Reposted by Chris HawesAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Any faculty member outsourcing the responsibility for crafting an educational experience to Claude should be embarrassed. If Claude is doing your job, why do the students need you?" Finally got around to reading this and it is spot on. 1123
Reposted by Chris HawesI'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 21/04/2026I keep hearing that we are expecting an exponential growth in energy use due to AI like it's some phenomenon that we have no control over and it makes me so fucking angry. We don't have to do it!! We can choose not to do this and not to lose all we've gained in the clean energy transition! fuck!! 517823
Reposted by Chris HawesSandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Great trip to @keeleuniversity.bsky.social today to present our latest research at their Chemistry Seminar... somehow I didn't take any photos?! Thanks to Charlie Creissen for the invitation and great to see Pete Matthews, @kjhaxton.com and @cshchem.bsky.social and others. 072
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Really happy to see this one out in the world, top efforts by Scarlett and Corey on their final year projects (a couple of years apart mind you) with technical input from the brilliant Sian as always 0112
Reposted by Chris HawesMOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Structural chemistry and environment-dependent fluorescence of a tetratopic pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole ligand pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLand… 011
Reposted by Chris HawesJamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemskyedzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.comResearch Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project. 01319
Reposted by Chris HawesDr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I am amused by the framing of this article because you may as well accuse me of refusing to use a flame thrower in my work. I'm not refusing, it is of no use to me because I am a non-fictition writer. That's all. 432142292
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Huh, next month it'll be 10 years since moving to this hemisphere, time sure does fly! 010
Reposted by Chris HawesBecky Greenaway @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Congratulations to Dr Ruby Morel on passing her PhD viva today 🎉 Noone is more deserving and watch this space for her papers on porous liquid crystals 🙌 Thanks to @annagslater.bsky.social and @g-craig.bsky.social for examining! 3123
Reposted by Chris HawesShao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · 22/02/2025George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education 03525
Reposted by Chris HawesAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself. 641977539
Reposted by Chris HawesSyma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Nothing so irritating in academia as the low key flex re group size. Look at my empire….🙄 1121
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025My latest 3d print and paint project was the crystal structure of a classic lanthanide dota complex (dotarem/gadoteric acid), it's a nice case study for teaching about stability constants and their relevance which I use in year 2 inorganic but mainly I just think it's a cool looking molecule 0102
Reposted by Chris HawesColette Boskovic @coletteboskovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Massive congratulations to my Unimelb #InorganicChemistry colleagues Richard Robson & Paul Donnelly #OzChem #ChemSky #MOFs #BioinorganicChemistry www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...unimelb.edu.auNew Chemistry Chair honours legacy of Professor Richard RobsonNew Chemistry Chair honours legacy of Professor Richard Robson 0214
Reposted by Chris HawesTim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I see your immediate vacancy and call with one of my own! Immediately available PhD studentship (Home fees & stipend) on a MOF/polymers/neutrons/computational project with ISIS, Cardiff and the Ada Lovelace Centre. Original student unable to start so post re-advertised. #ChemSky spread the word!findaphd.comSoft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com 12523
Reposted by Chris HawesProf Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 27/11/2024OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word! 37668
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Not often I'm in the first 10% of something, I'll take that 150
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Took a break from this for a bit but back to printing and painting some crystal structure models, I'm a big fan of the flat cartoon look from matte varnish and black highlights on the bonds #chemsky 3322
Reposted by Chris HawesPaulEKruger @paulekruger.bsky.social · 20/08/2024Come and work with us in Te Kura Matū at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, in Christchurch New Zealand | Ōtautahi Aotearoa. #Chemsky jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...jobs.canterbury.ac.nz Associate Professor | Professor and Head of School, Physical and Chemical Sciences - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha 003
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 07/01/2024Been trying some new styles with these 3d printed crystal structures recently: used Blender to add infill to aromatic rings for coordinating cyclopentadienyls, and this weekend tried some matt paints for a change with black outlines on the bonds for a more cartoony style 020
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Huge week for me, I bought a 9 pack of mini kitkats for my office over 48 hours ago and there's still one left, please clap 160
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 29/09/2023I caved and bought a Kobo. Annotating on PDFs on the e-ink screen is so cool! Is this the gadget that will finally help me catch up on reading papers? No, still no. 110
Reposted by Chris HawesMartijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 27/09/2023From the x-rated site: The RoySocChem 2023 Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry Meeting #MASC2023 registration is open and the first abstract deadlines are not far off - you do knot want to miss them! mascgroup.co.uk/masc23/ #ChemSky 065
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: - sorting line at a recycling plant - quantity surveyors assistant at a glaziers - handing out bus timetables - worked the till at a video rental store - sold ostensibly science themed toys and various junk in a mall 001
Reposted by Chris HawesRob Jackson @robajackson.bsky.social · 19/09/2023I just got set up here this evening, thanks to an invite from @cshchem.bsky.social. Hello everyone! I'll be posting on science, music and (hopefully) travel. No politics! Do follow me, and I'll follow you back. 121
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Its the time of year when I go over my chemistry of LCD and LED screens lecture content and have to talk myself out of buying an E-ink tablet, but they are so cool 020
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Glad to see some more migrations here to Chemsky from the other place - welcome @gtwsuprachem.bsky.social and @robajackson.bsky.social #Chemsky 230
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 17/09/2023Bit too organic for my blood but I'll try my best: Favourite element: Zn or Cd (or anything that diffracts good) Favourite reaction: Finkelstein Favourite het: indazole Favourite functional group: Carboxylic acid Favourite glassware: Dean-Stark Favourite natural product: quinine 020
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 10/09/2023Enjoying some nature time in Wales before the thunderstorms get here 000
Reposted by Chris HawesJon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 08/09/2023Wow! So exciting to find a new platform with familiar names already here! Hopefully this can turn into what chemtwitter used to be! 0154
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 07/09/2023Autoreply is on and feet are up, clawing back some annual leave before the madness starts up again 010
Reposted by Chris HawesMatt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · 05/09/2023Doing some BlueSky research (🤦♂️) to join the science community on here. I'm a Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College with a range of interests spanning molecules, materials and medicine. Who's here? #Chemsky 0266
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 02/09/2023It'll cost me about the same to either get my PC up to spec for Starfield (new GPU + PSU needed at minimum) or to just buy a PS5 and play it on that, I'm torn 100
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Spent much of last week in Ireland for a PhD viva and other work catchups which was great, but it is also nice to be back in Stoke where food, coffee and beer costs what in comparison seems like a very reasonable amount 110
Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 26/08/2023This site seems alright so far! Though I still have nothing much to say, hopefully the chemtwitter crowd will continue moving this way 070