Fiona McMillan
@moraigmonkey.bsky.social
Personal account but share lots of fantastic work of RSC member networks - views all my own.
Lover of my kids, chemistry, Lego, Scotland and amazing but tiny museums.
Also vocal about autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, Star Trek and crochet.
Lover of my kids, chemistry, Lego, Scotland and amazing but tiny museums.
Also vocal about autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, Star Trek and crochet.
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We would like to wish you a very prosperous and productive Year of the Horse! To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are delighted to present a special collection of our popular recent articles, highlighting the work of authors from across China.
Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
#lunarnewyear
Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
#lunarnewyear
February 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
We would like to wish you a very prosperous and productive Year of the Horse! To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are delighted to present a special collection of our popular recent articles, highlighting the work of authors from across China.
Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
#lunarnewyear
Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
#lunarnewyear
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Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.
February 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything."
And.
Yup.
And.
Yup.
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Autism combined with other neurodivergences or disabilities (e.g learning disability) doesn't mean more "severe" or "profound" autism.
It means brains and bodies are complex.
How would an oversimplified label actually help autistic people who have high support needs? What EXACTLY does it tell us?
It means brains and bodies are complex.
How would an oversimplified label actually help autistic people who have high support needs? What EXACTLY does it tell us?
As the definition of autism has widened, there's a growing push to separate profound autism into its own diagnosis.
As some people push to make profound autism its own diagnosis, this family is raising twins with it
As the definition of autism has widened, there’s a growing push to separate profound autism into its own diagnosis.
bit.ly
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Autism combined with other neurodivergences or disabilities (e.g learning disability) doesn't mean more "severe" or "profound" autism.
It means brains and bodies are complex.
How would an oversimplified label actually help autistic people who have high support needs? What EXACTLY does it tell us?
It means brains and bodies are complex.
How would an oversimplified label actually help autistic people who have high support needs? What EXACTLY does it tell us?
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Share your ideas on how the chemical sciences ensure sustainable access to clean water for all needs in the IOCD & RSC annual essay competition!
Submit by 31 March 2026 for a chance to be published in @rscsustainability.rsc.org ▶️ https://rsc.li/46woCIK
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
Submit by 31 March 2026 for a chance to be published in @rscsustainability.rsc.org ▶️ https://rsc.li/46woCIK
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
February 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Share your ideas on how the chemical sciences ensure sustainable access to clean water for all needs in the IOCD & RSC annual essay competition!
Submit by 31 March 2026 for a chance to be published in @rscsustainability.rsc.org ▶️ https://rsc.li/46woCIK
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
Submit by 31 March 2026 for a chance to be published in @rscsustainability.rsc.org ▶️ https://rsc.li/46woCIK
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
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We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month.
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
'Reverse the cuts': RAS urges Vallance to avert scientific crisis
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has called on science minister Patrick Vallance to step in and prevent the "catastrophic damage to astronomy and space science" ...
ras.ac.uk
February 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month.
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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RSC responds to comments from Sir Jim Ratcliffe...
Statement also available on our website
www.rsc.org/news/rsc-rea...
Statement also available on our website
www.rsc.org/news/rsc-rea...
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
RSC responds to comments from Sir Jim Ratcliffe...
Statement also available on our website
www.rsc.org/news/rsc-rea...
Statement also available on our website
www.rsc.org/news/rsc-rea...
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Pride in STEM are still looking for nominations for this award - you have until the 1st March!
If you would like to consider me - over the last 5 years I have done asexual in STEM advocacy, engaged LGBTQ+ folks with science and helped raise the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists in education.
If you would like to consider me - over the last 5 years I have done asexual in STEM advocacy, engaged LGBTQ+ folks with science and helped raise the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists in education.
In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK!
Do you know someone who fits that description?
Nominate them here:
prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n...
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🔭
Do you know someone who fits that description?
Nominate them here:
prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n...
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🔭
Nominations open for our Decadal Awards | Pride in STEM
prideinstem.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Pride in STEM are still looking for nominations for this award - you have until the 1st March!
