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Aurora Clark

@chemnetworks.bsky.social
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Computational and theoretical chemistry, solutions, interfaces, separations science, applied math and DS. Opinions are my own. clarkchem.com chemnetworks.com

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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I really liked Pavel and he was very generous to my students. such a loss. #compchem
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
two new papers from the lab: 1) how local electrostatic potentials alter the onset of the hydrogen evolution reaction (cool cover below!) bit.ly/4pVT8nV and 2) how surface capillary waves at oil-water interfaces are altered by surfactants - controlling temporal fluctuations (bit.ly/4pM61AI)
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
went to a fantastic CECAM workshop on Physics Aware Machine Learning this week in NYC! many thanks to the organizers, including @andrewrosen.bsky.social . Cornell's tech campus on Roosevelt Island was amazing and I got to see Death of a Salesman on Broadway (fantastic). Great science and great art!
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Had my first commencement at UofU yesterday. So proud to celebrate our Chemiatry grads. One of the best parts of being Chair! It was a beautiful and happy day. @utahchemistry.bsky.social
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
beautiful day for the FACT conference at UW! all actinides, all the time
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 09/01/2026
#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Incredibly sad to hear of the passing of Dave Dixon on Friday. Dave was very supportive of me throughout my career, and I deeply appreciated his intellect, knowledge, and passion for fundamental science across the periodic table. A huge loss for the computational chemistry community #compchem
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
If you see this, post a random fact about yourself: As a child, I danced on stage with Chuck Berry.
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
last paper of the yr! 2025 saw the first papers from my group after moving to @utahchemistry.bsky.social. Glad we are finally back on track research wise and excited to keep on sharing all our new ideas! This paper shows an expedient new way to predict pKa's! #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Accurate and Efficient Prediction of pKw in Aqueous Electrolytes Using Local Electrostatic Potentials
The Kw = 10–pKw in aqueous electrolytes exhibit significant variations as a function of ion concentration. This behavior is not well-described by the Pitzer model, particularly at high concentrations....
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Fun new paper out today! A new tool to explore how electronic density changes during chemical reactions. #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Electron Density Transport During Chemical Reactions
Statistical approaches are an increasingly powerful technique for characterizing changes in the electronic structure during reactions or molecular excitations. High-throughput studies in complex envir...
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Check out the latest issue of the annual Department of Chemistry Catalyst magazine! special article on critical materials - highlighting all of the fantastic work of my colleagues. issuu.com/universityof...
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Catalyst 2025
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The casual disdain underlying the NCAR dismantling effort is hitting so hard. Just bottomless grievance wielding a buzzsaw. No curiosity. No forethought. וְשָׂנֵ֤אתִֽי אֲנִי֙ אֶת־כָּל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁאֲנִ֥י עָמֵ֖ל תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ שֶׁ֣אַנִּיחֶ֔נּוּ לָֽאָדָ֖ם שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֥ה אַֽחֲרָֽי וּמִ֣י יוֹדֵ֗עַ הֶֽחָכָ֤ם יִֽהְיֶה֙ א֣וֹ סָכָ֔ל וְיִשְׁלַט֙ בְּכָל־עֲמָלִ֔י שֶֽׁעָמַ֥לְתִּי וְשֶֽׁחָכַ֖מְתִּי תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Great dinner with colleagues at pacifichem! @luolab-utah.bsky.social @utahchemistry.bsky.social
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 23/11/2025
Scientists in Czechia have devised a new method to assess the covalency of halogen bonds.
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Paramagnetic NMR used to probe covalent character of halogen bonds
Assessing hyperfine shifts in paramagnetic NMR spectra provides new details on the covalent character of halogen bonded cocrystals
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Really enjoyed creating this primer on topology for Nat. Rev. Chem. I hope it demystifies fundamental concepts in topology and helps you see opportunities in your own research! #compchem #chemsky #topology rdcu.be/eQLAn
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Topology without tears
Nature Reviews Chemistry - As scientists, our instinct is often to view physical systems within a Euclidean geometric space, defined by distances and angles measurable through techniques like X-ray...
