Amy Price
@amynprice.bsky.social
Broom McIntyre Fellow in School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews; key research interests include low coordinate f-element complexes and main group chemistry
I feel seen
The best part about moving every 2-3 years for the last 9 years for academia is how each time I have to rip myself out of my support network and build a new one it gets harder 👍 everyone should try this 🙏
July 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I feel seen
Shiny new Schlenk line day!!
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬
July 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Shiny new Schlenk line day!!
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬
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Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
June 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
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Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers."
What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
May 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers."
What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
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Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
Reposted by Amy Price
🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart
This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.
Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.
Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
April 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart
This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.
Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.
Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
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Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪
via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
Berkelium snared in organometallic trap
Organometallic sandwich is one of the heaviest structures of its type ever created
www.chemistryworld.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪
via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
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Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.
March 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.
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#IneedAltText
I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
March 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
#IneedAltText
I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩🔬
In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here!
chemsky🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Berkelium–carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene
Interest in actinide–carbon bonds has persisted since actinide organometallics were first investigated for applications in isotope separation during the Manhattan Project. Transplutonium organometalli...
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩🔬
Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄
#RealTimeChem
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#RealTimeChem
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February 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄
#RealTimeChem
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#RealTimeChem
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Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone:
touchgrass.now
touchgrass.now
touch grass
touchgrass.now
February 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone:
touchgrass.now
touchgrass.now
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We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty
#chemistswhocook
#chemistswhocook
February 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty
#chemistswhocook
#chemistswhocook
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Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men.
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
Women, Men, And Meritocracy: A Scientific Perspective
Will the current backlash against diversity and inclusion boost or harm meritocracy?
www.forbes.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men.
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄)
This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre
🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI
This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre
🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI
February 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄)
This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre
🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI
This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre
🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI
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Today is the international day for women and girls in science.
This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go.
#womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go.
#womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
www.science.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today is the international day for women and girls in science.
This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go.
#womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
This opinion piece written recently by our postdoc @ceciliapad.bsky.social discuss one of the struggles that #womeninSTEM must face. There is still a long way to go.
#womeninScience @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻🔬
February 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
oday is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Time for a little personal story. 🧵⬇️ 🧪👩🏻🔬
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"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions."
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
Women in Science – a work in progress - Bylines Scotland
On The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, equality and inclusivity are still works in progress
bylines.scot
February 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Gender bias in the workplace can be particularly evident in STEM disciplines where systemic biases and barriers impact the career progression of women and often lead to a lack of retention of qualified women within organisations and research institutions."
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInSTEM
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Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...
What works to attract and retain people into R&D careers
www.gov.uk
February 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Interesting to see list of major barriers to entry and retention in R+D careers identified, including lack of diversity and inclusion, on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science Day #womeninstem www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Privilege is not all inclusive. You might have experienced privilege in one or more areas, while being under resourced in others.
Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it
Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it
December 13, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Privilege is not all inclusive. You might have experienced privilege in one or more areas, while being under resourced in others.
Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it
Privilege doesn’t mean that your life is a fairytale, it just means that you’ve had extra help or access in some areas, and it wouldn’t hurt any of us to acknowledge it