The Adoration of the Maga. A few thoughts. It all felt a step too far by Gianni Infantino. The award of the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize felt more to do with its president’s desire to please powerful politicians as much as Donald Trump’s love of such glitzy, expensive offerings of

We. Are. There. #FIFAWorldCup | @FIFAWorldCup

One of the most used photoredox reactions in pharma is the deoxygenative cross-coupling using deoxazole ("NHC"), and the industry wide uptake of this diversity generating transformation has just been brilliant to see. This new paper from Johnson & Johnson (by Shane Plunkett and

When you go to Old Trafford for the first time and the guy sitting next to you seems to know what he is talking about. Huge thank you to Sir Alex for the invitation. As they say in Glasgow, “how good was that?” Amazing to enjoy this with my brother and sister. The game was

It was a true privilege to present a chemistry talk on organocatalysis to HRH Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, and 450 high school kids as part of the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF). The LIYSF is a remarkable charitable organization that brings young students

Earlier this month, the Todd Hyster Lab published a Perspective on “Emergent Mechanisms in Biocatalysis” in ACS Central Science @ACSPublications Nice work Felix and Todd. DOI: https://t.co/mSFgSLrKMJ

David MacMillan has been named Distinguished Scholar to the Ludwig Princeton Branch of @Ludwig_Cancer, opening a new chapter in cancer research for the @MacMillan_Lab. Announcement from @PrincetonChem: https://t.co/yFKlqTme02

I was asked what America and Princeton University mean to me. With the University’s help we made a very short video, where I talk about Princeton and why all of our academic enterprises are so important to the US and to the world. As you can see, this is very personal for me.

Reposting with additional info: I will be back in Scotland during the first week of April, giving some talks in Glasgow and St. Andrews.  The general public talk is non-technical and should be accessible to anyone who likes a little bit of science and some (hopefully) funny

I'm excited to announce that we will be hosting Prof. John Hartwig @JohnFHartwig1 @UofGChem on April 23rd for the Inaugural MacMillan Lecture in honour of our alumnus Prof. David MacMillan @dmac68. Free tickets available here: https://t.co/Qp3DRj6VMt

I will be back in Scotland during the first week of April, giving some talks in Glasgow and St. Andrews.  The general public talk is non-technical and should be accessible to anyone who likes a little bit of science and some (hopefully) funny stories. The technical talk is about

I am in Japan right now, but a bunch of people have been sending me this via text. I guess this was last night in the US. It’s kind of surreal when your scientific research ends up as a Jeopardy question…..super cool though!

So saddened to hear the news about Fraser Stoddart passing. He was a remarkable man in so many ways. I consider myself very fortunate to have shared some really great times with him, discussing our upbringing and our intense pride in being Scottish. For me, he was a role model, a

Happy Nobel day to those who celebrate! From the Swedish Residency in New York City, huge congratulations to the 2024 winners and all the folks in Stockholm still having a ball in City Hall!

David MacMillan @MacMillan_Lab spoke last week to teachers from 30 countries at the Annual @Nobel Teacher Summit in Stockholm, where he underscored the importance of teachers to his science. (Shout out to Miss McKean @NewStevenstonPr.)

Now out from the @MacMillan_Lab in @nchembio: “µMap proximity labeling in living cells reveals stress granule disassembly mechanisms.” Congratulations Roderick, Steve, Sean, and Dave on this fine work. Paper here: https://t.co/8Oza8GJdxP

Two Nobel Laureates and…me. Absolute pleasure to meet up with Scotland super fan, David MacMillan @dmac68 again and German chemist, Benjamin List. Colleagues and friends but today, rivals 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪

Fantastic to get together with Ben before the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 game. Even better to do it on the BBC with the amazing Laura Miller @BBCLauraMiller . Munich is bouncing!

Scotland The Brave! @dmac68

Huge thanks to Torsten Bach along with Daniel and Tim and all the folks at TU Munich who hosted me today and showed up in their German strips. Really hoping your generosity extends to the Scotland Germany game tomorrow night!!