Andrew (Andy) Stewart

British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin in her laboratory in 1964. She is sitting at a wooden desk, wearing a blue cardigan and green skirt, resting her chin on her hand as she looks thoughtfully toward the camera. On the desk beside her sits a black and gold microscope and a glass display case containing a large, complex crystal structure model. To her left, bookshelves are packed with scientific texts, including a prominent red spine titled "Penicillin Crystal Structures." This image captures the Nobel Prize winner in the environment where she produced the world’s first 3D atomic maps of essential medicines like penicillin and insulin. The scene highlights her intense intellectual focus and the physical tools of her pioneering work in X-ray crystallography. Digital restoration and colorization by Seriously Scientific.

Remembering Dorothy Hodgkin on International Women's Day!

While Fleming found the mold, Hodgkin solved the 3D atomic puzzle of Penicillin.

Using X-ray crystallography, she mapped the molecule's structure, allowing it to be mass-produced and saving millions of lives! 🔬🗺️

#WomenInScience

🚀 Strathclyde, we’re coming for you!

After Liverpool SOLD OUT, we added a second Inator Hackathon and it’s shaping up to be amazing.

Whether you’re curious about sensors, AI, automation or data projects, this is where ideas turn into reality.

🎟️ Secure your place: buff.ly/9spLS0r

That smile speaks volumes - as always. Congrats Felix Hol (a lab alum) to be selected for TEDFellows class of 2026. From the swamps at Stanford to villages in Madagascar - I have so many memories with Felix - but his joyful laugh is one that rings again and again. Let's go catch some mosquitoes.

A rock band can’t stop a missile. But it can keep Ukraine in the world’s ears.

U2 released “Yours Eternally” with Ukraine’s Antytila and Ed Sheeran, alongside a short film by Ukrainian filmmaker Illia Mykhailus using real frontline footage.

Attention is a form of support.

‘Ukrainians are a strong nation – we persevere’: Four years on scientists remain resilient in face of adversity Researchers in Ukraine hold on to hope and plan for a future after the war ends

'Ukrainians are a strong nation – we persevere and continue to live and work.’ Four years on from the full scale invasion by Russia, Ukrainian scientists have hope and plan for the future.

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms Glimmer sparked by electrical fields detected in nature for the first time

For half a century, researchers suspected treetops on Earth might glow because of thunderstorms. But the phenomenon, an electric outburst called a corona, has only ever been spotted in the lab--until now. Cool story from @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org

Me at the Blavatnik Awards, with my fellow finalists and giving me lecture

It was a wonderful experience to receive my Blavatnik Awards in the UK Finalist medal in the gorgeous Banqueting House this week!

Then give a public lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine!

A giant thank you to the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the The New York Academy of Sciences

@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.

📅 Date: 26th February 2026
⏳ Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
🌏 Location: Virtual Event, Online
📍 Registration Link: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/webina...

🚨 Last few days left to register! 🚨

❄️ Your research is too cool to miss Calgary. 3 days left to submit your IUCr2026 abstract. Final deadline, no extensions. No registration required.

📅 Feb 22 at 11:59 PM ET 👉 event.fourwaves.com/...

#IUCR #IUCR2026 #crystallography

Beyond Retractions: Forensic Scientometrics Techniques to Identify Research Misconduct, Citation Leakage, and Funding Anomalies This paper presents a forensic scientometric case study of the Pharmakon Neuroscience Research Network, a fabricated research collective that operated primarily between 2019 and 2022 while embedding i...

One of my goals for 2026 is to draft/write a novel based on forensic scientometrics, following a couple of meetings i had with people who were - i kid you not - working with 2 "security agencies" as forensic scientometricians ... anyway, some colleagues just published this - arxiv.org/abs/2602.14793

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

Oh I love some respect for language, we're all guilty of some misuse, it's never too late to acknowledge and be patient and informative to others!

I could bring up "lattice", "Bragg reflections", and "n-dimensional" (n=0,1,2,3), but I already discuss it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

#chemsky

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people in a room with bed and nightstand. One person points at something on ceiling.] PERSON 1 with short hair on top of head: What’s that device? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Part of the supernova early warning system. There hasn’t been a Milky Way supernova in over a century. Astronomers don’t want to miss the next one. (2) [Person 2 sits on bed.] PERSON 2: 20 years ago, we set up a supernova alert system using neutrino detectors. It should give us a few hours’ advance notice. (3) PERSON 2: If it ever goes off, every astronomer on Earth will scramble to point their equipment at the sky. PERSON 1: Oh, Ok. So is that a detector? Or some kind of telescope? (4) PERSON 2 [leaving]: Fireworks launcher. I *refuse* to sleep through a supernova. PERSON 1: I think I’ll spend the night at my place instead.

SNEWS

xkcd.com/3208/

If you do not have an expectation for the result of an experiment, you cannot find unexpected results.
It is an easy way to miss something new or interesting.

Best reason to never be famous - or say anything in public ever, really - is that the modern world won’t let you say the most anodyne stuff without willfully misconstruing it into a scandal.

If you are interested in inclusion and equity in citizen science 🧪, this will be a really important community discussion. We will explore our definitions and interpretations in both theory and practice, with the key results being interpreted by the fantastic visual illustrator Ruth Graham. Join us!

Dublin for EM-UKI 2026
@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social
#CoreFacilities

💻 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for a thought provoking online meeting to share knowledge around the practicalities, benefits, and success stories of ERN adoption.

📕 More details: www.psdi.ac.uk/event/electr...

Kathleen Lonsdale holding part of a chemical model in a laboratory

Crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale 1 of 1st women elected Fellow of RoyalSociety 1945. 1st woman tenured professor @ucl.ac.uk 1st woman president IUCr & BritSciAssoc. Elected Womens Eng Soc member 1946 in recognition of “brilliant & important work" b #OTD 28 Jan 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

Congratulations. Wishing you every success in your new position!

Beautiful work, congratulations to you and your team!

Excited to share our latest @nature.com: How does naloxone (Narcan) stop an opioid overdose? We determined the first GDP-bound μ-opioid receptor–G protein structures and found naloxone traps a novel "latent” state, preventing GDP release and G protein activation.💊🧪 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Panel 1: Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich sit on a couch in a therapist's office. Elizabeth says, "People on the internet keep telling us we need therapy." Panel 2: The therapist asks, "What do you do?" Jonathan responds, "We make webcomics." Panel 3: The therapist, looking at a tablet, says, "Aww, these are funny," as she scrolls through their webcomics. Panel 4: The therapist looks up from the tablet with a concerned expression and says, "But I'm afraid you're beyond help."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

#AI #ChemSky

The humanist meaning of life with A C Grayling 🔍

A 107-Year-Old Irish Farmer Reflects on the Changes He’s Seen During His Life (1965) Talk to a clear-headed 107-year-old today, and you could expect to hear stories of adolescence in the Great Depression, or — if you're lucky — the Jazz Age seen through a child's eyes.

www.openculture.com/2025/09/a-10...

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

Euphemia Haynes was born #OnThisDay in 1890. Haynes was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, and worked throughout her career to make education more equitable. #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/3VeLRkF