Now that normal Ashes service has been resumed, we can cast our minds back to the heady days of Summer and the annual Chemistry Department cricket match... Pictures courtesy of Rob Channon. (More here.)

COST Action CM1305 has been approved. Explicit Control Over Spin States in Technology and Biochemistry (ECOSTBio), brainchild of Marcel Swart, University of Girona, is set to start in the New Year. RJD will be in charge of Working Group 3: Spin Crossover

Marcel Swart

A visit to the old stomping ground. RJD spent Friday Nov 15 at the CCDC exploring possible ways to exploit the crystallographic data on metal-organic systems which comprises over half the CSD.