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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just seen that the Elemental Analysis service at London Met is closing! This is devastating for us UK inorganic synthesists. They have been such a great, reliable service. @londonmetuni.bsky.social #chemsky

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It was so good to have @andrealaybourn.bsky.social to visit us at NTU chemistry, her seminar was a masterclass on all things microwave and flow. @ntunews.bsky.social #chemsky

Andrea Laybourn, smiling, standing in front of her presentation entitled Microwave and Flow Technologies: Driving the Future of Sustainable Materials Manufacture

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Stephen Argent @steppphhhen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This is a very good factual description of the risks to the School of Chemistry at University of Nottingham if the management doesn't pull back from the devastating announced cuts to staff. The University College Union has put forward a counter proposal that does not require drastic cuts to staff.

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Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🚨 I’m looking for a PhD student to join my group at @leicesterchem.bsky.social as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Project on Ti complexes for CO2 valorisation & sustainable materials. #organometallics #catalysis Full training provided. Deadline 22 June. Start Sept 2026. le.ac.uk/study/resear...

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Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) PhD | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester

4 year Graduate Teaching Assistant PhD in Chemistry. University of Leicester

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Kyle Pearce @kylegpearce.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sharing for David: There’s a PhD studentship open in the Liptrot Group (@bathchem.bsky.social) - a great chance to get involved in some really exciting chemistry. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Cuprides – a Revolutionary Oxidation State of Copper at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Cuprides – a Revolutionary Oxidation State of Copper at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize is now open! Nominate now - the prize includes a guaranteed oral presentation, free registration and travel to this year's RSC Main Group Chemistry Meeting in Edinburgh, 8-9th April (www.rsc.org/events/detai...). Deadline for nominations 20th Feb.

The RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize is awarded to an individual for the advancement of Main Group Chemistry during their PhD research. The lectureship recognizes a piece of peer-reviewed published work that provides a distinctive, creative, and impactful contribution to main group chemistry. An invited lectureship including registration and a contribution of up to £300 in travel costs at the Main Group Annual Meeting taking place at the University of Edinburgh 8-9th April 2026. Nominees must expect to be able to attend the Main Group Annual Meeting and to cover any additional costs from other sources.
To make a nomination please provide the following by 17.00 20th February 2026:
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A 1-page CV of the candidate with their graduation date or expected graduation date clearly identified.
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A 500-word summary on why the nominated article represents a significant advancement in main group chemistry and the contribution of the candidate.
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A citation of the work.
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If the nominated work has received previous recognition, please identify which awards. In the case of multiple submissions of similar quality, work that has not yet been recognized will be given priority.
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Both self-nominations and external nominations are welcome.
Eligibility: The candidate must be due to graduate within the next year or have defended their thesis within 12 months of the nomination deadline. The nominated article can be published in any peer-reviewed journal and should represent the candidates PhD work.
Nominations can be directly emailed as a single PDF file to the interest group secretary (catherine.weetman@strath.ac.uk).
Please name the file with the format lastname_firstname_MGprize.pdf. e.g. Smith_John_MGprize.pdf.
Call for Nominations: RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We know what injustice feels like. That’s why women of every background are coming together in this campaign. You don’t need to know all the right words or have years of activism behind you. You just need to care. ✍️ Sign our letter at notinourname.org.uk #Feminism #TransAlly #WithTheT

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Josef Boronski @josefboronski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The group will soon be advertising a 3-year PDRA position @imperialchemistry.bsky.social. The successful candidate will research the synthesis and reactivity of complexes with alkaline earth-metal bonds. Start date: 03/26. Please get in touch for infomal inquries.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

PhD available in my group, in collaboration with colleagues in microbiology and computational chemistry - "Metals against antimicrobial resistance - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes". I'm very excited for this project, please repost! #Chemsky

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Metals against AMR - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes

Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

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MehtaLab @mehtalab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Funded PhD position: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... This is an interdisciplinary project where you get to do coordination chemistry with bismuth and zinc, as well as some microbiology and some computational chemistry - all in the name of combatting antimicrobial resistance. Currently UK only.

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Metals against AMR - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes at Nottingham Trent University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Metals against AMR - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes at Nottingham Trent University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

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Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn

Interested in #flowchemistry? #crystallography? #MOFs? 📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow Based in the School of Chemistr...

