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Jamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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We 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... #chemsky

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Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7

To 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.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I 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.

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Huh, next month it'll be 10 years since moving to this hemisphere, time sure does fly!

Becky Greenaway @beckylgreenaway.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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Congratulations 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!

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Brilliant, congratulations Dr Morel!!!

Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX #crystallography #education

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This 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.

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Syma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Nothing so irritating in academia as the low key flex re group size. Look at my empire….🙄

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

My 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

3d printed and painted crystal structure of the [Gd(dota)(H2O)] anion in classic atom colouring except for a satin gold colour for the metal ion, with a matt finish

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

End of an era! Got lots of memories of sitting hunched over that thing, there's probably still a couple of micrograms of some of my samples floating about in the furnace

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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I 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!

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Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Soft & Crystalline Composite Materials: Developing Total Scattering Workflows for the Interrogation of Structure. at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

OK #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!

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

BF4 from glass is a new one for, huge excess of XeF2 and taking the "single crystal" part of scxrd very literally I presume? We used to see SiF6 etc popping up all the time, though I wonder how much of that is just selective crystallisation of the less soluble anion

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Disordered? Axial bonds look a bit long. If that middle atom wants to spread out when anised I'd suggest maybe BF4 over two positions with three shared fluorines

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Sounds like this classic: www.nature.com/articles/532...

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Haha thanks! Tough competition from at least three other Chris's there mind you

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Not often I'm in the first 10% of something, I'll take that

One of those Bluesky user numbers, mine is 729561

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I usually make these as little souvenirs for students when they finish their final year research projects with a compound theyve gotten the structure of, this one was just a bit of fun for me though

Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Took 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

A 3d printed and hand painted molecular model - the molecule is a chelating 1,8-naphthalimide complex painted in a cartoon style

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PaulEKruger @paulekruger.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Come 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...

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Associate Professor | Professor and Head of School, Physical and Chemical Sciences - University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Been 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

Picture of two hand painted 3d printed crystal structures, a glossy [(Cp)Fe(CO)2]2 with coloured infill on the rings, and an alanine zwitterion painted in matt style with black highlights between the atoms and bonds

Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I put a line through my 7s because in high school I copied a German exchange students physics homework, mistook all his 1s for 7s, and was immediately found out by the teacher. Can't fool me twice!

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

In my experience they are a very convenient way to eat 3 times the normal amount while still thinking you are taking it easy

Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Huge 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

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Yeah I kept seeing the ads for the remarkable too, the hardware is cool but the internal storage is a bit small as they do a monthly subscription model for cloud storage instead which was a massive no from me!

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I 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.

Image of a pdf textbook open on an e-reader with some scribbles

Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

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From 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

Photo of tweet saying: The @RoySocChem 2023 @RSC_MASCMacrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry Meeting #MASC2023 registration is open and the first abstract deadlines are not far off - you do knot want to miss them!

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Introduce 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

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Importantly, neither "hand-eye" or "course" appear anywhere

Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Hah, cool! It's got my number that's for sure

Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

We had a massive one this evening too! Ironically ours ended at the business school

A big wide rainbow ending at a business school building

Rob Jackson @robajackson.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

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I 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.

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Chris Hawes @cshchem.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Its 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