Dana Lashley
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Dana Lashley
@drlashley.bsky.social
Organic/ Medicinal Chemistry Professor
at University of Notre Dame.
Also Runningback and aspiring coach for @WFAfootball #WomensFootball.

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Would you be able to get WiFi? 🤣
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
OMG I’m going to both games!
War Damn Fighting Irish! 🦅☘️
Love this, hopefully we're good by then
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Qapla’!
Today is a good day to die!
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When compassion meets reflection.
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Never forget that as time goes on different levels of complexity are discovered.
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Dana Lashley
How does the grading software we're using interpret my students writing the word "octahedral"?

octohedral
octanedral
octonedral
octchedral
octahodral
octahedial
oclahedral
actonedral
octahetral
octuhedral
octabedral
octakedral
octghedral
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is wild
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Can Boron form 5 bonds these days and I’m teaching the orgo 1 kids wrong ? 🤪
If not, what on earth is going on with this publication?

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Old German Proverb:
“Erst das Wasser dann die Säure, sonst geschieht das Ungeheure“

English translation:

“First the water, then the acid, or disaster will be massive!” 😅
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I need this in my life !!!!
October 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Accurate ! 🤣
Enjoy it while it lasts
October 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Dana Lashley
Enjoy it while it lasts
October 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The ChatGPT we wish our students had:
October 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Next Orgo Exam:
What is the IUPAC name of:
September 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Nah, that was a beautiful day!
September 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This Halloween I’m going as a Tylenol bottle. Super scary !!!
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Your body is a temple and life is too short for ordinary table syrup! Be sure to check 1H-NMR before consumption! 🤪
September 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Gonna need to start an account called AI CHEMFAILs

Just look at this nonsense I found shared on another platform with hundreds of likes.
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Dana Lashley
Snacks
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
😂😂😂
September 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What on earth ???
Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility
Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, it's going in the syllabus.
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Someone posted this AI generated functional group chart and I JUST CAN’T! What a horrible time to have eyes!

The alkyne sp orbital tortured into 120 degrees, the “amide” that’s not, the “carboxylic acid” with the hypervalent oxygen, or the aldehyde with the literal -al sidechain - which is worse?
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Dana Lashley
ok are they called covalent bonds because the two atoms are sharing a valence electron.
surely i should have realized this before.
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Which quadrant are you? 😂
The Path
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM