Light streaming into a 3 storey atrium in the Materials Innovation Factory at Liverpool - the photo looks down a staircase towards the man entrance
So nice to see daylight for my run home. (Or, “sunshine on MIF”)
Photo of a glass of orange wine and another glass of sparkling water. An open green door can be seen in the background.
Anyway - cheers, Bluesky!
This sort of thing keeps happening to me. For MOF2014 it was a live piano performance of what I thought was Air on a G String but turned out to be a very earnest rendition of A Whiter Shade of Pale
It was a great meeting and Malaga is always a delight ❤️
Finishing up Flow Chem Europe in a tiny restaurant having a lovely mackerel and goats cheese salad to the soundtrack of Bon Jovi’s “Always”…
Well, if the universe will insist on containing fascinating stuff…what can you do?
Eternally grateful that I’ve somehow managed to translate that into a career!
“what is it I love it let me find out” is about 90% of my personality
I have no idea but it’s SO COOL
Soundgarden for large scale separations and parallel peptide syntheses at my bench. Metallica when one colleague was cranking high-throughput screening. Grace Potter for another when they purified epoxides. At least we took turns! #chemsky #chemchat
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Indeed! I would post some of the photos, but not sure all those involved would thank me :D
By the way, I spring cleaned my office today and came across the photobook @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social put together when I left the group - full of images of a similar vintage…
Ah yes - July 2015 I think, I was just back from maternity leave and so sleep deprived I felt like I was hallucinating - good to have photo evidence that this did really happen…
Supramolecular chemists, can you help me out? Who do you recognise in this photograph from 1994?
I think I can recognise Jeremy Sanders and Chris Hunter! Where was this taken?
How to make your own robot!
A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org.
Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky
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Hey #SupraChem community, have you registered for the #ISCSummerSchool2026 yet?!?! No?? 😱 No worries, there are still two weeks to do it! The deadline is fixed to April 12th!! So, check it out on the website for all the info 👇👇https://convegni.unica.it/iscsummerschool2026/
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Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Thanks for a very enjoyable visit! It was a pleasure to be there.
Updatid my Bucket List:
• Woodene bucket (oak)
• Woodene bucket (maple)
• Woodene bucket (pine)
• Bucket wyth floral décor
• Bucket yn shape of duck
• Extremelye fragile bucket wyth gems
• Large bucket wyth yron hoopes
• Mysterye bucket somebodye left at the house - TODD?
The further you are from a sound's source, the less well you can hear it compared to local background noises.
Even if a speaker is loud, their voice at any distance 2-100+ meters is less clear and loud than a mic which is 5-10cm from their mouth.
Shouting distorts lipreading and the speech sound
Very nice!
a printed object showing the layer lines. On the bottom how to replicate those lines in PDMS to make a microfluidic device
the microfluidic channels
Do you know those annoying layer lines you get with FDM 3D printers? Those layers you try to avoid or hide?
What if I tell you we can use them to make 15-micrometer-tall microfluidic channels?
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Sadly, my hopes of them finally showing an interest in my profession were dashed this morning when it was deemed "boring" by the 11-year old. Normality restored! They loved the artwork, though - I'll keep trying...
On the back of being quoted I was contacted by a research administrator at a different Uni. She wants to stay anonymous. She has worked on this call all weekend. She didn't feel able to say no. Nor did the researchers. Unlike them she will not benefit in any material way if her Uni wins this money.
Was a pleasure to speak at UoManchester today for the chemistry department #IWD event - thanks to the lovely organisers
As more GiveToGain posts appear a reminder that it is a made-up theme by a for-profit company which makes money from theme based goods but has no charitable donations on its accounts for the past 10yrs
The UN #IWD2026 theme this is: Rights. Justice. Action.
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Today’s reason (#873053) we were late to school: the kids were arguing over who got to have my copy of @chemistryworld.com …