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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕

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Prof. in Polymer and Colloid Chemical Engineering at the University of Warwick (UK), LGBTQ+ Advocate, Dutch origin, Gen X, Educator. Maker of small plastics. He/him, bonlab.info 🏳️‍🌈 🎸🐕

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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 29/09/2026
On my way to Bayreuth University to the 53rd biannual meeting of the German Colloid Society. Opening the conference with a plenary talk discussing our work on "sustainable" polymer colloids.
The 53rd biannual meeting of the German Colloid Society
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UofT Department of Chemistry @chemuoft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join our faculty! The Department of Chemistry at U of T invites applications for two full-time tenure stream positions in Inorganic, Polymer, and/or Materials Chemistry. To learn more, visit jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Poster advertising for a chemistry professor, with polymers in background a nd a busy lab in foreground.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 28/08/2026
Dear Joe. We are super excited you are joining us at Warwick! See you soon.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 20/07/2026
Many congratulations to Ollie O'Hara who graduated today with an MChem from the University of Warwick. Thanks for being part of our team Ollie and good luck with your future career! @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social 🥽🧪🍎
Yutong Niu (left) from BonLab and Ollie O'Hara (right) who graduated today.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 01/07/2026
AI is more like ay, ay, ay when I look at the results from an open book (no computer, paper only) exam on chemical reaction engineering and data analysis. AI is a black hole for the cognitive skills development of our students. Ay, ay, ay, AI. #chemsky ,🍎🧪🥽
AI sucks the cognitive skills of science students into a black hole
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 28/06/2026
Very happy with our first Julio Iglesias rose in our garden. Looks wonderful, smells amazing.
Julio Iglesias rose.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 25/06/2026
Many congratulations to Alex Fletcher for passing his PhD viva on polyester dispersions for pressure sensitive adhesives. Many thanks to the examiners profs. Joe Keddie and Dave Haddleton. Proud supervisor! 🥽🧪🍎
LTR Stefan Bon, Joe Keddie, Alex Fletcher, Dave Haddleton.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 19/06/2026
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BonLab travels to the Macrogroup UK YRM 2026 in Loughborough — BonLab
A delegation from our research team will attend the MacroGroup UK YRM 2026 meeting, which is hosted at Loughborough University this year. Mars Poxon will give a talk on strategies to make polymer co...
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 18/06/2026
Tomorrow, 85 of our 2nd year chemistry students sit their chemical reaction engineering and data analysis exam (f-2-f open book) for the first time! I am looking forward to their results. 🥽🧪🍎@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #chemsky
Chemical Reaction Engineering and Data Analysis, a 2nd year UG Module at the University of Warwick
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 18/06/2026
Great to see @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social doing well! 🍎🧪🥽Interested in studying with us? Join us as an UG or PG student in Chemistry and become part of our research team.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 18/06/2026
Great to see a first impact factor of 5.1 for RSC Applied Polymers. Onwards and upwards! www.rsc.org/publishing/j... 🍎🧪🥽 @rscapplied.rsc.org
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RSC Applied Polymers
The application of polymers, both natural and synthetic
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 14/06/2026
Gemini made our black and white logo colorful with pride #LGBT 🧪🥽🍎. I think we are gonna keep this one. #Chemsky
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RSC Applied - Interfaces, Polymers @rscapplied.rsc.org · 08/06/2026
There’s still time to register for the #RSCAppliedSymposium: Interfaces and polymers for a sustainable future! Registration closes 22 June so sign up today to join us on 23 July in London U.K.⬇️ rsc.li/appliedsymposium2026 #ChemSky
