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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They need some AI up in there

Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hertz LOR form: "Were *YOU* [<---bolded, underlined, and all caps on the web] ever awarded a Hertz Fellowship?" Apparently I'm a dumb shit since no.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine the original Enterprise computer responding to Spock in its robotic Majel Barrett voice: "Yes, but I would gently push back on part of your conclusion. Khan Noonien Singh was genuinely a tyrant, but he was also bold, exactly the kind of trait exile to Ceti Alpha V is designed to recognize."

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And get multiple copies of your Rx lenses ;)

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love how * Thanks' * is an autocomplete suggestion. I got a millennium prize for AI to figure out.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My new favorite science word: peduncle.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I love how when you ask Claude about cocktail recipes--which kind of bourbon to put in a highball, how to replace chartreuse, etc.--it is so enthusiastic in its answers, yet you ask anything about physiology of ethanol it gets all preachy and tells you for sure you're gonna get oropharyngeal cancer.

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Redirecting...

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Running or short biking distance to the beautiful University of Rochester!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

According to Gemini, it updates automatically based on the USGS official record.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As someone who lives in the frame of that screenshot and who literally swam in it yesterday I can report a super soldier level of strength today.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Last night was my 25th high school reunion. I feel that it was strategically dangerous to put all of the towns 43-year-olds in a single location, but what do I know.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From the largest American metropolis on Lake America, come join our annual U Rochester graduate beach barbecue at Lake America Beach Park this Saturday!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I for one welcome increased tourism to the main US city on Lake America. I hope all you people like white hot dogs.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Picard: "Hail them Mr. Worf." [10 ns later.] Worf: "No response."

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tuesday at 2:30! Whoops thanks for giving me the chance to correct the omission.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you come, I will give you a free signed copy of my book, Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University Research, while supplies last :-)

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you are going to ACS in Chicago next week, I will be giving a talk at 2:30 in the expo hall (the Expo Theater area) on my attempts to promote scientific research to the public on the podcast and talk radio circuit this summer.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If it's tunafish why isn't it beefmammal?

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You could've calculated how many rotations of a chainsaw blade your cellphone battery could power to overcome the work of cohesion of the lignin and cellulose network given the diameter of the trunk.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Finally got the camp fire hot enough by stoking it with crumpled up handwritten draft pages of my book from my moleskin notebook.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

There is no product which is so completely destined to become micro plastics than a spool of weed whacker cord

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I vote for the theme to meet the press

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm reviewing a paper and can't seem to find the ratings of mid, real, and sus.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Thanks Mikhail! If your followers have Spotify (paid version) they can listen to the audiobook for free!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Thanks Mikhail! I went for "Anthony Bourdain meets the research lab." As in Kitchen Confidential :)

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Thanks Ardem! Your support is really important to me and your blurb has top billing. Keep your eyes open for a signed copy :)

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Available now at all online sellers! Hardcover, paperback, eBook, and audiobook (read by me). Spread the word! A short book and lots of good arguments to advocate for science! Guaranteed ROI.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Don't trash kids' artwork when stored in the garage it's a serviceable carbon sink.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The feature on my AirPods that turns off the volume when I talk needs to use AI to know when I'm talking to my cat.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"I've had many heart-to-heart conversations with dozens of science and engineering professors, but until I read 'Science Nonfiction', I've never read their thoughts with such clarity and frankness on paper." Thanks @chemjobber.bsky.social! Amazon presale; audiobook available now: Audible & Spotify

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Can't get enough of polymer science, baby! I've been told by more than one person that they fall asleep to my podcast, and that idea makes me happy. The audiobook is 5h36m--and it's professionally engineered--so it's good even for the worst cases of insomnia!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you double-plus like any of these things, consider re-posting!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you like Anthony Bourdain & wish he wrote about research, like any of my YouTube content, non-A.I. prose, want to win arguments for sci, if you are/know a PhD student, or want to fall asleep to my words/velvet baritone (jk!), you may like my book, avail 6/1 (audiobook immediately) a.co/d/01XqItAd

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

So do I. It's all that was offered by the chem dept at BU.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Out of all the modern tech stuff--streaming, smart watch/fitness tracking, phone, social media, podcast addiction etc.--my AI usage is the one that makes me feel the least shitty.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Applicants with Schlenk/inert rxn setups, NMR, GPC/SEC experience will receive consideration--these are musts. Bulk mechanical and/or electronic characterization a bonus. Email me directly at my institutional address with CV and interest statement. DMs will get lost. Please forward to your network!

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm interviewing synthetic organic chemists for a postdoc position in my lab at the beautiful University of Rochester in electronic polymers for applications in haptics and materials for space....

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I would add that makers of "zero cal" "energy" drinks should specify what components of the internal energy are and are not being accounted for in this farce of contradictory advertising

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

they definitely need to specify the stroke velocity, tangential force, and work done in disintegrating the abrasive material

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The best free attraction in America is the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton Ohio. You're welcome :-)

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Congrats to Debika Datta and colleagues at the UC San Diego MRSEC for this work: use of cyanobacteria for the green catalytic polymerization of a printable form of conductive PEDOT (in complex with PSS), a ubiquitous electrode for bioelectronics. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Polymerization of 3D Printable PEDOT:PSS Catalyzed by Cyanobacteria

Sustainable chemical synthesis is important to reduce hazardous reagents and minimize their environmental impact. Most biocatalytic approaches rely on purified enzymes or engineered microbes. In contr...

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

How to turn commercial silicone PDMS elastomers like Sylgard-184 into photoresists using additives most labs already have on hand: direct patterning of microfluidic devices and cantilevers for measuring contractions of mechanically active cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Simple Method for Photopatterning Commercial PDMS Using an Off-the-Shelf Photodeactivated Hydrosilylation Inhibitor

This paper describes a method of micropatterning commercial silicone elastomers using a photodeactivated hydrosilylation inhibitor. The method uses small doses of 365 nm light and is compatible with c...

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I love that Rochester is the only place in NY that says drinking fountain for some reason.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Bowie arrest day is practically a holiday in my hometown. 50th anniversary today.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

FW: RE: [EXT] FW: [EXT] RE: FW: [EXT]... That's it. That's the subject.

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What's the ee of your totally tubular synthesis?

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

And you got a letter and you got a letter and you got a letter and your got a letter...

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Darren Lipomi @dlipomi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It works in the stuff you shoot up your nose! But it's deactivated in the stomach

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