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We are looking for two talented people to join us at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick as assistant professors. Permanent positions. 🧪🍎🥽
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Happy new year! We have some exciting news, the registration and abstract submissions for the 22nd Nucleic Acids Forum 2026 are now open! Join us on the 10th of July at Burlington House!
Hurry before it sells out! 🧬
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Promotional image for a 24-hour online conference on LinkedIn by American Elements and the Royal Society of Chemistry, scheduled from March 3, 2026, at 12:00 GMT to March 4, 2026, at 12:00 GMT. Features an orange and black design with abstract lines and dots, highlighting the text 'Save the date'.

📢 Save the Date! We’re delighted to announce that #RSCPoster 2026 will take place on 3 March 2026 at 12:00 GMT.

Join researchers from around the world for a day of sharing, connecting, and celebrating scientific creativity across disciplines.

Mark your calendars — more details coming soon!

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

⏳ There is still time to register for the 8th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium: www.eventsforce.net/hg3/frontend...

📅 22nd – 24th September 2025
🕛 12:00 PM - 06:00 PM, BST
🏙️ Churchill College, Cambridge

Apply now for funded support for cleantech start-ups.

Calling all UK-based start-ups & academic spin-outs 🌍

The Change Makers Venture Acceleration Programme offers fully funded support to help your deep-tech chemistry venture scale and thrive.

Deadline extended to 30 April 2025 - apply now: buff.ly/uuxQsOS

#ChemSky #Cleantech #ChemistryInnovation

Sharing with @jackiemorton.bsky.social in case ASG want to promote :)

More Exciting news - We now have confirmed our list of Invited Speakers for the 8th Annual UK Porous Materials Conference (UKPorMat) in Birmingham 3-4 June. Oral abstracts deadline is now 21st March (this Friday!).

More information:
www.ukpormat.com

📢UK Chemical Sciences Undergraduates – The
@rsc.org need your voice

How does your socioeconomic background affect your career retention & progression ? #ChemSky

Open to

🌟All nationalities & backgrounds
🌟 Distance learners including apprenticeships

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Today is the last day to fill in the @rsc.org survey for UK #undergraduates in the chemical sciences!

How can your background affect your career retention & progression? Tell us: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90795993/...

#ChemSky #Socioeconomic #Inclusion #AcademicSky #RSCSocioeconomicInclusion

Tea Leaves Can Steep Away Lead, Study Finds (Gift Article) Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules.

Congrats to whomever came up with "little Velcro hooks" for this 'polyphenols in tea grab lead' paper

guessing the PI and university comms office are delighted

chemsky 🧪⚗️

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Glorious! 🥰

The flyer gives details about the webinar and a picture of both speakers, the same details can be found in the weblink linked in the post.

🚀Join us this lunchtime for an exciting webinar in our “Cutting-Edge in Analysis of Complex Environmental Matrices” series!
We’re diving into microplastics, air pollution, and more with Stephanie Wright and Valerio Ferracci @rscsepsci.bsky.social
📌 Register here: www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Trump moves to make 'two genders' and anti-DEI policy official The president has vowed to use his post to fight elements of what conservatives have decried as

In the light of Trump's attack on LGBT+ rights and his ban on DEI initiatives, if there are any informal groups in US chemistry departments/companies who would like to hear one of my webinars discussing #LGBTSTEM issues, I would be happy to arrange. [1/5]
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Postdoctoral researcher post in the Bioinspired Catalysis Applications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher post in the Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry group led by Dr. Aidan McDonald based in the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin, the Unive...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher. Visit the following link for details. Deadline is February 14th. Please share! #chemjobs
#chemsky
www.euraxess.ie/jobs/308086

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Call for entries: Kathleen Lonsdale Chemistry Prize 2025 - Royal Irish Academy Applications for the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2025 are now invited. The closing date for submissions will be 17.00 on Wednesday, 8 January 2025.

Applications for the Kathleen Lonsdale prize are open. We’re looking for the most outstanding Irish PhD thesis in the chemical sciences. Thanks to Henkel for sponsoring again. This my 3rd year involved & it’s an honour to read such great #IrishResearch #ChemSky www.ria.ie/2024/11/28/c...

Hey scientists!

Want to share your science with classrooms via video chat in 2025?

Sign up for @skypeascientist.bsky.social!

You can volunteer to chat with 1-5 classrooms between January and August. It's easy, it's fun, it's life-affirming.

Sign up
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Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.

The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

Educational poster titled "Why do snowflakes have six sides?" with illustrations of snowflakes, chemical diagrams of water molecules, and a temperature scale. The poster explains how hydrogen bonds influence the hexagonal structure of snowflakes and discusses variations in snowflake shapes. The ICC logo is present at the bottom.

Unlock the magic of December with our @thamesvalleyrsc.bsky.social's unique advent calendar!🎄 Each day brings a symbol, chosen by students to celebrate the festive season. Find out the fascinating chemistry behind each symbol! 🔬✨Starting with snowflakes ❄️ @compoundchem.com

SAFE - Supporting 
At-risk researchers 
with Fellowships in Europe As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

At-risk researchers, apply now! 🇪🇺 The SAFE program offers fellowships for non-EU doctoral/postdoctoral researchers facing threats in their countries to continue their work in Europe.
saferesearchers.eu

#chemsky #chemjob #posdoc

Hooray! Welcome!

#ChemSky

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is clapping in a theater ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is clapping in a theater

I remember being so confused hearing "Actual. Cannibal. Shia LaBeouf" at a friend's house during a bbq - everything stopped so they could share the video and it was amazing 😂

Wait, what?! 🤯
Putting this on while writing papers...

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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How I learned to embrace networking “The real challenge wasn’t the act of networking itself, but letting go of the fear of not doing it ‘right,’” this Ph.D. candidate writes

Such an important topic for young scientists...having a good network of colleagues and mentors can have a huge impact on a scientist's career!
www.science.org/content/arti...