Jason Dutton
@duttonchemistry.bsky.social
Professing chemistry at La Trobe University
Laura (wife, who is a team lead in corporate job) said her bosses boss didn’t have an office with a door and my immediate reaction was ‘oh god where do they nap?’ and immediately my narrative was compromised.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Laura (wife, who is a team lead in corporate job) said her bosses boss didn’t have an office with a door and my immediate reaction was ‘oh god where do they nap?’ and immediately my narrative was compromised.
Pleasure to host one of my chemistry hero’s, Ingo Krossing at La Trobe today.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Pleasure to host one of my chemistry hero’s, Ingo Krossing at La Trobe today.
I would argue, that for as long as I have been around, the correct question has always been ‘what’s the point of having reference letters?’.
Over and over again I find what AI is best for is…if AI can do it, the task was probably always meaningless.
Over and over again I find what AI is best for is…if AI can do it, the task was probably always meaningless.
From my discussions with other faculty, the use of generative AI I hear about the most is writing reference letters.
What's the point of having reference letters anymore if everyone is just having them written by machine?
What's the point of having reference letters anymore if everyone is just having them written by machine?
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I would argue, that for as long as I have been around, the correct question has always been ‘what’s the point of having reference letters?’.
Over and over again I find what AI is best for is…if AI can do it, the task was probably always meaningless.
Over and over again I find what AI is best for is…if AI can do it, the task was probably always meaningless.
The annual passing out with the thought that’s the best I could have done. Every paragraph took a week. Good luck tomorrow me and everyone else.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The annual passing out with the thought that’s the best I could have done. Every paragraph took a week. Good luck tomorrow me and everyone else.
Good QC at the Bunnings propane supplier. Like a couple % ethane at worst.
October 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good QC at the Bunnings propane supplier. Like a couple % ethane at worst.
‘Chemicals supplied by Merck or Bunnings Warehouse’
October 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
‘Chemicals supplied by Merck or Bunnings Warehouse’
Godspeed little manuscript
an owl is standing on a post in the snow near a barbed wire fence
ALT: an owl is standing on a post in the snow near a barbed wire fence
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October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Godspeed little manuscript
Got to break out the chalk!
An excellent second day of the 3rd Berlin Summer School in Fluorine Chemistry @CRC1349! Thanks to all speakers, Jeinsen, @duttonchemistry.bsky.social, Malischewski, Molloy, Pomerantz, and Riedl. We look forward for the following fluorine conference the next two days @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Got to break out the chalk!
Reposted by Jason Dutton
Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"
AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
The old man gets some rare lab work in.
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The old man gets some rare lab work in.
A million kinetics studies via NMR say no you don’t.
Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?
Stirring Bars are Superstition?
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A million kinetics studies via NMR say no you don’t.
Not the relaxing arrival at home I was looking for.
September 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Not the relaxing arrival at home I was looking for.
Lounge drinks on the way to UNSW for a Real. Actual. HDR. Viva. are causing me to go to strange new places in iodine chemistry.
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Lounge drinks on the way to UNSW for a Real. Actual. HDR. Viva. are causing me to go to strange new places in iodine chemistry.
Reposted by Jason Dutton
Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in JACS. Congrats to Manjur and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Crystalline Boravinylidene from an Arrested Hydroboration Reaction
Boravinylidenes are intermediates in 1,1-hydroboration reactions of alkynes en route to vinyl boranes. Unlike transition metal-vinylidene complexes, boravinylidenes have hitherto, not been crystallogr...
pubs.acs.org
August 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in JACS. Congrats to Manjur and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
The manuscript finally comes home to roost.
a group of pigeons are standing on top of a dirt ground .
ALT: a group of pigeons are standing on top of a dirt ground .
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August 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The manuscript finally comes home to roost.
Godspeed little revision.
a green parrot is laying on its back on a black surface
ALT: a green parrot is laying on its back on a black surface
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August 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Godspeed little revision.
Reposted by Jason Dutton
So great catching up with @duttonchemistry.bsky.social in Lisbon! We overlapped back at @western-chemistry.bsky.social when I was a wee undergrad #ESFC2025
August 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
So great catching up with @duttonchemistry.bsky.social in Lisbon! We overlapped back at @western-chemistry.bsky.social when I was a wee undergrad #ESFC2025
Time for cab to the airport. The things we do for science. A bit of unneeded commentary at home regarding who gets Portuguese summer and who doesn’t.
July 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Time for cab to the airport. The things we do for science. A bit of unneeded commentary at home regarding who gets Portuguese summer and who doesn’t.
Research Group, winter 2025 edition.
July 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Research Group, winter 2025 edition.
Door to door from Salve Regina. Time to go to work!
July 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Door to door from Salve Regina. Time to go to work!
Next stop GRC in Newport. Never had a Negroni with a lime before. She asked if I wanted it mixed with sprite. I declined, but was curious.
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Next stop GRC in Newport. Never had a Negroni with a lime before. She asked if I wanted it mixed with sprite. I declined, but was curious.
Back to Melbs briefly after an amazing hypervalent iodine conference in Tianjin.
June 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Back to Melbs briefly after an amazing hypervalent iodine conference in Tianjin.