Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 6hOne week today, let's see if I (kinda) go 2 for 2 on #chemnobel... 2155
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 31/08/2026I had the privilege of sitting next to Prof. Yonath at lunch during a two-day symposium (in Namur I think). She told the best stories… such a loss #chemsky 0141
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 31/08/2026You bastard, @iandunt.bsky.social - making me spend more money on books… 3151
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 27/08/2026So, to remember the names of the Great Lakes, it’s no longer HOMES, but SHAME. How appropriate 😂 070
Reposted by Stu CantrillAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147402818
Reposted by Stu CantrillThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Ha ha! Discuss. Legislation www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0...legislation.gov.ukA Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour (1313)A STATUTE forbidding Bearing of ARMOUR 2724073
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 01/07/2026I do love this representation of #WorldCup matches, but it’s giving me nightmarish flashbacks of redrawing dendrimers in ChemDraw… 😱 #Chemsky 1200
Reposted by Stu CantrillCERN @cern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026François Englert (1932 – 2026) It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93. Read more: home.cern/francois-eng... 210943
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 17/06/2026That's at least 2 journals I've now seen on social media celebrating their impact factor of 0.something... A good day to drag up this post: stuartcantrill.com/2016/01/23/i...stuartcantrill.comImperfect impactThe problems with impact factors are well known – I could give you a long list of things to read that explain why, but just start with this blog post from Stephen Curry and go from there. I have a … 1115
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 17/06/2026'In a binary world' from @natphys.nature.com This is fascinating!! 'These issues are not merely academic curiosities; rockets have fallen from the skies as a result of inattentive digital representations of numbers' www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemsky 🧪nature.comIn a binary world - Nature PhysicsThe International System of Units is defined in terms of seven physical constants. Ensuring that computers can understand their values exactly as we do is not as trivial as it might seem, say Cristhia... 040
Reposted by Stu CantrillJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026From one of the many PR emails I'm getting about the government social media ban. Obviously this is from someone selling this technology. But stop to think about just how utterly dystopian this is: *constant* video surveillance of all online activity, for everyone. 41855321
Reposted by Stu CantrillBarbara Ciani @drbciani.bsky.social · 14/06/2026...and during these challenging moments the community comes together in support of each other. Thank you to everyone that is signing our Open Letter in support of Chemistry at Sheffield, Nottingham Chemistry and Physics. savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.app nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/savesheffieldchemistry.netlify.appAn Open Letter 031
Reposted by Stu CantrillPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12/06/2026BTW Vanta black is not actually the blackest black ever. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comBlack diamonds - Nature MaterialsNature Materials - Black diamonds 182
Reposted by Stu CantrillBarbara Ciani @drbciani.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I am lost for words at what is happening at Sheffield and other Universities. If you think you adding your contribution can help, please sign. 053
Reposted by Stu CantrillAlex Duff @duffofbrentford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you only want to read 2 paragraphs of World Cup media today, here they are: Via tompeck.bsky.social 1116
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 10/06/2026Except the @royalsociety.org because they are 100% behind everything M*sk does. Well, I assume that’s the case until they say otherwise. 1193
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 10/06/2026📣 Calling all chemists/catalysis peeps! 📖 Ever considered working in scientific publishing as an editor? ✅ If yes, @natcatal.nature.com is hiring! 📍Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune 📅 Deadline: July 12 🙏 Reposts appreciated 🧪 #Chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comAssociate or Senior Editor, Nature CatalysisTitle: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Catalysis Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan and Pune – hybrid working model Application Deadline: July 12, 2026 (Candidates will be considered as they apply... 01019
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 02/06/2026"...there are also broad prohibitions against any use of federal funds for collaboration with a whole list of countries, starting with China. Any use at all – paper publication charges, travel, reagents, doesn’t matter." Yikes! The continued dismantling of US science... #Chemsky 🧪 3167
Reposted by Stu CantrillScott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Even Neil Garg’s cyclic allenes are like … Ummm no thank you 0121
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 02/06/2026One for #Chemsky! Congrats @profdaveleigh.bsky.social 👑 (couldn't find a sash, so a crown will have to do 😉) 0161
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 28/05/2026I mean, this cover doesn't fill me with confidence... 3180
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 21/05/2026The ad includes 'chemical physics', so I'm gonna go ahead and flag to #Chemsky just in case... 062
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 19/05/2026"But most of those in authority would not accept there had been any such disaster, let alone inquire why it had happened" #ContaminatedBlood #NotAnAccidentnews.sky.comInfected blood inquiry chair says scandal 'not like other disasters' during memorial serviceA memorial service was held in St Paul's Cathedral to remember those affected by the infected blood scandal. 044
