Adrian Mulholland

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

Our Career Development Fellowships are now for applications. This scheme provides talented early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM with research funding and training opportunities to build a successful research career: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/caree...

Identifying an unusual structural feature in a cytochrome P460 enzyme - ChemShell Structural and computational studies indicate the presence of a haem-lysine double crosslink in Methylococcus capsulatus cytochrome P460.

High resolution structural biology approaches and ChemShell QM/MM simulations reveal an unusual structural feature in a cytochrome P460 enzyme, in research published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org

For more details: chemshell.org/mcp460-doubl...

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

Now might be a good time to repost this story about what scientists actually know about the complex causes of autism, and what's behind the increasing prevalence.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why reports of the demise of corporate climate action have been greatly exaggerated Global survey of corporate executives shows capital investment in sustainability and climate risk efforts is increasing - and so are the financial returns

Despite all the noises off, most big corporates are still increasing investment in sustainability, because climate risks and real and clean tech is competitive. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

Congratulations! And well said

#Bristol @bristoluni.bsky.social

Come and work with us in Bristol Chemistry, ranked #1 in the UK for research. We’re seeking outstanding candidates in:
Engineering biology
Synthetic biology
Chemical biology
Biophysics or biophysical tools
Biocatalysis
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There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.

This is simply false.

- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

Good to see @bsky.app has emerged as the social media platform of choice for science stuff
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

What’s really driving the rise in prevalence of autism? My @nature.com story looks at what scientists and the autism community have learned about the causes of autism and the growth in diagnoses. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’ The video platform is quietly using AI to “improve clarity” in uploaded content. Why?

YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform—without creators' knowledge. Alex Reisner reports on the concerning experiment:

A Debilitating Virus Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming Climate

“The World Health Organization is warning that current transmission patterns resemble a global outbreak that infected 500,000 people 20 years ago, contributing to a surge of new disabilities.
Although it is rarely fatal, chikungunya causes excruciating and prolonged joint pain and weakness.”

👀 look at that graph; 23-year record wildfire emissions in one week

Bidding farewell to Liza as she leaves to begin her PhD in California after a 6-month project on interactive virtual reality in the group. Thanks Liza and good luck!

1. David Ackerly (UC Berkeley) While his most-cited work is on leaf size and SLA, he also wrote explicitly about plasticity in leaf traits, including shape, in the context of ecological strategies. Example: Ackerly (1997), “Allocation, leaf display, and growth in fluctuating light environments: A comparative study of deciduous and evergreen species” (Oecologia). This emphasizes how plasticity in leaf traits mediates adaptation to light.

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

Map of Climate Shift Index: Ocean for 14 August 2025 showing th change in likelihood due to climate change. Most all areas in the Western Atlantic are at least 100x more likely due to climate change. Data is based on NOAA OISSTv2.1.

Waters are much warmer than average in the western Atlantic. Our Climate Shift Index: Ocean system indicates that these warm temperatures were made over 200x more likely due to human-caused climate change.

You can track this every day at @climatecentral.org: csi.climatecentral.org/ocean?lat=29...

2025 on track to beat UK record for wildfires, warn firefighters Professional body says firefighters ‘pushed to brink’ by climate crisis-fuelled blazes, as wildfire in North Yorkshire continues to burn UK firefighters have warned that 2025 is on track to beat the national record for wildfires, with frontline staff “pushed to their limits”. On Wednesday, a major incident was declared in the North York Moors national park, with 20 fire engines deployed to tackle at least 5 sq km of moorland which has been burning since Monday. Continue reading...

2025 on track to beat UK record for wildfires, warn firefighters

One of the reasons we love living in Bristol? The annual Bristol Balloon Fiesta of course! The event takes place every summer when the city sees hundreds of balloons take to the skies. Our CDT Administrator Cat took this photo from her balcony last weekend 😍

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

Nature story about the Executive Order...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World Health Organization says nearly 100,000 struck with cholera in Sudan

u.afp.com/SMX5

Photo of Sir John Meurig Thomas Medal

Nominations for the JMT Prize are open to Mid career scientists working in the UK in all fields of catalytic science and engineering. Help us find that person of outstanding achievement in catalysis. To nominate visit ukcatalysishub.co.uk/jmt-medal-2025
#catalysis #chemistry #ChemSky

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

#Bristol

Rare disease patients caught in Trump crackdown on foreign grant awards Rare disease research has been caught up in a Trump administration crackdown on NIH grants being used to support international collaborations

What's being lost as the NIH curtails foreign subawards?

Rare disease research, which often needs investigators in multiple countries to have enough patients to study, is being hit hard @mmolteni.bsky.social writes

www.statnews.com/2025/08/06/n...

Trump Comes for Public Universities, With UCLA Now in His Sights The University of California system agrees to negotiate with Trump after more than $500 million in federal research funds are frozen.

After months of waging a campaign against private, largely Ivy League institutions, the Trump administration has turned to the University of California, one of the nation’s biggest public-school systems.

I think this quote is both unsustainable and unsupported by the analysis in the piece. First and foremost, it portrays fraud as *consuming* science rather than merely growing alongside it. Much of the “fraud” in the paper is just metric gaming whackamole that doesn’t get read, cited or used.

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record - BBC News Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause of damage.

🌊 The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the worst coral decline on record

Recent months have seen severe impacts on the reefs from tropical cyclones and crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks. However, the primary cause of the decline is heat stress due to climate change

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...