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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · 7d

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.
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#pisky

The interplay of antiaromaticity and diradical character in diarenoindacenes and diindenoarenes

Over the past ∼15 years our group has performed multiple structure/properties relationship studies to assess how logical structural refinement can affect the antiaromaticity/diradicaloid continuum. Us...

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · 21d

Sake is the cure

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

ACS announces 2026 national award winners

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Jun 1

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · May 24

And to the one nay-sayer who emailed me this morning, I did NOT post this notification to gloat. Rather, I wanted/needed to show to the #ChemSky community that NSF grant $$$ continue to flow.

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · May 23

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · May 20

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 ☹️…

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 30

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

Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring

Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 6

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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Curo-Pi6 @teamcuropi.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!

#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Mar 18

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!

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Mar 11

A windowsill full of tomato starts!

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 22

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 16

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.

Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 10

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

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 10

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.

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 8

Agreed, but a new PI or a PI at a small school may be less knowledgeable on how the game is played. All it takes is one unfortunate soul out out a thousand calls to = $$$

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 8

Not to mention that it is after 8PM on a Friday in D.C. Like anyone will call that late??? BTW, the Area Code was 254, which is in Texas, so DEFINITELY not NSF!

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 8

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

steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · Feb 7

Scammers are so fucking funny, man

#chemsky 🧪

An email warning about a scam impersonating NSF:

"Scam Involving the Use of NSF’s Name and Likeness
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued this alert regarding fraudulent activities where scammers are falsely representing NSF. These scammers claim individuals have won NSF grant money and can claim it for a fee. It's important to know that NSF has a well-established merit review process for awarding research and research-related grants and does not provide funds for personal use."

Yeah, no shit!

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Feb 7

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!

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