It's been 3 years since I finished my very first aerial landscape embroidery! 🥳 I thought I'd post it along with my latest one - practice makes improvement!

Merci brusicor02. I have a purple hydrangea, and wondered whether I could make it blue by feeding it aluminium, or red by denying it aluminium. In 6 days I got an indigo mop and a dying purple mop. Additional comment in the ALT text. x.com/brusicor02/sta…

Please give your thoughts on proposals for new public realm on High Street in Glasgow by taking part in an online consultation. Find out more 👉 ow.ly/GyGk50T7vuq

Using the 'read aloud' function in Word and some of my paragraphs have an American accent and some are a robotic RP English accent?

literally just had this happen 🥲

A spireless Glasgow University tower looks down from Gilmorehill. The spire, arguably the building's most recognisable feature, wasn't added until 1887-91 by which time original architect George Gilbert Scott had died. It was left to his son John Oldrid Scott to finish the job.

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My first journal cover art was published this morning! It’s one for the office wall for sure! Aurora, Jonathan Steed, Crystal Growth & Design / ACS doi.org/10.1021/acs.cg…

I received my first MDPI reviewer request. I had to reject it but they ask 1 week? I am used to 2 weeks which is general fine but 1 week? Also I read some horror story of people who reviewed for MDPI journals. Any thoughts on it?

Physicists will just simply assume everyone on campus is a spherical student in a vacuum.

800 active YouTube channels producing chemistry content, according to a new analysis. My latest for C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News): cen.acs.org/education/scie… Lewis MacKenzie

Great to see this coverage of my team's research in Chemical and Enginering news! All done by a brilliant team of undergrad students Chemistry - University of Strathclyde! 😄

This is what made science Twitter magic. So many different academicians from disparate fields interacting and sharing in the same space. At its peak, science Twitter was phenomenal. Then Musk came along… and I’ll never forgive him for the damage he did to our community.

Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info, or see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 13 & 14 Sept.