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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 10h

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.science.org

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 7h

I know the feeling. Last night was crazy (I spoke to swedish radio, which is just straight Looney Tunes) and the next couple of days are going to be just as weird.

Totally worth it.

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 13h

a man is smiling with the words `` oh , you have no idea '' written next to him .

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 13h

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 13h

Snap! So do I!

Sorry - it's been a crazy evening. I think I need to go to bed...

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 15h

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 16h

No prizes for guessing which camp I'm in! 😀

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 16h

Given he's a Yorkshireman, I suspect not Australia, even after living here since the 1960s.

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 17h

I'm still shaking!

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 2d

Fingers crossed for Richard Robson for coordination polymers (a.k.a. MOFs), and maybe one or two others that are usually mentioned.

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 6d

We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for IUCr 2026 are officially OPEN 🎉

🗓 Deadline: February 15, 2026
📍 Location: Calgary, Canada

🔗 Submit your abstract today: www.iucr2026.org/

#IUCr2026 #CallForAbstracts #Crystallography #StructuralScience #science #IUCr

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yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 14d

tiny glassware makes me so happy

text exchange:

(an image of me holding seven 5 mL volumetric flasks)
"look at all these widdle baby volumetric flasks"

"you're supposed to get them spayed and neutered so this doesn't happen!!" with 😂 as an emoji reaction

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 15d

Setting out today on a road-trip with the prototype 'Crystal-A-Con in a box', all you need to keep 50 exciable primary school kids #Crystallographically entertained and informed for an hour at a time??? Wish us luck!!

An image of the contents of a box of science communication equipment. There are eight boxes of crystal explorer kit, a tube with some mineral samples, a USB microscope, 3D printed Einstein tiles, freebies puzzles and of course a big bag of jubes (gelatine sweets) and toothpicks.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 19d

Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"

AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Interpenetration ftw!

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Good day Sir, here are today's options. Would you like anisotropic peak broadening, diffuse streaks, superstructure peaks, or twinning?" "Yes, please"
#Crystallography #totalscattering #TheCuteLittleCrystal

An intricated single-crystal (?) reconstruction of reciprocal space shows main Bragg peaks, streaks crossing them, and satellite peaks arranged in tiny crosses between the main Bragg peaks.

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Craig Bettenhausen @craigofwaffles.bsky.social · Aug 20

The #Braille periodic table is such a cool project. #chemistry #ACSFall2025 #accessibility

A wooden periodic table has nubs added to it on Braille lettering

A helium periodic table block made of wood and including Braille text

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Helen MC @crystallised-cricket.com · Aug 20

Wanna learn #Crystallography? Base in Australia or NZ? Worth noting that you've got another week or so to apply for this year's crystallography school

Helen MC @crystallised-cricket.com · Aug 5

Researcher in Aus and want to (peak) sharpen up your crystallography skills. Then register for the upcoming Crystallography Workshop www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/cry... #ECR #crystallography

Crystallography Workshop 2025 | ANSTO

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Mike Glazer @glazer1.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nice demo originally proposed by J D Bernal and first demonstrated by W L Bragg at the RI. Gravity acts like a bonding force keeping the balls together and the flat faces occur because of maximum packing of the balls. see also www.iucr.org/__data/asset...

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Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's #ScienceWeek here in Australia, and in an update we're doing fabulously in sending out our crystal explorer kits to primary schools over Aus and NZ. If you know a school that might like one - direct them to braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl... today!

A map of Australia and New Zealand showing the locations of primary schools that have signed up for our Free Crystal explorer kit - they are well spread over the two countries

A photo of the inside of a crystal explorer kit - the teaching booklet, and a brightly coloured sticker

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Helen MC @crystallised-cricket.com · Aug 5

Researcher in Aus and want to (peak) sharpen up your crystallography skills. Then register for the upcoming Crystallography Workshop www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/cry... #ECR #crystallography

Crystallography Workshop 2025 | ANSTO

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · Aug 3

Big Buckyball’s back baby! #MonashOpenDay

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Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · Jul 31

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖
australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

Beamline Scientist - MX

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