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Nikita Harvey

@nickynak3.bsky.social
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NMR Facility Manager at UCL School of Pharmacy, violist, asexual, nerd and all round bibliophile. She/her 👩🏾‍🔬💜

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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We've been testing this internally at UCL for several months (thanks @nickynak3.bsky.social!). Thanks also to the NMR centre at the Crick for additional testing. The schema is an early release. I'd welcome input from the community on what information matters. Try it out and get involved! 5/
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The metadata format is defined by a versioned JSON schema (v0.1.0) covering solution and solid-state NMR. The goal is an open community standard for sample-level metadata that supports FAIR data practices. #FAIRdata 4/ github.com/nmr-samples/schema
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GitHub - nmr-samples/schema: JSON schema definitions for NMR sample metadata, providing a standardised format for recording sample conditions
JSON schema definitions for NMR sample metadata, providing a standardised format for recording sample conditions - nmr-samples/schema
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NMR Sample Manager for TopSpin (v3+) provides replacements for ij, ej, and sx that capture sample info at injection. The 'samples' command opens an editor, timeline and searchable catalogue. Check experiment times and SampleJet positions even without annotations. 3/ nmr-samples.github.io/topspin/
Screenshot of NMR Sample Manager for Topspin showing the experiment timeline view
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's designed to be lightweight so all fields are optional – record as much or as little as you need. There's no server or database, so sample metadata is as private and secure as your raw experimental data. 2/
Screenshot of NMR Sample Manager for Topspin showing sample and buffer compositions.
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We've been developing NMR Samples, a set of open-source tools for recording sample information like composition, concentrations, labelling, buffers, tube or rotor details, as human-readable JSON files alongside experimental data directories. #nmrchat #openscience nmr-samples.github.io 1/
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NMR Samples
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Prof. Zoë Waller @drzoewaller.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
JOB ALERT! We are recruiting for a Research Technical Specialist in NMR Spectroscopy, within UCL School of Pharmacy to cover for maternity leave - full details on the link below @chriswaudby.bsky.social @nickynak3.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Advert is out for my maternity leave cover - please spread the word! 7 month position starting in April 2026 #NMRchat
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Tauroctonist @tauroctonist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Found Flamingo", NMR lab, 2026.
A liquid nitrogen dewar after an NMR magnet fill.  The curve of the pink rubber tubing, still frozen in position from the delivery of liquid nitrogen, terminated by a clear adaptor tube with a black tip appears to resemble a flamingo's neck and head.
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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I don't think AI can handle the transdimensional portals and demons that come out each time a student mistunes the NMR so badly. We know the battles NMR facility managers fight to keep us safe from evil. Thank you. No AI can replace that.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Good grief 😱 Well, at least my job is safe for now. #NMRchat
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
So excited that our lab's first home-grown paper is now available on ChemRxiv! Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion | doi.org/10.26434/che... 🧲🧪
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Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion
Ligand-observed NMR is a key tool for detecting weak protein-ligand interactions, but translating binding signals into meaningful affinity measurements remains difficult, limiting the ability to rank ...
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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Is it OK for me to collect NMR data while the magnet is being refilled with liquid helium? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2011/09/reso... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Looking forward to giving a webinar tomorrow with @nickynak3.bsky.social about our efforts to establish a 19F NMR fragment screening platform at UCL. Register below and join us to find out more! Friday 19th September, 2pm (UK) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR @ucltro.bsky.social
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Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just assembled my own NMR 'LABO' set thanks to @fredaperras.bsky.social! Now I only need to buy a head which actually fits on the body 😂 #nmrchat
Lego set of a DNP-NMR lab, complete with a printed instruction 'Labo' booklet. A headless Lego lab person holds a flask while a head resembling Nikita's is lying on the floor because it didn't fit on the body
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There's nothing quite like struggling through a day's worth of experiments (including the spec deciding to lock onto the wrong solvent just for funsies) and then just before leaving finally - finally! - getting proof of protein-ligand binding 😅 #nmrchat
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Imagine if people showed pride for their country by making it a genuinely nice place to be and welcoming others so your actual actions reinforced the very thing you are proud of
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
MOOC NMR 2025 training course (in three parts) 🧲 The first part, Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, from Sep 23 to Nov 10, 2025. Free registration is now open. Make sure your students are enrolled, excellent introduction to NMR! www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/b... #NMRchat @olivierlafon.bsky.social
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Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMR : A powerful technique to probe the structure and dynamics of molecules
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/08/2025
Ring: take over Gondor and then the world Boromir: tempting. need Ring: all shall love you and despair Galadriel: tempting what a test Ring: do so much good that you become a god Gandalf: don't! tempt me frodo! Ring: Sam: Ring: Sam: Ring: like a, like a really big garden Sam: I'm good Ring: fuck
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Have a read of this article from SoP's own @rachael-dickman.bsky.social, Duncan Browne and others discussing how we can foster a safe and productive environment in chemistry labs. It's so crucial that we develop a culture of responsibility, for everyone's sakes. #ChemSky www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Building safer laboratories by evolving culture and practice
Fostering a safe and productive environment in the laboratory is a challenge that faces both institutions and individual researchers at every stage of their careers. This Voices article shares perspec...
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Olivier Lafon @olivierlafon.bsky.social has been appointed to the rank of Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) infranalytics.eu/en/science/2... #NMRnews #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Friday, September 19, 9 am UK, Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy, Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social and Christopher Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Three simple ways to follow chemical reactions with your NMR spectrometer u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2008/10/kine... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
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Kinetic Experiments on Bruker Spectrometers
Students often have to monitor the progress of a chemical reaction as a function of time using NMR spectroscopy. I have written three simple...
