Dr Jay

Tthere’s zero percent chance that this doesn’t go horribly wrong.

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Current state of being:

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

“On today’s X, #AcademicTwitter is dead. And most scholars in the world do not want to be active on what the platform has become.” ~ @claesdevreese.bsky.social

So America is now an abusive country. This is the language of abusers.

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

The Royal Society of Chemistry is supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week.

#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek is coming to an end but our work to improve inclusivity is not. Our resources can help any organisation make the workplace adjustments so all of their staff thrive.

Explore our dedicated neurodiversity webpage to learn more: buff.ly/Qz3lrJX

#NCW #ChemSky

We're delighted to announce that Duncan Graham has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of ChemSocRev!

Check out the video below where Duncan talks about taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief and his ambitions for the journal.

Learn more on our webpage! 👉 www.rsc.org/news-events/...

Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...

Sir Gareth telling it like it is. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Scientia Professor Martina Stenzel

It's in good hands though at the RSC under the stewardship of EiC Martina Stenzel (www.unsw.edu.au/staff/martin...), who was one our first Scientific Editors and also one of the best too!

MH (as we call it internally) was our first journal to use a scientific editor model and introduce "Focus Articles" and "New concepts" boxes so it was a fun journal to get to grips with. I haven't worked on it for about 7 years, but it's still a journal that I care a lot about.

Honestly cannot believe it's been a decade of @materialshorizons.rsc.org. I was the journal coordinator when it started so I remember some of these papers pretty well and was the handling editor for a couple of them as well. #ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Interesting statistics from eLife about their Publish, Review, Curate model. Notably it does come at the expense of quite a high "reject without review" rate.

#RSCPoster 2025 Join our 24-hour online conference on LinkedIn 4 March 2025 12:00 (UK time) Save the date.

The @roysocchem.bsky.social annual poster competition is taking place on LinkedIn again in 2025. Join us there in March!

#ChemSky #RealTimeChem

Update: autistic child has since been suspended from school for 2 days before half term and now banned from the attending holiday camp due to her behaviour. Not sure how we’ll manage Easter or god forbid the summer holidays unless we can find some kind of SEN provision. Not liking 2025 tbh.

RIP Amos Smith: www.chem.upenn.edu/news/2025/02...

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If I could afford to do that I would but not the case I’m afraid. Just for fun I also caught COVID this week. Yay 2025!

If I’m not particularly active here at the moment it’s really a bandwidth issue with my brain. Between general busy nature of my job & parenting I really don’t have much time for anything. Also your autistic child being excluded from after school club really is not conducive to productivity at all…

All these years of running #RealTimeChem did I miss a trick by not becoming a crazy right wing nut job promoting conspiracies and lies about chemistry? I could have been rich, rich I tell you.

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

I already felt good about leaving X Elon, there's no need to keep selling it to me.

He's always wanted to go to Mars....so....

Agreed. He's really young so could be president for the next 70-80 years. He's Kim Jung Un basically. Trump loves North Korea, he saw in that country exactly what he wants. Hell he said so once that he wanted people to treat him as they do KJU. It's sick, but here we are.

This isn’t going to be a 4 year deal, they aren’t going to let anyone else in again. Why would they? They’re going to find some way to make Trump President for life & he’ll then pass it down to Jr.

With this ridiculous idea of training AI using social media we should all be regretting those “what is this? Wrong answers only” posts, shouldn’t we?

Pound shop dictator energy.

Won’t someone think of the shareholders!?!?!

I got my start in work at BHS, a simple weekend job and it taught me a lot of valuable life skills especially surrounding customer service and time management. By the time my children need to get their first job will there be any...?

Very sorry to hear that, had a the same experience recently with a former University classmate.