Find me
E-mail: stuart at stuartcantrill.com
Twitter: @stuartcantrill-
Recent posts
Top posts & pages
- The smallest chiral hydrocarbon?
- The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth?
- How to make sloe gin... and a little bit of chemistry
- Make-or-break chemistry
- A quantitative analysis of how often Nature gives a fuck
- Periodic prose
- Getting into sloe business
- 10 quick cover-letter tips for submitting scientific papers
- Drawing conclusions
- Writing
Recent Comments
- Get Better: creating a research profile – quantixed on Twitter tips for beginners
- Keith Allan on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
- Chaz Langmead 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
- Alec Swan on How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
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
- @Organometallica @ratemyplatenow @LouisRedux Ugh. They taste like ashes and disappointment. 1 hour ago
- @Organometallica @ratemyplatenow @LouisRedux Good God. Bourbons are the work of Satan! 1 hour ago
- Very honoured to be asked to be on the #RSCPoster General Committee for 2020 - I hope you're all getting your poste… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- RT @NChemGav: You know your dad is a chemist when he pauses Frozen 2 at an exciting bit to explain the bonding dynamics of water and why it… 5 hours ago
- RT @SteveTheChemist: Any makers, YouTubers, content creators interest in a potential #scicomm opportunity with our vLUME project? Please ge… 6 hours ago
Blog stats
- 282,656 hits
Meta
- Follow Chemical connections on WordPress.com
Tag Archives: papers
Back to the future (of chemistry publishing)
So, here’s my obligatory Back-to-the-Future Day post and, because it is me doing this, it’s obviously about chemistry publishing. I figured I’d compare one issue of a journal published in 1985, with an issue published in 2015. Because the last … Continue reading
Posted in Carnivals, Fun, History of science, Publishing
Tagged angewandte chemie, authorship, back to the future day, chemistry, chemistry publishing, editorial, papers, publishing
4 Comments
Animal authors
Earlier today, I noticed that Sylvain Deville had taken to Twitter to point out an unusual canine co-author on a scientific paper: Does this name rings a bell ? hint: #lordoftherings Turns out, it's also the 1st author's dog! http://t.co/T7ecRgJ42E … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Journal stuff, Publishing
Tagged authors, cat, dog, fun, geim, hamster, papers, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing, twitter
2 Comments
