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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m in the wilds of Indonesia on holidays, but Simona’s paper on metastable cage catalysis has just been published! Almost everything done by amazing Simona, wth many collabs, incl Paul Lusby. doi.org/10.1002/anie...

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Catalysis by a Metastable Photoswitchable Cage

A self-assembled heteroleptic cage is formed by isomerizing a photoswitchable ligand to its metastable Z-isomeric form (Z-1) using green light and combining with a non-switchable ligand (2) and palla...

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Remember these guys? I tested one bottle two months ago and it was ~49% "pure". I thought that it was one-batch failure, but I was wrong. I bought second bottle myself in Calgary and tested by PXRD + TGA. Nope, apparently they have a systematic problem with quality. 1/x #chemsky #chemchat

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hate it when a restaurant tells me to use my phone to read the menu. I know this makes me a dinosaur!

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ARC has published (inadvertently?) how many Future Fellowships & DECRAs they’ll fund (FT26 & DE27). Even though outcomes aren't out yet, these numbers & success rates are here ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/ncgp-trends-... 299 FT26s & 455 DE27s "funded". Success rate of 20% for both schemes.

Various graphs and statistics are shown in an infographic style. Screenshot from ARC's "NCGP Trends" website showing the number of funded applications for Future Fellowships, the number submitted and the corresponding success rate.

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Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We are hiring! tinyurl.com/4nstwsr3 2 year PDRA on flow synthesis & crystallisation of organic materials. Alongside the specific project focus, we are excited to work with you on your ideas to use flow in supramolecular chemistry. Closing date 21st August.

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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Hiring a postdoc! Join my group on an NIH-funded project developing hydrazone-based photoswitchable fluorophores for super-resolution microscopy. Looking for expertise in organic synthesis, photochemistry, spectroscopy, systems/supramolecular chemistry, and/or chemical biology. #chemjobs #chemsky

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So excited to be the ISOP conference in Groningen for all things #photoswitches! My favourite meeting so I’m honoured to also be the only person from Australia (again?) #ozchem

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Also congrats to Simona and Sophie for winning prizes!! Great job representing @unswchemistry.bsky.social !

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fantastic week in Odense for the #ICCC conference. Loads of great science and was wonderful to catch up with friends old and new!

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New pre-print! We use photoswitchable ligands to assemble a metastable cage that can act as a catalyst. Work by amazing PhD student Simona Capomolla. Any feedback would be very, very welcome, so please get in touch if you have any thoughts! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Devastating news for so many people who applied. Imagine running a scheme and then once all the applications are submitted, cancelling it. What a waste of so many people’s time. #ozchem

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come and work with me! The Austron is hiring a chemistry focused beamline scientist on the MX beamlines! Get in touch if you are interested 💎🧪👩‍🔬 #ozchem careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Melbourn...

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Paper published! PhD student Man Him Chak led this work in collab with the Meijer group. Photoswitches reversibly control supramolecular polymer evolution for hours after the light is off. Thanks to all our wonderful collaborators on this one! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 400 tenure-track positions and 95 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The ARC have said (on LinkedIn) they will release outcomes for Discovery Projects Expressions of Interest (2027) tomorrow👇

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from ARC saying that DP27 EOI outcomes will be released on RMS on the 26th Feb 2026.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

You need one organisation to do the expensive and thankless task of collecting thousands of spectra of pure samples in controlled solvent conditions. No random old bottles of CDCl3, or DMSO that is 50% water etc. would be also great if we could submit FIDs to a database…

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

As already noted, the problem is there isn’t reliable data for models yet. It would require accurate and reproducible data of the widest variety of samples. Look at reported NMR data at the moment - it’s all over the place.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Man Him Chak submitted his PhD thesis today!! Great work Him!! #ozchem

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 381 tenure-track positions and 82 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Not this year I’m afraid and next year I’m not sure yet - but would love to come!!

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That would be awesome! Most LEDs, including those that we use, are super broad, and with filters we often have dim light. We have other brighter and narrow LEDs, but these cost several $1000 including the power supply and controller units. But a cheap powered LED could be $5 and work for most apps

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yep, and you can absolutely do this if you have a) long enough thermal half-lives that you can separate without sig switching and b) be able to separate. The key issue is with lifetimes.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thanks! Let me know if there is anything that could be improved, or stuff we missed. I hope it be a useful resource

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

ANY comments would be very much appreciated, so thanks for any feedback!

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#photoswitches: How should we determine errors on PSS distributions, and the absorption spectrum of the metastable isomer? We have been discussing this for years and have finally written a manuscript, including a python code to fit your data without human bias. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Truly sad news today. Emma was an inspiring Dean of Science at UNSW and always dedicated to making a real difference in the world, as well as beaming with energy and positive vibes. A pleasure to work with and an inspiring leader in times when they seem so hard to find. She’ll be sadly missed.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Fantastic news, congrats Paul!

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suprachem2026.bsky.social @suprachem2026.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Registration for SupraChem2026 is open! Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

13C satellite observation with a 1D 1H-13C HSQC NMR u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2018/08/13-c... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

PhD position available! You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026! Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Re-posts appreciated!

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Congrats! Well deserved, your group is really pushing the field into new directions.

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

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 290 tenure-track positions and 34 teaching-only positions:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcB_oy4jXVGaqenGU31KYTi2KxvryzR1wt4Oo-_OcQ8/edit?usp=sharing #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

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Jennifer van Wijngaarden @vanwijng.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Calling all synthetic chemists! We are looking for a new colleague at York University in Toronto 🇨🇦 for a 3 year limited term position as Assistant Professor (Teaching stream) in synthetic chemistry. www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I even thought the term “shigemi tube” referred to the flat bottom ones for fixed volume measurements…

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Applications Scientist - NMR, Oxford Instruments, Shanghai, China jobs.oxinst.com/job/Shanghai... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

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Jon Beves @jonbeves.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We’ve also been thinking about this a lot in recent years. Even “well mixed” solutions are really very heterogeneous, even though we synthetic chemists don’t like to admit it, and it can change reaction outcomes…. #ChemSky

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Max Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany) has a tenure-track opening in chemistry (asst/assoc): chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/tenure-t... #facultychemjobs #euchemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

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