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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

Dear Mark,

Yesterday, AAAS spoke out against a damaging proposal from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that would jeopardize future scientific discoveries and breakthroughs by bringing politics into the heart of scientific evaluation and priority setting and rejecting the will of Congress and the American people.

The proposed rule forgets what has made America the world’s R&D leader for generations. Among many bad policy choices, the most damaging is that it would prioritize politics over merit by enabling OMB budget analysts to override scientific peer review to decide what science is worth funding. If this rule is implemented, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security, and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the Director of OMB, the nation’s chief bureaucrat. We must speak out against this with all of our voices.

You can find my full statement here and an editorial from Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp here. For further details on the proposed rule, read the ScienceInsider article.

The proposed rule is laid out over more than 400 pages. The public comment period is open until July 13 and it will take some time to fully assess the rule’s possible impacts. AAAS is already working to prepare a thoughtful, strong, and strategic official comment to OMB. In addition, we are putting all of our resources to work in public and behind the scenes to push back on this outrageous overreach.

The process for rulemaking gives all of us an opportunity to comment in the regulatory process and speak up in the political process. Here are three valuable actions for you to take:

Let your representatives in Congress know that this proposed rule is bad for everyone – not just scientists. Tell them your concerns about putting political appointees who lack the necessary expertise in charge of science and research funding decisions and the potential impact on our hopes for future cures, national security, and American jobs.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/04/2025

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

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#RealTimeChem @realtimechem.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Guess what? It turns out scientists don’t like Nazis!

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QUAD Systems AG @quad-systems-nmr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Even the smallest contamination on an NMR tube can significantly impact your results. A dirty sample can lead to: - Poor shimming and reduced sensitivity - Potential contamination of the probe, requiring time-consuming maintenance #NMRchat #ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Illustration of the effect of dirty NMR tubes. The top shows a clean NMR tube and the corresponding "shim-map", which is very homogeneous. The bottom shows an NMR tube with a small black marker dot. The corresponding shim map shows a clear perturbation of several Hz around the dot.

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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Colour changes remain the best thing in chemistry #chemsky #realtimechem

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The bumbling biochemist (Bri Bibel) @bumblingbiochemist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Here’s my strategy for keeping track of assay data. I started doing this in grad school and it’s still serving me well! youtu.be/-A1WoAY-aaE example template: bit.ly/assaylog #365DaysOfScience #chemsky #realtimechem #biochemsky

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My strategy for keeping track of assay data: logs, strategically-annotated figures, etc.

YouTube video by the bumbling biochemist

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Dr Stephen Hendry @drstephenhendry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Yesterday, I attended the launch of @nadsn.bsky.social white paper "Towards a fully inclusive environment for disabled people in STEMM" #NADSNWhitePaper Inclusion isn’t a burden—it’s the key to innovation #DisabeledInSTEM #RealTimeChem #ChemSky Read the white paper 👉 shorturl.at/Fcidd

The Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wing, Learning and Teaching Building, University of Strathclyde.

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Dr Stephen Hendry @drstephenhendry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Last week, the @rsc.org held their 5th Inclusion & Diversity Forum—a powerful reminder that equity in science is about real lives, careers & futures #ChemSky #RealTimeChem We stand firm: 🔹 Amplifying voices 🔹 Strengthening partnerships 🔹 Supporting our community www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbyQ...

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Royal Society of Chemistry Inclusion and Diversity Forum 2025

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Bob Worley @bobthechemist.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Watch highly coloured ions MnO₄⁻ & Cu(NH₃)₄²⁺ diffuse in a droplet of water using 2 different paths caused by presence of a magnet during electrolysis. Evidence of charged particles (ions). www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMta... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9oM... #ITeachchem #RealTimeChem #chatchemistry

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Fer @gomobel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm so happy to see my @chemistryworld.com story on spin entanglement as the #1 most read online! 🥳 Keep reading, it's also the first solution synthesis of a super interesting structure shaped like a small bowtie 🧪 #ChemSky #RealTimeChem 👉🏽 bit.ly/4cqtkcW

A table displaying the top most read stories in popular science magazine Chemistry World

The chemical structure of ’Clar’s goblet’, proposed in 1972 by Erich Clar. It's shaped like a microscopic bowtie

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HansonFSU @hansonfsu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Happy Friday!! This week we have leftover alkyne from a column. 💧 #fsu #photochemistry #research #picoftheweek #chemistry

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van Gemmeren Lab @vangemmerenlab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Congratulations to Edis and @sourjyamal.bsky.social, who have completed their studies on a new and efficient approach towards gamma-alkylidene lactones directly from carboxylic acids and lactones now posted on @chemrxiv.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #chemsky #chemistry

Graphical abstract of a manuscript detailing the reaction between a carboxylic acid and a styrene under palladium catalysis.

