#AGM
ABSW's new board was elected on April 16

Andy Extance as chair, Alex O'Brien as vice-chair, Katharine Sanderson and Mun-Keat Looi as general board members, will serve a two-year term. Other board members will continue for another year.

Meet the Board 👉 zurl.co/LSkP

We are already at The Crick waiting for you. 👍
At the #AGM take a selfie with someone you meet in person for the 1st time and tag ABSW
Here I am with Andy Extance and Sallie Robins. 😁

#event
#ABSW and Science Museum ‘Lates’host Professor Dame Angela McLean in conversation with Roger Highfield
Professor Dame Angela is the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser and the Head of the Government Science and Engineering Profession.
Register 👉 zurl.co/dvAm

🔥 Just Stop Oil Supporters Not Guilty

🧡 Andrew, George, Grace, Samuel, and Pippa were acquitted of Wilful Obstruction of the Highway in Stratford Magistrates Court yesterday after being arrested for slow marching for 6 minutes last November.

⚖️ The Judge ruled they had a

A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to more intense rainfall. I wonder if the editors at the The Telegraph can spot the link between this story and its daft campaign against net zero policies to tackle climate change?

Unbleached reefs this year are coloured blue.

This is the most widespread and most severe mass bleaching and mortality event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.

Nice piece, but the real challenge with perovskite-based solar material is long-term stability. Will panels using it last for 20 years or more? As yet that's still unproven, and research ought to be addressing that as a priority, in my opinion.

Perovskites had shown promise for efficient solar panels, but scale-up remained a challenge. A new method to print perovskites with roll-to-roll could solve this, catalysing commercialisation. My latest for @chemistryworld: chemistryworld.com/news/first-ent…

Is it possible to explain Hilbert space to a 5 year old and if so how would you do it?

Linking up individual sugar molecules is notoriously hard, which is why enzymes make cyclodextrins, used in skincare products and drugs. It has been impossible to make their mirror-image forms, until now... Story be me, thanks to Fraser Stoddart @yongwu1990 Sophie Beeren

Yesterday, the Chemistry World magazine published a nice review of the hot topic of carbon allotropes by Andy Extance. The sacada was highlighted.

Carbon’s allotrope explosion demonstrates how the element is both versatile and fickle: chemistryworld.com/news/carbons-a…

Cyclocarbons, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and carbyne: carbon can arrange in many different ways....

chemistryworld.com/opinion/allotr…

It’s hard not to love an element as special as carbon – but might chemists’ adoration be a problem? Researchers have arguably been spending too much time dreaming what the future may hold for the element. New article at Chemistry World, w/ Ashok Keerthi chemistryworld.com/news/carbons-a…

Space elevators, infinite carbon and the future of materials: Andy Extance explores the vast universe of possibility surrounding the special ingredient that gives us life.

chemistryworld.com/news/carbons-a…

My interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News. He talked over me a lot but I made the point that as energy minister he spent £78 billion in public subsidies for gas consumers that went into the pockets of fossil fuel companies: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhZp-4…

Building a chemical consciousness is the motivation behind Prof. Lee Cronin's flashy but unfamiliar computer. It's awe-inspiring, but the jury's out on just what it can do. Story by me at Chemistry World with comments from Theodore Gray and Ben de Lacy Costello. chemistryworld.com/news/pulsating…

🎤 #MediaOutlet : Could you host an ABSW #MediaFellow ?
Unique opportunity for scientists, clinicians, and engineers to spend 2-6 weeks working at a media outlet. Journalists get an outside perspective and fresh ideas on topics.
More information 👇
zurl.co/MjAi

#workshop #interviewskills Alok Jha
Your requests were heard. The 'Interview Skills Workshop' is back after the success at last year's ABSW Science & Technology Journalism Summer School. It will take place on May 14 at King's College London.

More info 👉 zurl.co/4h2u

1/ The future energy system will be characterised by a lot more 'electricity-only' renewables (mainly solar and wind). Many of the conversion losses are currently due conversion losses at the electricity generation stage. This will no longer be anywhere near as significant in a

📢Sign up now! Interviewing skills ABSW workshop with the brilliant Alok Jha Alok Jha - 14 May, Kings College London

Link to sign up below 👇👇

(this is likely to sell out fast 🙂)

#scicomm #journalism