@leitchlab.bsky.social
Catalysis / physorg / HTE / organic synthesis research group at the University of Victoria.
me watching the end of OT on MNF
09.12.2025 05:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#DarkSouls December day 7 - thank Gwyn for Siegmeyer the courageous hero, who saved us from the chaos eaters. I'm sure his tale has a happy ending.
08.12.2025 06:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jahn-Teller distortion?
06.12.2025 16:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Solaire is always a sight for sore eyes #PraiseTheSun
06.12.2025 07:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Friday #Decembeer 5th. CALEndar today is Driftwood Brewing Whitebark Witbier. Citrusy and easy. Wonderful choice @mcindoe.bsky.social
06.12.2025 06:14 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Day 5 of #DarkSouls December. After a ton of clean-up elsewhere to procrastinate against doing Sen's Fortress, finally reached Disneyland. Now for the hardest part in the entire game (if you've played it, you know exactly the one)
06.12.2025 06:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Day two of #DarkSouls December. Chaos Witch Queeleg down, now on to Sen's Funhouse...
#PraisetheSun
Day two of #decemBEER advent #cALEndar - a crisp Bohemian pilsner from Tofino Brewing Company.
Made sure today to beat
@jaytcullen.bsky.social out of the blocks!
@mcindoe.bsky.social
We have a special COrgI seminar this Thurs (4 Dec, 2pm ET) to close out 2025! Prof. Shawn Collins (UdeM) will present on new copper-based photosensitizers, and Dr. Kushal Dhake (UVic) will speak on strategies toward multicyclic heterocycles #chemsky #chemchat
Details: www.cheminst.ca/cic-virtual/...
Day one of Dark Souls December in the Mulvogue-Leitch household.
One bell and two bell gargoyles down thus far.
#PraiseTheSun
My favorite part is the wrapping is public-park-compatible
02.12.2025 04:05 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Can of Ouest West Coast IPA in the hand of the OP
First beer of #Decembeer from the cALEndar. Ouest is is a West Coast IPA 7.0% ABV with Simcoe and Amarillo hops from @ilesauvagebrewing.bsky.social here in Victoria. @mcindoe.bsky.social @leitchlab.bsky.social we are are off to a strong and very tasty start
02.12.2025 03:00 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1SPOILER ALERT JAY I HAVEN'T OPENED MINE YET
02.12.2025 03:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
next, the chiefs will back a rival postseason tournament since they ain't getting anywhere the superbowl this year
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Link here to buy online or from you favourite local bookstore
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Lmao the one time they call it itβs wrong. Perfect.
17.11.2025 03:15 β π 466 π 18 π¬ 15 π 3#chemjobs #chemjobscanada
15.11.2025 01:22 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0#facultychemjobs #chemchat #chemsky π§ͺβοΈ #chemjobscanada #chemjobs
15.11.2025 01:48 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0We are on a roll with hiring here at @uvic.ca Chemistry! Experimental chemistry research programs of all types are in scope. See Saurabh's note below for details/advertisement link!
(and don't let his self deprecation fool you - he's already made faculty meetings 20% more inspiring! π)
The latest chapter from the Leitch Lab / @arseniyadis.bsky.social Lab collaboration now online at Chem. Commun.!
Congrats to the team, and stay tuned for some exciting things to come...!
is he gone yet
09.11.2025 23:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fantastic and creative work from the Roberts lab on a new approach to arynes (and a superb use of one of my favorite words in the title!)
Congrats to the authors!
Join us tomorrow 2pm ET for the Canadian Organic Invitational #COrgI virtual seminar series! We've got two fantastic talks, one from Mandy Lynn of Gilead on the manufacture of lenacapavir, and also from Melissa Mejia-Gutierrez from USask on diazirines! Register here: www.cheminst.ca/cic-virtual/...
05.11.2025 19:49 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Okay, I'm all in for the Blue Jays.
1) AL East representing. Toughest division in MLB
2) Fuck the bigger payroll always.
3) Canada deserves something nice after all the bloviating and assholery they've endured from us these nine months.
Yeah, Cali v. Trump. But Newsom can troll with other stuff.
Go Expos!!
21.10.2025 03:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cue the song
18.10.2025 19:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This member of the chemistry community wholeheartedly agrees.
17.10.2025 01:50 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the βMichaelis-Mentenβ model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience
16.10.2025 01:02 β π 339 π 86 π¬ 5 π 9
