Regenerable Luminescent Triarylborane Lanthanide Metal–Organic Frameworks as Solid-State Sensors http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02800

I am heartbroken over the death of Kirsty Duncan. She loved this country and served in Parliament with a total dedication and passion for the people of Canada. Deepest condolences to her family and colleagues. The Angels will welcome her.

Paper Alert! 4Y in the making. Anion sensing with highly luminescent Boron-Lanthanide MOFs. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... Well done to Sarah Englehart and Dr Mason Lawrence. @unbresearch.bsky.social Thanks to @forganross.bsky.social and Dr Russell Main for their 3D-ED [email protected]

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Shots of our new book in the wild starting to come in! @bgmerkle.bsky.social

📣 Announcement 📣 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials." Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social (1/2)

Watch Harri's award lecture next Thursday!

We would like to highlight the winner of the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 in the Inorganic Chemistry category, T. Harri Jones, for his contribution in doi.org/10.1039/D4RA... 🏆Congratulations! Read more about Harri here: blogs.rsc.org/ra/2025/11/1...

A great Opportunity.

The new open source syringe pump control boards arrived. Exciting!

we were in the Saturday evening news...While I struggled to string words together (haha) Mason carried the team. globalnews.ca/video/115182...

I think about this post every day 🧪

In the wake of Jim Watson's death, it's worth remembering that Rosalind Franklin was an equal player, and left out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Y'all know I love Fredericton but the outpouring of support for Sara Holyoke takes it to another level. Over $100k raised in less than 24 hours. Not sure there's many people in this town that could get that kind of love but it's all karma. Support your community and your community will support you.

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

Simon Fraser University: Assistant Professor in the area of Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/11/simon-fraser-university-assistant.html

Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.

New research at UNB could hold the key to better aluminum recycling -- and to creating trillions of litres of sustainable, green hydrogen fuel every year. Read more about the discovery that could help keep millions of tonnes of waste out of landfills annually: blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...

Happy to be highlighted by @unbresearch.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social for this exciting work completed by Dr Mason Lawrence and Rob Horne on our team, supported by Research NB. blogs.unb.ca/newsroom/202...

Nice to See MOFs getting their shine. With that said, please think about contributing to a special MOF issue of @materialsadvances.rsc.org curated by @chemashlee.bsky.social, @majikatz.bsky.social, and myself. blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/10/2...

Mount Allison University: Organic Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/10/mount-allison-university-organic.html

MOFs!!

Making food from thin air sounds like science fiction but that's what some companies are starting to do using captured carbon dioxide.

Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemistry #chemsky

Many Congrats to Harri Jones for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! Thanks to Prof Dave Herbert of U Manitoba for acting as the external examiner. Well done, Harri! @chemistryunb.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social

Transforming Aluminium Waste: Sustainable Conversion to Commercial MOFs, Hydrogen Fuel, and Essential Aluminium Feedstocks http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SU/D5SU00631G

Very excited to finally be able to share this exciting open-access work, 3 years in the making. Sustainably converting waste alumin(i)um into AL-MOFs, alumina at much lower temperatures, and hydrogen gas as a biproduct. Congrats to Dr Mason Lawrence for driving this, and Robbie Horne.

🎓 Applications open for the first Carsten Schmuck PhD Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry!

They say that constraint can breed creativity. Here’s how Kara MacGillivray, a research administrator at UNB, found an opportunity to innovate in federal financial reporting – and to help her colleagues across the country in the process: blogs.unb.ca/research/202...

This is the right kind of news. More of this please.

Now in an issue. Tröger's base derivatives are suitable chiral scaffolds to make CPL emitters by their functionalization with simple achiral fluorophores. Acid/base-driven CPL switching was also achieved. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

NMR Job at 3M. 3m.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Search... #Chemsky #NMR

University of Toronto: Assistant Professor in Experimental Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/07/university-of-toronto-assistant.html

University of Toronto: Associate Professor in Experimental Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/07/university-of-toronto-associate.html

Move to Fredericton...even if you're not a doctor! youtu.be/DSTA5L12EgI

I've got a postdoc position open @ucl.ac.uk - using phosphoestamers to block oncogenic protein-protein interactions. Large collaboration, translational outlook, cool chemistry underneath! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New @chemrxiv.bsky.social preprint! RoboChem-Flex is a powerful, low-cost (<5k EUR), modular self-driving lab for chemical synthesis We showcase 6 studies (photochemistry, biocatalysis, cross coupling, ee ...), all optimized with different configurations & ML 🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Would you pay $150 per article to post your preprint on @bioRxiv @aRxiv @medRxiv @chemRxiv etc.? Currently it’s free but a small cost could help offset running costs and also work as a barrier against paper mills and AIs just posting all the time and filling these sites up.

Always a joy to see awesome people win #RSCPrizes! Huge congratulations to everyone, including @drschniff.bsky.social @jelfschem.bsky.social @profdjadams.bsky.social @sgoldup.bsky.social @donnablack.bsky.social @rebeccamelen.bsky.social & more 🥳🥳🥳

Full Professor. Pretty cool milestone. Thanks to my family, research team, collaborators, mentors, and colleagues. I am eternally grateful.

Non-traditional sports like pickleball and bouldering are helping Canadians get active this summer

2024 journal impact factors are out, and I had a bit of a play around comparing the numbers with 2019 IFs. Bit of a thread to follow, but general trend seems to be most journal IFs are trending downward but JACS/Angew and big “less-selective” journals buck the trend.

My beautiful province,NB😎

This sounds like a great nation building project - properly funding 🇨🇦 universities/research, lowering tuition/providing scholarships and attracting foreign scholars here. PM Carney, we want less oil/gas pipelines, more « pipelines » to post secondary education www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

Mason had awesome engagement at the final talk slot of #CSC2025. Making hydrogen gas and Aluminum MOFs from Al waste.

Was busy this week. The eldest graduated Highschool.

Université Laval: Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint en chimie analytique https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/06/universite-laval-professeure-adjointe.html