It's not everyday you see @jacs.acspublications.org referenced on @richardosman1.bsky.social House of Games!
Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴
@chemistcraig.bsky.social
Former academic chemist 🧑🏻🔬 Now working on the energy transition, specifically international innovation in green power⚡♻️
2 trips in 3 weeks! Will be in China next week to talk about clean power R&D at the Mission Innovation Green Power Innovation Conference (GPIC-3). Will have a roundtable discussion with Nature journals too! 🤓 #energysky #renewableenergy
Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴@chemistcraig.bsky.social · 11mo agoDressing *smart* to represent the UK at the 30th Executive Committee meeting of ISGAN - the International #SmartGrid Action Network - in Dublin last week 🇮🇪 19 of 27 member countries came together to discuss global collaboration on the fundamental R&D needed for our future electricity systems ⚡💡
Not according to the Birmingham city centre which started the construction of the German Christmas Market on October 1st, and it'll finished within days 🙃 Bah humbug 😠 (until December)
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 11mo agoI, for one, welcome the increased commercialisation of Halloween in Britain, as it at least acts as a firewall to stop retailers jamming Christmas down our throats in October.
Dressing *smart* to represent the UK at the 30th Executive Committee meeting of ISGAN - the International #SmartGrid Action Network - in Dublin last week 🇮🇪 19 of 27 member countries came together to discuss global collaboration on the fundamental R&D needed for our future electricity systems ⚡💡
Does everyone *actually* hate the new Taylor Swift album? Or are people just being haters for the sake of the algorithm, to drive traffic towards their pick-me "content"?
In honour of October, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Final product NMR dropped
Debbie Gale Mitchell@heydebigale.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn honor of October, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: you sealed an EPR tube with liquid oxygen. You will find out in 3, 2, 1... 😱
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - per IEA Renewables 2025 report You absolutely love to see it ⚡ #EnergySky #climate #Renewables www.bbc.com/news/article...
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
bbc.com
You ever go out to a pub/club and get the impression the DJ is actively trying to make the patrons leave? That's happened to me & my friends the last 2 Fridays in a row in the same place. Probably never going back 🙃
Went to see Lewis Capaldi in Birmingham the other night and the best video is this one of him messing up the lyrics 🤣
It sometimes bugs me that "Greenhouse Gas" is given the acronym "GHG". It's not Green House Gas... But then I remember that POSYTYF exists 🥴
There will also be a roundtable discussion with some folks over at Nature, including @natenergy.nature.com and @natrevcleantech.nature.com Should be super interesting! 🤓
Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴@chemistcraig.bsky.social · 12mo agoI'll be heading to China next month to attend the joint Green Power Innovation Conference and Applied Energy Symposium. Many academics and policy folks will be there to discuss advancements in clean energy R&D. Read more here: applied-energy.org/rem2025/index #energysky #greensky #energytransition
There will also be a roundtable discussion with some folks over at Nature, including @natenergy.nature.com and @natrevcleantech.nature.com Should be super interesting! 🤓
Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴@chemistcraig.bsky.social · 12mo agoI'll be heading to China next month to attend the joint Green Power Innovation Conference and Applied Energy Symposium. Many academics and policy folks will be there to discuss advancements in clean energy R&D. Read more here: applied-energy.org/rem2025/index #energysky #greensky #energytransition
I'll be heading to China next month to attend the joint Green Power Innovation Conference and Applied Energy Symposium. Many academics and policy folks will be there to discuss advancements in clean energy R&D. Read more here: applied-energy.org/rem2025/index #energysky #greensky #energytransition
Going to Dublin (4 days) and China (5 days + travel time) for work next month, with 1 week in between, and I'm tired just thinking about this 😭 I can never sleep on planes 😢
I hear this all the time when people try to "sell" cricket. If your selling point of the sport is the drinking and a load of other stuff that *isn't* watching, then that is quite literally the opposite of a spectator sport. I'll stick to *watching* football and rugby, thanks very much.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 12mo agoCricket is, by far, the best spectator sport. It's basically just a beer garden with sport happening somewhere in the background. Watch, don't watch, have a stroll around, eat, talk, it doesn't matter. A brilliant day out.
THIS THISSSSSSSS The main street in Birmingham is an auditory (and visual) hellhole! 😣
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 12mo agoStreet performing, public speaking or preaching are all fine as long as no amplification is involved. Microphones and amps are for increading the volume of sound that people paid to hear or at least wanted to hear. Go acoustic or piss off.
Me: *forwards my own meeting invitation to additional attendees* Outlook: YOUR MEETING INVITATION WAS JUST FORWARDED Me:
a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .
ALT: a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
Our recent preprint, “Exploiting a Cryptic Pocket in DsbA Through Structure-Guided Parallel Synthesis and Direct-to-Biology Screening,” is now available on ChemRxiv. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Exploiting a Cryptic Pocket in DsbA Through Structure-Guided Parallel Synthesis and Direct-to-Biology Screening
Antibacterial resistance is a major global health problem, causing an increasing number of deaths worldwide. DsbA, a bacterial oxidoreductase enzyme, is pivotal for the correct folding and activity of...
chemrxiv.org
I go to pub quizzes with friends regularly, and every single time a 'science and nature' round comes up, without fail, they turn and look at me. I'm tired of explaining that I don't have a PhD in THE ENTIRETY OF SCIENCE. It's not even all of chemistry 😭
Elinne Becket, PhD@bielleogy.bsky.social · last yr.👇 All of this 👇
It's 2025 and for years now I've been able to track my Uber's exact journey to know when it's arriving. Yet I still have to stand for 15 minutes watching the mile-long road for a bus that the tracker claims left 2 mins ago 🙄
People who go to the gym in the AM... HOW?! And I don't just mean the 6am crowd. I struggle if I go at the start of the day, as if my body simply hasn't woken up yet.
Update: apparently this person sees the red squiggly error lines under the words and thinks "must be correct!" 🤣
Dr Craig 'not Creg' Fraser 🏴@chemistcraig.bsky.social · last yr.SERIOUSLY?! HOW HARD COULD IT POSSIBLY BE TO SPELL CRAIG?!
SERIOUSLY?! HOW HARD COULD IT POSSIBLY BE TO SPELL CRAIG?!