Reposted by Nessa Carsonshenvi.bsky.social @shenvi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few folks have asked how I make molecular animations from ChemDraw. Sadly, the answer has been “the old-fashioned way,” frame by frame. This was too slow. So I worked with Claude Science to create a webpage that animates your ChemDraws. Give it a try: rshenvi.github.io/cdxmorph/ 45113
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 18hMy local tech group just had a prototype demo of a game for crowds (even whole stadia!) and I only caught the results as they were fading off the screen, but proof that I was a top player 😂😂 010
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 22hLooooool I've only seen this written as "canonicalized" before Canonized SMILES strings sounds more like a @chemscrapes.bsky.social cartoon! 👼 4141
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 01/10/2026Yes ACS it's called writing a citation-dense section of a publication 🙄 I guess JOC is off-limits for hopefully just a few minutes... 151
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 30/09/2026Sadly my Sichuan peppercorns (a little expired...) are no longer giving that lovely mala effect :( they still add some flavour but that's about it so I guess I need new spice. Here's the compound allegedly responsible for the effect; I wonder what it's degraded to? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxy...en.wikipedia.orgHydroxy-α-sanshool - Wikipedia 591
Reposted by Nessa CarsonSusan Weatherby @susanfjw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Reminder: Monday 5 Oct oral abstract deadline for the @rsc.org #FaradayDiscussion on Molecular Catalysis, 21-23 June 2027, St Andrews, UK. Visit rsc.li/molcat-fd2027 to submit an abstract and join in. #ChemSky #FD_MolCat #Catalysis 031
Reposted by Nessa CarsonAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#chemchat check out the post that this is a response to for full appreciation of the joke 0264
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 29/09/2026Love to look up statistics in articles from management consultancy companies and find out that there is no primary source - they just made them up... 160
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 29/09/2026That. Is. Awesome. (Annoying for the team trying to figure it out, but really cool) #chemchat 2110
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 29/09/2026Final year PhD students! Abstract submission is open for the 2026 RSC organic chemistry poster symposium in London #OCPS2026 invt.io/1bxb1crpqk7invt.ioI've registered for Organic chemistry poster symposium 2026, join meRegister now 130
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 29/09/2026UK fine chemicals manufacture dealing with external economic forces, particularly around natural gas #chemsky www.chemistryworld.com/news/ineos-t...chemistryworld.comIneos temporarily closes UK acetyls plantsOwing to high high gas prices, the plants are uncompetitive, despite their high efficiency 220
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 26/09/2026Faraday 2013–2026 🐈 I am so sad to say my little faceplanter has planted his last face. Faraday was a beautiful and highly extroverted cat who loved food, cuddling people & RuPhos (whether they invited it or not), invading almost all my WFH meetings, and above all else, chaos. He will be missed. 431061
Reposted by Nessa CarsonAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The year is 2026 and research has just now started on what the ovary do after menopause. It is not a dead organ. Removing ovaries even after menopause may not be advisable except for women at an increased risk of ovarian cancer. www.wired.com/story/ovary-...wired.comThe Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out WhyA growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed. 12111
Reposted by Nessa CarsonDr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026because of the closed switch extinction coefficient, in the former case you see a pink shell around a colorless center (not seen); in the latter case, you just see the comparatively colorless bulk as excited molecules at the surface are quickly transported to the unilluminated center and relax 3101
Reposted by Nessa CarsonDr. Emily Arndt 🏳️⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i haven’t read the paper but one way to get that figure image is to simply expose the photoswitch to uv/blue light which generates the pink color. With a stirbar at a low-ish setting, flow is laminar at the fluid at the edge of vial is continuously exposed. With shaking, bulk is exposed… 161
Reposted by Nessa CarsonAndrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have this fleeting memory of you being asked what the "holy grail" of your field is and answering "stopping people using the term holy grail" but I can't find it sadly. 261
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 24/09/2026This new paper is... a lot to read 🤔 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/chem...chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBond Formation: Shaken, Not StirredShaking of seismo-molecules efficiently transforms kinetic energy into storable chemical potential, unlocking high-utility Gibbs free energy. This innovative mechanism pioneers uncharted scientific f... 183210
Reposted by Nessa CarsonC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Soumitra Athavale, an Assistant Professor at UCLA and one of C&EN's 2026 Talented Twelve, is engineering iron-containing enzymes to do chemistry they’ve never done before. cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi... #chemsky 🧪 1122
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 23/09/2026☹️ ☹️ ☹️ When two really great conferences I wanted to go to next year occur on perfectly-overlapping dates and I don't have a time turner #chemsky 190
