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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is September 1st, which means it is official, so here’s the obligatory change-of-signature video 🥲

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Things you may not know only exist with the help of Dolly Parton: Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Moderna covid vaccine Millions of free books for children And that's before you even consider her music. She wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the *same day*!

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When I’m feeling down, I like checking my spam folder. It’s good to be reminded that I’m a world expert in nanotechnology, semiconductors, catalysis, biochemistry, medical case research, cancer, and astrophysics, to name a few.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I loved seeing the comments on LinkedIn about the logo. I really hope they either go back or adopt the Cthulu logo.

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Dean Booth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Straight-up Nazi approach: All Haitians are ordered to appear at the ICE office…

ICE: WE SEE YOU Many Haitians from Springfield received letters to appear at the ICE office in Blue Ash, Ohio, at 8 AM on a Sunday. This administration is trying to deport people en masse through quiet administrative procedures instead of neighborhood raids because they know how unpopular ICE is. We need to show up on Sunday, stand with our Haitian neighbors, and tell ICE: WE SEE
YOU.
Sunday, Aug 2
& Sunday, Aug 9
Meet at 7:00AM at the corner of Kenwood & Malsbary Road in Blue Ash. Wear religious garments, pro-immigration t-shirts, and bring signs/banners to
alert the general public of what's going on in their backyard. IGNITE
PEACE

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I feel like I was part of something bigger than myself today. New ACS logo just dropped.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

But can we all agree the new ACS logo is very ugly?

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Question for #ChemistsWhoRun: should I put “marathon runner” on my CV? (I’m only ¼ joking)

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Some good news even though the damage has been done & many of us lost funding due to these illegal actions. ‘A federal judge ruled Friday that federal officials can’t cancel existing grants simply because they don’t align with new government priorities’

highereddive.com

Trump officials can’t revoke grants due to new agency goals, judge rules

The ruling scores a win for a group of 21 attorneys general and three governors who sued over the Trump administration’s approach to grant terminations.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Let me go back to suffering over fútbol. I don’t need any part of this show.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In case anyone was wondering, I am already suffering. I never have fun watching my team play.

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Dr. Paulette Vincent-Ruz @stemxicaned.latinsky.app · 21/05/2026

Hey #chemsky just dropping it here that next year I go up for tenure! (I cannot believe it either lol remember the pinkyprincess college days? lol) So if your department is thinking about speakers next yr & you are interested on hearing on amazing chem education research keep me in mind please :)

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Seeing the celebrities of my childhood/teens today is… sobering. #WorldCupFinal

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're still not over "the hand of god". We're still not over the Malvinas war. It's not the same. #ENGARG

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Si esto se mantiene voy a ser muy feliz. Rojaijú Paraguay! #GERPAR

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I am obsessed with Japan’s away jersey. #BRAJAP

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Por un lado, qué alegría que #CaboVerde haya clasificado. Por el otro, no quiero tener que hinchar en su contra cuando jueguen contra #Argentina.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

33% of the World's population does not have access to clean drinking water. Eff the data centers.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s the #WorldCup so here’s my 2nd famous site from each country playing in the World Cup. It’s ARGENTINA 🇦🇷. This is an incredible cave painting from the Cueva de las Manos. It was made by using bone pipes to spray pigments over their hands. 🕰️ variously 7,300BC-700AD

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

academic labor conditions are an academic freedom issue and vice versa

In May, the university said it would not reappoint Ms. Adams, a lecturer who did not have tenure, “after a careful review” of her work. Her employment will end this month,

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Am I back here because I need to find and consume even more #WorldCup content? Yes, yes I am. Also, I got tenure a couple of months ago, yay!!

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Had a great time at the Photochemistry GRC this past week! Now I get to sleep for 2 days to recover.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For those concerned about environmental justice, the EJScreen tool (which provides valuable mapping and screening data) has not yet been taken down, and the database can be downloaded. Act fast… www.epa.gov/ejscreen/tec...

epa.gov

Technical Information and Data Downloads | US EPA

This page provides an introduction to the technical information about EPA's Environmental Justice Mapping and Screening Tool (EJScreen) as well as links to detailed guidance.

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Jacinta Conrad @jcconrad.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6): "The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE: 1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed. ...