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Frances Separovic @francesbiophys.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are pleased to share that our recent @rsc.org Chemical Science article has been selected and included in their 2024 most popular Chemical Biology articles collection. #chemistry #biophysics pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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Making Molecules @makingmolecules.com · 08/04/2025

Re-inventing the wheel. Instead of a #ChemEd #Chemistry #ChemSky summary here is my version of a pKa (in H2O) scale. Values are taken from the wonderful Evans/Ripin & Hans Reich resources. If you want a table, I recommend these. This was an attempt at a more visual representation of the data Enjoy

A visualisation of the pKa scale of some common organic molecules in water. Original values taken from Dave Evans, DH Ripin & Hans Reich but all mistakes are my own. The landscape version

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10/03/2025

Died #OTD 1928 Lydia Maria DeWitt: a pathologist who studied tuberculosis. She looked for dyes that would penetrate tuberculous lesions, especially dyes incorporating metal atoms such as copper, gold and mercury. She also worked hard to encourage women in scientific research #ChemSky #WomenInScience

This is the ONE TIME a large volumetric flask full of blue liquid is an appropriate choice of chemistry image: DeWitt worked with methylene blue (and trypan red)

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Bob Worley @bobthechemist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Helplines asked #CLEAPSS for an alternative to CuO/H₂SO₄ neutralisation reaction salt making for students to make salts. Not easy, but using ed/ox metal/acid reactions uses the same skills. This is iron(II) sulfate made from staples. #ITeachchem #RealTimeChem #chatchemistry

0.25 cm³ of 1M copper sulfate is added to the iron staples and 2 cm³ of 1.5M sulfuric acid It is heated for 10 minutes. Can also use steel paper clips. This is the personal spirit burner (ethanol biofuel) hotplate.

Using filter paper in small-scale chem does not work. Filtering the reaction mixture through cotton wool in a Pasteur pipette. Copper particles and bits of iron are separated from the iron(II) sulfate solution..

Heating the filtered solution for 10 minutes on my personal spirit-burner, bio-fuel, hotplate.

Then leave to cool. The crystals form slowly, which might take longer than a lesson, but the results are very beautiful.

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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

CuCl2, Na2S2O5 🧫🧪⚗️ #Realtimechem #chemsky #STEM #gel #reaction-diffusion #science #systemschemistry

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄 #RealTimeChem 🧪⚗️

Many small orange prismatic crystals in a yellow solution in a thin glass tube against a white background

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Dr Kerry Elgie @kerryasynt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

One of my favourite places to be! @asynt.bsky.social are all set up at the Wilton Centre today. Bringing scale up, #photochemistry, #flowchemistry & #sustainability to the labs. 💚🧪 Thank you to the fabulous members of staff who’ve helped me to set up 🥰 #realtimechem #chemsky

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🔹🔷Fluorite Fluorescence!🔷🔹 George Stokes coined "fluorescence" in 1852 after fluorite, which glows blue under UV light. Fluorite is CaF2. Fluorescence is usually caused by yttrium, europium, or samarium impurities. #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #SciComm

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Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 14/06/2018

These are my kinetic wood sculptures. They are made of processed lignin suspended in solvents. If you shake them they go away for a while and then come back! #selfassembly #antisolvent #lignin #biomass #sciart #RealTimeChem

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Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 20/11/2017

When you've misidentified silver as Si and are given an Ag order. #RealTimeChem

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Jenny Fisher @atmosjennyf.bsky.social · 05/12/2019

Really inspiring hearing @UOW student Lily share her story with a room full of academics. First in family, learning to navigate uni, and it was an environmental chemistry class that hooked her. #ThisisUOW #ecrchat #WomenInSTEM #RealTimeChem

