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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pigeons are stupid enough to look at a sign that reads "Owl", be terrified, sweat buckets, and then realize that phew, they can't read

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

do I know any surgeons on here? if so, please DM me this is NOT for medical related reasons, this is an economic project guesstimate about anesthetic usage please RT

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This makes me so fucking proud to be a #Purdue alum! Go #Boilermakers!!!

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Every now and then I might post important concepts on single crystal diffraction analysis from my recent review. Today, this wrapped-up version of figure 1 reminds us what we lose in the process, and what we actually gain at the end: a model 💎 #crystallography #MOFs pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

$A graph showing the process of single crystal diffraction analysis as a semicircle, starting from a crystal, and continuing with scattering data, Bragg intensities, average structure, and at the end average model.$

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I don’t think I’ve ever had more fun in the lab than when I was making MOFs myself (and trying to use them for small-molecule X-ray structure determination). So let me celebrate by posting a few of the MOF crystals I prepared:

Bright green transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with copper and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed blocky roughly rectangular pieces with some very large emerald-like chunks.

Pink/red transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed as a mixture of long rectangular types and aggregated chunks.

Purple transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with cobalt and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed long slightly blocky needles.

Clear transparent metal-organic framework crystals prepared with zirconium and a “multipronged” carboxylic acid ligand. The crystals formed chunky hexagons.

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ah yes, the British Museum. Because there's just one thing they haven't stolen yet: the show. Not to worry, they're on it.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/09/2025

1. Today, 95 Democrats voted to "honor the legacy" of Charlie Kirk, calling him a "model for young Americans." Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric. Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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95 House Dems, Including Trans Rep McBride, Vote To "Honor The Legacy" Of Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who was killed a week ago, had a history of hateful rhetoric and extremism.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Importantly, the employer files the petition, so the employer would be required to include a $100,000 check with the petition. But the ban on entry appears to also apply to ANYONE with an H-1B currently, and says that petitions must be "supplemented" with a $100,000 fee, so who knows who pays that.

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Having worked on paddlewheel Ru2 complexes for my PhD, and solid-state uranyl halide photo physics for my postdoc, this is sssuuuucccchh a difficult choice for me 😂

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I never imagined being part of this terrifying experience... Calling campus police for updates, monitoring alerts, and later evacuating my building, feeling more exposed than before. Just a surreal fear limbo. Sure didn't feel like a false alarm with cops, ambulances, firetrucks, and swat on campus.

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm working on double checking citations for my book right now. Here is a stack of a few of the books that I read to write my narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy:

A stack of books from bottom to top:

THE CHEMISTRY BOOK by Derek Lowe
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Snyder
NUTS AND BOLTS by Roma Agrawal
THE DISORDERED COSMOS by Chanda Prescott’s-Weinstein
HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES
COSMOS
THE GLASS UNIVERSE
WHY DONT THINGS FALL UP?
LIQUID RULES
LONGITUDE
THE GENE
THE INVISIBLE KILLER
A IS FOR ARSENIC

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Couldn't be more excited to get started at @umassboston.bsky.social this Fall whilst actively exploring this awesome city!! I've also switched to @dunkindonutscoffee.bsky.social, per law.

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Yup. Because MS's motto is "If it ain't broke, we're on it"

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 21/07/2025

What if we could watch proteins move in real time – see photosystem II turn water into oxygen, for example? Thanks to cutting-edge techniques like serial femtosecond crystallography and XFELs, scientists are doing just that.

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Serial femtosecond crystallography reveals protein dynamics in real time

Proteins are constantly moving, but our structures of them are static. Clare Sansom talks to the researchers using free-electron lasers to make time-resolved structures

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

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Nicholas Fitzkee @fitzkeelab.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

As someone who has greatly benefited from the NSF MRI program, I'm sad to see that the 2025 submission window was canceled. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program:

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"made daily with food" Seems like an unnecessary dig at Arby's.

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Looking forward to contribution to UMass Boston's vibrant research community, and building fruitful collabs as We pursue these scientific frontiers. Stay tuned for updates from my group (website under construction) as we embark on this awesome scientific journey! (3/3) #chemsky #academia

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Raghavan Lab will use synthetic + physical inorganic chem., and photochem./photophys., to study tunable metal-metal interactions. We hope to, through M-M bonding, explore opportunities in functional materials, small-molecule activation, (photo)catalysis, and energy storage/conversion. (2/3)

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining @umassboston.bsky.social's Department of Chemistry this Fall as an Assistant Professor! A BIG thanks to my mentors and colleagues who've had an everlasting impact on my career and growth as a researcher and educator. #chemsky (1/3)

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Adharsh Raghavan @adharshraghavan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

He ridiculed it b/c it was irrelevant to the present discussion, and functioned as a distractor that takes people's attention away from the actual issue. If at a serious meeting at work someone asks "Is the surface of the sun hot?", is the presenter obligated to answer that stupid ass question?

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 07/02/2025

Donna Nelson grew up in a small US town, and later advised on mega-hit TV show Breaking Bad. Read about her journey through the scientific and cultural landscape in our latest In Situ, as penned by Rebecca Trager.

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Donna Nelson: ‘Being the science advisor to Breaking Bad was so much fun’

The well-known organic chemist on growing up in a small Oklahoma town, asking demographic questions and advising a hit television series

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