First day of spring semester at #IUBChemistry and excited to share my superpowers with Organic Chemistry 2!

Why save teaching #glycans to the end of undergraduate Organic Chemistry 2 at #IUBChemistry when fructose is my favorite ketone?

Yesterday I pledged to #RethinkChemSpeak—to unlearn the old language of war when teaching #OrgChem. Why do nucleophiles attack electrophiles when opposites attract? What other metaphors of speech do I need to reimagine?

Teaching #IUPAC chemical nomenclature in #OrgChem actually becomes intellectually interesting when you start thinking about how to talk to a computer about 3D objects...

Has anyone run a chromium oxidation in the last year? Should we still keep teaching these reactions in undergrad #OrgChem?

Super excited about simpler, cheaper, and more flexible ways to create #labautomation and build instruments and programs so that everyone can have the joy of running experiments! (Even those of us who are #lefthanded can start making the lab a safer place to work...)

Day 1 of 7 #PhotosOfMyLife Rules: no people, no explanations, & invite a new person each day to do the same for 7 days - nominated by Laura Jarboe. I nominate Malika Jeffries-EL

Day 2 of 7 #PhotosOfMyLife Rules: no people, no explanations, & invite a new person each day to do the same for 7 days - nominated by Laura Jarboe. I nominate Prof. Lara K. Mahal

Thanks Malika Jeffries-EL for bringing me into the #RSCPoster conference online today related to #RSCEdu. Such a great idea!

Fall semester starts Monday; today we picnic and appreciate spring and summer work bearing fruit at the group’s sanity plot in the community gardens

We’ll be discussing this question and many others in the upcoming NASEM Chemical Sciences Roundtable on Nov. 16-17. Registration is free. nationalacademies.org/event/05-25-20…

Loved working together with the Bennett Lab to automate carbohydrate building block synthesis. Thanks GlycoPM for inspiring the collaboration! #glycotime

Supported by an unconditional grant from InterVenn Biosciences, the e-Book of Essentials of Glycobiology (4th Edition) published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is being made available to readers free of charge. #glycotime cshl.edu/press-news/col…

Join me and Alan Aspuru-Guzik NOT THE SOCIAL NETWORK—an open source option to share, debate, and discuss. mastodontech.de/@npohl

Join us tomorrow in RH 104 at 4:00pm for an Organic Seminar, "Strategies for Automated Glycan Synthesis," by Professor Nikki Pohl from Indiana University!

#NIH_CommonFund in Glycosciences brings people together: Scientists at #IUBChemistry from Chen lab at #UCDavis and Wang lab at #GeorgiaState

Great collaboration with the Bennett group at Tufts courtesy of #NIH_CommonFund x.com/JOC_OL/status/…