Prof Ross Forgan

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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I mean would it surprise anyone if trump turned out to be three racist raspberry pis running Claude under a trench coat and an orange wig

The absolute irony given ACS refuses to have tough conversations with anyone. They’ve folded to every whim of the Trump administration and put out shameful excuses to the community in response.

Deoxyribeyenucleic acid

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Mine too!

It’s also in my undergrad lecture notes!

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

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

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Next reaction - oh shit I have to go update my undergraduate lecture notes

Pro tip for aspiring academics - this is how to ensure your papers always make it into high impact journals

My delight at seeing MOFs win the Nobel is tinged by sadness that Sir Fraser didn’t live to witness it. He was my introduction to the world of MOFs, and I know he would have been overjoyed.

And those pesky axial elongations in octahedral coordination complexes

Chem Nobel reaction live from Kyoto Uni! Not every day your nextdoor neighbour wins!

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

We have a flexible MOF that only adopts the closed pore state after CO2 adsorption / desorption, but not under high temp or low vacuum (or N2 ads/des). Would love to find more examples to try and help us understand why.

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Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone

Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...

My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography

Britain’s meritocracy. Heaven forfend we should ever try to mitigate these effects…

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

Genuinely the first time I’ve seen a post get good old fashioned ratioed on Bluesky.

An absolute cop out. What an abject failure of leadership.

I suspect that indeed they have just made this matter worse for themselves. The trouble with this statement from Adrian Smith is that it conflicts with the RS's Code of Conduct (e.g. below).

They deserve to lose every fucking penny they've spaffed away on this abomination of an idea

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122