Peter Badge, the Nobel Laureate Portrait Photographer, opened the Nobel Heroes Gallery at a CSGKC Enterprise-China-Guangzhou Singapore event this afternoon. I found myself being photobombed by myself!

My talk abstract for an event at the Science History Institute (Philly) was accepted. The conference theme is Storytelling as Pedagogy: Historical Biographies in STEM and Social Studies. Woo-hoo!

Many thanks to Michael Haley - UOregon Chemistry Darren & other faculty & students for inviting me to be your 2024 Klemm Lecturer University of Oregon. I met tremendous young PIs, talked science with great students, & enjoyed great hospitality in this lovely part of the world 🙏🍷❤️

I visited the SingChin Academy in Guangzhou this morning. It is a new school established by the Singapore & Chinese Governments. I met with the instigators & teachers before taking to the stage to tell my life’s story & field questions from 600 primary and high school students.

It’s a Scottish Bagpipe, for sure, you can tell that from miles away🎵🎵

And the reward for job well done, ⁦Dave Leigh⁩ gets to enjoy some awesome older pinot not from Oregon!

Cyclooctatetraene-Embedded Carbon Nanorings (Qing-Hui Guo and co-workers) Zhejiang University Fraser Stoddart @tsinghua_uni onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Fantastic talk by Jon Beves at the Photoswitches for Energy Storage and Beyond meeting, showing the intricacies of metal complex switching through the ligands.

With Denise (a white sock lawyer) it is off to the ⁦National Academy of Sciences⁩ meeting. Looking forward to honoring the new inductees (congrats again!) and meeting many friends in Washington D.C.

Meet Yuanning Feng!

An alumnus of Fraser Stoddart, he is currently a faculty member at Univ. of Oklahoma, focusing on the design and synthesis of dynamic functional molecules and materials, mimicking molecular behavior in organisms.

Discover more - bit.ly/4akr8BX

Excited to celebrate my colleague, Prof. Mark Hersam, on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Mark's innovative research in materials science truly raises the bar. Congratulations!

Awesome first lecture from ⁦Dave Leigh⁩ as the 2024 Klemm Lecturer, sprinkled with many magic tricks with the grad students. Looking forward to lecture #2 on Friday! Also today it was announced that he became a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!

Congratulations Dave Leigh on election to the Academy! Great to see molecular ratchets and ratcheteers recognized, fabulous news and very well deserved.

Join us tomorrow 4/24 @ 5 pm for 'Chemistry for a Healthy World' presentations & a panel discussion with Profs. Michael Jung, Heather D Maynard, Ellen Sletten Stuart Conway Stuart Conway You don't want to miss it! Learn more: chemistry.ucla.edu/events/chemist… Physical Sciences UCLA UCLA College

I couldn’t agree more, Omar. It can also be a lot of fun for the team.

Out in Nature Chemistry with Guillaume De Bo grp. Overhand knot substantially increases scission of polymer under tension (≥2.6× faster); deformation by knot tightening activates otherwise unreactive bonds. Congrats Min Zhang Fredrik Schaufelberger Lucian &Rob! shorturl.at/dv037

Insane! All you can say is that it keeps people employed at our expense.

As someone who is constantly writing to university administrators to get off my back and take a run and jump to themselves, my admiration for the Duke of Wellington knows no bounds.

Complete idiots!

Sock it to them, Steve!