Fiona McMillan

Promotional graphic with text reading: Celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆

Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

I'm really happy to see that MOFs got the Nobel prize, & that they picked these 3 scientists, who really drove the field. Especially Richard Robson, whose visionary paper showed the first synthesis & predicted the design & functionality of these materials #ChemNobel #Chemsky @rsc-pormat.bsky.social

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry

Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.

I hope they didn't try to charge you to enter!

Interior of a library with chairs arranged for an event featuring banners of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Humphry Davy Lecture 2025 - Burlington House, London

📅 Thursday, 23 October
🕕 18:00 for 18:30 start
🍽️ Buffet dinner follows

🎤 Speaker: Katherine Mathieson, Director of The Royal Institution
“The application of science to the common purposes of life”

🔗 Register by 14 Oct: rsc.li/4mJwg7P #ChemSky

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

A remarkable transformation in @rsc.org prizes.
30% of prizes recognise teams rather than individuals (up from 5%).
36% of prize-winners are early-career (up from 4%)
38% of prize winners are women (up from 25%)
Twice as many prizes for work outside universities.
www.rsc.org/policy-and-c...

🔬 Submit your abstract for BMCS Postgraduate Symposium XIX!
📅 Event: 8 Jan 2026, Manchester
❗ Deadline: 7 Nov 2025
Open to PhDs/postdocs in bio/med chem.
📧 Send to: events@hg3.co.uk
🔗 Info: www.rscbmcs.org/events/psxix/

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology/Medicine, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on peripheral immune tolerance and regulatory T cells🏆
Free to read until the end of November👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
#NobelPrize

Beautiful art by a real life artist!

Illustration for the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025. It features several scientists working in a vibrant, plant-filled lab. A quote by William Gee from Griffith University, Australia, highlights the importance of challenging conventional wisdom in science. A call to action encourages viewers to find out more.

📢 The Sustainable Laboratories Grant 2025 is still open for applications!

Could you increase understanding in sustainable laboratory practices? Our grant will offer up to £10,000 to help you achieve this goal.
CLOSING SOON - Apply by 6 October: rsc.li/sustainable-labs-grant #ChemSky

Trump steps up pharma tariff threat Taxing branded drug imports could hit biotech innovators hardest

Trump is threatening punitive tariffs on patented and branded medicines, unless they build US manufacturing plants. That might look like an attempt to coerce multinationals to invest but that view belies the complexity of the industry and its supply chains.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/trum...

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

May we all be difficult women - in my experience all it takes is to have an opinion.

On 12 November we will be hosting the prestigious Stone Symposium here in Bristol.

Paul Pringle (Bristol) is this year's Stone Lecturer, with further talks from Liam Ball (Bristol), Michelle Ma (@kclchemistry), and J. Derek Woollins (St. Andrews)

Find out more and register: t.co/KgxZq0DgjK

The Panorama investigation about the Met confirms my argument that all the racists know they are racists. They happily talk about it to other racists. We should ignore their faux outrage when being called out.

🗣️ Last chance to submit your oral abstract for the RSC CNN Annual Symposium 2026!

📅 Deadline: 30 Sept 2025
📍 12–13 Jan, Burlington House, London
🔗 rsc.org/events/detail/81692

#chemsky #nanosky

Professor Derya Baran, 2025 Energy & Environmental Science lectureship winner, featured in a Royal Society of Chemistry promotional image.

We’re delighted to announce Professor Derya Baran as the winner of this year’s EES Lectureship! Huge congratulations Derya, from everyone in the Energy & Environmental Science (EES) editorial board & editorial office.

Read her latest work 👉 https://rsc.li/42H542r @ees-journals.rsc.org #ChemSky

🏆 Nominate now for the 12th Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Award in med/computational chemistry!
🎯 For outstanding contributions to medicine discovery
📅 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
💷 £2,000 prize
🔗 Info: www.rscbmcs.org/awards/capps...

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein Bronze statue by an anonymous creator shows the two men frolicking and holding hands with a foot kicked back in joy

“We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein,” a plaque at the bottom of the...bronze installation reads. A permit from the National Park Service will allow the statue to stay on the National Mall grounds through 8pm on Sunday.'

Figure: A – Cross-section of a woolly mammoth molar from Torske, Western Ukraine. The blue line shows the ablation line inside the enamel layer. B – Seasonal changes in 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios, shown as a smoothed trend (red line) and detailed fluctuations (grey line). C – Mammoth skeleton, assembled from separate elements, on display at the State Museum of Natural History in Lviv.

Isotopes in mammoth teeth evidence migrations ☺️
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#geologia #paleontologia #paleontology #paleobiologia #paleobiology

What everyone at the UN is thinking right now 👇

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

First it's removing 'illegal' small boats migrants.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.

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You mean it was the yarn exposure not just genetics!?

As a Benefice, we are three churches praying for the priest who will lead Marsden and Slaithwaite further on their journey of faith. Spreading the word about the community. 🥰
@leeds.anglican.org @billbraviner.bsky.social @canonrachel.bsky.social