Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: Sir Frederick Banting!
Banting saved millions of lives with the discovery of insulin, but there is so much more to his life than that.

Listen on all podcast platforms or read👇
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Come see the future of #NMR at #ENC26 Booth 20!

BYD opens Denza Z9 GT EV orders in Europe at over 3X the price BYD launched its luxury sub-brand Denza in Europe with a little help from James Bond himself. The Denza Z9 GT EV can recharge in as little as 5 minutes, can drive nearly 400 miles on a single charge, and looks like something straight out of an action movie. more…

BYD opens Denza Z9 GT EV orders in Europe at over 3X the price

The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?

The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige www.nature.com/articles/d41...

☞☞"Investing comparable resources in retaining and advancing Canadian talent, particularly early- and mid-career researchers, would in our view strengthen the research environment."

Influence of aliovalent substitution on structure and dynamics in sodium halide Na3−2xY1−xNbxCl6 solid electrolytes Sodium halide solid electrolytes are garnering increased interest because of their synthetic flexibility to incorporate a variety of cations, thereby altering their structure and properties. Aliovalen...

Check out Brian's latest research on sodium-based solid electrolytes in @rsc.org @chemicalscience.rsc.org now. 🔋🪫🧲🧪 #NMR #batteries #chemistry 🍁 #research

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📢 The official EUROMAR 2026 webpage is up and running. Registration and abstract submission are now OPEN!

Visit at: euromar2026.mkon.se
Registration: euromar2026.mkon.se/registration...
Abstract submission: euromar2026.mkon.se/abstract-sub...

#NMR #EPR #ESR #MRI #EUROMAR2026

Join 2026 BPS Lecturer Lewis Kay on Tuesday, February 24, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM at #bps2026 for an informal discussion. Dr. Kay will share insights from his scientific career—from pioneering discoveries to lessons learned along the way—and reflect on how the field continues to evolve

NMR Manager, The Department of Chemistry at the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) to oversee use and maintenance of the Department’s Varian 400, 500, and 700 MHz NMR and Bruker EMXplus EPR instruments uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa... #NMRchat #NMRjobs 🧲

The department of chemistry at the University of Louisville is looking for an NMR manager. #chemsky #chemjobs uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...

Atomic Cartography of High‐Entropy Cs2BCl6 Perovskite‐Inspired Materials: The Vital Role of Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy in Identifying Elemental Disorder Unlock the secrets of high-entropy materials! While standard techniques hint at pure phases, only solid-state 133Cs NMR reveals the hidden atomic-level mixing and phase separation. This study demonst...

Brian stars in: Atomic Cartography of High‐Entropy Cs2BCl6 Perovskite‐Inspired Materials: The Vital Role of Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy in Identifying Elemental Disorder - Small Methods - 🧲🧪onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smtd.20...

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 217 tenure-track positions and 22 teaching positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs ⚗️🧪

The Chemistry of Metal-Organic Framework Materials Virtual Issue Published research on topics of current scientific interest.

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFS) take Chemistry Nobel 2025 - Great 2023 Virtual Collection from Chemistry of Materials @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/page/cmatex/... #chemsky 🧪

Entropy-Driven Disorder and Aliovalent Substitution Induce Defects in Na3PnS4 (Pn = P, As, Sb) Solid-State Electrolytes: A Sluice Gate for Sodium Ions Sodium-containing chalcogenides are attractive candidates for use as solid-state electrolytes; however, their ionic conductivities remain a challenge. Simultaneously applying isovalent and aliovalent ...

Check out Madhu's latest results, including 75As & 121Sb #SSNMR 🧲🧪

Entropy-Driven Disorder and Aliovalent Substitution Induce Defects in Na3PnS4 (Pn = P, As, Sb) Solid-State Electrolytes: A Sluice Gate for Sodium Ions | ACS Materials Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to Dr. Diganta Sarkar on successfully defending his PhD in solid-state and DNP #NMR Spectroscopy! #chemsky 🧲🧪

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.

This is simply false.

- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...

Bottom line: #Move!

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"...7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a more realistic and achievable target for some."

Fossil fuels “have run out of road,” despite best efforts of lobbyists, says UN chief Fossil fuels have “run out of road”, the head of the United Nations says, with the price of renewable energy now so cheap the energy transition cannot be stopped.

Fossil fuels have “run out of road”, the head of the United Nations says, with the price of renewable energy now so cheap the energy transition cannot be stopped.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

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If you're attending #EUROMAR2025, stop by and talk with Brian @brphan17.bsky.social and see his #SSNMR poster. 🧲🔋🧪.

ssNake release 1.6, Solid-state NMR processing software

ssNake release 1.6, Solid-state NMR processing software
The complete changelog, as well as the source code and a Windows installer gitlab.science.ru.nl/mrrc/nmrzoo/...
The software website www.mrrc.nl/software
The original paper doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
#NMRchat #NMR 🧲

History of NMR in India The article traces the progress of NMR activity in India, and highlights the pioneering contributions made by the past generation of scientists. These include developments in instrumentation, methods...

To coincide with the start of the Asia-Pacific NMR and NMRS India Meeting at IISER Pune, a perspective by Ramakrishna V. Hosur titled "History of NMR in India" has just been published in Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

The team is visiting @nmr900.bsky.social while taking in the @ciccheminst.bsky.social #CSC2025 in Ottawa - 🇨🇦 this week. #SSNMR 🧲 @brphan17.bsky.social @arkady-p.bsky.social - some fantastic chemistry presentations coming out of @ualberta.bsky.social ! 🥼🥽 🧪

NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum __EMPTY__

ACS Division of Chemical Education, NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum #NMRbooks #NMR #NMRchat 🧲
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Brian, Arkadii and Kishor - trying to record some spins @ 9.4T 🧲 - #science 🧪 springtime fun with #SSNMR @ualberta.bsky.social - Wicked Lab Wednesdays'

May 2025 Solar Stats:

34,337 micro-generation and small-distributed solar generation sites in Alberta (April '25: 33,401 sites, May '24: 20,993). These home and business sites contribute 355.6MW to Alberta's overall May 2025 solar generation capacity of 2,180+ MW.

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Thank you to Alberta's nurses for the difference you make every day. Your compassion, strength & skills are what makes healthcare better. Whether it's offering a moment of comfort or a life-saving decision, your impact is felt in every corner of our health care system.

#NursesWeek #AlbertaNurses

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Modes of heteronuclear broadband decoupling for NMR data collection u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2008/05/mode... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky

Picture of a golden NMR coil.

The coil is the heart of every NMR probe. It is used to send pulses and receive signals from the NMR-active nuclei. Its material and design directly affect NMR resolution and sensitivity, making it a crucial component of any NMR spectrometer.
#NMRchat

photo, from WikiMedia Commons, The Chamonix Valley seen in 2010 from La Flégère with Mont Blanc in the background, By Ximonic, Simo Räsänen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15056052

REMINDER: Registration and abstract submission for the Alpine conference on Magnetic Resonance in Solids 2025 (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France) is open until May 31. Register early, the number of places at the conference is limited alpine-conference.org #NMRchat #NMR 🧲 photo by Ximonic, Simo Räsäne