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SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Award
SOS-Phosphorus: Sustainable Organic Synthesis with Phosphorus. This project will develop new applications of sulfur-containing organophosphorus compounds. These reagents are potentially sustainable entryways into organophosphorus compounds as they...
Post · September 25, 2025
David awarded a prestigious teaching grant for the development of new undergraduate practicals in photocatalysis
David has been awarded €15,000 from the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement fund to lead the PhotoCAT project. PhotoCAT will involve the development of new photocatalysis experiments and their subsequent introduction to the Un...
Post · September 25, 2025
Dr Lorraine Bateman brings our sensor molecules to SMASH
Delighted to see our collaborator Dr Lorraine Bateman present our recent work (with Smital Patil and Dr Eimear Courtney) on the development of chiral sensors for 31P NMR measurement of enantiopurity at SMASH (Small Molecules Are Still Hot) in Porto.
Post · September 24, 2025
The unwritten curriculum
The most undervalued competency in academic development is not a methodological technique but a strategic practice: the disciplined art of refusal. Researchers often succumb to the peril of perpetual assent, accepting every request, invitation, an...
Post · September 24, 2025
Low Lung Function in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: a hidden risk
People living with serious mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, face a well-documented excess of premature morbidity and mortality. While suicide and cardiovascular disease are widely recognized, respiratory health has...
Post · September 23, 2025
Textured Journaling: A Tactile Archive from Regensburg
Inspired by the Germany-based Stadtstempel Projekt (@stadtstempel_projekt), I found myself in Germany (what a coincidence!) experimenting for the first time with an intuitive stamping technique I’ve come to call textured journaling.
Equipped wit...
Post · September 23, 2025
Can AI screen titles/abstracts in a systematic review?
As part of my PhD, I am in the pilot phase of a systematic review, currently experimenting with different approaches to screening. Given that I use large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT every day, I wondered if AI could help me do it faster. Y...
Post · September 21, 2025
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