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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2025.
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Special guests Patrick Sheehan and Jane Huang.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:18 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Patrick
13:12 - Advert: Thanksgiving at Starducks
14:27 - Grab & Go Papers
27:16 - Advert: GobbleStopper
28:21 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Jane
41:20 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets
49:19 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2025.
Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ilsa
38:22 - Advert: Fall Flavors at Starducks
39:19 - Grab & Go Papers
51:31 - Advert: LeafBeGone 3000
52:28 - Percolator: Publicly Available Datasets
58:51 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Papers and Links from the Percolator:
Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2025.
Guests this month are Jenny Calahan and Martin Cordiner. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Coffee Chat: Gabi + Jenny
16:25 - Advert: Last Rays Latte from Starducks
17:25 - Grab & Go Papers
30:29 - Advert: SunSlinger
31:45 - Single-Origin Brew: Martin + Brett
59:40 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Jenny's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06613
Martin's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209
Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of July 2025.
Guests this month are Becky Rapf and Stephen Kocheril. Ilsa Cooke co-hosts.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Coffee Chat: Becky + Brett
12:20 - Advert: Nebula Freeze from Starducks
13:21 - Grab & Go Papers
32:47 - Advert: Solar Eclipse Grilling
33:39 - Single-Origin Brew: Ilsa Cooke + Stephen Kocheril
54:14 - Percolator: The first interstellar comet
1:01 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Stephen's Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02504-y
Chalkboard this month has Jobs, but nothing new.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2025.
Guests this month are Izaskun Jimenez-Serra and Bernadette Broderick. Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Gabi Wenzel co-host.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Coffee Chat: Franciele + Izaskun
19:34 - Advert: Celestial Cold Brew from Starducks
21:36 - Grab & Go Papers
40:28 - Advert: AstroSnipper 3000
42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi Wenzel + Bernadette Broderick
1:02:00 - Barista Bootcamp: Desorption from ices
1:27:00 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Izaskun's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2025/03/aa52389-24/aa52389-24.html
Bernadette's Website: https://brodericklab.org/
Bernadette's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09888
Chalkboard this month has Jobs and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2025.
Guests this month are Ugo Jacovella and Marten Raaphorst. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:37 - Coffee Chat: Divita Gupta + Ugo Jacovella
19:34 - Advert: Solar Sips from Starducks
21:36 - Grab & Go Papers
40:28 - Advert: Sprout-Slinger 360
42:08 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex Byrne + Marten Raaphorst
1:02:00 - Special: AI Podcast Discussion
1:27:00 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Ugo's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00323
Marten's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c0002
Chalkboard this month has Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2025.
Guests this month are Julia Santos and Hayley Bunn. Alex Byrne and Divita Gupta co-host.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Advert: Mother's Day at Starducks
3:05 - Grab & Go Papers
20:55 - Advert: The Multi Matic
22:49 - Double Shot (Alex Byrne + Julia Santos, Divita Gupta with Hayley Bunn)
54:47 - Percolator: The discovery of exoplanets and our ability to probe their atmospheres
1:04:05 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Julia's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14010
Hayley's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adacea/meta
Chalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2025.
Guests this month are Munan Gong and Wonju Kim. Divita Gupta co-hosts.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Munan Gong)
9:29 - Advert: Easter at Starducks
10:25 - Grab & Go Papers
28:05 - Advert: BasketBamboozler 3000
30:15 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita Gupta with Wonju Kim)
47:19 - Percolator: The first detection of a molecule in another galaxy
56:05 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Wonju's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51998-24/aa51998-24.html
Percolator Paper: https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1971ApJ...167L..47W
Chalkboard this month has Jobs + Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2025.
Guests this month are Sean Dougherty and Karina Sogomonyan.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:21 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sean Dougherty)
12:13 - Advert: Ides of March at Starducks
13:29 - Grab & Go Papers
29:18 - Advert: Prunus Maximus 3000
31:12 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Karina Sogomonyan)
45:04 - Barista Bootcamp: D/H Ratios and Temperature
52:27 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Karina's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00387
Chalkboard this month has Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of January 2025.
Guests this month are Laura Busch and Rachel Gross.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Laura Busch)
8:43 - Advert: Valentine's Day at Starducks
9:49 - Grab & Go Papers
25:43 - Advert: Idiorama’s Snowomatic 5000
26:59 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Rachel Gross)
42:06 - Percolator: The Discovery of Interstellar Deuterium
51:33 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Rachel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06156
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2024.
