Chad Sinclair

Materials library

Love materials? Love materials science but dont want to be an academic? How about working for us and being the science lead for the best Materials Library in the world?
www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/blog/we-are-...

Earning over $1 million. Sell soul for $3 million. End up with $0.

New report by @jonasalgers.bsky.social and myself on how Canada is well positioned to be a #greeniron&steel superpower, increasing Canadian value added, exports, and jobs, while helping the Canadian and global steel industries decarbonize robustly & cheaply.🧵

Friends don’t let friends ship #greenhydrogen, and help them ship #greeniron instead (or green ammonia/fertilizers, green menthol, etc 😉)

Haha - you are cribbing the essence of my midterm exam question from this past term!

We are looking to hire an economist/finance professional to crunch the numbers on the repair economy.

Timbits = unimaginable riches, yes

For some time - it is amazing that the University/Post Secondary sectors have struggled to articulate their value to the economy, meanwhile the sector is being 'quietly' shaped by immigration policy.

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Bat - I have a bag of magical FCC Ti worth unimaginable riches. It was bequeathed to me by a Canadian prince for safe keeping but,alas, he died in a tragic beaver incident but he left in his will that it should go to you, his long lost great great nephew. If you can just sent me $10,000…

Unexpected bug things happening at scienceworld in Vancouver…

Update on "Larry the Leaf insect". Our local Uni which shares a similar species colony has never seen a spontaneous male from a parthenogenic colony in a least a decade of rearing.
Larry is an icon! 🤣

Soooo.... our parthenogenic female phasmid colony just produced a male by cloning. An #Extasoma tiaratum.
Like dude, you are supposed to be IMPOSSIBLE!
Deletion of a sex chromosome maybe 🤷🏼‍♀️
Any ideas #entomology folks?

Academic Freedom @ UBC As a tenured professor and active participant in UBC governance, I have been closely following ongoing discussions about academic freedom…

Academic Freedom at #UBC has been on my mind quite a bit recently - in light of the proposed new Senate Policy - also recently due to very helpful discussions with colleagues, and the open letter that's been circulating.

Here are some of my thoughts:
bmatb.medium.com/academic-fre...

#AcademicSky

Some people are asking why Poilievre and the Conservatives are so much less popular among women. This is one reason: actual messages sent to female Canadian MPs.

Misogyny pervades right-wing populism.

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Trump travel ban: California colleges urge international students to rethink travel plans At least one university said it doesn't recommend international travel as a possible travel ban that could impact more than 40 countries looms.

Wow. California State University, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego and U of SF are ALL urging foreign-born students, faculty and staff to reconsider international travel because there's no telling whether the Trump administration will allow them to re-enter.
www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

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All hail pizza cat (RIP)

I’ve gotten some weird submission requests before but…

Map showing clothing optional wreck beach at UBC’s campus

Bah - at ubc we are perfectly positioned to contribute to this new direction…

Shows cAnada's $100m trade surplus, but then also the Financial inflows to Canada, and then the offsetting financial outflows to the US.

First, a bilateral trade surplus is not a subsidy.

Second, it is more than offset by financial outflows to the US.

I love this graphic by Janice Nelson in this @trevortombe.bsky.social article
thehub.ca/2025/01/22/t...

So for CAN academics travelling to some countries there have already been strong restrictions on devices - will we see that travel to the US requires us to carry clean devices?

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If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

A photo of Gage, Kamil and Dr Janice Stewart

At the #UBC "Provost's All-Faculty Forum" a conversation between Dr Gaga Avril (Provost) and Dr. Kamal Al-Solaylee, Director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media

I hope you provided, in addition, a break down of your % in terms of:
fraction blood
normalized sweat
and absolute tears.

Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.

This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

NEW - BC is preparing legislation to repeal the consumer carbon tax in B.C. The province is also readying legislation to eliminate the scheduled increase to the carbon tax that would otherwise have occurred on April 1, 2025. #bcpoli

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I hope polisci schools will teach how bad comms can unnecessarily kill good policies using this as an example

The “our research ecosystem is going to collapse it’s so underfunded” to “let’s poach all the top US academics and bring them here” arc makes my brain hurt