Now out in Chem. Sci., 15 years of chemistry distilled down to 22 pages – my group's magnum opus. Great job by Efrain, Gabby & Josh! Many thanks to @aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #pisky

Hmmmm.... it would seem to me this company needs to hire someone to "prroofread" their marketing emails....

BIG congratulations to my longtime collaborator, conference organizer co-conspirator, and very dear friend @mpetrukhina.bsky.social for winning the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon & Petroleum Chemistry. Well deserved!!! 👏 🎉 🥂 ACS announces 2026 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/award...

Yukon gold harvest time – 10+ pounds of 'taters from one wine barrel – not too shabby! The first pic was from 4 weeks ago. The tops had died back to very few leaves, which suggested that it was time to harvest. The other wine barrel has green beans, which I have been enjoying since mid-May.

New grant means finally updating supplies and equipment in the lab. I cannot recall the last time we bought heating mantles... clearly, it was long overdue, but the one on the right still works!

Garden 2025 looking great!!! A bit behind this year but I don’t care!

One of the most important emails I have received for 2025. THANK YOU to the reviewers and panelists of our NSF proposal for believing in my group's scientific endeavors on PN-heterocycles (azaphosphinines) one more time. This will provide research funds for my group until fall 2028. #chemsky #pisky

Big congratulations 🎊🍾🎈 to Dr. Efrain Vidal Jr., the newest PhD from the Haley Lab at UO. Super happy to get this one over the goal line - excited to see what comes next in his career! On the flip side, he is the very last student on the IF project ☹️…

An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart! cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

Complete garden 2025 ready to go into the ground ANY day now. A couple more days of nice and sunny 70F weather like this and I am pulling the trigger! #chemistswhogarden

April is “plant starts in every window sill” month—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, tomatillos, and beans. I'm only missing a few peppers and some basil—essentially a whole garden waiting until it is warm enough to plant outdoors. Salad greens are outside already. #chemistswhogarden

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Come join us at Pacifichem 2025 in Hawaii this December! We have a great group of Invited Speakers and room for a number of Contributed Talks. It should be an excellent 2.5 days (December 18-20) of science!

A windowsill full of tomato starts!

Something tells me that I am going to have PLENTY of tomato starts to share later this spring! These babies are Mortgage Lifters and San Marzano Gigante. Other window has Bicolor Beefsteak and Better Boy seedlings. Planted spinach, lettuce, & bok choy starts outside this morning. #chemistswhogarden

Yet again, our professional chemistry societies take advantage of their hapless members. I reserved on Expedia 3 studio apts located 5 minutes away from the Hilton Hawaiian Village (where our symposium takes place) for $209/night. Room includes kitchenette, king bed & queen bed – nuff said. #ripoff

Garden 2025 is off and running! Lots of early season greens (bok choi, spinach, lettuces, etc) under the grow lights and 160(!) tomato seeds planted this afternoon. I’ll give most of the tomatoes away but better safe than sorry to excess plants than too few - not wanting to repeat 2021s die off.

This is absolutely ABSURD! A "discounted" rate of $334 per night plus taxes??? The American Chemical Society should be embarrassed by these housing prices, along with their high registration prices. Save your money and go to a GRC meeting and get so much more out scientifically. #chemsky

Great day on the Oregon coast and hiking in the coast range with ⁦@aromaticist.bsky.social and Holger Bettinger. Cool but wonderfully sunny. We even saw a herd of 30-40 elk! The hike got cut short before we could reach the top of the waterfall section as you can see the damaged bridge above my head.

I just got a voicemail of one of these calls from a "Mae Amor". It sure did not sound like any NSF Program Manager I know. What scum! #chemsky

Happy to report some 14 days after his emergency spinal surgery, RB2 got his staples out this afternoon. Vet was very pleased by his progress. Gonna be a wicked scar but who cares? Still on painkillers and sedatives for a few more weeks, but he will power through!

For a dog with 12 staples in his neck, I am happy to report that RB2 is well on his way to recovery some 6 days later! x.com/i/status/188...

What a rollercoaster ride the last 72 h – Rocky herniated a disk between his C3-C4 vertebrae, requiring emergency surgery (note staples in neck). After a 40 h recovery, he came home, hopped up on many drugs. Doing great this morning. Expensive surgery ($10K) but my lil’ buddy is WORTH EVERY PENNY!

