Andy Cooper

For balance (and I had to go back to evil Tw@tter for this). I’ve never met Richard Robson.

This is the only photo I can find of me with Susumu, in the office of the great Mohamed Eddaoudi, whose contribution to the field of MOFs is also massive #chemsky #chemnobel

Congratulations to Susumu, Omar and Prof. Robson. Particularly delighted for Susumu, who has given me some great advice over the years and served on an advisory panel for one of our grants. 👏

Speaking next week in Toronto at the Acceleration Consortium (@accelerationc.bsky.social). It's possible to join online (link below). In part, I'll be talking about our new work on LLM reasoning for robotic experiments. I've teed this up below with a link to Noam Chomsky, who isn't an LLM fan.

(he does then go on describe LLMs as having "no scientific interest, no intellectual interest")

YouTube video by Through Conversations Podcast Noam Chomsky on Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT.

If you're interested, here is a gloriously curmudgeonly interview with Chomsky, much of which I'd agree with: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_04E.... Though he does concede that it (i.e., LLMs) could "conceivably replace some routine work". Youch!

But I'm looking forward to giving this talk. In part, I'll discuss how LLMs are helping us edge toward more human-like decisions in closed loop experiments. Or you could argue that these are not human-like at all, and that GPT is, as Noam Chomsky put it, "glorified autofill". Happy to debate!!

I tell ya, all the smart money this year is on Jean Fréchet …

(Spoiler alert: no)

Interlocked covalent organic cages: Design, synthesis, and self-assembly

doi.org/10.1016/j.cc...

Come join us in Oxford! Two positions open right now in @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social
It’s a great place to work. Really supportive colleagues, great students, colleges provide a unique social environment - in summary, it’s a lot of fun.

I don't normally indulge in Chemistry Nobel Prize speculation but this year I'm having a punt. £20 each way on Fréchet and Wilkinson for chemically amplified photoresists

YouTube video by OSSCEN Flow Lab Tech Self-Driving Lab

Commercial SDL using a mobile robotic manipulator - I'm told that the company has installed 7 of these so far. I've no affiliation with this, btw, nor knowledge of its performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECt1... #chemsky #robots

www.ijcai.org/proceedings/...

Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges Experts from academia and industry offer perspectives on the future direction of autonomous science and knowledge discovery.

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

Great to see @aicooper.bsky.social and @rosseinskygroup.bsky.social representing @liverpooluni.bsky.social at the @euromof.bsky.social 2025 conference in Crete.

YouTube video by NVIDIA The U.K.'s Next Industrial Revolution

Blink and you'll miss it (2'39") - played at the NVIDIA event in London last night: youtu.be/3GhckKPLDd4

Try the fetaccino next

Alas no

Starmer hails Nvidia’s £2bn UK AI deal as ‘biggest-ever tech agreement’ with US Prime Minister says partnership marks milestone in special relationship at London event.

Here’s where I spent my evening in London. Decent canapés. www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/pr...

Congratulations to Yushu Han on her paper on fast porosity screening using a multichannel colorimetric array. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @liverpooluni.bsky.social

You are cordially invited to join the FREE livestream 🎥 of the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium “Technologies shaping future directions in synthesis”, in Limburg, Germany, 📅 October 14–16, 2025.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
#BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025
@annagslater.bsky.social

I could bore you rigid on this topic, suffice to say I have about 20 go-to non-instrumental albums that have become “effectively instrumental” to me since I no longer really register the words. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order would be one example, heavily used for proposals …

A great outreach project led by Emma Brass in our group at last week’s Liverpool Science Festival. Visitors got the chance to paint collaboratively with a robot 🤖 ! Supported by our @leverhulme.ac.uk research centre and our @ukri.org / EPSRC AIchemy Hub / Programme Grant @aichemyhub.bsky.social

That’s just lovely!

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Fortunately AC not required in Crewe …

Did Mr Sidmouth make an appearance?

I fear it’s further evidence of an illuminati type global conspiracy, I’m just saddened that Avanti rail is caught in that net, too …