I am deeply saddened by this! I had the honor of having him as a professor at Queenβs. He was, beyond all his other accomplishments, a gifted teacher.
25.10.2025 15:35 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@vancew.bsky.social
Professor of chemistry at Simon Fraser University (SFU), materials nerd, lover of science-based art. (he/him)
I am deeply saddened by this! I had the honor of having him as a professor at Queenβs. He was, beyond all his other accomplishments, a gifted teacher.
25.10.2025 15:35 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Crystals viewed by microscopy.
Acetaminophen crystals viewed by polarized microscopy. #tylenol #science
23.09.2025 15:12 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0No grade 13 for me and exclude kindergartenβ include all years employed at a university
02.09.2025 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Strange man with backpack looking excited and/or nervous
Excited for the first day of grade 49!
02.09.2025 16:39 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Mint leaves
Mint leaves under uv light showing red fluorescence
The night garden. My mint plant during the day and the same leaves at night under UV light. The red color is chlorophyll fluorescence. #fluorescent
10.08.2025 14:44 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Brings back memories!
04.07.2025 22:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Suspended stone circle II by Ken Unsworth at the AGNSW
01.07.2025 06:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Caution sign βthrow caution to the windβ
At the AGNSW #sydney #art
01.07.2025 06:26 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Blue spring amongst verdant green landscape
Blue spring amongst verdant green landscape
Blue spring amongst verdant green landscape
Blue spring amongst verdant green landscape
Blue Spring walkway #freshwaterspring #aquatic #nature #newzealand #putaruru
25.06.2025 09:14 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Swamp hen (pukeko) grooming itself
Black swan dives while New Zealand scaup looks on
Swallow flying away
Fantail (piwakawaka) in flight
Today from New Zealand; bird butts of Rotorua! #swan #swallow #fantail #swamhen #birds #wildlife
24.06.2025 09:24 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Steam rising from the ground
Craters of the Moon, NZ. #steam #steamvents #newzealand
22.06.2025 10:10 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions.
Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now?
grist.org/energy/trump...
#Politics #Environment #Chemicals #Pollution #Policy #Industry
A coalition of organizations representing educators and researchers (including the @aapthq.bsky.social) has filed a legal challenge to the recent mass termination of grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF). π’ π§ͺ π π©βπ¬ #AcademicSky
20.06.2025 16:48 β π 20 π 6 π¬ 0 π 2Kaka (parrot) in a tree
Taking some time to appreciate the New Zealand wildlife! #kaka #wellington
18.06.2025 10:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last day for submissions to this year's ChemiSTEAM competition! For more information and a link, please find details among the #CSC2025 signature events: www.cheminst.ca/conference/c...
09.06.2025 19:38 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Making mood rings in the lab. I should lay off the coffee before filming time lapse photos.
06.06.2025 16:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The deadline has been extended to 11:59 PM on Monday, June 9!
02.06.2025 14:10 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.
Mass Spec
xkcd.com/3094/
This is so stupid.
13.05.2025 19:56 β π 22 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Exercise your right to vote today, Canadians! Own your democracy! π¨π¦π³οΈ
28.04.2025 11:12 β π 12576 π 1913 π¬ 205 π 92Photomicrograph of a chiral liquid crystal
Chiral landscape. With teaching over for the year I can turn my attention to research! This polarized microscopy image was captured as part of a study into stimuli responsive chiral liquid crystals #sciart
26.04.2025 15:39 β π 22 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Two flickers mating on a roof
Birds migrating in V formation
Signs of spring!
22.04.2025 00:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes! Great life hack!
18.04.2025 22:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sign pointing to voting station
First day of advanced voting! Casting my vote early.
18.04.2025 20:50 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0In the wake of the ongoing disasters with  funding streams, I'm seeing lots of folks suggest that scientists turn to social media crowdfunding to fund their research.
For about a decade I held the record for the social media crowdfunded project that got the most funding. I received about $9,000.
New blog post: Nicol invents a polarizing prism (1828) π§ͺ skullsinthestars.com/2025/04/12/n...
12.04.2025 17:20 β π 22 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1This would have a huge impact on particle physics research. βοΈ π§ͺ
12.04.2025 17:33 β π 42 π 26 π¬ 3 π 1βIt turns out you canβt buy gummy bears because you canβt buy chips from Taiwanβ
12.04.2025 13:07 β π 223 π 49 π¬ 8 π 3By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
10.04.2025 23:26 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they donβt die. 
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.