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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 19h

For balance (and I had to go back to evil Tw@tter for this). I’ve never met Richard Robson.

Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 21h

This is the only photo I can find of me with Susumu, in the office of the great Mohamed Eddaoudi, whose contribution to the field of MOFs is also massive #chemsky #chemnobel

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to Susumu, Omar and Prof. Robson. Particularly delighted for Susumu, who has given me some great advice over the years and served on an advisory panel for one of our grants. 👏

Nature @nature.com · 21h

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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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking next week in Toronto at the Acceleration Consortium (@accelerationc.bsky.social). It's possible to join online (link below). In part, I'll be talking about our new work on LLM reasoning for robotic experiments. I've teed this up below with a link to Noam Chomsky, who isn't an LLM fan.

Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social · 2d

🤖 Can a robot do chemistry like a human?

Find out on Oct 15 @ 3PM EST with AC member
@aicooper.bsky.social of @liverpooluni.bsky.social at our next #ACSeminar! Learn how autonomous labs + AI are reinventing discovery.

Register to attend in person or online: airtable.com/appYBjHgttvB...

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 1d

(he does then go on describe LLMs as having "no scientific interest, no intellectual interest")

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 1d

If you're interested, here is a gloriously curmudgeonly interview with Chomsky, much of which I'd agree with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_04E.... Though he does concede that it (i.e., LLMs) could "conceivably replace some routine work". Youch!

Noam Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT.

YouTube video by Through Conversations Podcast

www.youtube.com

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 1d

But I'm looking forward to giving this talk. In part, I'll discuss how LLMs are helping us edge toward more human-like decisions in closed loop experiments. Or you could argue that these are not human-like at all, and that GPT is, as Noam Chomsky put it, "glorified autofill". Happy to debate!!

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 2d

I tell ya, all the smart money this year is on Jean Fréchet …

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 2d

(Spoiler alert: no)

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Chinese Chemical Letters @chinchemlett.bsky.social · 13d

Interlocked covalent organic cages: Design, synthesis, and self-assembly

doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

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Syma Khalid @sykhalid.bsky.social · 8d

Come join us in Oxford! Two positions open right now in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social
It’s a great place to work. Really supportive colleagues, great students, colleges provide a unique social environment - in summary, it’s a lot of fun.

Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 9d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

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

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 8d

I don't normally indulge in Chemistry Nobel Prize speculation but this year I'm having a punt. £20 each way on Fréchet and Wilkinson for chemically amplified photoresists

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 9d

Commercial SDL using a mobile robotic manipulator - I'm told that the company has installed 7 of these so far. I've no affiliation with this, btw, nor knowledge of its performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECt1... #chemsky #robots

Self-Driving Lab

YouTube video by OSSCEN Flow Lab Tech

www.youtube.com

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 12d

www.ijcai.org/proceedings/...

Language-Based Bayesian Optimization Research Assistant (BORA) | IJCAI

Electronic proceedings of IJCAI 2025

www.ijcai.org

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 13d

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

Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges

Experts from academia and industry offer perspectives on the future direction of autonomous science and knowledge discovery.

www.science.org

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Lauren McHugh @laurenmchugh.bsky.social · 17d

Great to see @aicooper.bsky.social and @rosseinskygroup.bsky.social representing @liverpooluni.bsky.social at the @euromof.bsky.social 2025 conference in Crete.

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 19d

Blink and you'll miss it (2'39") - played at the NVIDIA event in London last night: youtu.be/3GhckKPLDd4

The U.K.'s Next Industrial Revolution

YouTube video by NVIDIA

youtu.be

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 19d

Try the fetaccino next

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 20d

Alas no

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 20d

Here’s where I spent my evening in London. Decent canapés. www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/pr...

Starmer hails Nvidia’s £2bn UK AI deal as ‘biggest-ever tech agreement’ with US

Prime Minister says partnership marks milestone in special relationship at London event.

www.standard.co.uk

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations to Yushu Han on her paper on fast porosity screening using a multichannel colorimetric array. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @liverpooluni.bsky.social

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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 21d

You are cordially invited to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 22d

I could bore you rigid on this topic, suffice to say I have about 20 go-to non-instrumental albums that have become “effectively instrumental” to me since I no longer really register the words. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order would be one example, heavily used for proposals …

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 22d

a man wearing a cowboy hat and a suit is looking down .

ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and a suit is looking down .

media.tenor.com

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Andy Cooper @aicooper.bsky.social · 22d

A great outreach project led by Emma Brass in our group at last week’s Liverpool Science Festival. Visitors got the chance to paint collaboratively with a robot 🤖 ! Supported by our @leverhulme.ac.uk research centre and our @ukri.org / EPSRC AIchemy Hub / Programme Grant @aichemyhub.bsky.social

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