Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Elect Dave Leigh as President of the RSC! Honestly cannot think of anyone better suited to this incredibly important job! Vote, and vote now! 141
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 15/01/2026We 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 💬lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 0104
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerCommunications Chemistry @commschem.nature.com · 05/01/2026Just out: 2025 Editors’ highlightsbit.ly2025 Editors’ highlightsCommunications Chemistry, Published online: 05 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s42004-025-01884-6We are pleased to present our Editors’ Highlights Collection, featuring some of our favourite content published in Communications Chemistry in 2025. Here, we highlight why each paper was selected by our Editors and Editorial Board Members. 031
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 29/12/2025A late Christmas gift - our new paper on using dynamic covalent pericyclic reactions to control host-guest chemistry in water has just been accepted in @commschem.nature.com. Massive congrats @mariusgaedke.bsky.social @anjaramstrom.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...nature.comControlling cyclodextrin host-guest complexation in water with dynamic pericyclic chemistry - Communications ChemistryWater-soluble macrocycles are useful in drug delivery and other applications, yet controlling their host–guest interactions under physiological conditions remains challenging. Here, the authors employ... 1183
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Two amazing days at #MASC2025 in Milton Keynes with outstanding science and amazing people! Great to see both old and new friends from all over the world! Our team also got not one but two poster prizes - congrats @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and @nicolesdlt.bsky.social - you rock 🤩🍀🥳🎉! 1112
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerDr. Daisy Pooler @daisypooler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025great to see @fschaufelberger.bsky.social present our recent work on our lanthanide chelate rotaxane emitters pioneered by @anjaramstrom.bsky.social! 📡💡 and a sneak peek into the main work of my postdoc too 😉 #MASC2025 0228
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Welcome to the lab to our first Warwick PhD student Jack, and master students Nicole (from Uni Heidelberg), as well as Gabriel and Marilyn (MChems). We're so happy to have you all here and wish you lots of fun and productive times in the lab 🍀🎉🦝🤩 070
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025RIP Jane Goodall! Amazing scientist, even more amazing human being! Your LEGO avatar watches over me in my office every day ❤️ 020
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025We were incredibly honored to welcome Dr. Isabel Torres from Mothers in Science to #UniversityofWarwick this week! Dr. Torres presented deeply insightful and frankly quite horrifying studies on the treatment of mothers in academia and how parenthood impacts STEMM careers. Great discussions!! 021
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 05/08/2025In beautiful Jyväskylä together with @sgoldup.bsky.social and Fabien Cougnon holding a summer school on mechanically interlocked molecules! Brilliant students, great discussions and fantastic weather as a bonus 🤩🍀. 081
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerRSC 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...mascgroup.co.ukvMASC 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 … 178
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerWISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social · 01/08/2025🚨✨We're excited to advertise the first 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for excellence in equality, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (#EDIA).🏆 📅 Apply by September 5th, 2025! 👀Learn more at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed... @rsc-masc.bsky.social #ChemSky #SupramolecularChemistry #WomenInSTEMmascgroup.co.ukMASC/WISC EDIA AwardMASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group MASC/WISC EDIA Award MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group WISC: Women In Supramolecular Chemistry… 097
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This is one of those true jawdropping moments in science - absolutely crazy cool work from Michael and team 🤩 061
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Our collection on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules is now online @commschem.nature.com ! Wonderful working on this with @jbernicano.bsky.social Serena and Victoria! Lots of very interesting content in the final collection, please have a look if you are into interlocked molecules and materials😄 0111
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Amazing summer socials this week with group members from both Warwick and KTH! Highlights included a tour of the Leamington Elephant Bath and ET graffiti, cocktail by the river and of course tons of science chats 🍀🧪🧬. Just the best bunch of people ever #luckyPI 162
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerCharlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Correct link - www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...crick.ac.ukPostdoctoral Project Research Scientist 003
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerJamie 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 Fredrik SchaufelbergerDavid K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I am taking part in the #FathersWhoCare campaign, organised by @mothersinsci.bsky.social. This will amplify the voices of men who are redefining fatherhood in the STEM workplace. There is a free webinar about caregiving and inclusive workplaces - sign up here: www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats 04415
