Tim Schmidt

Hmm. Does that mean mercury price has spiked too?

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Florida's Surgeon General Is Now Peddling Fake Water In a recent social media post, Joseph Ladapo endorsed the use of structured water, which doesn't actually seem to exist.

Does this get me banned? gizmodo.com/floridas-sur...

1963 Triumph Spitfire

It doesn’t even have to be slop. Provide the right fodder and curate the results and it works well.

My private beer dispensary is called the h-bar.

This is bloody entertaining cricket but ripping through these Test matches so quickly is really ruining one of the most reliably comforting parts of summer (knowing you can fall asleep on the couch, full of ham and carbs, then wake up without having missed too much) #Ashes

Try laundry powder. Stick your hands in and then go and scrub. Works amazingly for motor oil and grease.

My IIT Bombay visitor is consorting with the enemy

Radicals will cause rapid photo degradation and the spf will be lost. The way spf is measured is using human subjects and burning them. We didn’t want to do that.

Mineral vs chemical sunscreens? Science shows the difference is smaller than you think New analysis shows one in three ‘mineral-only’ sunscreens contain UV-absorbing chemicals.

At UNSW, we’ve been looking into sunscreens. theconversation.com/mineral-vs-c... @jonbeves.bsky.social + Anna Wang. Also thanks to Thilini Ishwara.

I have a great sense of pride when I walk past this plaque.

Bright futures: UNSW scientists advance solar efficiency UNSW researchers are working towards a new generation of solar technology that could make sunlight work smarter – by turning one particle of light into two packets of energy.

Hopefully we can make this work!

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I still have to draw my own diagrams

It’s a great story. Ted Irving failed his PhD at Cambridge but the Australian National University gave him a job anyway and he ended up with a stellar career. Cambridge later gave him a DSc.

It’s a great story. Ted Irving failed his PhD at Cambridge but the Australian National University gave him a job anyway and he ended up with a stellar career. Cambridge later gave him a DSc.

I’d never heard of them

Student-led careers evening here at @unswchemistry.bsky.social

#chemnobel #chemsky #ozchem

Indeed, but Robson invented the field.

Huge news and broadly welcome. The only hesitation is that the MOFia will demand more funding. Melbourne will benefit in terms of ranking an LD prestige - we were better! Uta can argue with me about that. ;-)

Including Robson? It would have been unbearable here if he’d missed out due to others’ self publicity

Cover of the journal Nature Chemistry with the cover line "Every MOF you make"

If you've not got The Police/Sting in your head at the moment then you've clearly never seen this cover before.

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

Minute Cryptic - 1 October, 2025
"Blue feathers discarded?" (4,2,3,5)
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Great conference JD! @jd1278.bsky.social I hope to be back in Goa some time.

I hope not

AOSC2025 kicks off with Evan Bieske. #goa #aosc2025

I’m struggling…. But David, you’ll be happy to know you inspired us to include a cryptic clue in our School
Newsletter after you set one for a departed colleague some years ago.

Ok now this place is also on fire. See you in a few days when you’ve calmed down.