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M. Eugenio Vazquez

@glowsticks.bsky.social
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Peptide engineering, supramolecular chemistry, DNA binding, caged molecules, luminescent sensors & chem art. " Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?" —Mary Oliver ORCID: 0000-0001-7500-985X www.evazquezlab.gal

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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ChemSky An update on the ACS RSS feeds. It turns out that they have new URL addresses (yayyy! 🙌): pubs.acs.org/pages/rss I don't know what happened with the TOC images in the new feeds, though ☹️ pubs.acs.org/pages/rss
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Double-clicking an atom in ChemDraw used to add a label. Now it adds a bond. This is EVIL. Why mess with muscle memory that's been going for years?! 🤬 By the way, it's now Option + click (Mac) or Alt + click (Windows). #ChemSky support.revvitysignals.com/hc/en-us/art...
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ChemDraw: Double-clicking on an Atom adds a new bond instead of the text box to enter the label
This is an intended change in v25.5.  From version 25.5.0.5789, you need to use Alt+single-click instead of double (left) click to get the text box to enter the label.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks to @emiliomperezlab.bsky.social for the link. inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re...
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Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol
By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“It’s 2026, and the number-one consumer technology trend seems to be devices that constantly listen to and record everything and everyone around us at all times — with or without consent — …”
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵 Want to do your PhD with us? We study the intrinsic (non-aromatic) fluorescence of peptides and its use in sensors: www.evazquezlab.gal Interested? The Spanish predoctoral FPU fellowship call is open (20 Oct-20 Nov). 🔗 bit.ly/4dCFrFt #ChemSky
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Ayudas FPU 2026 | Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵 ¿Quieres hacer la tesis con nosotros? Estudiamos la fluorescencia intrínseca (no aromática) de péptidos y su uso en sensores: www.evazquezlab.gal ¿Te interesa? La convocatoria de ayudas predoctorales FPU está abierta (20 oct–20 nov). 🔗 bit.ly/4ry1F1k #ChemSky
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Ayudas FPU 2026 | Agencia Estatal de Investigación
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Janet Iwasa @jiwasa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Interested in molecular animation? Give ProteinBlender a try! It's free and open source. animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlend... The latest tools include a DNA builder (shown in the tutorial video below). We'd love to hear what you think! We have short tutorials that cover all the features!
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Carmen Lazare @carmenlazare.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A chicos como este es a los que hay que hacer mas visibles. Porque no hay muchas maneras de acabar con los influencers catetos y peligrosos con miles o millones de seguidores . Y los gobiernos no están por legislar estos contenidos La cuenta de fisioteduca www.instagram.com/fisioteduca?...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Whistleblower Arturo Béjar is testifying about what Meta execs and Zuckercreep knew and buried. One can only hope that this is the beginning of these ghouls being held accountable… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial
Arturo Béjar, former Meta safety engineer, tells jury tech company was aware of products’ potential harm to children
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.
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Pedro Vallín @pvallin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Por favor, enviad esto a quien no aprecie este formidable presente.
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 07/08/2026
Biocatalysis at >100 °C by trapping the enzymes in a COF, whaaaaaat via @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi...
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Encapsulated enzymes break free of biocatalysis limits
Confining enzymes in covalent organic frameworks allows them to work at much higher temperatures
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Michael Moore @mmflint.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I launched my first-ever book club today. Everyone and anyone can join. We'll post the chat thread for discussion over the weekend, and I'll host a live Q&A to discuss later this month. #booksky www.michaelmoore.com/p/introducin...
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Introducing the Michael Moore Book Club
Nothing Is More Dangerous to those in Power Than a Curious, Informed Public
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/08/2026
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu One side wants fascism. The other side wants healthcare as a human right. To even attempt to conflate the two is absurd.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/07/2026
Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
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Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I wonder how those same issues with copyright and AI would affect the journal ownership of scientific publications or even patents.. 🤔
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
hey @acs.org any word on when RSS feeds might be back?
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#ChemSky Hey, anyone else having problems with ACS RSS feeds lately?
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Dummy, the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 21/07/2026
Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
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Photo Diary @amablephoto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
. 📸 ©️ Elliott Erwitt .
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 13/07/2026
Every time this tech comes around, we make it so no one wants to wear them outside, and that is good and correct and we must keep it up until it fades away yet again. And then th enext time? We do it all over again.
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Rodrigo Alem FernánDeath 🎃 @rodf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/07/2026
People of Clacton: you could be legends.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/07/2026
My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stephen Miller's suit here shows one of the biggest problems with men's tailoring today. 🧵
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My quote of the day An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." Mitch Hedberg
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Michael Perino @professorperino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Greetings from Washington DC
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is an absolutely monstrous pump and dump scheme promulgated by a man who has lied to investors for his entire life. A man who was gleeful about purposefully killing hundreds of thousands of people. His legacy will be with the legendary villains of history.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Citing peer-reviewed journals? Boring. Namedropmaxxing by listing Linus Pauling as a "private communication" in your references? Absolute boss move. 😀 #ChemSky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An excerpt of a scientific bibliography listing references numbered 4 through 9. Reference number 8, L. Pauling, private communication, is highlighted in yellow.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 08/06/2026
The Cure's Robert Smith perfectly sums up the difference between Americans and Brits.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I wish I could write like this. And I wish Lindy West wrote tutorial papers in psychometrics. (Source: Lindy West, 2019 essay collection 'The Witches Are Coming')
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M. Eugenio Vazquez @glowsticks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We’ve used DynaFit for kinetic & equilibrium analysis for years 🧪, so we couldn’t miss the DynaFit school this week to learn how to use the software to its fullest from the developer, Dr. Petr Kuzmič. Big thanks to @elenapazos.bsky.social for organizing this! #ChemSky www.biokin.com/dynafit/
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DynaFit - (Bio)Chemical Kinetics and Equilibria
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.
A bearded white man paints on an easel on the right side of the frame. Zuckerberg's eldritch horror of a yacht is on the left.
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 28/05/2026
Here's Stephen Fry on the afterlife, the humanist approach to life, and finding wonder in the here and now 👇
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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 26/05/2026
🧬 El #SíndromedeMyhre es una enfermedad genética muy rara causada por mutaciones espontáneas en el gen #SMAD4. 🔬 La Dra. Maria Macias (@maciaslab.bsky.social), lidera un proyecto que estudia cómo transformar el conocimiento molecular sobre SMAD4. 📰 @lavanguardia.com ➡️ shorturl.at/nqDqh
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Fatfur Foods @fatfurfoods.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Unholy Neapolitan Ice Cream Dispenser - Produces a constant stream of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream to be packaged Extrudes approximately: • 1165 calories per second • 70,000 calories per minute • 4,200,000 calories per hour Perfect for laying directly under with an open mouth
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.
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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · 17/05/2026
🔓Check out this #OpenAccess paper by Mark Nitz & co. at @utoronto.ca reporting protease-triggered self-immolative acyl phosphates for controlled phosphate release #orgchem Read the full article on our website🔽
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Protease-triggered self-immolative acyl phosphates for controlled phosphate release
The intracellular delivery of phosphate esters remains a challenge, which often requires the use of a prodrug strategy. We report a protease-responsive scaffold that links an enzyme-catalyzed peptide…
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