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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Throwback to the annual highlight of our department’s honour’s thesis presentations last Tuesday! The breadth and quality of the work never ceases to amaze us. (1/2)

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

… and well represented by our chemistry faculty, at the forefront of innovation! @barryblight.bsky.social @cortogantese.bsky.social #RPC

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Michael Schuurman from @uottawa.ca /NRC showing how ultrafast spectroscopy can help us better understand isomerization processes in the a/diabatic picture in today’s department seminar.

Michael Schuurman presenting a slide showing ultrafast spectroscopy

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Monday department seminar by @memorialu.bsky.social’s Dr. Graham Bodwell on how to negotiate with Nature to get strain in aromatic systems with pyrenophenes #aromatics #chemsky 🧪

Dr. Graham Bodwell (right) during department seminar. First slide is shown with seminar title “Pyrenophenes as springboards for the synthesis of larger and more elaborate nonplanar pi systems”

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Omid closed an exciting and busy January seminar schedule!

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Right before the white season hits: green chemistry with #upei’s Dr. Marissa Clapson during the department’s last departmental seminar, educating us on the diversity of sustainability and sustainability of diversity. 🧪💚

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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Our seminar coordinator Dr. Jan-Hendrik Pöhls (left) introducing 2025’s Toole lecturer Dr. Alex Voznyy from @utsc.utoronto.ca presenting lessons learned from #AI for materials discovery, or extrapolation ≠ interpolation. #chemsky #canchem

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

As always, lively discussions and a whole-lotta-learning during QuNB seminars! (2/2)

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Wonderful hosting Ruben Van der Stichelen again in the QuNB lab during a quick hop from his @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social long stay abroad at the Izmaylov lab at UofT. Quantum chemistry in the age of NISQ and the seniority quantum number. (1/2)

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Insightful lecture today by @ualberta.bsky.social Dr Arthur Mar on prediction principles in material chemistry, or how to not be a #cleverhans!

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UNB Research @unbresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Join us in celebrating Research Celebration Week at UNB, October 6-10, 2025! This week puts a spotlight on the impactful research happening at our university, and the talented and committed people who make it happen. Find the full list of activities and more at: unb.ca/researchweek

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

When a Machine Learning model trains on just DFT energies, does it pick up there is an underlying quantity that governs the data: the electron density? We set out to investigate that question, and looked at electron populations in very much the same way we looked at embedding representations (1/5)

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Congrats to Harri, job well done 🎉🥳

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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Congrats to Harri Jones on his fantastic talk at #CSC2025

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Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Mason had awesome engagement at the final talk slot of #CSC2025. Making hydrogen gas and Aluminum MOFs from Al waste.

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Strong delegation from @chemistryunb.bsky.social QuNB group at @ciccheminst.bsky.social #csc2025 meeting in Ottawa! Contributions from 1. Ehsan Ghasempouri discussing Max-Cut inspired quantum circuit decomposition for spin glasses on Mon (arxiv.org/abs/2504.12096) [bottom center] (1/4)

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

reference character is concentrated. The rest is dynamical correlation. NOCI+PT2 becomes the work horse. Ideas that have been floating between @hughburton.com and the QuNB group for a few years, it’s been an honour to work with these bright scientists (2/2) @chemistryunb.bsky.social

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Very happy to have this one out! Two takeaways or tl:dr’s: 1. Spin projection is known to be “too expensive” as an N-body operation, but not if you focus on the relevant (valence) space where static correlation strikes. 2. This basically helps you identifying the active space where the multi (1/2)

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Chemical Institute of Canada @ciccheminst.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The Canadian Journal of Chemistry Best Paper Award recognizes the “best paper” published in the volume year of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry (CJC). Congrats to Amer El-Samman & @cortogantese.bsky.social of the University of New Brunswick on being the recipients of this award. buff.ly/5RkYtx1

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Stijn De Baerdemacker @cortogantese.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Very proud of the team effort that went into this! UG’s Stef De Castro (pKA) and Brooke Morton (13C- NMR), wonderfully mentored by recently minted PhD Amer El-Samman (logS)! It was the smoking gun for us that embeddings from GCNNs could learn actual chemistry #ProudPI

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Scott McIndoe @mcindoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Final fotoshoot for year-end highlight #2: Chem4000 honours presentations. Congrats to all researchers for your awesome research over the year and presentations today. Proud & sad to see some of you fly out, happy to see some of you return after summer in different roles!! #chemsky 🧪🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🥼⚗️💻

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Year-End highlight #1: Chem30x9 undergraduate research experience presentations by our bright and industrious cohort! #ProudPIs #chemsky 🧪

Panoramic view of the presentation hall of the chem30x9 presentations with Dr. Barry Blight (left) addressing the audience (right) about some seminar housekeeping.

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Dr Ghislain Deslongchamps (left) introducing former Chem4000 Honours student Alain Dechênes, now Vice-President of the Montréal-based Chemical Computing Group (of MOE notoriety), reminding us (right) about the importance of computing in (bio)chemistry during Department Seminar (for a packed room).

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Visit + department seminar today by Dr. Christopher Boddy @uottawa.bsky.social walking us through an impressive and comprehensive research portfolio in #naturalproduct characterization, total synthesis, stereochemistry, macrocyclization and much more!

Christopher Boddy stands next to a slide with the title “peptide-based natural products”, and depictions of natural product molecules

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s March break, but chemistry keeps coming to UNB! Huck Grover from @memorialu.bsky.social walking us through a Diazo cascade during their Atlantic Seminar series. #chemsky #totalsynthesis

Huck Grover in front of summary slide with title “Summary of Diazo Cascade”

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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

University of Victoria: Physical and/or Inorganic Chemistry chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…

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UNB Chemistry @chemistryunb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Dr. Ghislain Deslongchamps (left) introducing UNB’s Wiesner-Valenta 2025 speaker Dr. Dennis Hall (UofAlberta) for their seminar on the synthesis and applications of Boron Heterocycles. Impressive portfolio of work, from drug discovery to catalysis!

Ghislain Deslongchamps introducing UNB’s Wiesner-Valenta speaker Dr. Dennis Hall

Wiesner-Valenta speaker Dr. Dennis Hall showing a slide of chemistry genealogy.

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