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Amy Price

@amynprice.bsky.social
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Broom McIntyre Fellow in School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews; key research interests include low coordinate f-element complexes and main group chemistry

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I feel seen
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Shiny new Schlenk line day!! #itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬
Clean Schlenk line with red and blue JYoungs taps and orange tubing and a manometer reading 0.075 mbar
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EZ-C Group @ezc-group.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social (doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers." What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals. Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
The image shows a celestial spectacle over Manitoba, Canada, on a cold winter morning. The moonlight, refracted, reflected and diffracted by millions of falling ice crystals, creates extraordinary optical phenomena. At the center, the Moon is surrounded by a colored halo, called the corona, generated by the diffraction of small droplets of water or ice. A 22-degree halo is seen around it, formed by the refraction of moonlight through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. On either side of the moon are "moon dogs," bright spots caused by the refraction of light through thin, hexagonal ice plates floating toward the ground. Above and below the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by refraction through nearly horizontal ice cylinders. The sky, captured in three combined exposures, appears surreal, transforming the moon into an icon of another world.
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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 12/03/2025
Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪 via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
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Berkelium snared in organometallic trap
Organometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.
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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#IneedAltText I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
Pic of me holding my glasses in one hand horizontally so you can see the lenses are thick as hell.
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩‍🔬
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄 #RealTimeChem 🧪⚗️
Many small orange prismatic crystals in a yellow solution in a thin glass tube against a white background
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Andryj Borys @andryjborys.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
TOC graphic showing the structure of an alkali-metal nickelate biphenylene complex and its ring-opening reactivity.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · 25/02/2025
this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone: touchgrass.now
touchgrass.now
touch grass
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TheNeidigLab @theneidiglab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty #chemistswhocook
A board laden with several soft tacos filled with browned crunchy breaded prawns, sliced lettuce, guacamole, diced tomato, and garnished with wedges of lime.
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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men. Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
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Women, Men, And Meritocracy: A Scientific Perspective
Will the current backlash against diversity and inclusion boost or harm meritocracy?
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄) This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬 #newPI
A brownish solution in a round bottomed reaction flask, set up for reflux, over a blue hot plate.
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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today is the international day for women and girls in science. This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go. #womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻‍🔬
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 11/02/2025
"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions." #WomenInSTEM
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Women in Science – a work in progress - Bylines Scotland
On The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, equality and inclusivity are still works in progress
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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...
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What works to attract and retain people into R&D careers
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
My to do list today: New research fellowship started ✅ Independent research career started ✅ Safety trainings ✅ Profile updated on bsky ✅ Schedule budget meeting ✅ All the big feelings: joy, fear, curiosity, pride, fear, more fear ✅✅✅✅ #chemsky #newPI 🧪⚗️
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Maria Gallardo-Williams @teachforaliving.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Privilege is not all inclusive. You might have experienced privilege in one or more areas, while being under resourced in others. Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Went looking for fossils on our local beach (a known site for fossils), and found an ancient fossil of a tree stump and a root, I think from a lepidodendron from the Carboniferous era. ⚗️ 🧪
A gloved hand holding a portion of fossilised root with regular indentations on its surface, in front of a large cylindrical rock that appears to have a bark like surface, likely to be the fossilised stump of a lepidodendron.
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TheNeidigLab @theneidiglab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We have two openings for PDRAs working in iron catalysis for organic synthesis as part of a funded EPSRC Fellowship. Applicants with strong backgrounds in inorganic synthesis and organometallic chemistry are strongly encouraged to apply. Link below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Finally got around to making the sloe gin… now just need to wait til Xmas ‘25 #chemistsWhoCook
Two bottles containing gin, sloes and sugar; the sugar has settled out at the bottom of the mixture
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Dr Rosalyn Falconer @rosalynfalconer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am advertising a fully funded chemistry PhD scholarship in my group at @aucklanduni.bsky.social to study titanium catalysts attached to sold supports. For more details see: tinyurl.com/FalconerPhD Please repost and share! #chemsky #inorganicchemistry #PhD #PhDscholarship #catalysis #greenchem
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Rosalyn Falconer on LinkedIn: Doctor of Philosophy PhD
A fully funded PhD scholarship is available in the Falconer Group in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, researching catalysts…
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.
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Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia
Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in pursuing academic careers and reac...
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Mark Elliott @markelliottcardiff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#chemsky our paper is apparently doing quite well rsc.altmetric.com/details/1703...
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Report for: Alkyl groups in organic molecules are NOT inductively electron-releasing
In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Selly Demir @demirselly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy to see that our paper on the first organometallic erbium bismuth cluster complex is currently among the "Most Read" in the Inorganic Chemistry journal 😊😎. Check out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #openaccess
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Lisa Vondung @lisavondung.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Would you like to spend the next summer in beautiful Hamburg doing some uranium chemistry? If you're an undergraduate student from the UK, Ireland or North America, you have 11 days left to apply for two fully funded research internships via the DAAD: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise... #chemsky
The Elbphilharmonie building in Hamburg surrounded by the Elbe river with blue skies and a few clouds. Canal with houses and people on stand up paddling boards queuing at a waterside café Summer day at the Alster lake in Hamburg with people on stand up paddling boards and a sailing boat
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Dom Willcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A project I was involved with while in the Ingleson group just got published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. check it out if you are interested in mental boron chemistry (Clement has magic hands) #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A Base‐Free Two‐Coordinate Oxoborane
Oxoboranes (R-BO) are transient species that rapidly trimerise to form boroxines. To date, the only method used to stabilise oxoboranes is to add a Lewis base, but this forms a three-coordinate at bo...
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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine my spatula:
cute seal covered in snow/ice looking up at the camera with a look of desperation
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’” True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.
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Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour
Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden. Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creatin...
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Dr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 18/11/2024
We definitely need to introduce scientific literacy earlier in education 🧪👩‍🔬🥽🍎
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Ginger and sesame pork burgers with roasted broccoli tonight- the soy and honey glaze hits the spot #ChemistsWhoCook
Sesame seed coated pork burger on a bed of basmati rice, next to roasted broccoli, all drizzled with a soy and honey reduction
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I feel seen 😅
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
#ChemistsWhoCook Sunday night baked gnocchi with red peppers and cherry tomatoes - tasty and easy!
A roasting dish containing baked gnocchi with roasted peppers, tomatoes and onions, with a scattering of basil.
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 15/11/2024
#FluorescenceFriday reminder that if you sprinkle turmeric into alcohol while shining a UV light on it, you get a brilliant fireworks display in a glass 🎇 #ChemSky 🧪
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello! I’m new to Bluesky (having left the other place a long time ago) and am looking to connect with other chemists #ChemSky As a brief intro; I’m an inorganic f-block/ main group synthetic chemist. I like food, the outdoors and I’m passionate about outreach and teaching
Luminescent complex glowing turquoise at the bottom of a vial
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