Patrick Lutz
@patricklutz.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. at St. Lawrence U. Organic chemist making and breaking polymers. Mostly here for pictures of cats. he/him/his, https://lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com/
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Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social !
We are hiring a 1 year VAP to teach GenChem lecture & lab. Past VAPs have had great success! Whether you've done a postdoc & now want to buff your teaching for a TT job, or are a fresh PhD aspiring to teaching-only jobs: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5069
We are hiring a 1 year VAP to teach GenChem lecture & lab. Past VAPs have had great success! Whether you've done a postdoc & now want to buff your teaching for a TT job, or are a fresh PhD aspiring to teaching-only jobs: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5069
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The Hope College Chemistry Department (www.hope.edu/academic/chemistry/) invites applications for a one-year term position. The teaching position is full-time (ca. 12 contact hours/wk) on a 9 month co...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Come be my colleague at @hopecollege.bsky.social !
We are hiring a 1 year VAP to teach GenChem lecture & lab. Past VAPs have had great success! Whether you've done a postdoc & now want to buff your teaching for a TT job, or are a fresh PhD aspiring to teaching-only jobs: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5069
We are hiring a 1 year VAP to teach GenChem lecture & lab. Past VAPs have had great success! Whether you've done a postdoc & now want to buff your teaching for a TT job, or are a fresh PhD aspiring to teaching-only jobs: jobs.hope.edu/postings/5069
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They could really step up by vocally lobbying and teaming up with key industry partners to push the government to stop their insanely damaging policies. I'm sure some of this is happening behind the scenes but I wish they were shouting from the rooftops.
January 30, 2026 at 10:36 PM
They could really step up by vocally lobbying and teaming up with key industry partners to push the government to stop their insanely damaging policies. I'm sure some of this is happening behind the scenes but I wish they were shouting from the rooftops.
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![Comic. [A chemical formula trailing off the right side] C1076 H1080 Ac1067 Ag1069 Al1075 Am1026 Ar1075 As1070 At1047 Au1069 B1071 Ba1070 Be [caption] The approximate chemical formula for the universe](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiheadwaulk6slb3ao3jmuve4grmz72ri4bjvi2zjfotsxjdgwlji4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Taking advantage of our colder-than-usual-today NMR lab by doing a kinetic run at 20 ºC with no cryogens required. When life gives you lemons...
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Taking advantage of our colder-than-usual-today NMR lab by doing a kinetic run at 20 ºC with no cryogens required. When life gives you lemons...
Cool that Angewandte is now including SI citations in the main text. (Maybe other journals are also doing this, but ACIEE is the first one I've noticed.)
January 20, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Cool that Angewandte is now including SI citations in the main text. (Maybe other journals are also doing this, but ACIEE is the first one I've noticed.)
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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We are recruiting for Canada Impact+ fellowships in the Trant lab. Both PhD and Postdoc. Must be not in Canada right now. Competition is ridiculously stiff, so only competitive applicants will be considered. Money is pretty good.
TIGHT deadline. 1/2
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
TIGHT deadline. 1/2
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards are a one-time initiative designed to recruit international or returning Canadian students and postdoctoral researchers to Canada. These awards support the recruitment of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in priority areas, helping build capacity, strengthen the research ecosystem and enhance Canada’s global competitiveness.
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
January 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
We are recruiting for Canada Impact+ fellowships in the Trant lab. Both PhD and Postdoc. Must be not in Canada right now. Competition is ridiculously stiff, so only competitive applicants will be considered. Money is pretty good.
TIGHT deadline. 1/2
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
TIGHT deadline. 1/2
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
Love that the ACS sent out its meeting schedule notices the day after prices went up.
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Love that the ACS sent out its meeting schedule notices the day after prices went up.
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Any chemist friends here? I have a gaseous question:
If you had sulfuric acid in the clouds of a planet, as well as scant water vapor, would the process of dissociation create hydrogen sulfide and thus would it smell like farts?
Just doing some fact checking.
If you had sulfuric acid in the clouds of a planet, as well as scant water vapor, would the process of dissociation create hydrogen sulfide and thus would it smell like farts?
Just doing some fact checking.
January 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Any chemist friends here? I have a gaseous question:
If you had sulfuric acid in the clouds of a planet, as well as scant water vapor, would the process of dissociation create hydrogen sulfide and thus would it smell like farts?
Just doing some fact checking.
If you had sulfuric acid in the clouds of a planet, as well as scant water vapor, would the process of dissociation create hydrogen sulfide and thus would it smell like farts?
Just doing some fact checking.
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Looking for some new ideas for formative feedback opportunities in large gen chem classes (>200). We've previously done low stakes (<2% of the overall grade) quizzes the week before exams in recitations, but we've had issues with cheating recently. Anyone doing something they really like? #ChemSky
January 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Looking for some new ideas for formative feedback opportunities in large gen chem classes (>200). We've previously done low stakes (<2% of the overall grade) quizzes the week before exams in recitations, but we've had issues with cheating recently. Anyone doing something they really like? #ChemSky
Horrifying thought experiment: 2020-esque pivot to remote teaching in the age of genAI.
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Horrifying thought experiment: 2020-esque pivot to remote teaching in the age of genAI.
Early returns are looking like they haven't done this yet.
They should invent a year that doesn’t suck.
January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Early returns are looking like they haven't done this yet.
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First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:
Last Year, and the Year to Come
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM
First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:
They should invent a year that doesn’t suck.
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 AM
They should invent a year that doesn’t suck.
A published paper described some of my PhD work as "potentially pointless." I choose to interpret this as a complement because it implies that there was potentially a point.
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A published paper described some of my PhD work as "potentially pointless." I choose to interpret this as a complement because it implies that there was potentially a point.
Pretty disappointing to see GenAI images in J Chem Ed.
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Pretty disappointing to see GenAI images in J Chem Ed.
My favorite question to ask on a final exam is "tell me your favorite thing you learned this semester in any class other than chemistry."
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My favorite question to ask on a final exam is "tell me your favorite thing you learned this semester in any class other than chemistry."
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Now they're going to triage. Every proposal was discussed, and that resulted in better reviews and more informed outcomes. This is such a loss.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
Changes to NSF peer review
They're not good. At all.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Now they're going to triage. Every proposal was discussed, and that resulted in better reviews and more informed outcomes. This is such a loss.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
Combine triage with allowing decisions to be made with only two reviews -- it's hard to consider this to be the world-class review process that it was.
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Has anyone posted to Chemrxiv recently? We're at 1 full week post submission and still "Awaiting approval" which feels... long. Will full understanding that "Due to a very high volume of submissions, processing times may exceed two days."
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Has anyone posted to Chemrxiv recently? We're at 1 full week post submission and still "Awaiting approval" which feels... long. Will full understanding that "Due to a very high volume of submissions, processing times may exceed two days."
Just in time to be useful to almost no one, I've uploaded my notes from organic chemistry I to my website.
Organic Chem Lecture Notes
This page is a work in progress. There are probably mistakes aplenty, but hopefully these are useful to someone! Organic Chemistry I L1: Atomic Structure L2: Representing Chemical Structures L3:...
lutzpolymerlab.weebly.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Just in time to be useful to almost no one, I've uploaded my notes from organic chemistry I to my website.
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roses are red, violets are funky,
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
roses are red, violets are funky,
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happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now
December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now