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Luc Reym⌬nd @lreymond.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I love the shine of Silicon Rhodamine in the morning sun ✨
A closeup image of a small cylindrical glass tube used for NMR spectrocopy filled with a blue dye solution that shines a faint pinkish light.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Today we're having a cooling/heating rack installed into our NMR liquid handling robot! This should help keep protein and DNA samples stable during prep for our 19F fragment screening service #NMRchat www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/abo...
Two Bruker engineers installing the cooling rack on the SamplePro Tube liquid handlerBruker SamplePro Tube liquid handler with the new cooling rack installed. The cover is open and the robot is lit by a blue LED strip.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Very proud to have taken the lead in organising the UK NMR manager's meeting last month and to have helped with the @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social postgraduate discussion group here at UCL! It was a fantastic pair of meetings: www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/new...
Nikita standing in front of a projector screen showing the agenda for the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers Meeting 2025Prize winners from the RSC NMRDG postgraduate meeting. Back row: Jack Bertovici (poster prize winner), Darshil Kapadia (oral runner-up), Katherine Bonham (oral runner-up), James Williamson (poster runner-up), Dr Ralph Adams (NMRDG Secretary). Front row: Dr Chris Waudby (host), Ella-May Hards (oral presentation winner), Meshezabeel Narciso (poster runner-up), Anupama Acharya (poster runner-up).Attendees of the Royal Society of Chemistry NMR Discussion Group postgraduate meeting 2025 standing at the UCL School of Pharmacy entrance
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RSC NMR Discussion Group @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Discussing the state of NMR in the UK at the 2025 @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social Postgraduate Meeting
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RSC NMR Discussion Group @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Opening the 2025 NMRDG Postgraduate Meeting at the UCL School of Pharmacy
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Martin Černý @bacillus.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
When NMR agrees that you are an absolute clown 🤡 🧪
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CCPN @ccpnmr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We're looking forward to it! Especially the opportunity to talk about CcpNmr Analysis and some of the ways the software can be used by people working with small molecules including Peptides or those doing Metabolomics or Fragment Screening.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Just a couple of days left to register for the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers meeting, to be held on 16th June 2025 here at UCL School of Pharmacy! The meeting will involve the usual combination of RTP support, career discussions, instrumentation, NMR techniques, and tips and tricks. #NMRchat
View of the UCL School of Pharmacy's 600 MHz spectrometer through a bronze-rimmed porthole in a wooden door
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MGCoco★ @mgcoco.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
For Pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈✨ #Tolkien #art
Cartoon Boromir holding a sword and a rainbow flagA screenshot from The Lord of the Rings movie of Boromir holding a sword and flag, but the flag has been photoshopped to be a rainbow pride flag
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 01/06/2025
It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot. tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
Walking map around West London
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK-run Lincolnshire County Council scraps flood committee - BBC News
The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.
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American Chemical Society @acs.org · 22/05/2025
Join us in celebrating the unsung heroes of the chemical industry! On Chemical Technical Professionals Day, ACS spotlights the talented and dedicated technicians and specialists that enable success across chemical research and industry. Read more about this initiative from C&EN:
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ACS puts the spotlight on chemical technical professionals
The society names May 22 an official day of celebration and recognition for a critical but often overlooked workforce
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Catherine Clase @catherineclase.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“A 2024 analysis of the energy output of using ChatGPT by the Washington Post and researchers at UC Riverside found that just one 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.”
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Józef Lewandowski @lewandowskilab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are looking for facility manager to support biomolecular solution NMR on the 1.2 GHz in the National Research Facility and collaborative research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. To apply (deadline May 20 2025) and advert visit: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate...
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Facility Manager (Biomolecular NMR Support Officer) (110422-0425) - University of Warwick
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 28/04/2025
good morning to everyone, but specifically to this silly little baby 😌🦊
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Chance Hess @thechancehess.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The biggest miss by so many in media about the King's College study is that there is no social desirability bias for asexuals. People are totally comfortable loudly proclaiming that they think aces are broken, attention seekers, and should be r*ped, and then they will say this to our faces.
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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What is 2D NMR? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2008/03/2d-n... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is where your Harry Potter money goes
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Public service announcement 📢
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Make Money - Do Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tah-dah #NMRchat
A superconducting magnet with wooden stairs in front of it. There are three illustrated posters on the wall
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Nicholas Fitzkee @fitzkeelab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I was recently interviewed by the BBC about our helium recovery efforts here at MSU. Check out the article! www.bbc.com/future/artic... #NMR #ChemSky
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The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage
Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.
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Frédéric Blanc @proffredericblanc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Delighted to follow up with the exciting news that the 1.2 GHz NMR system at the UK high field solid state #NMR facility is well at field 👍 🧲 Happy NMRing coming soon, just 10 probes to install now 😉 1/2
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
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Fuidhrandir | Shadow Pilgrim @fuidhrandir.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Happy Tolkien Reading Day!!! Happy Sauron Defeated Day!!! #tolkien #luinmenel #wilwarin “Mount Doom” by Jian Guo
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 25/03/2025
Dr Tom Ritchie, I & D Fund winner – Presentation: The experience of British-Asian chemistry students in higher education @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion #ChemSky
Photo of Dr Tom Ritchie
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 25/03/2025
Dr Ilaria Meazzini, Professor Rachel O'Reilly, Mr Simon Holt and Dr Ale Palermo discuss the continuing @rsc.org work on disability and accessibility. @unibirmingham.bsky.social @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion #ChemSky
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