Inorganic Chemistry @LivUniPhysSci || Education || Blogging || @periodically_ox supporter || shifting towards BSky
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18 Sep 2025
**new blog post** reflections on applying for teaching jobs in 23-24 michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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**New blog post** I am once again tilting at the 300 lab hours windmill, unfortunately. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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20 Aug 2025
Sometimes when you blog something about your own experience you get Emails. Topics around working conditions are without fail the ones which draw the saddest messages.
If there is someone in your department on a short fixed-term contract, take them for coffee **today**.
18 Aug 2025
**New blog post** A reflection on how moving city made me less productive this year. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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18 Aug 2025
**New blog post** A reflection on how moving city made me less productive this year. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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**New Blog Post** How to drop accreditation. A quick examination of how a Department might make a success of leaving the RSC accreditation regime. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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Booking for #ViCEPHEC25 has been extended until 10 July as we recognised there is little time between abstract notifications and the close of the previous deadline.
Nearly 200 people have booked to come already; it's going to be a big event!
payments.liv.ac.uk/conferenc…
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24 Jun 2025
Speaker Announcements for #ViCEPHEC25 came out yesterday.
If you're on Bluesky, follow the conference's account.
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14 Jun 2025
**New blog post** Hope in Chemistry Education. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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16 Jun 2025
In the @FT today, I argue that if AI is just another productivity tool, the productivity gains will be limited. For lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives.
"Had the 19th century focused solely on better looms and ploughs, we would enjoy cheap cloth and abundant grain — but there would be no antibiotics, jet engines or rockets. Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed."
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11 Jun 2025
RSC members: there are still 7 bursaries available for #ViCEPHEC25 through the Higher Education Group. Deadline: July 14th.
Please share!
Details here: rscheg.wordpress.com/project…
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3 Jun 2025
We were delighted recently to have Dr Charlie Simms @UniofOxford – winner of the 2024 RSC Horizon Education Prize @periodically_ox – visit @unibirmingham to give the talk "PERIODically: Menstruation in Academia" as part of our EDI seminar series, hosted by PhD student Sena Ozturk
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28 May 2025
I try not to post "real life" stuff but a few days ago I was asked to give a guest talk about movies to a class of 4th graders. I showed clips of Brakhage, Warhol, Painlevé, etc. I explained how cinema is defined by us and that movies can be made with basic materials.
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20 May 2025
**New Blog Post** I held my office hours in the teaching lab during students' lunch break this year. A quick reflection on how that went. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/202…
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There was a flurry of emails asking about extensions today, so the deadline has been delayed by one week to 23:59 on Friday May 16th.
#ViCEPHEC25 submissions close TODAY.
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8 May 2025
📰The association between Lewis acid and Lewis base in the active encounter complex of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) has now been quantified in work from Dr Tim Barendt @TabLabChem and Dr Andy Jupp @JuppLab and co-workers published in Nature Communications @NatureComms
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#ViCEPHEC25 submissions close TODAY.
Only **one week** until abstract submissions for #ViCEPHEC25 close on Friday May 9th!
There have been just under 50 submissions so far. Make sure to get yours in before the deadline. forms.microsoft.com/Pages/Re…
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#ViCEPHEC25 abstract submissions close *this* Friday.
Only **one week** until abstract submissions for #ViCEPHEC25 close on Friday May 9th!
There have been just under 50 submissions so far. Make sure to get yours in before the deadline. forms.microsoft.com/Pages/Re…
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