🚨 We have a #PhDposition available from autumn 2024 UoBChemistry focused on developing #compchem models to understand and design #mechanochemical reactivity in molecular crystals! 🧑‍💻👩‍🔬 Get in touch if interested! Details here: tinyurl.com/uobmech

Join us in @UoSChemisty A reminder of 2 #compchem PhD studentships available, both developing methods for the discovery of molecular materials. Fully funded (fees and stipend) for UK and EU students. findaphd.com/phds/project/m… and findaphd.com/phds/project/g…

The Truss honours list should seal the fate of the House of Lords once and for all. Despite the good work of many of its peers this institution is an irredeemable symbol of cronyism, corruption and greed. Britain is no democracy with this upper chamber. For god’s sake abolish it.

Yesterday I successfully defended my thesis at Uni of Birmingham . A big thank you to my examiners, Adam Michalchuk and Steven Hepplestone, and Daniel Reed for chairing the viva! I especially want to thank Andrew M. and the Morris Group. I've thoroughly enjoyed my PhD!

I just finished the first week of my postdoc with Graeme Day at University of Southampton. Thank you to the Day group for such a warm welcome. I look forward to a productive few years!

*Full program* now published for the 2024 Gordon Research Conferences in Crystal Engineering (June 23-28 2024) - it's a great line-up & places are now filling up fast; apply soon if you'd like to attend: grc.org/crystal-engine… RT🙏 🧵1/8

It's great to see this work published in Nature Synthesis today. CSP work performed by Masih Hafizi. I was going to make a few comments on this work, but Andy Cooper has already summarised nicely. 👇

Delighted to be named amongst the outstanding reviewers for CrystEngComm - always a journal full of interesting solid state chemistry research!

Thirty years ago, the Channel Tunnel finally linked the United Kingdom and France! This feat brought people closer together, gave new impetus to our trade and confirmed the strength of our political relationship.

Wonderful news! Congratulations Yizhi (Catherine) Xu for obtaining the #START scholarship from FNP Foundation for Polish Science ! ChemistryUW Uniwersytet Warszawski #ProudPI

Just published in nature, our new paper with Graeme Day's group, "Porous isoreticular non-metal organic frameworks" (N-MOFs). Congratulations to Megan OShaughnessy who led this work during her PhD at University of Liverpool 🎉 nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵1/10

The Royal Society's manifesto for science sets out how the next government can build on the UK’s strengths as a home to cutting-edge innovations from green energy to healthcare, and nurture the next generation of scientists. Read more: #GeneralElection royalsociety.org/current-topics…

So happy to have graduated yesterday from Uni of Birmingham alongside Andrea Iliceto. Thanks again to Andrew M. for your supervision and to the whole Morris Group!

We're planning a workshop (in-person in Southampton, UK, early 2025) to offer training in our crystal structure prediction code (gitlab.com/mol-cspy/mol-c…). #compchem To judge the level of interest, here is a form to register interest: forms.gle/1pt3ZVWTj7NkFR…

Really interesting paper by yang et al on a NN for predicting inorganic crystal minima: nature.com/articles/s4146… It would be interesting to know how far from the minima your starting structure can be before the model fails.

Congrats Jordan Dorrell & all researchers who contributed. Jordan returned from the International Workshop on Data-driven Comp. and Theoretical Materials Design (#DCTMD) in Shanghai with an Innovation Award for our open Crystal Structure Prediction code gitlab.com/mol-cspy/mol-c…

🚨 Only 48 hours left! ⏳ Don't miss out on the inaugural webinar in AIchemy's Monthly Webinar Series featuring expert talks on supramolecular chemistry and materials discovery. 🗓 23 Oct 2024 🕒 14:00 - 15:00 (UTC) 🔗 Register now: : bit.ly/3NaRr3g #AIchemy #webinar

Nature research paper: Autonomous mobile robots for exploratory synthetic chemistry go.nature.com/40zRHRm

Considering making the move across to Bluesky , but a social media platform is only as good as the people on it. Anyone know if there's much of a Science scene over there yet? Also, is there a hosting service other than the default that's worth using?

I'm now online on bluesky at @stochasticchemist.bsky.social !