Out today in @natchem.nature.com 😃 Huakui, @stefanborsley.bsky.social @benjaminoacid.bsky.social & co illustrate why catalysis-driven motors (like motor proteins) can't use designs based on light-driven motors or molecules-that-rotate-through-multi-reaction-sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hi folks, I’m on the ballot for President of the @rsc.org. I’m standing because we live in post-truth times where respect for expertise & evidence can no longer be taken for granted. It’s time to push back. If that resonates, RSC members can vote here www.mi-vote.com/secure/rsc 🗳️🙏
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Our new video, created by Stuart Jantzen (Biocinematics), depicts the original Maxwell’s Demon thought experiment 😈 tinyurl.com/3ja25xfz, the archetypal information ratchet that inspires how we design molecular motors & pumps: tinyurl.com/msn8c2an; tinyurl.com/yj53rfvm; tinyurl.com/557vcubt 👹
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Elect Dave Leigh as President of the RSC! Honestly cannot think of anyone better suited to this incredibly important job! Vote, and vote now!
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Delighted to see our work on anion-switchable palladium cages, used to purify single pharmaceuticals from complex mixtures, out in ACIE today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - great work from lead author Zhe, and brilliant crystallography from Tanya!
Our latest collaborative preprint from the group and @kilbinger-group.bsky.social is out - tinyurl.com/3bbrfyhw - we've been looking at creating stably folded, helical, and polyfluorinated transmembrane channels with rates of water transport exceeding Aquaporins. Great to see the manuscript up!
We need to be shouting about the effects of this on junior researchers from the roofs, writing to our MPs. We are risking a "missing generation" of researchers.
Oh look, we made a new spinout company! Repeat academic founder Simon Boulton is planning to exploit the weird trick that cancer cells use to keep replicating indefinitely www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
Come work with us at the @ciqus.bsky.social We are looking for a PhD candidate with motivation for organic synthesis in the ERC Synergy project “Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery” (CARAMEL). Sharing ❤️ All details here 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/398337
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We are looking to incorporate a PhD candidate (predoctoral contract), with motivation for organic and peptide synthesis, to develop a doctoral thesis at CIQUS – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ...
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The structural anisotropy necessary for the powered directional rotation of chemically fuelled molecular motors had previously been provided by chiral fuels or enzymes. Now it has been shown that asym...
Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate).
Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating.
Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky
Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls
