Dave Adams
@profdjadams.bsky.social
I work in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Interested in gels, soft matter, castles, guitars and mountains. All views are my own!
New Year, New Paper - work carried out by a visiting student from Italy to look at remediation of a Historic Scotland hill fort - really interesting new problems to tackle...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessment and characterization of Origanum vulgare essential oil in highly viscous polymeric dispersions for cleaning cultural heritage stone materials
Stone biodeterioration caused by microbial colonisation poses significant challenges to the conservation of cultural heritage. Here, we investigate hi…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:56 AM
New Year, New Paper - work carried out by a visiting student from Italy to look at remediation of a Historic Scotland hill fort - really interesting new problems to tackle...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Glasgow, cold but pretty…
December 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Glasgow, cold but pretty…
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Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
Well, this is the first time I have seen an emoji in a reference letter... my grumpy old man status means this is not a positive aspect of the letter even though it has a big smile...
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Well, this is the first time I have seen an emoji in a reference letter... my grumpy old man status means this is not a positive aspect of the letter even though it has a big smile...
Very proud of Simona and all of her many achievements at @uofgchem.bsky.social - she was a fantastic PhD student!
📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 🏆, given in the memory of John Fossey, goes to both Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg).
Congratulations both!
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 🏆, given in the memory of John Fossey, goes to both Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg).
Congratulations both!
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December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Very proud of Simona and all of her many achievements at @uofgchem.bsky.social - she was a fantastic PhD student!
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...
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
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...
I need suggestions for a journal that will publish some careful work we have that shows how difficult it is to collect specific data carefully and how to it properly. It accidentally shows key papers in the field are likely wrong. Currently getting referees telling us there is no **impact**…
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I need suggestions for a journal that will publish some careful work we have that shows how difficult it is to collect specific data carefully and how to it properly. It accidentally shows key papers in the field are likely wrong. Currently getting referees telling us there is no **impact**…
Another paper out - this one is working with Arthi Jayaraman at the University of Delaware to use their machine learning approaches to understand our small angle scattering - written as a tutorial review so hopefully useful for people to follow:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Tutorial: Machine-Learning-Based CREASE-2D Analysis of 2D SAXS Profiles to Characterize Anisotropic Nanostructures in Soft Materials
We present a tutorial to guide users on how to extend the Computational Reverse Engineering Analysis of Scattering Experiments-2D (CREASE-2D) framework to interpret their experimental two-dimensional ...
pubs.acs.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Another paper out - this one is working with Arthi Jayaraman at the University of Delaware to use their machine learning approaches to understand our small angle scattering - written as a tutorial review so hopefully useful for people to follow:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Latest work from the group looking at using our functionalised dipeptides for energy storage via a micellar analogue to MOST...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Functionalized azobenzenes for micellar solar thermal energy storage as a next-generation MOST system - Communications Chemistry
Molecular solar thermal energy storage (MOST) systems employ photoswitchable molecules that absorb sunlight and store energy through reversible isomerization, cyclization or other intramolecular rearr...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Latest work from the group looking at using our functionalised dipeptides for energy storage via a micellar analogue to MOST...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Seeing all the aurora photos on here, I will join with the latest masterpiece from my 4 year old of her thumb which fits the colour palette…
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Seeing all the aurora photos on here, I will join with the latest masterpiece from my 4 year old of her thumb which fits the colour palette…
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
Why oh why are universities (for example) still using twitter?
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Why oh why are universities (for example) still using twitter?
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A few key things that apply no matter where you are:
⭐ Meeting with your supervisor at least once a week strongly correlates with higher satisfaction
⭐ Students early in their PhD tend to be happier than those nearing the end
⭐ Working more than 60 hours a week makes satisfaction plummet
⭐ Meeting with your supervisor at least once a week strongly correlates with higher satisfaction
⭐ Students early in their PhD tend to be happier than those nearing the end
⭐ Working more than 60 hours a week makes satisfaction plummet
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A few key things that apply no matter where you are:
⭐ Meeting with your supervisor at least once a week strongly correlates with higher satisfaction
⭐ Students early in their PhD tend to be happier than those nearing the end
⭐ Working more than 60 hours a week makes satisfaction plummet
⭐ Meeting with your supervisor at least once a week strongly correlates with higher satisfaction
⭐ Students early in their PhD tend to be happier than those nearing the end
⭐ Working more than 60 hours a week makes satisfaction plummet
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@profdraper.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Delighted to have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from @leverhulme.ac.uk thank you for the recognition and support from the Trust throughout my career, and to my collaborators, colleagues and all the researchers who worked in the group ❤️
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Delighted to have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize from @leverhulme.ac.uk thank you for the recognition and support from the Trust throughout my career, and to my collaborators, colleagues and all the researchers who worked in the group ❤️
As always, it’s such a shame to see chemistry Nobel prize winners posing in the lab without appropriate PPE… #failedrolemodels
October 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
As always, it’s such a shame to see chemistry Nobel prize winners posing in the lab without appropriate PPE… #failedrolemodels
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This is great. It naturally follows that Musk can only get out of our politics if politicians and political journalists stop using the social media site he controls.
