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Fer
@gomobel.bsky.social
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I'm Fernando, a science communicator based in Cambridge, UK. Co-Founder of @agata.agency. I talk about chemistry, climate, materials, and sometimes books, music and politics, a veces #EnEspañol. Views are my own [He/Him] #ChemSky #Scicomm #ComunicaCiencia
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gomobel.bsky.social
Photochemistry swaps the oxygen atom in oxetane rings with nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur at a single stroke. @mjkoh87.bsky.social’s team pushed skeletal editing beyond aromatic structures, a stimulating discovery in organic chemistry: www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula... 🧪 #ChemSky @nature.com
‘Stimulating discovery’ leads to strategy to swap oxygen in saturated rings
Skeletal editing pushed beyond aromatic structures, sparking new opportunities in drug discovery
www.chemistryworld.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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pappasgroup.bsky.social
Thank you very much @gomobel.bsky.social for highliting our work on @chemistryworld.com. Chiral acyl phosphates meet self-assembly..! Thanks also @claudiabonfio.bsky.social and @jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social for the very nice comments about our work!!
October 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Headlining the @chemistryworld.com research section with not one but two interesting stories on cool chemistry: chirality and skeletal editing.

1️⃣🧬 www.chemistryworld.com/news/chiral-...

2️⃣🦴 www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula...

Please do share if you enjoy ☺️ #ChemSky 🧪 @absw.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Swapping oxygen in oxetanes? 🪄 Done! With skeletal editing 🙌🏼🦴✨ My latest @chemistryworld.com story covers a cool strategy to introduce nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur instead at a single stroke 🖌️🎨 Amazing, almost magic @nature.com paper by @mjkoh87.bsky.social 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula...
‘Stimulating discovery’ leads to strategy to swap oxygen in saturated rings
Skeletal editing pushed beyond aromatic structures, sparking new opportunities in drug discovery
www.chemistryworld.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social
Indeed a very interesting work. Congratulations to the authors. Thanks for the job Fer!
gomobel.bsky.social Fer @gomobel.bsky.social · Oct 15
Thanks so much @jeannecrassousiscr.bsky.social & @claudiabonfio.bsky.social for providing interesting insights, your comments really helped frame the importance of the discovery 💡 which “could have dictated the nature of primitive supramolecular structures” 😮
October 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
gomobel.bsky.social
Really cool stuff by @pappasgroup.bsky.social in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social – chiral chemical fuels drive molecules to self-assemble into different structures, depending on handedness 🧬 My latest for @chemistryworld.com 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/chiral-... #ChemSky #RealTimeChem #Chemistry
Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies
Handedness of self-assembling peptides might explain the origins of homochirality in biological systems
www.chemistryworld.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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davidbowman17.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Hey #Chemsky! Here’s a curious connection between Nobel prize winning metal-organic frameworks, Mudéjar art and my hometown of Zaragoza, in Spain. Discover my latest opinion piece for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a... 🧪 #Chemistry #NobelPrize #History #MOFpapers
My arcane and curious connection to metal-organic frameworks
Fernando Gomollón-Bel uncovers a link between his hometown and the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
gomobel.bsky.social
The connection between Nobel-prize winning MOFs and Mudéjar maybe goes beyond beautiful geometric structures – @davidfairen.bsky.social believes the first ever metal-organic framework could be a compound discovered in my hometown, Zaragoza, in 1973. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a...
My arcane and curious connection to metal-organic frameworks
Fernando Gomollón-Bel uncovers a link between his hometown and the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
www.chemistryworld.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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ecoinsomnes.bsky.social
¿Os acordáis de que estábamos montando una pequeña expo sobre el #lobo? Por el camino se nos ha sumado un montón de gente bonita y ya (casi) existe. Tenemos sitio y fecha, apuntad 💚

@fondolobo.bsky.social @agata.agency @adarasanchez.bsky.social @claracervino.bsky.social #anafernandezpero #cesargil
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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asterisk-eu.bsky.social
✳️ We are launching the blog section of our website with some basic, but essential information:

What is the objective of ASTERISK and who is involved in the project? 👥

📖 We encourage you to read the full content on our website!