Guests this month are Paola Caselli and Chiara Schleif.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:45 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Paola Caselli)
15:12 - Advert: Midnight Manny’s Confetti Disposal Service
16:24 - Grab & Go Papers
29:40 - Advert: Starducks’ Resolution Roast
30:47 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Chiara Schleif)
39:53 - Percolator: The Discovery of H 21cm Line
50:18 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
The history of the 21 cm detection of hydrogen in space.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Ilse Cleeves and Shreya Kakkenpara Suresh.
Shreya's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa45775-22/aa45775-22.html
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilse Cleeves)
16:23 - Advert: Perky Pilgrim Gobble-Gobble Grind
17:24 - Grab & Go Papers
33:46 - Advert: Pilgrim Pete's Pumpkin Catapults
35:24 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Shreya Kakkenpara Sursesh)
52:40 - Barista Bootcamp: Protoplanetary Disks
1:02:30 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
The basics of protoplanetary disks in the Barista Bootcamp.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Divita Gupta with special guests Sommer Johansen and Gabi Wenzel.
Sommer's Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00120
Gabi's Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq6391
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:44 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Sommer)
19:47 - Advert: Starducks Turducken Latte
20:58 - Grab & Go Papers
35:28 - Advert: Leaf Me Alone Autumn Parasol
36:52 - Single-Origin Brew (Divita with Gabi Wenzel)
1:05:35 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Comets
1:16:55 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
The History of Amino Acid detections in comets in this month's Percolator.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of September 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke with special guest Samantha Scibelli.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:48 - Coffee Chat (Brett + Ilsa)
20:10 - Advert: Starducks Sweet Potato Hand Pies
21:26 - Grab & Go Papers
34:20 - Advert: LeafCrusher 3000
35:55 - Single-Origin Brew (Brett with Samantha Scibelli)
55:40 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites
1:01:30 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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It's our 1 year anniversary, and of course our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Thanja Lamberts, and Alex Byrne with special guests Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, Vincent Esposito, and Valentine Wakelam.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Coffee Chat (Thanja with Floris van der Tak, Maëva Louis, Arun Subramani, Tobias Dijkhuis, Adibah Nur Zainol Abidin, and Vincent Esposito)
20:19 - Advert: SipTek Fire & Ice Tumbler
21:44 - Grab & Go Papers
34:05 - Advert: Starducks Caprese Panini
35:23 - Single-Origin Brew (Alex with Valentine Wakelam)
53:27 - Percolator: Amino Acids in Meteorites
59:49 - Chalkboard
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
The History of Amino Acid detections in meteorites in this month's Percolator.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire, Ilsa Cooke, and Alex Byrne with special guests Jessica Perrero, Divita Gupta, and Théo Guillame.
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Jessica's Paper: Binding energies of ethanol and ethylamine on interstellar water ices: synergy between theory and experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16952
Chemical Kinetics Papers from Divita and Théo:
Product-specific reaction kinetics in continuous uniform supersonic flows probed by chirped-pulse microwave spectroscopy
Design and Implementation of a New Apparatus for Astrochemistry: Kinetic Measurements of the CH + OCS Reaction and Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in a Cold Uniform Supersonic Flow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18814
The History of Cavity-Enhanced Fourier-Transform Microwave Spectroscopy in this month's Percolator and Barista Bootcamp.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
Interstitial clips feature audio from the French Chef.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Albert Rimola and Will Styers.
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Albert's Quantum Grain Website: https://www.quantumgrain.eu/
Will's Paper on 3-Furonitrile: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c03093
The History of Cosmic Rays in this month's Percolator.
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
Special thanks this month to David Neufeld for the impetus to look into the history of cosmic rays.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Rebecca Firth and Harshal Gupta.
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Rebecca's Paper on AlO, AlOH, and Al(OH)3: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00335
Harshal's paper on the laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical discovery of CaC2: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3336
Barista Bootcamp on Cosmic Rays this month!
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. Interstitial clips feature audio from the movie Thor and from the French Chef.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2024.
Your hosts this week are Brett McGuire and Ilsa Cooke, with special guests Adam Ginsburg and Bryan Changala.
Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net.
Adam's paper on the discovery of the MUBLO: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07808
Adam's Research Website: https://www.adamgginsburg.com/
Bryan's Paper on the laboratory spectroscopy of MgC4H and MgC3N: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022285224000316?dgcid=rss_sd_all
In the French Press, we took a look back at the earliest identification of VY Canis Majoris.
Jerome Lalande Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Lalande
Histoire Celeste Francaise Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_c%C3%A9leste_fran%C3%A7aise
Chalkboard this month has Open Positions and Conferences.
Special thanks this month to ChatGPT. An interstitial clip features audio from the movie Thor.
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