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Features Editor for , so mostly tweeting about Formerly an associate editor on .

Cambridge, England
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Joined March 2009
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  1. 17 hours ago

    Do your best not to hear the first three words in this tweet to the tune of Hong Kong Phooey...

    Pork floss Beckham: That's the name of a delectable Chinese nosh made famous by this pastry shop.  The name of the snack in Chinese is "ròusōng xiǎobèi 肉鬆小貝" ("pork floss little cowry / cowrie"), after its shape and the main ingredient of the…
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    Aug 5

    It's ok fans. is available.

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  3. Aug 2

    Bit lazy this one, needs to try harder next time

    Replying to @ChemistryWorld
    For sure, a benzene diradical dianion stabilised by two gadolinium ions on either side is the first simple molecule that is Baird aromatic in the ground state. Baird aromaticity typically exists only in high-energy, excited state systems. Way!!!
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  4. Aug 2

    But before you laugh , this is your paper we're reporting on!

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  5. Aug 2

    We went a bit viral over the weekend, it seems...

    this really hit home
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  6. Jul 28

    Advice we can all u<strike>tili</strike>se

    In 99% of cases the word "utilise" should just be "use" and this is the hill I will die on
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  7. Jul 26

    HBD JBG!

    Yesterday also marked the 99th birthday of John Goodenough! In this with Neil Withers, he discussed music, religion, and how to 'unthink' things you thought you knew
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    Jul 26

    Very interesting article. I think we should throw away the term 'aromaticity' because many of 'aromatic' molecules are too heavy to smell. The search for the grand unification of aromaticity | Feature | Chemistry World:

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  9. Jul 20

    You would really think that with Omega’s budget they could afford a copy editor

    Speed master moo watch
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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    ‘Science itself has always been political; the question is not how to prevent that but what to do with it’ – responds to Anna Krylov’s recent article about the politicisation of science

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  11. Jul 15

    Altho they mixed up the colours for fruit+veg and golf courses on the overseas bit, oops. There but for the grace of dog, etc.

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  12. Jul 15

    Oooh this IS good.

    A fantastic infographic on how the UK's land is used, from the report
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  13. Jul 14

    A mildly emotional moment clearing my desk of stuff ahead the brave new world of hybrid hot desking in September

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    Jul 14
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    I was totally blown away when I met Prof Dunitz at ETH back in 2011. Always imagined people with rules named after them weren't actually still with us

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    Jul 14
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    I've been waterskiing with the son of Ingold from the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules.

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  16. Jul 14

    Hund goddamit. I can't even blame autocorrect or anything.

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  17. Jul 14

    I've just discovered that Friedrich Hunt – of maximum multiplicity fame [sticking the electrons in boxes on their own, pointing the same way, before you put 2 in a box] – was STILL ALIVE in 1996-7 aged 101 when I was being taught his rule

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  18. Jul 14

    Never forget

    Every day many, many thousands of people drink IPAs they don't want, solely because they're afraid to say, "No. No. These are terrible."
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    Jul 11
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    Where’s the pineapple? 😉

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  20. Jul 11

    Pizza’s coming home

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