Cat hair causes that to happen to my laptop occasionally.

Not that you have a cat that ever causes you any concerns of course.

Good point. I'm old enough to mourn the pre-social-media Internet of chaos and to forget about the current monopoly.

Nice.
[Good to see it worked. Not a long term strategy perhaps.]

That picture is crying out for a caption competition. Or speech bubbles.

Our new paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org - Chemist Eye: A Visual Language Model-Powered System for Safety Monitoring and Robot Decision-Making in Self-Driving Laboratories pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Today's odd little moment of University governance query was "how much academic data sovereignty do we have in a major Canadian university"

I have reached out to a colleague, but with the far reaches of the CLOUD act - I suspect very little. Most of our systems are delivered by US subsidiaries.

Bluesky bigger than I expected. Facebook too. Interesting data.

Squirrel riding invisible Tron bike:

A bottle labeled “Magnesium citrate”.

Another guessing game - what #mineral I found here?

And what I didn’t find in the bottle?But that is simple.

#chemsky #chemchat #crystallography

Makes you shudder.

Fragment to framework: automatic fragmentation of covalent organic frameworks into building blocks for band gap analysis Understanding structure–property relationships in ordered functional materials is essential for their rational design and optimisation. Fragment-based approaches relating materials’ properties to thos...

DeCOFpose is an automatic #fragmentation tool for covalent organic #frameworks - whether you want to analyse, fragment, or reconstruct them! Great work with @chemwedding.bsky.social and @michelle-ernst.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

In this map @undertheraedar shows us the current UK centre of population.

Several ways to define the centre point:

BBOX centre = UK bounding box geometric centre
Land Centre = centre based only on UK land
Pop Centre = population weighted centre of the UK

Source: buff.ly/sT7MqPi

We’ve had lots of fun messing about with non-thermal plasma for chemistry…like anything, it’s not magic, but high energy/low temp combo opens very interesting possibilities. Needs to be understood & controlled better via interdisciplinary collaboration! It’s got huge potential (pun intended 😅)

Come on, yew can both do better 😏

Almost elder abuse.

They seem confident that treewriter won't just produce a lot of pulp fiction.

Elements above 100? No.

Just out on ChemRxiv our new preprint, “Can We Automate Scientific Reasoning in Closed-Loop Experiments using Large Language Models?” @liverpooluni.bsky.social @aichemyhub.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Oh no. Go far enough and there's kilts.

I found them and reported them for impersonation. Hopefully they'll be gone soon!

How odd. And now I feel snubbed by your imposter who didn't message me! 😂

A list of 2026 Faraday Discussions: 8–10 April – Vibrations at Interfaces 13–15 April – Molecular and ion flows through angstrom-scale channels 20–22 April – Bridging the gap from surface science to heterogeneous catalysis 1–3 July – Emerging materials for optoelectronics applications 13–15 July – Solid electrolyte interphases in next-generation batteries 14–16 September – Molecular excited states theory and experiment 14–16 September – Sustainable chemistry of e-fuels and e-chemicals 2–4 November – Bridging electrochemical devices across Earth and space applications

#ChemSky if you're considering which science conferences to attend this year, take a look at the Faraday Discussion series. Organised by @rsc.org, Faraday Discussions are unique scientific meetings where most of the meeting is devoted to discussion and debate. www.rsc.org/our-events/a...

Nessa Carson: Conference Database A researcher-endorsed database of global conferences relevant to all chemists, with particular focus on the UK and Europe.

It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences.

There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat

Shedding light on how photoactive crystals respond in real time Lauren Hatcher discusses her work developing techniques for time-resolved crystallography

Lauren Hatcher uses time-resolved crystallography to understand how photoactive molecules change structure when exposed to light.

This is very clever! Put a MOF particle on an AFM tip, dunk it in polymer solution, then see how sticky the tip now is - repeat and you can get a polymer uptake isotherm on a single particle. Love the idea.

It was very good! 👍

Congratulations Stefano!

The sentiment is mutual! 😁

It's the most wonderful time of year #MASC2025

Don't worry, we can pretend it's rubbish and cold and wet and you aren't missing anything 👍👍