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Awesome that you can turn an Ender 3 3D printer into a microscope! This sort of thing would have been a big help during my PhD where I built a small surgical scope. Great work @niamh-deburca.bsky.social et al! Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... HT: @liam-rooney.bsky.social

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Now out: my perspective paper on room-temperature quantum superfluorescence in upconversion nanoparticles and how this could be a #quantumtechnology #chemsky #nano #upcon pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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You are invited in to geek out on...Realms Unknown! This week we're looking at experiments in form and @tpneenan.bsky.social explains to @alicefraser.bsky.social why everyone is right to be raving about Sinners youtu.be/VNxXKT-0ZLM?... #scifi #fantasy #genrefiction #booksky

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Awesome RSC sponsored talk by Nicholas Kotov at UoG chemistry today, all about chiral nanomaterials. Very exciting and inspiring! #chemsky

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The historic Strathclyde Uni Royal College Building. I teach there during the winter/spring but I'm usually rushing around on rainy days, so don't get a chance to properly appreciate it!

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It seems pole every Dell docking station breaks after 2 years! #Dell

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Yikes

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Now out: my perspective paper on room-temperature quantum superfluorescence in upconversion nanoparticles and how this could be a #quantumtechnology #chemsky #nano #upcon pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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A reminder that you can flick through a virtual copy of Hooke's 'Micrographia' here: 😍 ttp.royalsociety.org/ttp/ttp.html...

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And if you want to know more about the explosive growth of podcasts as a medium, you can read my 2019 paper on science podcasts 😉 #scicomm #shamelessplug royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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In my entire life, I don't think I've ever seen a bee fly in a straight line

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This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

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There should be a browser extention to force-open journal papers in your PDF viewer rather than in-browser proprietary viewers. I'd spend a lot less time staring at a blank page!

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Eatsalotl and Eatsalitl

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This would be the equivalent of the US govt announcing a tax on all mortgage-backed securities in the summer of 2008.

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Theoretical statistician and Philip Leverhulme Prize winner, Po-Ling Loh @uniofcam.bsky.social discusses hypothesis testing and a famous experiment involving cups of tea. Watch here: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/tea-la... @bradyharan.bsky.social

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This week in my Science Communication course, we’re discussing the process of publishing scientific papers and going through peer review. What advice do you have for Masters students thinking about this for the first time? 🧪🌎🦑

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Got back from annual leave to find out that my office internal window has sporadically fractured 😅 my bet is on thermal expansion (direct sunlight) or ghosts

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Love this PhD title appearing in my google scholar alerts by @jasonrosscasar.bsky.social! Brilliant applied #upconversion research! 👏

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Yellow antique uranium glass fluorescing green in sunlight 🌞 💚 #uraniumglass #fluorescence

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Science news is particularly grim this week. For NSF funding, 2 key fronts: 1) freeze on ALL existing grants (portal is down - no $$ going out, including reimbursements) www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2) budget proposes 40% overall cut & 15% cap on indirects (lawsuits blocked same for NIH in Feb)

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As always, the Venn diagram of people who think that Large Language Models are an exciting technology with great potential and people who understand how they work are two circles at opposite ends of the entire universe. (via @lukeplunkett.com)

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NIH employees expect the policy will target funding to institutions outside the US, regardless of whether they are located in ‘countries of concern’ or allies. It’s unclear if the policy will target both collaborations with & financial support for international scientists, or only funding. awful

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If I was in Pride & Prejudice youtu.be/o6O-MWwA4bA?...

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𝗡𝗼, 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝟮-𝟭𝟴𝗯'𝘀 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. K2-18b is back in the news, now with a bold claim that biosignature molecules (DMS and/or DMDS) have been 'detected at 3σ'. Most exoplanet astronomers are extremely sceptical about these claims, let's see why (1/n). 🔭🧪🪐 #exoplanet

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A good day on the uranium glass farm - blind purchase, so just has a hunch it'd glow! Can't find any origin info online. I'd guess pre-WWII Europe. #uraniumglass

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Research in plasma wakefield acceleration has been hotting up over the last decade. Given the long time lines involved in building new colliders, should we be considering where this technology could fit in? 🧪⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Researchers in China have produced the first 2D sheets of metal. The angstrom-thick sheets could be ideal for studying the quantum Hall effect, 2D superfluidity/superconductivity, topological phase transitions + other phenomena involving tight quantum confinement. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/two-dimens...

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Huh, a pulse oximeter in Lidl for £11.99.

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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

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#chemed research reveals the importance of learners’ drawing in developing understanding. @sci-drscott.bsky.social explains how this can help in your chemistry classroom #scied #SciTeachUK edu.rsc.org/education-re...

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We’ve excited to join the #chemed community on @bsky.app and to share that 2025’s issue 2 is out now – with two exciting covers. Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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First citation for my team's recent paper analysing over 1600 chemistry YouTube channels! 🥳

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Mitochondrial transfer is so cool! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I feel like Public Service Broadcasting could write a song about the coffee pot webcam

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