🔗 Link here asteriskproject.eu/asterisk-rec...
The image shows the members of the ASTERISK team.
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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gomobel.bsky.social
My latest for @chemistryworld.com on a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethylene with 99% efficiency and selectivity. With comments from @alextbarth.bsky.social and @casadevallcarla.bsky.social: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... #ChemSky @science.org 🧪
Photocatalytic process converts carbon dioxide into ethylene with 99% selectivity
New process uses light and gold nanoparticles to hydrogenate carbon dioxide into key chemical feedstock
www.chemistryworld.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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cherylmorgan.bsky.social
I’m done 👇
guynes.bsky.social sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Sep 19
Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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genko.bsky.social
No había visto un tuit tan definitorio de esta Españita nuestra desde aquella joya del otro lado que ahora no encuentro:

“España es un señor dando de comer a los patos, apoyado en el cartel de prohibido dar de comer a los patos, quejándose de lo gordos que están.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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laurahowes.bsky.social
Science! Art! @bethanyhalford.bsky.social!
Three of my favorite things
🧪#chemsky
Mystery solved: Jackson Pollock used manganese blue in famous 1948 painting
Scientists discover and characterize previously unidentified pigment in the artist's palette
cen.acs.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Wohooo! 🥳 My article on new photochemical reactions to convert CO₂ into ethylene is now among the top three most read in @chemistryworld.com 📈 Thanks everyone for reading and sharing. If you want to learn more about it, click here: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... @science.org #ChemSky 🧪
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
gomobel.bsky.social
My latest for @chemistryworld.com on a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethylene with 99% efficiency and selectivity. With comments from @alextbarth.bsky.social and @casadevallcarla.bsky.social: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... #ChemSky @science.org 🧪
Photocatalytic process converts carbon dioxide into ethylene with 99% selectivity
New process uses light and gold nanoparticles to hydrogenate carbon dioxide into key chemical feedstock
www.chemistryworld.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
King's is always absolutely beautiful, but it looked specially nice from our punt today – thanks for the invite @claudiabonfio.bsky.social 🩵🚣🏻
September 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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jobium.bsky.social
Last chance to apply! Closing date is the 28th!
prideinstem.bsky.social Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · Jul 16
Pride in STEM's Small Grant Scheme is officially open for 2025!

This year's theme is Strengthening Queer Community in STEM. If you have ideas for a small project in the United Kingdom that fits this, we would love to support you! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #QueerInSTEM

More info here:

prideinstem.org/2025/07/16/s...
Pride in STEM logo and the text Small Grant Scheme 2025 on a colorful background.
August 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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gomobel.bsky.social
Blue poop? 💩🥶 Call your doctor! My latest story in @cenmag.bsky.social about a pill to detect IBDs like Crohn's and colitis:
cenmag.bsky.social C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 16
A simple “sugar seal” for a pill could enable a new noninvasive test for intestinal inflammation. This tool uses a synthetic sugar that triggers the release of a brilliant blue dye, which is easy to spot in stool samples. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪
Responsive sugar polymer pill dyes poop if it detects gut inflammation
If it’s blue, call your doctor
cen.acs.org
August 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Gaia seems unimpressed with the new design for @cenmag.bsky.social 😛 #ACSFall2025 cc @bribarbu.bsky.social
A black and white cat on top of an issue of the Chemical and Engineering News magazine
August 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
No sé qué me fascina más, si la moda de poner requesón en absolutamente todas las recetas supuestamente saludables o que todo el mundo pronuncie “cottage” como si fuera una palabra francesa: cotáash. Virgencita del amor hermoso.
August 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
At the @cenmag.bsky.social #Talented12 symposium in #ACSFall2025 🎉 Enjoying the really cool presentations from this year's class ✨ Kudos @craigofwaffles.bsky.social 🙏🏼
A conference room full of people A pile of magazines and brochures with the title "Talented twelve"
August 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
gomobel.bsky.social
Thanks to a responsive sugar polymer, a new pill diagnoses diseases dyeing poop blue 🥶💩 This noninvasive test could improve the quality of life of over 7 million people living with IBDs like Crohn's and colitis. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social 👉🏼 cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #ChemSky 🧪
Responsive sugar polymer pill dyes poop if it detects gut inflammation
If it’s blue, call your doctor
cen.acs.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM