David Nelson
davidjn.bsky.social
David Nelson
@davidjn.bsky.social
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Pronouns: he/him Reader in Chemistry, University of Strathclyde Chief Scientific Officer, CataNiTek Editorial Board Member, Communications Chemistry H&S Rep., Strathclyde UCU All views my own #chemsky http://djnelson.group
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We’re already deep into the ballot! Here’s your reminder, the ballot closes on Friday 28 November.

If you haven’t posted your vote yet, do it today. Every single vote counts.

Vote early. Vote yes.
#WeAreTheUniversity
Ziggy's has closed unfortunately 😭
But the best watering hole was always Aikman's (good Cullen skink soup too) closely followed by the St Andrews brewing company
A direct consequence of realising the true issue is a broken central heating pump
Opening the Laphroaig for the first time in too long ...
In a change from dabbling in things I don't understand at work, I'm now dabbling in things I don't understand in the house.

(Specifically: why the heating isn't working properly)
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Fantastic @centa.bsky.social PhD scholarship co-supervised with @rmlab.bsky.social
If you’re interested in sustainable #Electrocatalysis and CO₂ valorisation, do get in touch!
⚡️Exciting #PhDchat opportunity in our group @LeicesterChem.bsky.social!
🧪 2026-L05 “Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO₂ Valorisation” with @rmlab.bsky.social via @centa.bsky.social.

Help advance #Electrocatalysis and sustainable chemistry ♻️
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-L05 Closing the Loop: Sustainable Catalysts and Solvents for CO2 Valorisation – CENTA
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Academia seems to be that continual feeling that you're always doing your homework on the bus to school ...
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"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.
Solidarity with @leicesterucu.bsky.social colleagues - on strike to protect their institution, their colleagues, and their students
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.
I've reached the stage of fatherhood where my work from home lunch is the leftovers from the wee man's dinners ...
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“Climate change is real - the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities is resulting in fundamental changes to our planet. It is increasing the risk of extreme weather, warming the ocean and causing ice caps to melt resulting in sea level rise,” 1/3
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First it's removing 'illegal' small boats migrants.
Then it's removing legal migrants with indefinite leave to remain.
Then it'll be removing freedoms of minorities - religious, LGBT+, disabled.
Then it'll be persecuting anyone who thinks differently (labelled 'leftists') for opposing 'patriotism'.
@ukri.org I note that here (www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w...) you use the term 'biological sex' and not gender when balancing SATs.

Why does what is (or was) in people's underpants matter here?
Surely this is about lived experiences and perspectives?
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Keir Starmer welcomed Israeli president Herzog to Downing Street as 200,000 Palestinians were forced to flee Gaza and Israel prepared for a further offensive.
The multimillionaire class pretending to be on the side of the working class.
🔴Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner’s ‘Property Mountain’

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...
Reform Deputy Leader Owns £4m Mansion and Belgravia Pad While Attacking Angela Rayner's 'Property Mountain'
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice MP co-owns Buckinghamshire estate with tennis court and lake – despite his attacks on Rayner's £800,000 flat purchase
bylinetimes.com
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Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.
Solidarity with colleagues at Edinburgh, fighting threatened job cuts proposed by their ineffective 'leadership'.

(And I STILL don't understand how senior heads didn't roll over the whole People and Money shit show)
Shocking that our UCU 'leadership' deploy these horrific tactics to suppress industrial action
UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties”

Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh!

policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...
UCU: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
Motion from UCU Congress 2022-2023: Fighting punitive ASOS deductions
policy.web.ucu.org.uk