Post-pizza hike up PKOLS for a sunset(?) group photo followed by s’mores in the backyard

Congratulations to Nick Roberts, who successfully defended his MSc on Wednesday. Thanks to Bosco Yu for external duties and Irina Paci for serving on the committee. Nick is now back in Halifax and exercising his 3D design & printing skills in his new job (so double congratulations are in order!)

Congratulations to now-Dr Charlie Killeen, who successfully defended his PhD on Monday. Many thanks to Professor Jolene Reid (UBC), for visiting (and delivering a great seminar) to perform external examiner duties, and committee members Jeremy Wulff and Dave Goodlett

Our paper on PFAS degradation (doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...) on the cover of Environmental Science Advances with Dr Sapan Thind, Bobby Ryane, John Hayden, @chagunda.bsky.social, Dr Mathias Paul More to come on this topic soon...

Excited to begin my NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr University Bochum, working with Prof. @viktoriagessner.bsky.social! I'll be exploring structure–activity relationships of YPhos ligands to advance their use in challenging catalytic transformations. Thrilled to join such a fantastic team!🧪

Group dinner at #CSC2025 - @gilianthomas.bsky.social joined Jack, Peter & I (and the @hoflab.bsky.social) before the Inorganic mixer

Jack’s cage art won 3rd prize in the ChemiSTEAM event at #CSC2025 👍

What better to do on the morning of #CSC2025 than explore some Ottawa trails with @leitchlab.bsky.social, @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and @hoflab.bsky.social ?

Having a blast at #STLHE2025, here post-presentation with Pamini, Ann & Sean from my 2022 3MNTF cohort. Great feedback on our new tool, too 👍 which is now available at reflectiveteaching.ca

Fun visit from Andy @wellerchemyork.bsky.social these last few days - in addition to collecting some high quality data on aminoborane polymers on Friday (thanks @c-killeen.bsky.social), we were treated to a talk today and got in a cycle ride Saturday (the locally-famous 3 ferry loop)

Hooray, it’s #GoByBike week

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3 Saanich summits on Saturday

Congratulations to newly minted PhD Dr Stuart Smith, who passed his viva this morning remotely the day before flying back to the UK. It’s been great to have you here Stuart, best of luck on the postdoc!

Stuart Smith (visiting PhD student) and I caught up with Lars Yunker (ex-PhD student) this evening at an Esquimalt pub

Our latest preprint (led by Jack) involves burying the alkaline earth metals in mausolate ligands. Ba2+ has a very similar ionic radius to Ra2+, so these results of relevance to radiotherapy/imaging doi.org/10.26434/che...

Welcome to visiting graduate student Stuart Smith, here with us for a couple of months from the University of York (UK). Great to have you with us, Stuart!

The 13 municipalities of the #YYJ #CRD can be visited in one long (120 km) ride, mostly on trails

Classic demo from Charlie @c-killeen.bsky.social showing why getting fuming nitric acid on nitrile gloves is not recommended

Very proud of my friend & colleague Dennis Hore who (with Bruce Wallace) was presented with the CUFA Academic of the Year award last night for their drug-checking work. Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

Check out Ian @chagunda.bsky.social's interview on the "Beyond the Jargon" podcast, where he talks about his (recently successfully defended) PhD research. Very accessible chat about a rather intricate topic! open.spotify.com/episode/5L4s...

Congratulations to Dr Ian @chagunda.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD today. Fantastic job Ian (12 published papers from his time at UVic!). Many thanks to external Jason @profhein.bsky.social and internals Dave @leitchlab.bsky.social and Al Boraston

Congratulations Dave! @leitchlab.bsky.social Fantastic & well-deserved recognition news.uvic.ca/2025/killam-...

UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Our latest is out in @envsci.rsc.org Advances, where Dr Sapan Thind, Bobby Ryane, John Hayden, Ian @chagunda.bsky.social and Dr Mathias Paul show how PFAS can be photocatalytically broken down with the assistance of an applied voltage. Thanks for the hard work on this, team! doi.org/10.1039/D4VA...

