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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Visiting collaborator in Göttingen - an excellent opportunity to see a beautiful cemetery, a resting place of many prominent scientists

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you Synthware, especially your amazing customer expert Anna! Dispatched from Tianjin yesterday afternoon, in my hotel in Beijing next morning! Small souvenirs from China 🇨🇳 Super good price and quality!

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why is thinking about future and deciding what to do and where so difficult 😱

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Happy that I could contribute to this super exciting research! Congratulations Iago and everyone! pubs.acs.org/inocaj/artic...

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Something for cage lovers! A new two-author, co-corresp. paper with @besserchemistry.bsky.social at JACS Au! Here we show the formation of a coordination cage with walls featuring the antiaromatic motif of pentalene. Big thx to my boss for support, freedom and trust 😍 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

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Tetrahedral MII4L6 (M = Fe, Zn) Cages Equipped with Walls Featuring Antiaromatic Pentalene Motifs

Antiaromatic compounds are often difficult to work with due to their relative instability in comparison with aromatic analogues. As a consequence, their application in functional materials remains in ...

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What on Earth is happening to @rsc.org ? First, removing Diamond open access from @chemicalscience.rsc.org , now some stupid graphical changes to the websites that make it hard to see anything? Come on…

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Crazy.I really liked (and this seems to be a common view) ChemSci for being so open to everyone regardless of any finances. @chemicalscience.rsc.org really not a nice move. You have so much money from other new journals where you charge fees, you could have this ONE, FLAGSHIP journal free of charges

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What a good day to watch some big birds 👀

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Installed an automated watering system on my balcony. As exciting as publishing a new paper! 😂

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Family photo in the mountains. What could possibly go wrong?

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Found myself in one of these moments when I need to consult The Bible 😇

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New video. This time we look into processing and structure solution & refinement of a non-problematic structure of an imine. Raw data were deposited online so anyone can have a go with it! youtu.be/FCL4GPPSZIk

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Crystal structure refinement 10. Routine data processing and solving structure of an imine

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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New video: we are collecting data from a sample containing Fe, which gives fluorescence with Cu radiation, and we use energy discirmination option of our Rigaku HypixArc100 detector to filter it. Then, we set up a data collection strategy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwwe...

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Single crystal X-ray diffraction experiment. Data collection. Energy discrimination.

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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That's how my 'crystal' looked like. Air-sensitive sample, esentially dead. But I found that some regions of that... THING have a proper colour, and I was able to center it on a fragment that gave nice diffraction with 84% indexation and solved very nicely!😂 @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In the new video, I show a remote single crystal X-ray diffraction data collection at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social beamline i19. This is part 1, in the part 2 I will show data processing and solving structure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4T0...

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Single crystal X-ray diffraction at Diamond Light Source synchrotron. Part 1. Remote data collection

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Esser group @besserchemistry.bsky.social is happy happy happy 😍 Collecting data on our crystals remotely at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

105 crystals from our group @besserchemistry.bsky.social mounted, frozen and ready for a trip to Diamond!

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Three weeks with this cute boi coming to an end 🥹

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This diffraction pattern is from one of the most exciting structures I got so far. Collected with 'naked' beam at synchrotron, poor res, but solves. The problem is that some atoms in the side-chain are 'missing' and can't really be located with this data quality and possibly a disorder... 😭😭😭

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Super happy that I could contribute to this excellent paper! The holy grail of oligo-porphyrin chemistry was finally made 😍

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Goodbye, Diamond! See you remotely next time! 💎

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The gods of crystallography have been relatively good for us today 💎

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

First-ever preparation of shipping of crystals to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social in our group @besserchemistry.bsky.social is finished! We’ll find out how good my technique was in about two weeks 😄

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Successful collection of a dataset at DESY. Now have one macrocycle crystallised as three different solvatomorphs with different packing!

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Feels so nice when you get a paper to review, you suggest some revisions and then authors introduce them and it all looks so much better! #HappyReviewer P.S. Also decided to reveal my identity in the report in the end. I think it’s fair.

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Checking whether anyone did an experiment I need while writing a paper and finally found it. Reference to a spectrum I was searching for: „Author X, Author Y, PRIVATE COMMUNICATION”. 😅😅😅 How was it even allowed?!

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Struggling with a terrible twin refinement. Everything looks OK during processing and when adding data from second component to the refinement it just doesn’t change almost anything in the R values… 😓 And the dataset is quite good, with nicely separated reflections! #crystallography

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Picked a big boy today. Not bad for something with molecular mass of 2500 😌

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

7h HSQC on a compound that gives signals with height half of the solvent’s 13C satellites and it looks good! 😌

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

… and here the Team Ulm @uniulm.bsky.social risking their own (dry) lifes at #ISMSC2025

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My research during the 1st year of PhD:

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Okay that’s one nice looking column! I wonder what is the violet thingie 👀

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fingers crossed for Justyna Steczkowska! I wasn't really following Eurovision in the previous years but they finally chose someone who can actually sing! 🇵🇱 #Eurovision2025

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It's a routinely generated thing but feels nice anyway. Btw i really enjoy peer-reviewing manuscripts so you know, Editors 👀

Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

That crystal looks rather hot 🥵

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Wojtek Stawski @stawskiwojtek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A small adventure by the Baltic Sea in Poland, I even managed to find a relatively rare jellyfish (cyanea capillata)! 🪼