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Academic chemist based in the UK. 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 + 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Posts about everything and nothing.
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Byline Times is an excellent subscription to be made - support independent media in the UK that is without favour or fear!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

The lab safety inspectors always grumble about my "precious" compound collection, saying that I should dispose of compounds at the project end. Today we have been recrystallizing samples made between 25 and 27 years ago for use in the final honours project I will supervise #ChemSky

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New language at the top of the CDC page on HIV prevention: www.cdc.gov/hiv/preventi...

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

@pvandeweghe.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

Very last day of the undergraduate organic chemistry labs. It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series. Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 12 days ago • 170 comments

I just wrote a quick bit about 'genuinely contributing.' (This time with a working link) mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/genuinely-...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

Very last day of the undergraduate organic chemistry labs. It's the Claisen today, part of the bifunctional chem lab series. Goodbye dear ester, I'll miss your sweet smell. #ChemSky

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Huge blaze at new build student apartments block in Lancaster www.beyondradio.co.uk/news/local-n...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

submitted 14 days ago • 460 comments

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

submitted 15 days ago • 1129 comments