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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

My son came home with COVID. I was vaxxed last Saturday. The next few days will be interesting.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Rather depressing to hear the Israeli spokesperson leap straight to a demonstration of the truth of Godwin’s law in their opening reaction to #NaviPillay ’s Nobel.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

It's been a pretty bonkers week which including touching the third rail with some very senior people, trying to keep teaching on the rails, and spending quality time with three of the finest gentlemen from UCL Estates I have the privilege of working with - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Glyn Barrow, Marek Rutkowski and Richard Frost looking at AHU01 that serves XLG2 and realising that the pressure sensor has failed.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

What a superb rebuke to Trump, who is determined to make the U.S. a wholly lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

On BBC world service in 12 minutes to talk about chieality. Now 11 minutes… 😜

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Beware. If you are looking for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film "Naza" based on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers, that is currently in film festivals and cinemas, you won't find it online. Instead you will find the IDF's "Naza - The True Story" that presents a very different picture of […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Have just had both 'flu and COVID jabs this morning, one per arm. The COVID jab was half a ml… Let the immune system kick in and do its funky stuff.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

And we're off! #UCLChemAirPoll is off to the races with 250 students, 33 schools and 67 primary school classes scattered right across the London. First class to explain the ideas and to get our students to think about how to deliver a lesson in a primary […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A map of London showing this year's schools that we will be visiting.

A diffusion tube attached to a lamp-post in Camden.

A collage of photos showing one of the lessons taking place in a classroom in a beautiful Victorian school somewhere in London.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Today is the 172±3 birthday (allowing for my faulty arithmetic) of William Ramsay, the Scottish-born chemist who discovered the final column of the periodic table starting with Ar, then isolating He on earth, and uncovering Ne Kr and S, and finally, with one of his last students, he determined […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Esther Rantzen. Remarkable woman. A life well-lived.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

UCL East Lunch Houre Lecture Oct 21 with the art historian Nick Robbins about William Ramsay: The Man, The Gas, and the Bicycle. We'll try to frame the discovery of neon it both in terms of science, art/culture generally, and geopolitics as neon moved from curiosity to metaphor and to industrial […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Why the hell did I not know that "Uncle" Jim Al-Khalili is this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer! These are going to be great and very <ahem> timely! www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures

Screenshot of the RI website for the Christmas lecturers showing Professor Jim and his shining pate, with an hour glass there to hint at the topic.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I'll be on BBC World Service's Weekend programme from 06:30 UK time tomorrow morning (Sunday). I've just been through the 2 1/2 hours with the editor. It's going to be an unexpectedly varied thing. Lots to talk about: music, the UN, East Africa, Afghanistan, mountain climbing and sheep. As usual […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In the Gods at the Royal Institution waiting for Carlo Rovelli to see what all the excitement is about….kick off in 3 mins.

The Faraday lecture theatre seen from above.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

OMG! This is brilliant. The King of Citizen Science, @mhaklay.bsky.social, who catalyzed my idea for #UCLChemAirPoll is now bridged across to Mastodon. I strongly recommend you follow him if you are interested in harnessing people power to gather data to change the world. #citizenscience […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

KLAXON: We are recruiting for our #AirPollution project We are sending first year undergraduates into Year 5 and 6 classes across London to talk about air pollution and measure NOx pollution. If you know of an interested school, get in touch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A picture from the lab showing the calibration solutions used in the determination of how much NOx each tube has collected while the tube was open to the air in London.

A diffusion tube attached to a Camden lamp-post collecting NOx.

Four students in a primary school classroom getting children to think about what makes up air.

A black and white map marked with locations around a London school where the plan is to put diffusion tubes.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Tonight is my last as course organizer of CHEM001x, that I've taught on for about 30 years (all but one section…) and run for at least 25. It's been my sandpit for trying things out, and about 10,000 students have taken the module. It brings me delight to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The opening slide of the CHEM001x handout 2025/6 with a diagram of a membrane with a protein embedded within it and a cartoon of people queuing for "Answers" the road forking between "simple but wrong" and "complex but right". Most people heading to the former.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Experimental scientist! Does anyone know how to service one of the Swagelok SS-4H bellows valves?I’ve got one that leaks and am wondering if I can strip it down a replace the seal. Anyone done this?

Side view of a Swagelok bellows valve with a green handle

Top view of a steel valve with a green handle emblazoned with company name.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

It's raining. I'm a cyclist and I endorse this message.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I suspect that this will prove to be a rare violation of @ianbetteridge ’s Law of headlines. From the FT.

FT headline:
Driverless vehicles - Will robotaxis clog up Britain's cities?

Autonomous vehicles present a new challenge for those trying to reduce urban congestion

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

"In the UK you can harass a Black professor to death, but you can’t protest a genocide". screenshot from x.com/AidanSimardone/status/2088484… #ukpol #gaza #genocide #JasonArday #Arday

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Have any academics out there received official emails from your senior “management” about the appalling Arday affair? I’m curious about the tone struck in the message, whether there were any hints of wider empathy, any intellectual engagement/analysis of the current situation, any use of […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Now this is what a Public Service Broadcaster should be doing! Worth the license fee right there. (Apologies for the offensive photograph)

BBC seeks to
subpoena Trump's
family members in
Panorama

The BBC has sought to subpoena members of Donald Trump's family for documents and testimony as it defends against the US president's $10bn (£7.4bn) defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

"I designed an amazing self-driving mini-robot and to test it out I asked it to fetch me a soda. It had no way to open the fridge but I programed it to never give up... so, after two weeks of ramming into the wall (which I did not notice) it broke into my neighbor's apartment as they also have […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I finally screwed up the courage to get my eclipses done. And my friend Stefano U liked the results. #eclipse #phoarr #hot #enhanced

Two bald men, one projecting two images of the eclipse onto his chest using binoculars, the other pointing at the impressive pair.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I have just received an email announcing that, at last, the problems with our Department’s loos have finally been solved. It turns out that persons unknown poured “a cement like substance” down the soil stack. Perhaps our materials chemists have been busy trying to do a mash up with the soft […]

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

funny how that works

@omgsidewalks
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@eliothiggins.bsky.social Turth! At last, Eliot, we have a word for the stuff he spews. A mix of Turds and Froth.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026

Two thirds of all the climate impacts we experience comes from fossil fuel combustion that produced energy that was NEVER USED BY PEOPLE. It was dumped as waste heat and noise, because the conversion process is so comically inefficient that is inherently funny, and fossil fuels are inherently silly

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Trump's insecurities and narcissism are just spilling out all over his Turth Social media account at the moment.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Well fancy that. From FT: “The non-dom population remained broadly unchanged . . . suggesting many internationally mobile individuals chose to stay rather than make immediate decisions about relocating,” he added.

FT headline: “Data suggest fears of non-sim exodus overblown”

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Dr. Non Linear @tswaterman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

if you don't take the time to maintain it, it will make the time for you

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Message for the day – Commit a random act of maintenance! Listen to it, look at it, wipe it, clean it, lube it, brush it, tighten it, grease it, turn it, check it, test it, sweep it, mop it, paint it, tape it, sand it, tweak it, tune it, adjust it, wash it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Fight entropy! Commit a random act of maintenance today.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Tady Pogacar is a bloody show off! (you can watch TdF live on C4S with commentary in Welsh)!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s a great time to be alive for people who enjoy watching the world burn, sometimes literally. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

Two beachgoers sit side by side in lawn chairs under a colorful umbrella, watching a massive wildfire rage and fill the sky with thick smoke across the water.

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