Andy Cooper

Our second agent, El Agente Estructural (“Structural” in Spanish) is a multimodal, natural-language–driven agent for molecular geometry generation and manipulation.

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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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Photocatalytic proton reduction by a computationally identified, molecular hydrogen-bonded framework We show that a hydrogen-bonded framework, TBAP-α, with extended π-stacked pyrene columns has a sacrificial photocatalytic hydrogen production rate of up to 3108 μmol g−1 h−1. This is the highest activ...

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Band‐Gap Engineering of Isoreticular Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Frameworks for Boosting Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Four isoreticular HOFs were constructed via a shape-fitted π─π stacking strategy. These materials exhibited distinct differences in their band structures due to modulations in the π-conjugation and d...

Hardly the biggest problem in our world just now, but this has happened /multiple/ times recently, and not only in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social No citations to Domen’s original work on OWS either nor, remarkably, graphitic carbon nitride: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#compchem #ML

Please repost if you’re in the area of #AI or #chemistry. Funded by EPSRC. #chemsky

I just saw an advert for home furnishings near Dubai that read “Glam your Ramadan”. The world is changing.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI/Ml-Driven Chemical Discovery - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in AI/Ml-Driven Chemical Discovery - Grade 7 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic...

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A practical inverse design approach for high-entropy catalysts using generative AI - Nature Synthesis An artificial intelligence-driven robotic chemist that integrates generative machine-learning models incorporating spectroscopic descriptors with automated experimentation is developed, enabling the i...

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Ethereal portents of horrors to come …

Walking through London and this hoves into view, I thought I recognised the street name

the big ben clock tower is reflected in a puddle of water in london ALT: the big ben clock tower is reflected in a puddle of water in london

In London near St Pancras and I dropped my wallet pulling my phone out of my pocket. Three young men ran after me to return it. This old country isn’t quite dead yet.

Just out on ChemRxiv our new preprint, “Can We Automate Scientific Reasoning in Closed-Loop Experiments using Large Language Models?” @liverpooluni.bsky.social @aichemyhub.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

AI4X–Accelerate Conference 2026 abstracts have been extended until February 9 (final extension).

Join us in Singapore, June 15–19, 2026.

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Now in Digital Discovery: Context-aware computer vision for chemical reaction state detection.

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I remember owning this as a kid

Lots of people and one or two robots is the aim!

New preprint: Materealize — a multi-agent deliberation system for end-to-end material design and synthesis.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2601.15743
🖥️ Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/SNU-M...

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We’re announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund A look at the 12 recipients of the first AI for Science fund.

Announced today: we are very grateful to Google for supporting our project to build a Hive Mind for materials discovery @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunisps.bsky.social 🐝🧠🤖 bsky.app/profile/livu... blog.google/company-news...

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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It's not super clear, but that feed line wiggles at the precise time when the weighing went wrong. And that line was inactive at the time. The robot is not touching anything at this point. Conclusion: poltergeist. Or more likely, brief disruption in lab airflow that displaced the balance. 🔍

This is the first experiment under our new @aria-research.bsky.social project. Should've costed in an exorcist.

Running an autonomous LLM-driven experiment and found a single, odd dispensing behaviour. My student, QJ, suspected airflow disturbance. I said "I doubt we have a Japanese wind spirit in the lab". Just watched video playback from last night. It seems there is a Japanese wind spirit in the lab. 😳

Just out: An artificial intelligence-driven synthesis planning platform (PhotoCat) for photocatalysis

Backed by £6 millionwe're supporting 12 projects to see if autonomous systems can reason, plan, and run experiments in the real world.

Discover the projects: link.aria.org.uk/AIscifpbs

Towards single-crystalline two-dimensional poly(arylene vinylene) covalent organic frameworks - Nature Chemistry Two-dimensional poly(arylene vinylene) frameworks are promising polymer semiconductors, yet obtaining highly crystalline materials is a major challenge. Now a series of 11 highly crystalline or single...

This is a v nice paper.. Essentially a reconstruction strategy and it yields really impressive results... @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chemical industry to bet on agentic AI Industry insiders expect rise in the adoption of virtual lab assistants

Agentic artificial intelligence, a form of AI capable of making autonomous decisions, is gaining traction in the laboratory and on the factory floor. The chemical industry will increasingly adopt it in 2026. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪

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