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Robert Palgrave

@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
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Professor of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at UCL. Director of UK National XPS Service.

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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)
A table comparing the computational power of HPC and a furnace
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British Crystallographic Association @crystallography.org.uk · 15/04/2025
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social delivers the PCG plenary lecture at #BCA25 "The role of AI in materials discovery"
Robert Palgrave lecturing on the role of AI in materials discovery
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is why everyone falls in love with solid state chemistry - first year lab straight out of Harry Potter
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nice visit to the European Commission to discuss AI in materials!
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The UK National XPS Service now on bluesky!
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hey it's 2025 so here's a version of our Lattice paper as a AI generated trance track suno.com/song/a512663...
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Lattice by @xpsbeats | Suno
[Spoken, Synthwave, Trance, Heavy Trap Drums, Dubstep Breaks, Neon Vocals, Retro Futuristic, trance] song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
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Safia | صفية @finetraces786.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I feel like it is important to share that once @cesapo.bsky.social and I asked Fraser Stoddart what his favorite swearword was, and his wholesome voice he said, “nincompoop.” 🥲 #Chemsky
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Twitter is getting really really weird x.com/jlippincott_...
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Lord Toby Young has posted a rehashing of the "CO2 is saturated" meme. It sounds plausible, and some eminent scientists believed it back in history. But we've known for 100 years that the atmosphere isn't saturated with CO2 And one very simple observation shows it beyond doubt.
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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
😬😬😬
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Another amazing SSCG Christmas Meeting at the University of Birmingham comes to an end, a fascinating range of talks as usual and great to catch up with many friends. Congrats to the organisers! Can't wait for next year!
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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Rob Palgrave (@robertpalgrave.bsky.social) from UCL kicking off the morning after the night before of #SSCGXmas with a talk on the (structural) chemistry of halide perovskites #chemsky
Ghosts of SSCGXmas meetings pastPerovskite tolerance factorsSay something here about AI
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
How you know Christmas has really begun: start of the RSC Solid State Chemistry Christmas Meeting at University of Birmingham
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
So, as a new member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, I've been tasked with looking into workforce development. So I'd like to ask you #chemsky peeps how you learned about crystallography? Reply and retweet, I wanna hear from as many of you as possible!
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a large diamond is surrounded by blue water on a black background .
Alt: a large diamond is surrounded by blue water on a black background .
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I never normally do this - but got this review today on a paper about XPS fitting of some very topical compounds that literally every paper in the field gets wrong
Reviewer 2: "I do agree that many papers can be found with bad XPS fits, this is not specific to [this material] but a problem for the field as a whole.... There are estimates that more than half of the published XPS data has significant faults (DOI: 10.1063/5.0086359 . But this is not a topic suitable to [moderate JIF journal in materials chemistry].”
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Aisha Mumtaz @aishamumtaz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Next up... XPS themed biscuits for my visit to Harwell 🤓🍪🧪 #Chemsky
Giant biscuit in the centre shaped as an XPS spectrometer. Square shaped biscuits designed as the harwellxps logo and small circle shaped biscuits designed as electrons around it. The biscuits are brown decorated with blue, green, white and black icing.Two square shaped biscuits with the harwell xps logo. Both are blue and green in the background. The left one has the logo design in black while the right one has it in white
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Just casually strolling past the Ministry of Truth
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Major announcement from Microsoft, their machine learning matter simulator is now available
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cory D with an important point about the future of bluesky... It's gonna get enshittified and nothing can stop it doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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Bluesky and enshittification
No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today I realised some charities are buying Google ads on other charities web searches, so they appear at the top of the search and presumably steal traffic. Is that really necessary?
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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The ChemisTree is up! It is officially festive season in the Turner Lab. Can you guess the molecule on top of the tree?
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
UCL quad looks best on a crisp winter day
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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Kicking off our new Bluesky account with news about the world's thinnest spaghetti created by a team including @clancylab.bsky.social. Eco-friendly nanofibers for smart bandages to help bone regeneration. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
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Chemists create world’s thinnest spaghetti
The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team.
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Aisha Mumtaz @aishamumtaz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Previous years of chemistry themed biscuits for my research group/collaborators. Any ideas for what to do this year?? #chemsky
Chemistry themed biscuits in the shapes of beakers, conical flasks and benzene in different colours (red, green and blue).Personalised chemistry themed biscuits for members of my research lab. The biscuits are all cut in square shapes and are decorated in purple, green and red icing. A lot of them have different chemical structures of organic molecules drawn on them.Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of benzene arranged to make two helicenes that are mirror images of each other. Chocolate biscuits with white icing to draw the double bonds.Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of lab coats each personalised with names of members in my research group and chemistry related inside jokes.
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
What on earth? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn
The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by h…
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Robert Palgrave @robertpalgrave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
So happy to be on this platform away from dogma and intolerance.... My only worry, what if the crystallographers follow us?!? 🤣 (Just joking, all blue skies from here...)
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