Find me
E-mail: stuart at stuartcantrill.com
Twitter: @stuartcantrill-
Recent posts
Top posts & pages
- My science story (and my Dad)
- How to make sloe gin... and a little bit of chemistry
- 10 quick cover-letter tips for submitting scientific papers
- The smallest chiral hydrocarbon?
- Papers
- Reading list
- The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth?
- Talks
- Twitter tips for beginners
- Getting into sloe business
Recent Comments
- Howard Bairstow on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
- Caroline on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
- stu on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
- Christine Dennett on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
- family7800 on My science story (and my Dad)
Tags
- #chemnobel
- #iamscience
- aids
- angewandte chemie
- authors
- barton
- benzene
- blogging
- borromean rings
- c&en
- chemdraw
- chemistry
- chemistry publishing
- chemists
- chemjobber
- chemjobs
- chemtweeps
- chirality
- citation distributions
- citations
- cookies
- cover letters
- dad
- dynamic covalent chemistry
- editorial
- elements
- exam questions
- factor VIII
- ferrocene
- fun
- genetics
- geography
- graphical abstracts
- haemophilia
- history
- history of chemistry
- hiv
- hydrocarbons
- impact factor
- jacs
- journal development
- journals
- kitchen chemistry
- lab work
- life-in-my-own-hands
- lists
- metrics
- nature
- nature chemistry
- nature publishing group
- nobel
- nobel prize
- not top 100 but just 100
- papers
- peer review
- periodic table
- publishing
- recipes
- referees
- science
- scientific literature
- scientific publishing
- seearroh
- slides
- sloe gin
- social media
- stereochemistry
- synthesis
- talks
- travel
- twitter chemists
- twitter list
- writing
- x-ray crystallography
Archives
Categories
Twitter mumblings
- The good kind of e-mail https://t.co/q2i7SyekOg 11 minutes ago
- RT @doctor_oxford: A visual argument for vaccines, in five tweets: 1/ A ward of polio victims, incarcerated inside "iron lungs" in 1950s A… 16 minutes ago
- RT @hcpearson: *Great job alert* We're looking for an experienced science journalist/editor to lead Nature's coverage of China and wider As… 20 minutes ago
- RT @RoySocChem: The @pfizer / @BioNTech_Group vaccine is based on the delivery of synthetic RNA to cells. How does this work? The chemis… 40 minutes ago
- @gomobel I wondered who would be first ;-) 4 hours ago
Blog stats
- 316,100 hits
Meta
- Follow Chemical connections on WordPress.com
Tag Archives: limerick
Periodic prose
It is, apparently, #WorldPoetryDay (on Twitter at least) and the question of writing a scientific paper in poetry form cropped up again (it does every now and then). And when it does, I usually end up digging through the dusty … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History of science, Publishing
Tagged #worldpoetryday, chemistry, chemistry publishing, haiku, history of chemistry, hoffmann, iambic pentameter, limerick, literature, poetry, publishing, shakespeare, sonnet
1 Comment