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 09/06/2026
Great talk by Alex Fletcher from BonLab at Surfex 2026 on water-based polyester dispersions for pressure sensitive adhesives. Want to know more? Get in touch with us. 🧪🥽🍎
Alex Fletcher from BonLab giving a talk at Surfex 2026.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 08/06/2026
Alex Fletcher, research fellow in BonLab, has been invited to talk at Surfex 2026. The title is “Flip and Stick: "Polyester Latexes via Phase Inversion for Adhesive Applications”. His talk will take place in Theatre C at 14:40 on Tuesday, 9th June 2026. 🍎🥽🧪 Source: www.surfex.co.uk/seminar-prog...
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Surfex
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 04/06/2026
Yutong Niu had a great time at Covestro (The Netherlands) with his industrial collaborators. He presented the latest of his PhD research on polycondensations. He taught Warwick Chemistry's undergraduate Anjali Manoj at Covestro (The Netherlands) how to carry out a scaled up polycondensation.
Yutong Niu from BonLab with his industrial collaborators at CovestroYutong Niu teaching Warwick's UG Anjali Manoj a scaled up polycondensation.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 01/06/2026
We at BonLab wish everyone a happy Pride month.
BonLab logo in Pride colours
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 25/05/2026
What's the AI-ratio going to be? Take 85 students on a chemical reaction engineering module. The AI-ratio is the average mark obtained in an open book exam where all notes on paper are allowed + pen, paper, calculator divided by the average mark from 5 homework sets. 🧪🥽🍎
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 21/05/2026
What cloud do they live on? Totally not enforceable. 🍎
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 21/05/2026
All ready for the 2nd 2-hour revision class (yep there are 3 of these) for our chemical reaction engineering and data analysis module at the University of Warwick. Pen, paper, basic calculator. No internet, no AI. That's all. 🧪🍎🥽
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Meryl Streep: That's All
Alt: Meryl Streep: That's All (the devil wears Prada)
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 21/05/2026
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Mars Poxon and Emily Brogden clinch top honors at Warwick Chemistry postgraduate symposium — BonLab
Best Warwick University SEM Faculty PhD thesis award for Emily Brogden and Best Warwick Chemistry Presentation award for Mars Poxon.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 21/05/2026
Emily Brogden from BonLab wins the 2026 University of Warwick SEM Faculty prize for best PhD thesis on innovative approaches to improve pressure-sensitive adhesive performance. Fantastic news for the team! An amazing achievement. Many congratulations to Emily who now works at Synthomer. 🥽🍎🧪
Emily Brogden from BonLab wins the 2026 University of Warwick SEM Faculty PhD thesis prize
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 20/05/2026
Mars Poxon won a best talk award at the 2026 University of Warwick Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium for their work on degradable polymers. Fantastic news for the team! Great job Mars, proud of you! 🧪🍎🥽
Mars Poxon from BonLab winning a 2026 University of Warwick best talk award.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 20/05/2026
New “permanently wet” coating method could transform wastewater treatment by helping bacteria survive better | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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New “permanently wet” coating method could transform wastewater treatment by helping bacteria survive better
Living bacteria embedded in coatings could clean wastewater, capture carbon and generate biofuels – but only if they survive the manufacturing process. Researchers at the University of Surrey and the ...
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 13/05/2026
As part of my chemical reaction engineering at the University of Warwick, the students had to do 5 homework assignments for marks. These were numerical problem sets. Just finished marking, manually. I think everyone can guess the outcome. 🥽🍎🧪
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 11/05/2026
BOOM 💥 There it is 😃
alex.karlsen asks:

