Joel Cornelio

New fully funded PhD position available in our group 🥳 ideal for someone who wants to combine organic supramolecular chemistry with cancer therapeutic development!

www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Funding available for UK/EU students

Reposts appreciated!

Dear Chem Memelords, please accept my humble offering of these memes.

Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2025 is out!

TB is the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year

www.who.int/news-room/re...

Slide highlighting the CrystEngComm tutorial review on Identifying and characterising flexible crystals with photos of the authors and a QR code to access the collection.

🎉We are delighted to share the latest in our series of Tutorial Review articles: "Identifying and characterising flexible crystals"

Read our blog post to learn more about this work from Atiqur Rahman, John C McMurtrie, Sajesh P Thomas & Jack K Clegg 👇

blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/11/1...

#Chemsky 🧪

Lumberjack Monty GIF Alt: GIF of a singing Lumberjack from Monty Python

I sleep all night and I work all day!

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

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.

Chromophore Density Effects on Energy Transfer in Postsynthetically Modified Metal–Organic Frameworks http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c05442

Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.

FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/

Crystallographic Evidence of Size-Dependent Bond Flexibility in Metal–Organic Framework Nanocrystals Size-dependent electronic, magnetic, and optical behavior suggests that metal–organic frameworks become softer materials as their particle sizes decrease, but direct evidence is lacking. Here, we rep...

And another one is out: a crystallographic and fundamental solid-state study of size-dependent properties in porous materials. A fun adventure that required quite a bit of coding - learned a lot in the process!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .

It finally happened. I got cited... by an AI written paper (probably).
What does this mean? What does this mean?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ChemSky

No idea what they're trying to actually achieve.

A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"

Who did this?!

Looks like it's active again.
I just reported it.

Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites - Nature A recombinant antivenom composed of eight nanobodies provides broad protection against venom-induced lethality and dermonecrosis in mice challenged with venoms from cobras, mambas and rinkha...

Snake bites kill/debilitate 1000s of people annually in Sub-Saharan African. A new nanobody cocktail is shown to be highly effective against 17 of the most dangerous African snake species. Unlike other anti-venoms it also protects against venom-induced dermal necrosis🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Slide highlighting the MOFs in Asia themed collection with photos of the Guest Editors and a QR code to scan for the collection.

🚨We are delighted to share our latest themed collection: MOFs in Asia

Guest Edited by Hoi Ri Moon, Sarah S Park and Jihye Park, this collection showcases recent advances & innovative research in the field of MOFs across Asia.

Read the full collection here👇
pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

#chemsky 🧪

YouTube video by C0nc0rdance Wakefield's Smoking Gun

Fascinating science: How disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield launched the modern anti-vax movement by fraudulently manipulating data to reach fabricated conclusions, hoping he would make a lot of money. Instead, he put millions of children at risk. youtu.be/EXtANMp3wok

Turn-On Conductivity with Proton-Coupled Electron Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) has been studied for decades in the context of molecular reactivity, but its impact on long-range electron transport is barely understood. When defined broadly ...

Latest article is out: Studying mixed ionic-electronic conductivity in Metal–Organic Frameworks.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Citation Diversity Statements - Nature Reviews Pyschology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm they made efforts to cite publucations from a duverse group of researchers.

As you might expect, this Nature policy on citation diversity statements has received a massive backlash on X. However, I work in a field where fantastic work is done in India and China and I can say for a fact it does not get cited as often as equivalent work from the USA.

Quantum Computing and Early Fault-Tolerant Simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory is Hiring! Search available jobs or submit your resume now by visiting this link. Please share with anyone you feel would be a great fit.

Our group is looking to hire postdocs to work at the intersection of quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulation of many-body quantum systems and early-fault tolerant quantum computing

Apply here:
lanl.jobs/search/jobde...

Reposts appreciated!

Promotional graphic with a polyhedral depiction of a packed MOF structure (CSD Entry WEMBUN) with water and ethanol solvate molecules removed as well as photos of the 5 panellists.

🌟 MOF Expert Panel Confirmed 🌟

Join our expert panel from both academia and industry for an inside look at the tools, trends, and collaborations shaping the future of #MOFs.

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#ChemSky #PorousMaterials #FunctionalMaterials

Turn-on Conductivity with Proton-Coupled Electron Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks https://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-h4f9w-v2?rft_dat=source%3Ddrss

Nice to See MOFs getting their shine. With that said, please think about contributing to a special MOF issue of @materialsadvances.rsc.org curated by @chemashlee.bsky.social, @majikatz.bsky.social, and myself.
blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...

FT chart which shows cost of a Global Talent Visa is nearly £6,000 when adding the ‘Immigration Health Surcharge’

1) Also, the ‘health’ surcharge isn’t. It’s not hypothecated revenue
2) It’s upfront not PAYE (outsiders often surprised by that)
3) You can’t ‘go private’ instead of paying it
4) This is part of why moving ILR qualification from 5 to 10 years is also a money spinner on.ft.com/4oyDMnB

Solving molecular organic crystal structures from powders Powder diffraction is a widespread technique found in academic, forensic, industrial research and quality-control laboratories the world over. The recent article by Kabova et al. [(2025), Acta Cryst. C81, 559–569] provides step-by-step guidance on how to proceed and the software the authors use, from sample preparation and the powder diffraction measurement itself, to the verification of the final structure.

Andrew N. Fitch: Solving molecular organic crystal structures from powders #PowderXRayDiffraction #RealSpaceStructureSolution #OrganicMolecules ... #IUCr https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053229625009052