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Text in a white box on blue gradient background, with a doodle of masked people taking a selfie in the bottom right corner: Help shape our work! We’re a small team of disabled people with limited capacity, and we want to make the greatest impact we can. So let us know: What aspect of what we do is most useful to you? We’ll always be distributing masks directly, but in addition we could aim to: - stock more mask boxes in different parts of the city, - share more frequent wastewater updates, - share more science/educational content, - run more in-person events, - run more online events, - do new things! What would you like to see? And if you want to help out with any of the above, please get in touch! No prior experience needed

We want to hear from you! We dream about doing lots of things, but time and energy are limited, so we need to prioritise - what would be the most useful or affirming for you?

We'd also love to expand the mask bloc to be able to do more, so if you're interested in joining, get in touch!

A reminder that I'll be giving a workshop next week as part of the young Physical Chemists contributions to Bunsen-Tagung 2026 in Dresden!

Come along and hear tips and tricks for shaping your manuscript for publication, as well as insights into the use of AI tools in publishing. #chemsky

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the P-C-C-P ‘Advances in computational chemistry and catalysis: Honouring Jumras Limtrakul’s 72nd birthday’. The graphic includes photos of the guest editors, Thana Maihom (Kasetsart University, Thailand) and Chularat Wattanakit (VISTEC, Thailand). The tagline reads “Free to access until 1 May 2026”. There is also a photo of Prof. Jumras Limtrakul, smiling and holding a molecular model of a Buckminster Fullerene.

PCCP's latest themed collection Advances in computational chemistry and catalysis: Honouring Jumras Limtrakul’s 72nd birthday, is now online and free to access until 1 May 2026 #chemsky

Guest edited by Thana Maihom and Chularat Wattanakit.

Read the full collection:
pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

An R-S-C promotional graphic introducing P-C-C-P's four new Associate Editors: Elise Dumont, German Sastre, Giuseppe Graziano, and Svein Sunde.

We are delighted to announce that Elise Dumont (Université Côte d'Azur), German Sastre (Instituto de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC), Giuseppe Graziano (University of Sannio) and Svein Sunde (NTNU) have been appointed as Associate Editors for PCCP #chemsky

Learn more:

blogs.rsc.org/cp/2026/03/2...

We are delighted to announce that Selin Kara (Leibniz University Hannover; Aarhus University) has been appointed as a new Associate Editor in 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 💚 "𝑀𝑦 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠" - 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑎 Read more about Selin ➡️https://blogs.rsc.org/gc/2026/03/13/green-chemistry-announcement-selin-kara-our-new-associate-editor/ Please join us in welcoming Selin in her new role in 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲! Leibniz Universität Hannover Institute of Technical Chemistry (TCI) Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University Royal Society of Chemistry #GreenChemistry

Hi #Chemsky! We are delighted to announce that 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚 (Leibniz University Hannover; Aarhus University) has been appointed as a new Associate Editor in #GreenChemistry💚

Please join us in welcoming Selin in her new role!

Read more about Selin ➡️ blogs.rsc.org/gc/2026/03/1...

@rsc.org

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 to be held from 14-16 September 2026 in Cambridge, UK. The poster abstract deadline is 29 June 2026.

Join us in Cambridge in September 2026 for the 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 #chemsky #compchemsky

🚨Submit your poster abstract by 𝟐𝟗 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
📅Early bird registration: 𝟐𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
🔗 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Read our International Women's Day collection in 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲, showcasing some of the excellent 2025 publications led by women researchers around the world!

🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.

#chemsky @rsc.org #IWD2026

A collage of 150 women scientists whose work is featured in the P-C-C-P International Women's Day collection

Read our International Women's Day collection in PCCP, showcasing some of the excellent 2025 publications led by women researchers around the world! All articles in this collection are free to access until the 8 April 2026. #chemsky

Explore the whole collection now: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

‘Rising anti-trans hatred’ in the UK creating ‘hostile environment’, report suggests 99 per cent of trans people say media coverage of issue has harmed their mental health

The story has been picked up by mainstream press.

Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

⏳ The closing date to nominate someone for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship is fast approaching!
Details about eligibility and how to nominate are here: rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26
#compchem #mlchem #AIChem #machinelearning

Bridging the gap from surface science to heterogeneous catalysis Faraday Discussion 20 - 22 April 2026, London, United Kingdom Early Bird registration deadline: 9 March 2026 The Discussion will bring together established and early-career scientists, postgraduate students and industrial researchers from the heterogenous catalysis and surface chemistry communities to design the new catalysts needed for society’s most pressing problems ranging from energy production, air quality and transportation to environmentally sustainable industry. The Discussion will be organised into four themes: 💠 New experimental methods for observing catalysts in action 💠 Impact of artificial intelligence on heterogeneous catalysis 💠 Chemical mechanisms and system analysis in heterogeneous catalysis 💠 Rational design of dynamic and self-repairing active sites

Join us in April 2026 for the 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

📅Early bird registration: 𝟗 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
🔗 www.rsc.org/events/detai...
🌍London, UK

#FDHETCAL #ChemSky #FaradayDiscussion #Catalysis #SurfaceScience

@rsc.org

Congratulations to the three winners of the CSJ PCCP Prize! #ChemicalSocietyOfJapan

🏆 Hiroki Uratani (Theoretical, Informatics and Computational Chemistry)

🏆 Kentaro Kadota (Complex and Organometallic Chemistry)

🏆 Keisuke Nakamura (Polymer Chemistry)

@univkyoto.bsky.social

My old PhD research group named one set of instruments after Star Trek captains!

