Philip Robinson
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Nobel prize in chemistry 2025: Reaction
Join us for an exclusive look at the Nobel in chemistry 2025 prize-winning science - make sure you're there on 10 October
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October 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Have you signed up to watch our webinar yet? This Friday, we'll welcome a handful of experts to join us at 3pm BST for an exciting and spontaneous webinar. If chemistry is your thing, you will not want to miss this!
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Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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October 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.
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It's the most exciting day of the year - the announcement of the Nobel prize in chemistry. Stay up to date on all the latest news with the @chemistryworld.com live blog www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-202...
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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October 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
It's the most exciting day of the year - the announcement of the Nobel prize in chemistry. Stay up to date on all the latest news with the @chemistryworld.com live blog www.chemistryworld.com/news/the-202...
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Bayesian optimisation and related techniques offer great promise for data discovery. Phil Kay explains how understanding behavioural barriers and rapidly evolving tech is paramount to success. Learn more 14 October in our JMP webinar. #SponsoredContent
Why understanding our foraging instinct is the key to using statistical tools
Your inner hunter-gatherer is stopping you solving problems
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October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Bayesian optimisation and related techniques offer great promise for data discovery. Phil Kay explains how understanding behavioural barriers and rapidly evolving tech is paramount to success. Learn more 14 October in our JMP webinar. #SponsoredContent
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Are you still working like a scientist hunter-gatherer? Phil Kay explains how understanding our instincts can help us stop foraging for data and start using statistical tools – find out more in our JMP-sponsored webinar on 14 October. #SponsoredContent
Why understanding our foraging instinct is the key to using statistical tools
Your inner hunter-gatherer is stopping you solving problems
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September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Are you still working like a scientist hunter-gatherer? Phil Kay explains how understanding our instincts can help us stop foraging for data and start using statistical tools – find out more in our JMP-sponsored webinar on 14 October. #SponsoredContent
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Inspiring discussion today at #LINO25 with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage about how molecular machines will drive innovation across many different fields.
But what is a molecular machine? Take 2 polls to help inform Iupac's upcoming definition: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/take...
But what is a molecular machine? Take 2 polls to help inform Iupac's upcoming definition: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/take...
July 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Inspiring discussion today at #LINO25 with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage about how molecular machines will drive innovation across many different fields.
But what is a molecular machine? Take 2 polls to help inform Iupac's upcoming definition: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/take...
But what is a molecular machine? Take 2 polls to help inform Iupac's upcoming definition: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/take...
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Worried about your research? Check out this guide on how to identify and address stirring problems! #ChemSky
How to find out if your magnetic stirrer is affecting your results – and how to fix it
Valentine Ananikov explains how the humble stirrer bar may be altering your results
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June 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Worried about your research? Check out this guide on how to identify and address stirring problems! #ChemSky
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A little more about why I returned the #royalsociety Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder. #musk
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
Why I returned the Faraday prize to the Royal Society
Andrea Sella explains how inaction over Elon Musk's membership motivated him to act
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June 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A little more about why I returned the #royalsociety Faraday Prize, with a question for everyone to ponder. #musk
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-i-returned-the-faraday-prize-to-the-royal-society/4021668.article
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UK chemicals industry has learned some lessons from the past & now sees relatively few serious incidents. But when incidents are rare, investment in safety is an easy target for budget cuts, whose impact may not be seen for years, but could be catastrophic. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/safe...
Safety is everyone’s responsibility
Maintaining culture and investment is key, especially in the absence of incidents
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June 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
UK chemicals industry has learned some lessons from the past & now sees relatively few serious incidents. But when incidents are rare, investment in safety is an easy target for budget cuts, whose impact may not be seen for years, but could be catastrophic. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/safe...
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Life goal achieved: appear on the cover of a magazine
June 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Life goal achieved: appear on the cover of a magazine
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🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
Women's health | Chemistry World
Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨 Today @chemistryworld.com launched a new collection on women's health. From menstruation to menopause, the articles reveal the stark gaps in medical research that have left women overlooked for far too long, and the people working to change the narrative: www.chemistryworld.com/collections/... 🔬💊
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Historically, sex and gender have been ignored when it comes to medical research, and it's led to a big difference in our understanding of women's health. @robinson-julia.bsky.social talks to the researchers and clinicians trying to address that gap.
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Fixing medicine’s gender gap
For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity
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May 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Historically, sex and gender have been ignored when it comes to medical research, and it's led to a big difference in our understanding of women's health. @robinson-julia.bsky.social talks to the researchers and clinicians trying to address that gap.
#ScienceSky
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Trump wants more medicines be manufactured in the US. And he’s brandishing both tariff stick and red-tape-cutting carrot.
