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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21m

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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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 7d

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!

Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 9d

Wizard frog casts “vicious mockery”

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 10d

wizard frog is insane

Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 9d

Inspired by a childhood memory of a Looney Tunes episode

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 9d

The Blue Jays’ bats are singing in Toronto!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 21d

Flexible hose by the kitchen sink. Works wonders!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 22d

Also helpful is scheduling meetings for September 31

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 22d

To be fair, no fridge is explosion proof if you try hard enough.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25d

Dear God no.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · 25d

Superb! Amazing match. True grit. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...

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 · 28d

Very cool. One of my favourite concepts behind crystallography is symmetry, growth of repeating motifs in 3 dimensions and how the positions or atoms or molecules in a crystal lattice in the microscopic scale can influence the macroscopic appearance and shape of a crystal.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great seeing you again Brian! Yes, one several favourite pubs in Oxford. Your enthusiasm and commitment to @iupac.org is inspiring

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 · Sep 5

Good luck, keep up the fight! Solidarity!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yup. Eventually you’ll get the platitudes of “addressing students’ best interests” and “needing to work as a team”, and practicing self care.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 26

The admin has likely already calculated how long they can operate without paying faculty and amount of money they’ll save from it. They won’t consider returning to the table until the start of the term is threatened. Not until tuition revenue is threatened will they negotiate in good faith.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 21

Solidarity!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 21

...2/2 This WILL STILL impact students.. & admin will blame faculty for it. It also aims to take away on-campus student support for their profs. Bluntly, it's a dick move by Dal, dismissive of their faculty and students. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. #Solidarity!

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

Dalhousie University @dalhousie.bsky.social · Aug 20

The University has initiated a lockout for Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) members, effective as of 9:30 a.m. today, Wednesday, August 20.

Please visit the Labour Relations website for FAQs: ow.ly/zGXR50WIRSS

DFA negotiations

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 17

Just heard the news. Tragic. Davit will be very dearly missed.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 14

We stopped sharing our “close one” stories in group meetings. Led to nervous students questioning their decision to study chemistry. But hard to emphasize good safety practices without sharing the “when things go wrong” scenarios.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 14

I heard a “pop!”, hiss, and my gloved hand darted in and wrenched the valve. It felt like an eternity but the grad student next to me said it was like watching a snake strike.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 14

Or an ancient in-house made stainless steel pressure vessel with no pressure release valve that a retired colleague tried to “gift” me as a new faculty member.

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Chris Kozak @kozycanuck.bsky.social · Aug 14

A mercury vapor diffusion pump.

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