Sneaking out early for the win.

This horribly flawed paper gave me my entire career. If one referee had asked us to calculate the singlet-triplet gap my last decade and some would have been entirely different.

At UNSW, we’ve been looking into sunscreens. theconversation.com/mineral-vs-c... @jonbeves.bsky.social + Anna Wang. Also thanks to Thilini Ishwara.

Laura (wife, who is a team lead in corporate job) said her bosses boss didn’t have an office with a door and my immediate reaction was ‘oh god where do they nap?’ and immediately my narrative was compromised.

Pleasure to host one of my chemistry hero’s, Ingo Krossing at La Trobe today.

I would argue, that for as long as I have been around, the correct question has always been ‘what’s the point of having reference letters?’. Over and over again I find what AI is best for is…if AI can do it, the task was probably always meaningless.

The annual passing out with the thought that’s the best I could have done. Every paragraph took a week. Good luck tomorrow me and everyone else.

Good QC at the Bunnings propane supplier. Like a couple % ethane at worst.

‘Chemicals supplied by Merck or Bunnings Warehouse’

Godspeed little manuscript

Got to break out the chalk!

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

The old man gets some rare lab work in.

A million kinetics studies via NMR say no you don’t.

Not the relaxing arrival at home I was looking for.

Marcus being most victorious! Want to oxidize something? This’ll do it. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Lounge drinks on the way to UNSW for a Real. Actual. HDR. Viva. are causing me to go to strange new places in iodine chemistry.

Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in JACS. Congrats to Manjur and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The manuscript finally comes home to roost.

Godspeed little revision.

Showtime.

So great catching up with @duttonchemistry.bsky.social in Lisbon! We overlapped back at @western-chemistry.bsky.social when I was a wee undergrad #ESFC2025

Time for cab to the airport. The things we do for science. A bit of unneeded commentary at home regarding who gets Portuguese summer and who doesn’t.

Research Group, winter 2025 edition.

Door to door from Salve Regina. Time to go to work!

Next stop GRC in Newport. Never had a Negroni with a lime before. She asked if I wanted it mixed with sprite. I declined, but was curious.

Home.

Back to Melbs briefly after an amazing hypervalent iodine conference in Tianjin.

Godspeed little manuscript.

June 19, 2025. AI still very stupid. Career safe for now.

2nd year students got me an excellent end of semester gift

Grade 10 chemistry. No wonder the kids find our great science so clear and enjoyable.

Gotta play a former 46 in the world in squash pennant tonight. youtu.be/UAJYL6DYHSQ?...

Semester conquered. Brief getaway to one of the worlds great cities in Perth.

Question.

Iris is a good pub buddy. No inane small talk.

I have questions.

Happy hope day Aussie academia!

Godspeed little manuscript.

Always a salient question.

The Dutton’s brave Melbournes terrifying crime wave for an evening run and reward beer.

The truth finally spills.

Should be a law that says when they talk about a new approved medicine on the news they have to mention this miracle is brought to you by organic chemistry.

Breaking news.

Awesome stuff from Marcus. The whole scope of I(III) can be dialed to 11 using carborane. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

This mornings wildlife

Marcus and co’s tour de force of iodination! Want to iodinate a difficult arene? This will do it. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Me too Teams, me too.

Well the auto transcripts are amusing.

Inspiring stuff.