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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 · 25/07/2025
Vacuubrand with a kf flange to reduce leaks- I love the peace of mind of knowing what the vacuum is like on my line 😅
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I was just teaching packing of spheres in solid materials to first year undergraduates last week! As you’ve drawn, we discussed how ABA layered structures vs ABC layered structures both give the same packing efficiency (~74%)
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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
DME obviously wanted its moment in the spotlight 😂
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Celebrating with the good stuff!
A bottle of a 1987 single cask malt on a green and white tablecloth, with a glass containing amber liquid next to it
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The dataset showed some twinning, but also radiation damage that grew in over time, so a longer collection wasn’t an option. It’s the first Bk organometallic crystal structure with atomic coordinates refined, so I’m quite proud of it
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The crystallography was fun for this one - the one good-enough crystal had to be glued to the mount and shielded with a thin polymer sheath so it couldn’t fall off the mount during collection.
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A particular shout out to my fellow synthesis team members Dom Russo, who decided that this ligand was going to be the one that would work- he was so right, to Alyssa Gaiser for her steady handling of the Bk and expertise in heavy actinide handling and Nick Katzer, fellow PLA group member
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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 · 27/02/2025
Yeah- it’s a classic way to get lucky for SCXRD quality xtals. I think it the room is temperature controlled, but probably also has fewer vibrations than the lab? Plus the inside of the tubes seem relatively scratch /nucleation site free
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This was a sample of a reaction that I was analysing for purity by magnetic resonance- each proton nucleus in a molecule resonates at a different frequency, and that tells us something about its environment. The sample has crystallised out of the solution- crystals tend to be very pure!
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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
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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 · 18/02/2025
Some very yellow shrubbery after a successful reaction :D
Yellow powder drying under vacuum in a round bottomed flask
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thanks - getting grants is the next step towards growth for me 😅. Taking one step at a time
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I made this painful discovery a couple of weeks back 😢 I’m still changing the zoom level - the muscle memory is hard to overcome
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Several of these that are labelled ok to lick, are not ok to lick. Is anyone really up for licking radioactive francium (most stable isotope has halflife of 22 mins)? And are we talking licking the element? Or compounds of the element? Cos I would defo not lick Cs metal (boom + ouch) but CsCl, sure
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Thanks Aditya- I didn’t see that! - it’s appreciated :)
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Hi, great idea- I’m an inorganic chemist (synthetic f-block/ main group)
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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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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
How interesting- and makes a lot of sense. Off to completely rethink how I was taught organic chemistry…
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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I love the colours Iain- fingers crossed that you get some crystals!
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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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