My visit to NZ is (sadly) over. Was lucky enough to make a 1 day ride of the #TimberTrail while here, an epic 84 km mountain bike outing through primeval forest of the central North Island. Tough but very rewarding

Our work investigating Pd-precatalyst activation mechanisms is featured as a front cover in @pubs.acs.org Organometallics. It was a fantastic experience designing and exploring his work in a creative way! ➡️ pubs.acs.org/toc/orgnd7/4... #MyACSCover @mcindoe.bsky.social @leitchlab.bsky.social

Dr Trevor Mathieson & I visited our PhD supervisor Professor Brian Nicholson today. Always great to catch up

Last night at #ICOSSE25 - delightful dinner with UofA faculty @rosalynfalconer.bsky.social and Erin Leitao, and fellow sabbatical-er Heather Buckley

Gotta ❤️ the structure of 💎

Ooh, buildplate.ai has a prototype text-to-stl AI engine! Sounds like a great way of making 3D models for classroom use. How about "a carbon dioxide molecule"? #chemsky 1/n

Sunday evening board games with the crew

The vast majority of our SOPs are in video format on the McIndoeGroup YouTube channel, but occasionally we make conventional ones. Here Charlie @c-killeen.bsky.social describes how we activate molecular sieve for very dry solvent (time is the other ingredient!): web.uvic.ca/~mcindoe/Mol...

Sun on snow makes for a nice walk around campus

Excellent work here from Charlie Killeen, who was convinced to make ESIMes (charge-tagged NHC ligand) when I told him it was probably too hard and there was lower-hanging fruit to be had. Now available in @daltontrans.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1039/D4DT...

Another perfect January day for a ride along all the waterfront we could find. Clear enough to see Mt Rainier

Three (3!) new video SOPs on the mcindoegroup YouTube channel today, all on glovebox maintenance and all performed by Dr Peter Williams: youtu.be/GzF1ewZlJZU youtu.be/NfGnVwvQOkA youtu.be/Ylzu2GIyaCU

We at @digital-discovery.bsky.social are very happy to announce a new paper type called "Commit". Inspired by version control systems such as git, the idea is that if you have an update on a short and pointed publication, you can send it as a commit. We envision commits to be co-cited with the

Perfect January day for a ride to East Sooke park along the Goose

Great to catch up with alum Dr Anuj Joshi (PhD ‘20) & Dr Sapan Thind for coffee today.

Our latest video SOP - Charlie shows how to safely remove solvent from a vial using a rotary evaporator: youtu.be/IYJUKh6lCP8?...

Super-high quality real-time MS data from Ian @chagunda.bsky.social (assisted by undergraduate Antonia Kropp) while investigating chemistry from Dave @leitchlab.bsky.social. As ever, things are always more complicated than they look on the surface...

A hint of sun for a ride up a couple of local hills

📊 What I learned from analyzing 3000+ SI PDFs: Only 40% of papers w/ #MassSpectrometry data compliant w/ journal guidelines! From zero #Python experience to an automated checker Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Try the tool: github.com/match22lab/H... #DataScience #ChemPython #ChemSky

Lovely day yesterday for a coastal loop around the city, including the island’s easternmost point

As a new graduate student if we wanted to get a crystal sent off for analysis, we had to determine the space group on a precession camera first. This involved developing film in a dark room! I now live vicariously through my good pal Al Oliver who does all our structures in his lab at Notre Dame

Group holiday party last night, featuring chemistry-influenced cocktails, a long but entertaining knockout tournament to determine gift exchange order, and a guest list that included the @nelsonyslam.bsky.social team. Always a fun evening!

Lab cleanup day always throws up a few things that have been sitting around for a little past their best before date

Always great to see the team crushing it come awards time at UVic Chemistry - congratulations to Charlie, Jack, Ian, Harrison & Nick and many thanks to the generosity of the donors!

Decembeer is underway with this bohemian style offering… looking forward to a month of fine craft beer with @jaytcullen.bsky.social @leitchlab.bsky.social and @rjfradette.bsky.social