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Chris Kozak

@kozycanuck.bsky.social
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Blobologist on the edge of North America. Fan of Futurama and Post-Punk. He/Him.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love getting solicitation emails for conferences where the subject line reads "Actual Occurrence!" Phew! For a minute there I was suspicious. Four emails in a row from "different" conferences with the same subject line. Come on scammy conferences. At least show some creativity.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Visiting Barcelona next week for the Green Chemistry GRC... I think there may be a particularly special vibe
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
C'mon España! The more I watch Argentina play the more I find them despicable.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a roller coaster! Well done England. And France, impressive come back effort after that shambolic first half
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I think France just wants to go home because they are sick of not being able to get quality croissants
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our latest article is available on ChemRxiv. Multimetallic complexes of zinc, magnesium and potassium catalyze ring-opening polymerization and ring-opening copolymerization. Well done to co-authors Cyler Vos and Rylan Croke! Check it out here: doi.org/10.26434/che...
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Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide and Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide and Phthalic Anhydride by Multinuclear Zinc, Magnesium and Potassium Complexes | ChemRxiv
The synthesis and structural characterization of multinuclear complexes containing aminobis(phenolate) ligands with zinc and magnesium centres are reported. Trimetallic zinc complex Zn2(Zn(OAc)2)[L]2 (1) (where [L] = dimethylaminoethylamino-N,N-bis(2-...
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Great news ahead of Christmas! Our coauthored paper with collaborators in Bilbao has been accepted for publication in Applied Catalysis. Excellent work by Guillermo Penche Hernando helped by Cyler Vos www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kinetics and mechanism of the ring-opening copolymerization of CO2 and propylene oxide on a two-dimensional Co-Ni double metal cyanide complex
The use of CO2 as building block in organic chemistry is compelling due to its availability, cost-effectiveness, and potential to mitigate emissions w…
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I’m a big fan of traditional Christmas gifts
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Enjoying a lunch of French Canadian tourtiere when I found some souvenir @acs.org LA local section Tabasco in my drawer from the NOLA National Meeting. A perfect pairing! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Wizard frog casts “vicious mockery”
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The Blue Jays’ bats are singing in Toronto!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Just arrived today and can’t wait to jump in to this latest from @samkean.bsky.social
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Superb! Amazing match. True grit. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...
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New Zealand 19-34 Canada LIVE: Watch Women's Rugby World Cup score, TV stream, tries and updates
Follow live coverage with text and score updates as New Zealand face Canada in the semi-final at Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Excellent discussion at today’s start to the Faraday Discussion on polymerization and depolymerization. Thanks for all the great comments and questions! Looking forward to tomorrow’s session covering catalysis and contributions from Fran (@chemmouse.bsky.social) #FD_polym
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I am disgusted by the locking out of @dalfaculty.bsky.social by the administration @dalhousie.bsky.social. This is clearly an attempt to bully the faculty with appearing to not impact the students. Rubbish. This is when most faculty shift to intensive preparations for the fall term... 1/2
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trying out our new Vacuubrand oil free pumps that will replace our messy old rotary vane pumps on our glove boxes. I mean, I suppose that’s a good vacuum (it hit 0.019 mbar a minute later). 😳
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Rock on Ozzy. Thanks for the music and the laughs. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces
A statement from his family says Osbourne was with his family and
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our latest paper appears! This has been a fun collaboration with friends at Saint Mary's U. Thank you @daltontrans.rsc.org for the quick processing of our final manuscript and to the referees for their extensive and exceedingly helpful comments. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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A new class of ligand derived from the reactions of bis(dialkylphosphino)amines and 9-diazofluorene: preparation, structure and reactivity
The reaction of tetra(isopropyl)diphosphazane (iPr-PNP) or tetraphenyldiphosphazane (Ph-PNP) with 9-diazofluorene (9-DAF) affords new chelating phosphazene ligands [F(NN)P(R)2NP(R)2(NHN)F] where F = f...
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Happy to have our Viscostar back from a spa visit to Waters | Wyatt Technology. @mikhailey.bsky.social and Albert in particular are excited to be reunited with it. All lights are green for go!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Who else is in the mood for a sauna? Oh, eh oh eh ooh! Sauna!Thanks Sweden #eurovision
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 03/04/2025
The Prime Minister of the Heard / McDonald Islands Speaks on Trump’s Tariffs
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s April Fools Day, meaning astronomers write joke paper preprints on topics, so here’s one about Taylor Swift’s eras compared to the eras of the universe: arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795 🔭🧪
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The Eras Tour: Mapping the Eras of Taylor Swift to the Cosmological Eras of the Universe
This paper explores an unexpected yet compelling parallel between the evolution of the universe, as described by cosmological eras, and the artistic evolution of Taylor Swift, delineated by her distin...