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
fall is always an exciting time and I love engaging with prospective students! our Ph.D. program is having a virtual information session - come learn about our amazing science, supportive infrastructure and, perhaps most importantly, the famous Waffle Wednesday. #chemsky #gradschool
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Ashley Ringer McDonald @aringermcdonald.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If anyone needs to know this, most plastic wrap in the US is made from polyethylene, but plastic wrap in Europe is made from PVC. This really matters if you are trying to make a decorative sugar dome for a cake after you saw them do it on a British baking show. #chemsky
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Leighton Pritchard @widdowquinn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I love my Henry Eyring Theory Center peeps - what a fun Halloween party! #compchem
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Very proud of this great paper - a perfect synergy of experiment and theory! Congrats to postdoc Qing Guo ! #compchem #chemsky Mineral dissolution by dimeric complexes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Mineral dissolution by dimeric complexes | PNAS
Mineral dissolution is typically thought to occur by the detachment of monomeric building blocks of the crystal structure, although direct evidence...
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A much neglected point of discussion in LLMs. search.app/Prk5u
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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world This computational chemist unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry. #HispanicHeritageMonth cen.acs.org/materials/po...
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Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world
This researcher unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry
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Luo Lab @luolab-utah.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New Nano Letters paper online! We studied the #hydrogen insertion into Pd nanostructures enriched with well-defined Σ3(111) #GrainBoundaries. PdGB exhibits dramatically accelerated hydriding and dehydriding kinetics compared with Pd nanoparticles! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Σ3(111) Grain Boundaries Accelerate Hydrogen Insertion into Palladium Nanostructures
Grain boundaries (GBs) are frequently implicated as key defect structures facilitating metal hydride formation, yet their specific role remains poorly understood due to their structural complexity. He...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: "Just landed." Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
ML requires databases - this has been severely lacking in chemical separations - but no more! Introducing the Separations Archive for Elements (SAFE). Super proud of a great collab with Los Alamos Natl Lab and Fordham University #machinelearning #chemsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Creation of the Separation Archive for Elements (SAFE) Database
Published in Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math. - The New York Times share.google/GEnaHYPrqFWj...
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Utah Chemistry @utahchemistry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's Distinguished Alumni Award, Dr. Hyung Kyu Shin, Dr. Michael Hunnicutt, and Dr. Sally Hunnicutt! Read more about the event and each of our awardees: www.chemistry.utah.edu/awards/2025-...
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#chemsky #compchemsky Happy Sunday. I wanted to make this case again for IPAM at UCLA. www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... If you work in our field, chances are that an IPAM program contributed to the science you do at some point. AI/ML, molecular science, materials, ... Consider supporting them.
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IPAM NSF funding status - IPAM
Latest Updates: We have been notified that the suspension of our NSF grant DMS-1925919 has been lifted. However, at present NSF is not issuing new awards to UCLA. Frequently asked questions: 1. What i...
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 23/09/2025
Under Congress’s reauthorization of the program through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA, all of Utah and Idaho are considered affected areas. That means people who have certain cancers and lived in Idaho for 12 months between 1951 to 1962 are likely eligible for compensation.
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Health clinic to host Idaho Falls public meeting to help downwinders apply for compensation • Idaho Capital Sun
In Idaho Falls, a public meeting will discuss a reinstated federal program that compensates people affected by nuclear weapons testing.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."
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How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy
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Shawn Burdette @scburdet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Another consequence of the loss of twitter is missing news like this in real time. I came across the obituary while updating my slides for GenChem. The great Darleane Hoffman died earlier this month at 98. A true giant of the field. chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/darlean...
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Darleane C. Hoffman, pioneering nuclear chemist and trailblazer for women in science, has passed away at the age of 98 | College of Chemistry
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Want to re-up this on my feed. We are accepting applications until filled. @chemjobber.bsky.social #chemjobs our department is a fantastic place to work, with wonderful colleagues, great students and beautiful mountains to play in.
