Darren Broom
@darrenbroom.bsky.social
Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social. Hydrogen storage, gas adsorption & reproducibility enthusiast. Salford University alumni, ex-neutron scatterer & adopted Mancunian.
Associate Editor, Adsorption. Editorial Board Member, Green Carbon.
Associate Editor, Adsorption. Editorial Board Member, Green Carbon.
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Darren Broom
@darrenbroom.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Challenges in characterizing adsorbents for gas storage and separation - Adsorption
Porous adsorbents, including activated carbons, zeolites, silicas, and newer materials such as metal–organic frameworks, have been investigated extensively for gas storage and separation applications....
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Hello BlueSky!
I'm a Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social, a leading manufacturer of gas & vapor sorption instruments. In my spare time, amongst other things, I write articles like this, on gas #adsorption, #hydrogen storage & #reproducibility:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'm a Product Manager @hidenisochema.bsky.social, a leading manufacturer of gas & vapor sorption instruments. In my spare time, amongst other things, I write articles like this, on gas #adsorption, #hydrogen storage & #reproducibility:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in
#flowchemistry?
#crystallography?
#MOFs?
📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow
Based in the School of Chemistr...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Yorkshire Photo of the Day - Goodmanham Mill.
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Yorkshire Photo of the Day - Goodmanham Mill.
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New blogpost. Some reflections on a @clarivate.com webinar that I attended yesterday.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#evaluation #papermills #fraud
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#evaluation #papermills #fraud
The dangers of using bibliometrics with polluted data
This week I attended a Webinar organised by Clarivate on the topic of “ Eugene Garfield Centenary Celebration: Past, Present and Future ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
New blogpost. Some reflections on a @clarivate.com webinar that I attended yesterday.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#evaluation #papermills #fraud
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#evaluation #papermills #fraud
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Thoughtful piece by @michaelemann.bsky.social in Nature today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction
People do not have to dismiss or exaggerate the climate threat to justify concerted action.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thoughtful piece by @michaelemann.bsky.social in Nature today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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#ChemChat
Is it possible to tell when a physical organic chemist is suffering from early stages of dementia? I find myself mumbling "its a complex interplay of sterics and electronics balancing entropic and enthalpic considerations" to myself a lot more than I probably should.
Is it possible to tell when a physical organic chemist is suffering from early stages of dementia? I find myself mumbling "its a complex interplay of sterics and electronics balancing entropic and enthalpic considerations" to myself a lot more than I probably should.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
#ChemChat
Is it possible to tell when a physical organic chemist is suffering from early stages of dementia? I find myself mumbling "its a complex interplay of sterics and electronics balancing entropic and enthalpic considerations" to myself a lot more than I probably should.
Is it possible to tell when a physical organic chemist is suffering from early stages of dementia? I find myself mumbling "its a complex interplay of sterics and electronics balancing entropic and enthalpic considerations" to myself a lot more than I probably should.
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Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Many Max Planck scientists have started sharing their #research findings on #BlueSky. Follow their posts and join the conversation! 👋 go.bsky.app/BYcBy6R #StarterPack
Hear, hear.
A sandwich should commonly have (in its gross structure) a horizontal mirror plane and at least (again in the gross structure) a C2 symmetry axis perpendicular to the mirror plane.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hear, hear.
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Our partners at Extratech represented the Hiden Group at the International Conference of Multifunctional Framework Materials in Jinhua, China. They showcased our technologies through demos and discussions.
Big thanks to the Extratech team for the excellent support!
#MaterialsScience #HidenGroup
Big thanks to the Extratech team for the excellent support!
#MaterialsScience #HidenGroup
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Our partners at Extratech represented the Hiden Group at the International Conference of Multifunctional Framework Materials in Jinhua, China. They showcased our technologies through demos and discussions.
Big thanks to the Extratech team for the excellent support!
#MaterialsScience #HidenGroup
Big thanks to the Extratech team for the excellent support!
#MaterialsScience #HidenGroup
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Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More"
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Next up, Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social with "Paper Mills, Fraud and More"
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
Paper mills are not predatory publishers - they offer authorship positions and publish in real scientific journals.
