Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Shiny new Schlenk line day!! #itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬 1200
Reposted by Amy PriceEZ-C Group @ezc-group.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Check 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🧪⚗️ 021
Reposted by Amy PriceGerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Tragic 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. 59423
Reposted by Amy PriceNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Attacking 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. 1624045863
Reposted by Amy PriceNereide @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... 723552
Reposted by Amy PriceBerkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 12/03/2025Element 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 ⬇️chemistryworld.comBerkelium snared in organometallic trapOrganometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created 2185
Reposted by Amy PriceTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway. 1238231
Reposted by Amy PriceWendy 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. 5407
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Ahhh, 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 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩🔬 2375
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Pretty 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 🧪⚗️ 1222
Reposted by Amy PriceAndryj Borys @andryjborys.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Happy 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/... 1322
Reposted by Amy PriceCraig Mod @craigmod.com · 25/02/2025this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone: touchgrass.nowtouchgrass.nowtouch grass 34011
Reposted by Amy PriceTheNeidigLab @theneidiglab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025We 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...my.corehr.comJob Details 089
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty #chemistswhocook 0320
Reposted by Amy PriceProf Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men. Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...forbes.comWomen, Men, And Meritocracy: A Scientific PerspectiveWill the current backlash against diversity and inclusion boost or harm meritocracy? 315241
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025First 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 4503
Reposted by Amy PriceEvolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Today 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.socialscience.orgAs women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less aloneThe struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write 0108
Reposted by Amy PriceCliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 11/02/2025oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻🔬 1122
Reposted by Amy PriceBylines 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." #WomenInSTEMbylines.scotWomen in Science – a work in progress - Bylines ScotlandOn The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, equality and inclusivity are still works in progress 14820
Reposted by Amy PriceAthene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Interesting 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...gov.ukWhat works to attract and retain people into R&D careers 032
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 03/02/2025My 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 🧪⚗️ 1180
Reposted by Amy PriceMaria Gallardo-Williams @teachforaliving.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Privilege 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 1164
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Went 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. ⚗️ 🧪 41336
Reposted by Amy PriceTheNeidigLab @theneidiglab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024We 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...my.corehr.comJob Details 01418
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Finally got around to making the sloe gin… now just need to wait til Xmas ‘25 #chemistsWhoCook 0100
Reposted by Amy PriceDr Rosalyn Falconer @rosalynfalconer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I 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 #greenchemtinyurl.comRosalyn Falconer on LinkedIn: Doctor of Philosophy PhDA fully funded PhD scholarship is available in the Falconer Group in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, researching catalysts… 0109
Reposted by Amy PriceIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Reading 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.cell.comClosing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academiaGender 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... 12314125
Reposted by Amy PriceMark Elliott @markelliottcardiff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024#chemsky our paper is apparently doing quite well rsc.altmetric.com/details/1703...rsc.altmetric.comReport for: Alkyl groups in organic molecules are NOT inductively electron-releasingIn the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric 2162
Reposted by Amy PriceSelly Demir @demirselly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Happy 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 0315
Reposted by Amy PriceLisa Vondung @lisavondung.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Would 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 12515
Reposted by Amy PriceDom Willcox @domrwillcox.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A 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/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comA Base‐Free Two‐Coordinate OxoboraneOxoboranes (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... 251
Reposted by Amy PriceElisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · 19/11/2024me (weighing chemicals): it says here the compound can be "a bit static-y" lol i'm sure it's fine my spatula: 636934
Reposted by Amy PriceMark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The 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 44994558
Reposted by Amy PriceIzzy 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.nature.comWhy the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colourUnder-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden. Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creatin... 819793
Reposted by Amy PriceDr. Marissa Civic @stemfactually.com · 18/11/2024We definitely need to introduce scientific literacy earlier in education 🧪👩🔬🥽🍎 1634134
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Ginger and sesame pork burgers with roasted broccoli tonight- the soy and honey glaze hits the spot #ChemistsWhoCook 020
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 17/11/2024#ChemistsWhoCook Sunday night baked gnocchi with red peppers and cherry tomatoes - tasty and easy! 1230
Reposted by Amy PriceCompound 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 🧪 932484
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Hello! 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 1336