The Department Celebration begins! Here's @clairecarmalt.bsky.social ready to welcome all our staff and students to the new academic year!

Happy first day of the new academic year. Fantastic to welcome all the new undergraduate chemistry students to the department @uclchemistry.bsky.social this morning. Looking forward to meeting all the new postgraduate students later today!

What a lovely way to spend the evening seeing all our @uclchemistry.bsky.social students graduate. Lots of happy faces, clapping & great views from the Royal Festival Hall. Nearly 20K steps done due to the underground strike but it was worth it 🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

We are excited to announce details for the upcoming USIC & Scottish Dalton conference on the 28th and 29th of August at the University of Strathclyde. We have lectures from invited speakers @clairecarmalt.bsky.social @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Jupp. www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Happy to be at #Dalton2025 conference. Gave my talk yesterday and was presented with my shiny medal 😊 #Chemsky

Thinking about doing a masters degree in Chemistry? Applications are still open. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/st... #chemistry #postgraduate

I’m sharing the many faces of my lovely daughter Tory as we miss her on what would have been her 23rd birthday. I love & miss her so much. So many beautiful happy memories but her life was sadly cut short aged 20. Happy Birthday my beautiful angel 🕊️💔❤️ #grief

One of the perks of my job is that I’m going to Lincoln university to given an invited lecture & a bonus is that my daughter R is at uni there so can see her & make pancakes for her & her friends 😆! Wish I could do the same with Tory but my Robin was there before I left. ❤️

Yay it’s officially the weekend now. Henry is having a little think about what to do this weekend. He might do a few runs on his wheel 😆🧡

Love this photo of UCL that I captured earlier today 🧡

It’s been a tough few weeks with my grief feeling very raw, don’t know what triggered it. Time of year? Being 2025 so into the 3rd year since losing Tory? Seeing lots of happy families during half term hols? Not sure but I’m hoping a long walk today will help #grief #childloss

One advantage of getting up at silly o’clock for a very early train to go up north to give a lecture is to see this beautiful sunrise. It’s distracting me from my work but it’s good for the soul #grief

A chilly but lovely walk around the lakes near us today. A little Robin friend followed us for a bit, we saw a heron and we got all our ducks in a row 😆

After telling hubby that I missed going in the lab & seeing if any crystals had grown (something I did daily when I was doing my PhD) I got a crystal growing kit for Xmas 🤣. Look at these beauties that I have grown. It even came with a little light up platform to sit them on 😆 #ChemSky

On a walk through the woods today a little Robin followed us all the way round. It was misty & a little gloomy but the Robin brightened me & made me feel like Tory was with us . I love this bright photo of Tory from 2020 out on a walk. I wish she had been with us today 🩵 #grief

My boys & I are very happy it’s Friday evening ❤️! The Guinea pigs have been popcorning around their playpen while I’ve been watching a film tucked up under a warm blanket (it’s so cold 🥶)!!

Well that’s it, 2025 has got off to a bad start. Someone has taken my tree away, I just don’t know where to sleep and I’m depressed…thinks Trixie 🐈‍⬛ 🤣

Beautiful brisk sunny & cold walk today. Just what I needed today 😊

My brilliant new blanket, perfect for someone who loves chemistry 😆. A great pressie from hubby 👩‍🔬🧪⚗️ #ChemSky

The 3rd Christmas without you, my lovely daughter Tory. How I ache to cook, laugh, hug, sing & dance with you this year. But you sent me a little sign with 2 robins appearing in the garden, perhaps letting me know you’ve got a special friend. Happy Xmas all ❤️ #forever20 #grief

I love how much Trixie appears to be enjoying the Queen movie. I thought she might start clapping her paws when Radio Ga Ga came on 🤣

Trixie is delighted to have her Christmas 🎄 bed back again for another year. I am delighted that work has finished and I have 2 weeks off 🎉🥂🍾😊❤️

Good Christmas lunch out earlier in the week. Nearly time to finish for Christmas……one more day….just one more day…..😊

R is home from uni 💗💗💗. We got the tree & decorations up. Felt tearful without lovely Tory with us but R & I put the Christmas music & Santa hats on & smiles on our faces. Now it’s bright & shining like my beautiful girl always was which I like. Tory would approve ❤️ #grief

Nice to have Henry pop out and say hello before I headed to work this morning 😊❤️

Last year twins Nan & Fang did their masters project in my research group (far end of the table in the photo!). Both worked super hard & Nan’s paper has just been published on transparent & conductive thin films pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/.... Now keeping my🤞🏼that Fang’s paper gets accepted 😊 #chemsky

A brilliant festive sodium acrylate snowman in our teaching lab ☃️

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More festive fun in the teaching labs. You'll find this sodium acrylate chap hiding out in the Graham Lab.⛄

The ChemisTree is up! It is officially festive season in the Turner Lab. Can you guess the molecule on top of the tree?

A little surprise bunch of flowers from hubby on getting home tonight. Just what I needed to give me a little lift. Bright and beautiful 🌸🌺🌼❤️ #grief

A busy work week so little time to think. Good in a way as tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of Tory’s funeral. Planning & going to your daughter’s funeral is utterly devastating. I miss her & her future. Only memories now like this one from 2003 of Tory & I 🩵 #grief #forever20