Electron crystallography is having a moment. Don't get left behind.
IUCr Satellite School · Calgary · 8–10 August 2026
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#chemsky #iucr #iucr2026 #3DED #4DSTEM
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
Last year, The Royal Society, together with our colleagues Profs Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Mike Glazer, made a film on Kathleen Lonsdale, that is now nominated for a Webby Award by the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Scan the QR codes. Thank You!
@royalsociety
AI for technical teams / technicians - join our webinar on Wednesday 15th April
Hear from real technicians who are using AI in their day-to-day roles. In our free upcoming webinar, you’ll find out how AI is helping technical professionals automate processes, write procedures, and develop research and software.
How could it help you? ▶️ https://rsc.li/4c7u4Ut
#ChemSky
The Royal Society film on Kathleen Lonsdale featuring footage from the @IUCr archive, was recently nominated for a Webby Award by the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Voting is open until Thursday 16th April. see
tinyurl.com/msddeem8
Register here: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...
This session is intended for researchers generating, analysing, or reusing biomolecular simulations who want to improve transparency and reproducibility in their workflows.
All details & registration link: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...
New series of #Taskmaster starts next Thursday on Ch4 at 9pm ( and goes up on YouTube at 10pm, I believe)
We have published the results from our International Microscopy Facility Survey in the @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@australianmms.bsky.social @ausbias.org @micro-au.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
PRESS RELEASE: University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives joins the Open Journals Collective We are delighted to announce that the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives has joined the Open Journals Collective. Cambridge is the first library to have joined at the platinum tier of membership, the highest category, and this represents a very significant investment in the OJC. The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated, and the support of Cambridge will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access. If you require this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
PRESS RELEASE: University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives joins the Open Journals Collective If you require this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
We're delighted to share that University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives have joined the Open Journals Collective! They are one of our founding members, and their support is hugely important to us. We look forward to working with them as we build a brighter future for academic publishing!
A PI who still hopes to spend time at the bench
BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter
The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories.
Find out more: home.cern/news/press-r...
🚀 Inator Hackathon 2026 - Highlights!
Last week at Strathclyde University, brilliant minds came together for Round 2 of our Inator Hackathon.
A huge thank you to all participants and organisers for making it such an inspiring event. 💡
Read More ➡️ buff.ly/l0wkJp8
look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly
(@ wildheartrescue on TT)
Deadline for early registration discount for the Electron Crystallography workshop in Venice on the 20th of March
Fantastic workshop, amazing venue, hope to see you there.
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Data visualisation can change the way we see the world. One of the most famous examples from history is Dr John Snow's (born #OnThisDay in 1813) map of a cholera outbreak in Soho, which changed our understanding of microbes. Watch our video with #BBCIdeas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtmCXgNqG4
"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear"
Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.
me: if z is the length of a slice and a is the area of the pie, then pi(zz)=a
PhD advisor: this is what you’ve been working on for three and a half years?
Join us for a one-day symposium bringing together researchers from AI, catalysis, and energy materials to explore how data-driven approaches are accelerating discovery and innovation.
🗓 13 May 2026
📍 Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London
👉 Register:
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🚀 Inator Hackathon at Strathclyde - 18th March
After Liverpool SOLD OUT, we added a second Inator Hackathon and it’s shaping up to be amazing.
Whether you’re curious about sensors, AI, automation or data projects, this is for you.
🎟️ Secure your place: buff.ly/9spLS0r
An illustration of scientists working in a field, with text: Why we should look beyond grades to spot potential in STEM
"… watching these students, I am reminded how transformative that moment can be when someone finally sees in you what you could not yet see in yourself." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/46GFzAr
Choosing a title for your PhD thesis is tricky but don’t make it too accurate #AcWri
British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin in her laboratory in 1964. She is sitting at a wooden desk, wearing a blue cardigan and green skirt, resting her chin on her hand as she looks thoughtfully toward the camera. On the desk beside her sits a black and gold microscope and a glass display case containing a large, complex crystal structure model. To her left, bookshelves are packed with scientific texts, including a prominent red spine titled "Penicillin Crystal Structures." This image captures the Nobel Prize winner in the environment where she produced the world’s first 3D atomic maps of essential medicines like penicillin and insulin. The scene highlights her intense intellectual focus and the physical tools of her pioneering work in X-ray crystallography. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin on International Women's Day!
While Fleming found the mold, Hodgkin solved the 3D atomic puzzle of Penicillin.
Using X-ray crystallography, she mapped the molecule's structure, allowing it to be mass-produced and saving millions of lives! 🔬🗺️
#WomenInScience
🚀 Strathclyde, we’re coming for you!
After Liverpool SOLD OUT, we added a second Inator Hackathon and it’s shaping up to be amazing.
Whether you’re curious about sensors, AI, automation or data projects, this is where ideas turn into reality.
🎟️ Secure your place: buff.ly/9spLS0r
That smile speaks volumes - as always. Congrats Felix Hol (a lab alum) to be selected for TEDFellows class of 2026. From the swamps at Stanford to villages in Madagascar - I have so many memories with Felix - but his joyful laugh is one that rings again and again. Let's go catch some mosquitoes.
A rock band can’t stop a missile. But it can keep Ukraine in the world’s ears.
U2 released “Yours Eternally” with Ukraine’s Antytila and Ed Sheeran, alongside a short film by Ukrainian filmmaker Illia Mykhailus using real frontline footage.
Attention is a form of support.
'Ukrainians are a strong nation – we persevere and continue to live and work.’ Four years on from the full scale invasion by Russia, Ukrainian scientists have hope and plan for the future.
For half a century, researchers suspected treetops on Earth might glow because of thunderstorms. But the phenomenon, an electric outburst called a corona, has only ever been spotted in the lab--until now. Cool story from @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org
Me at the Blavatnik Awards, with my fellow finalists and giving me lecture
It was a wonderful experience to receive my Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist medal in the gorgeous Banqueting House this week!
Then give a public lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine!
A giant thank you to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the The New York Academy of Sciences
@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.
📅 Date: 26th February 2026
⏳ Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
🌏 Location: Virtual Event, Online
📍 Registration Link: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...
🚨 Last few days left to register! 🚨
