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Dean Astumian, OFS

@deanast.bsky.social
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Secular Franciscan, follower of Jesus and St. Francis, physicist interested in operating principles of synthetic and biological molecular machines, and non-equilibrium chemistry, wine, hiking, travel, social justice.

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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 22m
I have had the privilege to know well several holders of the National Medal of Science. This denigration of the award is disgusting.
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 16h
The people who LITERALLY tried to prosecute a guy for creating "8647" with seashells are big mad that people don't know "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" was just a 'joke'. 🖕🖕🤡🖕🖕
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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 12h
Happy to do my due diligence. #PASSITON #VOTEBLUE
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 19h
Claim your free Trump knife? The presidency used to have some dignity but now it is less dignified than a carnival huckster. And half the population think this is acceptable - God help us.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 23h
but you can vote the one who set it before you out of office
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 23h
this alone is worth a pass
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Asymmetry in its many guises has come to the fore in modern chemistry ranging from asymmetric synthesis to molecular walkers and other nonequilibrium phenomena including assembly, uphill synthesis, and systems chemistry.
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also Donna Blackmond has taken this field in remarkable directions and really should have shared the Prize.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MORE Americans killed.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
anybody who didn't know these nut cases were nut cases before confirmation has no business being in the Senate.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I agree with this comment. Just as the 50 Snapchat guys that did nothing are part of the Cornell 57. Republicans are the same as the Cornell 57 for not calling out accountability to the Pedo-in-Chief. This is disgusting and irresponsible 🤮🤬🖕🏼
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We would be far better off with Barnabas Collins in the Senate rather than Susan Collins or Mike Collins.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Truth 👇 Bomb 💣.........
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He described losing Los Angeles or San Diego as a small price to pay if Iran were to attack those cities. And Republican silence is deafening - they are either cowards, or they agree that the loss of millions of American lives is a small price to pay. Not a single Republican deserves a vote.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins could have expressed outrage last night at the comments her parties president made regarding Iran and targeting California cities. She did not. Republicans are cowards and not a single one deserves any American's vote. They and their pedophile protection racket are a disgrace.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How is civil discourse possible when a President says LA and San Diego would be no great loss if targeted by Iran, and Republican politicians are too cowardly to rebuke him and perhaps even agree with the sentiment. For example, Susan Collins could have, but did not, speak out in last nights debate
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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
THIS!!! #VOTEBLUE
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David Amabilino @damabilino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A special moment for all of us working on #Chirality ! Massive congratulations to Professors Kagan and Soai for the #nobelprize in chemistry in recognition of their discovery of non-linear effects in synthesis, amplification of chirality! (Below some nice chiral mosaics)
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Definitely Choose Costco!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins’ accomplishments: ~ Sponsored ad • Paid for by bribes for Susan Collins ~
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Ray Glennon OFS @rayglennon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lest we forget, most cabinet posts are occupied by traitors at present, and I dare say we can't count on Congress or the Supreme Court to do the right thing.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
but it is a very hard choice - an impeached, indicted, corrupt attorney general who argued that having a child rapist serve nearly a whole week in jail was reasonable, or someone who might have, at some time or other, eaten tofu. I just can't imagine how to make such a tough decision.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
for what it is worth, some people are allergic to doxycycline.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
same reason people pay $150 for mediocre name brand Champagne when they could buy an outstanding and unique grower champagne for <50$.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If a citizen makes a joke about threatening the president, the FBI and secret service will be around, and a prosecution is likely. If the "president" make a threat against millions of citizens, nothing happens. Houston, we have a problem.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am sure every Republican congress person is lining up to condemn this horrifying rhetoric. What? They aren't?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This 👇
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is often the case that nurses have the doctors back.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
exact results for the marginal probabilities show the origin of the ratcheting equation, and the meaning of q, the kinetic asymmetry coefficient, Eqs. 20,21, and 22. Onsager Symmetry beyond Linear Response in Chemically Coupled Systems pubs.acs.org/jpcbfk/artic...
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Onsager Symmetry beyond Linear Response in Chemically Coupled Systems
Abstract. Onsager reciprocity is commonly regarded as a consequence of near-equilibrium linear response. We show that, for chemically coupled systems satis
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed.......
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please vote like it - we had the opportunity to elect outstanding women in 2016 and 2024, but instead we chose Trump. There are enough sentient men that together with women voting their rage at rapists and abusers those misogynist, racist, corrupt bigots can be tossed out, tried, and imprisoned.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New paper out, detailing the fundament symmetries for chemical coupling - microscopic reversibility and the Curie principle. Comments are welcome: pubs.acs.org/jpcbfk/artic...
pubs.acs.org
Onsager Symmetry beyond Linear Response in Chemically Coupled Systems
Abstract. Onsager reciprocity is commonly regarded as a consequence of near-equilibrium linear response. We show that, for chemically coupled systems satis
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yep, their disapproval number go way up.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when disagree and hate were separate concepts.
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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Had enuf? #VOTEBLUE
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/10/2026
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just hope he doesn't bomb someone to, in his eyes, boost his chances of a Peace Prize.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 05/10/2026
Trump touts American supremacy while breaking international law for spoils, then smears global bodies that challenge his rogue behavior as "evil."
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Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders—2 Sharply Different Views of...
One is an imperial gangster; the other seeks to create a world “not based on greed but based on just...
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist - people voted for him because eggs were expensive, and they believed "illegals" were eating cats and dogs, kids were going to school boys and coming home girls, and that injecting bleach cures covid. MAGA have no morals and no intelligence.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Error is misspelled in the last line.
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Dean Astumian, OFS @deanast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hopefully democrats will sweep the midterms and place strong constraints on contributions from lobbyists and PACs. Sadly, our population is such that if ads loudly and incessantly claim nonsense, "they are eating the dogs" or "kids go to school and come home a different gender", many believe it.
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 05/10/2026
The Army said 'no thanks' to more trucks, but Congress said 'here's $345 million anyway,' and then suddenly, campaign donations started flowing right back.
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want...
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million...
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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