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025In addition to her paper being accepted (see other post), @anjaramstrom.bsky.social is also now on bluesky 🤩🎉🍀! Give her a follow if you like cool rotaxanes, there's some incredibly stuff from her brewing in the lab at the moment 010
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie... Massive congratulations Anja, @daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃 Thread below --》doi.orgModulation of Lanthanide Luminescence with the Mechanical Bond: Antenna‐Emitter Confinement in a Compact [2]RotaxaneLuminescent emitters based on lanthanide ions are of ubiquitous importance in the biological sciences, but typically need sensitisation from a covalently attached adjacent chromophore – an “antenna” .... 5368
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Massive congrats to Anja for her poster prize at @ismsc2025. Very proud supervisor, you're doing incredible work Anja🎉🥳🎊 0140
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerYannick Geiger @yannickgeiger.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Job Alert 📢📢📢 Systems chemistry lab is hiring! We are looking for motivated candidates to do a PhD with us. It will be on the effect of (large) aggregation on chemical reaction networks, more details here: systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr/vacancies/. Repost very much appreciated 🙏systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.frVacancies – Systems chemistry lab 173
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 23/05/2025Heinrich Baumhauer’s 3D periodic table from 1870 may soon come to life as a Lego playset, if a Spanish scientist's 'Periodic Tower of Elements' bid comes to fruition. #ChemSkychemistryworld.comCampaign launched to get Lego periodic table playset out thereSpanish scientist wants people to vote for his spiral table to get Lego to bring it to life 1358
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerCharlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Our 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! 0196
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerCharlie Hind @hindcharlie.bsky.social · 09/05/2025New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...pubs.rsc.orgBeing a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in scienceBeing in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ... 27641
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 29/04/2025The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSkychemistryworld.comTake two polls to help Iupac define molecular machinesAn Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field 03016
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This has filled up rapidly, but we still have a few spots to go for the summer school in Jyväskylä! Registration open until end of this week! Can't wait to join everyone for a fantastic week of MIMs in the gorgeous Finnish summer 🍀 020
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerBabis Pappas @pappasgroup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation on dynamic peptide self-assembly. 📄 Full position ad: bit.ly/4jAIrmg 📅 Application deadline: May 31, 2025 #Postdoc #ChemistryJobs #SystemsChemistry #AcademicJobs #Freiburg #livMatSbit.ly 0109
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025That feeling when you get a chemicals and consumables order to approve from your group. For goods worth 15 000 EUR. And it includes "chocolate horse blood". And urine beakers. And morphine. And then you realise what day it is...😂. Well played team! 050
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Very excited to announce this Summer School organised by Fabien Cougnon in beautiful Jyväskylä, where @sgoldup.bsky.social and myself will be leading a course on the topic "Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Properties and Applications" from 4-8 August 2025. Free of charge, but limited to 30 spots. 194
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerDavid Peeler @djpeeler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Our article "Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics" is open-access at Advanced Materials! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Major shout to my co-first author Rujie Sun and all our wonderful collaborators who helped realize this dream!advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.comNanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery KineticsSpatiotemporal Controlled Release Inks of Biocompatible polyEsters (SCRIBE) is a novel 2PP resin family with sub-micron resolution and tuneable hydrolysis. SCRIBE enables direct printing of hollow mi... 194
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerBen Roberts @benjaminoacid.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at benjamin.roberts@unipd.it, any shares would be appreciated! www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-usbmwrlab.comWork with us | The Roberts Lab 95518
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerJamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025🧪Come join us for a PhD making and studying functional molecular capsules! We have a fully funded position (UK home fees eligible only) available in the group to start in September 2025 (start date is flexible). Links 👇 www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/chem... www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #chemskybirmingham.ac.ukChemistry PhD opportunities - Postgraduate Research DegreesSchool of Chemistry at The University of Birmingham PhD opportunities and postgraduate research degrees 01212
