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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 11d

I will have to check this out. Started reading the Discworld books in high school and just finished a couple years ago.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 11d

I don't understand but they are pretty good tbh.

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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 12d

Hey #chemsky peeps! Are you or someone you know a grad student that has been affected by changes to the #grfp application rules? @cenmag.bsky.social wants to hear from you! My DMs are open :)

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 12d

large classes Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 16d

Fingers crossed! In the meantime, you can look forward to 1/8/27.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 16d

looking forward to cube day on 8/27/64

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jo melville @jmelville.science · 21d

158/ #chemsky ⚗️🧪

DO YOU THINK A DEPRESSED PERSON COULD MAKE THIS?

(4% yield)

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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 23d

🚨FEE WAIVERS!🚨

Sign up for our info sessions on Nov. 4 and Nov. 11th - anyone who registers and attends will get an application fee waiver!

chemistry.uchicago.edu/graduate-pro...

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 26d

Happy 3²/4²/5²!

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 26d

It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left.

Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists!

cen.acs.org/people/profi...

#DisabledInSTEM

Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science

C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways

cen.acs.org

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 28d

Not fun for job searching either! Really hard to think of things that are fun about it. I guess I had time in isolation to watch all of Veep and replay Skyward Sword.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · 28d

I tell my students that when you're deciding to get a PhD, you're essentially making a bet on what the world will be like in 6–8 years. I certainly could not have conceived of 2020 during what in retrospect seem like the good old days of 2012...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 9

What if the Moon were made entirely of electrons?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/DiWFXv9N0Vs

What if the Moon were made entirely of electrons?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

youtu.be

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Dennis Cao @denniscao.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's been a long time coming, but I've finally made some improvements to RealOrganicChemistry.org, including adding literally over a million practice problems for stereochemistry and line-angle drawing.

The original collection of reaction examples is still there. Feedback is welcome. More to come!

Real Organic Chemistry Practice Problem Generators | Home

RealOrganicChemistry.org

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Sep 7

might hurt the guy who works at the desiccant pack factory

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Sep 4

Don't most med schools want to see two semesters of gen chem lab? Given the students in most gen chem courses, I think that would be more of a barrier to removing lab than any ACS requirement.

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 30

what is this a house for birds

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 28

Resharing in case it's useful at the start of the new semester!

Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Apr 22

This year I changed to a flipped course for Organic I & II, using in-class time for group work. I've shared the problem sets from these classes on my website as a resource for students/instructors.

Problem Sets

This is a collection of problem sets used in my Organic Chemistry I and II classes. Instructors are welcome to contact me if you'd like access to the answer keys or Chemdraw/Word files.

lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 26

You have probably seen these but in case not
www.ionicviper.org/classactivit...
www.ionicviper.org/class-activi...

@gricechemistry.bsky.social @areidjohnson.bsky.social @oracleofjo.bsky.social what am I missing?

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join the Viper discord if you haven't already and post this question there!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 24

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

www.nytimes.com

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K | krfabian @krfabian.bsky.social · Aug 18

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE ALL-TIME BANGER THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-A...

They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard HQ

YouTube video by Erwin Beekveld

m.youtube.com

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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social · Aug 18

The 2025 @acs.org Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. while D.C. is in the midst of a take-over by the Trump administration. In spite of the circumstances, ACS is not allowing any speakers to switch to virtual presentations. This threatens the safety of vulnerable community members.

⚗️ 🧪 #AcademicSky

To whom it may concern,

Hello. My name is Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them). I am a Carnegie Bosch Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), an incoming Adjunct Professor of Chemcial Engineering (CMU), and an incoming Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. I am an ACS member and an organizer for the 2025 ACS Fall Meeting, for which I co-organized the symposium "Chemical reaction networks, retrosynthesis, and reaction prediction" alongside Dr. Samuel Blau and Prof. Brett Savoie.

I am writing to you with concerns regarding the 2025 ACS Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia is currently in a state of _de facto_ martial law. Armed federal agents roam the streets. In some cases, these agents are masked and refuse to self-identify, making them indistinguishable from vigilante militias or secret police. Coupled with the Trump administration's extralegal, authoritarian, and violent detentions and "deportations" of immigrants, visitors, and in some cases even United States citizens, this makes D.C. an unsafe place for many ACS members and meeting attendees...

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 16

Haven't been to a CSC yet but it's on my radar since it's often closer to me than an ACS meeting...

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Patrick Lutz @patricklutz.bsky.social · Aug 16

We went to Fairmount and St. Viateur the one time I've been to Montreal! There is a pretty good bagel place I found in Ottawa that I try to stop at whenever I'm there.

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