Jon Beves

Not this year I’m afraid and next year I’m not sure yet - but would love to come!!

That would be awesome! Most LEDs, including those that we use, are super broad, and with filters we often have dim light. We have other brighter and narrow LEDs, but these cost several $1000 including the power supply and controller units. But a cheap powered LED could be $5 and work for most apps

Yep, and you can absolutely do this if you have a) long enough thermal half-lives that you can separate without sig switching and b) be able to separate. The key issue is with lifetimes.

Thanks!!

Thanks! Let me know if there is anything that could be improved, or stuff we missed. I hope it be a useful resource

ANY comments would be very much appreciated, so thanks for any feedback!

#photoswitches: How should we determine errors on PSS distributions, and the absorption spectrum of the metastable isomer? We have been discussing this for years and have finally written a manuscript, including a python code to fit your data without human bias. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Crazy

Truly sad news today. Emma was an inspiring Dean of Science at UNSW and always dedicated to making a real difference in the world, as well as beaming with energy and positive vibes. A pleasure to work with and an inspiring leader in times when they seem so hard to find. She’ll be sadly missed.

Fantastic news, congrats Paul!

Registration for SupraChem2026 is open!
Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

13C satellite observation with a 1D 1H-13C HSQC NMR u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2018/08/13-c... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

PhD position available!

You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!

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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

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.

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

Congrats! Well deserved, your group is really pushing the field into new directions.

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 290 tenure-track positions and 34 teaching-only positions:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcB_oy4jXVGaqenGU31KYTi2KxvryzR1wt4Oo-_OcQ8/edit?usp=sharing #facultychemjobs #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying they will announce DP26 outcomes on Tuesday 28th Oct, and LP25r1 outcomes on Wednesday 29th.

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra).

My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately.

ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

Cancelled

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

Calling all synthetic chemists! We are looking for a new colleague at York University in Toronto 🇨🇦 for a 3 year limited term position as Assistant Professor (Teaching stream) in synthetic chemistry.

www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...

I even thought the term “shigemi tube” referred to the flat bottom ones for fixed volume measurements…

Applications Scientist - NMR, Oxford Instruments, Shanghai, China jobs.oxinst.com/job/Shanghai... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

We’ve also been thinking about this a lot in recent years. Even “well mixed” solutions are really very heterogeneous, even though we synthetic chemists don’t like to admit it, and it can change reaction outcomes…. #ChemSky

Max Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany) has a tenure-track opening in chemistry (asst/assoc): chemistryjobs.acs.org/job/tenure-t...

#facultychemjobs #euchemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Basically banned now :(

It upsets me greatly because I love an em dash and now they just scream “I didn’t actually write this”!

Go Make Me Fifty Kilos of This Stuff

Scaling up like this takes attention to every little detail, and a willingness to question your typical assumptions. Not everyone is capable of it!