Tim Easun

Yes Ben. At some point you're going to have to create time for your final exam.
(That was right, right...?)

all academic applications should have consolation prizes.

doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”

Metals against AMR - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes at Nottingham Trent University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Metals against AMR - Understanding how bismuth inhibits metallo-β-lactamase enzymes at Nottingham Trent University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD position: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This is an interdisciplinary project where you get to do coordination chemistry with bismuth and zinc, as well as some microbiology and some computational chemistry - all in the name of combatting antimicrobial resistance.
Currently UK only.

In the latest publishing madness, I had a manuscript returned to me because it scored >15% in a 'similarity test'. On careful inspection, it was mostly matching the published thesis of one of the authors containing the results, and our own previous related study published in the same journal.

Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

From memes to valuable methods in chemistry.

Reminiscent of the halcyon days of chemtwitter.

Culminating in a very useful bit of knowledge if you ever find yourself with spare POCl3
#ChemChat

#chemchat
i need your best inorganic memes. Go

It is. We all learn something and it's fun 😁

#ChemChat

Aha, thank you!

You're still in the detail, I'm much more generalised than that.

However, I'm very happy to agree on one aspect and disagree on the other. We can meet in the middle.*

*that being somewhere along the C2 axis...

My friend, I was considering a bloomer sandwich to be cutting the *whole* bloomer in half horizontally, filling it with delicious contents, and then gorging on the result.

For what is a bloomer sandwich if not the whole bloomer? 😁

Still works, on gross structure.

That's my photo of it. Several passers-by were subjected to my explanation to my children as well 😂

Wikipedia link for the interested here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgu...

An ornate cup with green and red glass.

In the spirit of #ChemChat, here is one of my favourite bits of physical chemistry out in the real world: the 4th century Roman Lycurgus Cup.

Green in reflection, red in transmission, due to gold/silver nanoparticles in the glass, I finally got to see it for real a few weeks ago. Beautiful.

A sandwich should commonly have (in its gross structure) a horizontal mirror plane and at least (again in the gross structure) a C2 symmetry axis perpendicular to the mirror plane.

Like the cheese in a hot sandwich.

Yep. I have a square box that perfectly fits the slices of a particular loaf. Problem avoided.

I have recently added #ChemChat as a feed thanks to @stephy.bsky.social (and to @chemjobber.bsky.social for the concept)

If that's your sort of thing, here it is:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

I warn you though, mere moments in and I'm considering bread concepts (again). Enter at your own risk.

Aha, you are constraining a cut to a single plane in your bread slicing.
I should introduce you to my children. No such issues.

Aren't two separate slices from the same loaf philosophically the same as one slice cut in half? Two cuts of bread from a single source loaf in either case.

bsky.app/profile/step...

I dislike whatever change means that when I click in the search bar in Outlook it . . . doesn't actually focus the cursor in the search bar. So when I start typing nothing appears there and if I hit return because I'm not looking as I type, it opens whatever email is selected.

A piece of date and honey flapjack, a slice of chocolate cake, some cream and a few raspberries. They look, and were, delicious.

After a break over summer, we finally managed to reinstate baking for group meetings.

Thanks to Emily for the chocolate cake!

#ScienceFuel

I am onlooking as hard as I've ever onlooked to an exchange on this topic between the two of you on this platform.

That's the Jackson Index you're referring to, right? It'll be everywhere soon. To 4 decimal places.

Yes Brian, but in the UK it would be how much grant money you *spent* rather than grant money collected. Spend is income, they say.

See also "cost efficient not as good as wastefully expensive".