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 23/09/2026Bluesky must be on the way up! I've just been followed by a predatory "conference" by Sciinov. If you're not used to these, take a look - there's nothing "wrong" with how they present this, but this exact style of flier down to the fonts is used frequently by Omics and its descendants. #chemsky 192
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 23/09/2026Now, and actually always, is a good time for UK & Ireland residents to support RNLI with a one-off or recurring donation: rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 0229
Reposted by Nessa CarsonC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Melissa Ramirez uses a cutting-edge approach that combines computations and experiments to develop catalytic reactions. #HispanicHeritageMonth #chemsky 🧪cen.acs.orgQ&A: Melissa Ramirez’s journey from first-generation college student to university professorGraduate student Ramón Gudiño García talks with this computational and synthetic organic chemist about how being a Latina in science has influenced her career 0102
Reposted by Nessa CarsonRSC Medicinal Chemistry @rscmedchem.rsc.org · 11/09/2026Take a look at this Opinion article by Matthew W. D. Perry & Rhona J. Cox in our latest issue describing a game to communicate the iterative optimisation of multiple parameters in medicinal chemistry to wider audiences #medchem 📍 @astra-zeneca.bsky.social doi.org/10.1039/d6md... 051
Reposted by Nessa CarsonKevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026found at ucsf 9555117
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 17/09/2026Why??? You wouldn't catch the people I work with committing scientific fraud for the pathetic purpose of making the company you happen to currently work for a bit more profit... so many people must have independently known, and no whistleblowers?? 594
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 16/09/2026"Don't worry, we all look a bit silly when we're landing." #UKWildlife 170
Reposted by Nessa CarsonPleakley @pleaks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026banned 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 4287
Reposted by Nessa CarsonBrendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Joining in the Journal #chemsky daily dump. Who could forget CowMooCow Special Nobull Prize edition. #chemchat 3203
Reposted by Nessa CarsonChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Via 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 #chemskycen.acs.orgHokkaido University is cited in fatal HF accidentCity of Sapporo finds several deficiencies in the university’s management of toxic substances 1173
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 11/09/2026Sideshow Bob ahead of us there on the motorway 😂 #TheBartThe 310220
Reposted by Nessa CarsonScott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh. No. I believe that means the density of Mercury is increasing… #ChemTwitter throwback of shame 3191
Reposted by Nessa CarsonC&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Light-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 🧪cen.acs.orgLight-driven reaction overrides a 60-year-old rule of synthetic chemistryTweaking electronic properties of starting materials can help bypass an obstacle to elusive bicyclic drug scaffold 053
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 10/09/2026My laptop todaystatic.klipy.comSnow White: Work, Oh I Can't, I Won't!Alt: Snow White: Work, Oh I Can't, I Won't! 170
Reposted by Nessa CarsonBose-Einstein-Kondensat @mwnautilus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026An #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 0105
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 09/09/2026If he faceplanted any harder it'd be a forward roll #FPotD #ChemistsWithCats 080
Reposted by Nessa CarsonBrendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dun dun-dun dun Dun dun-dun dun Dun dun-dun dun dun duuun #chemchat 0176
Reposted by Nessa CarsonScott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I see you are attempting to join #ChemSky Please mark all images containing a sandwich 99025
Reposted by Nessa CarsonRSC-CICAG @rsc-cicag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026And 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! 🥳 271
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 07/09/2026It 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 032
Reposted by Nessa CarsonChris Taylor @dftchemist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Let’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? 022
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 04/09/2026Looks 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...embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.comChemistry Curator - Chemical Biology ServicesThe 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 ... 054
Reposted by Nessa CarsonJason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Saw this on the old site and had to share: www.generalatoms.com/RotorRoulette/ #chemsky #chemchat 063
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 01/09/2026Why would you ever sleep like this #FPotD #ChemistsWithCats 2140
Reposted by Nessa CarsonDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The (alleged) dimethylmercury incident at MIT: thoughts based on whywe know so far:science.orgThe Alleged Dimethylmercury Incident 811332
Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 31/08/2026I 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! 342
Reposted by Nessa Carsonanne @fables-feigned.bsky.social · 30/08/2026plausible 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 091
Reposted by Nessa Carsonanne @fables-feigned.bsky.social · 29/08/2026OK #chemsky folks, this just keeps getting more bizarre source: emergency.mit.net 194