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Joel Cornelio

@jcornelio.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Uni Birmingham. MOFs, batteries, spectroscopy. Staff at the Ministry of Silly Walks. Sometimes a chemist, all times a weirdo.

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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 16h
How i arrived on Bluesky
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Shawshank Crawling Through Dark Tunnel
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Kim Jelfs @jelfschem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📢 Announcing Digital chemistry discovery, a Faraday Discussion taking place in Edinburgh, UK, on 8 to 10 September 2027. Explore emerging developments in AI, automation, simulation and optimisation, and join researchers shaping the future of chemical discovery. Find out more: invt.io/1bxbwdk7xl0
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I've registered for Digital chemistry discovery Faraday Discussion, join me
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Anyone know of a good browser extension that gets rid of AI assistants when reading a journal?
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yo Google AI overview, what's the deal with you? I asked for 3,7-dibromosuberone and you say I'm looking for Uber One? WTF? How high are you?
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Jeremiah @roftlcopter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Some good chemistry tea getting spilt here: www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/...
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From the chemistry community on Reddit: Nobel-winning scientist Omar Yaghi joins China’s Tsinghua University from the US
Explore this post and more from the chemistry community
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... So much work done, so well characterised, well written. What can I say except...
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Austin Evans: There's A Lot Of Cool Stuff Here
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Frederik Haase @frederikhaase.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Teaching a class about corrosion has made me slightly paranoid.
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Post a meme made by you
Boromir saying “one does not simply stump Dave Palmer”.
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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Rational Formation of Porous Pillared Alloxazine-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks: Pore-Opening Effect and Redox Properties dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c…
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Really interesting that this Chemical Science paper on tungsten complexes is written by Wolfram. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am incredibly honored to recieve this prize! Greatly looking forward to attending @iucr2026.bsky.social - I have many people to thank for all the learning and exciting research over these past years. First and foremost though, is my crystallography mentor and great friend @keninge.bsky.social
Erik Svensson Grape - awardee - Struchkov Prize 2026
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/03/2026
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!
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Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
See eg pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... for imine macrocycle formation
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High-efficiency non-thermal plasma synthesis of imine macrocycles
Macrocycles are candidates for wide-ranging applications, yet their synthesis can be low-yielding, poorly reproducible, and resource-intensive, limiting their use. Here, we explore the use of Non-Ther...
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Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Room Temperature Size Tuning of CsPbI3 Quantum Dots | ACS Materials Letters We have CsPbI3 quantum dots (5–13.5 nm) are synthesized by first preparing CsPbBr3 QDs at room temp., followed by halide exchange with iodide ions and characterize excited state properties. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Room Temperature Size Tuning of CsPbI3 Quantum Dots
Size quantization in halide perovskite nanocrystals provides a versatile strategy to tune their optical and electronic properties. We have now synthesized CsPbI3 quantum dots (QDs, 5–13.5 nm) by first...
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Interesting tiling pattern in this pub bathroom in Bangalore. @stecanossa.bsky.social does this type have a name?
Red tiles on a bathroom wall
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Highly recommend this channel, it's new (it's not mine). Some amazing music to run in the background while working. Helped me a lot with focus from the past two days. I recommend running some parts at 1.5x speed. Kudos to the maker of this channel. www.youtube.com/@Heavyweight...
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Heavyweight Rituals
Heavyweight Rituals is a space for those who treat focus as a discipline, not a mood. This channel is built around deep focus instrumental music paired with human rituals of repetition, stillness, and...
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Dr Amy Hall @amyvhall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is a special one for me. Getting any paper published in a peer-reviewed journal is amazing (especially as a corresponding author) but to be published in JACS is something else! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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When Reality Defies Prediction: Polymorphism, Twinning, and Accordion Crystals
The ability to understand crystallization and predict the resulting solid form of a system is not always easily achieved, but it is critical, particularly in the field of materials science. Intriguing...
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Hiden Isochema @hidenisochema.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We’re at MOFES’26 from today until 15 January in Bangalore 🇮🇳 Excited to connect with researchers and industry experts around MOFs, porous materials, and sustainability! - - #mofes26 #EnergyMaterials #Sustainability #MOFs #PorousMaterials
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Petrol and matches
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Every year on Christmas Day, I have two traditions. i. Watch Predator ii. Cook Pork Bafat. Merry Christmas to you all! What are your traditions?
Pork bafat cooking in a pot.A piece of pork shoulder with a knife on a cutting board. A scene from Predator (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger saying 'Stick around'
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Spot the errors in this AI slop pipetting guide. Also, what's a 3 metre pipette? What's 'deeferng'?
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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Direct imaging of facet development during growth of single-crystal covalent organic frameworks | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.…
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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Tuning enantioselective drug adsorption in isoreticular homochiral metal–peptide frameworks through proximity pore interactions pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLand…
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Anna Slater @annagslater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Opportunity to join us at @liverpooluni.bsky.social as our new Chemistry HoD: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ019/p... - lots of brilliant science & exciting plans going on, plus the joy of being my line manager :D
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Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Professor and Head of Department of Chemistry role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Shuhei Furukawa @furukawas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New PI promotion alert!! Our postdoc, Emily Meekel, left the group and will start research as an assistant professor at Birmingham @uobchemistry.bsky.social next year. We had a farewell party at Vegi Shabu-Shabu restaurant. Emily's work in Kyoto will be posted sometime soon. Good luck, Emily!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/12/2025
Francine Holmes, 73, passed away Wednesday after three hours of successful surgery followed by four hours of unsuccessful surgery.
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Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A new paper-based approach for teaching Bragg's law 😀😀 doi.org/10.1107/S205... @actacryste.iucr.org #IUCr #crystallography #education #K12 #outreach
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A new paper-based approach for teaching Bragg's law
A paper-based virtual X-ray diffraction experiment, which is based on the right-angle condition for constructive inter­ference, allows the implications of Bragg's law to be studies in a simple way.
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
While setting up NMR spectrometers in New Zealand, we had a choice. Either set the machines upside down or get upside down spectra. We chose the latter, coz the other choice would've spilled out the liquid nitrogen.
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Dr Andrea Laybourn @andrealaybourn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢PhD available in our group focusing on "Synthesis & optimisation of stimuli responsive MOFs in flow" Based in Sch Chemistry & iPRD @UniLeeds. Start date: 1st Oct 2026. ⏰️App deadline 30th Jan. Please repost to spread the word 🙏 #chemsky #phdjobs Come join us! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive Metal-Organic Frameworks in Flow | Andrea Laybourn
Interested in #flowchemistry? #crystallography? #MOFs? 📣 Fully funded PhD available in our group 📣Title: Synthesis and Optimisation of Stimuli Responsive MOFs in Flow Based in the School of Chemistr...
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George Williams @gtwsuprachem.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New fully funded PhD position available in our group 🥳 ideal for someone who wants to combine organic supramolecular chemistry with cancer therapeutic development! www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr... Funding available for UK/EU students Reposts appreciated!
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Photoswitchable ion transporters towards supramolecular chemotherapy | University of Southampton
Discover more about our research project: Photoswitchable ion transporters towards supramolecular chemotherapy at the University of Southampton.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"Postdoc in the job market"
A headline:

Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2025 is out! TB is the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year www.who.int/news-room/re...
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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 13/11/2025
🎉We are delighted to share the latest in our series of Tutorial Review articles: "Identifying and characterising flexible crystals" Read our blog post to learn more about this work from Atiqur Rahman, John C McMurtrie, Sajesh P Thomas & Jack K Clegg 👇 blogs.rsc.org/ce/2025/11/1... #Chemsky 🧪
Slide highlighting the CrystEngComm tutorial review on Identifying and characterising flexible crystals  with photos of the authors and a QR code to access the collection.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 08/11/2025
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Chromophore Density Effects on Energy Transfer in Postsynthetically Modified Metal–Organic Frameworks dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c05442
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Kim Jelfs @jelfschem.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Reminder that the deadline to apply to these PDRA positions is 11th November.
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FPbase @fpbase.org · 04/11/2025
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/
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FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
And another one is out: a crystallographic and fundamental solid-state study of size-dependent properties in porous materials. A fun adventure that required quite a bit of coding - learned a lot in the process! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Crystallographic Evidence of Size-Dependent Bond Flexibility in Metal–Organic Framework Nanocrystals
Size-dependent electronic, magnetic, and optical behavior suggests that metal–organic frameworks become softer materials as their particle sizes decrease, but direct evidence is lacking. Here, we rep...
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Joel Cornelio @jcornelio.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It finally happened. I got cited... by an AI written paper (probably). What does this mean? What does this mean? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in a living room while a woman sits on a couch .
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Henrique C. S. Junior @hcsj.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#ChemSky
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Who did this?!
A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"
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Francesca Cesari @francesari.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Snake bites kill/debilitate 1000s of people annually in Sub-Saharan African. A new nanobody cocktail is shown to be highly effective against 17 of the most dangerous African snake species. Unlike other anti-venoms it also protects against venom-induced dermal necrosis🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites - Nature
A recombinant antivenom composed of eight nanobodies provides broad protection against venom-induced lethality and dermonecrosis in mice challenged with venoms from cobras, mambas and rinkha...
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CrystEngComm @crystengcomm.rsc.org · 30/10/2025
🚨We are delighted to share our latest themed collection: MOFs in Asia Guest Edited by Hoi Ri Moon, Sarah S Park and Jihye Park, this collection showcases recent advances & innovative research in the field of MOFs across Asia. Read the full collection here👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... #chemsky 🧪
Slide highlighting the MOFs in Asia themed collection with photos of the Guest Editors and a QR code to scan for the collection.
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Fascinating science: How disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield launched the modern anti-vax movement by fraudulently manipulating data to reach fabricated conclusions, hoping he would make a lot of money. Instead, he put millions of children at risk. youtu.be/EXtANMp3wok
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Wakefield's Smoking Gun
YouTube video by C0nc0rdance
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Erik Svensson Grape @esvenssongrape.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Latest article is out: Studying mixed ionic-electronic conductivity in Metal–Organic Frameworks. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Turn-On Conductivity with Proton-Coupled Electron Transport in Metal–Organic Frameworks
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) has been studied for decades in the context of molecular reactivity, but its impact on long-range electron transport is barely understood. When defined broadly ...
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
As you might expect, this Nature policy on citation diversity statements has received a massive backlash on X. However, I work in a field where fantastic work is done in India and China and I can say for a fact it does not get cited as often as equivalent work from the USA.
Citation Diversity Statements - Nature Reviews Pyschology is encouraging authors to include a citation diversity statement to draw attention to citation imbalances and confirm they made efforts to cite publucations from a duverse group of researchers.
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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our group is looking to hire postdocs to work at the intersection of quantum computing, quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, simulation of many-body quantum systems and early-fault tolerant quantum computing Apply here: lanl.jobs/search/jobde... Reposts appreciated!
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Quantum Computing and Early Fault-Tolerant Simulations at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is Hiring! Search available jobs or submit your resume now by visiting this link. Please share with anyone you feel would be a great fit.
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