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Dr Nathan Kilah @chemistrynathan.bsky.social · 18/12/2017

Hi #realtimechem folk. I'm looking to add some diversity to my referee suggestions for a chemical demonstration paper (think fire and smoke) for a chem ed journal. Do you have any colleagues that enjoy fireballs from an academic and educational perspective? #diversitymatters

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🔹🔷Crystal blue persuasion!🔷🔹 The brilliant blue fluorescent crystals formed after DNA purification from bacteria & human cells.🧬🦠 #FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #ChemArt #Chemistry #SciArt #SciComm

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Bob Worley @bobthechemist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Watch for the effect of a magnet on the iron/thiocyanate complex. Paramagnetism at work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipp... #ITeachchem #RealTimeChem #chatchemistry @sfed-rsc.bsky.social

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IronIII thiocyanate complex

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Michael Ruggiero @mikerug.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Been off #chemsky for a while doing some #realtimechem. What have I missed 😅🫠😢🤦‍♂️😭

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Probably an indictment of this AI’s garbage physical properties, but our formulation CRO didn’t find a better option than the “thermally-homogenized playground mud” I whipped up in last-minute panic for 2024’s trials. Results were good, though, so I guess I’m making more! #chemsky #RealTimeChem

A gloved hand holds a glass vial 1/4 filled with a brown slurry. A thick, nearly-opaque coating of the brown goop clings to the glass surface above the liquid level.

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Dr Stephen Hendry @drstephenhendry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

📢 Calling all UK undergraduates in the chemical sciences 🧪 Help shape the future of inclusion & diversity by sharing your experiences #RSCSocioeconomicInclusion 📅 The @rsc.org survey closes 10 March 👉 Act Now - Take the survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90795993/... #Time4Chem #RealTimeChem #ChemSky

Who can...

...improve socioeconomic inclusion in the chemical sciences?

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄) This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬 #newPI

A brownish solution in a round bottomed reaction flask, set up for reflux, over a blue hot plate.

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American Chemical Society @acs.org · 10/02/2025

We know the link to our Inclusion & Belonging page was temporarily broken. It was meant to redirect to our new inclusion and belonging page, which aligns with the ACS strategic plan 2025-2029 released on Jan. 1. This has now been corrected, and you can access it here: www.acs.org/about/inclus...

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Excellent explainer by @philipcball.bsky.social on why now more than ever scientists need to resist the logic of "anticipatory obedience" www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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#RealTimeChem @realtimechem.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.

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Megan Keener @meganrkeener.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Using Pu-242 has resulted in some of the best colors I’ve ever seen as a chemist. 🤩 @realtimechem.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov #plutonium #realtimechem #fblockrocks #radiochemistry

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Thomas Swift @swifthom.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Delighted to be hosting Swadhin Chakraborty from IIT Kharagpur in our labs in Bradford. He's visiting us for three months to get some experience making branched polymers - am looking forward to some more exciting collaborations!

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Only by bringing our whole selves to work can we truly thrive. 'Chemistry is Personal' charts my journey as a chemist, the way some of our chemistry intersects with personal experiences, and LGBT+ representation in STEM. This seminar is in Sheffield but also online. Click Prachi's post to sign up!

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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love a reaction you can watch go by eye! #chemsky #realtimechem

A photo of an NMR tube, with a dark brown solid, with some patches of orange present

A photo of an NMR tube, with a dark brown solid, with some much larger patches of orange present compared to the previous photo

A photo of an NMR tube, with mostly an orange solution and some patches of brown solid present

A photo of an NMR tube, with mostly an orange solution and almost no patches of brown solid present

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Erik A. Rodriguez @erin-rod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🎇🧨🎆Waterworks for the Lunar New Year!🎆🧨 I dropped fluorescein in water and rhodamine B in isopropanol into water to visualize miscibility and diffusion. See more at youtube.com/@Focal_Focus #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt #SciComm #RealTimeChem #Chemistry

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Alex Blokhuis @alexblokhuis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

CuSO4, CoCl2, NaOH 🧫🧪⚗️ #chemsky #RealTimeChem #STEM #chemistry #gel #science #reaction-diffusion #systemschemistry

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