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Ellis Crawford

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Scientific Editor, RSC. Views my own. Background in computational chemistry and education. Sci-fi, blackgaze, queer horror books, MMOs - including an insistent love of Phantasy Star Online

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · Nov 25

Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added!

tinyurl.com/ChemSkyStart...

#ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪

Bluesky Chem Starter Packs

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Jim White @jimwhite-rsc.bsky.social · 13h

Come join our four excellent speakers at our upcoming webinar on the physics of nanomaterials! Register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

RSC Desktop Seminar: Americas Emerging Investigators - Nanophysics
Monday 10 November 2025 at 3 PM EST and 8 PM GMT

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Faraday Discussions @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org · 13h

There's still time to join us in Edinburgh for the Emerging materials for optoelectronics applications Faraday Discussion! #Chemsky

🚨 ORAL ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit yours by 27 October 2025

📅 Mark your calendars for 1 - 3 July 2026

More info ➡
www.rsc.org/events/detai...

@rsc.org

An R-S-C promotional graphic for the Faraday Discussion "Emerging materials for optoelectronics applications", to be held from 1-3 July in Edinburgh, UK. The oral abstract deadline is 27 October 2025.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12h

Couches cost what i thought cars cost as a little kid. Cars cost what i thought buying a condo cost as a kid. I was a stupid kid

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah no I get it. I like. Totally get it.

Ok um. This is a 8.5x11 inch piece of paper taped to the wall that says no smoking, so far so good. But then there’s a person whose head is a peeled orange (yes it does have a nose thank you for asking), and it’s holding a slice of orange. Its body is a person. Under the person says fine 1000 yen Osaka city

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 23h

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 7d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 8d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Dr Bee Hockin @beehockin.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar Yaghi! #chemsky

Our recent Faraday Discussion on MOFs was opened by Omar Yaghi and closed by Susumu Kitagawa. You can read the full collection of papers below:

@faradaydiscussions.rsc.org

MOFs for energy and environmental applications Home

pubs.rsc.org

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Dr Bee Hockin @beehockin.bsky.social · 8d

Omar Yaghi's opening remarks on the "eye" of the molecule highlights the importance of precise description of reticulated structures #chemsky

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

‘Eye’ of the molecule—a viewpoint

If the twentieth century was the age of precisely designed molecules, the twenty-first century is beginning to look like the age of reticulated molecules. In the spirit of the Faraday Discussion meeti...

pubs.rsc.org

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Susan Weatherby @susanfjw.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder: 13 Oct deadline for abstract submissions. Join in the @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org on #Optoelectonic materials to discuss how structural, electronic & optical properties effect device performance. #ChemSky

Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · Sep 5

Our #FD_Optoelectron is in Edinburgh in July – join us and share your work on novel materials for optoelectronics with peers and leading experts.

Oral abstract submission is now open. Submit by 13 October: rsc.li/optoelectron-fd2026 #ChemSky

Promotional graphic by the Royal Society of Chemistry for an event titled 'Emerging materials for optoelectronics applications' happening 1-3 July 2026 in Edinburgh, UK. Features a close-up view of a circuit board. Includes details of the oral abstract deadline on 13 October 2025 and a 'Submit now' button linking to the Faraday Discussions.

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Susan Weatherby @susanfjw.bsky.social · 8d

Join in the latest @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org on #batteries. The discussion on the Solid Electrolyte Interphase #SEI will focus on new insights gained from improved computational/experimental tools and advances in materials design. Submit an abstract by 27 Oct. #ChemSky

Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · Sep 1

Our Faraday Discussion #FD_Batteries is in London in July – share your work & help us evolve our understanding of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on reactive lithium metal anodes and beyond.

Oral abstract submission is now open. Submit by 27 October: http://rsc.li/batteries-fd2026 #ChemSky

Promotional image for Royal Society of Chemistry's event titled "Solid Electrolyte Interphases in Next-Gen Batteries," scheduled for 13–15 July 2026 in London, UK. Features a graphic of stylized battery technology and the text "Oral abstract deadline: 27 October 2025, Faraday Discussions. Submit now" against a dynamic blue and purple background.

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Stuart Batten @sbattenresearch.bsky.social · 8d

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 8d

Time to break out this pic of me being strangled by a future #Nobel Laureate in 2017… #Chemsky #chemnobel…

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Nanoscale Journals @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org · 8d

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...

Promotional graphic with text reading: Celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 8d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 8d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 8d

Well, well... who wants to be cited at the beginning of one of my papers next year? #NobelPrize

The first three references in my tutorial review, respectively citing the foundational works by Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi in the field of MOFs.

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 9d

Is this satire

The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 9d

'There’s a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they’ve moved into those values and helped advance Scotland’s reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation' || Kevin McKenna 👇

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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics @pccp.rsc.org · 9d

📢 Themed Collection in memory of David R. Yarkony:
Nonadiabatic events & conical intersections

🧪 Highlighting recent advances in nonadiabatic processes, conical intersections & their impact across physical chemistry.

🗓️ Submit by 1 June 2026

🔗 blogs.rsc.org/cp/2025/10/0...

@rsc.org #chemsky #PCCP

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 9d

Stopped reading / subscribing to the Guardian years ago because the paper just kept on making up things about trans people.

The amount of damage that the paper has done with misinformation, half-truths, outright lies and promoting gender critical views is staggering.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 10d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · 9d

Back to the one album on repeat listening habits

A screenshot of the "Top Tracks" list from a music streaming service showing the user's most played songs over the last 7 days. All seven tracks are by the artist Wounds of Recollection, ranked by number of scrobbles. The top track is "Sleep With the Lights On" (83 scrobbles), followed by "Everyone I Love Will Someday Die" and "Places From a Movie Scene" (both with 80), "Last Moments on Earth" (77), "Blue Bird on the Tarmac" (74), "Your Last Christmas" (70), and "I Found the Love That I Was Looking For" (68). Each entry includes a small album cover showing a landscape at dusk or dawn and a heart icon indicating the track is liked.

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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · Apr 21

Really, biologists??? 🐝

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wearing N95s when you're in public saves lives 🇵🇸 @masksaregood.myatproto.social · 10d

I always think of this quote (from They Knew by Sarah Kendzior) when people say this.

"'nobody saw it coming' is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody"

Text from "They Knew" by Sarah Kendzior:

As I wrote in Hiding in Plain Sight, the oft-recited claim that
"nobody saw it coming" is an admission of whom the speaker considers to be nobody. In the United States, "nobody" historically included women, immigrants, poor people, and anyone who is not white. People dismissed as nobody are those most likely to be affected by a terrible situation and therefore the most likely to warn about it in advance. "Somebody" is a similarly convoluted category. For centuries, to be somebody in the United States meant to be a wealthy white man or to be treated like one. This idea of "somebody" is baked into the founding of the country, in which only white male landowners were granted the right to vote. White, land-owning men who deviated from the establishment were often punished for their efforts: castigated as troublemakers or conspiracy theorists. The goal was to reduce them, at least in their ability to gain institutional support, to the status of "nobody."

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