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerJamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon. 01513
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 18/02/2025So after a long travel through Europe, the lab raccoon has finally arrived in Warwick. He's now hanging out on my fumehood, waiting for new co-workers to arrive 😁 160
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerCharlie McTernan @charliemcternan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Come join our lab @crick.ac.uk/KCL - looking for a Chemical Biologist #chembio, to lead our chemical biology work, collaborating across my group and more widely, driving forward basic and translational projects tinyurl.com/5n8d6ufb closes 23/2! 24-month positiontinyurl.comPostdoctoral Research Associate at King's College LondonAn academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities. 022
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerThe Pilarski ResearC···H Group @pilarskigroup.bsky.social · 14/02/2025A 2-yr postdoc is available in our group! The successful candidate will have a strong background in organic synthesis and <6 years after a PhD. The research will focus on novel mechanochemical organic reactions. Questions/applications: email Lukasz (address in the pic). Deadline: 7th March 2025. 097
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This week was spent back at KTH, including a great group dinner (❤️) and finally cracking open the whisky I got when I left the leigh group in 2020 🤣. Love working with this great team!! 0101
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerRianne Lord @drriannelord.bsky.social · 30/01/2025We are happy to announce that a 3.5-year fully funded PhD position is open within our team at the University of Warwick - fees are covered only for home UK students, and the deadline is 29th April 2025. RTs are appreciated! 🙏🏼 Enquiries: Rianne.Lord@warwick.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ466/p... 002
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Beautifully written text about a legend that is already deeply missed! 031
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerStephen Fielden @stephenfielden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Come and join my new group! We have two funded PhD positions available in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and polymer nanotechnology. See fieldengroup.net for more details! Reposts much appreciated!fieldengroup.netFielden Group - Nanotechnology ResearchWe're an interdisciplinary research group led by Dr Stephen Fielden within the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. We research polymers, nanoparticles and supramolecular chemistry. 11014
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerDave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀 710136
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerMatthieu Sollogoub @msollogoub.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n 3710951
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Huge congrats to Anja for receiving a poster prize for her amazing work on mechanically interlocked luminescent emitters 🍀🎉🍾💖! Very well-deserved, we're so happy for you!!! 140
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024What an amazing #MASC conference up in York! Wonderful science, expert organisation by @professor-dave.bsky.social Alyssa Victor and Paul, and an all around incredible amd stimulating atmosphere 🍀. I've missed the UK suprachem community a lot, feels great to be back! 072
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerOliver Maguire @oliver-maguire.bsky.social · 18/12/2024🚨 #PhD opportunity in Systems Chemistry!🚨 Please Share! Interested in creating new decision-making materials based on electrochemically programmable protein networks? Fully funded 4-year PhD supported by #ERC at @uobchemistry.bsky.social for UK-home student. Check out link for details: #chemskyfindaphd.comElectrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Electrochemically Programmable Biochemical Networks for Animate Materials at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com 11914
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerAngewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Hi there: we're happy to be on BlueSky now, too! Stay tuned as we're getting set up here for the #ChemSky community - more to follow soon! 1321443
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Lovely discussion on benefits of molecular knotting by the Cougnon group🪡🖇🔗 www.cell.com/trends/chemi...cell.comWhy (k)not?The functions of synthetic macromolecules are currently limited by our inability to control their folding beyond static secondary structures. Introducing mechanical entanglements may provide a solution to this problem by enabling the creation of new types of folded structures that can undergo complex conformational transformations in response to external stimuli. 070
Reposted by Fredrik SchaufelbergerFer @gomobel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Hey hey #Chemsky! 🧪 I'm gonna see if this works better than the other place to look for expert comments 🤗 I need someone who works in chirality and proteins for a story I'm working on - my DMs are open 📬 Reposts appreciated to boost visibility! Thanks 🙏🏼🔄 149659
Fredrik Schaufelberger @fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Wonderful talk by Filip Du Prez on sequence-defined polymers today at Warwick Chemistry. Including the world's most expensive 3D-printed duck, which also happens to show why sequence specificity in polymers are so important for properties. 000