But it takes years to build new plants, so investment decisions are unlikely to have been significantly swayed by Trump's policies.
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But it takes years to build new plants, so investment decisions are unlikely to have been significantly swayed by Trump's policies.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/rebu...
Rebuilding pharma supply chains
Multinationals are promising huge US investments, but it's not all because of Trump's policies
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May 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump wants more medicines be manufactured in the US. And he’s brandishing both tariff stick and red-tape-cutting carrot.
But it takes years to build new plants, so investment decisions are unlikely to have been significantly swayed by Trump's policies.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/rebu...
But it takes years to build new plants, so investment decisions are unlikely to have been significantly swayed by Trump's policies.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/rebu...
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Phil Kay has a small problem with how the chemistry community handles data. A lack of standardisation across data storage doesn't just hurt efficiency and collaboration, but potentially patient safety too. But there is hope of change on the horizon. #ChemSky #ScienceSky
We need to build the data that chemistry deserves - here's how we can do it
Creating a purpose-built repository of standardised reaction data is a tall order, but the reward would be huge
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April 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Phil Kay has a small problem with how the chemistry community handles data. A lack of standardisation across data storage doesn't just hurt efficiency and collaboration, but potentially patient safety too. But there is hope of change on the horizon. #ChemSky #ScienceSky
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There is a chronic shortage of labs for UK companies that are starting up and scaling up. It’s been holding back growth for years.
Declining demand for shops and offices in cities provides an opportunity to develop new labs, but they need to be flexible www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/givi...
Declining demand for shops and offices in cities provides an opportunity to develop new labs, but they need to be flexible www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/givi...
Giving companies room to grow
Can shopping centres and offices become urban lab spaces for innovative companies to grow and scale-up?
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April 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There is a chronic shortage of labs for UK companies that are starting up and scaling up. It’s been holding back growth for years.
Declining demand for shops and offices in cities provides an opportunity to develop new labs, but they need to be flexible www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/givi...
Declining demand for shops and offices in cities provides an opportunity to develop new labs, but they need to be flexible www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/givi...
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The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help!
#ChemSky #ScienceSky
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Take two polls to help Iupac define molecular machines
An Iupac committee wants your input to guide its recommendations for key terms in the field
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April 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'. Ironically, we do not know exactly what constitutes a molecular machine. With the ultimate goal of unifying definitions and standardising terminology, Iupac needs your help!
#ChemSky #ScienceSky
#ChemSky #ScienceSky
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It's me, briefly touching on one of the craziest things in chemistry - 'disappearing' polymorphs!
'Not everything can be crystallised, and the structure you get if you do produce diffractable crystals is almost as much of a mystery' – Chemistry World's Neil Withers on a dark art.
Polymorphs matter – especially when they might disappear
Disappearing polymorphs offer a fascinating example of the dark arts of crystallisation
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April 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's me, briefly touching on one of the craziest things in chemistry - 'disappearing' polymorphs!
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Epi editors change the activity of individual genes without altering genetic code, and could help treat many diseases. To learn more, I spoke with scientists from four companies at the cutting edge of this entirely new type of medicine 🧪 #chemsky
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Epigenetic editors enter clinical trials
New wave of precision medicines amplify or silence genes, without altering genetic code
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April 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Epi editors change the activity of individual genes without altering genetic code, and could help treat many diseases. To learn more, I spoke with scientists from four companies at the cutting edge of this entirely new type of medicine 🧪 #chemsky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/epigene...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/epigene...
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What happens in a bankruptcy when a company's main asset is its customers' personal genetic information? We're about to find out as 23andMe goes through a court-supervised sale process. Who will buy the firm's genetic databank, and what will they do with it? www.chemistryworld.com/decoding-23a...
Decoding 23andMe’s downfall
DNA testing firm's bankruptcy raises data security questions
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April 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What happens in a bankruptcy when a company's main asset is its customers' personal genetic information? We're about to find out as 23andMe goes through a court-supervised sale process. Who will buy the firm's genetic databank, and what will they do with it? www.chemistryworld.com/decoding-23a...
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Official US shortages of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) have now ended, but the first generics are gearing up for launch in 2026 in some markets. So companies are looking for the next generation of drugs.
Weight loss drug supply races
With official shortages ended, but the first generics gearing up for launch, companies are looking for the next generation of drugs
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March 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Official US shortages of semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) have now ended, but the first generics are gearing up for launch in 2026 in some markets. So companies are looking for the next generation of drugs.
Come and join us! Get a head start in science journalism with the @chemistryworld.com internship this summer.
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Find out more about working for us and view all vacancies including. We continue to ensure an inclusive workplace where opportunities are open to all, and where everyone can belong and bring their tru...
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March 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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January 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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