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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 2d

and props go to @annenotintokyo.bsky.social for this one.

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · 2d

If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.

Cover of the journal Nature Chemistry with the cover line "Every MOF you make"

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

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Michelle Francl @michellefrancl.bsky.social · 4d

Why should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3

Opinionated science

Nature Chemistry - When the facts can’t speak for themselves, scientists can give them a voice, argues Michelle Francl.

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Susan Weatherby @susanfjw.bsky.social · 16d

#ChemSky had the best time at this year's chemistry conferences and wondering what to attend in 2026?! The full #FaradayDiscussion programme for 2026 is announced at www.rsc.org/our-events/a...

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Adam Weingarten @adamsweingarten.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fire is wonderful and does so much for us. So congrats to Guo, Caruso, Pan and team for the work on the flame-synthesis of high-entropy nanomaterials! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flame synthesis achieves compositionally tailorable high-entropy metal-containing nanomaterials - Nature Chemistry

High-entropy nanomaterials, which incorporate multiple homogeneously dispersed elements, are promising for energy conversion, but typically require complex, high-temperature synthesis. Now a scalable ...

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · Sep 3

I actually had a ticket for this!!! Tickets in the UK were like gold dust and a friend from Philly got me one for a NJ show - I couldn't make it because I'd have missed my son's first day at high school!

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Aug 22

Water-splitting devices could provide oxygen for astronauts on long-term space missions but microgravity presents an issue. One team has found that off-the-shelf neodymium magnets are a simple addition that much improves these devices' efficiency.

Magnets could be simple way to enhance oxygen generation on a mission to Mars

Strategy sets free gas that normally gets trapped on electrodes in microgravity during water splitting

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Julia Robinson @robinson-julia.bsky.social · Jul 17

University chemistry departments & course closures in the UK is leading to the emergence of ‘cold spots’ - areas where the subject cannot be studied within a reasonable travel time - says @rsc.org. Students from lower SE backgrounds could be affected the most: www.chemistryworld.com/news/chemist...

Chemistry ‘cold spots’ emerging across the UK, RSC warns

Some regions face a future with fewer chemists

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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · Jul 11

My latest feature for @cenmag.bsky.social is about organic chemists' continuing quest for ultimate control over molecular structures! 🛠️⚗️🔄💊

That's right...it's... the rise of the atom-swappers!

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Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry?

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll fundamentally change how molecules are made

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Jul 10

Come work at Nature Methods! A dream job. I know from experience 😄

Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · Jul 9

Nature Methods is hiring!
We are seeking a new editor with expertise in microscopy, imaging technology, and/or cell biology. The position is available in NYC/Jersey City or Shanghai/Beijing on a hybrid working model.
Apply by August 3!

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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · Jun 27

It's Friday, and I haven't done a @cenmag.bsky.social thread for a while, so...
First up, our editorial fellow Elizabeth Walsh had two stories published this week, and I love this one about disrupting pheromone biosynthesis to break up locus swarms.
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How to break up a locust party? Disrupt their pheromones

Researchers have mapped the chemical pathway for 4-vinylanisole that causes locusts to swarm and figured out how to inhibit it

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Gav Armstrong @nchemgav.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is so cool.

Nature Chemistry @natchem.nature.com · Jun 24

Paracetemol from plastic waste www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A biocompatible Lossen rearrangement in Escherichia coli - Nature Chemistry

Biocompatible chemistry merges chemo-catalytic reactions with cellular metabolism for sustainable small-molecule synthesis. Now a biocompatible Lossen rearrangement has been demonstrated to control ba...

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Johannes Kreutzer @jkreutzer1.bsky.social · Jun 24

@natcomms.nature.com is hiring!

Loking for an Editor with experience in Polymer Chemistry.

📍New York, Jersey City, China Offices, Milan or Madrid
⏱️ July 5th 2025

Send me a message if you want to have an informal chat about this position.

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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Polymer Chemistry)

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Polymer Chemistry) Locations: New York, Jersey City, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Milan or Madrid - Hybrid working model  Closing date: Jul...

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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · Jun 20

Online today @natchem.nature.com - we show how to turn a deletion reaction into an insertion reaction:

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Accessing sulfonamides via formal SO2 insertion into C–N bonds - Nature Chemistry

Despite recent advances in primary sulfonamide synthesis, approaches using primary amines as starting points for direct sulfonamide construction remain elusive. Now a formal SO2 insertion into the C–N...

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Jun 16

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal.

We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers
🧪 #AcademicSky

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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · Jun 17

Wondering what's the big fuss about US fed cuts to research grant indirect costs? Very informative details & interactive map here on the big impacts nationwide. America: Your tax dollars fund these science & economic benefits and return on investment. 🧪🛟📈 Sociology demography 😷 Medsky health policy

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · Jun 16

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky

Social media and connecting with our community

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 11

The #BethesdaDeclaration coalition expands. Let keep these numbers growing.

Sign up and reach out to friends and family.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 10

Since we featured the Stand Up for Science letter in the Good Trouble segment of the Daily Beans podcast this morning, signatures have gone from roughly 5,000 to 15,000! You can add your name by clicking the link below:

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Jun 10

“We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”

Bravo to the brave folks at NIH who published the Bethesda Declaration this morning to hold this administration accountable! You can sign a letter…

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 10

It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014.

The silence of the Royal Society in the face of Elon Musk's rampage (a member […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 10

@sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, a @ucl.ac.uk chemistry professor, has returned his 2014 Michael Faraday Prize to protest the @royalsociety.org's failure to take more decisive (or any) action against Elon Musk for his attack on science. 👏

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk

[FREE TO READ] Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · Jun 6

📢 chemists: annual ChemRxiv survey is now live, to better understand the community's use and perception of preprints, your thoughts and needs. americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Survey takes about ten minutes, and you can enter a drawing for one of three $100 gift cards

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Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University @tamuchemistry.bsky.social · May 22

🧪✨🧫 Texas A&M Chemistry's Dr. James Batteas was recently featured in New Scientist for his insights into an emerging push to use dry powders instead of traditional liquids in the lab—a shift that’s showing real promise.

🔗 www.newscientist.com/article/2479...

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Neil Withers @neilwithers.bsky.social · May 20

I'm very pleased to see this collection live – links to individual stories to follow below...

Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · May 20

Many medical conditions affect women disproportionately or exclusively. In our new collection, we look at the gender gap in health and drugs, how treatments for menopause are slowly changing, what we’re finding out about period products and more.

Women's health | Chemistry World

Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...

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