Lots of profits: folks who need papers, paper mills, journals.
#IRICSydney
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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Minnesota startup company, Lakril Technologies, manufacturing sustainable materials from plants has been named one of the 10 start-up companies to watch.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com
LINK: cse.umn.edu/cems/news/la...
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com
LINK: cse.umn.edu/cems/news/la...
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Minnesota startup company, Lakril Technologies, manufacturing sustainable materials from plants has been named one of the 10 start-up companies to watch.
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com
LINK: cse.umn.edu/cems/news/la...
@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @mccollum.house.gov @amyklobuchar.com
LINK: cse.umn.edu/cems/news/la...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
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LIZ:
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JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
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JANET:
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LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
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[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
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[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
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LIZ:
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LIZ:
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From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
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[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Our company, Lakril, was selected by @cenmag.bsky.social as one of the Top Ten Startups to Watch!
cen.acs.org/business/bio...
cen.acs.org/business/bio...
Låkril tackles the challenge of biobased acrylic acid
Start-up may have a catalyst that finally makes the process work
cen.acs.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Our company, Lakril, was selected by @cenmag.bsky.social as one of the Top Ten Startups to Watch!
cen.acs.org/business/bio...
cen.acs.org/business/bio...
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Theorists handling QM software calculations to the experimentalists 🤓 #chemsky #compchemsky
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Theorists handling QM software calculations to the experimentalists 🤓 #chemsky #compchemsky
Following #AIChE2025, I had one main aim today & that was to get to Chinatown in Boston & have some dim sum. Thankfully, that was successful (photographic proof attached). My only other aim is to catch my flight home & that seems to be going okay too.
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Following #AIChE2025, I had one main aim today & that was to get to Chinatown in Boston & have some dim sum. Thankfully, that was successful (photographic proof attached). My only other aim is to catch my flight home & that seems to be going okay too.
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Ok, this has to be the worst/best NMR acronym I've ever seen:
"MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)"
(Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky
"MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)"
(Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky
UV-Vis MIChI Draft Is Ready - NFDI4Chem
We are pleased to announce that the amended UV-Vis MIChI draft is now ready and will be published before the end of the year.
www.nfdi4chem.de
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Ok, this has to be the worst/best NMR acronym I've ever seen:
"MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)"
(Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky
"MIChI StAndard foR ReportinG Liquid-StAte NMR ExperIments of SmAll MoleculeS (MARGARITAS)"
(Source: www.nfdi4chem.de/uv-vis-michi...) #chemsky
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
This paper on "Inflatable porous organic crystals", by Len Barbour & his collaborators, looks rather excellent.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
Inflatable porous organic crystals - Nature Materials
Reversible and unidirectional expansion of an acicular porous molecular crystal is observed with gas uptake. Using in situ structural and photomicrographic techniques, a molecular-level insight is obt...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This paper on "Inflatable porous organic crystals", by Len Barbour & his collaborators, looks rather excellent.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I've now arrived in Boston & look forward to seeing everyone at #AIChE2025!
We’re excited to exhibit at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, MA (Nov 2-6)!
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I've now arrived in Boston & look forward to seeing everyone at #AIChE2025!
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We’re excited to exhibit at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, MA (Nov 2-6)!
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We’re excited to exhibit at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, MA (Nov 2-6)!
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
Join us to see how our precision sorption analyzers can support your research in #CarbonCapture, #Hydrogen storage, and #MaterialsScience.
📍 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
🔗 www.aiche.org/conferences/...
How odd. An account was set up impersonating me, with an identical bio. It had reposted quite a few of my posts & I believe a few of my followers followed it. It wasn't me. I've now reported it & it seems to have gone already. Thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social for flagging this up as well.
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How odd. An account was set up impersonating me, with an identical bio. It had reposted quite a few of my posts & I believe a few of my followers followed it. It wasn't me. I've now reported it & it seems to have gone already. Thanks to @stecanossa.bsky.social for flagging this up as well.