Features Editor for @ChemistryWorld, so mostly tweeting about #chemistry Formerly an associate editor on @NatureChemistry. Also now @NeilWithers@mstdn.social
Cambridge, England
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Today is my last working day of the year, so it's time for my annual look back at some highlights!
Back in January, we published this feature by @ninanotman about recreating/understanding ancient odours, which you could call Raiders of the Lost Smells.
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It’s a brilliant epic!
Really pleased to have been able to speak with two of last week's Nobel prize-winners - @GoogleDeepMind's John Jumper and @UWproteindesign's David Baker - for this story:
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This analysis workshop led by my colleague and fellow @absw board member and @thetimes science editor @whippletom is likely to sell out fast. Grab your seat while you can:
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Lesser spotted Nobel laureate with ... interesting current scientific views glimpsed in the wild!
❓ Question 8, from Professor Brian Josephson: youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZeJmAj… 9/10
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🧪Read about transforming undergraduate lab practicals in this article from @RoySocChem, featuring the amazing work of the @OxfordChemistry @ChemOutreachOxf team.
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We tried to make the real version!
In Nobel prize nominations, at least: chemistryworld.com/features/…
My latest @newscientist cartoon.
ALT Image: figures stand around with drinks, their interrelationships are indicated with coloured arrows which are labeled thus: Sincere admiration, Professional esteem, Friendly rivalry, Grudging respect, Cordial dislike, Seething envy, Profound loathing, Utter disdain.
I love hearing faraway combine harvesters still going strong when I’m in bed at this time of year
Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1 August. The name comes from 'hlafmæsse', 'loaf-mass', a feast of bread, and it may have been a day for blessing loaves of bread made from the first wheat of the harvest.
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It me, as they say
Our July covers over the last 20 years have featured stories of fraud, biases, art, designer drugs and much more. @NeilWithers, our Features editor, walks us through some of the most memorable as we celebrate 2 decades of Chemistry World.
Would deep sea mining be better or worse than this? Because we're already doing this.
Satellite images show deforestation toll of mining in Indonesia
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I wrote this while wearing a cape and mask to get into the spirit of things.
'Supercapacitors offer a glimpse of an energy storage future different from – or complementary to – batteries,' writes @NeilWithers.
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The choice of advanced gas cooled reactors over PWRs in the 1970s is widely held to be emblematic of all that was wrong with that era's industrial policy
Not that simple: I discuss the background in pt 2 of my long read on history of UK's nuclear programme
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I’m always excited and curious to write about the chemistry of the brain. And therefore I couldn’t resist writing for @ChemistryWorld about Alzheimer’s disease, pain and memory. Thanks to @clrar @pareshmalhotra @duff_lab @sushmajumdarlab for talking to me chemistryworld.com/features/…
It really winds me up that Michael Crichton has Prof Ian Malcolm – the genius voice of scientific reason in Jurassic Park – say that black clothes are cooler on a hot day 'because of black body radiation', in spite of all empirical evidence to the contrary.
Bloody theorists.
10/10 for the opening line in this story:
"Millions of Britons were forced to drink subpar cups of tea last November due to the recordbreaking low pressure caused by Storm Ciarán."
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I can only assume this is @jon_agar
.@ChemistryKit's great feature on the chemists out to catch counterfeit whisky reminds me a great story I heard years ago (1/n)
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