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Barry Blight
@barryblight.bsky.social
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Professor at the University of New Brunswick 🇨🇦 Inorganic Chemist, Porous and Supramolecular Materials. Chasing True Sustainability. https://blightba.wixsite.com/blightresearchgroup Interested in Life. Family. Chemistry. Go!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 23h
MOFs!!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 20d
short answer: yes.
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 20d
Making food from thin air sounds like science fiction but that's what some companies are starting to do using captured carbon dioxide.
How is carbon dioxide being turned into food in the lab?
Butter made from captured CO2 is the latest food item to make headlines, highlighting growing interest in this field
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Thomas Group @spthomasgroup.bsky.social · 21d
Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie!

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemistry #chemsky
Colorimetric indication of hidden catalysis - Nature Chemistry
Hidden catalysis plagues catalyst development and occurs when an impurity or species generated in situ facilitates the reaction instead of the intended catalyst. Current methods to identify hidden cat...
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 21d
wtf...fan interference...AND...homerun...
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Sep 4
not on fb...is there a 3-line recap available?
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Sep 4
Stephen!! great news! congrats!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Aug 19
Many Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Aug 15
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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · Aug 11
Transforming Aluminium Waste: Sustainable Conversion to Commercial MOFs, Hydrogen Fuel, and Essential Aluminium Feedstocks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SU/D5SU00631G
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Aug 15
Very excited to finally be able to share this exciting open-access work, 3 years in the making. Sustainably converting waste alumin(i)um into AL-MOFs, alumina at much lower temperatures, and hydrogen gas as a biproduct. Congrats to Dr Mason Lawrence for driving this, and Robbie Horne.
Transforming aluminium waste: sustainable conversion to commercial MOFs, hydrogen fuel, and essential aluminium feedstocks
Aluminium dross waste is generated during the aluminium smelting process and has an annual production of nearly 5.3 M tonnes worldwide. It is largely comprised of aluminium but also contains different...
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Aug 12
you must be on sabbatical, deep diving other peoples' problems.
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Giulia Lavarda @giulialavarda.bsky.social · Aug 8
🎓 Applications open for the first Carsten Schmuck PhD Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry!
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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 7
Happy to share that the recently founded Working Group „Supramolecular Chemistry“ of the German Chemical Society will Award its very first PhD Prize in memory of Carsten Schmuck. Please apply!

www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...
Preise & Ehrungen | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.
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UNB Research @unbresearch.bsky.social · Aug 7
They say that constraint can breed creativity.

Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process:

blogs.unb.ca/research/202...
UNB research administrator Kara MacGillivray recognized for community-minded creativity
At the Canadian Association of Research Administrators’ (CARA) 2025 Canadian Conference on Research Administration, held in Fredericton in May, UNB’s Kara MacGillivray, a financial analyst in research...
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Beth @kleptokoala.bsky.social · Jul 31
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 31
Eek!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 31
Maybe not in 1 week but the math does say one should review 3 papers for every submitted one…
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 30
This is the right kind of news. More of this please.
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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · Jul 30
#LocalNews
www.startribune.com/5-best-thing...
The 5 best new ice creams our food writers ate this week
The hunt for great new scoops in honor of National Ice Cream Day on Sunday was a sweet success.
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Victor Blanco @vb-chem.bsky.social · Jul 29
Now in an issue. Tröger's base derivatives are suitable chiral scaffolds to make CPL emitters by their functionalization with simple achiral fluorophores. Acid/base-driven CPL switching was also achieved.

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Acid/Base‐Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters with Configurationally Stable Nitrogen Stereogenic Centers
Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) emitters based on Tröger's base analogues bearing two peripheral fluorophores (anthracene, pyrene or 9,9-dimethylfluorene) are prepared following a straightfor...
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 29
TOC means you hit. Well done. It’s like the last couple reps of a work out or a savage bike climb. You’ll be happy when it’s finished. Power through!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 28
Great message!
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 27
Now you need a boulder club!
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Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · Jul 26
First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that.

This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.
 
jenheemstra.com/book
Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.
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Mark @mehkormek.bsky.social · Jul 25
NMR Job at 3M.

3m.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Search...

#Chemsky #NMR
Research Specialist- NMR Focus
Job Description: Research Specialist - NMR Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so...
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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Jul 23
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