David Nelson
@davidjn.bsky.social
Pronouns: he/him
Reader in Chemistry, University of Strathclyde
Chief Scientific Officer, CataNiTek
Editorial Board Member, Communications Chemistry
H&S Rep., Strathclyde UCU
All views my own
#chemsky
http://djnelson.group
Reader in Chemistry, University of Strathclyde
Chief Scientific Officer, CataNiTek
Editorial Board Member, Communications Chemistry
H&S Rep., Strathclyde UCU
All views my own
#chemsky
http://djnelson.group
But but but but 'project fear'!?
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
But but but but 'project fear'!?
An interesting and thought-provoking read, if a tad depressing. This is certainly something that, in Chemistry at Strathclyde, we're trying to address early in first year to help students find their people.
Interesting piece on the university structures relating to (?causing?) student loneliness. 10min read.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
An interesting and thought-provoking read, if a tad depressing. This is certainly something that, in Chemistry at Strathclyde, we're trying to address early in first year to help students find their people.
Pretty sure when I was a student a ChemComm was three pages at most. Now it's five ... !!!
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pretty sure when I was a student a ChemComm was three pages at most. Now it's five ... !!!
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every company in 2025
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
every company in 2025
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We’re already deep into the ballot! Here’s your reminder, the ballot closes on Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t posted your vote yet, do it today. Every single vote counts.
Vote early. Vote yes.
#WeAreTheUniversity
If you haven’t posted your vote yet, do it today. Every single vote counts.
Vote early. Vote yes.
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We’re already deep into the ballot! Here’s your reminder, the ballot closes on Friday 28 November.
If you haven’t posted your vote yet, do it today. Every single vote counts.
Vote early. Vote yes.
#WeAreTheUniversity
If you haven’t posted your vote yet, do it today. Every single vote counts.
Vote early. Vote yes.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Opening the Laphroaig for the first time in too long ...
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Opening the Laphroaig for the first time in too long ...
In a change from dabbling in things I don't understand at work, I'm now dabbling in things I don't understand in the house.
(Specifically: why the heating isn't working properly)
(Specifically: why the heating isn't working properly)
October 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In a change from dabbling in things I don't understand at work, I'm now dabbling in things I don't understand in the house.
(Specifically: why the heating isn't working properly)
(Specifically: why the heating isn't working properly)
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Fantastic @centa.bsky.social PhD scholarship co-supervised with @rmlab.bsky.social
If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!
If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!
⚡️Exciting #PhDchat opportunity in our group @LeicesterChem.bsky.social!
🧪 2026-L05 “Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO₂ Valorisation” with @rmlab.bsky.social via @centa.bsky.social.
Help advance #Electrocatalysis and sustainable chemistry ♻️
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
🧪 2026-L05 “Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO₂ Valorisation” with @rmlab.bsky.social via @centa.bsky.social.
Help advance #Electrocatalysis and sustainable chemistry ♻️
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-L05 Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO2 Valorisation – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fantastic @centa.bsky.social PhD scholarship co-supervised with @rmlab.bsky.social
If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!
If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!
Academia seems to be that continual feeling that you're always doing your homework on the bus to school ...
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Academia seems to be that continual feeling that you're always doing your homework on the bus to school ...
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We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry | Andrew Weller
We are hiring a Postdoc! If you have PhD/PDRA experience in air sensitive, platinum group metal organometallics, are interested in using this expertise in single-crystal SMOM synthesis and reactivity,...
www.linkedin.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.
Solidarity with @leicesterucu.bsky.social colleagues - on strike to protect their institution, their colleagues, and their students
I don’t want to be on a picket line today. I’d rather be teaching my students or in the lab with @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social - not standing in the rain outside my own workplace.
But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.
But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.
October 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Solidarity with @leicesterucu.bsky.social colleagues - on strike to protect their institution, their colleagues, and their students
I've reached the stage of fatherhood where my work from home lunch is the leftovers from the wee man's dinners ...
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I've reached the stage of fatherhood where my work from home lunch is the leftovers from the wee man's dinners ...
