Fiona McMillan

RSC responds to comments from Sir Jim Ratcliffe...

Statement also available on our website
www.rsc.org/news/rsc-rea...

Pride in STEM are still looking for nominations for this award - you have until the 1st March!

If you would like to consider me - over the last 5 years I have done asexual in STEM advocacy, engaged LGBTQ+ folks with science and helped raise the visibility of LGBTQ+ scientists in education.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

#chembio and #bioorganic crowd: Registration to ESBOC is open. Join us on 27th-29th May for the oldest meeting in chemical biology in Europe, at the awesome Schlosshotel Pillnitz in Dresden!

Check out www.esboc.org.uk or register directly at eveeno.com/esboc2026!

Starmer is not perfect but he IS level-headed, willing to listen and focused on stability.

Of course they hate him. They want chaos.

@alli-o.bsky.social

Hard to tell which international sports organisation has the least moral fibre, the IOC or FIFA.

Merlot maid greetings card with mermaid drinking a fruity red on a rock in the sea

Seal of approval card featuring smiley grey seal with a SHELL YEAH! placard and a jolly crab fren

Crazy for you Bunny Boiler valentine/anniversary card for when you’re crazy about your other half (dead bunny on stove top Birds Eye pov)

Frig off and wash yer bastard curtains y’dirty cow East is East Auntie Annie card featuring the hardfaced ginger awesome actress Lesley Nicol in one of her best roles in a flowery blouse with a ciggy on the go

Card shop’s open again lads. And I can 100% do a write and send service if you’re running late for anything…

All cards black for your message so most are multipurpose

Dippyfishcards.Etsy.com

#bsnm #greetingscards #mhhsbd #ukgiftam

One amongst many reasons I won't use "AI". I'm autistic. By definition that means my brain thinks differently to the majority. AI spits out the average of its training set. By design it will water down my thoughts into mediocrity. I've done a lot of work to learn to celebrate my square-peg brain.

RAS logo on a purple starry background.

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We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation.

Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.

For the First Time, Olympics Ban PFAS Waxes in Snow Sports Since the 1980s, athletes have been using fluorinated waxes on their boards, giving them "ridiculous" speed. No longer.

For the First Time, Olympics Ban PFAS Waxes in Snow Sports undark.org/2026/02/10/o...

TO RECAP:
- The president will grant the most notorious living sex trafficker on the planet clemency, if she testifies that he’s innocent
- They don’t want you to believe the thousands of women who were victims of Epstein
- But they do expect you to believe ONE woman, Ghislaine Maxwell

Surprising we aren't seeing more stories like this one.

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.

Setting the standard for basically everyone

My linocut portrait of astronaut Mae Jemison in her flight suit, holding her helmet, with the globe of Earth above and to left.

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12 1992! 🐡🧪👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci She also has a B.S. in chemical

Poster showing Bad Bunny and the word LOVE

MAGA: This is morally disgusting.

Bad Bunny: The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

Jesus: I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. -Matt 21: 31-32

small crab eating a grape (important)

Every American needs to watch this:

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another great event organised by our @rsc.org volunteers in our Biotechnology Group which will be of interest to a lot of our community #vaccines www.rsc.org/events/detai...
@rscbmcs.bsky.social pls share

Pride police boxes saying “I’m a safe space”

A robotic dog waving a pride flag from its tail.

Back in stock! Give them a share to help them find them happy homes.
My two most popular #DoctorWho pins of 2025 are back in stock (limited run only).

Etsy: proudscience.etsy.com
My store: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

Another fantastic event for our chemistry community run by our @rsc.org volunteers. And it's in Edinburgh which (I may be biased) is the best city!

I feel every word of this piece. Thank you @chanda.blacksky.app

"Not only do those citing Trek today misunderstand their place in the narrative, but they also don’t understand what Trek is really about."

Yes, Star Trek fans.
@chanda.blacksky.app tells it like it is here.
Or as I’ve posted before:

imagine getting so thoroughly bodied by the Beano like this

So happy to share this publicly - our member networks are organising a lot of activities relating to sustainability showing how important this is to our community.