Erik Svensson Grape - awardee - Struchkov Prize 2026

I am incredibly honored to recieve this prize!

Greatly looking forward to attending @iucr2026.bsky.social

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I have many people to thank for all the learning and exciting research over these past years. First and foremost though, is my crystallography mentor and great friend
@keninge.bsky.social

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!

High-efficiency non-thermal plasma synthesis of imine macrocycles Macrocycles are candidates for wide-ranging applications, yet their synthesis can be low-yielding, poorly reproducible, and resource-intensive, limiting their use. Here, we explore the use of Non-Ther...

See eg pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... for imine macrocycle formation

Room Temperature Size Tuning of CsPbI3 Quantum Dots Size quantization in halide perovskite nanocrystals provides a versatile strategy to tune their optical and electronic properties. We have now synthesized CsPbI3 quantum dots (QDs, 5–13.5 nm) by first...

Room Temperature Size Tuning of CsPbI3 Quantum Dots | ACS Materials Letters
We have CsPbI3 quantum dots (5–13.5 nm) are synthesized by first preparing CsPbBr3 QDs at room temp., followed by halide exchange with iodide ions and characterize excited state properties.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Red tiles on a bathroom wall

Interesting tiling pattern in this pub bathroom in Bangalore. @stecanossa.bsky.social does this type have a name?

Heavyweight Rituals Heavyweight Rituals is a space for those who treat focus as a discipline, not a mood. This channel is built around deep focus instrumental music paired with human rituals of repetition, stillness, and...

Highly recommend this channel, it's new (it's not mine). Some amazing music to run in the background while working. Helped me a lot with focus from the past two days. I recommend running some parts at 1.5x speed. Kudos to the maker of this channel.
www.youtube.com/@Heavyweight...

When Reality Defies Prediction: Polymorphism, Twinning, and Accordion Crystals The ability to understand crystallization and predict the resulting solid form of a system is not always easily achieved, but it is critical, particularly in the field of materials science. Intriguing...

This is a special one for me. Getting any paper published in a peer-reviewed journal is amazing (especially as a corresponding author) but to be published in JACS is something else!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Those look awesome! Good luck with the crystallography.

We’re at MOFES’26 from today until 15 January in Bangalore 🇮🇳

Excited to connect with researchers and industry experts around MOFs, porous materials, and sustainability!
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#mofes26 #EnergyMaterials #Sustainability #MOFs #PorousMaterials

Petrol and matches

Pork bafat cooking in a pot.

A piece of pork shoulder with a knife on a cutting board.

A scene from Predator (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger saying 'Stick around'

Every year on Christmas Day, I have two traditions.
i. Watch Predator
ii. Cook Pork Bafat.

Merry Christmas to you all!

What are your traditions?

Spot the errors in this AI slop pipetting guide. Also, what's a 3 metre pipette? What's 'deeferng'?

Direct imaging of facet development during growth of single-crystal covalent organic frameworks | Science Advances https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz8131

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Tuning enantioselective drug adsorption in isoreticular homochiral metal–peptide frameworks through proximity pore interactions pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLandin...

Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at University of Liverpool Apply now for the Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D

New PI promotion alert!! Our postdoc, Emily Meekel, left the group and will start research as an assistant professor at Birmingham @uobchemistry.bsky.social next year. We had a farewell party at Vegi Shabu-Shabu restaurant. Emily's work in Kyoto will be posted sometime soon. Good luck, Emily!

Francine Holmes, 73, passed away Wednesday after three hours of successful surgery followed by four hours of unsuccessful surgery.

A new paper-based approach for teaching Bragg's law A paper-based virtual X-ray diffraction experiment, which is based on the right-angle condition for constructive inter­ference, allows the implications of Bragg's law to be studies in a simple way.

A new paper-based approach for teaching Bragg's law 😀😀 doi.org/10.1107/S205...
@actacryste.iucr.org #IUCr #crystallography #education #K12 #outreach

That's true. Magritek was found in New Zealand, those machines were invented upside down anyway. So the spectra were the right side up.

While setting up NMR spectrometers in New Zealand, we had a choice. Either set the machines upside down or get upside down spectra. We chose the latter, coz the other choice would've spilled out the liquid nitrogen.

Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn Interested in #flowchemistry? #crystallography? #MOFs? 📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow Based in the School of Chemistr...

📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

New fully funded PhD position available in our group 🥳 ideal for someone who wants to combine organic supramolecular chemistry with cancer therapeutic development!

www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Funding available for UK/EU students

Reposts appreciated!

Dear Chem Memelords, please accept my humble offering of these memes.

Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2025 is out!

TB is the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year

www.who.int/news-room/re...

Slide highlighting the CrystEngComm tutorial review on Identifying and characterising flexible crystals with photos of the authors and a QR code to access the collection.

🎉We are delighted to share the latest in our series of Tutorial Review articles: "Identifying and characterising flexible crystals"

Read our blog post to learn more about this work from Atiqur Rahman, John C McMurtrie, Sajesh P Thomas & Jack K Clegg 👇

blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/11/1...

#Chemsky 🧪

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I sleep all night and I work all day!

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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