After an eventful week for the UK and France, I had such a fun time yesterday at the annual Fête Nationale at the French embassy. Merci to Ambascience UK for the kind invitation! Vive la République!

Looking forward to the Solid State Ionics conference Solid State Ionics in the great city I grew up in. Seeing many colleagues/friends incl Peter Slater Magda Titirici Emma Kendrick Wolfgang Zeier David Scanlon M.Rosa Palacin. Sponsors incl @faradayinst PRX Energy Royal Society of Chemistry nanoGeConferences #SSI24

Even Victoria Atkins was honest enough to admit that her decision to ignore the advice of civil servants and the NHS about the risk of serious harm was "bold" rather than cautious. I didn't expect the new Labour Health to be less honest than his Tory predecessor.

Congratulations Yi-Chun Lu! So well deserved!

Photoelectrochemical nitrates reduction coupled with biomass oxidation can be an energy efficient approach to ammonia production. If you ever wondered how this approach compares to the scale of the problem, you can find out more in our latest preview: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jRiB925JERa…

Standing room only for Ann Huang Imperial Materials excellent invited talk at #ssi24 on “Novel Processing and 3D correlative imaging of electrodes for batteries” Faraday Institution

Congratulations to Philipp Adelhelm Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (pictured here with Bilge Yildez) for receiving the #SSI24 mid career award. I was fascinated to hear his talk about the properties of co-intercalated cations and solvents in layered compounds.

The view from #ssi24 is as impressive as the scientific programme nanoGeConferences John Kilner Stephen Skinner

Congratulations Ieuan! So excited about the science that will ensue

Last night we had a glorious time at the Royal Society of Chemistry summer party Royal Academy. Wonderful to meet president elect Robert Mokaya The University of Sheffield. Thanks to Magda Titirici for letting me be her +1.

Thanks to Craig Burdis and Morven Holland for organising the event so well and Jingyu Feng for the photo!

Royal Society of Chemistry summer party is the event I look forward to all year. So fun meeting colleagues and friends and looking at art Royal Academy. I wish I would have more pictures but two highlights with president elect Robert Mokaya , JavierGarciaMartinez and my guest Ifan Stephens !

So exciting to discover this new degradation mechanism for Fe-N-C catalysts and to get to collaborate with so many of my favourite scientists HelmholtzAssociation CNRS 🌍! Well done everyone!