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.