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Josh Abbenseth @joshabbenseth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated! My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry. 🔬 Fully funded (UK only) 📍 Manchester 🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9

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Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#chemsky ⚗️🧪

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Seb Pike @spike-chem.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

PhD studentship at Uni Warwick with CENTA! Join us to study the decomposition of potent greenhouse gas N2O using Earth abundant Ti-based molecular photocatalysts. Exciting joint project with @chaplinlab.bsky.social group. Please contact Seb for details. centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Please re-post.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Grant application submitted. A good feeling, but also a little like sending a much cossetted child out to face wolves.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"A story full of holes but with an enormous capacity to absorb … all your attention" #ChemNobel #Chemsky

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Kyle Pearce @kylegpearce.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

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AP13080 Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry - Jobs at Bath

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Things have got bad in UK HE when a department like Leicester Chemistry is facing these measures. Solidarity to all the staff picketing today.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"We sat down and ate the pears from the tree before the rain came." Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 14/07/2025

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Good to see you today @sandykilla.bsky.social, can't stop laughing at this photo where it looks like I'm your smaller second head

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I am reminded this week of the Ben Elton novel Blind Faith, which, over a decade ago, seemed like one of the more far fetched dystopian novels I'd read. I don't think I'd feel so complacent, if I read it again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_F...

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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 04/06/2025

Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 12/05/2025

Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅 wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin #ChemSky 🧪

Today in Chemistry History infographic on Dorothy Hodgkin. Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of vitamin B12, for which she won a Nobel Prize. She went on to determine the structure of insulin.

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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Still time to apply for a #PhD in our group! Don't miss out!! 👇👇 #chemsky

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Rebecca Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...

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Cardiff University PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at Cardiff University.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

UCU are petitioning for a better funding model for UK higher education. It is a bad time to work for a UK university right now, and we are all feeling it. I'm not sure signing this will help, but it never hurts to try. stopthecutspetition.org.uk

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize - a fully funded lectureship at Dalton conference. Spread the word among the PhDs! #chemsky

Call for Nominations: RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize.
The RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize is awarded to an individual for the advancement of Main Group Chemistry during their PhD research. The lectureship recognizes a piece of peer-reviewed published work that provides a distinctive, creative and impactful contribution to main group chemistry. The winner will recieve an invited lectureship including registration costs at Dalton 2025
To make a nomination please provide the following by 17.00 1st March 2025:
A 1 page CV of the candidate with their graduation date or expected graduation date clearly identified.
A 500-word summary on why the nominated article represents a significant advancement in main group chemistry and the contribution of the candidate.
A citation of the work.
If the nominated work has recieved previous recognition, please identify which awards. In the case of multiple submissions of similar quality, work that has not yet been recognized will be given priority.
Both self-nominations and external nominations welcome.
Eligibility: the candidate must be due to graduate within the next year or have defended their thesis within 12 months of the nomination deadline. The nominated article can be published in any peer-reviewed journal and shoudl represent the candidate's PhD work.
Nominations can be directly emailed as a single PDF file to the interest group secretary (catherine.weetman@strath.ac.uk). Please name the file with the format lastname_firstname_MGprize.pdf. e.g Smith_John_MGprize.pdf.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw... List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 11/02/2025

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom... #ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience

Image showing cards depicting a number of contemporary women in chemistry

Image showing a selection of women in chemistry history graphics

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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 10/02/2025

Just saying: there is a chemical society I have always found very strong wrt the chemical sciences generally and wrt DEI: @roysocchem.bsky.social 🥰

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 05/02/2025

Every year during #LGBTHistoryMonth we reaffirm our belief that LGBT+ individuals should feel safe, seen & thrive in their place of work & study. #LGBT+ inclusivity is key to ensuring science continues to take inspiration from diversity of thought, experience & perspective rsc.li/3Q6aMo4 #ChemSky

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Trump regime bans CDC scientists from publishing work that mentions trans or non-binary people. When fascists can't burn books anymore so easily because everything's electronic and international, they just ban people from writing them. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I just feel frozen in horror watching what's happening in the US. I don't know how to help. I don't know how to stop the UK being next. I know we don't have equality, but here we still have the right to seek it. I'm not going to take that for granted any more.

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 28/01/2025

Born #OnThisDay in 1903 was crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. She was one of the first two female scientists to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, along with Marjory Stephenson. She discovered the structure of benzene, and was a committed pacifist. #WomenInSTEM

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's not a salute that makes your regime fascist, it's removing legal rights from a marginalised minority, stripping citizenship from people born in your country who have spent all their lives in it, and insisting your country is the greatest and has the right to expand its borders.

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

worth a read chemsky ⚗️🧪 (thanks for the rec, @heydebigale.bsky.social)

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This thread has made me quite upset this morning, albeit now better aware. I knew there was a lot of this stuff out there, but never dreamed it was this proportion.

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."

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