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Jason Gavenonis

@gavenonis.bsky.social
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Former faculty, lapsed organic chemist. Opinions mine.

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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh 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.
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Stieber Lab @stieberlab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Any #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!
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forget 20c, give me a period drama on Priestley/Lavoisier. Sectarian riots, guillotines, it's got everything
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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Francis Halzen this morning (probably): "Today was a good day"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Steve 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!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Alex Speed @awhspeed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My 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.
A google search for wordle, showing a link to Wordle, and an "AI overview" with the answer clearly shown (I have blanked it out) as the first line.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 03/10/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Seinfeld: Kramer's 'You Just Blew My Mind' Moment
ALT: Seinfeld: Kramer's 'You Just Blew My Mind' Moment
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To be pedantic, any table that you put something on top of is a substrate table
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't really teach FIRE until you've introduced the other elements, like WATER and AIR
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Carbolic acid has entered the chat
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Phenol is just Aromatic Water™️
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Developers 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...
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Temperature and reproducibility in photocatalysis - Nature Chemistry
In 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 ...
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
No
Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent
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Dropped 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
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
5890 and its /MS equivalent were built like tanks
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Melting point and semicarbazone derivatives
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's pretty clear that he has more _experience_ with drugs that cross the BBB than all of us combined
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It gets so much better the more you read, e.g.:
Screenshot of a tweet where a guy says he'll surpass Pfizer in drugs developed within 5 years
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So (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.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tyrannophos sounds like a terrible ligand
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Saw this on the old site and had to share: www.generalatoms.com/RotorRoulette/ #chemsky #chemchat
A 24-well centrifuge rotor with 15 tubes. Of course it's balanced.
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
They 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.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Jordan @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...
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From the whatisit community on Reddit: Airbnb guest of 6m left this, gives Breaking bad vibes
Explore this post and more from the whatisit community
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Anthropic Expands AI For Science Program In Hopes Someone Will Love It
SAN 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…
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today is a good day to read Barry Sharpless' reminder to wear safety glasses in the chemistry lab #chemsky #chemchat #chemsafety
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What'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
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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
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
choosing 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
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And this is before they discovered all your taco bell posts
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Chat GFP: all about green fluorescent protein and only green fluorescent protein
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We've all had that *one* labmate
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lab coat, white shoes, black hat...
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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: 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
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As long as we don't start #ChemSka...
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gas-money arbitrage is peak dad-move
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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)
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How 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
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And RuPhos which, last time I checked, has almost no Ruthenium in it
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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PI Who Took Credit For Paper Clarifies Fraud Was Student’s Independent Work
BOSTON, MA—In a statement released Monday following the retraction of a high-profile Nature paper, Whitehead Institute principal investigator Dr.
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Gonzalo Campillo-Alvarado @campillochem.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hello #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!
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Jason Gavenonis @gavenonis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
...yet
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