Strong words from Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool...
"Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country"
"Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country"
October 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is great. It naturally follows that Musk can only get out of our politics if politicians and political journalists stop using the social media site he controls.
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This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Latest work from the group, led by Yanyao, a visiting student from China, with a lot of collaborators...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Self‐Assembly of Off‐Target Peptide Sequences: Implications for the Design of Soft Materials
For an ionic complementary peptide, both a truncated peptide and an epimerized peptide can still form gels. Mixing these peptides with the parent FEFEFKFK leads to the formation of new, but different...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Latest work from the group, led by Yanyao, a visiting student from China, with a lot of collaborators...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
It's clear people are using ChatGPT for everything and one dead giveaway is a million em-dashes in the text. Can anyone tell me why ChatGPT loves an em-dash?
a close up of a man 's face with the words `` eye roll '' behind him .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` eye roll '' behind him .
media.tenor.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It's clear people are using ChatGPT for everything and one dead giveaway is a million em-dashes in the text. Can anyone tell me why ChatGPT loves an em-dash?
I should be able to charge my coffees to my research grants considering this is essentially the main way of getting papers written...
a man sits at a table with a laptop and a bottle of beer on it
ALT: a man sits at a table with a laptop and a bottle of beer on it
media.tenor.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I should be able to charge my coffees to my research grants considering this is essentially the main way of getting papers written...
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‼️ NEWS FLASH ‼️
📣 Following a successful programme last year, the University of Glasgow MedTech Innovation Fund will open again for applications on the 14 August 2025.
An update on application criteria and how to apply will be available on ‘Call Open’ day.
#medtech #innovation #glasgow 😃
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📣 Following a successful programme last year, the University of Glasgow MedTech Innovation Fund will open again for applications on the 14 August 2025.
An update on application criteria and how to apply will be available on ‘Call Open’ day.
#medtech #innovation #glasgow 😃
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August 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‼️ NEWS FLASH ‼️
📣 Following a successful programme last year, the University of Glasgow MedTech Innovation Fund will open again for applications on the 14 August 2025.
An update on application criteria and how to apply will be available on ‘Call Open’ day.
#medtech #innovation #glasgow 😃
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📣 Following a successful programme last year, the University of Glasgow MedTech Innovation Fund will open again for applications on the 14 August 2025.
An update on application criteria and how to apply will be available on ‘Call Open’ day.
#medtech #innovation #glasgow 😃
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Latest work out of the group in collaboration with Ed Egelman and Ravi Sonani in Uni of Virginia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#gelsgelsgels
#gelsgelsgels
Modular salt-induced nanostructures formed by a functionalized dipeptide system
Self-assembling peptides have great potential in nanotechnology. Here, we introduce the naphthalene-modified dipeptide isoleucine-phenylalanine (2NapI…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Latest work out of the group in collaboration with Ed Egelman and Ravi Sonani in Uni of Virginia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#gelsgelsgels
#gelsgelsgels
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✨Spotlight✨
The MASC Interest Group and WISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social announce the inaugural 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for “excellence in equality/equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)”.
Application deadline 📆 5th Sep 2025
More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...
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The MASC Interest Group and WISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social announce the inaugural 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for “excellence in equality/equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)”.
Application deadline 📆 5th Sep 2025
More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...
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2025 MASC Prize Calls
MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group 2025 MASC Prize Calls 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award given in memory of John Fossey: The RSC MASC Group P…
mascgroup.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
✨Spotlight✨
The MASC Interest Group and WISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social announce the inaugural 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for “excellence in equality/equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)”.
Application deadline 📆 5th Sep 2025
More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...
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The MASC Interest Group and WISC Network @wisuprachem.bsky.social announce the inaugural 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for “excellence in equality/equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)”.
Application deadline 📆 5th Sep 2025
More on mascgroup.co.uk/2025-masc-pr...
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All this does is explain to me how Brexit and Farage have come to be... If you believe in werewolves, you no doubt believe in the magic NHS money tree and Johnson's lies...
How many Britons believe in supernatural creatures or phenomenon?
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%
July 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
All this does is explain to me how Brexit and Farage have come to be... If you believe in werewolves, you no doubt believe in the magic NHS money tree and Johnson's lies...