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“Climate change is real - the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities is resulting in fundamental changes to our planet. It is increasing the risk of extreme weather, warming the ocean and causing ice caps to melt resulting in sea level rise,” 1/3
September 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Climate change is real - the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities is resulting in fundamental changes to our planet. It is increasing the risk of extreme weather, warming the ocean and causing ice caps to melt resulting in sea level rise,” 1/3
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First it's removing 'illegal' small boats migrants.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
First it's removing 'illegal' small boats migrants.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.
Our collaboration w/ @markstradiotto.bsky.social and team is now out in Chem. Eur. J. (@chemistryeurope.bsky.social)!
Mark's team used DalPhos ligands for Ni-cat. C-P couplings, which we supported with DFT calculations of reductive elimination.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
@cathweetman.bsky.social
Mark's team used DalPhos ligands for Ni-cat. C-P couplings, which we supported with DFT calculations of reductive elimination.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
@cathweetman.bsky.social
Nickel‐Catalyzed P‐Arylation of HP(= O)(R/OR)2 Nucleophiles with (Hetero)Aryl Chlorides Enabled by DalPhos Ligation
The development of broadly useful C-P cross-couplings of (hetero)aryl chlorides and HP(O)(R/OR)2 nucleophiles by use of nickel/DalPhos-based catalysts is described, along with findings from DFT studi....
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Our collaboration w/ @markstradiotto.bsky.social and team is now out in Chem. Eur. J. (@chemistryeurope.bsky.social)!
Mark's team used DalPhos ligands for Ni-cat. C-P couplings, which we supported with DFT calculations of reductive elimination.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
@cathweetman.bsky.social
Mark's team used DalPhos ligands for Ni-cat. C-P couplings, which we supported with DFT calculations of reductive elimination.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
@cathweetman.bsky.social
@ukri.org I note that here (www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w...) you use the term 'biological sex' and not gender when balancing SATs.
Why does what is (or was) in people's underpants matter here?
Surely this is about lived experiences and perspectives?
Why does what is (or was) in people's underpants matter here?
Surely this is about lived experiences and perspectives?
September 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
@ukri.org I note that here (www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w...) you use the term 'biological sex' and not gender when balancing SATs.
Why does what is (or was) in people's underpants matter here?
Surely this is about lived experiences and perspectives?
Why does what is (or was) in people's underpants matter here?
Surely this is about lived experiences and perspectives?
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Keir Starmer welcomed Israeli president Herzog to Downing Street as 200,000 Palestinians were forced to flee Gaza and Israel prepared for a further offensive.
September 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Keir Starmer welcomed Israeli president Herzog to Downing Street as 200,000 Palestinians were forced to flee Gaza and Israel prepared for a further offensive.
The multimillionaire class pretending to be on the side of the working class.
🔴Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner's 'Property Mountain'
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The multimillionaire class pretending to be on the side of the working class.
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Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.
Solidarity with colleagues at Edinburgh, fighting threatened job cuts proposed by their ineffective 'leadership'.
(And I STILL don't understand how senior heads didn't roll over the whole People and Money shit show)
(And I STILL don't understand how senior heads didn't roll over the whole People and Money shit show)
Today is the first of 5 strike days by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #DefendEveryJob www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/welcome-week...
Welcome Week strike — UCU Edinburgh
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Solidarity with colleagues at Edinburgh, fighting threatened job cuts proposed by their ineffective 'leadership'.
(And I STILL don't understand how senior heads didn't roll over the whole People and Money shit show)
(And I STILL don't understand how senior heads didn't roll over the whole People and Money shit show)
Shocking that our UCU 'leadership' deploy these horrific tactics to suppress industrial action
UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!
policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
policy.web.ucu.org.uk
September 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Shocking that our UCU 'leadership' deploy these horrific tactics to suppress industrial action
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Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!
A direct comparison of lithium tetra(n-butyl) manganate(II) and magnesiate: structural insights and catalytic hydroamination of styrenes
Previous studies have hinted at the similarities of Mn(II) and Mg alkyl complexes. Advancing this field, here we present a comparative study of tetra(n-butyl) lithium manganate(II) and magnesiate. Com...
pubs.rsc.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!
Don't ever be fooled into thinking Farage is a 'man of the people' - he is a grifter and a pound shop Trump.
September 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Don't ever be fooled into thinking Farage is a 'man of the people' - he is a grifter and a pound shop Trump.