In our second new preprint this week, we share a surprisingly under-discussed risk in camera-based monitoring:
✂️🎨 When Chemistry is Too Colourful: Gamut Clipping in 8-bit sRGB Risks Misinterpretation of Camera-Based Chemical Analysis
Not every trend is meaningful👇🏻
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Two new #Kineticolor preprints this week! Up first:
🎥 🧪 Computer Vision Enables Monitoring and Kinetic Analysis of Structurally Diverse Carbon Monoxide Surrogates
Interested in gas release kinetics?
This one is for you 👇🏻
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Does stirring matter in chemistry? 🤔
Read our recent editorial, responding to the Synlett paper that caused so much debate around #MixingMatters:
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Happy to share the new enquiry page for the #ImposterSyndrome Masterclass:
www.ImposterSyndromeMasterclass.com
Should you apply for the 2026 #CASFutureLeaders program? Spend a few minutes watching this moving video from 2016 alum @reid-indeed.bsky.social and submit your application today! youtu.be/NU30_E199ms?...
I have a copy for you.
New from #Kineticolor:
Computer Vision Helps Experimentally Monitor Mixing Effects in Deep Eutectic Solvents
Mixing matters, and you have to monitor it over time…and beware of vessel reaction geometry!
🎥🧪 If you can see it, we can help you measure it.
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This week, three members of the #Kineticolor team are sharing our #ComputerVision work at APACT.
Come chat to us to learn how you can gain new process understanding by recording videos of your chemistry 🎥 🧪
We escaped…again!
It’s always great fun to be out with the #Kineticolor team, celebrating recent papers, projects, presentations, and posters.
We found our way out of a witchcraft room with 15 mins to spare.
Long may this group tradition continue.
Very much looking forward to sharing a part of the #Kineticolor story for the inorganic community tomorrow!
@usic-2025.bsky.social long wait is over. joint Universities of Scotland Inorganic (USiC)/RSC Scots Dalton Conference starts tomorrow at Strathclyde Uni. Plenarys @evaheviagroup.bsky.social Andrew jupp @unibirmingham @clairecarmalt.bsky.social & 21 lectures from early careerists and PhDs. @rsc.org
PhD opportunity in my group at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow!
🧬 Develop imaging & computer vision methods to monitor oligonucleotide synthesis. 📸
ℹ️ UK applicants
🕰️ Deadline 7 Sept 2025.
✍🏼 Email CV + cover letter to marc.reid.100@strath.ac.uk
(Subject: PhD 2025).
Today, we bade farewell to the fantastic Hannah Nicklas, following her eye-opening MSc research project.
Once more, the #Kineticolor team is reminded that we are a part of all that we have met.
We look forward to reporting on Hannah’s forensics-focused research story in the near future!
Congratulations to all this week’s Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry graduates, class of 2025!
Their paths through our research team were separated by 4 years. Today, they were just 2 seats apart, united in celebrating their PhD graduation.
None of what we claim as ‘success’ is possible without the likes of Ben and Barry.
Many years later, emerging from COVID, I interviewed a PhD candidate who took a risk to present what became the most creative and memorable interview I’ve ever conducted.
The undergrad was Benjamin Clark and the PhD candidate was Henry Barrington.
👨🎓A surreal and satisfying day at University of Strathclyde graduations 🥳
Back in 2017, before I had any research team, an undergrad came looking for a summer placement. It so happened to be the summer we spent playing with cameras, tinkering with a side project that later became Kineticolor®️.
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✅ Temperature increase (25 - 60°C) reduces mixing times by up to 10-fold
✅ CFD simulations validate experimental observations
✅ Computer vision provides quantitative, non-contact monitoring
✅ Synthesis applications shows that vessel choice is important, even on the small scale, when using DESs.
📰 ANOTHER NEW PREPRINT GOES LIVE!!!
📸 Computer Vision Helps Experimentally Monitor Mixing Effects in Deep Eutectic Solvents
#SustainableChemistry #ComputerVision #Kineticolor
🔗 Read the preprint:
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We in the #Kineticolor are very proud of these two!
At a joint conference for #PhD students across the Universities of Strathclyde + Glasgow, Kristin Donnachie gave a talk and Calum Fyfe shared his poster on some of our most recent adventures in #ComputerVision.
As they grow, we grow with them.
Five hardback copies of #YouAreNotAFraud are en route to USW to give away to attendees…and I can’t wait to hear whose won!
Massive thanks to Llinos Spargo for inviting me back, and to Prof Martin Steggall for his kind hosting during my session.
I was delighted to return (remotely) to U of South Wales for another edition of the Imposter Syndrome Masterclass!
We had a range of Qs to end the session, covering the effect of the (so-called) #ImposterSyndrome on mentoring, management, diversity in leadership, and moving between careers.
Team #Kineticolor out for Barry’s wedding.
Left to right: Calum, Kristin, Barry himself(!), me, and Tim.
We absolutely 100% manage to go the full day without wondering what we might analyse next.
Our new #Kineticolor paper is out in Analytical Science Advances!
“experimental protocols utilising Kineticolor, a computer vision software, were developed to qualitatively and quantitatively study presumptive tests for xylazine detection.”
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Thank-you to CMAC for partnering with the Imposter Syndrome Masterclass again in 2025!
What a pleasure to work with the new students in the CEDAR CDT programme.
Here’s trusting the tools from the workshop will help you maximise the enjoyment of your exciting journies ahead!
I’m looking forward to serving as one of the #RSCDigital judges for the forthcoming #RSCPoster 2025 event over on LinkedIn.
Sign up today to take part from 12pm Tues — 12pm Wed!
Good luck, and have fun!!!
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If you're interested in #podcast conversations about the so-called #ImposterSyndrome, I've recently updated the list of free resources on my website.
Scroll to the bottom, where you'll find links to my latest conversations, including two that are NEW for 2025:
www.dr-marc-reid.com/book
I recently sat down with the creators of the new ‘Lasers in Skin’ podcast, who kindly invited me on to talk about my book, #YouAreNotAFraud.
For all the self-doubters, this one may be of interest to you:
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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🏅 Will your #PhD in #Chemistry end with you having the number "VIII" medal?
We etch in these PhD medals with the belief that each of us is "A part of all that I have met". We are ready to meet YOU!
Our PhD post is open to applications till 16 Feb:
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Earlier this week, Kristin (2nd year PhD) and Tim (postdoc) went to the @roysocchem.bsky.social and SCI ‘Demystifying Reaction Kinetics’ symposium, sharing their stories about non-contact reaction monitoring with #Kineticolor.
There’s just one week left for applications on our open PhD position!🧵