Amy Price
@amynprice.bsky.social
Broom McIntyre Fellow in School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews; key research interests include low coordinate f-element complexes and main group chemistry
Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social (doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers." What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals. Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪 via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
Berkelium snared in organometallic trap
Organometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created
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Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.
#IneedAltText I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩🔬
Jake Yeston@jakeyeston.bsky.social · last yr.In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here! chemsky🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄 #RealTimeChem 🧪⚗️
Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone: touchgrass.now
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We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men. Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
Women, Men, And Meritocracy: A Scientific Perspective
Will the current backlash against diversity and inclusion boost or harm meritocracy?
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First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄) This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre 🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI
Today is the international day for women and girls in science. This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go. #womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
science.org
oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻🔬
"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions." #WomenInSTEM
Women in Science – a work in progress - Bylines Scotland
On The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, equality and inclusivity are still works in progress
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Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...
What works to attract and retain people into R&D careers
gov.uk
Privilege is not all inclusive. You might have experienced privilege in one or more areas, while being under resourced in others. Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it
Went looking for fossils on our local beach (a known site for fossils), and found an ancient fossil of a tree stump and a root, I think from a lepidodendron from the Carboniferous era. ⚗️ 🧪
We have two openings for PDRAs working in iron catalysis for organic synthesis as part of a funded EPSRC Fellowship. Applicants with strong backgrounds in inorganic synthesis and organometallic chemistry are strongly encouraged to apply. Link below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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I am advertising a fully funded chemistry PhD scholarship in my group at @aucklanduni.bsky.social to study titanium catalysts attached to sold supports. For more details see: tinyurl.com/FalconerPhD Please repost and share! #chemsky #inorganicchemistry #PhD #PhDscholarship #catalysis #greenchem
Rosalyn Falconer on LinkedIn: Doctor of Philosophy PhD
A fully funded PhD scholarship is available in the Falconer Group in the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland, researching catalysts…
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Reading the paper in Cell about how to close the scissor plots in gender representation at senior academic positions, I feel just a touch of pessimism. Having reached a level of seniority (middle management) I didn’t think I ever would, I read these great ideas wanting more, much more /1.
Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia
Gender inequality in STEM fields remains pervasive and undermines the ability for talented individuals to excel. Despite advances, women still encounter obstacles in pursuing academic careers and reac...
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