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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Great to see our latest collaborative paper from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out in Chem - tinyurl.com/33r7t68s - we've created stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript out!

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Emily Draper @profdraper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The MASC/WISC are looking for applications for the EDIA award. Have you done something amazing for the supramolecular community? We want to hear about it and celebrate it! Apply here mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...

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MASC/WISC EDIA Award

MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group MASC/WISC EDIA Award MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group WISC: Women In Supramolecular Chemistry…

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our latest preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/px47rph2 - we've been looking at using stably folded alpha helices for helicate assembly, working at length scales between small molecule helices and coiled coils, with some very interesting chirality control. Great to see the manuscript up!

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📣 Call for vMASC abstracts 📣 Come speak at vMASC! Share your work with a large and diverse audience! We're opening our next call for abstracts for speakers from ALL career stages. Apply here: mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc/vmasc-... Deadline ⚠️ Monday 9th August 2026 #RSC_MASC #vMASC

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📣 vMASC Seminar Special Edition 📣 “Career Development Seminar: Parents of Supramolecular Chemistry”, in collab with @wisuprachem.bsky.social Date 📆 and time 🕰️: Thursday 6th August 2026 at 9:30 (UK time) Register (for free) at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4 to attend! #RSC_MASC #vMASC #WomeninSTEM #EDI

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Come and join our group! We have a short term PDRA post available in the group, tinyurl.com/39ywawkj - to work on metal-peptidic cages, and see how far we can push the peptides! mcternanresearchgroup.com

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Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Elect Dave Leigh as President of the RSC! Honestly cannot think of anyone better suited to this incredibly important job! Vote, and vote now!

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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Hi folks, I’m on the ballot for President of the @rsc.org. I’m standing because we live in post-truth times where respect for expertise & evidence can no longer be taken for granted. It’s time to push back. If that resonates, RSC members can vote here www.mi-vote.com/secure/rsc 🗳️🙏

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Delighted to see our work on anion-switchable palladium cages, used to purify single pharmaceuticals from complex mixtures, out in ACIE today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - great work from lead author Zhe, and brilliant crystallography from Tanya!

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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

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From science to spinout – cutting cancer’s borrowed time

With the launch of ALTx, a new company focussed on exploiting this ability, scientists hope to turn cancer’s borrowed time into a vulnerability.

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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.

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This would likely end the careers of hundreds of postdocs across the country, they added, highlighting that the suspensions alone will "tank" the postdoc market by the end of the summer and into next year.

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!

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Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬

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Montenegro Lab @montenegrolabo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337

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PhD Position in Supramolecular and Organic Chemistry

We are looking to incorporate a PhD candidate (predoctoral contract), with motivation for organic and peptide synthesis, to develop a doctoral thesis at CIQUS – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ...

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Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

When liquids freeze, ions normally grind to a halt — but not in our new materials! Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Congrats to Dr Aisha Bismillah @anbismillah.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural MASC/WISC EDIA Award 2025! @wisuprachem.bsky.social #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

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WISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚨WISC is excited to announce we are changing our name to Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry! ➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com #WomeninSTEM #EDI #SupramolecularChemistry #ChemSky

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Delighted to see our work on dual cavity cages online @chemicalscience.rsc.org - tinyurl.com/yatjzpnc - we explore how subtle changes in peptide sequence and chirality transform cage formation and isomer selectivity, with unexpected results. Congratulations to @benebarber.bsky.social Ellen and Leah!

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/yyadfcdv - Zhe has been working on anion switchable palladium cage systems, and used them for separating active pharmaceuticals!

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🚨 Final reminder to submit your abstract for an oral and/or poster presentation for a chance to showcase your research at this year’s MASC meeting (15th–16th Dec 2025) at the Open University, Milton Keynes! ⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025 More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...

