Pocket guide to materials discovery calculation methods (repost from the other place)
Robert Palgrave
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
Professor of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at UCL. Director of UK National XPS Service.
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social delivers the PCG plenary lecture at #BCA25 "The role of AI in materials discovery"
This is why everyone falls in love with solid state chemistry - first year lab straight out of Harry Potter
Nice visit to the European Commission to discuss AI in materials!
Hey it's 2025 so here's a version of our Lattice paper as a AI generated trance track suno.com/song/a512663...
Lattice by @xpsbeats | Suno
[Spoken, Synthwave, Trance, Heavy Trap Drums, Dubstep Breaks, Neon Vocals, Retro Futuristic, trance] song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
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I feel like it is important to share that once @cesapo.bsky.social and I asked Fraser Stoddart what his favorite swearword was, and his wholesome voice he said, “nincompoop.” 🥲 #Chemsky
Lord Toby Young has posted a rehashing of the "CO2 is saturated" meme. It sounds plausible, and some eminent scientists believed it back in history. But we've known for 100 years that the atmosphere isn't saturated with CO2 And one very simple observation shows it beyond doubt.
Another amazing SSCG Christmas Meeting at the University of Birmingham comes to an end, a fascinating range of talks as usual and great to catch up with many friends. Congrats to the organisers! Can't wait for next year!
Rob Palgrave (@robertpalgrave.bsky.social) from UCL kicking off the morning after the night before of #SSCGXmas with a talk on the (structural) chemistry of halide perovskites #chemsky
How you know Christmas has really begun: start of the RSC Solid State Chemistry Christmas Meeting at University of Birmingham
So, as a new member of the US National Committee for Crystallography, I've been tasked with looking into workforce development. So I'd like to ask you #chemsky peeps how you learned about crystallography? Reply and retweet, I wanna hear from as many of you as possible!
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Alt: a large diamond is surrounded by blue water on a black background .
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I never normally do this - but got this review today on a paper about XPS fitting of some very topical compounds that literally every paper in the field gets wrong
![Reviewer 2: "I do agree that many papers can be found with bad XPS fits, this is not specific to [this material] but a problem for the field as a whole.... There are estimates that more than half of the published XPS data has significant faults (DOI: 10.1063/5.0086359 . But this is not a topic suitable to [moderate JIF journal in materials chemistry].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gsymqzdcy2tpxfyzdomwl7xc/bafkreiervzqbnl7flstf3fm7kfplgpqy6h4orbh6p43pk56wgzpqjnl3zi)
Just casually strolling past the Ministry of Truth
Major announcement from Microsoft, their machine learning matter simulator is now available
Claudio Zeni@claudiozeni.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨Our Machine Learning Force Field Mattersim is now available! 🚨 Check it out here 👇 msft.it/6013oBZLt The force field is designed to be used on a vast range of temperatures and pressures, try it yourself :) Feedback and suggestions are very welcome!
Cory D with an important point about the future of bluesky... It's gonna get enshittified and nothing can stop it doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Bluesky and enshittification
No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
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Today I realised some charities are buying Google ads on other charities web searches, so they appear at the top of the search and presumably steal traffic. Is that really necessary?
The ChemisTree is up! It is officially festive season in the Turner Lab. Can you guess the molecule on top of the tree?
Kicking off our new Bluesky account with news about the world's thinnest spaghetti created by a team including @clancylab.bsky.social. Eco-friendly nanofibers for smart bandages to help bone regeneration. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
Chemists create world’s thinnest spaghetti
The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team.
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Previous years of chemistry themed biscuits for my research group/collaborators. Any ideas for what to do this year?? #chemsky
So happy to be on this platform away from dogma and intolerance.... My only worry, what if the crystallographers follow us?!? 🤣 (Just joking, all blue skies from here...)