I keep hearing that we are expecting an exponential growth in energy use due to AI like it's some phenomenon that we have no control over and it makes me so fucking angry. We don't have to do it!! We can choose not to do this and not to lose all we've gained in the clean energy transition! fuck!!

Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others.

Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always

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Structural chemistry and environment-dependent fluorescence of a tetratopic pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ligand pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLandin...

Look at that pristine lab coat!

Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7 To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all.

Huh, next month it'll be 10 years since moving to this hemisphere, time sure does fly!

Congratulations to Dr Ruby Morel on passing her PhD viva today 🎉 Noone is more deserving and watch this space for her papers on porous liquid crystals 🙌 Thanks to @annagslater.bsky.social and @g-craig.bsky.social for examining!

Brilliant, congratulations Dr Morel!!!

George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Nothing so irritating in academia as the low key flex re group size. Look at my empire….🙄

3d printed and painted crystal structure of the [Gd(dota)(H2O)] anion in classic atom colouring except for a satin gold colour for the metal ion, with a matt finish

My latest 3d print and paint project was the crystal structure of a classic lanthanide dota complex (dotarem/gadoteric acid), it's a nice case study for teaching about stability constants and their relevance which I use in year 2 inorganic but mainly I just think it's a cool looking molecule

Massive congratulations to my Unimelb #InorganicChemistry colleagues Richard Robson & Paul Donnelly
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End of an era! Got lots of memories of sitting hunched over that thing, there's probably still a couple of micrograms of some of my samples floating about in the furnace

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I see your immediate vacancy and call with one of my own!

Immediately available PhD studentship (Home fees & stipend) on a MOF/polymers/neutrons/computational project with ISIS, Cardiff and the Ada Lovelace Centre. Original student unable to start so post re-advertised.

#ChemSky spread the word!

OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!

BF4 from glass is a new one for, huge excess of XeF2 and taking the "single crystal" part of scxrd very literally I presume? We used to see SiF6 etc popping up all the time, though I wonder how much of that is just selective crystallisation of the less soluble anion

Disordered? Axial bonds look a bit long. If that middle atom wants to spread out when anised I'd suggest maybe BF4 over two positions with three shared fluorines

Sounds like this classic: www.nature.com/articles/532...

Haha thanks! Tough competition from at least three other Chris's there mind you

One of those Bluesky user numbers, mine is 729561

Not often I'm in the first 10% of something, I'll take that

Thanks!

I usually make these as little souvenirs for students when they finish their final year research projects with a compound theyve gotten the structure of, this one was just a bit of fun for me though

A 3d printed and hand painted molecular model - the molecule is a chelating 1,8-naphthalimide complex painted in a cartoon style

Took a break from this for a bit but back to printing and painting some crystal structure models, I'm a big fan of the flat cartoon look from matte varnish and black highlights on the bonds #chemsky

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Picture of two hand painted 3d printed crystal structures, a glossy [(Cp)Fe(CO)2]2 with coloured infill on the rings, and an alanine zwitterion painted in matt style with black highlights between the atoms and bonds

Been trying some new styles with these 3d printed crystal structures recently: used Blender to add infill to aromatic rings for coordinating cyclopentadienyls, and this weekend tried some matt paints for a change with black outlines on the bonds for a more cartoony style

Microscope image of some perfect looking blocky crystals

Those'll do, I guess