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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River.

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Well-tarred Flask 🇮🇹🇺🇦🇨🇦 @chemprofcramer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

today was a pretty stunning day to put 4 lakefront miles on my Chicago running shoes! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️ 🌞 🌊

high view of Lake Michigan across Millennium Park

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

God autumn in Chicago is so lovely when it arrives suddenly after the seemingly endless sweat of summer

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Going on a work trip and being reminded of how walking along stroads is so unpleasant. Makes me appreciate why I appreciate living in Chicago

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public universal reply guy @llkats.com · 11/09/2026

skyline forever problems for now

sunny downtown Chicago skyline from the south looking north from outside Shedd Aquarium. streaks of fluffy clouds crisscross the blue sky over deep blue waters of Lake Michigan

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're making cheesy chips, for the love of god please layer the chips and cheese. Those substrata chips are not going to cheese themselves.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026

I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm making a "your month your scientist match" and I need a chemist and physicist volunteer, everybody I know well enough to text "Hey uhhh can I post this picture of you I took on skype a scientist's insta" are biologists apparently 😅. Any takers?

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For anyone at ACS in Chicago for the first time, the river architecture tour is a lot of fun. It's a touristy thing to do, but for good reason. Seeing the beautiful buildings from the river and learning city history is fun

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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

hey I don't know who needs to hear this but the Chicago Triathlon is tomorrow morning

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Absolutely, and for EVERY field. There's a reason it's Rule Number 1 I can, objectively, say that I am a quite talented scientist. But I personally know many others more talented who were chewed up by the machine. Because they were unlucky I'm good, but I was also lucky bsky.app/profile/vect...

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Fuck! That's a laser raptor. I thought they went extinct thousands of years ago"

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 18/01/2024

In case no one has told you lately: 1. You are strong 2. You are beautiful 3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus 4. You are deserving of love

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

OG ACS logo you have to stop. Your fire too hot, your phoenix too badass, your colors too recognizable, your Kaliapparat too historical. They'll kill you.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I feel down about myself as a scientist I remember this banger and it reminds me that good science doesn't always mean meeting metrics or deadlines. It's being a nosy bitch who wants to find out.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ACS: hmmm our members seem upset with our direction as an organization. Maybe we should make a change Members: by defending scientists from a hostile administration seeking to take apart the entire scientific apparatus brick by brick. Right? ACS: yup, a new logo just like you wanted

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sunrise Reflection at Sears Tower. The start of the day on Friday along the South Branch of the Chicago River.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. An all timer for "oh you haven't seen this? We're watching it now"

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Tank You Kung Fury

ALT: Tank You Kung Fury

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

May you find someone who loves you as much as this person loves banana bread

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Renée Link @chemprofrenee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@heydebigale.bsky.social Is also a very kind and supportive person. I can personally confirm that you will enjoy talking with her!

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kaz @karenkaz.com · 25/06/2026

Lake forever problems for now (from a different window in my office building)

Lake Michigan shoreline looking south from the Aon Center, with Millenium and grant park and the art institute. The water is a lovely turquoise blue, the parks are a verdant green, and the sky is blue with some haziness at the horizon.

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New sanctioned (t)rant about AI just dropped. On the limits of Alphafold and my worries about the disaster its use will cause for the literature and early-stage academic drug discovery. Look, they commissioned it. And by commissioned I don't mean I got paid, just invited. Awesome process btw.

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The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work

Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Anyone ever stop to think about how cool solar is? It's one of the only* power generation methods we have that doesn't boil down (🥁) to "spin turbine" *That can be deployed to generate sufficient power for communities. Even nuclear ultimately is just "turbine go brrr"

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Been awhile since someone has stirred the pot

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Chuck Sudo @bportseasoning.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I live here on purpose.

A view of the Chicago skyline at night, from North Avenue Beach.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

When you pay $20,000 for maintenance on your $400,000 equipment and they discover a manufacturing defect and solve it with a piece of packing tape That's science folks 😂

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Do I know any chemistry people on here from Spain (preferably near Madrid)? I have a rising senior here at AU (Spanish citizen) going back home to Madrid this summer and is looking for any lab work opportunities. Thanks! ChemChat ChemSky

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Experience comes from the effort of grappling with difficult problems and seeing the guts of how problems develop and then solving them. You gain a lot from sitting with a problem and looking at it from a lot of angles. It's the network of knowledge that defined expertise, and that grows from work

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The human impulse to go to explore and discover is maybe one of the most admirable thing about our species. A lot has been wrong with the world recently but seeing a glimmer of what makes humanity great sure is nice

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Adam Smith @adamndsmith.com · 09/03/2026

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I will always be surprised when I leave my apartment for no more than 10 min and My Stupid Idiot (Ebb, of my pfp fame) acts like I have been gone for months and as if he has been wounded by neglect. This goober 😂

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

After much careful thought and analysis I have determined that there are two types of chemists. You're either an ACN chemist or a MeCN chemist.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

#Chemsky -- PhDs in Canada in chemistry--brief. Reskeets welcome. 🧵 Seeing that a lot of excellent US students are not receiving admission to PhD programs for...the obvious reasons...I want to make sure mentors, students, and advisors are aware that Canada might still be an option. 1/n

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Hunt for Red Sausage

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Just a reminder that last year, some 288 children died from the flu--the highest in a normal flu year since the CDC began keeping track of pediatric flu deaths in 2004.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/05/2023

Still regretting this. Baijört: don’t do it.

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Look I don't know how weather works but I'm starting to understand why every year Chicagoans swear "this will be a bad winter" cuz after several years of mild winter you feel like there can't be another... Right?

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Especially if you have any plans to go to a conference/convention/big gathering! You make yourself and others safe! How's the time so that your protection is up before the holiday season (Also get your covid jab)

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