📣 Call for vMASC abstracts 📣 Come speak at vMASC! Share your work with a large and diverse audience! We're opening our next call for abstracts for speakers from ALL career stages. Apply here: mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc/vmasc-... Deadline ⚠️ Monday 9th August 2026 #RSC_MASC #vMASC

📣 vMASC Seminar Special Edition 📣 “Career Development Seminar: Parents of Supramolecular Chemistry”, in collab with @wisuprachem.bsky.social Date 📆 and time 🕰️: Thursday 6th August 2026 at 9:30 (UK time) Register (for free) at mascgroup.co.uk/vmasc-4 to attend! #RSC_MASC #vMASC #WomeninSTEM #EDI

Come and join our group! We have a short term PDRA post available in the group, tinyurl.com/39ywawkj - to work on metal-peptidic cages, and see how far we can push the peptides! mcternanresearchgroup.com

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 · 3mo 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 🗳️🙏

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 🗳️🙏

Delighted to see our work on anion-switchable palladium cages, used to purify single pharmaceuticals from complex mixtures, out in ACIE today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - great work from lead author Zhe, and brilliant crystallography from Tanya!

Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹

Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

From science to spinout – cutting cancer’s borrowed time

With the launch of ALTx, a new company focussed on exploiting this ability, scientists hope to turn cancer’s borrowed time into a vulnerability.

crick.ac.uk

We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate). Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating. Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky

Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!

Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors - Nature Chemistry

The structural anisotropy necessary for the powered directional rotation of chemically fuelled molecular motors had previously been provided by chiral fuels or enzymes. Now it has been shown that asym...

nature.com

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 💬

Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337

PhD Position in Supramolecular and Organic Chemistry

We are looking to incorporate a PhD candidate (predoctoral contract), with motivation for organic and peptide synthesis, to develop a doctoral thesis at CIQUS – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

When liquids freeze, ions normally grind to a halt — but not in our new materials! Our latest paper in @science.org shows how organic salts can keep the same ionic conductivity mechanism as they transform from liquid to solid. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ox.ac.uk @ajavestro.bsky.social

Congrats to Dr Aisha Bismillah @anbismillah.bsky.social on receiving the inaugural MASC/WISC EDIA Award 2025! @wisuprachem.bsky.social #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

🚨WISC is excited to announce we are changing our name to Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry! ➡️ www.womeninsuprachem.com #WomeninSTEM #EDI #SupramolecularChemistry #ChemSky

Delighted to see our work on dual cavity cages online @chemicalscience.rsc.org - tinyurl.com/yatjzpnc - we explore how subtle changes in peptide sequence and chirality transform cage formation and isomer selectivity, with unexpected results. Congratulations to @benebarber.bsky.social Ellen and Leah!

Great to see our paper on photoswitchable anion channels with the Wallace Lab (KCL) online - congratulations Javid, Kharina, Sam and Adi! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Triply addressable ion channels, and we use these to construct a set of molecular logic gates.

New preprint from the group is out - tinyurl.com/yyadfcdv - Zhe has been working on anion switchable palladium cage systems, and used them for separating active pharmaceuticals!

🚨 Final reminder to submit your abstract for an oral and/or poster presentation for a chance to showcase your research at this year’s MASC meeting (15th–16th Dec 2025) at the Open University, Milton Keynes! ⚠️ Deadline this Friday, 7th of Nov 2025 More details on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ab...

MASC 2025 Abstracts

Abstract Submission Home Programme Speakers Registration and Bursaries Abstract Submission Venue Travel Accommodation Sponsors Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7th November 2025 Please use the …

mascgroup.co.uk

I'm advertising a funded opportunity for a postdoc to join the Fielden Research Group for 24 months: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC150/r... We're looking for a researcher with expertise in supramolecular and/or colloid chemistry to help kick start our ERC-funded project into dynamic emulsions. 😃

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions. Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research. Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

2026 PhD recruitment is now open. As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

crick.ac.uk

Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting! Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below) More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho... #RSC_MASC #RSC_MASC_2025 (1/2)

Happy to share this cover finally online in the September issue of chem. Thank you @vivesgui.bsky.social and @msollogoub.bsky.social for the design and drawing of such nice cover👏👏👏

Guillaume Vives@vivesgui.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our work on the unidirectional motion of a CD is now in the September issue of Chem and on the cover! Many thanks to the whole team and @cp-chem.bsky.social for the highlight! @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @msollogoub.bsky.social @enxuliu.bsky.social www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Massive congratulations to @zarikyusaf.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today 🎉🎉 Big thanks to examiners @charliemcternan.bsky.social and Ramon Vilar, and to co-supervisor @lewischemistry.bsky.social who made the trek down for the big event!

📣 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 …

mascgroup.co.uk

Imagine a small molecule that degrades a target protein like PROTACs, but does so independently of any of the host cell's degradation machinery, so you can go and do targeted protein degradation in gram-negative bacteria: doi.org/10.26434/che...