@moraigmonkey
Personal account but share lots of fantastic work of RSC member networks - views all my own. Lover of my kids, chemistry, Lego, Scotland and amazing but tiny museums. Also vocal about autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, Star Trek and crochet.
Nominations for this year's CBBG Lectureship are now open until 30th April 2026.
This lectureship is to recognise the excellent contributions of mid-career scientists to both research and to the UK community in chemical biology and bioorganic chemistry.
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This year's CBBG Postgraduate Symposium will be taking place on 8th June 2026 Queen Mary University of London.
Come and join us for what will be an amazing meeting celebrating PhD research across chemical biology, with a plenary talk from Prof. Mark Bradley.
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Very much enjoying meeting the @rscbmcs.bsky.social committee today - I really miss seeing volunteers in person.
My favourite thing when the girl started secondary school was the lack of dress up days - now in Y10 if anything is needed she does it herself.
I just wanted to be left alone to read - the boy has inherited my inability to read a class book at the same rate as the class and reads ahead because he's inpatient to find out what happens. I love that they can take their own books for when they have reading time - he's just started the 2 Towers
I'm glad our school encourages either both dress up or just wear non-uniform for the day. The boy is happy to wear his favourite orange fleece and to get to take his spear to be Bandana Waddledee - he mostly enjoys showing others that his Kirby books open the other way round because they're Japanese
It made me chuckle so thank you for sharing.
Probably not but it won't stop us hoping!
The world might be difficult, but Bluesky can be a place of hope and optimism - something I tried to capture in my latest cookbook, which includes reflections on finding joy.
It won the Gourmand World Cookbook 'Food & Mental Health' Award.
@bsky.app
www.amazon.co.uk/Bluesky-Reci...
#FoodSky #BookSky
Have just read the article. This is all her opinion which doesn't appear to be based in evidence despite her discounting other views as not being based in evidence. This article is a biased opinion piece and demonstrates no scientific basis.
Being an Emeritus Prof does not make your opinion correct
Happy #Holi! 🌈 🎨
A day bursting with colour feels like the perfect excuse to share this brilliant infographic from @compoundchem.com on the chemistry behind #paintpigments.
From cobalt blues to chromium greens, it all comes down to how compounds interact with light.
#ColourChemistry
WAR CRIMES DON'T HIDE SEX CRIMES!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
Dr Wilfried remembers treating sleeping sickness patients with the old medicine which was so toxic it killed 1 in 20 patients.
💊 Acoziborole is a revolution since those dark days: it cures the disease with one-day treatment course & is effective for both stages of the disease. #1Dose1Cure
This is really, really great news. The EMEA just announced that it will approve the use of Acoziborole, the first oral, single dose cure for African trypanosomyasis (aka Sleeping Sickness)
A huge, huge step forward spearheaded by @dndi.org
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Absolutely this.
I wish more people understood how dynamic autism is, not only from day to day, but also from hour to hour or even within shorter timescales
And so many different internal and external environmental factors affecting can come into play - just like for (whisper it) non autistic people
Giant crystals, lemon batteries and elephant's toothpaste – school science staples that have made it into the Guinness World Records.
We are looking forward to receiving your digital chemistry Lectureship nominations!
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#CompChem #MLChem #AIChem #MachineLearning
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
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Which Australian egg-laying mammal has lots of pointless things said about it?
The DUCK-BILLED PLATITUDE
No, you fuck off.
RSC newsletter today re-upping their "a Future in Chemistry" career site, which has lots of very good videos. edu.rsc.org/future-in-ch...
The media and Labour will now attack the Green Party relentlessly and subject everything to micro scrutiny while letting Reform off the hook in every respect. They are terrified of working class people waking up and discovering they have the power to change things for the better.
I love this artist's work and have a couple at home and have gifted some to family over the last couple of years. I definitely encourage you to go and have a look if only to brighten your day! (and buy stuff)
Hannah Spencer of the UK's left-wing Green Party won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton, with Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform party coming second, and Labour pushed into third place.
“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.”
Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer!
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...
The Greens have 5 MPs now, all of whom fought and won their seat.
Reform may have 8 MPs, but 4 of those are just recent defections from the Tories.
Reform aren't the story any more. The media would do well to remember that.
So who has come up with the most amusing play on words about Goodwin not having a good win.
A hand-drawn picture code letter where pictures can be substituted for words or part of words for example, a picture of an eye for the word ‘I’
A little girl once sent a drawing to artist John Leigh-Pemberton for his approval.
He replied in this delightful picture-code letter - which she has treasured for over 50 years. Can you work out his reply?
Same
screenshot from Star Trek Deep Space Nine featuring actor Avery Brooks as Commander Benjamin Sisko.
Black History is Star Trek 🖖🏿
Avery Brooks (born 2 October 1948; age 76) is an accomplished stage, television, and film actor best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is the first black man to helm a Star Trek series.
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