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MASC 2025 Abstracts

Abstract Submission Home Programme Speakers Registration and Bursaries Abstract Submission Venue Travel Accommodation Sponsors Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7th November 2025 Please use the …

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Stephen Fielden @stephenfielden.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r... We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 09/10/2025

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 07/10/2025

2026 PhD recruitment is now open. As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting! Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below) More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho... #RSC_MASC #RSC_MASC_2025 (1/2)

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Enxu LIU @enxuliu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Happy to share this cover finally online in the September issue of chem. Thank you @vivesgui.bsky.social and @msollogoub.bsky.social for the design and drawing of such nice cover👏👏👏

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 09/09/2025

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

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Becky Greenaway @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

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RSC MASC @rsc-masc.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣 We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series. Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025 Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

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vMASC Call For Abstracts (for 2025/26)

vMASC Early-Career Seminars: Call for Abstracts The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (vMASC) seminar series are inviting abstracts from all early-career …

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Alexandre Hofer @hofalex.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Imagine a small molecule that degrades a target protein like PROTACs, but does so independently of any of the host cell's degradation machinery, so you can go and do targeted protein degradation in gram-negative bacteria: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Light-Activated Metal-Dependent Protein Degradation (LAMP-D)

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Montenegro Lab @montenegrolabo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🔊 We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to work @ciqus.bsky.social in drug delivery by superchaotropic boron clusters. We offer a great working environment, in an excellent center and an exciting research field, www.nature.com/articles/s41... euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/360505 Sharing 🙏

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PhD Position Offer

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join the Montenegro Lab and carry out a doctoral thesis focused on the synthesis, functionalization, and evaluation of boron clusters and chaotro...

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Great to see our Review on using Peptides to build Discrete Supramolecular Architectures online at Angewandte @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with a great Frontispiece from Ben! Congratulations Ben Ellen and Leah!

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Come and join our team at @crick.ac.uk Help commercialise phenomenal science! #biotech #techtransfer

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Second role live in our Group - a PDRA @crick.ac.uk and KCL to lead a project on using supramolecular chemistry to target lipid nanoparticles, #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science closes 8/7! Strong synthetic skills, or experience of lipid nanoparticles best,18mo, pos exten

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Two roles live in our Group - a S/PLRS @crick.ac.uk and KCL to help lead projects, build teams write grants, and manage+train the group and collabs., Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/3kmmfwws closes 25/6! 24mo, pos extn

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Join our lab, as a S/PLRS @crick.ac.uk /KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead projects, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/5n8ek33x closes 25/6! 24month, possible exten

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Had a great time at #ISMSC2025 last week; it was great to talk about the group's work, and to see all the posters up on new projects!

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Important changes on @erc.europa.eu grants‼️Grant structure & most importantly eligibility timeframes (10 years for starting, 15 years for consolidator post PhD-but you can have them only once) changes: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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ISMSC2026 conference @ismsc2026.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out... ...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Our first photoswitchable channel, controlled by three separate stimuli, is now up on ChemRxiv! tinyurl.com/3m4umy3d - we use fluorinated azobenzenes and a pillar[5]arene core to modulate ion transport using light, pH, and guest, modulating initial rates 170-fold. Collaboration with Wallace Lab@KCL!

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We're excited to share our latest paper, just accepted in ACS Catalysis! 🎉 in which we describe how positionally addressable peptide libraries (SPOT libraries) can be used to discover artificial metallopeptide catalysts that work inside living cells. 👇 #ChemSky pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Streamlined Identification of Metallopeptides for Intracellular Catalysis Using Positionally Addressable Combinatorial Libraries

The discovery and development of artificial catalysts to carry out bioorthogonal reactions in living cells is a primary goal at the interface of Chemistry and Biology. Current approaches rely on time-...

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Jake Greenfield @jakeylg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🚨📢Out now in #Chem, @jiarongwu.bsky.social and I figure out how to perturb a non-photoresponsive reaction(🌚) out of equilibrium using our imine-based photoswitches🔦💡This is achieved using a light-responsive transimination!(🌝) #AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

TOC of the paper showing a light responsive transimination influencing a non-photoresponsive transimination (at least at 405 nm irradiation).

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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Charlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Join our lab, as a SLRS/PLRS @crick.ac.uk /KCL -Synthetic Chemist/Chemical Biologist #chemsky #chembio, to lead project, build teams, support and train, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic+translational science tinyurl.com/4f4zhw9d closes 29/4! 24month, possible extn

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Senior/ Principal Laboratory Research Scientist

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 09/04/2025

Researchers at the Crick, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @unifr.bsky.social have designed a new saltwater filter inspired by the body’s own filtering system. If this new system can be scaled up, it could be used to help filter seawater into drinking water. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

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Cell membrane biology inspires design of new saltwater filters

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King’s College London and the University of Fribourg have developed polymer water channels, similar to commonly used plastics, that can draw salt out of wat...

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