Why does Denmark consistently rank among the happiest countries despite having some of the highest taxes in the world?

chrislundartist replies:

You guys are obsessed with the tax rate, but you ignore the Life Rate.
If you add up your taxes + health insurance + co-pays + tuition + daycare + retirement savings... you are paying way more than we are.
We just pay one bill and get everything included.
You are paying five different bills and getting nothing.
We aren't socialists; we are just better at accounting.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 07/05/2026
My colleague Dave Haddleton and I have been teaching our first year students about polymers. One of the assessments is to make a short movie on a polymer product in a specified movie category. Who will win a "Warwick University Oscar" coming Monday? Only a few days to go....
Warwick Chemistry Oscars award ceremony
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 30/04/2026
The High Polymer Group meeting was great. It has been so nice to catch up with friends and connect with new people.
HPRG dinner party.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 26/04/2026
On the way! Let's hope for a sunny conference. Looking forward to catching up with people and making new connections. Oh, and let's not forget...great science. 🧪🍎🥽
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 23/04/2026
Only a few days to go. Looking forward to this. 🥽🍎🧪https://www.bonlab.info/events/2026/4/26/stefan-bon-invited-to-speak-at-the-64th-high-polymer-research-group-meeting
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Stefan Bon invited to speak at the 64th High Polymer Research Group Meeting — BonLab
Prof. dr. ir. Stefan Bon is invited to speak at the 64th conference of the High Polymer Research Group (HPRG) in April 2026.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 17/04/2026
We are very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work lead by Joe Keddie at Surrey University. Biocoatings with Enhanced Bacterial Viability via Coagulant Dipping and Wet Sintering by Immersion | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Biocoatings with Enhanced Bacterial Viability via Coagulant Dipping and Wet Sintering by Immersion
Biocoatings are typically colloidal polymer films confining metabolically active, nongrowing bacteria. Depending on the species of confined bacteria, biocoatings find applications in wastewater treatm...
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 12/03/2026
Announcing the RSC Applied symposium: Interfaces & polymers for a sustainable future! Join us to explore application‑focused materials research aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals, featuring advances in materials interfaces & polymers ➡️ rsc.li/appliedsymposium2026 #ChemSky
The image is a promotional graphic for the "RSC Applied Symposium: Interfaces and Polymers for a Sustainable Future," taking place on 23 July 2026 in London, UK. It features the Royal Society of Chemistry logo and a decorative design with a "Save the date" message.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 12/03/2026
On my way to Manchester University to do a PhD viva for one of Marloes Peeters' students. Looking forward to a good discussion on the work.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 08/03/2026
This weekend we are on our annual getaway with our research team. We travelled to Hawkshead in the Lake District. If the weather holds, it's hiking time later.
Hawkshead view
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 26/02/2026
We are looking for two talented people to join us at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick as assistant professors. Permanent positions. 🧪🍎🥽 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Assistant Professor in Chemistry x2 (111367-0226) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Chemistry x2 (111367-0226). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 16/02/2026
Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! We wish all a beautiful year the horse.
Chinese New Year celebrations
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 03/12/2025
Today our MSc student felt the sensation of emulsion polymerization.
MSc Emulsion Polymerization lab crowd at the University of Warwick Dec 2025
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 01/12/2025
Next term I will be teaching year 1 and year 2 undergraduate students. Have a bet with my colleagues to get >80% attendance in class. It seems doomed from the start as currently only around 30% of students go to lectures.....what a challenge it will be! 🥽🍎🧪
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 03/11/2025
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£2.3M boost to revolutionize optical and mechanical metamaterials — BonLab
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick have secured £2.3M in UKRI funding to create materials with radically new optical and mechanical properties, that can be prod...
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 31/10/2025
Absolutely loved teaching emulsion polymerization today. Changed teaching style to become way more interactive asking for active engagement of participants. Teach them how to think and discover, rather than simple data transfer of facts. Thanks to everyone involved today! It was a blast. 🥽🍎🧪
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 09/10/2025
Had a fantastic day at Cambridge University to kick off our collaborative new large Reconstructable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Metamaterials (ReNOMMs)project. Ready for some fantastic and fun science the years ahead.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 30/09/2025
Beautiful walk this morning.
Sun beams through foggy UK grass landSunrise with early morning fog in a UK park.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 27/09/2025
Welcome to all new students to the University of Warwick the coming week. In Chemistry around 200 UGs and 60 PGs will join our vibrant community. I am looking forward to meeting and interacting with many of you. Let's do great science, together! 🧪🍎🥽
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 21/08/2025
A key objective of a university is to teach the next generation. To transfer knowledge in a way that students learn how to reason and innovate. It is not just data transfer. To reinforce this, I will be teaching a lot in the coming academic year, with pleasure. @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 13/08/2025
The use of the word ubiquitous in scientific papers of the last couple of years is indeed ubiquitous. Sigh. 🧪🍎🥽
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 08/08/2025
Interesting discussion with @jamestapper.bsky.social today on the Global Plastics Treaty. The elephant in the room: consumerism and the global economy addicted to it. Without addressing the need to go for durable and repairable products and not opt for "fast" or "single use", humanity will be lost.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 05/08/2025
Five years ago, during the COVID lockdown I wrote the first version of my polymer colloids course as an online e-book. I am finally converting and updating it to a (digital) textbook, and try it out this fall/winter. After that, the plan is to release it. 🥽🍎🧪
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 04/08/2025
Warwick marketing ‘fiasco’ shows ‘education isn’t a luxury brand’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...
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Warwick marketing ‘fiasco’ shows ‘education isn’t a luxury brand’
Experts warn institutions against losing sight of their purpose, as more details emerge about university’s prolific spending on PR activities
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 04/08/2025
We will be more active here on bluesky with what we are up to in our research team, and our teaching activities at the University of Warwick. Finally gave up on X.
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Stefan Bon 🏳️‍🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info · 29/06/2025
We had a fantastic time at the International Polymer Colloids Group 2025 Conference in Sète, France.
The BonLab delegation attending the 2025 IPCG Conference in Sète, France.
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