Published by Brett McGuire
A monthly stroll through the latest discoveries in astrochemistry - the study of molecules in space: where they are, how they got there, and what they are doing! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Franciele Kruczkiewicz and Lukasz Tychoniec . The Percolator is on holiday! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:15 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Franciele 12:43 - Advert: July Drinks at Starducks 14:01 - Grab & Go Papers 28:40 - Advert: S’moreMaster Pro 30:27 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Lukas 48:24 - Chalkboard Lukas's Paper: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/11/aa40692-21/aa40692-21.html Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net . Chalkboard this month has save-the-dates for conferences and some online webinar and newsletter info! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Zak Smith and Alfred Hopkinson . The Percolator is on holiday! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:13 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Zak 11:03 - Advert: June Drinks at Starducks 12:05 - Grab & Go Papers 26:48 - Advert: ShadeMatic 28:34 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Alfred 36:47 - Chalkboard Alfred's Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02765-7 Grab & Go summaries for you this week are on our website: coffee.astrochem.net . Chalkboard this month has save-the-dates for conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Alex Byrne co-hosts. Special guests Jenny Bergner , Tobias Dijkhuis, and Stefanie Milam . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:41 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Jenny 8:31 - Advert: May Drinks at Starducks 9:19 - Grab & Go Papers 26:09 - Advert: GrillGuard 360 27:16 - Single-Origin Brew: Alex + Tobias 47:27 - Percolator: Brett + Stefanie 57:44 - Chalkboard Jenny's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5961 Tobias's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01042 Stefanie's Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/497123 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Sergio Ioppolo and Ryan Fortenberry . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Sergio 10:16 - Advert: April Drinks at Starducks 11:17 - Grab & Go Papers 26:16 - Advert: BunnyBouncer 3000 27:20 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Ryan 1:02:00 - 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Ken Kellerman and Miguel Sanz-Novo with co-host Alana Nisperos . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:12 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken 6:38 - Advert: March Drinks at Starducks 7:43 - Grab & Go Papers 24:08 - Advert: ForecastFooler 25:11 - Single-Origin Brew: Alana + Miguel 40:45 - Barista Bootcamp: Optical Depth 53:11 - Chalkboard Miguel's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07365 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
56 min
Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of January 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Ken Kellerman and Rebecca Charbonneau . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:59 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Ken 7:45 - Advert: February Drinks at Starducks 8:45 - Grab & Go Papers 23:11 - Advert: HeartHelper 24:04 - Percolated Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Rebecca 53:41 - 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2025. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Brenne Gregory and Suchitra Narayanan . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:32 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Brenne 7:42 - Advert: January Drinks at Starducks 8:44 - Grab & Go Papers 20:44 - Advert: ResolutionKeeper 21:44 - Single-Origin Brew: Brett + Suchitra 29:48 - Percolator: New Telescopes! 35:00 - 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2025. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts! Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Special guests Alana Nisperos and Elettra Piacentino . Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:35 - Coffee Chat: Brett + Alana 10:30 - Advert: Hot Drinks at Starducks 11:36 - Grab & Go Papers 26:10 - Advert: TangleTamer 27:14 - Single-Origin Brew: Gabi + Elettra 39:57 - Percolator: How old is astrochemistry? 52:03 - Chalkboard Elettra's paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09797v1 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2025. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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: Orion Survey: Sutton et al. 1985 ApJS 58, 341 Sgr B2 Survey: Nummelin et al. 1998 ApJS 117, 427 TMC-1 Survey: Kaifu et al. 2004 PASJ 56, 69 PRIMOS (Sgr B2): Neill et al. 2012 ApJ 755, 153 TMC-1 GOTHAM: Xue et al. 2025 ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06256 ) ASAI: Lefloch et al. 2018 MNRAS 477, 4792 ( https://www.iram.fr/ILPA/LP007/ ) IRC+10216 Survey: Gong et al. 2015 A&A 574, A56 Herschel HEXOS: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/irsa/10.26131/IRSA510 ALMA MAPS: https://alma-maps.info/data.html CDMS: https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/ JPL: https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/ LSD: https://lsd.univ-lille.fr/ Splatalogue: splatalogue.online KIDA: https://kida.astrochem-tools.org/ UMIST: https://umistdatabase.uk/ Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello Everyone! Just a quick note here to let you all know that Astrochem Coffee for July of this year will be delayed just a bit due to summer holidays (the Dougs have collectively decided to take a vacation to Menorca for the next couple of weeks). This month's episode will come out mid-August, and then we'll back to regularly scheduled episode drops in early September. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer holidays as well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.