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SellaTheChemist

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🇺🇦🇺🇦 Born at 318 ppm CO2, UCL Prof, chemistry, climate change, energy efficiency, chemical weapons, #ClassicKit, bicycles, Lab_14, #UCLChemAirPoll […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@davidho.bsky.social The detail that the firm involved donated5 million to the White House ballroom project….

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SamuelJohnson @samueljohnson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Back when I was the last best resort for desperate people, mostly scientists, every one of whom was "just about to make a backup" (I had to ask) I used to think something that saved some people from themselves might be a good idea.

But just taking everything. Automatically. 🙄🤦

Nope! […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@simon_brooke and what is this tech?

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@thetnholler.bsky.social Your periodic reminder that explosives are “accidents “ waiting to happen.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/115350001798882417 The Nobel Committee says more succinctly and forcefully what I said to the Royal Society.

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Attached: 1 image This part of the Nobel committee's statement hits. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/ #politics #NobelPeacePrize

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Quite a day. Meeting with @helenczerski to plot about #ucllivinglab and then from 1230 to 6, continuous face to face meetings or classes with students. Now to Didcot/Harwell for some neutron voyeurism. #tired

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@akshatrathi.bsky.social Watched your interview with Markham Hislop last night. Fascinating analysis - thank you, Akshat! https://youtu.be/vqX5fqWF19c

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@SusiArnott Our students invited Yaghi to give them a talk during the pandemic when things were partially shut down. He said that he was horribly busy and only had 50 minutes. In the event, he turned up early on Zoom, had a good chat with a few academics, and then not only spoke pretty […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ianRobinson PS And others have - I just don't have the headspace. At the moment I'm just spinning like a dervish between about a bzillion disparate things.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Have you been jabbed yet? Get your jab, protect those around you and stick up two fingers at that RFK Jr character and all his acolytes.

A needle being jabbed into a shoulder - vaccination matters.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@ianRobinson Those were the days. A brilliant presenter and a brilliant producer.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@ianRobinson I don't know. I've not really looked for them. I probably ought to. People have said I should get involved but my head will explode if I take anything else on.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@SusiArnott It's a really beautiful idea and you get stunning architectures with remarkable topological complexity. To those who say "but they're of no use" I say "I' don't give a monkey's. Aesthetics matter!" They are another example of chemistry moving beyond the molecule and building tailored […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

So Yaghi Kitagawa and Robson for porous frameworks. Widely expected. https://www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for the purpose of engaging, inspiring and spreading knowledge about the Nobel Prize as well as the discoveries and achievements of the laureates.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@SusiArnott Oh yes. Hours of lesson plan checking today. Tomorrow. Friday. Monday. Tuesday…. #uclchemairpoll

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

And myriad tubes being assembled.

Students assembling Palmes diffusion tubes in a lab. The gloves are purely decorative.

Diffusion tubes being assembled in a lab -plastic tubes, steel grids, PVC caps and a lot of tissues.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Just spotted this gem of a poster. We’re recommending a feed on X to support students’ mental health. Surely shome mishtake?

A poster listing various apps including Calm, StudentHealth, MindSet, and X (of all things)

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

A lot of stainless steel grids waiting to be soaked and put into diffusion tubes. #uclchemairpoll

Pastic bags with 1000 316 stainless steel grids 100x 12.5 mm

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@SusiArnott Another mad week in prospect with >20 actual contact hours with students. See you on the other side.

SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Gosh! #langlang is on BBCRadio6Music! With Ceris M, of course.

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

Every so often you get an email that reminds you that there's a whole world of cool stuff you nothing about:

"I will summarise our recent efforts towards rationalising this process in the context of the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young melting "

I might have to go to this.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11d

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.

She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

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