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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 22h

Grant application submitted. A good feeling, but also a little like sending a much cossetted child out to face wolves.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Hermione is clearly ripping off Mary Poppins

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 1d

"A story full of holes but with an enormous capacity to absorb … all your attention" #ChemNobel #Chemsky

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Kyle Pearce @kylegpearce.bsky.social · 2d

A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group!

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

AP13080 Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry - Jobs at Bath

www.bath.ac.uk

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 8d

Things have got bad in UK HE when a department like Leicester Chemistry is facing these measures. Solidarity to all the staff picketing today.

Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t want to be on a picket line today. I’d rather be teaching my students or in the lab with @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social - not standing in the rain outside my own workplace.

But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 23d

I'd like to read this article, unfortunately I don't have access! Accessibility issue with article on accessibility (albeit of different sorts) feels sad

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · 28d

"We sat down and ate the pears from the tree before the rain came."
Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.

Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Sep 4

We need a hard number from the RSC to defend against attempts to erode chemistry depts access to lab and technician time in an environment where universities are looking to cut out anything expensive. I agree with the idea that we should put more problem solving into the labs, though.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Aug 19

This makes me feel ill

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's definitely discrimination against chemists, who else needs a subscript five times in every line? I hate it so much.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · Jul 14

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week

The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Jun 23

Good to see you today @sandykilla.bsky.social, can't stop laughing at this photo where it looks like I'm your smaller second head

Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · Jun 23

Fun trip up to Nottingham Trent to visit @benjaminchem.bsky.social & lab!

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am reminded this week of the Ben Elton novel Blind Faith, which, over a decade ago, seemed like one of the more far fetched dystopian novels I'd read. I don't think I'd feel so complacent, if I read it again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_F...

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Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social · Jun 3

Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.

Please share ! Deadline 24-June

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Jun 11

Being married to a physicist, I get told this most days. But there is no point using something that nobody else I work with uses.

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Jun 10

Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · Jun 4

Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is important and useful stuff! It does make me sad as an organometallic chemist that all my favourite solvents are in the 'avoid' column. My poor toxic friends we must replace you.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · May 12

Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅

wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin

#ChemSky 🧪

Today in Chemistry History infographic on Dorothy Hodgkin. Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of vitamin B12, for which she won a Nobel Prize. She went on to determine the structure of insulin.

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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · May 12

Still time to apply for a #PhD in our group! Don't miss out!! 👇👇 #chemsky

Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · Apr 4

📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production

Project opportunity - Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production at the University of Leeds

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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · May 12

📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering

Are you an experienced and ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Are you looking to apply...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Rebecca Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social · Apr 28

PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...

Cardiff University PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at Cardiff University.

www.findaphd.com

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Mar 6

UCU are petitioning for a better funding model for UK higher education. It is a bad time to work for a UK university right now, and we are all feeling it. I'm not sure signing this will help, but it never hurts to try.
stopthecutspetition.org.uk

stopthecutspetition

stopthecutspetition.org.uk

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Sophie Benjamin @benjaminchem.bsky.social · Feb 26

RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize - a fully funded lectureship at Dalton conference. Spread the word among the PhDs!
#chemsky

Call for Nominations: RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize.
The RSC Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize is awarded to an individual for the advancement of Main Group Chemistry during their PhD research. The lectureship recognizes a piece of peer-reviewed published work that provides a distinctive, creative and impactful contribution to main group chemistry. The winner will recieve an invited lectureship including registration costs at Dalton 2025
To make a nomination please provide the following by 17.00 1st March 2025:
A 1 page CV of the candidate with their graduation date or expected graduation date clearly identified.
A 500-word summary on why the nominated article represents a significant advancement in main group chemistry and the contribution of the candidate.
A citation of the work.
If the nominated work has recieved previous recognition, please identify which awards. In the case of multiple submissions of similar quality, work that has not yet been recognized will be given priority.
Both self-nominations and external nominations welcome.
Eligibility: the candidate must be due to graduate within the next year or have defended their thesis within 12 months of the nomination deadline. The nominated article can be published in any peer-reviewed journal and shoudl represent the candidate's PhD work.
Nominations can be directly emailed as a single PDF file to the interest group secretary (catherine.weetman@strath.ac.uk). Please name the file with the format lastname_firstname_MGprize.pdf. e.g Smith_John_MGprize.pdf.

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