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Chemistry makes me cry
A recent discussion on Twitter about lachrymators (from lacrima meaning tear in Latin) has got me to wondering about chemicals that we use in the lab and the effect they can have on our “emotional”...
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What do I do?
So, as you may or may not know, I currently work as an organic chemist in the field of carbon capture and storage (CCS). It has come to my attention that not many of you actually know what CCS is so I...
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Merry Christmas from the Organic Solution
My festive ChemDraw is pretty awful, can you make a better festive ChemDraw picture?
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Every ending is the start of a new beginning
I have 4 working days of my current postdoc left and so I thought I would write a bit about my experiences of postdoc life so far. My contract was only for one year and I started it a month after...
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Did I work hard enough?
As many of you will know, @Chemjobber and @Vinylogous are hosting a kind of blog conversation called “Is graduate school in chemistry bad for your mental health?”, with many other bloggers out there...
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Up-Goer Five challenge
Anyone that follows the XKCD comics will know that they posted an Up-Goer Five comic about the US Space team. They said that “Most of the jargon used in rocket science is not among the most commonly...
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The best extraction there is
Somehow today I ended up on @Carmendrahl‘s old blog and found this post on Kugelrohr distillations (“The tastiest distillation there is”). I have spent the last year doing regular distillations and...
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How to pour the perfect glass of bubbly
I know that many of my twitter and blog followers like to drink the odd drink so I thought I would share this scientific paper on how to pour the perfect glass. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2010, 58,...
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Blog Roll
The recent publication of my blog roll in Nature Chemistry and The Sceptical Chemist has inspired me to share what blog posts I have been reading lately. New Blogs that are worth a gander: Behind NMR...
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Aluminium not Aluminum
I have finally got around to finishing this post…I have had a lot of “real life” work on lately, with starting in a new lab and doing some other non-blog writing. There was a recent (ish) current...
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My academic family
A short blog post…. I realised today that @KarlDCollins, who blogs at A Retrosynthetic Life, and I have an academic connection: his PhD supervisor (Procter), was my 1st postdoc supervisor’s (Rayner)...
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ScienceGrrl at MOSI
At the weekend I had the pleasure of being a “ScienceGrrl“ for the day in Manchester at the Museum of Science and Industry. I was joined by a range of women scientists from all walks of life from...
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My academic family II
This is what I have so far…. Please let me know if you have worked with or for any of these people so I can add you to the tree. I hope that one day the tree is huge! When I have filled in as much as I...
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#Realtimechem Week – Join us!
#Realtimechem week is nearly upon us (week beginning 22nd April) and so I thought I would invoke a call to arms as such. Jay (@Doctorgalactic) and I have decided to blog (almost) everyday during...
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When does one call oneself a blogger?
A more personal and ramble-y post from me today…I have umm’ed and ahh’ed about publishing this post but I have decided that it is worth putting out there. Nature chemistry has recently done a wonderful...
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Problem Fridays
Both of these were on my desk this morning. One was given to a PhD student by a certain eminent professor who is still in the lab! Can you work out the mechanisms? I did one fairly quickly, the other I...
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#Realtimechem Carnival
#Realtimechem week is only 8 days away! As @realtimechem/@doctor_galactic has mentioned, it is hoped that people will blog as much as possible during #realtimechem week. Each evening, or as often as I...
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#Realtimechemcarnival Guest Post: My Favourite Reagents
Today we have a guest post by @Andy_Nortcliffe. He asked me very nicely if I could host his post and I was more than honoured to do so If anyone else wishes to have their post hosted, then just get in...
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Undergrad Fails
@_Byronmiller, who blogs at Behind NMR Lines, @clay_owens and I recently (ahem months ago now) had a discussion about accidents and funny stories that we have witnessed whilst teaching undergraduates....
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Academic Family Tree III
I thought I would post a more updated #chemistrytwittertree since it has recently been mentioned in the Nature Chemistry blogroll. This is by no means the final tree so feel tree to offer suggestions...
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