Stu Cantrill

Of the 86 scientists mentioned by name in UK GCSE science specifications, studied by all 14-16 year olds, only ONE is a woman. #ChemSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our correspondent @mwakley.bsky.social has spent the past week interviewing experts for the full story on this year's #ChemNobel - including Scott Denmark and Dan Singleton, plus Didier Astruc who wrote THAT article for Le Monde in 2001 when Kagan missed out! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how...

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection for the #ChemNobel is now live. I've included a screenshot of the top three articles - no reason, just because 😜. www.nature.com/collections/... #ChemSky

#chemsky

Good shout (just a year out 😉)! There was a space right there for Blackmond though... #chemnobel

The @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the 2026 Physics Nobel is now live! The prize was awarded to Francis Halzen 'for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin'. www.nature.com/collections/...

The first @natureportfolio.nature.com Collection celebrating the 2026 Nobels is now live! Today was the #physmednobel — awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics. www.nature.com/collections/... This one might even interest #ChemSky 🙂

That’s quite the queue 😮

One for #ChemSky 👇

From a discussion of updating a department website...

Random chemistry on a dry-erase board here in a meeting room at Nature Towers!

I had the privilege of sitting next to Prof. Yonath at lunch during a two-day symposium (in Namur I think). She told the best stories… such a loss #chemsky

You bastard, @iandunt.bsky.social - making me spend more money on books…

So, to remember the names of the Great Lakes, it’s no longer HOMES, but SHAME. How appropriate 😂

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

0 for 2

It’s a #ganevat kind of evening #jurawine #poulsard

Impressive.

I do love this representation of #WorldCup matches, but it’s giving me nightmarish flashbacks of redrawing dendrimers in ChemDraw… 😱 #Chemsky

François Englert (1932 – 2026) It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93. Read more: home.cern/francois-eng...

That's at least 2 journals I've now seen on social media celebrating their impact factor of 0.something... A good day to drag up this post: stuartcantrill.com/2016/01/23/i...

'In a binary world' from @natphys.nature.com This is fascinating!! 'These issues are not merely academic curiosities; rockets have fallen from the skies as a result of inattentive digital representations of numbers' www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky 🧪

From one of the many PR emails I'm getting about the government social media ban. Obviously this is from someone selling this technology. But stop to think about just how utterly dystopian this is: *constant* video surveillance of all online activity, for everyone.

...and during these challenging moments the community comes together in support of each other. Thank you to everyone that is signing our Open Letter in support of Chemistry at Sheffield, Nottingham Chemistry and Physics. savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/

BTW Vanta black is not actually the blackest black ever. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am lost for words at what is happening at Sheffield and other Universities. If you think you adding your contribution can help, please sign.

If you only want to read 2 paragraphs of World Cup media today, here they are: Via tompeck.bsky.social

Except the @royalsociety.org because they are 100% behind everything M*sk does. Well, I assume that’s the case until they say otherwise.

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"...there are also broad prohibitions against any use of federal funds for collaboration with a whole list of countries, starting with China. Any use at all – paper publication charges, travel, reagents, doesn’t matter." Yikes! The continued dismantling of US science... #Chemsky 🧪

Even Neil Garg’s cyclic allenes are like … Ummm no thank you

One for #Chemsky! Congrats @profdaveleigh.bsky.social 👑 (couldn't find a sash, so a crown will have to do 😉)

The ad includes 'chemical physics', so I'm gonna go ahead and flag to #Chemsky just in case...

"But most of those in authority would not accept there had been any such disaster, let alone inquire why it had happened" #ContaminatedBlood #NotAnAccident

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I heard this evening about the passing of Mark Ratner #chemsky Mark was many things - a scientist, an educator, a mentor - a mensch - in all the meanings He always said that the best thing about science were the people that do it.

Pro-tip: Before I submit my proposal, I read it again, but after 2 glasses of wine on an empty stomach. Places where it isn't totally clear to you in that state, it not going to be clear to the reviewer. Edit that bit.

Growing knowledge, growing yield: British wine-making comes of age

This is WILD (& microbes rock 🎸) “These findings […] revealing a protein-templated mechanism for sequence-specific DNA synthesis.” Take that, central dogma! 🧪 “Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

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