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It was great to meet @andy.compoundchem.com at the San Diego ACS Meeting. Great chats about the importance of good visuals (with @julianavidal.bsky.social) as well as the difference between seals and sea lions and why the latter are the far less friendly of the two should you encounter them.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The little gremlin sure missed us
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Back from a great trip to the ACS meeting in San Diego. Highlights definitely include meeting this guy at the airport
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Fran Kerton @chemmouse.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Thank you to everyone at #ACSSpring2025 for a wonderful conference and especially the members lounge - always a good time, a chance to catch your breath during long days of talks, exploring the exhibits and mixers. Even better today as I won a Periodic Table blanket 💚🍀💚👩🏼‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬🧪🧪🧪
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Congratulations to PhD candidate Cyler Vos on his departmental seminar! Next step is thesis submission and that pesky defense! Great work Cyler!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Waiting over 3 months now for a review on a submitted manuscript. System says one report is in, waiting on #2 since early January. #chemsky, what’s the longest you’ve waited?
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I haven't posted in the former Twitter a while, but reading the flood of misinformation over there makes the head spin. So decided to play with this Grok AI thing and ask where it comes from. Hmm.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Yes, join us at Pacifichem to talk about your work in Sustainable Materials and Polymer Chemistry in our symposium #CES042
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A plug for the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference this summer. There is a new Green Division starting this year! Lots of focused symposia plus a general session, where students get prioritized for talks. Looking forward to seeing lots of Green Chem presentations!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The latest addition to @chemmouse.bsky.social and my lab's amazing suite of instrumentation. This Bruker Matrix MF IR spectrometer with ATR probe coupled to a Parr Pressure Reactor for in situ reaction monitoring of CO2 copolymerization and other reactions.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I have just taken the survey: Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists? Take Nature’s poll
The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
While removing the diffusion pump on our GCMS, this happens. Damn. I need to dial back on the Kung-Fu grip.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
First student office hours of the new semester.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Registered for the ACS Meeting in San Diego, flights booked from YYT via YYZ to SAN (ouch) and hotel confirmed (which looks pretty fun and close to the Convention Center). Looking forward to SoCal weather, fish tacos and hearing about some cool chemistry in March.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Want a fun palate cleanser? Watch the new Wallace and Gromit movie.
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a penguin wearing a red hat is holding a racket and waving .
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone! Looking forward to some great holiday reading
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Check out our latest preprint in ChemRxiv. It's a collaboration with Jason Clyburne. An 'all pnictogen backbone' analog of nacnac ligands, their Na, and organo-Al and Zn compounds and their use as ROCOP catalysts. The crystallography content alone is immense. doi.org/10.26434/che... #chemsky
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A new class of ligand derived from the reactions of bis(dialkylphosphino)amines and 9-diazofluorene: preparation, structure and reactivity
The reaction of tetra(isopropyl)diphosphazane (iPr-PNP) or tetraphenyldiphosphazane (Ph-PNP) with 9-diazofluorene (9-DAF) affords new chelating phosphazene ligands [F(NN)P(R)2NP(R)2(NHN)F] where F = f...
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Amazing Grand Slam of Curling Women’s Final. Congrats to Team Homan on a nail biting victory!
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Fran Kerton @chemmouse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Spending some quality time in the lab getting to know our new GC-MS…not bad for a second method trial, now to reduce the time a little and then prepare the standard mixes for calibration #chemsky #realtimechem Fingers crossed the catalysis works for the product I am calibrating for 😆
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Seeing Bluesky posts referred to as "Skeets" brings a chuckle to folks living in Newfoundland, where a skeet means something very different. Folks in the UK would know them as "chavs", in Ontario "skids". They differ from "sleveens". Some are proud of being skeets, but no one wants to be a sleveen.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My "mysterious blob" research appeared on CBC's The National last night. Even more fun was being interviewed for "Chromatography Online", which was like "Desert Island Discs" but talking about my favorite mass spectrometers.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Our investigations of the mysterious blobs of Newfoundland made the New York Times! The author did a great job.
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Chemist Identifies Mystery ‘Blobs’ Washing Up in Newfoundland
A researcher thinks he knows what has been coming ashore on miles of beaches. Canada’s environmental agency says it is still looking into it.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your bag at any given moment - In my green retro Adidas airliner bag: 1. Phone charger cable and plug 2. Leatherman Wave multitool 3. Opinel No. 8 folding knife 4. Pens, lots of them. 5. Mini LED flashlight
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Loving the seemingly exponential growth of the #chemsky community here. Though my Polish heritage keeps drawing me to call it Chemski. I'm sure I have a distant relative with that name.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The mystery of the unknown blobs has been solved. The question now remains as to where it came from! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists
Newfoundland Memorial Univeristy team find white masses are likely material used to clean pipes in oil industry
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Hanging up the chemist moniker and turning to blobology full time.
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Welcome to the newest addition to our instrumentation family! An Elementar Unicube for CHNS and O analysis, managed and operated by our Core Research Equipment and Instrument Training Network at Memorial U. Thank you Canada Foundation for Innovation for funding!
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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
The degree of difficulty in completing this puzzle has increased significantly
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