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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Er, propane actually I think, but same difference.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've always just used a butane torch for this.

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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone willing to replace students with tokens doesn't understand what it is universities do and probably should never have been allowed to have students to begin with

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Go skydiving like Uncle Jesse on Full House.

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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Applications to the UChicago PhD program are open! chemistry.uchicago.edu/graduate-pro... Please check out the information sessions too - anyone who *registers* *and* *attends* an info session will get a fee waiver code sent to them after the session!

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

that's why they named a carbon after it

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forbrukerradet.bsky.social @forbrukerradet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Har du lagt merke til at ting døyr litt for tidleg? Det har vi òg 👀 Det er tema for vår nyeste rapport. / Ever noticed how things tend to die a little too soon? So have we 👀 That’s the topic of our latest report. Les rapporten/read our report👉forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There was some discussion on a Discord suggesting that the change is to make it harder for AI bots to scrape the journals' data.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No graphical abstracts or author names – so as far as I'm concerned, it's still broken.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It is very satisfying in months where the number of books forms a perfect grid.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bri don't give me another apocalypse to worry about.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had a calculus professor who brought his dog to class every day.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The Chemist group broke a J Young tube, again. Sources suggest a freeze–pump–thaw was to blame. So much for "global warming"!

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There's a contra dance titled "diamond allotrope" that is quite good.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My whole CAREER eligibility window will be under this administration 🙃

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Can undergrads present posters here? I've been trying to figure out how to get to a couple students to a conference, and this would be a convenient option given we're two hours and change from Montreal.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I bet it was cool to be a professor before there were, like, four different existential threats to higher ed in the space of half a decade.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We had a take-home spectroscopy assignment in previous years that we're phasing out now due to concerns like this.

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As a service for the #chemsky Cthulhu community, please see optimised image below. If folks want a transparent version to slap on t-shirts, mugs, whatever, let me know an I'll put a download on my website.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thanks for sharing this. All of the rising sophomores and most of the rising juniors at SLU were denied university funding for summer research due to the budget. We are trying to make noises about how this a problem so it is useful to have some info from a similar-ish school.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Let's say it's 14.85 to make everyone equally mad.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think it means that the A in the logo is stylized so it kind of looks like a suspension bridge... which I guess I can kind of see but mostly that is just what the letter A looks like.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The best non-academic diss was when a labmate described my taste in music as "songs that have probably all been covered by college a cappella groups." I have never been so thoroughly yet unintentionally roasted.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Pretty sure I have skeeted this before, but a significant portion of my PhD work was described in the literature as "potentially pointless."

Portion of a table from a paper listing "examples of potentially pointless stereoselective syntheses from recent literature."

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I contacted ACS about this on July 1 (after having not been able to access the feeds for 2–3 weeks)... so there does not seem to be much urgency to their work on it.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

science.org

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Writing a thesis was perhaps the single easiest part of my PhD.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My high school (ca. 2008) didn't have any AP classes, but yeah, this tracks. Students more focused on science would take Physics and/or Chem II, whereas the others would take the "easier" Earth Science (scare quotes b/c I didn't take it so I don't know if it actually was easier).

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The system has encountered an error and was unable to upload your file"... I will have our grants officer try to upload it tomorrow and then call NSF's help desk if that's a bust. I guess this is why they advise you to submit early!

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Mine is done but it won't upload 🙃

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

lol happy CAREER weekend to you too

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am going to attempt (badly) to explain why this is so cool, not just because of the medicine itself but because of the science behind how they made it, please no one tell the chemists how inaccurate this is about to be

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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚀Space package launch is a go!🚀 @cenmag.bsky.social's physical sciences team has been working hard on this for over half a year and I'm so excited to finally show it to the world! cen.acs.org/physical-che...

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To the moon, Mars, and beyond

Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It is, uh, very MacGyvered together: • Stacks of textbooks supporting laptop/mic • Iron ring/ring stand holding up webcam • Doc cam counterbalanced down by a 10 kg weight I found in the stockroom • Dry erase board • Pin notes to corkboard for reference

Photo of a desk set up for video recording.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yikes! That is not a lot of time.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We do a reasonable amount with models in gen chem lecture and lab, so students have some familiarity by organic. I'd like them to do a (physical) modeling activity in organic lab but I don't teach that class.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yeah, I have done similar with a doc cam and it seems to work okay.

Screenshot from a lecture video on cyclohexane derivatives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

See also College of St. Benedict/St. John's University in MN.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The last time I went to an ACS meeting my parents asked me if I was getting paid to present my poster.

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