The spectacle of Mexico in the Azteca, where they turn superhuman, in a World Cup knockout match is just unreal. Rivals or not, you can’t help but be swept up in this. Goosebumps.

So did I round up the kids, break out my Battle Cat t-shirt, and have a BLAST watching Masters of the Universe? Yes I did.

Hans Reich at UW Madison, educating organic chemists even after his passing with his website data on NMR, broad organic chemistry information, and total syntheses preserved here: organicchemistrydata.org/hansreich/ His wife Ieva, now retired, was herself a force in organic chem teaching at UW too.

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

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 inpreparation.substack.com/p/pi-nostalg...

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” www.thedp.com/article/2026...

My colleague @kmullaugh.bsky.social and our students have done some really awesome things - this is one of them!

This was a really cool study to be a part of - the students and as always my colleague @jaygforsythe.bsky.social were brilliant!

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 jobs.cofc.edu/postings/17277

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

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.

Go Birds 🦅🦅🦅

“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

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!

Let's connect with other PUI organic chemistry faculty! go.bsky.app/9HSystp

Got asked by an environmental studies student if cuprate coupling reactions were concerning from a sustainability standpoint since they were stoichiometric and wasted half the nucleophile - best set up question ever for our unit on Pd catalysis. That right there is why we do it. #chemsky

Having a reaction safety discussion today at work and sharing some key info about NaH/DMF - this paper is very informative #ChemSky #ChemLabSafety #NoNaHwithDMF

Happy to see #chemsky here and to join up! My team of undergrads asks questions about peptide structure and function - what are its origins, what do minimal units look like, how stable are they? It’s exciting, fun, and gives my students a merciful break from me ranting about Philly sports.