Same here - I think teaching labs are silver LEAF.

Infographic on the chemistry of a mojito. Some key chemical components of rum, mint, lime and brown sugar are detailed with chemical structures.

It's Friday and it's #NationalMojitoDay!

Here's some of the chemistry behind this refreshing minty cocktail 🍹 www.compoundchem.com/2020/07/10/m...

#ChemSky 🧪

Trump: not just over-promise, under-deliver, but: ridiculously over-promise and nowhere near deliver (then repeat so no one has chance to notice).

Brilliant.

That's what's more worrying - it's not overt

Musk is an Edison at most.

When did she actually do anything else?

On placement at Sandoz in Basel in the mid-90s, you could order company branded ashtrays to fit to the side of your fume cupboard... I saw older staff smoking whilst doing column chromatography.

"If you don't like our principles, we can find some other ones"

You been listening to Sliced Bread by any chance?

Homemade cornish pasty and Thatchers cider

Empty plate with knife and fork, with crumbs of cornish pasty...

Proper job. Heritage meal - Cornish pasty (homemade by mum) and Somerset cider.

Flyer for the launch of the ViCEPHEC25 conference on August 28-29th (with IOP and RSC satellite meetings on the 27th). The conference website is at https://vicephec2025.weebly.com

Registration and abstract submission for #ViCEPHEC25 is now open! Come to Liverpool in August to join the community of HE educators.

Please consider sharing your work, too. We are trying to make a bigger space for case studies of teaching design and delivery this year, for example.

Sung in a Tina Turner voice

Agree so much. If it's going to collect data it should allow you to use it.

"Mildly justified"...?

Sublimation: Concept, Purification of Ferrocene, Applications Learn by watching this video about Sublimation: Concept, Purification of Ferrocene, Applications at JoVE.com

Rembered purificaton of ferrocene by sublimation and found this: app.jove.com/v/10429/subl...
But it just refers to collection of solid by deposition, not necessarily forming crystals.

Enjoying catching up with the Chemistry teaching crowd at #CTiP

Take care. The most important thing is to look after yourself.

Happy New Year, you lovely people

Close-up of many small sulphur-yellow cupped-ear shaped fungi on a dark wooden bench.

Fungi on a bench cut from a tree trunk at Dyrham Park

#FungiFriends

Wow!

Washing some cabbage harvested from the allotment for tomorrow's Christmas dinner. Beautiful how the hydrophobic white cabbage leaf glistens silver with the layer of air over the surface. The red cabbage doesn't have it at all.

Have to restrain myself from starting on the Christmas cake...

All the best, whatever turns up.

Missed opportunity

With their siblings Commercial and Criminal?

Great night out at The Fleece. Good to see live music.

Caledonian sleeper compartment

All aboard the night train