Corey_Hopkins
@hopkinslab.bsky.social
Medicinal chemist, drug discovery, cyclist, Professor, vinyl enthusiast, dog lover, FRSC
Just got an email from the SRO of my study section and trying to reschedule the missed October study section to early- or mid-January 2026.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just got an email from the SRO of my study section and trying to reschedule the missed October study section to early- or mid-January 2026.
Pretty good listen.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Pretty good listen.
This is some really nice work.
Really excited to see this in print - super work here by the wonderful team here from the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social
It was a real pleasure to watch this work evolve from a "what if" discussion to a @natsynth.nature.com paper
I truly appreciate being included #Chemsky
It was a real pleasure to watch this work evolve from a "what if" discussion to a @natsynth.nature.com paper
I truly appreciate being included #Chemsky
Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation - Nature Synthesis
Heteroatom insertions into chemically inert carbon–carbon single bonds are rare compared to their unsaturated analogues. Now, ligand-to-metal charge transfer offers a promising entry point for oxygen ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is some really nice work.
Even though I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, this is the first time making it into Chemistry World.
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The chemist who commemorates lab discoveries on his body
University of Nebraska's drug design centre director is communicating his team's scientific breakthroughs with tattoos and now has 29 on his arm
www.chemistryworld.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Even though I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, this is the first time making it into Chemistry World.
www.chemistryworld.com/careers/the-...
www.chemistryworld.com/careers/the-...
This took me 3 tries to finally get a copy that wasn’t so scratched (even with a VG+ rating). A 10/10 album. My favorite: Verdi Cries (close 2nd is A Campfire Song with Michael Stipe).
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This took me 3 tries to finally get a copy that wasn’t so scratched (even with a VG+ rating). A 10/10 album. My favorite: Verdi Cries (close 2nd is A Campfire Song with Michael Stipe).
The movie that all horror movies are judged on. The best movie of the genre ever made.
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The movie that all horror movies are judged on. The best movie of the genre ever made.
A top 5 70’s album.
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A top 5 70’s album.
Not a bad haul at the pop up vinyl shop at my local brewery.
October 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Not a bad haul at the pop up vinyl shop at my local brewery.
I’m seeing a lot of people (some friends) posting today wearing a red freedom shirt in memory of a podcaster. Funny, none of them ever post in memory of Sandy Hook or the other hundreds of school shootings. Just this one person, odd.
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I’m seeing a lot of people (some friends) posting today wearing a red freedom shirt in memory of a podcaster. Funny, none of them ever post in memory of Sandy Hook or the other hundreds of school shootings. Just this one person, odd.
Today’s project.
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today’s project.
Yes it may break the high temperature today, but at least we have the start of college hockey. UNO Mavericks.
October 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yes it may break the high temperature today, but at least we have the start of college hockey. UNO Mavericks.
A proper bagel sandwich. Rebelle Artisan Bagels. Cambridge, MA.
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A proper bagel sandwich. Rebelle Artisan Bagels. Cambridge, MA.
Well, I had a complaint lodged against me at my work due to a social media post from July. Had to be from a Twitter post and going back through I can assume which one since there are people looking for these posts. Fun to have an “ethics” complaint over a personal account.
September 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Well, I had a complaint lodged against me at my work due to a social media post from July. Had to be from a Twitter post and going back through I can assume which one since there are people looking for these posts. Fun to have an “ethics” complaint over a personal account.
Thanks @ketv7.bsky.social for the recognition.
UNMC chemistry professor honor student's work through tattoos
“Took the plunge. And now it’s about every six months, probably get some new ones,” Dr. Corey Hopkins said about his tattoos.
ketv.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Thanks @ketv7.bsky.social for the recognition.
Pretty good Saturday listen and Icarus (West Coast IPA). The song Singular Girl (demo) - “Talking to you girl is like long division”. Good lyric.
August 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Pretty good Saturday listen and Icarus (West Coast IPA). The song Singular Girl (demo) - “Talking to you girl is like long division”. Good lyric.
And now to the ‘00’s. My favorite band’s best album and best album side (of all time?).
July 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And now to the ‘00’s. My favorite band’s best album and best album side (of all time?).
I’m a product of the 80s and 90s music and grabbed this a couple weeks ago. Side 2 is simply awesome.
July 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’m a product of the 80s and 90s music and grabbed this a couple weeks ago. Side 2 is simply awesome.
Our manuscript on GIRK1/2 activators is out.
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Further Structure‐Activity Relationship of G Protein‐Gated Inwardly Rectifying Potassium Channels 1/2 Activators: Synthesis and Biological Characterization of In Vitro Tool Compounds
Work presented here details the design and characterize novel G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium channels (GIRK)1/2 activators. A new 4,4-difluorocyclohexylpyrazole have been identified th....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Our manuscript on GIRK1/2 activators is out.
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Pretty good day at Lumen Beer Co. with Paulie.
May 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Pretty good day at Lumen Beer Co. with Paulie.
Thanks for this explanation.
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
www.science.org
May 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Thanks for this explanation.
That time of year again.
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
That time of year again.
This is so sad. I was introduced to her music while in Pittsburgh listening to @wyep.bsky.social. Karen by Night was always my favorite.
Jill Sobule died in a house fire this morning.
www.stereogum.com/2306492/i-ki...
The folk-pop artist and activist was best known for two 1995 singles: “I Kissed A Girl," considered America's first openly gay Top 20 hit, and "Supermodel” from the 'Clueless' soundtrack.
Sobule was 66.
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The folk-pop artist and activist was best known for two 1995 singles: “I Kissed A Girl," considered America's first openly gay Top 20 hit, and "Supermodel” from the 'Clueless' soundtrack.
Sobule was 66.
May 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is so sad. I was introduced to her music while in Pittsburgh listening to @wyep.bsky.social. Karen by Night was always my favorite.
Yet another bonehead decision. I have an R01 with a foreign subaward that is up for noncompetitive renewal in July. Hope this gets in before the October deadline.
NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yet another bonehead decision. I have an R01 with a foreign subaward that is up for noncompetitive renewal in July. Hope this gets in before the October deadline.
Anyone have experience appealing an NIH grant that was terminated? There is a process, just curious if any successful. Or is it too soon to know?
May 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Anyone have experience appealing an NIH grant that was terminated? There is a process, just curious if any successful. Or is it too soon to know?