Via Chemistry World, IUPAC are moving their headquarters from the United States to Spain and Italy; I cannot possibly imagine why... www.chemistryworld.com/news/iupac-a...

Did we say Monday? Early #Christmas present! Tom Anderson's #AlternateHistory #USpolitics tale of a delayed #BarackObama #presidency, "The Tenacity of Hope" is out now! #NewBook #Obama www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

And here's the #Amazon link to buy "The Tenacity of Hope", Tom Anderson's new #AlternateHistory #Kindle #book about a delayed #Obama #presidency, available now! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G9QN1DLG

Here's a look at the original article by Tom Anderson which ultimately inspired his new #AlternateHistory #book "The Tenacity of Hope" -see reply. Who knew that the casting choice for #SevenOfNine in #StarTrekVoyager could have changed the rise of #BarackObama? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-th...

My new #Kindle #book "The Tenacity of Hope", concerning how (of all things) a #StarTrekVoyager #casting choice could have delayed the #BarackObama #presidency, is available now! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G9QN1DLG

Check out this article I wrote on the unexpected origins of many names in #science and #technology. Via the #ion , #cation , #anion we then got #electron and ultimately every bit of technology that ends in #tron.

I was looking in the Radio Times for September 11th, 1959 (as one does) and came across this... it has been going on for a while!

My faith in editors is cracking - a while back I spotted an error in Brian McClellan's "Sins of Empire" in which he'd written 'phase(d)' for 'faze(d)' and it hadn't been corrected, and now (1/2)

Students may have seen me use this #book by @cepmurphy.bsky.social as an example of why it's important to fill out feedback surveys: if you don't do it, all the decisions will be made on the basis of readers who give a three-star Amazon review to a wonderfully clever parody they don't understand.

Fantastic #VICEPHEC keynotes from Jacqui Robson yesterday, Shane Bergin and especially my colleague Julie Hyde (I am biased!) today. Really interesting stuff ranging from public trust in science to the career impact of GTA programmes.

Here at the start of #VICEPHEC 2025 and big kudos to @liverpooluni.bsky.social for a very well organised setup, especially the check-in and accommodations. Looking forward to the speakers, especially tomorrow's keynote from my colleague Julie Hyde.

Some good news for a change - the University of Sheffield is back in the QS Top 100 rankings. www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/univers...

Days off: 5; unread emails to come back to: 118 spread over 3 inboxes; time to zero unread emails: 1 hour 6 minutes. I worry sometimes that academia has honed this skill more than any other...

The last of Churchill's 'The Few' has passed away. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

While not as comprehensive as the real thing, this is impressive work considering it's just a guy on the internet. (It updates with actual current news stories). www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/#id=W...

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" - Frank Herbert, Dune
While googling this quote to check it, I got interrupted by a google pop-up about why don't I get Gemini to do it for me.

My publisher has also joined me over here, so why not check out their collection of over 100 works of fiction by myself and many other authors?

Hello everyone. Like everyone else in the civilised world, I have decamped from Twitter (which I always saw as a net negative for humanity even before Recent Events and only joined it under protest in 2020 as it had become nigh compulsory for academics). I'm a chemical scientist, a writer, and the c