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Stephen Potts

@stephenepotts.bsky.social
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Associate Professor (Teaching) in Chemistry. 👨‍🔬 Oenophile. 🍷 Views are my own. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (He/him/his)

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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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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Hello London! Our annual #UCLChemAirPoll project lives again. 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]
The calibration solutions used to quantify the amount of NOx collected in each diffusion tube lined up, ready for measurement during the analysis stage of the determination. Each beaker contains solutions of different shades of pink. Two of our students presenting a lesson in a school in Hackney. A home-made diffusion tube attached to a lamp post near Gillespie Primary School in Islington.
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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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UCL researchers awarded Royal Society of Chemistry prizes
Professor Helen Hailes and Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero (both UCL Chemistry) have been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of their exceptional research advancing chemical sciences.
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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And so it begins. #garden #strawberry
Four strawberries on a wooden counter.
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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Misheard lyrics.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Each edition of Question Time should have a Susie Dent type fact-checking expert at a separate desk with a big pile of books, pointing out the lies of the last panelist.
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UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences @uclmaps.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#Chemistry takes centre stage as the department celebrates #UCL200! 🧪🎭 www.youtube.com/shorts/L2_mf... @uclchemistry.bsky.social took us from Victorian London to World War 2, to the 1970s and to present day, marking major scientific discoveries and brilliant minds that have shaped the department 👏
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#Chemistry takes centre stage as the department celebrates #UCL200! 🧪🎭
YouTube video by UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 11/02/2026
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨ #UCL200 #LoveUCL
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 04/07/2025
A year of Labour: a welfare disaster in the headlines, but is the big picture being missed? Stephen McNair takes a look at what Starmer’s government has done (and what still threatens to undo it). @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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Labour’s first year: what has Starmer really achieved?
Labour’s first year in power has ended with humiliation over welfare reform. But has the focus on that issue drowned out some real achievements?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The ECHR is vital - and we're campaigning to save it. Please do sign this petition to get on board with our activities (at European Movement UK). 👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
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Adam Clancy @clancylab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Only 19 days left to apply for the UCL Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship (=Assist Prof). A great tenured job in a country not actively decimating its academic research landscape🇬🇧 Others have shared the advert, so instead let me introduce your amazing potential future colleages #Chemsky #chemjobs
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Academic Staff
We have a diverse and international faculty engaged in a broad spectrum of research, we promote excellence and strive to inspire through challenging teaching.
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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas. Please share ! Deadline 24-June 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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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Something's growing, my Lord...
Three cucumbers growing on a vine in a greenhouse.
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David Palomas @davidpalomas.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#chemsky 🧪
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Adam Clancy @clancylab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I you (a) like really fancy AFM, (b) like 2D nanomaterials, and/or (c) need a PDRA job in the near future, then boy do I have good news for you. Advert is now open for an 18 month PDRA position in my group in UCL, London. Closing date 20th May, informal email inquiries encouraged #chemsky #nanosky
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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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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
There have historically been good reasons for not doing this, but we are getting to the point where we might now be better off with basic competency tests for potential parliamentary candidates. Truss/Kwarteng was a warning shot
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Daniele Castagnolo 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧 @danielecastagnolo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Applications for our MSc in #Sustainable #Chemistry are still open. See the link below to apply and join @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and study #greenchemistry #biocatalysis #biomass #vslorisation #biotechnology www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel...
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Applications for the MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry at UCL are… | Daniele Castagnolo
Applications for the MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry at UCL are still open. If you are interested in tackling the next future global challenges and you want to learn how to make chemistry more ...
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Phil Myers @philmyers53.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The next step: Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union
Given that it has stated its aim of growing the UK economy, we think the Government needs to quantify the effects of exiting the European Union as soon as possible by setting up an inquiry.
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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thinking about doing a masters degree in Chemistry? Applications are still open. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/st... #chemistry #postgraduate
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Unsurprisingly, this petition is racing at pace. 👇👇
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Разом нас багато, нас не подолати! 🇺🇦
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Wow! If anyone wants a perfect example of downright #bullying, look no further. I hope the whole USA is ashamed. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... #Trump tells #Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting - follow live - BBC News
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Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting - follow live
The US president calls his Ukrainian counterpart
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 17/02/2025
Today is #NationalCabbageDay, which is always a good opportunity to remind everyone that red cabbage can be used to make a colourful pH indicator solution! www.compoundchem.com/2017/05/18/r... #ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on making a pH indicator from red cabbage. The indicator can be made by roughly chopping cabbage, boiling, straining, and collecting the liquid. The extract contains anthocyanin pigments which give different colours in solutions of different pH, ranging from red, through purple, to green and yellow.
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Daniele Castagnolo 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧 @danielecastagnolo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Open Day at UCL to talk about our MSc programme in Sustainable Chemistry focused on #greenchemistry #biocatalysis #biomassvalorization #green solvents #biotechnology #sustainability @uclchemistry.bsky.social
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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Really excited to announce this forthcoming symposium from RSC Chemistry Education Research Group. We are looking forward to highlighting and celebrating the amazing work of Dr @aud2526.bsky.social OBE HonFRSC with a symposium in her honour. Registration: forms.office.com/e/pYCZn297em #chemsky
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Teaching Chemistry to Deaf Students: A Symposium in Honour of Dr Audrey Cameron
Dr Audrey Cameron HonFRSC OBE is Chancellor’s Fellow at Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked extensively in d/Deaf education, including lar…
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David Palomas @davidpalomas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚀 Interested in #SustainableChemistry? Join us at our UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening 2025! Discover our MSc in Sustainable Chemistry, visit our state-of-the-art labs, and meet our academics. 📅 12 February 2025, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm 📍 UCL East, London Link to MSc programme: tinyurl.com/3jk5efnm
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UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening 2025
Join us on 12 February for the UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening to discover more about the future-focused ecology programmes offered at UCL's east London campus.
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UCL Chemistry @uclchemistry.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Final-Year UCL Chemistry Students: Your Feedback Needed! Help us improve the university experience by completing the NSS. Take the survey now here: www.thestudentsurvey.com before 30th April. Your voice matters – let’s make the Department of Chemistry even better together!
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Stephen Potts @stephenepotts.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
She certainly doesn't look a-mew-sed.
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David Palomas @davidpalomas.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#chemPhD
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