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Teen Vogue never ceases to amaze me ✊🏼

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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Saw people posting on this and was hoping they were isolated incidents… but nope, it’s real and it’s bad www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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The Speech Prof @thespeechprof.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Immediately cut off anyone who is trying to make this argument. It’s gross.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Happy #TortieTuesday! Remember to eat your food like you mean it. Your forehead deserves food, too.

A close up of a young red-footed tortoise in his enclosure. There is lettuce and butternut squash in front of him, and there’s squash smeared on his face.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Happy #TortieTuesday! I dropped the ball before but I’m hoping to stick to it now. May you have something today that brings you as much joy as Tortie gets from squash.

A 2-year old red footed tortoise inside his enclosure. He is standing in front of a dish with cooked butternut squash and his face is covered with squash.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Estimated cost of LA fires is in the neighborhood of $150 billion. I don't want to ever again hear the argument that climate policy is too expensive.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The DAR Lab started the year at the I-APS (Inter-American Photochemical Society) meeting in Florida. Caden, Alex, Max, and Will presented posters on their research, and I gave a talk. We got lots of great suggestions for future work, and have some collaborations cooking. A successful meeting!

Caden Frost ’26 and Alex Perry ’25 smile for the camera in front of their research poster, titled “Toward the synthesis of manganese (II) coordination complexes with tridentate imine ligands”. The contents of the poster are blurred.

An action shot of Dani (Dr. DAR)’s talk: she stands in front of a screen where a slide with an overview of the DAR Lab’s work is projected. There are several crystal structures on the slide. Dani is talking and gesturing.

Max Rhames ’25 and Dr. DAR smile for the camera in front of Max’s research poster, titled “A low spin manganese (II) complex with an emissive charge-transfer excited state”. The contents of the poster are blurred.

Will Tocco ’26 and Dr. DAR smile for the camera in front of Will’s research poster, titled “Synthesis of photoactive complexes of manganese (II) with NHC

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 04/01/2025

I cannot stress enough that libraries need to be defended. Public. Academic. School. Fight for them. USE them & make it known that you're using them. As a librarian who lost the fight at their institution & was forced to toss 120,000 books because "no one reads books anymore," I am begging you.

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ChemRxiv Bot @chemrxivbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A Low-Spin Manganese (II) Complex with an Emissive Charge-Transfer Excited State Authors: Maxwell Rhames, Nora Burnett, William Tocco, Ahshabibi Ahmed, Annemarie Lee, Alexander Ruhren, Claire Besson, Julien Panetier, John Swierk, Daniela Arias-Rotondo DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-r2qq0

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I return to this poem often, and have posted it around my neighborhood when the times call for it. Today is as good as any day to return to it.

Allowable any Nikki Giovanni

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened

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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I spent so much time in the hospital this year, watching immigrants and children of immigrants care for my mom (who was an immigrant herself!) I am never going to understand how my dad saw them all help my mom, and yet he still voted for Trump.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

commondreams.org

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams

CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Do we get any swag/freebies from companies if we’re among their first 100 followers here? Should I start tagging? 😂

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Other98 @other98.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I missed #TortieTuesday this week, but better late than never? Tortie doesn’t care for raw squash, but lightly boiled gourd is his jam.

A red footed tortoise inside his enclosure. He’s in front of a dish full of cooked butternut squash, taking a big bite.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I signed up for my first half-marathon in 6 years. I'm both giddy with excitement and terrified. Please clap. Or send help. Or both. #ChemistsWhoRun (It's the Kalamazoo Half, on 5/4/25, which is a perfect date. May the force be with me, indeed)

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Bruno M. Aramburu-Trošelj @chembruchem.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For those in #ChemSky looking for inspiration on reaction systems for photocatalytic CO2 reduction, here goes the first of three reviews published in 2024 with colleagues: this one is a compendium on photosensitizers typically used for CO2 reduction: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Earth-abundant-metal complexes as photosensitizers in molecular systems for light-driven CO2 reduction

Artificial photosynthesis involving CO2 photoreduction is an appealing strategy for addressing environmental and energy-shortage issues. Exploration o…

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy Letter of Recommendation Season to those who celebrate! 1) please, stop asking me to rank them. 2) weekend deadlines are cruel. Also, my students are amazing and if you don't take them, that's your loss.

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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

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Dani Arias-Rotondo @dr-dani-ar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Looking at the new prices to attend ACS national meetings 😭This might be the last year I send students. It makes me so sad.

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