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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!

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S2026 · E8
September 13 · 1 hr 14 min
August 2026 - A UV Photon Walks into an (Orion) Bar
Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of August 2026. Follow us on Bluesky; we're at astrochemcoffee.bsky.social Samantha Scibelli co-hosts and interviews Hanga Andras-Letanovszky. Coffee chat with Alex Byrne about Science Policy. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Coffee Chat: Alex Byrne 22:29 - Advert: End-of-Summer Drinks at Starducks 23:40 - Grab & Go Papers 39:49 - Advert: LeafDelay 5000 41:19 - Single-Origin Brew: Samantha + Hanga 1:09:37 - Percolator: IRAS Teaser 1:11:36 - Chalkboard Hanga's Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00308 Dublin PhD Position: https://marievds.github.io/jobs.html New Zealand Postdoc: https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2601192 AAS Workshop: https://labastro-workshop.github.io/ ACS Astrocheminar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3onTUSOZThG2rGuqSTV6wA 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.
S2026 · E7
August 17 · 47 min
July 2026 - Did Astrochemistry Cure COVID?
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S2026 · E6
July 16 · 51 min
June 2026 - A Sweet Surprise!
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.
S2026 · E5
June 18 · 39 min
May 2026 - A Percolating Holiday
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.
S2026 · E4
May 14 · 59 min
April 2026 - Wait, We're How Far Away?
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.
S2026 · E3
April 8 · 1 hr 6 min
March 2026 - Dude, That Thing is SO OLD
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.
S2026 · E2
March 11 · 55 min
February 2026 - Anyone Fancy a Space Soda?
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.
S2026 · E1
February 9 · 56 min
January 2026 - History, Huh?
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.
S2025 · E12
January 15 · 40 min
December 2025 - Surprise! Four New Telescopes!
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.
S2025 · E11
Dec 13, 2025 · 59 min
November 2025 - How Old Did You Say You Were?
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.
S2025 · E10
Nov 10, 2025 · 53 min
October 2025 - What's That Noise?
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.
S2025 · E9
Oct 8, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
September 2025 - Open Data Live From Green Bank
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.
S2025 · E8
Sep 7, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
August 2025 - AstrochemCoffee Begins its Terrible Twos!
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.
S2025 · E7
Aug 17, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
July 2025 - Carbon and Oxygen Grapple for Supremacy
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.
Jul 30, 2025 · 45 sec
2025 Summer Holidays
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.
S2025 · E6
Jul 6, 2025 · 55 min
June 2025 - Would you like some ice with that?
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.
S2025 · E5
Jun 2, 2025 · 1 hr 29 min
May 2025 - Sens-oars
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.
S2025 · E4
May 4, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
April 2025 - Sulfur Here, Sulfur There, Sulfur Everywhere!
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.
S2025 · E3
Apr 8, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
March 2025 - Apparently Nobel Prizes are Hereditary?
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.
S2025 · E2
Mar 8, 2025 · 54 min
February 2025 - If I Had a Nickel for Every Cyanate Ion
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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