Reposted by Jason GavenonisMichael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oh my gosh, now is the perfect time to share the story of how asymmetric catalysis was involved in meeting my first girlfriend in graduate school. 121
Reposted by Jason GavenonisStieber Lab @stieberlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Any #chemchat or #chemsky folk here who work in industry making or using zeolites and would be willing to have a short interview/meeting? Undergrad researchers and I are part of an NSF innovation corp program and are learning about industry needs. Thanks in advance! 0610
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Forget 20c, give me a period drama on Priestley/Lavoisier. Sectarian riots, guillotines, it's got everything 030
Reposted by Jason GavenonisMatt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Francis Halzen this morning (probably): "Today was a good day" 141
Reposted by Jason GavenonisDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics. 101108201
Reposted by Jason GavenonisSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!forbes.comKnobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of ManyAuto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back. 21592001688
Reposted by Jason GavenonisAlex Speed @awhspeed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My morning ritual of playing nyt puzzles. Strangely, I don't have them book-marked, so I always type WO into my browser, and click on the first link. This morning: WTF AI Overview? I don't think anyone who is looking up "Wordle" wants to see the answer as the first hit. 041
Reposted by Jason GavenonisJarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 191331457
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comSeinfeld: Kramer's 'You Just Blew My Mind' MomentALT: Seinfeld: Kramer's 'You Just Blew My Mind' Moment 010
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026To be pedantic, any table that you put something on top of is a substrate table 110
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can't really teach FIRE until you've introduced the other elements, like WATER and AIR 011
Reposted by Jason GavenonisMichael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Developers and practitioners of photochemical reactions have to reckon with reproducibility—this simple paper is an intriguing wake-up call. A 2-dram vial positioned 1 cm from a 3-Watt LED heats up by over 40 ºC! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comTemperature and reproducibility in photocatalysis - Nature ChemistryIn recent years, there has been a surge in the development of reactions using photoredox catalysis. However, the ability to reproduce these reactions varies wildly, owing to key factors such as light ... 023
Reposted by Jason GavenonisKevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026found at ucsf 9557118
Reposted by Jason GavenonisWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent” 1821758391
Reposted by Jason GavenonisDropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026[date] her: santayana said those who don’t learn history are bound to repeat it me: *remembering tenth grade* for me it was chemistry 47713
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 10/09/20265890 and its /MS equivalent were built like tanks 010
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's pretty clear that he has more _experience_ with drugs that cross the BBB than all of us combined 1210
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It gets so much better the more you read, e.g.: 6312
Reposted by Jason GavenonisAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2415751126
Reposted by Jason GavenonisHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private. 291183290
Reposted by Jason GavenonisInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this 26818899
Reposted by Jason GavenonisSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area". 492113299
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Saw this on the old site and had to share: www.generalatoms.com/RotorRoulette/ #chemsky #chemchat 063
Reposted by Jason GavenonisStrategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center. 1164635912
Reposted by Jason GavenonisPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol 2376611727
Reposted by Jason GavenonisJordan @cocktailchem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026#chemsky AirBnB owner rents house out for six months, guests depart leaving a new in box rotovap condenser, confusion ensues. www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/c...reddit.comFrom the whatisit community on Reddit: Airbnb guest of 6m left this, gives Breaking bad vibesExplore this post and more from the whatisit community 032
Reposted by Jason GavenonisIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026inpreparation.substack.comAnthropic Expands AI For Science Program In Hopes Someone Will Love ItSAN FRANCISCO, CA—Anthropic announced an expansion of their new AI for Science initiative Thursday in the hope that helping cure diseases might make people feel warmly toward the artificial… 0125
Reposted by Jason GavenonisChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today is a good day to read Barry Sharpless' reminder to wear safety glasses in the chemistry lab #chemsky #chemchat #chemsafety 0276
Reposted by Jason GavenonisSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026What's the worst chemical structure you can generate using gen AI? Can you do better than this? I would like to know how far you can push them. ChatGPT had no hesitation to provide me with this #chemchat 5155
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026👆🏻 Pretty much this. I'm sure there are actual shows, too, like old episodes of the Office or something 010
Reposted by Jason GavenonisKevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026choosing a drug target is the most important decision of a drug discovery campaign. of 704 proteins targeted by FDA-approved drugs, 95% predate mammals evolutionarily, 35% predate animals (eukaryotes or older) 5% are mammal specific or younger, and the mediate age of the gene is 680 million years 262
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And this is before they discovered all your taco bell posts 010
Reposted by Jason GavenonisJo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Chat GFP: all about green fluorescent protein and only green fluorescent protein 1263
Reposted by Jason GavenonisGlen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Philip Glass: half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half half 251047187
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026...but this actually works. Rate-limiting issues are that 1) oral dosing of bicarb tends to have GI side-effects that are not exactly conducive to athletic performance and 2) effective dosing to buffer lactate effectively exacerbates 1) 120
Reposted by Jason GavenonisRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1100285976340
Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026And RuPhos which, last time I checked, has almost no Ruthenium in it 130
Reposted by Jason GavenonisIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026inpreparation.substack.comPI Who Took Credit For Paper Clarifies Fraud Was Student’s Independent WorkBOSTON, MA—In a statement released Monday following the retraction of a high-profile Nature paper, Whitehead Institute principal investigator Dr. 2167
Reposted by Jason GavenonisGonzalo Campillo-Alvarado @campillochem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Hello #ChemSky! I am Gonzalo, an assistant professor of chemistry at Reed College in Portland, OR. My #UndergradResearch lab works on organic materials for chemical sensing, separations, and pharma. I will mostly share research, teaching, crystals, and occasional PNW/Mexico pics. Happy to connect! 1143