Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Vacuubrand with a kf flange to reduce leaks- I love the peace of mind of knowing what the vacuum is like on my line 😅 020
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. 1624043863
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I 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%) 110
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 · 27/02/2025The 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 151
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The 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. 141
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 27/02/2025A 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 111
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 · 27/02/2025Yeah- 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 010
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This 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! 000
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 · 18/02/2025Some very yellow shrubbery after a successful reaction :D 070
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Thanks - getting grants is the next step towards growth for me 😅. Taking one step at a time 010
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 02/01/2025I made this painful discovery a couple of weeks back 😢 I’m still changing the zoom level - the muscle memory is hard to overcome 020
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Several 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 110
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Thanks Aditya- I didn’t see that! - it’s appreciated :) 010
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Hi, great idea- I’m an inorganic chemist (synthetic f-block/ main group) 100
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
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 30/11/2024How interesting- and makes a lot of sense. Off to completely rethink how I was taught organic chemistry… 010
Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I love the colours Iain- fingers crossed that you get some crystals! 110
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