Second manuscript review of the year completed. Number three is on the cards for next week. Up to 12 requests now for the year wrt to reviewing of manuscripts.

At Sale rugby today with THE Adams family. Sale sadly lost due to a player being sent off for a no arms tackle at a ruck after about 10 mins. A lot of the action was focused on the 22 m line just in front of us, so we were entertained.

Features work by MANDRAKE Dr Oliver Sutcliffe Kate Kemsley and myself 😀

Lecturer / SL in inorganic / materials chemistry (hopefully inorg :) ) available at MMU. Details below. Deadline 31st January. I work at MMU - what more of incentive do you need?! Please apply / pass on to anyone you think will be interested. Thanks! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/4…

First day of my future education leaders course today. What did I learn? For starters,I can walk 2.5 miles in 30 mins to make start 😀 Second, lots of colleagues working on similar themes for cross-faculty collaboration. Third, colleagues think what I am doing will be valuable.

One of the students made a lovely green complex in the lab the other day. I remarked that Percy would most likely exclaim "look sire I have made purest green". I have now realised that utilising quotes from Blackadder isn't quite current. Oh dear.

Very pleased to announce I have been shortlisted by The Union, Manchester Metropolitan University for Outstanding Commitment to Student Wellbeing and Support at the Teaching Awards 2023. My colleagues Kirsty and Dr Bea Macia Ruiz have been shortlisted for teacher of the year. Well done to them!

Congratulations to all the Prize Winners at the NMRDG PostGrad Meeting University of Leicester @Emmagates44 (best talk), @CallumGater1 (best poster), Emma Latchem (runner-up talk; not pictured), & Alexander Wilcock (runner-up poster) with NMRDG Chair Melanie Britton

Tonight I am at Birches Head Academy to present Lynn Kidwell her Royal Society of Chemistry Excellence in Secondary and Further Education Prize. There are also many students being awarded tonight as well.

💥NEW RESEARCH PAPER💥 Our collaborative work w/ Dayve Dixon Molly Millea Alexander Wilcock Andy Costello Jamie Ellison Sacha Lord Kim O Brien & Ryan Mewis on the FIRST synthesis, characterisation & analysis of novel #cathinone bk-PBDB (putylone) is online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Saw this beautiful sloth chilling in the 30+ heat in Costa Rica today

I'm in Lille for England v Chile. I wonder how many tries England can score from someone's head this week?

Second night in a row that the 16.53 and 17.06 from Man Ox Rd have been cancelled (or removed?) from the timetable. Why NORTHERN 🚆 ? You did this last week as well. The data for the last 20 days is dire. Are you trying to sort this out?

Last week, we had a great time filming at Manchester Metropolitan Uni with Dr Dr Oliver Sutcliffe and Dr Ryan Mewis! Stay tuned to see how they use benchtop NMR for forensics & research.  To find out more about X-Pulse benchtop NMR spectrometer, visit okt.to/73SQqe  #NMRchat

Work at ChemistryMMU featured as a teaching innovation in the LearnSci Teaching Innovation Awards 2023. Work highlighted is a contribution from a group of organic and inorganic colleagues. Almost 1500 Moodle badges awarded for syn. chem in semester 1! learnsci.com/community/teac…

Bala is looking good for tomorrow's triathlon

Congratulations to Emily and Jay on getting their manuscript published. The manuscript focuses on the determination of the pKa value of a Brønsted Acid by 19F NMR. You can read it here: …iencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mr…