This is great a summary of why #CelebrityTraitors is so good!

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the award of the 2025 #chemnobel to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of metal–organic frameworks is now live! #chemsky 🧪

Great to read UFO Robot Goldrake, a historical anime, is back on Italian tv screens and still captivating audiences

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

L’Italia ha vinto i Mondiali maschili di pallavolo

Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

It’s journalism’s obesogenic environment problem. Everyone knows you’re meant to eat your greens (speak to domain experts, double-check), but social media has created a sea of cheap and convenient (open an app), hyper-palatable (sensationalised, alarmist), nutrient-poor (dubious veracity) options.

Will we soon see "true" metal-free?🤔

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Labour are also REALLY shit at comms. Things like this are getting totally eclipsed by the flag nonsense and the phoney ECHR debate.

Windows 95 was released to the general public 30 years ago today.

È morto Pippo Baudo

I think the UK/Brits forget that you do not mess with traditional recipes, especially Italian ones! As a side, anyone remember the indignation in the UK about the pinch of salt in tea?

Here, the authors @oconnorlab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social uncover the mechanism of epimerization behind uncommon 3R-containing alkaloids in Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) and study their inclusion in downstream biosynthesis #PlantScience #natprod www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To honor Tom Lehrer, sharing a favorite of scientists. youtu.be/zGM-wSKFBpo?...

Nature Methods is hiring! We are seeking a new editor with expertise in microscopy, imaging technology, and/or cell biology. The position is available in NYC/Jersey City or Shanghai/Beijing on a hybrid working model. Apply by August 3! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Glad to see this out #chembio

Share the good will peeps! #chemsky

And from now, 2050 will be closer than the year 2000…

3 days left to apply 👇 We have an opening for an Associate or Senior Editor @natcomms.nature.com with experience in Polymer Chemistry. 📍 Locations: New York, Jersey, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Milan or Madrid 📆 Closing date: 5th July 2025 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

A nice way to end #Pride month in Nottingham (UK): going on the LGBTQ+ history walk and listening to historic facts about queer past and the many (lost) venues with many other members of the community, old and new friends. Kudos to the organisers!

PRIDE IS A PROTEST

Good to reconnect with ECRs involved in understanding natural products pathways at #CBNP18 organised by @albertilab.bsky.social and Matt Jenner @rsc-cbbg.bsky.social

A new paper reports asperigimycins, fungal Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) with a heptacyclic scaffold, with nanomolar anticancer activity, acting through SLC46A3 as a key transporter for their uptake in cells www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I wonder how many people realize that America is now literally at war *solely* because Trump hates black people Obama signed the Iran Nuclear Deal; Iran stopped enrichment; Trump ended the Deal to spite Obama; he was told enrichment would restart; it did This is *Trump’s* war

“In the spirit of the GRC”, we’ve started our last day of the Plant Metabolic Engineering conference with the business meeting #PlantScience

Next preprint out from my work @oconnorlab.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social : the discovery or iridoid cyclase in asterids! Thread below. #PlantScience #natprod www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Smoke from the #Canadafires reached #Europe. The #Copernicus #Sentinel3 image collected on June 10 shows the huge plume, after a journey of 7000 km, over #Italy. Il fumo degli incendi in #Canada ha raggiunto l'Europa e l' #Italia come evidenzia l'immagine satellitare. #airquality

Thanks! I did enjoy the work... #chembio

On ipecac alkaloids biosynthesi: check it out 👇🏻

a great opportunity to join Nature Metabolism as an Associate or Senior editor springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

🚨 Call for abstracts for the #CBNP18 🚨 We have extended abstract submission for oral presentations until this Sunday, 1st of June! If you work in the natural product field, we would love to see your work submitted at warwick.ac.uk/naturalprodu... Please Repost

Move over Paddington Bear.

Austria was there!

#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Finland

Topo Gigio! #Eurovision

Seems Sweden is a favourite on here #eurovision2025 #esc

Agreed

Latvia: very Avatar-y/Moana #eurovision2025 #escita

Ma c’è Michelle Hunziker! #Eurovision

#TodayInQueerHistory May 14 (1959) It's the premiere of Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tiny Curtis and Jack Lemon. The way the film played with gender and sexuality was groundbreaking for a mainstream Hollywood movie. If you haven't seen it - do! It's sure to make you smile.

This 21:18 48X @nct-buses.bsky.social journey from the train station is an “interesting” one on this double decker. I usually like sitting upstairs as I like the views, but there are children running and being scolded/shouted at as well as a cacophony of songs being played on speakers…

Spread the word about this. A great event.

My steeds for today, or two generations of #intercity services #uktrains

Victory for buttons!

I had a double take when I read that line! But it is the only way to describe it.

Read this just to enjoy @dereklowe.bsky.social writing "Gold Standard of Science my ass" www.science.org/content/blog...

Let's go a bit on to some good old #chembio 😉 I recently covered an interesting work published in @cp-cell.bsky.social, on phylogenetic analyses to understand the distribution Coenzyme Q10 in plants and engineering its production: you can read it here www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another recommendation is this @natcatal.nature.com article from @larrosagroup.bsky.social, on how silylmethyl substituents on can be regioselectively installed on aryl using RuAqua #chemsky