This workshop is open to students & early career researchers and there will be something for everybody, whether you're getting started in publishing your research, or if you're looking to refine your skills for future publications.

If you'll be at Bunsen-Tagung and would like to chat, drop me a DM!

I'll cover topics including:

• Careers in scholarly publishing & taking the alt-academic route post-PhD

• An intro to scientific publishing: choosing a journal, tips for writing articles, and a guide to the manuscript life cycle

• Insights into publishing ethics and AI in modern publishing

An R-S-C promotional graphic for a P-C-C-P Meet the Editor session titled How to publish with impact. Monday 30 March 2026, 3.30PM CET, Bunsen-Tagung. Join Development Editor Bee Hockin (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK)

Delighted to announce that I'll be attending Bunsen-Tagung 2026 in Dresden from 30 March - 1 April, and I've teamed up with the Young Physical Chemists to present a Meet The Editor workshop on how to publish with impact!

More info: veranstaltungen.gdch.de/microsite/in...

#ChemSky #MeetTheEditor

Liberty responds to court's finding proscription of Palestine Action unlawful - Liberty

We welcome the court’s finding that the proscription of Palestine Action was UNLAWFUL.

This case has exposed a deeper problem where the line between direct action and terrorism has become dangerously blurred.

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the Faraday Discussion Molecular and ion flows through angstrom-scale channels, to be held 13-15 April 2026 in Manchester, UK.

Join us in Manchester in April 2026 for the 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐦-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 📢

📅Early Bird registration closes: 2 March 2026

🔗More info and registration: rsc.li/channels-fd2026

#chemsky #FD_CHANNELS #nanofluidics
@rsc.org

A dark day for Scotland as it proposes a reversal of the human rights of trans people to be enshrined into it's statutory law. First country in the UK to take this regressive step.

Join us in April 2026 for the 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

📅 Early bird registration: 𝟐𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
🔗 rsc.li/vibrations-f...

The Discussion will be organised into:
💠Complex systems
💠Tracking change
💠The surface in silico
💠Advances & new techniques

#FDVIBS26 #ChemSky @rsc.org

RSC Desktop Seminar: Electron Transport in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Thursday 5 February 2026 at 9am EST / 2pm GMT.

Join us next Thursday for another great Desktop Seminar, this time on Electron Transport in MOFs featuring @mirceadinca.bsky.social @princeton.edu and @profamo.bsky.social @virginiatech.bsky.social . #chemsky #webinar Register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Publishers are already seeing unprecedented quantities of AI slop and unethical AI use by authors and reviewers, and it's terrifying that tools like this will open the floodgates further. Gen AI is a plague and I wish it a swift death.

The impact that this will have (that @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social rightly criticizes) is intentional; they are trying to poison science. They are trying to undermine critical thought, truth, creativity - basically everything of value in human society.

It is an epistemological and cognitive plague. ⚗️🧪

We know what injustice feels like. That’s why women of every background are coming together in this campaign. You don’t need to know all the right words or have years of activism behind you. You just need to care.

✍️ Sign our letter at notinourname.org.uk

#Feminism #TransAlly #WithTheT

Ultimately the crackdown on transness has never been about trans people its never been about us. Its the struggle between the firm hand of heteronormative patriarchy and the freedom of feminism, bodily autonomy, reproductive rights. We are just the border where that war is fought

𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 and 𝑅𝑆𝐶 𝑆𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 are delighted to announce that our latest cross journal themed collection, 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰?, is now online and free to access until the end of April 2026. This collection brings together a selection of outstanding reviews, perspectives, papers and communications, which collectively provide a panoramic view of the field’s current vitality. The works range from recycling of polymer wastes, substitution of polymer carbon with oxygen (or sulfur), utilization of biomass to replace petroleum-based polluting polymers, copolymerization of CO₂ with other monomers, and converting polymers (either natural or synthetic ones) into platform chemicals.

New Themed Collection online: 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰?

💚 Collection ➡️ rsc.li/SusPol24
📖 Editorial ➡️ doi.org/10.1039/D5GC...
📝 More info ➡️ blogs.rsc.org/gc/2026/01/1...

@rsc.org @rscsustainability.rsc.org @polymerchem.rsc.org #GreenChemistry #ChemSky#Polymers #Sustainability

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the Faraday Discussion Molecular and ion flows through angstrom-scale channels, to be held 13-15 April 2026 in Manchester, UK.

Join us in Manchester in April 2026 for the 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐦-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 📢

📅Submit your poster abstract by 𝟐 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

🔗More info and registration: rsc.li/channels-fd2026

#chemsky #FD_CHANNELS #nanofluidics @rsc.org

Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women's spaces, study finds - LGBTQ Nation “This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.”

'Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years'

Sounds like a non-issue being spun to stoke hate against a minority by bad faith 'feminists'.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

Join us in April 2026 for the 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

📅 Poster abstract deadline 26 Jan 2026
🔗 rsc.li/vibrations-f...

The Discussion will be organised into:
💠 Complex systems
💠 Tracking change
💠 The surface in silico
💠 Advances & new techniques

#FDVIBS26 #ChemSky

@rsc.org