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Nikita Harvey
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NMR Facility Manager at UCL School of Pharmacy, violist, asexual, nerd and all round bibliophile. She/her 👩🏾‍🔬💜
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hello Bluesky! I'm Nikita (she/her), an NMR facility manager based in London. Came over for the lovely #NMRchat community, but I also love nerding out over fantasy and classic literature, especially #Tolkien and #JaneAusten. Also an amateur violist 🎻, asexual and British Indian. #AceInSTEM #ChemSky
Selfie of Nikita with her viola 400 MHz NMR spectrometer at the School of Pharmacy. The photo is a close up of the magnet with the sample changer. Nikita's hands decorated with mehndi (henna) and wearing red and gold bangles for a Hindu wedding celebration The Strand (London) at night. Christmas decorations are up and a bus is coming towards the camera.
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12d
🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.
Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 29d
So excited that our lab's first home-grown paper is now available on ChemRxiv!

Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion | doi.org/10.26434/che... 🧲🧪
Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion
Ligand-observed NMR is a key tool for detecting weak protein-ligand interactions, but translating binding signals into meaningful affinity measurements remains difficult, limiting the ability to rank ...
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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · Sep 23
Is it OK for me to collect NMR data while the magnet is being refilled with liquid helium? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2011/09/reso... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · Sep 18
Looking forward to giving a webinar tomorrow with @nickynak3.bsky.social about our efforts to establish a 19F NMR fragment screening platform at UCL. Register below and join us to find out more!

Friday 19th September, 2pm (UK)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR @ucltro.bsky.social
Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just assembled my own NMR 'LABO' set thanks to @fredaperras.bsky.social! Now I only need to buy a head which actually fits on the body 😂 #nmrchat
Lego set of a DNP-NMR lab, complete with a printed instruction 'Labo' booklet. A headless Lego lab person holds a flask while a head resembling Nikita's is lying on the floor because it didn't fit on the body
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Aug 27
There's nothing quite like struggling through a day's worth of experiments (including the spec deciding to lock onto the wrong solvent just for funsies) and then just before leaving finally - finally! - getting proof of protein-ligand binding 😅 #nmrchat
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · Aug 26
Imagine if people showed pride for their country by making it a genuinely nice place to be and welcoming others so your actual actions reinforced the very thing you are proud of
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 25
MOOC NMR 2025 training course (in three parts) 🧲
The first part, Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, from Sep 23 to Nov 10, 2025. Free registration is now open. Make sure your students are enrolled, excellent introduction to NMR! www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/b... #NMRchat @olivierlafon.bsky.social
Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMR : A powerful technique to probe the structure and dynamics of molecules
www.fun-mooc.fr
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Aug 22
Ring: take over Gondor and then the world
Boromir: tempting. need

Ring: all shall love you and despair
Galadriel: tempting what a test

Ring: do so much good that you become a god
Gandalf: don't! tempt me frodo!

Ring:
Sam:
Ring:
Sam:
Ring: like a, like a really big garden
Sam: I'm good
Ring: fuck
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Aug 19
Have a read of this article from SoP's own @rachael-dickman.bsky.social, Duncan Browne and others discussing how we can foster a safe and productive environment in chemistry labs. It's so crucial that we develop a culture of responsibility, for everyone's sakes. #ChemSky
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Building safer laboratories by evolving culture and practice
Fostering a safe and productive environment in the laboratory is a challenge that faces both institutions and individual researchers at every stage of their careers. This Voices article shares perspec...
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 12
Olivier Lafon @olivierlafon.bsky.social has been appointed to the rank of Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) infranalytics.eu/en/science/2... #NMRnews #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Aug 4
Let them dance!
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Jul 25
Friday, September 19, 9 am UK, Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy, Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social and Christopher Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 20
Yep! I usually end up saying this most to Operations/Estates/contractors.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 16
Simple transfer of 190ul into a 3mm tube took my robot almost exactly one minute for one sample, including the clean step.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 15
If it would help, I can find out the time per sample for a specific method e.g. straight transfer of 600ul per sample to a tube?
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 15
If you're regularly prepping 96 well plates with the same or similar methods then I think a prep robot is well worth it. It may not be quicker overall than hand prep (though it can be pretty efficient with non-viscous liquids) but you'll get more reliable ergonomic prep with less hands-on time.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 15
I've also found that they have a very limited selection of plate configurations. A student came to me with the well plates she was using for UV, but the needle didn't go down deep enough into the well and the safeguards won't let me create a minus Z-axis offset.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 15
In theory we can use an Excel sheet to submit jobs to the queue, which is incredibly helpful when we have varieties of volumes to transfer or a complicated sequence of transfers. Unfortunately their macro has broken on my computer and they haven't figured out how to fix it. I think they've given up.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 15
We've got one! We've been using it to prep fragment cocktails for our screening service. It's good in that it works well, but there are caveats. Switching between solvents is a huge faff, for example.
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Glenn Facey @uottawanmr.bsky.social · Jul 12
Three simple ways to follow chemical reactions with your NMR spectrometer u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2008/10/kine... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
Kinetic Experiments on Bruker Spectrometers
Students often have to monitor the progress of a chemical reaction as a function of time using NMR spectroscopy. I have written three simple...
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Luc Reym⌬nd @lreymond.bsky.social · Jul 10
I love the shine of Silicon Rhodamine in the morning sun ✨
A closeup image of a small cylindrical glass tube used for NMR spectrocopy filled with a blue dye solution that shines a faint pinkish light.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 10
Today we're having a cooling/heating rack installed into our NMR liquid handling robot! This should help keep protein and DNA samples stable during prep for our 19F fragment screening service #NMRchat

www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/abo...
Two Bruker engineers installing the cooling rack on the SamplePro Tube liquid handler Bruker SamplePro Tube liquid handler with the new cooling rack installed. The cover is open and the robot is lit by a blue LED strip.
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 7
I have 'acquired' one that's no longer wanted and am keeping it as a souvenir / using it as office decor 😁
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Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social · Jul 7
Very proud to have taken the lead in organising the UK NMR manager's meeting last month and to have helped with the @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social postgraduate discussion group here at UCL! It was a fantastic pair of meetings: www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/new...
Nikita standing in front of a projector screen showing the agenda for the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers Meeting 2025 Prize winners from the RSC NMRDG postgraduate meeting. Back row: Jack Bertovici (poster prize winner), Darshil Kapadia (oral runner-up), Katherine Bonham (oral runner-up), James Williamson (poster runner-up), Dr Ralph Adams (NMRDG Secretary). Front row: Dr Chris Waudby (host), Ella-May Hards (oral presentation winner), Meshezabeel Narciso (poster runner-up), Anupama Acharya (poster runner-up). Attendees of the Royal Society of Chemistry NMR Discussion Group postgraduate meeting 2025 standing at the UCL School of Pharmacy entrance
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