If you would like to consider me - over the last 5 years I have done asexual in STEM advocacy, engaged LGBTQ+ folks with science and helped raise the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists in education.
If you would like to consider me - over the last 5 years I have done asexual in STEM advocacy, engaged LGBTQ+ folks with science and helped raise the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists in education.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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#chembio and #bioorganic crowd: Registration to ESBOC is open. Join us on 27th-29th May for the oldest meeting in chemical biology in Europe, at the awesome Schlosshotel Pillnitz in Dresden!
Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!
Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
#chembio and #bioorganic crowd: Registration to ESBOC is open. Join us on 27th-29th May for the oldest meeting in chemical biology in Europe, at the awesome Schlosshotel Pillnitz in Dresden!
Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!
Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!
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Starmer is not perfect but he IS level-headed, willing to listen and focused on stability.
Of course they hate him. They want chaos.
Of course they hate him. They want chaos.
February 12, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Starmer is not perfect but he IS level-headed, willing to listen and focused on stability.
Of course they hate him. They want chaos.
Of course they hate him. They want chaos.
Tubaria hiemalis, aka Tubaria furfuracea var. hiemalis is known as the Winter twiglet. A feature of this fungi is that some of the larger caps curl back on themselves showing their gills. It is a common winter/spring fungi but it is a new species for this site in Cambridge.
February 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Hard to tell which international sports organisation has the least moral fibre, the IOC or FIFA.
Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete disqualified from skeleton over helmet tribute – live
Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete disqualified from skeleton over helmet tribute – live
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Per the Associated Press:
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry was waiting for Heraskevych at the top of the track when he arrived at around 8.15am Thursday, or roughly 75 minutes before the start of the men’s skeleton race. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Hard to tell which international sports organisation has the least moral fibre, the IOC or FIFA.
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Card shop’s open again lads. And I can 100% do a write and send service if you’re running late for anything…
All cards black for your message so most are multipurpose
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#bsnm #greetingscards #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
All cards black for your message so most are multipurpose
Dippyfishcards.Etsy.com
#bsnm #greetingscards #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
February 12, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Card shop’s open again lads. And I can 100% do a write and send service if you’re running late for anything…
All cards black for your message so most are multipurpose
Dippyfishcards.Etsy.com
#bsnm #greetingscards #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
All cards black for your message so most are multipurpose
Dippyfishcards.Etsy.com
#bsnm #greetingscards #mhhsbd #ukgiftam
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One amongst many reasons I won't use "AI". I'm autistic. By definition that means my brain thinks differently to the majority. AI spits out the average of its training set. By design it will water down my thoughts into mediocrity. I've done a lot of work to learn to celebrate my square-peg brain.
February 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
One amongst many reasons I won't use "AI". I'm autistic. By definition that means my brain thinks differently to the majority. AI spits out the average of its training set. By design it will water down my thoughts into mediocrity. I've done a lot of work to learn to celebrate my square-peg brain.
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📣 Are you an RAS Fellow or Friend? 📣
We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation.
Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation.
Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
February 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
📣 Are you an RAS Fellow or Friend? 📣
We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation.
Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation.
Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.
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For the First Time, Olympics Ban PFAS Waxes in Snow Sports undark.org/2026/02/10/o...
For the First Time, Olympics Ban PFAS Waxes in Snow Sports
Since the 1980s, athletes have been using fluorinated waxes on their boards, giving them "ridiculous" speed. No longer.
undark.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
For the First Time, Olympics Ban PFAS Waxes in Snow Sports undark.org/2026/02/10/o...
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TO RECAP:
- The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent
- They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein
- But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell
- The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent
- They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein
- But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell
February 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM
TO RECAP:
- The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent
- They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein
- But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell
- The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent
- They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein
- But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell
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Surprising we aren't seeing more stories like this one.
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Surprising we aren't seeing more stories like this one.
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
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Setting the standard for basically everyone
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Setting the standard for basically everyone
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#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12 1992! 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬 #histsci She also has a B.S. in chemical
February 9, 2026 at 12:41 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12 1992! 🐡🧪👩🏾🔬 #histsci She also has a B.S. in chemical