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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Jul 26

I feel seen

Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Jul 26

The best part about moving every 2-3 years for the last 9 years for academia is how each time I have to rip myself out of my support network and build a new one it gets harder 👍 everyone should try this 🙏

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Jul 25

Vacuubrand with a kf flange to reduce leaks- I love the peace of mind of knowing what the vacuum is like on my line 😅

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Jul 24

Shiny new Schlenk line day!!
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩‍🔬

Clean Schlenk line with red and blue JYoungs taps and orange tubing and a manometer reading 0.075 mbar

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EZ-C Group @ezc-group.bsky.social · Jun 11

Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · May 12

Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers."

What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · Apr 17

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.

Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.

The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · Apr 4

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart

This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.

Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...

$The image shows a celestial spectacle over Manitoba, Canada, on a cold winter morning. The moonlight, refracted, reflected and diffracted by millions of falling ice crystals, creates extraordinary optical phenomena. At the center, the Moon is surrounded by a colored halo, called the corona, generated by the diffraction of small droplets of water or ice. A 22-degree halo is seen around it, formed by the refraction of moonlight through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. On either side of the moon are "moon dogs," bright spots caused by the refraction of light through thin, hexagonal ice plates floating toward the ground. Above and below the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by refraction through nearly horizontal ice cylinders. The sky, captured in three combined exposures, appears surreal, transforming the moon into an icon of another world.$

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Mar 30

I was just teaching packing of spheres in solid materials to first year undergraduates last week! As you’ve drawn, we discussed how ABA layered structures vs ABC layered structures both give the same packing efficiency (~74%)

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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · Mar 12

Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪

via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️

Berkelium snared in organometallic trap

Organometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created

www.chemistryworld.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Mar 4

Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.

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Wendy Kloiber @wendykloiber.bsky.social · Mar 1

#IneedAltText

I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.

Pic of me holding my glasses in one hand horizontally so you can see the lenses are thick as hell.

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

DME obviously wanted its moment in the spotlight 😂

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

Celebrating with the good stuff!

A bottle of a 1987 single cask malt on a green and white tablecloth, with a glass containing amber liquid next to it

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

The dataset showed some twinning, but also radiation damage that grew in over time, so a longer collection wasn’t an option. It’s the first Bk organometallic crystal structure with atomic coordinates refined, so I’m quite proud of it

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

The crystallography was fun for this one - the one good-enough crystal had to be glued to the mount and shielded with a thin polymer sheath so it couldn’t fall off the mount during collection.

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

A particular shout out to my fellow synthesis team members Dom Russo, who decided that this ligand was going to be the one that would work- he was so right, to Alyssa Gaiser for her steady handling of the Bk and expertise in heavy actinide handling and Nick Katzer, fellow PLA group member

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩‍🔬

Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Feb 27

In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here!

chemsky🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Berkelium–carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene

Interest in actinide–carbon bonds has persisted since actinide organometallics were first investigated for applications in isotope separation during the Manhattan Project. Transplutonium organometalli...

www.science.org

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · Feb 27

After a lot of behind the scenes work the Royal Society of Chemistry journals are now on Bluesky! Posting will commence soon!

In the meantime, if you'd like to follow them:
go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3

#ChemSky 🧪

A feed for @chemicalscience.rsc.org content:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

RSC Journals ⚛

Join the conversation

go.bsky.app

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 27

Yeah- it’s a classic way to get lucky for SCXRD quality xtals. I think it the room is temperature controlled, but probably also has fewer vibrations than the lab? Plus the inside of the tubes seem relatively scratch /nucleation site free

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 26

This was a sample of a reaction that I was analysing for purity by magnetic resonance- each proton nucleus in a molecule resonates at a different frequency, and that tells us something about its environment. The sample has crystallised out of the solution- crystals tend to be very pure!

Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 26

Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄
#RealTimeChem
🧪⚗️

Many small orange prismatic crystals in a yellow solution in a thin glass tube against a white background

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Andryj Borys @andryjborys.bsky.social · Feb 26

Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TOC graphic showing the structure of an alkali-metal nickelate biphenylene complex and its ring-opening reactivity.

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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Feb 25

this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone:

touchgrass.now

touch grass

touchgrass.now

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TheNeidigLab @theneidiglab.bsky.social · Feb 25

We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Amy Price @amynprice.bsky.social · Feb 23

Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty
#chemistswhocook

A board laden with several soft tacos filled with browned crunchy breaded prawns, sliced lettuce, guacamole, diced tomato, and garnished with wedges of lime.

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