Fer
I'm Fernando, a science communicator based in Cambridge, UK. Co-Founder of @agata.agency. I talk about chemistry, climate, materials, and sometimes books, music and politics, a veces #EnEspañol. Views are my own [He/Him] #ChemSky #Scicomm #ComunicaCiencia
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- Photochemistry swaps the oxygen atom in oxetane rings with nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur at a single stroke. @mjkoh87.bsky.social’s team pushed skeletal editing beyond aromatic structures, a stimulating discovery in organic chemistry: www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula... 🧪 #ChemSky @nature.com
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- Headlining the @chemistryworld.com research section with not one but two interesting stories on cool chemistry: chirality and skeletal editing. 1️⃣🧬 www.chemistryworld.com/news/chiral-... 2️⃣🦴 www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula... Please do share if you enjoy ☺️ #ChemSky 🧪 @absw.bsky.social
- Swapping oxygen in oxetanes? 🪄 Done! With skeletal editing 🙌🏼🦴✨ My latest @chemistryworld.com story covers a cool strategy to introduce nitrogen, carbon, or sulfur instead at a single stroke 🖌️🎨 Amazing, almost magic @nature.com paper by @mjkoh87.bsky.social 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/stimula...
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- Really cool stuff by @pappasgroup.bsky.social in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social – chiral chemical fuels drive molecules to self-assemble into different structures, depending on handedness 🧬 My latest for @chemistryworld.com 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/chiral-... #ChemSky #RealTimeChem #Chemistry
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- Hey #Chemsky! Here’s a curious connection between Nobel prize winning metal-organic frameworks, Mudéjar art and my hometown of Zaragoza, in Spain. Discover my latest opinion piece for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a... 🧪 #Chemistry #NobelPrize #History #MOFpapers
- The connection between Nobel-prize winning MOFs and Mudéjar maybe goes beyond beautiful geometric structures – @davidfairen.bsky.social believes the first ever metal-organic framework could be a compound discovered in my hometown, Zaragoza, in 1973. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/my-a...
- Reposted by Fer¿Os acordáis de que estábamos montando una pequeña expo sobre el #lobo? Por el camino se nos ha sumado un montón de gente bonita y ya (casi) existe. Tenemos sitio y fecha, apuntad 💚 @fondolobo.bsky.social @agata.agency @adarasanchez.bsky.social @claracervino.bsky.social #anafernandezpero #cesargil
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- Wohooo! 🥳 My article on new photochemical reactions to convert CO₂ into ethylene is now among the top three most read in @chemistryworld.com 📈 Thanks everyone for reading and sharing. If you want to learn more about it, click here: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... @science.org #ChemSky 🧪
- My latest for @chemistryworld.com on a catalyst to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into ethylene with 99% efficiency and selectivity. With comments from @alextbarth.bsky.social and @casadevallcarla.bsky.social: www.chemistryworld.com/news/photoca... #ChemSky @science.org 🧪
- King's is always absolutely beautiful, but it looked specially nice from our punt today – thanks for the invite @claudiabonfio.bsky.social 🩵🚣🏻
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- Gaia seems unimpressed with the new design for @cenmag.bsky.social 😛 #ACSFall2025 cc @bribarbu.bsky.social
- No sé qué me fascina más, si la moda de poner requesón en absolutamente todas las recetas supuestamente saludables o que todo el mundo pronuncie “cottage” como si fuera una palabra francesa: cotáash. Virgencita del amor hermoso.
- At the @cenmag.bsky.social #Talented12 symposium in #ACSFall2025 🎉 Enjoying the really cool presentations from this year's class ✨ Kudos @craigofwaffles.bsky.social 🙏🏼
- Thanks to a responsive sugar polymer, a new pill diagnoses diseases dyeing poop blue 🥶💩 This noninvasive test could improve the quality of life of over 7 million people living with IBDs like Crohn's and colitis. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social 👉🏼 cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #ChemSky 🧪
- So great to catch up with my dear @cenmag.bsky.social friends, and meeting some for the first time 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @bribarbu.bsky.social @laurahowes.bsky.social @ginacvitale.bsky.social @cdellamore.bsky.social #ACSFall2025
- Blue poop? 💩🥶 Call your doctor! My latest story in @cenmag.bsky.social about a pill to detect IBDs like Crohn's and colitis:
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- Definition of imposter syndrome: speaking at a workshop right after #ChemSky stars 💫✨ @drdre4000.bsky.social and @jenheemstra.bsky.social 🥰 Such an honour to share the stage with them at the #CASFutureLeaders programme 🎉
- Beyond thrilled to return, once again, to Columbus! 🇺🇸 For the second consecutive year, @agata.agency collaborates with the @acs.org #CASFutureLeaders program, with a dedicated workshop on #scicomm and boosting the impact of research 🚀 Thanks, @petercarlton.bsky.social for the invitation!🩵
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- For the first time, researchers have synthesised and characterised the ‘only possible structure’ with four hydroxyl groups linked to a carbon atom – methanetetrol. My latest story for @chemistryworld.com 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/strange... #ChemSky #Science #chemistry 🧪 ⚗️
- By simulating the conditions of interstellar ice – ultra low temperature and pressure – researchers prepared methanetetrol, an elusive structure with four OH groups linked to a single carbon atom. My latest for @chemistryworld.com here 👉🏼 www.chemistryworld.com/news/strange... #ChemSky #Science 🧪
- One, two, three...wait is that FOUR hydroxyl groups in a single carbon atom? Sounds impossible, but it's true! Researchers simulated interstellar ice conditions to create methanetetrol. Just out in @chemistryworld.com, by yours truly: www.chemistryworld.com/news/strange... #ChemSky 🧪 #RealTimeChem
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- A new Nature Catalysis paper suggests nickel is an efficient alternative to copper in the electrochemical reduction of CO₂ into long-chain and branched hydrocarbons ⛽♻️🚙✈️ Read my latest article for @cenmag.bsky.social here: cen.acs.org/materials/mo... @ethz.ch @iciq.org #ChemSky 🧪
- Wohooo! My story on #carbenes to cut corrosion is now in the @chemistryworld.com top 3 🙌🏼🎉🥳 Thanks everyone for reading and sharing – and ICYMI here's the link again: www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene... 🧪 #Science #Corrosion #chemistry #ChemSky
- I’m back in @cenmag.bsky.social 🙌🏼 In my new article, I write about how fluorine-doped nickel catalysts could help chemists transform CO₂ into valuable hydrocarbons ♻️⛽🚙 Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/mo...
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- Did you know carbenes could completely cut corrosion on iron surfaces? They act as a "double-sided tape" of sorts to stick a polymer that protects the surface from rusting. My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene... #ChemSky #chemistry 🧪 @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
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- May have outdone myself with the alliterations 💅🏼 but apart from that I'm pretty proud of this piece. Check it out! #Carbenes to stop corrosion. #ChemSky #realtimechem @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🧪
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- If you're in #Cambridge and work in #scicomm (science outreach, communications, PR, marketing, education, public engagement...) don't miss our surprise summer social meet-up *tomorrow* 🥳🍔🥂 Come to the Cambridge Blue (CB1 2LG) any time after 6.30pm! Everyone's welcome 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Please share! ♻️
- Reposted by FerI was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
- Oops! Did you miss my latest for @chemistryworld.com? 🧪 Here's how some sustainable adhesives easily recover with a quick blast in a home microwave: #ChemSky #RealTimeChem #Science
- So cool to see @lutimestwo.bsky.social’s book as pick of the month in Cambridge’s Heffers! 🩵
