Last reaction of the semester before finals in the teaching lab, and I find out that one student’s favorite band is Dio.
Me: LIKE A RAIN-BOW!!!!!
Been rocking out as a class while doing a bleach oxidation for the last two hours.
#chemsky #chemchat
I know I didn’t win that day, but I’m also pretty sure everyone lost 🤣
Soundgarden for large scale separations and parallel peptide syntheses at my bench. Metallica when one colleague was cranking high-throughput screening. Grace Potter for another when they purified epoxides. At least we took turns! #chemsky #chemchat
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Our rink played a LOT of Ace of Base - your kids are lucky they got Wild Thing!
Really thought-provoking:
“schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship”
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Last season my team roasted me over hats - this league is a blast
My colleague @kmullaugh.bsky.social and our students have done some really awesome things - this is one of them!
We used to put one on the minivan every summer growing up. That name 🤣
This was a really cool study to be a part of - the students and as always my colleague @jaygforsythe.bsky.social were brilliant!
We made fresh bleach, dated the bottle, and cleaned up. Meanwhile my colleagues had been wandering the hallways wondering who was smoking weed. That’s how we 1) found out about the fume exhaust issue and 2) discovered the nuances of how bad that compound can smell. We also date the bleach. 3/end
The weather matters because the hood exhaust on our building is too close to the air intake. Enough got out into the hood (100 or 200 uL), so the student used the bleach bottle but that clearly was expired, and dispersed thiols in the hood. They came running to my office smelling like a skunk (2/x)
Working with thiols requires fresh 10% bleach solution in a squirt bottle otherwise it’s a high-stakes test of lab technique. The one in my lab was not dated, and a student was using methyl thioglycolate on a humid day. (1/x)
Thanks Jay! We had a great team (you included) to get this put together!
I’m so excited and grateful for this opportunity for our department. We’ll have our plans advertised here and elsewhere once we get things finalized. Thank you @dreyfusfoundation.bsky.social
There’s still time to get your application in! We have great students in a great city.
Check out the link and post below - there’s still plenty of time to get your application in! The PUI life is a great one.
Come join us! We’re seeking a tenure-track colleague in Organic Chemistry. Our department is solely-undergraduate, and well-equipped for a PUI- 400 MHz NMR, six mass specs (including MALDI AND HRMS ESI), and more. DM me with questions!
#chemsky
@chemjobber.bsky.social
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We had two families of conformers for a tetrapeptide with distinct sets of shifts. I believe we included the additional set of shifts in a separate file for the same sample. Once you’re in the system, I think you can message back and forth with a curator about it further. They were really helpful.
This is a really thoughtful piece from my amazing colleague @jaygforsythe.bsky.social. Give it a read! #PUI #Chemsky
Excited to be heading to San Diego to represent our lab and @cofcharleston.bsky.social along with my student Jordyn Pieper at the 29th American Peptide Symposium and 15th International Peptide Symposium. Come check out our posters at the Monday session!
#Peptides2025 #Chemsky
So proud of Jordyn’s hard work in my lab. We’re really excited for all she’ll accomplish this summer studying peptide folding thermodynamics and so grateful to @organicdivision.org and the SURF program sponsors for this generous support. @cofcharleston.bsky.social #chemsky
The class poster from our course undergraduate research experience on peptide synthesis and characterization is 🔥🔥🔥. Features MALDI-TOF/TOF data from our new Autoflex and diode-array HPLC #chemsky
cc: @drmikeg83.bsky.social
A lab rocker in a fume hood containing 15 polypropylene reaction vessels carrying out peptide coupling reactions.
Sometimes lab work feels like good therapy and our in current era that’s been true. Combinatorial peptide libraries incoming for a CURE I’m teaching with @jaygforsythe.bsky.social on some collaborative work between our labs and NASA! @cofcharleston.bsky.social #chemsky
Participating in the NSF REU program at UVA cemented for me that grad school in organic chemistry was the path I wanted - I wrote my first applications the week I got back. The experience showed me so much of what I wanted my career to be. This is tragic and shortsighted beyond words.
“I’m gonna be honest with you Dr G, I slept through class. This is the second time I’ve seen snow in my life and I went skim boarding down a hill and fell a bunch times and I’m really sore. I’ve been playing in the snow all week!”
Thank you to this student for sharing some much needed joy. #chemsky
Two lectures down, upper level electives planned, lab course coordinated and ready for next week, advisees advised, new research students in the fold, conference travel scheduled, and collaborations synced up. The new semester’s up and running and it’s been 2.5 days. #chemsky #PUI #ProfLife
Apple pie
It’s been an overwhelming semester, but with a much needed break I got to spend a whole day baking with my kids, and I think we did pretty well. #chemsky #chemistswhocook
This is so cool!
Thanks!
