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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 14h

Next reaction - oh shit I have to go update my undergraduate lecture notes

Nature @nature.com · 19h

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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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 16h

Pro tip for aspiring academics - this is how to ensure your papers always make it into high impact journals

Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 19h

Time to break out this pic of me being strangled by a future #Nobel Laureate in 2017… #Chemsky #chemnobel…

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 16h

My delight at seeing MOFs win the Nobel is tinged by sadness that Sir Fraser didn’t live to witness it. He was my introduction to the world of MOFs, and I know he would have been overjoyed.

Ron Smaldone @ronsmaldone.bsky.social · Dec 31

So sad to hear about Fraser's passing yesterday. I met many great people in his group and from around the world who I still consider friends and collaborators today. A loss for sure, but his advocacy for science and the people in it will continue to inspire us all forever. We will miss you Fraser!

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 19h

And those pesky axial elongations in octahedral coordination complexes

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jgocd.bsky.social @jgocd.bsky.social · 19h

Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!

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Nature @nature.com · 19h

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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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 1d

We have a flexible MOF that only adopts the closed pore state after CO2 adsorption / desorption, but not under high temp or low vacuum (or N2 ads/des). Would love to find more examples to try and help us understand why.

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University of Glasgow School of Chemistry @uofgchem.bsky.social · 2d

Join us at this event to learn about how you can benefit from our research facilities.

UofG STEM @uofgstem.bsky.social · 2d

How can you benefit from research facilities? Find out more at our 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲.

Join the event to hear about the equipment available, their capabilities, services and how you can access them - and get the chance to visit some of them.

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/college-of...

Research Facilities Showcase
By College of Science and Engineering
23 October
Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone

Angry goose chasing someone while asking "How do you define merit?"

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 4d

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures

Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 5d

Britain’s meritocracy. Heaven forfend we should ever try to mitigate these effects…

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 7d

Genuinely the first time I’ve seen a post get good old fashioned ratioed on Bluesky.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 7d

An absolute cop out. What an abject failure of leadership.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 7d

I suspect that indeed they have just made this matter worse for themselves. The trouble with this statement from Adrian Smith is that it conflicts with the RS's Code of Conduct (e.g. below).

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14d

They deserve to lose every fucking penny they've spaffed away on this abomination of an idea

Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 15d

Lionsgate right now is struggling to make AI generated movie

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16d

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 20d

a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

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EPSRC Network: Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales @epomm.bsky.social · 21d

Sanjit Nayak announcing date for UKPorMat-2026, which is 9 to 10th June 2026 at University of Bristol.

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Elisha Krieg @elishakrieg.bsky.social · 23d

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it.

Commentary in @natnano.nature.com

#nanotechnology

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · 24d

I’m a staunch republican but I’m beyond bemused that the ROYAL Society are satisfied having a fellow that is calling for the violent overthrow of HIS MAJESTY’S government. Utter cowardice.

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record

Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

www.them.us

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