To drop the snark for a moment, what’s extraordinary is that the UK govt would willingly undermine the vital public health messaging in the midsts of a pandemic which has killed 55,000 people and rising - just to save one wretched man’s job.

Every hour that Cummings remains in his position is a signal to the nation that people can ignore the rules and get away with it. Cummings has to go. werahobhouse.org.uk/sack-cummings/

Following the Cummings saga in the UK, this is spot on..

"In my defence, I got coronavirus and broke lockdown"

Richard Osman It’s currently on BBC1...

Why go back and edit a blog to make it look like you’re the People’s Nostradamus? If you’d predicted a pandemic, why wouldn’t you plan for it? Why wouldn’t you lockdown sooner and spare thousands of lives? It’s a Möbius strip of madness and bullshit.

Just horrific. An utter national catastrophe.

If you killed a man w/ health conditions, you still killed a man. George Floyd couldn’t breathe. 3 officers held him down, & one w/ a recorded, violent history kneed his neck as others helped. They waited 9 minutes for his last breath. This was not an accident. It was murder.

This is horrific.

We will be holding a free poster conference for 48 hours (starting on 00.00 UTC on 22nd July 2020). Thats 01.00 BST on 23rd July 2020. See rsc.org/events/detail/… for further details.

PM really did just say “I’m proud of our record” on #Covid19 Would that be the record of having highest excess deaths in Europe? Or being worst hit in Europe for percentage increase in deaths? With test & trace still not fully up & running, this beggars belief #PMQs

For us lucky folk who live in God's county, every day is Devon Day - but today is extra special. Today is St Petrock's Day who is the patron saint of Devon. The idea is to promote the best of Devon for the whole day in the hope of getting our fair county trending on social media.

Oh the irony...

Congratulations Aswin, and all the co-authors! So happy for all of you! Those long nights in the experimental hutches paid off! Crack open the prosecco!

As Angewandte Chemie admits the Hudlicky paper was approved by two referees and two editors, this earthquake of a response shows the strength of feeling. I just hope it gets translated into real action to enhance both the diversity and vitally the culture of chemistry.

Man who spoke of black people as “piccaninnies” now instructs us about his achievements in race relations. Utterly without shame.

Ecstatic about our latest paper! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… "Uneasy lies a pore that bears a crown", "A crown fit for a #zeolite"...all of the puns! Massive thanks to Asel Sartbaeva Keith Butler Jeff Armstrong Paul Raithby ISIS Neutron and Muon Source BZA SartbaevaGroup

Check out this case study on some work I have been doing on new materials for effluent treatment👍🏽 United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme Chem Birmingham afcp.nnl.co.uk/case-study/mat…

Happy to announce the publication of some of my research at Chem Birmingham on materials for clean up of radioactive effluents as part of Transcend Consortium Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme and working with United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory 🥳Check it out: aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.…