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Tim Easun

@timeasun.bsky.social

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Supramolecular photochemist, time-resolved spectroscopist. UoBChemistry, Royal Society URF #MOFs #chemistry Same U/N at .social

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 20d

#TalkLikeAPirateDay

Pirate goes to the dermatologist
"How can i help you, Captain?"
"Well doc, arr! arrr! I be 'avin' some moles on me back, see?"

Doctor "Well, I've examined them. And they're benign"

"Arrr! Arrr! Count again, ye Scurvy Doc! There be Ten"

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 20d

Large pore windows too.

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EPSRC Network: Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales @epomm.bsky.social · 22d

Porous materials researchers adsorbing onto lunch table. #EPoMM_2025

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

(...and then learned a lot about the analysis of concrete - great talk!)

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

In which I just learned that we consume more concrete than food per person each year.

EPSRC Network: Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales @epomm.bsky.social · 22d

Session 2 begins with Susan Bernal from University of Bath presenting on cementitious materials. #EPoMM_2025

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

@epomm.bsky.social The 2nd EPSRC EPoMM* network meeting has started!

A warm welcome as always by Alex O'Malley to two days of holes.

*Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

Alex stood in front of the intro slide for the conference

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

Would be very at home in Wales.
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Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

Understandable. There's still always a place for classical if you can find the right thing though. There's some great piano pieces out there - I was also in orchestras so piano is not so familiar.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

90s side scrollers are particularly good for concentrating.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

Film soundtracks are the best. John Williams for writing proposals. Danny Elfman for quirky reviews. Ennio Morricone for writing reviews of bad proposals 😂 Thesis chapters work well with game theme music - the writers designed it to make you focus.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 22d

I read your reply as "Very Graphic Design" and thought, yes, it certainly is.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 26d

I've only heard Long Earth in the context of the Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter collaboration

The Long Earth - Sir Terry Pratchett share.google/dLO2k8r5BEbE...

The Long Earth - Sir Terry Pratchett

All the Long Earth books in order. The Long Earth is a collaborative science fiction series by British authors, Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 27d

On authorship, I agree with your other reply: body of work, cite PI; single paper, cite first author.

I'm not sure I've always been that consistent in the past though 🤔

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · 27d

Side note on your side note, I read the quoted text as saying your method doesn't have the drawback of the (alternative) UV-vis method, not that there's any UV-vis in your method.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C @jmaterchem.rsc.org · Sep 9

Our new themed collection explores molecular photoswitches for energy storage, guest edited by Professors Rachel Evans, Grace Han, Tao Li and Professor Dr Hermann A. Wegner.

Read the articles here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5TA...

#matsky #scisky

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Me: "I wrote this."

Carbon dioxide: "It sucks. It's utter trash. A child could have done better. Plus your outfit is horrible. Did a cavefish dress you?"

Me, to other guy: "Who is this jerk?"

Other guy, the one who says the punchline: "That's supercritical CO₂."

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Sep 5

Agreed, and also on more private social sites like Discord.

And more willing to use video than I ever will be!

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Petra Agota Szilagyi @paszilagyi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please apply on jobbnorge by the 18th of September!
@postdocposition @xrayabsorptionspectroscopy
www.academicjobs.com/university-j...

Researcher in X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metal-organic frameworks for C-H activation at University of Oslo

Discover job opportunities for Researcher in X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metal-organic frameworks for C-H activation at University of Oslo.

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Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Sep 4

On the upside, it is good to know that many of the people met through twitter are here, so the lines of connection aren't completely lost :)

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm sadly less engaged here than twitter for lots of reasons but one of them was definitely the sense of loss - I don't want to go through that again.

I'm also just *tired* so don't have the capacity for building up engagement again.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Sep 3

#ChemSky

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Good day Sir, here are today's options. Would you like anisotropic peak broadening, diffuse streaks, superstructure peaks, or twinning?" "Yes, please"
#Crystallography #totalscattering #TheCuteLittleCrystal

An intricated single-crystal (?) reconstruction of reciprocal space shows main Bragg peaks, streaks crossing them, and satellite peaks arranged in tiny crosses between the main Bragg peaks.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Aug 5

Same, agreed and yes!

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Jul 14

We seek to improve knowledge and develop methods to remediate the problem, to provide safer water to many.

The network Emmanuel pioneered and Victorien is continuing is called the Central and West African Network for Safe Water, CW-ANSWer. It is my hope that we will live up to the name.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Jul 14

He was with us long enough to hear of the successful new funding for his Network.

Led by Professor Victorien Dougnon, from the Université d'Abomey-Calavi, this new project will allow us to honour Emmanuel's legacy by addressing the problems of fungal toxins in waters across 8 countries.

Tim Easun @timeasun.bsky.social · Jul 14

You can hear from Emmanuel yourself here, in an interview from 2 years ago.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He was passionate about bringing people together to solve problems of water contamination across Central and West Africa.

Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month

Scientists based in resource-poor regions describe how they tackle salary uncertainty, power outages and equipment shortages.