! Is this the gadget that will finally help me catch up on reading papers? No, still no.

From the x-rated site: The RoySocChem 2023 Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry Meeting #MASC2023 registration is open and the first abstract deadlines are not far off - you do knot want to miss them! mascgroup.co.uk/masc23/ #ChemSky

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: - sorting line at a recycling plant - quantity surveyors assistant at a glaziers - handing out bus timetables - worked the till at a video rental store - sold ostensibly science themed toys and various junk in a mall

Welcome to Chemsky @nfchilton.bsky.social !

Hah, cool! It's got my number that's for sure

I just got set up here this evening, thanks to an invite from @cshchem.bsky.social. Hello everyone! I'll be posting on science, music and (hopefully) travel. No politics! Do follow me, and I'll follow you back.

Its the time of year when I go over my chemistry of LCD and LED screens lecture content and have to talk myself out of buying an E-ink tablet, but they are so cool

Glad to see some more migrations here to Chemsky from the other place - welcome @gtwsuprachem.bsky.social and @robajackson.bsky.social #Chemsky

Bit too organic for my blood but I'll try my best: Favourite element: Zn or Cd (or anything that diffracts good) Favourite reaction: Finkelstein Favourite het: indazole Favourite functional group: Carboxylic acid Favourite glassware: Dean-Stark Favourite natural product: quinine

Enjoying some nature time in Wales before the thunderstorms get here

Wow! So exciting to find a new platform with familiar names already here! Hopefully this can turn into what chemtwitter used to be!

Autoreply is on and feet are up, clawing back some annual leave before the madness starts up again

Doing some BlueSky research (🤦‍♂️) to join the science community on here. I'm a Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College with a range of interests spanning molecules, materials and medicine. Who's here? #Chemsky

It'll cost me about the same to either get my PC up to spec for Starfield (new GPU + PSU needed at minimum) or to just buy a PS5 and play it on that, I'm torn

Spent much of last week in Ireland for a PhD viva and other work catchups which was great, but it is also nice to be back in Stoke where food, coffee and beer costs what in comparison seems like a very reasonable amount

This site seems alright so far! Though I still have nothing much to say, hopefully the chemtwitter crowd will continue moving this way