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
On a positive note - Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day :) #math #MATH www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...
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On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Big congrats to Josh for his front cover JCP Perspective article on Persistent Homology in chemistry. Great work Josh! #topology #compchem @utahchemistry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
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Understanding the shape of chemistry data—Applications with persistent homology
Chemical data often have complex and nonlinear patterns in how data points relate to one another. Concurrently, there are many situations where chemical data ar
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Beautiful science from my colleague Aaron Puri! @utahchemistry.bsky.social attheu.utah.edu/research/a-m...
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A molecule that enables microbes to eat methane - @theU
U chemists discover critical step bacteria take to oxidize potent greenhouse gas and how they interact in larger microbial communities
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Come join us! Two awesome faculty positions in experimental physical chemistry and biochemist - all ranks!!! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/186...
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Assistant/Associate/Professor for Biological and Physical Chemistry
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
So proud of the IDREAM EFRC team science winners including our own Simantini Paul, Ryan Beck (Xiaosong Li's group at UW) and @pnnl.bsky.social Robert Felstad. Fantastic work all! Amazing science by all at the EFRC PI mtg.
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Stefan Grimme ( @grimmelab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social ) receives the #ChemistryEurope 2025 Award! 🏆 📍 #IUPAC2025 Kuala Lumpur 🎉 Award Ceremony: Opening Ceremony 14 July 🧪 Award Lecture: 15 July, 8:00–8:45 am @iupac.org ‬ @chemistryeurope.bsky.social www.chemistryviews.org/stefan-grimm... ‬
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Is citing nonexistent sources plagiarism or fabrication or both? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Beautiful day for a run. #running #SLC
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Utah Chemistry @utahchemistry.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Faculty member Henry S. White, a world-renowned leader in the field of electrochemistry and distinguished professor chemistry, has been named the 2025 recipient of the University of Utah’s Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence. Congrats, Henry!👏 🔗Read more: www.chemistry.utah.edu/history/henr...
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Henry S. White Named 2025 Rosenblatt Recipient - Department of Chemistry
Henry S. White, a world-renowned leader in the field of electrochemistry and distinguished professor chemistry, has been named the 2025 recipient of the University of...
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Ross Duncan @rossquantum.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
What's this? Some very nice work by my colleagues. #quantinuum #quantumcomputing #ftqc #quantum arxiv.org/abs/2505.09133
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Quantum Error-Corrected Computation of Molecular Energies
We present the first demonstration of an end-to-end pipeline with quantum error correction (QEC) for a quantum computation of the electronic structure of molecular systems. Using Quantinuum H2-2, we c...
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Live in the US and feeling helpless about funding cuts? Spend 5 minutes making 5 calls. 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
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Save NIH and NSF Research Funding ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates February 20, 2025: Despite a court order to unfreeze NIH grant funding, the Trump administration is continuing to block funding by preventing …
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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Thanks to @chemjobber.bsky.social for this analysis. It is extremely hard to watch this destruction. Please do your best, especially those in red states, to let your representatives know these actions are hugely harmful to the US.
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Shout out to organizers of the West Coast Theory Conference - great experience for Josh, Jackson and Simantini! #compchem
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 10/05/2025
These nanoclusters are the first superatoms to be made using actinide elements. Each cluster contains a three-centre-one-electron valence-delocalised trithorium bond. And while they add to growing evidence that actinide–actinide bonds can be strong.
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Trithorium superatom confounds with its unexpected and ‘mind-blowing’ diamagnetism
Nanocluster behaves like a 'super alkali-metal'
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Aurora Clark @chemnetworks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In a world filled with so much anxiety and anger, I am grateful to be surrounded by compassionate, resourceful and kind colleagues. Thank you @utahchemistry.bsky.social for the beautiful flowers and support while my face is melting! #skincancersucks
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