Garden 2025 has sprouted! First of the 80+ garlic bulbs to pop, harvested parsley yesterday to make homemade chimichurri for my steak tonight, and am now planting pak choi, spinach, lettuce, and mesclun mix seeds to start in the south bedroom windows. Here we go! #chemistswhogarden

My god-this brings back terrible memories of the 1991 Oakland firestorm. The street that I lived on (Pleasant Valley) was the evacuation line-my apt building is starred. It was one of the most apocalyptic things ever, though I fear the current LA area event will dwarf this in comparison. Stay safe!

🥳🥳Check out our latest cover in Chem Sci! It's the indenofluorene machine!!! 🏭 HUGE thanks to Vitalii Stetsovych for the amazing artwork (and for putting up with me) and to Roi Poranne for finishing touches! 😍 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... With @uohaleylab.bsky.social @judywuchem.bsky.social

What a terrible loss! I had the good fortune of meeting him during my UC-Berkeley postdoc in fall 1991. At Birmingham then, at dinner he lambasted British higher ed – "it is just crap!" ALWAYS opinionated & usually correct. A giant of supramolecular & novel aromatic chemistry – may he rest in peace.

Here's a meal I have not cooked in a LONG time - tsukune miso nobe. It's a “hot pot” of chicken meatballs in miso broth with spinach and copious mushrooms. The meatballs are spiked with ginger, green onion tops, and miso paste – damn tasty! Paired with an Oregon "orange" wine = YUM! #chemistswhocook

Anal college professor planting garlic cloves for next summer - an annual event every winter break. 27 in ground already & 36 still to bury. Celery, arugula & parsley still alive. Second bed is a few onions & volunteer feldsalat/lambs lettuce that I seem to miss every year. Not complaining mind you!

And now the “surf” to go with the “turf” - Dungeness crab last night, lobster tonight, and king salmon tomorrow. I eat well…😁

Dry-brined a 5-lb ribeye roast for Christmas dinner, then smeared it with garlic butter. Roasted at 500 °F for 25 min & then let rest for 2 hr. Absolutely spectacular - 2.5 pounds left, so several more meals! Now listening to The Cure concert from Nov 1 – excellent day – youtube.com/watch?v=_aWD...

Great way/day for Josh to end his sabbatical - beautiful day here at Hoodoo!

In Lisbon last week for a conference - great chance to escape cold & foggy Eugene. Gave my talk Wednesday on our supramolecular chemistry - first time ever to get an ovation before the end of the talk! Treated myself to wonderful fresh sea bass lunch & moscatel roxo. Won a career prize too – WOW!

Happy holidays from the Haley research group!

After a 5-year gestation, we can finally let chemists know what happens when you fuse donor/acceptor groups to s-indacene. This was a beast of a manuscript, with Bella doing 85% of the work. The 4 isomers would be impossible to make if they were acenes! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #PiSky

Christmas came early for the Haley lab – a new rotovap!

#pisky does this handle work? Our fearless leader @michelrickhaus.bsky.social is he leading us out of the darkness? The attached pic means very little to my query.

It would seem that RB2 is happy to have his daddy home!

Why yes, it is November 20th and I picked tomatoes, jalapeños, and eggplant from the garden today, as well as made gazpacho! The only veggies in the gazpacho NOT homegrown were the cucumber and bell pepper. Everything else was grown here at Chateau Haley. Can you say global warming???

Great first two weeks of November in Europe giving chemistry seminars in Łódź, Wrocław, Prague, and Gießen. Lots of great personal and professional interactions, with 1-2 new collaborations no less. Still, the crappy cloudy/foggy/cold weather while I was there felt 100% like I was still in Eugene. 🤷‍♂️

Great collab with @aromaticist.bsky.social and JudyWu to figure out why heterocycle fusion does what it does to the antiaromaticity of the s-indacene core. Gabby from my lab spent 2 very productive months in Haifa with Renana in fall 2022 to finally solve this riddle. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Like so many other people the last 2 weeks, bye-bye X – hello Bsky.app! Sad to see the demise of #ChemTwitter, but what can one do when a megalomaniacal billionaire so destroys a platform that we used to rely on solid science content ? The answer is move on, like the other 20 million former X users.