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Author Archives: stu
Twitter tips for beginners
A few months ago I wrote a post for an internal blog at work about getting started with Twitter… I figure enough time has passed that I can now share it with a wider audience. It’s sort of a Twitter-101, … Continue reading
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Tagged chemists, hashtags, journals, nature chemistry, social media, tweeting, twitter, twitter chemists
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Elements of research
I’ve seen a few periodic tables doing the rounds on Twitter where people have filled in the elements that they’ve worked with. This is not a new thing — I’ve seen these over the last few years — but with it currently … Continue reading
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Tagged #IYPT, #IYPT2019, chemical elements, elements, lab work, periodic table
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Periodic car Scrabble
Sources: Elements (the periodic table, duh) | Scrabble words | International licence plates
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Tagged #IYPT, #IYPT2019, car registration, elements, periodic table, Scrabble, two-letter words, Venn diagrams
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Promethium unbound
At some point in the last few years I volunteered to write one of the In Your Element essays that appear on the last page of each issue of Nature Chemistry. Anne, the editor who looks after the series, has … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, chemical elements, elements, francium, in your element, jacs, nature, periodic table, pnas, prometheus, promethium, przybylskis star, segrè, technetium
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Getting into sloe business
I recently went to the 2018 Spring ACS meeting in New Orleans (#ACSNOLA). It’s a big chemistry conference and not only was I going in order to see some cool chemistry, but I was also asked to give a couple … Continue reading
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Joy provision
The July 2017 issue of Nature Chemistry is the 100th and the Editorial celebrates this milestone. I decided to have a little fun while writing it and was inspired by this story from @Helena_LB about including song titles from Metallica’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 100, chemistry, easter eggs, editorial, joy division, music, nature chemistry, new order, rise of the internet, song titles, writing
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