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Chad Sinclair

@chadsinclair.bsky.social
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Professor of Materials Engineering, Director of the Net Zero for Materials and Manufacturing CREATE Graduate Training Program (netzeromm.ubc.ca) Most importantly, I have cute cats.

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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Bah - at ubc we are perfectly positioned to contribute to this new direction…
Map showing clothing optional wreck beach at UBC’s campus
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Also cats… ❤️
Face of the cutest cat emerging from under a blanket
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The world sucks but I can make cupcakes and that makes it a bit better.
Vanilla cupcakes with colourful sprinkles
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A portion of Tom Brokaw’s intro to Canada as a part of 2010 olympics. Many parallel examples of American kindness to Canada/Canadians over the years. How did we get to today? Full version here: youtu.be/lrA4V6YF6SA?...
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Le meilleur cafe aussi
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Also miam
Amazing chocolate desert from Méert Lille.
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Jamais. Lille me manque.
A lot of stinky French cheese in a basket- vieux lille and maroilles
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
How to make people feel uncomfortable in Vancouver: wear a tie. People serious do. Or know how to handle this…
A picture of a torso wearing a necktie - terrifying for vancouverites.
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
New couch, meet the criminals who will soon destroy you
A brand new couch with two adorable destruction monsters (cats) perched on it contemplating the crimes they will commit
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
French 75 deux and suddenly the IKEA instructions are making waaaaay more sense…
Cocktail sitting atop IKEA instructions on an incompletely assembled bookshelf.
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
NYE chez Chadwich: French 75 and building IKEA furniture - wild times 🎉
A cocktail held in front of an IKEA box
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Bûche de Nöel
Chocolate Bûche de Noel on a white plate with a dusting of sugar
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Balanced by this year’s less than perfect stöllen - which I was told was more like a hefezopf 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Damn- 4 years of making Xmas croissants and these are the best so far… …and I have no idea what I did differently 😭
A nearly perfect croissant held in the baker’s hand
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Straight out of the öven
Croissants up close straight out of the oven
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Day 4: final proofing of the annual cröissants
Unbaked croissants doing their final proof before going into the oven
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas cookies and wine pairing
A box of colourful homemade Christmas cookies and a glass of wine
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Büche done - only croissants to finish then this year’s Xmas baking season is done…
Büche de Noel cake on cutting board - chocolate ganache covering and a bit messing on the board
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Also I can’t turn my back because this perfect (but idiotic) creature will play the game “let’s see what fire smells like” and burn his nose (again)
Perfect puppy cat looking at lit candles in the foreground and thinking about how he should come over and sniff the flame up close
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I say exactly the same when I end up having to be in UBC’s chemistry building
Screenshot from the movie “the company you keep” filmed in UBC’s chemistry building
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
@batgo.bsky.social I can be hired and will do vegetarian versions as well…
Gyoza and tonkotsu ramen dinner from scratch
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
That time of year again…
Christmas cookies in preparationTwo plates of baked Christmas cookies
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Go skiing with that friend who is 10 years younger” they said- “what’s the worst that could happen?” they said…
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Ha humans… you really think this is going to end well?!?”
Cat sniffing at Xmas tree
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Worlds cutest cat under a blanket
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Well, coming from someone who works at a uni whose campuses (in the same province) are separated by 400km, I think that this confirms (once again) that the Canadian and European concepts of “close” are not close.
Map showing distance between UBCV and UBCO
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Second, our Net0MM first Annual Symposium where our graduate student trainees presented their research - cutting edge science and engineering but also with thoughtful discussions on how that research impacts sustainable development targets (like achieving Net Zero)
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On Friday we had two big events- first our Net Zero for Materials and Manufacturing Symposium on the Challenges of Plastic Waste (netzeromm.ubc.ca/events/event...) facilitated by Dr Love-Ese Chile and with panelists @markmiodownik.bsky.social, Susanna Carson (BSIbio) and James McLellan (Queen’s U)
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
As close as I get to being a swifty
BC place as viewed from science world evening of TSwift night 2
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“wtf dude…”
Dog wearing a Santa hat
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
From bluesykroasts.com analysis of my feed- I think the AI is hallucinating as clearly none of these are red flags…
Output from blueskyroast.com giving my apparent red flags and green flags- I am not sure why “hyper focus on cats during dates” would be a red flag tho…
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Yes
Buche de noel Stollen and croissantPandoro
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
a waffles…
Prof Britton in front of a slide with a fluffy, snowy puppy
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Of course there were airplanes, EBSD, mechanics, hexagonal symmetry and…
Prof Britton standing in front of a slide with aspects of his research
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Prof. Ben Britton starting his lecture as part of his inauguration as full Professor at the University of British Columbia
Prof. Ben Britton giving his lecture as part of his installation as full Professor at UBC
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Only 5x the price
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The CAD sucks but dear lord the /kg price difference… I think we should just fly to France
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tartiflette coma
A homemade tartiflette … though I was too poor to buy a whole reblochon so don’t judge the fact that half of it is not reblochon…
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The ONLY small comfort I have knowing that at least one colleague is in this line today is that they are in this line.
Line up for gondola at whistler mountain
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Youngest now of legal drinking age and so straight to the chartreuse
A glass of chartreuse liquor
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I may have a small cheese addiction
View of dinner with Raclette
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@fdegeuser.bsky.social - am I French yet?
Two baguette straight out of the oven
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Bakery window in France
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
After being away for two weeks the cats are not yet ready to fully reaccept me as one of theirs - the passive aggressiveness of cats and academics is unparalleled.
Puppy cat not snuggling with me but staying close by to remind me of the bad thing I’ve done by going away and leaving him with the spare human.Babycat only being willing to make physical contact with two paws reminding me that she feels I have betrayed her trust by leaving for an extended period even if she has never totally trusted me anyways.
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
I’m just a boy standing in front of the worlds best cheese shop asking it to please be open for me
Sign outside the worlds greatest cheese shop (in France)
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Anyone know the exact amount of cheese one human can eat before they explode? Please respond before I get to the head of the line.
Cheese cart in Lyon- otherwise known as as heaven
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
As an engineer I appreciate wonderful bits of technical tool but the perfect tool doesn’t exi…
Knife and corkscrew forming the worlds most perfect tool
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Canadian heritage moment- too many Canadian cvs
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Halloween in Vancouver is very Vancouver
Child mannequin (???) surrounded by a coven of tiny stuffed(???) cats
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Chad Sinclair @chadsinclair.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Yes elections suck and there was too much rain but… Sometimes you realize you live in a place where this is just part of the highway system and omfg
Arriving to horseshoe bay ferry terminal on a moody day
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