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Nessa Carson
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Digital chemist & chemistry automation nerd | Lives in a historical canalside cottage | Learner of comp chem and Swedish | Views are mine | She/they. Macclesfield, UK
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"Don't worry, we all look a bit silly when we're landing." #UKWildlife
A European robin about to land on a cotoneaster. His feet are hovering above it and his wings only partially stretched out. He looks a bit silly.
September 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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pleaks.bsky.social
banned myself from twitter for 1 week and opened it on reflex earlier today which is how i found out ringo starr thinks bigger animals have bigger molecules which is why he drinks goat milk bc its the “right size” for humans to drink and not cow milk which makes u more full bc of the big molecules
September 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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chemscrapes.bsky.social
Joining in the Journal #chemsky daily dump.

Who could forget CowMooCow Special Nobull Prize edition.

#chemchat
A journal cover with multiple puns on it. The name of the journal is CowMooCow. formerly Bull. Bull Chem Soc. This is the special No-bull edition. Cover story is Rotexans: New Frontiers in Mooterials Science. By Fraser Stockyard. The cover art is a bull with a cylophane of some sorts wrapped around it ( a paly on rotaxanes). Other storied on the cover: RED OX Redefined: New Heiference electrodes for organic chemistry New cattle lists for Suzuki Mooyaura Reaction Woodward Hoofman Revisited. This was an explosion of groanworthy punnyful delight - it honestly has never been beaten. Unless you count the Journal of organo meatallics..... Other storied
September 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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chemjobber.bsky.social
Via C&EN, this update on the Hokkaido University fatal HF accident, where the city of Sapporo has cited the university upon inspection of the laboratory: cen.acs.org/safety/lab-s... #chemsafety #chemsky
Hokkaido University is cited in fatal HF accident
City of Sapporo finds several deficiencies in the university’s management of toxic substances
cen.acs.org
September 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Sideshow Bob ahead of us there on the motorway 😂 #TheBartThe
A British motorway as seen from a car. An Eddie Stobart haulage lorry is seen ahead, but one of the back loading doors has been replaced leaving only the words "die Bart"
September 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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bagphos.bsky.social
Oh. No.
I believe that means the density of Mercury is increasing…
#ChemTwitter throwback of shame
September 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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cenmag.bsky.social
Light-driven reaction overrides a 60-year-old rule of synthetic chemistry

Tweaking electronic properties of starting materials can help bypass an obstacle to elusive bicyclic drug scaffold.

#chemsky 🧪
Light-driven reaction overrides a 60-year-old rule of synthetic chemistry
Tweaking electronic properties of starting materials can help bypass an obstacle to elusive bicyclic drug scaffold
cen.acs.org
September 8, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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My laptop today
Snow White: Work, Oh I Can't, I Won't!
Alt: Snow White: Work, Oh I Can't, I Won't!
static.klipy.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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mwnautilus.bsky.social
An #OpenAccess review on #hacking #3Dprinters as #OpenSource laboratory #robots:

Paper: doi.org/10.1039/d5dd...
GitHub: github.com/Vsaggiomo/3D...

#DIYbio #DIYchem #lab #instruments #3Dprinting #3Dprinter #MINT #STEM #education
September 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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If he faceplanted any harder it'd be a forward roll #FPotD #ChemistsWithCats
My ginger cat Faraday on my knee. He is in a little car circle, faceplanting so much that his head has probably gone beyond horizontal.
September 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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chemscrapes.bsky.social
Dun dun-dun dun
Dun dun-dun dun
Dun dun-dun dun dun duuun

#chemchat
It is the car from knight rider … being driven by a nitride. Its nitrider.
September 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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bagphos.bsky.social
I see you are attempting to join #ChemSky
Please mark all images containing a sandwich
Images in a 3x3 square showing different types of sandwiches ( or not). Top row a stack of pancakes; dppf catalyst, a sandwich, second row: a plate of tacos; a hot dog; a Ford F140 and row 3 a lead sandwich plate battery, a pizza and finally the famous Ham Sandwich road sign in Kent UK
September 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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rsc-cicag.bsky.social
And that's a wrap on the the 9th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium 2026! 🙌

Thank you to each and everyone who attended and presented! No event can be a success without it's participants, and you were the best! 🥳
September 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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It was fun to give some thoughts for this Cell Rep Phys Sci multi-author perspective! About bridging the gap between lab discovery and commercial deployment 🤖👩‍🔬 #chemsky
September 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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dftchemist.bsky.social
Let’s talk deep learning exchange correlation functionals. The new version of Skala is looking much more promising for transferability. Where is #compchemsky finding them to be most useful and giving the best value? is the key advantage in accuracy or speed? What other DL Exc‘s are you checking out?
September 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Looks like a great job for someone! EMBL-EBI looking for a chemical data curator in Cambridgeshire #chemjobs #ukchemjobs
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
Chemistry Curator - Chemical Biology Services
The Chemical Biology Services Team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is looking for a talented scientist with a flair for data curation to be responsible for the quality of chemical ...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
September 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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gavenonis.bsky.social
Saw this on the old site and had to share:
www.generalatoms.com/RotorRoulette/

#chemsky #chemchat
A 24-well centrifuge rotor with 15 tubes. Of course it's balanced.
September 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Why would you ever sleep like this #FPotD #ChemistsWithCats
My ginger and white cat sleeps on my lap. One front paw is standing up, the back paws are sitting, and the other front paw is lying down while he faceplants
September 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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dereklowe.bsky.social
The (alleged) dimethylmercury incident at MIT: thoughts based on whywe know so far:
The Alleged Dimethylmercury Incident
www.science.org
August 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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I was not lucky enough to see Ada Yonath speak, as the one time I should have she was unfortunately ill (several years ago). The impact she has had was immense!
weizmann.ac.il Weizmann Institute of Science @weizmann.ac.il · 16d
We, the Weizmann Institute of Science community, deeply mourn the passing of Prof. Ada Yonath - Nobel Laureate and a Model of Scientific Perseverance. May her memory be a blessing.
bit.ly/ada-yonath-eng
August 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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chemscrapes.bsky.social
It's a Brucar!

#chemsky
a 500 mhz NMR spectrometer driving a convertable. it's saying ...phht! amateur!
August 31, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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fables-feigned.bsky.social
plausible sequence of events is that the student was working with some kind of mercury-containing reaction that could hypothetically generate dimethyl mercury, spilled some on self, and presented to ER as a precaution
August 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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fables-feigned.bsky.social
OK #chemsky folks, this just keeps getting more bizarre

source: emergency.mit.net
Offices across campus have been responding to a reported hazardous material incident involving a single individual in a chemistry laboratory. The Institute became aware of the matter after the individual, a graduate student, self-reported to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury, a compound that is not authorized as part of their research program. Emerging information calls into question whether this compound was in fact synthesized. We are also able to disclose, with the student’s permission, that while the student remains under medical supervision, their initial blood test result, which was received today, shows no sign of exposure to mercury.
August 29, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Important work even if you have the most passing of interests in optical reaction monitoring:
chemistryworld.com Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 19d
What challenges is digital chemistry facing when it comes to accurately monitoring reactions with standard digital cameras – and how can research navigate these?

Hugh Ryan reports:
@rsc.org @chemicalscience.rsc.org #ChemSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/molecul...
August 28, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Almost forgot about my unhinged list of acknowledged pets :) they all made a difference! #chemchat 🐀🐁🐟🦀🐱
August 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM