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Alexander Whiteside

@alexwhiteside.bsky.social

Physical chemist. Deputy Editor at @rsc.org

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Today I start my my new role as a Deputy Editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry! I'm pleased to say that I'll be continuing to support the portfolio of journals I worked on as an Assistant Editor, and will be building on the connections I've made with so many of you.

01.08.2025 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A homebrew barrel with a temperature probe.

A homebrew barrel with a temperature probe.

A little weekend microbiology (with apologies to actual microbiologists)

17.05.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The conference venue

The conference venue

The author

The author

A beautiful morning in San SebastiΓ‘n for AI4AM25! Great to be here representing @digital-discovery.rsc.org and the @rsc.org!

08.04.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AI4AM2025

Looking forward to visiting next week's Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials conference in San Sebastian! If you're attending and would like to meet and find out about @digital-discovery.rsc.org, get in touch! www.ai4am.net/2025/index.php

03.04.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Channeling my inner Blue Peter presenter for the eclipse.

29.03.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The front cover of Digital Discovery issue 3. Illustration of dividing materials for training to evaluate a machine learning model’s (robotic arm) ability to generalize and enable the discovery of new materials.

The front cover of Digital Discovery issue 3. Illustration of dividing materials for training to evaluate a machine learning model’s (robotic arm) ability to generalize and enable the discovery of new materials.

Digital Discovery Issue 3 is now available! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
In this issue: papers on autonomous laboratory scheduling, cross-validation protocols, geopolymer design and much more!

17.03.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Home | Women In Chemistry

Really looking forward to attending this Women in STEM πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬event at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social tomorrow 😊 !
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Thanks to the organisers Women in STEM UoN (linktr.ee/WiSTEM_UoN) for the invitation!

06.03.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A banner for the collection showing photographs of the Guest Editors.

A banner for the collection showing photographs of the Guest Editors.

Digital Discovery is issuing a call for papers on quantum computing in chemistry, material science and biotechnology, for our upcoming themed collection!

To find out more and contribute your work, see our blog post below:

blogs.rsc.org/dd/call-for-...

06.03.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hello BlueSky community! Digital Discovery is dedicated to publishing research on the development and application of machine learning, AI and automation tools at the intersection of chemistry, materials science and biotechnology. Follow us for our latest papers and much more! #ChemSky

03.03.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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#ChemTogether.

Forever.

#RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

10.02.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Sounds interesting! We could look at this as an Opinion article for the journal maybe. @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social please feel free to get in touch by email at digitaldiscovery-rsc@rsc.org to discuss it further.

25.02.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Daniel, happy to confirm that we'll be featuring GAs for Commits as with other articles.

29.01.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No reason not to from my point of view - I’ll confirm Monday

25.01.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aromaticity: Quo Vadis Aromaticity is one of the most deeply rooted concepts in chemistry. But why, if two-thirds of existing compounds can be classified as aromatic, is there no consensus on what aromaticity is? Οƒβˆ’, Ο€βˆ’, Ξ΄βˆ’...

One of the more popular perspective articles in #ChemSci from the past couple of years was this one on aromaticity:

doi.org/10.1039/D2SC...

The work covered why there is no real consensus on what constitutes aromaticity, covering theoretical and experimental methods to probe this.

#ChemSky πŸ§ͺ

11.12.2024 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
Breville kitchen rotovap

Breville kitchen rotovap

For every synthetic chemist who has ever wished for a rotovap in their kitchen, Breville now offers you this:

www.breville.com/en-us/produc...

06.12.2024 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
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Journal email alerts service Help us to only contact you with relevant emails and offers by using this form to manage your journal and other publication issue alerts (table of contents alerts) and your news alerts (most accessed ...

We're hard at work putting together the end-of-year newsletter for #digitaldiscovery! If you'd like to get a recap on everything that happened in the journal in 2024, sign up for news alerts here: www.rsc.org/journals-boo...

06.12.2024 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Royal Society of Chemistry Advancing excellence, connecting chemical scientists and shaping the future of the chemical sciences for the benefit of humanity.

Hello world. We're here to create chemistry with our growing global community. Find out more about us at www.rsc.org. What would you like to hear about from us on @bsky.app?

29.11.2024 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3

Glad to be writing for Chemistry World again! How do we teach computers to design effective drugs? The answer might not just be bigger models and more data. Thanks to Odin Zhang and RΓ© Mansbach for taking the time to discuss this paper!

27.11.2024 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds good! Could you add me Bee @beehockin.bsky.social ?

25.11.2024 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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