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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On a really bad day, our glove box will on occasion hold gloves. Like when the inside port cover isn’t fully closed and the pump shows what it can do.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hoping the syphilis steps up soon.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One can dream. In Denmark now and I can honestly say the amount of collective eye rolling at this side show could power Northern Europe.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is indeed sad when mental health issues go untreated

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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 · 21/07/2026

Just throw the prefix “quasi” in there to do a lot of heavy lifting.

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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

Doesn’t look like it at 45 minutes!

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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 · 05/06/2026

Looks idyllic. You were missed at the CSC.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

That’s a fancy garden centre! Besides the wildlife of course.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It gets worse the closer you look

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Only on pare-substituted borates bearing ligand L groups instead of R-groups. And using a serif font in a chemdraw to add insult to injury (yes, potentially contentious, but I’m a stalwart fan of Arial/Helvetica inline drawings… or comic sans if I’m feeling chaotic evil)

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The more you look the worse it gets!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The IUPAC name is aluminium(III) difluorido glyphuloshite.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

And saying “organic chemistry” is shorter than saying “structure and reactivity of carbon-based molecules, but not necessarily all carbon based molecules, mostly those that have C-H bonds”

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Because it’s all chemistry, just different angles of looking at the science of atoms, whether bonded to other atoms or alone. Even biology that deals with molecules is called molecular biology but has big overlap with biochemistry.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It was -15 C today (I know, nothing compared to prairie winters) and I saw students walking around campus wearing pajama bottoms and slippers.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

What is life? Baby don’t hurt me. Great article, and sorry, I couldn’t resist.

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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 · 19/12/2025

It’s always fun to embiggen one’s vocabulary

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Portugal Cove Rd and Rennie's Mill Rd between Bannerman Park and First Ave is a downhill/uphill skating rink. Witnessing cars skidding going up and down, blocking traffic and nearly colliding. Easy to tell who's not on winter tires. Salt truck just came by but is now stuck in the traffic as well.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sam McGee for sure, but also this one: “In this zoo are beasts which like some truths, are far too true (clawing ones, and fire-breathers and flesh-rakers like piranhas and those that crush the bones to chalk and those that bare their red teeth in the night)” Gwendolyn MacKewen.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

All look good except for the ampule of reagent he prepared two weeks ago and was clean by NMR then. Finds the ampule contents were 50% reagent 50% toluene. Suspects coworker stole some reagent and replaced the volume with solvent like a teenager stealing dad’s liquor topping up the bottle with water

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A grad school incident: coworker purifies a pesky, moisture sensitive liquid reagent used for a ligand synthesis. Stores it in an ampule. Later makes the ligand as he did many times before. Yield is crap and nmr is a disaster. Repeats. Same. Starts second guessing his technique. NMR of reagents…

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We get common solvents filled from drums in stores. Students got hexanes refilled. Used some to rinse Na from oil. Noticed Na was floating and fizzing. Got it TF out of there. Density of “hexanes” seemed high. Turns out they were given dichloromethane instead. Whoops!

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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 · 02/12/2025

Battle for the Sun rounds out my top 4. Bright Lights is a great track. Surprisingly peppy for them.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My top 3: Without You I’m Nothing; Meds; Sleeping with Ghosts (deluxe 2 disc edition with their cover of running up that hill)

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

May you be accepted with minor revisions!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I’m currently craving a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat, while a menacing clown lurks outside my house and a man in black suit dances to Stealers Wheel with a straight razor.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

What underlies all this is an attack on critical thinking and acceptance of statements (ie the solutions manual) without verification of something that sounds wrong. I have great respect for teachers but we also have to have to humility to admit when something sounds off.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We are definitely living in the weirdest timeline

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Watched the lead bounce back and forth until I felt like I was watching a tennis match (albeit with hot chocolate and Amarula... out of Baileys). Went to bed. Woke up. New majority government.

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ALT: a pikachu holding a magnifying glass with the words that 's a twist that 's very twisty

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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!