In #JMCA Issue 23, you can find a new Review published by @jmaterchem.rsc.org A Editor Subrata Kundu and co-authors, titled Electronic Frontiers of borophene: a computational mini-review on properties and emerging applications
Read their exciting Review here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...
They lack both ethics and compassion, *and* scientific expertise
That's why as a trans geneticist and science communicator, I just launched @beyondxandy.bsky.social to fight unscientific, transphobic nonsense
Because older trans folk like me need to fight for trans kids...
Kezia Dugdale has launched into her new role with a commitment to making Stonewall even more toothless and irrelevant than it was already.
www.thenational.scot/politics/260...
Chlorine Triflourode is a “molecule” in the same way a guy, his wife who he cheated on, his mistress who just dumped him, and the raccoon in his back yard are a “family.”
RSC Desktop Seminar: Americas Emerging Investigators - Applications of Mechanochemistry on Wednesday 8 April 2026 at 11 am EDT and 4 pm BST
Join our next Americas Emerging Investigator webinar, part of the Desktop Seminar series, next Wednesday, April 8th at 11am EDT/4pm BST. Xinle Li and Paulo de Oliveira @uspoficial.bsky.social will discuss "Applications of Mechanochemistry".
Sign up for free here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. WITHOUT LIMITING SECTION 12 OF THE MICROSOFT SERVICES AGREEMENT IN ANY WAY, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND ABOUT COPILOT. For example, we can’t promise that any Copilot’s Responses won’t infringe someone else’s rights (like their copyrights, trademarks, or rights of privacy) or defame them. You are solely responsible if you choose to publish or share Copilot’s Responses publicly or with any other person.
I thought this was an April Fool’s joke but seems to be the genuine Microsoft ‘Terms of Use’ for Copilot. Many thanks to @lifewinning.com for finding this.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
most brands on April 1st: half-arsed 200 word blog post
Warhammer: www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
Developing understanding uncovering the truth ‘relies on open sharing of information, being able to interrogate, examine & criticise ideas, to test how closely they describe our reality,’ writes Derek Lowe.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
2026 RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper award submissions are now open!
These awards recognise outstanding work published in the journal across our 12 subject categories, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student.
Find out more 👉 www.rsc.org/standards-an...
Scene from the Animatrix: A robot woman is attacked by three men. They are holding her arms, ripping off her clothes, and striking her in the head with a hammer, causing her humanoid skin and hair to tear away. A crowd sits nearby, laughing. She screams, "I'm real! I'm real!" These are her last words.
The news makes me think about this scene every single day.
Urgent journo request: for @goodlawproject.org I'm looking to speak to friends of #trans ppl in the UK who have died whose #gender was not accurately recorded on their death certificate. I’m particularly interested in cases from the last year. I promise to handle your story with care 🖤
Some photos from @guy_heath_ rock pooling at Hannafore, Looe! The elusive Rainbow sea slug (Babakina anadoni), found by @oops_robin 🌈
Flyer with photo of speaker and talk information. Talk information can also be found in the main text of the post
Interested in data chemistry? Come hear @olexandr.bsky.social talk about AIMNet2 today at 8:40AM!
Talk title: AIMNet2: Foundation neural network potential for molecules and CADD-related tasks
Location: Georgia World Congress Center C209
#chemistry #datachem #ACS #ACSspring2026 #chemsky
Something possessed me
When people text me like "heyyy we've not hung out in a while, how are you?" I'm gonna send them this image
A sandwich of posts detailing the argument on chemsky and chemtwitter that any object can be defined as a sandwich. In this case, there are two posts from one account sandwiching a post from another.
It does look quite suitably sandwiched to me
Hey chemsky. I'm updating my talk ahead of a visit to Bonn and Groningen next week. Feel like I've given largely the same publishing talk basically forever. What topics would you want an editor to cover? AI? Ethics? The sandwich argument?
A victorian drawing, maybe an engraving, as would be printed in newspapers or books: it shows a crowded street. A bearded wealthy man with a top hat is pondering. A young poorer woman selling flowers (and herself) wearing a low-cut top is smiling and offering him a flower. Another, well dressed woman with a parasol stands between them, giving him A LOOK. A tiny long-haired dog that looks like a wig is sniffing at the young woman's skirt. Her ankles are there for all to see.
I was looking for something about agricultural diets but found this Victorian version of the Distracted Boyfriend meme
Police Scotland has confirmed its revised approach to sex and gender data, where data collected about suspects and victims of all crimes and offences will ask about ‘biological sex registered at birth’ 🔢
#data #gender #trans #police #Scotland
Symbiotic relationship, a definition :
- For the zoanthid coral : acquire mobility, can feed on different areas
- For the hermit crab : a cool hat
Is this a Primal Scream call out post or are they still at it?
orgone
⏳2 days to go! Nominations close on 13 March for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship in digital chemistry. See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details about eligibility and how to nominate. We look forward to receiving your nomination. #CompChem #MLChem #AIChem #MachineLearning
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week is "Active control of forward/backward charge transfer in Z-scheme water splitting: manipulating electrostatic affinity/repulsion between photocatalyst surface and electron mediator” by Akinobu Nakada & Ryu Abe et al.
Read it for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
⏳3 days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship in digital chemistry close on 13 March. See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details about eligibility and how to nominate. #CompChem #MLChem #AIChem #MachineLearning
Just published today, we are delighted to share our paper entitled “Chemical Softness as a Predictor for Reactivity at Metal Surfaces” #ChemSky #CompChemSky
We are inviting self-nominations for the 2026 @rsc-photochem.bsky.social group Early Career Researcher Lectureship, which recognises outstanding research contributions and excellence in communication by early career scientists in the area of photophysics and photochemistry. (1/N)
#chemsky
