Joseph Moran

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RIP Rudy Marcus. Never met him but he inspired me, being a fellow Montrealer and NRC postdoc.

I'm very happy to have given my first international talk at the #Origins2026! It was a great experience. A big thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially the @MoranLabChem

Congrats to recent PhD graduate Maciej Piejko for winning the thesis prize from the Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn! Your future is bright! fondation-lehn.fr/prix-de-these-…

@DrLCsquare This was literally me explaining Canada to my American cousins in the early 2000s.

In honoUr of #Canada Day! Here is a classic piece of Canadian beer company propaganda we all grew up on. Great day to be Canadian! #IAmCanadian

An unforgettable week at #FACSXX in Ottawa, first time to be held in Canada. I'm honored to receive the Best Poster Presentation Award! Thanks to Prof. Blakey for his valuable feedback. Congrats to my @TheNewmanLab colleagues Kostya and Mario for such wonderful presentations!

A Nonenzymatic Analogue of the Biosynthesis of Pyridoxal Vitamers | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@GloriusGroup Fantastic, congrats @GloriusGroup!

🧪✨ A “named reaction” represents a lasting contribution to synthetic chemistry. We are delighted to see Glorius Late-Stage Saturation featured in the 7th edition of Name Reactions by Jie Jack Li 📘. 🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #OrganicChemistry #GloriusGroup #Catalysis

Enzymes use strong electric fields to catalyze metabolism. Could abiotic electric fields have kickstarted a proto-metabolism before enzymes? @nnogalchem and Bora's paper in @J_A_C_S hints that, at least for pyridoxal biosynthesis, the answer might be yes. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6…

A milestone day for our team with the publication of our work on biocatalytic cascades for macrocyclic peptide manufacturing. This establishes a new beachhead in the synthesis of this important new modality for the industry! #MerckChemistry science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The WSJ wants to know "what happens when Europeans find out how poor they are." I'm a European running a family office / living in Monaco. Let me run the numbers for Joseph Sternberg. Spoiler: per-capita GDP is the most misleading stat in this entire debate.🧵

@LabSemenov @BlavatnikAwards Congrats, Sergey!

I am honored to be awarded the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Israel 2026 @BlavatnikAwards . blavatnikawards.org/news/items/ann… I’m grateful to past and present group members who did the hard work behind every result, collaborators, and mentors.

@LucaDellAmicoLD @unipdscienze @discunipd @UniPadova @UniPD_Research Congrats, Luca! Enjoy your tour of Germany!

I’m deeply honored to receive the Liebig Lectureship 2026 from the GDCh. A heartfelt thank you to all my former and current students, collaborators, and mentors who made this journey possible. en.gdch.de/network-struct… @unipdscienze @discunipd @UniPadova @UniPD_Research

@angie_rasmussen The key is to avoid FRA and YYZ when flying to Europe from Canada. I love the YOW to CDG flight. YOW security and passport control are a breeze, and CDG has improved in the past decade.

German efficiency, my ass. I’ve been at Frankfurt for 2 hours and still have not gone through passport control. Seriously never been this bad even in maximally inefficient Canada or the failing US. FRA is the YYZ of Europe

@jacobandrs0n No prompting. He grew up watching reruns of that show and made the connection himself.

@MoranLabChem You prompted him(?); there's no way he knows him as Fred Rogers and not Mister Rogers!

My son told our PM that he looks like Mr. Rogers.

@1CanadianPilot @feezy_does_it There is no setup, he grew up watching these shows because we showed them to him. Read the above posts!

As someone who grew up with ALL of those, the fact that you guys SET THIS WHOLE THING up and it's not organic is DISGUSTING. Carney will NEVER be in the same category as ANY of those above. 🤮 he literally bailed out of PAID work from ME to pretend he cares. He doesn't. He cares about his Chinese wallet Older kids shows. Jesus. 🙄

@feezy_does_it We showed him some reruns. We like the calmness of some older kids shows like Mr. Rogers, Mr. Dressup and Fred Penner.

@MoranLabChem blew my mind that Mark Carney would have been about four when Mr. Rogers started his show. He never would have probably known him as Fred Rogers. More blown away that your kid knows who Mr Rogers is! That gives me hope that his message of kindness is making it to a new gen

@Barb_Here @aperson28671 @glen_mcgregor You bet he does!

@MoranLabChem @aperson28671 @glen_mcgregor Does he like Freddie Mercury?

Amusing: At an Earth Day event today, this kids tells PMMC he looks like Fred Rogers. Carney doesn't twig to who that is. (I'm assuming the kid is referring to "Mister Rogers" of cardigans and neighbourhood fame.)

@Barb_Here @aperson28671 @glen_mcgregor The kid knows Mr. Rogers' name is Fred because the kid's name is also Fred, and he makes note of other Freds. He made the connection about them looking alike himself. I know this because I'm his dad.

@aperson28671 @glen_mcgregor Or he just knows that Mr Rogers’ first name is Fred.