Thanks, will do!

Thanks, that would be really helpful - yes, please put us in contact!

A long shot due to the general silence here, but does anyone do vibrational circular dichroism and would like to collaborate on something? #chemsky

Our latest work is out led by Dipankar: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

As often, lots of help from beamline scientists @evilokapi.bsky.social and Ralf Schweins at the @illneutrons.bsky.social

That dinosaur normally does my parkrun… he’s travelled further than 5k this time

Absolutely not just ECRs! I have had this from two nobel prize winners too…

I mean you joke, but that’s close to what I have seen recently from some places… incidentally, I just asked chatgpt about one of mine and it said 15-35 in 2 years so I should have submitted to you!

The diversity here is impressive…

Just found a perfect description of gel rheology in ‘Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance’…

I mean, this is personal but I have had zero need for d orbitals or f orbitals my entire career, most of the periodic table has been irrelevant and all the inorganic chemistry I learnt and since forgotten has not ever cropped up…

@stuartcantrill.com has some excellent proof of this if I remember one of his talks correctly with some control data too…

I think reviews are only worth writing if you try to bring your own perspective to things. I just don’t think anyone will write one now, they’ll just ask chatgpt and sit back and count the citations…

A while ago, I looked at how well ChatGPT could write a 1000 word review in my area and it was frankly better than most examples out there already. It missed stuff and some bits were wrong, but that is true of most reviews without AI. At that point, I decided to never referee a review again...

I guess it is easy to add any keyword into ChatGPT and sit back...

Is that a thing? I have the first edition only

OK, true. I guess I need to take that back. Also true of Monstrous Regiment...

I would say Step 3.5 should be "does it have Granny Weatherwax in it or Sam Vimes? If so, pick it up, it will change your view of the world..."

Led by Dipankar Ghosh in the lab, with lots of small angle neutron scattering as well as our continuing excellent collaboration with Massimo Vassalli's group!

Shear‐Induced Anisotropic Supramolecular Gel Noodles for Improved Cell Guidance in Polarized Tissue Engineering A simple two-stage extrusion aligns supramolecular fibrils into 1D gel noodles. The residual pressure in the viscous pre-gel drives the formation of a thin filament that is locked by Ca2+ cross-linke...

Our latest work is out - if you are looking for a distraction from the doom, and are interested in gel noodles, how to actually work out how aligned the structures within them are and what you can then do with them, here's the link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Whilst meaningless, at least there is a vague correlation with properties. However, the gel had a G’ of 2689.5683 Pa is about as useful as many particle sizing calculations

Ahhhh MOF chemistry papers…

Yeah, the privilege is also a drawback…

Yeah, I'm appalled by how much our eldest (7 years old) is expeected to use ipads for homework etc

At the risk of sounding like I am old and grumpy, I blame social media and the erosion of a concentration span...

1. Nobody reads anymore; 2. you don't to find anything that shows that someone did it in 1971

I swear that it is that everyone has stopped reading anything at all and that includes the scientific literature.

I mean ‘now’ is ignoring quite a lot of work since around 2010… perhaps a literature search for this term would have been a good idea before writing this story..?

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

good analogy right there!

Yeah, I can do Duck in a truck and most of Witch on a broom with no need to look at the page

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!