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Anna Slater
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(she/they) RS University Research Fellow/Professor of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. Flow & supramolecular/materials chemistry, automation #sciencemagpie
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This is the joy we all need at the moment
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9d
THREAD.

A selection of notes I have made in my notebook about my dad, and the things he does.

1. The Public Swimming Pool
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is permitted to do a somersault before he gets changed. “THEY OPEN UP THE STORAGE CUPBOARD AND LET ME GO IN THERE SO I CAN GET A GOOD RUN-UP,” he said. Last week my dad, who will be seventy in August, got his friend Malcolm, who is seventy-three, to film the somersault. “It’s shattered all his illusions,” my mum told me. “Until he saw the film he thought he was creating poetry in motion. But it’s really just an old bloke who can’t run fast doing a sideways flop.”
February 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Please repost if you’re in the area of #AI or #chemistry. Funded by EPSRC. #chemsky
aichemyhub.bsky.social Alchemy @aichemyhub.bsky.social · 9d
🌟 Applications are now open for the Next Generation of AI Chemists Programme, a funded opportunity for penultimate-year undergraduates from backgrounds under-represented in chemistry.

📍 Imperial London | 📅 6–7 July 2026 (in person)
👉 Apply here: buff.ly/MLfs9Zg
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Some initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵

www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Keeping a watchful eye on this, with my research director hat on…”Making those choices means that some activities will benefit from increased investment, but other areas will unfortunately experience some reductions, & you can expect to see UKRI making more of these decisions in the coming months”
ukri.org UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 12d
Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
www.ukri.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial. I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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📣 We’re looking for new members for our Board and Early Career Advisory Board (PhD / postdoc / PI) who care about EDIA and want to help guide the direction of WISC.
🗓 Deadline: Jan 31
👥 Open to all
👉 Apply here: www.womeninsuprachem.com/board-ecab-r...
#WomenInSTEM #SupramolecularChemistry
January 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Cheerful wave to those of us on this merry-go-round for the nth time...just keep swimming etc etc
annagslater.bsky.social Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · Jan 9
Ah, the final stages of grant writing - shout out to all of you in the same boat for a mid-Jan deadline! Thanks to shuffle on my running playlist, today's efforts are kicking off to the sounds of One by Metallica. Open to music suggestions, good vibes, many apologies if I owe you an email...
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
annagslater.bsky.social
Ok hold my flask:
The Queen’s Headspace
The Buchners Arms
The Last Retort
The Rose & Crown Ether
#chemsky #chemchat
bagphos.bsky.social Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · Dec 27
You’ve just opened a Chemistry themed pub. What are you calling it?

The Flask and Column

#ChemSky #ChemChat
brachinus.bsky.social Dr. Emily Arndt 🏳️‍⚧️ @brachinus.bsky.social · Dec 27
You’ve just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it?

Bake It So
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The 3rd Edition of the International Supramolecular Chemistry Summer School is scheduled on May 24th-29th 2026!
Find all the infos for the registration at convegni.unica.it/iscsummersch... Hurry up, only 80 slots available!!
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Registration – ISCSummerSchool2026
To benefit from the reduced early registration fee, please process your registration and payment before April 12th, 2026.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Just spent ages cutting down a grant proposal to fit a page limit only to realise that, with the title page, I’d sold myself short by a whole side of A4. That’s it the year is done
a man is throwing papers in the air while standing in a hallway .
Alt: a man is throwing papers in the air while standing in a hallway .
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December 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D
Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at University of Liverpool
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December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Proposal rewriting currently powered by tidal.com/track/560269/u (emphatically not by AI - although I am wondering whether I am increasingly alone in this)
System Of A Down - Radio/Video
Listen to Radio/Video on TIDAL
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December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Interesting we don't seem to get a say in whether our proposals will be used to train the AI and release the confidential ideas into the AI world...
chemistryworld.com Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Dec 3
UKRI has opened up its archives on grants in the hope that AI can be trained on it and, in future, help reviewers speed up the peer review process.
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Submission deadline extended to 📅 April 30, 2026
Invitation to submit to the thematic issue #GreenChemistry III ed. by Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social, Luigi Vaccaro and Yanlong Gu in #BJOC 💎 🔓
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yrc2nftt
#sustainability #synthesis #HealthierPlanet 🌱 ♻️ 🌍
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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rsc.org
We are proud to unveil Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences, a new report exposing the barriers faced by disabled chemists & outlining why accessible labs are vital for the future of science.

Read the report, its 15 recommendations and more: https://rsc.li/48iKLua
#ChemSky
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🚨(1/3) We are excited to announce that the 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award🏆 is to
Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London,
(@anbismillah.bsky.social)

@rsc-masc.bsky.social
mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...

#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#WomenInSTEM
#MASC2025
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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chemistryworld.com
'The idea is that the installation always features people that are in the room at that time; the audience becomes a part of the installation'
’Chemistry is incredibly complicated’: The interface between chemistry and art
Liverpool PhD student Emma Brass talks to Chemistry World about her AI-powered art installation
www.chemistryworld.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Registration for SupraChem2026 is open!
Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This is fantastic, well done Emma, I look forward to seeing this when I get back from Toronto. Co-sponsored by our @ukri.org / EPSRC @aichemyhub.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk - see news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/24/u...
University Chemistry PhD student creates AI art for River of Light festival - University of Liverpool News
University Chemistry PhD student creates AI art for River of Light festival
news.liverpool.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
annagslater.bsky.social
First run of the season where I go “yep I absolutely should have brought my headtorch along with me when tf did it get so dark at 6:30pm”
October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
annagslater.bsky.social
Having spent the week talking about how technology is shaping synthesis it's great to see Abbie and Caitlin's review, "Enabling technology for accelerated discovery of
supramolecular materials," published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org today! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🚨 Three PDRA posts @imperialchemistry.bsky.social with me + collaborators to transform materials discovery.

Focus:
💻 Comp Chem
🤖 AI in Chem
🧠 Neurosymbolic Learning

🗓️ Apply by 11 Nov 2025
🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB378 (click "Apply" to find individual post details)

#chemsky #compchem #chempostdoc
Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry at Imperial College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate positions in Computational Chemistry, AI in Chemistry, and in Neurosymbolic Learning for Chemistry is available, as advertised on jobs.a...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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I had a great time - thanks for all the excellent talks, and big thanks to Luigi, Martí and @beilstein-institut.bsky.social for wonderful hosting and organisation. Hope to see new collaborations coming :)
beilstein-institut.bsky.social Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · Oct 17
Thanks to all our speakers & participants for making the #BeilsteinShapingSynthesis2025 Symposium in Limburg an amazing event! Special thanks 🙏 to our scientific organizers Anna Slater 
@annagslater.bsky.social & Luigi Vaccaro for assembling such an excellent program.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/7mhrbyap
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Right now, a Royal Society of Chemistry 2026 membership is worth even more.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM