Ben Bellenie
Ben Bellenie
@chemb.bsky.social
Medicinal chemist at ICR London. Lots of proteins being degraded around these parts. I’ll write something more interesting here when I have time, so never. Views my own
Being owned and financed by a nation state unfair to other teams - Me
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is Claude’s attempt. I don’t know why it is so dark. As with many LLM things it’s wrong in ways a human couldn’t even imagine.
March 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
These may be the two best cookbooks I ever received as gifts. Everything one pot bang in the oven and serve, made about 30 different things from them and all worked beautifully. yellow has great instructions of how to modify the timings if you change something, perfect for experimental scientists!
December 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Thanks @garius.bsky.social for doing this again! Sharing below from my creative wife :

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December 4, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Great to be in Barcelona for Drug Discovery Chemistry Europe! #chemsky #tpd

(The hotel basement conference room is likely a little less scenic, but at least it should be full of great science…)
December 2, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Ah Microsoft, did you use AI to translate American to British English? Or just global find and replace?
November 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM
November 5, 2024 at 10:14 PM
And somewhat surreally, in the actual newspaper, below a wally with a brolly
May 24, 2024 at 5:26 PM
If you see this, post a bridge
May 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
The mystery dodecahedron? Clearly an ancient Roman multi-way test tube holder @drnwillburger.bsky.social ! 🧪
May 10, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Don’t forget the U.K., home of stupid place names for over 509 years. They even built a holiday park on this one
April 24, 2024 at 10:46 AM