Sophie Benjamin
@benjaminchem.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Likes the periodic table, especially towards the bottom of group 15. www.benjaminresearchgroup.com #ChemSky
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
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This is a really neat webtool for crystallographic symmetry.
(switch on "Manage symmetry" > "complete elements" to get the full picture)
https://www.crystallify.com/
@strucbio #crystallography #structuralbiology
(switch on "Manage symmetry" > "complete elements" to get the full picture)
https://www.crystallify.com/
@strucbio #crystallography #structuralbiology
Crystallify
Interactive 3D visualization tool for crystallographic space groups
www.crystallify.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is a really neat webtool for crystallographic symmetry.
(switch on "Manage symmetry" > "complete elements" to get the full picture)
https://www.crystallify.com/
@strucbio #crystallography #structuralbiology
(switch on "Manage symmetry" > "complete elements" to get the full picture)
https://www.crystallify.com/
@strucbio #crystallography #structuralbiology
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#chemsky ⚗️🧪
It’s true that some scientific results can’t be replicated. And it’s also true that some people do the right thing when that happens:
Taking It Back, The Right Way
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
#chemsky ⚗️🧪
This looks cool
🎵 Sound-controlled crystals?
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
In a recent Chemical Communications publication, researchers have discovered that low-frequency audible sound can steer which polymorphs form during crystallisation. A game-changer for #Pharma & #MaterialsScience!
👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#Crystallography
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This looks cool
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We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry | Andrew Weller
We are hiring a Postdoc! If you have PhD/PDRA experience in air sensitive, platinum group metal organometallics, are interested in using this expertise in single-crystal SMOM synthesis and reactivity,...
www.linkedin.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
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PhD studentship at Uni Warwick with CENTA! Join us to study the decomposition of potent greenhouse gas N2O using Earth abundant Ti-based molecular photocatalysts. Exciting joint project with @chaplinlab.bsky.social group. Please contact Seb for details. centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Please re-post.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
PhD studentship at Uni Warwick with CENTA! Join us to study the decomposition of potent greenhouse gas N2O using Earth abundant Ti-based molecular photocatalysts. Exciting joint project with @chaplinlab.bsky.social group. Please contact Seb for details. centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Please re-post.
Grant application submitted. A good feeling, but also a little like sending a much cossetted child out to face wolves.
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Grant application submitted. A good feeling, but also a little like sending a much cossetted child out to face wolves.
"A story full of holes but with an enormous capacity to absorb … all your attention" #ChemNobel #Chemsky
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"A story full of holes but with an enormous capacity to absorb … all your attention" #ChemNobel #Chemsky
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A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group!
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
AP13080 Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group!
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
Things have got bad in UK HE when a department like Leicester Chemistry is facing these measures. Solidarity to all the staff picketing today.
I don’t want to be on a picket line today. I’d rather be teaching my students or in the lab with @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social - not standing in the rain outside my own workplace.
But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.
But the threat of compulsory redundancies and cuts to @leicesterchem.bsky.social 🇬🇧🥈leaves us no real choice.
October 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Things have got bad in UK HE when a department like Leicester Chemistry is facing these measures. Solidarity to all the staff picketing today.
"We sat down and ate the pears from the tree before the rain came."
Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.
Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.
September 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"We sat down and ate the pears from the tree before the rain came."
Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.
Preschool sounds amazing. Of course, this bucolic scene probably involved a lot more spit, thrown pears and chaos than suggested.
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Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week
The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.
The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.
July 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week
The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.
The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.
Good to see you today @sandykilla.bsky.social, can't stop laughing at this photo where it looks like I'm your smaller second head
Fun trip up to Nottingham Trent to visit @benjaminchem.bsky.social & lab!
June 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Good to see you today @sandykilla.bsky.social, can't stop laughing at this photo where it looks like I'm your smaller second head
I am reminded this week of the Ben Elton novel Blind Faith, which, over a decade ago, seemed like one of the more far fetched dystopian novels I'd read. I don't think I'd feel so complacent, if I read it again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_F...
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I am reminded this week of the Ben Elton novel Blind Faith, which, over a decade ago, seemed like one of the more far fetched dystopian novels I'd read. I don't think I'd feel so complacent, if I read it again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_F...
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Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Come and join us. Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at @uclchemistry.bsky.social in London, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, & digital inorganic and materials chemists with big ideas.
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please share ! Deadline 24-June
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why did Word have to make the painful process of grant writing even more excruciating by changing the keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript? Chemists everywhere are surely cursing as loudly as me. #chemsky
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Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky
June 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Happy #pride month! We believe that chemistry is for everyone. In the face of opposition that threatens the progress we've made, it's never been more important for us to promote equality of opportunities and make chemistry as open, inclusive and diverse as it should be: buff.ly/1dShs0l #ChemSky
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Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅
wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin
#ChemSky 🧪
wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin
#ChemSky 🧪
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Dorothy Hodgkin was born #OTD in 1910. She won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work using X-ray crystallography to determine complex chemical structures 🏅
wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin
#ChemSky 🧪
wp.me/s4aPLT-hodgkin
#ChemSky 🧪
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📣PhD available in our group focusing on Digital & Flow Chemistry for #MOF production. Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2025. ⏰️Deadline 30th May. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production
Project opportunity - Digital and Flow Materials Chemistry for Metal-Organic Frameworks Production at the University of Leeds
eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering
Are you an experienced and ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? Are you looking to apply...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 We are hiring!!
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
3 year PDRA available in our group on self-optimising flow microwave platforms for #MOFs At Leeds Uni, UK, with me & Rich Bourne. ⏰ Deadline: 8th June. #flowchemistry #automation #chemjobs #chemsky
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Info & to apply:
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...
Cardiff University PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at Cardiff University.
www.findaphd.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...
UCU are petitioning for a better funding model for UK higher education. It is a bad time to work for a UK university right now, and we are all feeling it. I'm not sure signing this will help, but it never hurts to try.
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
stopthecutspetition
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
UCU are petitioning for a better funding model for UK higher education. It is a bad time to work for a UK university right now, and we are all feeling it. I'm not sure signing this will help, but it never hurts to try.
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
stopthecutspetition.org.uk
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Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now almost 450 signatories to my open letter calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship. Please consider signing & sharing: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
List of signatories here: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬🧑🏽🔬
The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience
The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience
February 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬🧑🏽🔬
The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience
The Women in Chemistry category on the Ci site has a range of graphics on women in chemistry, both historical and present-day! www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪 #WomenInScience