Global leaders in health science and research elected as RSE Fellows in 2026 The RSE has announced that 43 individuals deemed excellent in their field were elected as RSE Fellows in 2026.

Congratulations to Boron Co_I @chemguyeli.bsky.social on being elected a fellow of the @royalsoced.bsky.social 🎉

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Boron researchers Anna and Mat presented their work at the @rsc.org Main Group Interest Group Annual Meeting & AGM last week.

Anna's talk 'Two heads are better than one – Proximal diborylation of arenes' and Mat's poster were both very well received, prompting some great scientific discussions.

Boron PhD students Masha, Mia and Joanna had a great time at the Craigmillar Community Science Festival last week engaging with young people and their adults over some molymod and glovebox activities inspired by their research.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to his lectures at Indiana University next week. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Great to see Acoziborole given a positive opinion by the EMA for the treatment of sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by @dndi.org. @ajbw.bsky.social et al are currently working on benzoxaboroles as part of EPSRC Boron: Beyond the Reagent. Read more about Allan’s work: www.boron.ac.uk

During the Feb break, Boron PhD Mia Harris had the privilege of running activities as part of the Discover! Programme. The Discover! programme is a community project that engages with young learners & their families that are underrepresented in higher education. education.gov.scot/resources/ch...

Boron Co-Is Prof Stephen Thomas and Prof Mike Ingleson's Angewandte Chemie paper has been cited in Douglass Taber's Org. Chem. Highlights column this week; 'Functional Group Interconversion: The Hale Synthesis of Trichostatin A'.

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Lia Sotorrios had a fantastic time at the @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop in Vienna last week, her talk was very well received and she would like to thank all of the event organisers.

Congratulations to Kevin, Andy and Will on their @synlettjournal.bsky.social paper! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

@chemguyeli.bsky.social will be speaking at @innolae.bsky.social on Wednesday 18th February.

Thank you to our industrial panelists who gave their time to join online Q&A sessions with researchers earlier this month. Researchers were given insights into some of the different careers paths of chemistry PhD holders and had their questions answered in engaging and interactive online sessions.

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to hosting Tim Clark on Thursday for his lecture 'Developing Synthetic Tools in Organoboron Chemistry to Access Phosphonates and Phosphines.

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2026 from the Boron: Beyond the Reagent team.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS is looking forward to speaking at the @rsc.org NMR Discussion Group Winter Meeting in Burlington House on Thursday. His talk will be "Mixing it up: mechanisms by NMR". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Prof Mike Ingleson enjoyed giving his final Dalton Mid Career Prize Lecture of the series at the School of Chemistry, University of Leicester last week. Many thanks to the organisers. @rsc.org

Prof Steve Thomas enjoyed attending the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic chemistry poster symposium 2025 at Burlington House yesterday. He is pictured here with PhD student Julie Macleod and her poster 'Colourimetric Detection of Hidden Catalysis'.

Read the Nature paper here: lnkd.in/eM2yWQxf

We have recently welcomed a new PhD student to the Boron team; Baptiste Boyer has joined the Watson Group in St Andrews working on boron-based methodology. Welcome Baptiste!

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS thanks his host, Prof Jin-Quan Yu, and the organisers of the @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social Lecture at @scripps.edu. Guy is pictured with Jennifer Riggs PhD, Head of Medicinal Chemistry West at BMS, Prof Yu and fellow academic staff. @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social

Boron Co-I Prof. Russell Morris gave his views on the applications of MOFs in this @chemistryworld.com article. edin.ac/3JE6dlh
PhD student Daniela Rocha is part of the 'Smart Materials' workstream in the Morris Group, St Andrews - seen here leading outreach at the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival.

Boron PI Guy Lloyd-Jones is looking forward to giving the Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture on Friday at Scripps Research. His talk is titled "Kinetics and Mechanism by NMR Spectroscopy". @lloydjonesgroup.bsky.social @scripps.edu

Boron PhD student Anna Schellbach presented her research last week as part of the Edinburgh School of Chemistry PhD Seminar series. Thank you to the organisers. Her talk was very well received with lots of excitement in the room regarding some recent results.
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@chemguyeli.bsky.social is looking forward to taking part in the Wiley Online Advanced Summit next week.
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Congratulations to Boron team members Chen Li, Lia Sotorrios, Patrick Boaler, Andrew Leach and Guy Lloyd-Jones et al on their JACS paper published last week!
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Boron PDRA John Marques dos Santos thoroughly enjoyed showcasing his research at the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium last month on Organic Semiconductor Materials in Germany.

He presented his poster 'Synergistic Intergration of BINAP and MR-TADF Motifs for Enhanced OLED Performance'.

Prof Mike Ingleson is looking forward to returning to Bath where he completed his PhD studies to give the RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize Lecture @rsc.org

Today we celebrate the achievements of women in STEM on #adalovelaceday

Boron PhD student Salil Kumar Jana thoroughly enjoyed presenting his poster 'A Molecular Design Strategy for Solution-Processed MR-TADF Emitters via Nitrogen-Linked Boron Based Building Blocks' at last month's Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium in Frankfurt.

Happy #ResearchAdministratorDay to all of our lovely research administration staff across our institutions. Thank you for all you do! #ARMA #CelebratingResearch #BehindEveryDiscovery

Congrats to PhD student Julie Macleod & Prof Stephen Thomas on their paper in Nature Portfolio Chemistry - 'Colorimetric Indication of Hidden Catalysis'. Special mention to Julie as the single experimental author on this paper! chem.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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During Postdoc Appreciation Week we are saying a huge thank you to all Boron PDRAs past and present. #NPAW #LovePostdocs