Nessa Carson

Found a bug ➡️ spent ages figuring out why the bug ➡️ fixed the bug ➡️ had a thought, checked it ➡️ now my tool (internal, sorry lol) has extra bonus functionality because it turns out the fix also makes something totally unexpected work! 🤩🤩🤩

Really nice paper: controlled, stepwise installation of up to 4 distinct organic groups onto a central Si. Works with a wide-variety of organic groups: basically anything that will tolerate organolithiums doi.org/10.1038/s441...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Without having seen any of the background, this article is full of baffling things 🧪 although correcting a retraction to make it even more non-usable is an interesting concept retractionwatch.com/2026/10/23/c...

Never noticed before but Thunderbird 2 is here at Manchester Airport! (Apparently it's a replica aircraft used for fire training.)

🤦‍♀️ I know I must be potty for science because I just saw a picture that included a very ornate chandelier, and for the first couple of seconds I thought it was a quantum computer 😳

For the love of science, seriously, advertise your conference 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you to AstraZeneca Macclesfield for hosting us today. Great to see the site and give a talk about what our group has been working on. #ChemSky

I now appear to be getting science spam that's signed off by myself...

Those on #chemsky #chemchat who knew him will be sorry to hear of the death of Ron Lancaster, founder of Kimbolton Fireworks and stuff-explainer of legendary quality. He was 95, and only a few years ago stopped going into work every day. Photos from RSC, here: www.facebook.com/share/1DbF4E...

Instead of removing graphical abstracts, borking RSS feeds, and hiding the view PDF button, I wish journal websites would work on what's most important – a dark mode option so I don't burn my face off every time I read your papers #chemchat

#ChemChat lol, lmao even

Nobody can keep up with @peonor.bsky.social on Duolingo, but at least we both have bright costumes 🐤🦄

Tigernometry

Cheers for the mthrfcking weekend! And it's an even better weekend when you have Jaguar calculations quietly running themselves no matter what you get up to 🎉🎉 🐆 #compchem #RealTimeChem

Check out these weird bots commenting actual chemistry on C&EN. If they didn't repeat themselves I'd think they were real people

When I play anything reasonably dramatic on the piano, my smartwatch thinks I'm using an elliptical really ineffectively

Now the @cenmag.bsky.social team understands how I feel... I spend a lot of time curating chemical data sources and the absolute prevalence of wrongness even in reputable sources (Nobel Prize vs CAS, for example) is... really not low 😁 #chemoinformatics #chemsky

I spent houuuurrrrsssss, to find that the trend was there is no particular trend #science #chemchat 🧪

I don't have stats on this, but I feel like I'm finally starting to see more #UKchemjobs in the pharma/CxO sphere pop up in the past few weeks/months. Anyone agree? I can't tell for real because my bubble will be very statistically noisy #chemjobs #chemchat

Really great perspective on scalability in self-driving labs, where the scale is the goal itself (as it often truly is, though literature frequently does not reflect this) Quick valuable read from Xiaonan Wang's excellent lab #chemsky doi.org/10.1038/s441...

I understood all the Swedish (that's... 1 sentence so far)!!! Big improvement on last year :D #chemNobel

On this #chemnobel eve, take a spin through the Nobel Prize nominations database with @laurahowes.bsky.social and @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky 🧪 cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

For Alán Aspuru-Guzik, boundaries between chemistry, AI, and robotics do not exist The 2024 Trailblazers guest editor gives chemists the tools to accelerate their science. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #HispanicHeritageMonth #chemsky 🧪

Finally I am a space robot on #Duolingo! My avatar's slightly alarming grin belies that they are rightfully as happy as I am about robots 😂 🇸🇪

Once upon a dream, somebody will raise an invoice either to or from a university, and it will not take *checks clock* 30 minutes to try and figure out whether it makes any sense, before concluding that it in fact does not (again)... :)

Hm I only just noticed, but in something I published years ago then the ACS editors changed words like "colour" in titles in the reference list to the American variants. Feels weird; I'd have thought you're supposed to leave citations alone?

"Oh I should just add a paragraph about this, then we'll have covered everything", × 10000 - why this perspective manuscript is so long 😵

Does it tell you anything about Swedes that there's a single word for this?! #langsky 🇸🇪

The AstraZeneca researchers’ tool uses cheminformatics and quantum mechanics to assess molecules’ conformations and transition states as part of pre-screening for problematic isomers. Kirstine Anderson reports: #ChemSky @rsc.org www.chemistryworld.com/news/tool-fl...

How is this so accurate though #chemchat

A few folks have asked how I make molecular animations from ChemDraw. Sadly, the answer has been “the old-fashioned way,” frame by frame. This was too slow. So I worked with Claude Science to create a webpage that animates your ChemDraws. Give it a try: rshenvi.github.io/cdxmorph/

My local tech group just had a prototype demo of a game for crowds (even whole stadia!) and I only caught the results as they were fading off the screen, but proof that I was a top player 😂😂

Omggggg!

Looooool I've only seen this written as "canonicalized" before Canonized SMILES strings sounds more like a @chemscrapes.bsky.social cartoon! 👼

Yes ACS it's called writing a citation-dense section of a publication 🙄 I guess JOC is off-limits for hopefully just a few minutes...

Reminder: Monday 5 Oct oral abstract deadline for the @rsc.org #FaradayDiscussion on Molecular Catalysis, 21-23 June 2027, St Andrews, UK. Visit rsc.li/molcat-fd2027 to submit an abstract and join in. #ChemSky #FD_MolCat #Catalysis

#chemchat check out the post that this is a response to for full appreciation of the joke

That. Is. Awesome. (Annoying for the team trying to figure it out, but really cool) #chemchat