Episodes
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of June 2026.
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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!
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of May 2026.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of April 2026.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of March 2026.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of February 2026.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of January 2026.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of December 2025.
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of November 2025. Gabi Wenzel co-hosts!
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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.
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Our look back at the Astrochemical Literature for the month of October 2025.
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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.
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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, 341Sgr B2 Survey: Nummelin et al. 1998 ApJS 117, 427TMC-1 Survey: Kaifu et al. 2004 PASJ 56, 69PRIMOS (Sgr B2): Neill et al. 2012 ApJ 755, 153TMC-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, A56Herschel HEXOS: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/irsa/10.26131/IRSA510ALMA MAPS: https://alma-maps.info/data.htmlCDMS: https://cdms.astro.uni-koeln.de/JPL: https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/LSD: https://lsd.univ-lille.fr/Splatalogue: splatalogue.onlineKIDA: https://kida.astrochem-tools.org/UMIST: https://umistdatabase.uk/Chalkboard this month has Jobs and save-the-dates for conferences.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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