Elect Dave Leigh as President of the RSC! Honestly cannot think of anyone better suited to this incredibly important job! Vote, and vote now!

Dave Leigh@profdaveleigh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hi folks, I’m on the ballot for President of the @rsc.org. I’m standing because we live in post-truth times where respect for expertise & evidence can no longer be taken for granted. It’s time to push back. If that resonates, RSC members can vote here www.mi-vote.com/secure/rsc 🗳️🙏

We are recruiting! Postdoc positions now open in our laboratory - please come join us in making mechanically interlocked materials for biological applications🧫🛠🔗🧪☘! Applications through advert link below lnkd.in/e7SpdkEQ Please reach out with any informal inquiries or questions 💬

Just out: 2025 Editors’ highlights

A late Christmas gift - our new paper on using dynamic covalent pericyclic reactions to control host-guest chemistry in water has just been accepted in @commschem.nature.com. Massive congrats @mariusgaedke.bsky.social @anjaramstrom.bsky.social @daisypooler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Controlling cyclodextrin host-guest complexation in water with dynamic pericyclic chemistry - Communications Chemistry

Water-soluble macrocycles are useful in drug delivery and other applications, yet controlling their host–guest interactions under physiological conditions remains challenging. Here, the authors employ...

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Two amazing days at #MASC2025 in Milton Keynes with outstanding science and amazing people! Great to see both old and new friends from all over the world! Our team also got not one but two poster prizes - congrats @anjaramstrom.bsky.social and @nicolesdlt.bsky.social - you rock 🤩🍀🥳🎉!

great to see @fschaufelberger.bsky.social present our recent work on our lanthanide chelate rotaxane emitters pioneered by @anjaramstrom.bsky.social! 📡💡 and a sneak peek into the main work of my postdoc too 😉 #MASC2025

Welcome to the lab to our first Warwick PhD student Jack, and master students Nicole (from Uni Heidelberg), as well as Gabriel and Marilyn (MChems). We're so happy to have you all here and wish you lots of fun and productive times in the lab 🍀🎉🦝🤩

RIP Jane Goodall! Amazing scientist, even more amazing human being! Your LEGO avatar watches over me in my office every day ❤️

We were incredibly honored to welcome Dr. Isabel Torres from Mothers in Science to #UniversityofWarwick this week! Dr. Torres presented deeply insightful and frankly quite horrifying studies on the treatment of mothers in academia and how parenthood impacts STEMM careers. Great discussions!!

In beautiful Jyväskylä together with @sgoldup.bsky.social and Fabien Cougnon holding a summer school on mechanically interlocked molecules! Brilliant students, great discussions and fantastic weather as a bonus 🤩🍀.

📣 Call for Abstracts - vMASC 📣 We are currently inviting abstracts from all early-career researchers (Master’s, PhD, PDRA) for oral presentations in 2025/2026 as part of our monthly vMASC seminar series. Submission deadline 📆 18th Aug 2025 Find out more on mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4/vmas...

vMASC Call For Abstracts (for 2025/26)

vMASC Early-Career Seminars: Call for Abstracts The organising committee of the virtual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (vMASC) seminar series are inviting abstracts from all early-career …

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🚨✨We're excited to advertise the first 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for excellence in equality, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (#EDIA).🏆 📅 Apply by September 5th, 2025! 👀Learn more at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed... @rsc-masc.bsky.social #ChemSky #SupramolecularChemistry #WomenInSTEM

MASC/WISC EDIA Award

MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group MASC/WISC EDIA Award MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group WISC: Women In Supramolecular Chemistry…

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This is one of those true jawdropping moments in science - absolutely crazy cool work from Michael and team 🤩

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control. Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

Our collection on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules is now online @commschem.nature.com ! Wonderful working on this with @jbernicano.bsky.social Serena and Victoria! Lots of very interesting content in the final collection, please have a look if you are into interlocked molecules and materials😄

Communications Chemistry@commschem.nature.com · last yr.

Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors @fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content. www.nature.com/collections/...

Amazing summer socials this week with group members from both Warwick and KTH! Highlights included a tour of the Leamington Elephant Bath and ET graffiti, cocktail by the river and of course tons of science chats 🍀🧪🧬. Just the best bunch of people ever #luckyPI

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We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #chemsky

Research Fellow - School of Chemistry - 105878 - Grade 7

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

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I am taking part in the #FathersWhoCare campaign, organised by @mothersinsci.bsky.social. This will amplify the voices of men who are redefining fatherhood in the STEM workplace. There is a free webinar about caregiving and inclusive workplaces - sign up here: www.mothersinscience.com/scimomchats

In addition to her paper being accepted (see other post), @anjaramstrom.bsky.social is also now on bluesky 🤩🎉🍀! Give her a follow if you like cool rotaxanes, there's some incredibly stuff from her brewing in the lab at the moment

Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie... Massive congratulations Anja, @daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃 Thread below --》

Massive congrats to Anja for her poster prize at @ismsc2025. Very proud supervisor, you're doing incredible work Anja🎉🥳🎊

Job Alert 📢📢📢 Systems chemistry lab is hiring! We are looking for motivated candidates to do a PhD with us. It will be on the effect of (large) aggregation on chemical reaction networks, more details here: systemschemistry-lab.chimie.unistra.fr/vacancies/. Repost very much appreciated 🙏

Heinrich Baumhauer’s 3D periodic table from 1870 may soon come to life as a Lego playset, if a Spanish scientist's 'Periodic Tower of Elements' bid comes to fruition. #ChemSky

Campaign launched to get Lego periodic table playset out there

Spanish scientist wants people to vote for his spiral table to get Lego to bring it to life

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Our first photoswitchable channel, controlled by three separate stimuli, is now up on ChemRxiv! tinyurl.com/3m4umy3d - we use fluorinated azobenzenes and a pillar[5]arene core to modulate ion transport using light, pH, and guest, modulating initial rates 170-fold. Collaboration with Wallace Lab@KCL!

New study from the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) revealing the unique challenges resulting from being First Gen (first generation of a family to access Higher Education) in science and showing how these persist at every stage of a career in academia: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Being a first generation university graduate, the impact on a career in science

Being in the first generation to access Higher Education (First Gen) is a barrier to academic success. First Gens face difficulties transitioning into, completing, and attaining competitive grades in ...

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The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help! #ChemSky #ScienceSky

Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines

An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field

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This has filled up rapidly, but we still have a few spots to go for the summer school in Jyväskylä! Registration open until end of this week! Can't wait to join everyone for a fantastic week of MIMs in the gorgeous Finnish summer 🍀

Fredrik Schaufelberger@fschaufelberger.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited to announce this Summer School organised by Fabien Cougnon in beautiful Jyväskylä, where @sgoldup.bsky.social and myself will be leading a course on the topic "Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Properties and Applications" from 4-8 August 2025. Free of charge, but limited to 30 spots.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation on dynamic peptide self-assembly. 📄 Full position ad: bit.ly/4jAIrmg 📅 Application deadline: May 31, 2025 #Postdoc #ChemistryJobs #SystemsChemistry #AcademicJobs #Freiburg #livMatS

That feeling when you get a chemicals and consumables order to approve from your group. For goods worth 15 000 EUR. And it includes "chocolate horse blood". And urine beakers. And morphine. And then you realise what day it is...😂. Well played team!

Very excited to announce this Summer School organised by Fabien Cougnon in beautiful Jyväskylä, where @sgoldup.bsky.social and myself will be leading a course on the topic "Mechanically Interlocked Molecules: Properties and Applications" from 4-8 August 2025. Free of charge, but limited to 30 spots.