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 12/05/2026Want to stay close to science, but you've decided the lab isn't right for you? Have you considered a career in editorial? Well, if you have a background in biomedical engineering or biomaterials (or materials science more generally - see linked ad) then your next job could be at Nature Materials!springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comAssociate or Senior Editor, Nature MaterialsJob Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Materials Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Milan or Pune - hybrid working model Application Deadline: June 2nd, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is... 11615
Reposted by Stu CantrillGeoff Hutchison @geoffhutchison.net · 11/05/2026I heard this evening about the passing of Mark Ratner #chemsky Mark was many things - a scientist, an educator, a mentor - a mensch - in all the meanings He always said that the best thing about science were the people that do it. 4334
Reposted by Stu CantrillYamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Pro-tip: Before I submit my proposal, I read it again, but after 2 glasses of wine on an empty stomach. Places where it isn't totally clear to you in that state, it not going to be clear to the reviewer. Edit that bit. 4609
Reposted by Stu CantrillThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/04/2026Growing knowledge, growing yield: British wine-making comes of agetheguardian.comGrowing knowledge, growing yield: British wine-making comes of ageChanging climate, new techniques and a homegrown study programme have all helped drive a UK viticulture boom 1414
Reposted by Stu CantrillNonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This is WILD (& microbes rock 🎸) “These findings […] revealing a protein-templated mechanism for sequence-specific DNA synthesis.” Take that, central dogma! 🧪 “Protein-templated synthesis of dinucleotide repeat DNA by an antiphage reverse transcriptase” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgScience | AAAS 3247
Reposted by Stu CantrillMichael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more 10836320
Reposted by Stu CantrillNature Reviews Computing @natrevcomputing.nature.com · 16/04/2026Nature Reviews Computing, which will publish leading Review-type articles from all of computer science and its applications, is now open for proposal submissions! 💻 While most of our content is commissioned, we welcome proposals too. Find out more here: go.nature.com/4sYJodc 075
Reposted by Stu CantrillNature Mechanical Engineering @natmecheng.nature.com · 13/04/2026🚀 Nature Mechanical Engineering is now open for submissions!🚀 We aim to provide a highly impactful platform for mechanical engineers across the full breadth to publish and discuss the most significant advances within the community. Join us and submit your work today! go.nature.com/41m4syn 042
Reposted by Stu CantrillCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 13/04/2026Thank you #NobelLaureate Jack Szostak for sharing these thoughts, which many US scientists and physicians resonate with newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-nobel...newsletter.ofthebrave.orgI’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America. 110937
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 12/04/2026Prepping wine for dinner later (celebrating another trip around the sun). This wine is made from grapes picked a few months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Put in bottle early in 1976, it’s been there for 50 years - until today. #jura #jurawine #vinjaune #chateauchalon 11281
Reposted by Stu CantrillErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 09/04/2026“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.” 58837
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 09/04/2026I mean, some of the physical chemistry papers used to read to me like they were written in Klingon… <ducks in case @nchemgav.bsky.social throws something> 😂 080
Reposted by Stu CantrillDutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026It’s not even satire….👏👏👏 15408195
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 07/04/2026Three of the last 6 bottles of wine I’ve bought are Rieslings - including this one, and no, I didn’t buy it because it’s almost like ‘Jura’; although one of the Rieslings was vinified in the Jura (from Alsace grapes)… 🙂 070
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 04/04/2026Well this is a delightful little story about how the penalty shootout came about and what may well have been the first official one... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukLooking back at when football introduced penalty shootoutsNo-one knew what to expect at football's first official penalty shootout - and no-one wanted to go down in history as the first to miss. 012
Reposted by Stu CantrillBoston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026It's a talent for a newspaper or a journalist to make oneself more ridiculous than the utter ridiculousness of the story being covered 3335
Reposted by Stu CantrillDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026It must suck when your copyright is stolen. Oh, wait... 👀 418135
Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 30/03/2026Fancy a career in scientific publishing? We're looking for an Associate/Senior Editor with expertise in device engineering to join the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team. Can be based in Shanghai or Pune. Closing date: April 15th. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu... 0310
Reposted by Stu Cantrillcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2026in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing 4277022003
Reposted by Stu CantrillJason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI. 7629301044
Reposted by Stu CantrillNature Chemical Engineering @natchemeng.nature.com · 10/03/2026Our latest Editorial examines the need for both feasibility assessments and technical innovations to advance emerging technologies such as CCUS. It's also part of our new Collection on CCUS technologies, which you can find here: nature.com/collections/... #ChemSky www.nature.com/articles/s44...nature.comThe future of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies - Nature Chemical EngineeringCarbon capture, utilization and storage technologies have attracted substantial attention as a potential approach to climate mitigation. In this Editorial, we examine the need for both feasibility ass... 011