Lewis MacKenzie

More impressive optogenetics results utilizing #upconversion nanoparticles to help repair spinal cord injury

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A bright green grain amongst the natural colours of the small pebbles on the beach.

Tiny treasure revealed by the low tide at Cove today. Uranium glass #Everydayelements 🧪
Popular and fashionable between 1880-1920, which coincides with the post industrial movement of wealthy Glaswegian merchants out of the city to large country houses in this corner of the Firth of Clyde.

I'd love to know more about how chemosynthetic life evolved. Like, is it truly ancient, or is it more recent in evolutionary terms? Do we know?

“The company I keep is not corporate enough”: exploring the specificities of University startups - The Journal of Technology Transfer If universities produce the best scientific research, should university startups produce the best entrepreneurs? The answer is no, when looking at the empirical evidence, and also (as done here) when ...

🏫 University startups ≠ corporate startups

A new review shows academic entrepreneurs face unique hurdles; unlike corporate founders they must reinvent their identity to succeed in the market.

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#SciComm #HigherEd 🧪

New elegant chiral spectroscopy approach by group of Robert Cameron (Strathclyde): chirality of small molecules can be assessed via circular polarisation signals in Rayleigh scattered laser light (probing and detecting at same λ)

#ChemSky #Optics #Physics

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Some photos from The Clyde today

Thanks for asking your colleauges, I really appreciate that!

I must admit as I'm a bit clueless on how to do a hydrogen deuterium exchange. This aspect of chemistry is very far out my wheelhouse. I'd love to find out about the methods!

Are there any polymer research groups or suppliers in the UK capable of making/selling deuterated polyethylenimine (PEI)? 👀 I'm looking to buy or collaborate if possible #ChemSky

Nice paper by group of Nick Kotov on using graph theory to map complexity in nanomaterials pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

The astrophysical equivalent of this Simpsons bit

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Reptile Emotion' would be a great name for an hardcore-Emo band

I do get red chlorophyl autofluorescence from my houseplants!

Bioscience folks - are there any low costs fluorescent biology things I could safely use for outreach displays and which don't actually involve culturing things? #fluorescenceFriday

RSE June Almeida Medal Recognises exceptional achievement in business, public service and public engagement by an early career researcher.

Dr June Almedia was responsible for the first-ever image of a coronavirus, yet she is not well known in Scotland, where she grew up. So it is great to see that the Royal Society of Edinburgh have an early career medal in her name!

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A skeleton of the giant fossil camel Camelops at La Brea

I love how names for fossil creatures can be like Smilodon, “knife tooth,” or Aenocyon, “terrible dog,” and then there’s Camelops, a giant Ice Age camel whose name means

camel face. 🧪

#Nanotechnology feature on the Clyde as part of the Strathclyde Uni images of research 2023

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data - Nature Cell Biology Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data visualization research in a checkl...

Lots of invaluable advice here for both early stage researchers and well established folk. Well thought out impactful figures are key to getting your points across, and it's all too common to see poor practice 🧪🧬🖥️🌍 #datavis #bioinformatics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is what they look like under normal room lighting - keep an eye out for them in UK charity shops!

The most gothic partyware you'll find: Bagley 'Cocktail Time' dishes in green fluorescent uranium glass. Made mostly pre-WWII in England.

Oh I gotcha, thanks for the clarification! I was gawping at a gif of it on reddit and hadn't quite appreciated that it was yet to come!

Is there a typo in the Mars Encounter date - presumably it should be October 3rd 2024?

After a few more precovery observations, and follow-ups, it became clear this object is on a hyperbolic trajectory through the solar system. This means the eccentricity is > 1. Early data was suggesting it was as high as 10! This is by far the highest eccentricity of any object ever discovered.

A black-and-white photo of a high, rocky cliff on a comet. Icy sand pools at the bottom of the cliff and is scattered with large boulders. The black of space provides the backdrop.

#PPOD: Captured by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, this incredible image shows a one-km-high cliff on Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, better known as 67P. The ragged cliff, as featured here, was imaged by Rosetta early in its mission. Credit: ESA; Additional Processing: Stuart Atkinson 🧪 🔭

@eso.org has this really cool paper model of the Extremely Large Telescope and I just finished mine! I got the kit at EAS but you can get it for free with instructions online! Thanks ESO ❤️🙏

www.eso.org/public/produ...

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I'm finally watching For All Mankind and it's just as good as I'd hoped. Plus scenes like this! 🥹👌

I was at the #BBSRC fellows meeting in London this week. Excellent conference, really well run (thank you to all involved with organising), and it's really great to hear about so much exciting bioscience from the current and new fellows!

Days like today I wonder if collecting antique uranium glass and having an equipment grant with the word "centrifuge" in the title were wise life choices.

In these turbulent times, beautiful microscopy always cheers me up 😍. Here's a quail neural tube just doing its thing for #FluorescenceFriday. Imaged by the very talented
@vanderspuy.bsky.social
#devbio 🧪🔬👩‍🔬

Really cool to see that 96 well plate oxygen sensors are now available from Firesting GMBH. That's a really nifty technology!

YouTube video by INCT-CPCT Divulgação Científica Análise de mais de 1600 canais de química no Youtube de 2005 a 2023

I did a video interview explaining my team's research into how chemistry YouTube channels are teaching science to the world (English with portugese subtitles). #SciComm #YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76H...