Last retort
How Doctor Who helped me find companions for my PhD adventure
Finding cultural common ground with aliens
Jumping on clean data
Can you trust your results like a skydiver trusts their altimeter?
Hurdle training
PhD life can throw up a seemingly never-ending series of challenges
Organic matter
Enabling environments support the development of diverse teams
A great workplace allows individuals to be constrained only by the limits of their own minds
(–)-Taxol
Following nature’s lead
Online conferences have benefits worth retaining
Nothing’s quite the same as a scientific meeting
Chemists amid coronavirus: Anya Gryn’ova
The computational chemist has returned to her Heidelberg research institute after months of lockdown, and is thankful to be living in Germany
Translating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond
Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides
How the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
From the editors
Lessons from lockdown
19 lessons from Covid-19
All systems go
Boundaries encourage complex chemistry, but originality is important too
Rewriting the narratives surrounding radical transformations
Don’t let tired clichés get in the way of selective and sustainable chemistry
Looking beyond the next wave
We need to apply lessons from Covid-19 to tackle antimicrobial resistance and climate change
Marvellous mimicry
Learning from nature never goes out of fashion for synthetic chemists
Hobbies don’t apply for recruitment
What does the hobbies section of a CV really tell an employer about a job candidate?
