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Nikita Harvey
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NMR Facility Manager at UCL School of Pharmacy, violist, asexual, nerd and all round bibliophile. She/her 👩🏾‍🔬💜
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Hello Bluesky! I'm Nikita (she/her), an NMR facility manager based in London. Came over for the lovely #NMRchat community, but I also love nerding out over fantasy and classic literature, especially #Tolkien and #JaneAusten. Also an amateur violist 🎻, asexual and British Indian. #AceInSTEM #ChemSky
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October 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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So excited that our lab's first home-grown paper is now available on ChemRxiv!

Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion | doi.org/10.26434/che... 🧲🧪
Kinetic NMR screening: rapidly quantifying fast ligand dissociation in fragment mixtures using ¹⁹F relaxation dispersion
Ligand-observed NMR is a key tool for detecting weak protein-ligand interactions, but translating binding signals into meaningful affinity measurements remains difficult, limiting the ability to rank ...
doi.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Is it OK for me to collect NMR data while the magnet is being refilled with liquid helium? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2011/09/reso... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Looking forward to giving a webinar tomorrow with @nickynak3.bsky.social about our efforts to establish a 19F NMR fragment screening platform at UCL. Register below and join us to find out more!

Friday 19th September, 2pm (UK)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR @ucltro.bsky.social
Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just assembled my own NMR 'LABO' set thanks to @fredaperras.bsky.social! Now I only need to buy a head which actually fits on the body 😂 #nmrchat
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There's nothing quite like struggling through a day's worth of experiments (including the spec deciding to lock onto the wrong solvent just for funsies) and then just before leaving finally - finally! - getting proof of protein-ligand binding 😅 #nmrchat
August 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Imagine if people showed pride for their country by making it a genuinely nice place to be and welcoming others so your actual actions reinforced the very thing you are proud of
August 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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MOOC NMR 2025 training course (in three parts) 🧲
The first part, Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, from Sep 23 to Nov 10, 2025. Free registration is now open. Make sure your students are enrolled, excellent introduction to NMR! www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/b... #NMRchat @olivierlafon.bsky.social
Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMR : A powerful technique to probe the structure and dynamics of molecules
www.fun-mooc.fr
August 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Ring: take over Gondor and then the world
Boromir: tempting. need

Ring: all shall love you and despair
Galadriel: tempting what a test

Ring: do so much good that you become a god
Gandalf: don't! tempt me frodo!

Ring:
Sam:
Ring:
Sam:
Ring: like a, like a really big garden
Sam: I'm good
Ring: fuck
August 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Have a read of this article from SoP's own @rachael-dickman.bsky.social, Duncan Browne and others discussing how we can foster a safe and productive environment in chemistry labs. It's so crucial that we develop a culture of responsibility, for everyone's sakes. #ChemSky
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Building safer laboratories by evolving culture and practice
Fostering a safe and productive environment in the laboratory is a challenge that faces both institutions and individual researchers at every stage of their careers. This Voices article shares perspec...
www.cell.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Olivier Lafon @olivierlafon.bsky.social has been appointed to the rank of Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) infranalytics.eu/en/science/2... #NMRnews #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
August 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Friday, September 19, 9 am UK, Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy, Nikita Harvey @nickynak3.bsky.social and Christopher Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-fr... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Webinar: Fragment Screening using 19F NMR at the UCL School of Pharmacy
Join Dr Nikita Harvey and Dr Christopher Waudby to delve into the subject and interact with research fellows.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I love the shine of Silicon Rhodamine in the morning sun ✨
July 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Today we're having a cooling/heating rack installed into our NMR liquid handling robot! This should help keep protein and DNA samples stable during prep for our 19F fragment screening service #NMRchat

www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/abo...
July 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Very proud to have taken the lead in organising the UK NMR manager's meeting last month and to have helped with the @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social postgraduate discussion group here at UCL! It was a fantastic pair of meetings: www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacy/new...
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Discussing the state of NMR in the UK at the 2025 @rsc-nmrdg.bsky.social Postgraduate Meeting
June 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Opening the 2025 NMRDG Postgraduate Meeting at the UCL School of Pharmacy
June 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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When NMR agrees that you are an absolute clown 🤡 🧪
June 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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We're looking forward to it! Especially the opportunity to talk about CcpNmr Analysis and some of the ways the software can be used by people working with small molecules including Peptides or those doing Metabolomics or Fragment Screening.
Just a couple of days left to register for the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers meeting, to be held on 16th June 2025 here at UCL School of Pharmacy! The meeting will involve the usual combination of RTP support, career discussions, instrumentation, NMR techniques, and tips and tricks. #NMRchat
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just a couple of days left to register for the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers meeting, to be held on 16th June 2025 here at UCL School of Pharmacy! The meeting will involve the usual combination of RTP support, career discussions, instrumentation, NMR techniques, and tips and tricks. #NMRchat
June 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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For Pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈✨
#Tolkien #art
June 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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It might be quicker than you think to walk station to station—TfL’s new walking maps show just how long it actually takes to get around the West End and the City on foot.

tfl.gov.uk/modes/walkin...
June 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Wake-up call…

Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years

Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee

This is who they are

Please wake up to this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK-run Lincolnshire County Council scraps flood committee - BBC News
The work will be incorporated into another committee despite all other parties opposing the change.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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"This is what we were voting for!"

From a friend in academia:

>>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<<

Great work.
May 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM