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Adrian A. Lorenzana

@lorenzana.phd
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ChemE PhD from UMass interested in polymer architecture, self-assembly, and controlled synthesis Postdoc in the Chitnis lab at UVic Latino, he/him/él Website: lorenzana.phd ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇳

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29/09/2026
A great job at Tufts!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVR...
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Tufts University's Fight Song, "Tuftonia's Day"
YouTube video by TualaTrout
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chud media can do this not just because its readers are horrendously stupid people, but also because they judge truth by whether it confirms their ideological priors.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, it has been incredibly sad, in the last few years, to see laid bare, in ways that were surely always there but are masks off now, just how many of our academic colleagues & university leaders simply aren't interested in the actual project of education. Just go do something else. Please.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I stopped reading after the lie in the first sentence: "Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing." "<only> by writing"? Literally, no one thinks this. Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would read an oral history of the conception, creation and execution of this poster. "Oh boy, boss, we sure got him good!"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev) @slop-machine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pentavalent carbons are just the algorithm disrupting traditional chemistry. Why respect valence electrons when you can disrupt them for seed funding?
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think #chemsky has discussed before how NO-ONE should be feeding unpublished or proprietary data into public models. It really feels like that is worth reiterating.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Armorer: This Is The Way (Book Of Boba Fett)
ALT: The Armorer: This Is The Way (Book Of Boba Fett)
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Xogot: Godot on iPad and iPhone @xogot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We just announced Xogot Modeler. Inspired by Unity’s ProBuilder, it lets you build levels in your 3D Godot scenes. Create geometry, extrude meshes and more without leaving Xogot. Check out @migueldeicaza.bsky.social's blog post for the full story, with lots of demos: blog.xogot.com/xogot-modeler/
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Xogot Modeler
Earlier this year we introduced the Asset Placer and the Asset Browser, and today we are introducing the Xogot Modeler. This tool helps you prototype levels easily from within the editor, without hav...
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At a certain level, only God-given talent could produce this type of answer. It just can't be taught.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Taken over" is an interesting word choice when it appears to me they are being invited in with open arms. "Good people on both sides" and all that.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looking forward to delivering today’s 9th annual Paul A. Rosen Lecture at Wayne State Law School Details here. events.wayne.edu/2026/09/28/t...
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The 9th Annual Paul A. Rosen Constitutional Law Speaker Series
Join us for the 9th Annual Paul A. Rosen Constitutional Law Speaker Series.  The Rosen Endowed Lecture was established in honor of Paul A. Rosen, a civil rights attorney who graduated from Wayne ...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey if you're a lady Nazi and you spend time with dude Nazis and they do Nazi shit to you, fuck off forever, my grandfather happily killed many people just like you and so did his platoon. 🖕🏻
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 27/09/2026
I am in hell
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Susan Collins outraged that guy she voted to confirm is doing exactly what he said he’d do
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Susan Collins outraged that guy she voted to confirm is doing exactly what he said he'd do - Lawyers, Guns & Money
One of many such cases! I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions. [image or embed] &mdash; Bobby [&hellip;]
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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is how white people look at me right before they want to ask where I was born 🤷🏾
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 26/09/2026
Letter of recommendation: spicy margaritas made with this www.anchoreyes.com/products/anc...
A green bottle of Ancho Reyes Verde chili poblano liqueur 
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So lemme get this straight if I pay in money by buying insurance and never take any money out that’s somehow fraud? That’s the level of brain genius we have running the show right now?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The possible Russian asset has been thawed out from her cryogenic sleep during midterms to help the GOP. Also, she can't even spell Kool-Aid properly.
Dr. Jill Stein O @DrJillStein
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If you had high hopes for Democratic Party reform,
you may want to reset your expectations.
PS.
Stop drinking the cool aid.
10:00AM. 9/23/26 .
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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can confirm and also can strongly recommend. Get a godsdamned hobby, folks.
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Having gone through several interviews in the last couple of months, I’d appreciate potential employers following through in a timely manner as candidates move through the hiring process.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
Sen. Susan Collins • fAl
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@SenatorCollins
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Colette, you curse so much. Maybe you should to—“ I am OVERFLOWING with rage & y’all are fortunate I’ve decided to drop some f-bombs on socials, do peaceful activism, and occasionally smoke a cigarette instead of light shit on fire. Everyone is being WAY too chill abt the state of the world.
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pro-tip: if you shake (at 2-3 Hz) your iced coffee right before your job interview it will transform into a drink that's okay to bring with you
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Insect starting out as a PhD student and ending up a full professor #AcademicSky
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who hasn't made this mistake at at least one conference?
Cartoon with a figure standing in a trench coat with hands on either side of the opening. They are saying "So. Which way to the flash talks?" The caption says "Due to a simple misunderstanding Dr. Red was never invited back to the conference"
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤢 it’s colonialism all the way down
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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 24/09/2026
This new paper is... a lot to read 🤔 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/chem...
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Bond Formation: Shaken, Not Stirred
Shaking of seismo-molecules efficiently transforms kinetic energy into storable chemical potential, unlocking high-utility Gibbs free energy. This innovative mechanism pioneers uncharted scientific f...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Meme 
Drawing of a cat yelling
Why is the cat screaming?
1. Why wouldn't the cat scream
2. If you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing
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🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Replying "I don't get it" under every post until someone puts me down
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Purifying compounds using flash column chromatography can take its toll on the psyche, but luckily for Thomas Burden, his project involved making colorful, crystalline coumarin derivatives like this one. Read more: cen.acs.org/synthesis/c-... #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
A test tube with spindly crystals glowing green and small but chunky orange crystals stuck to the walls. The are reflections of blue and orange in the glass of the tube.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I’m saying that I would personally mouth-pipette a solution of pure chloroform right now, today, in front of God and the NIH Director and the entire Office of Research Safety, if it meant a young scientist in my department could get a payline above 20%." substack.com/home/post/p-...
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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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Payal JS, PhD @payaljs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 23/09/2026
What’s this?
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Qualcomm will finally support Linux on Snapdragon X2 chips.
“For many years developers have asked us for one thing, Linux on Snapdragon. We heard you,” says Kedar Kondap, SVP and general manager of compute and gaming at Qualcomm. Speaking at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, Kondap says Linux support with Debian will be available “at the end of this year” for Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 series of chips. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/chrome_KLSva2KkHU.png?quality=90&strip=all]
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stellz @piss.beauty · 23/09/2026
I'm becoming a RELEASE THE FILES girl but for this instead of epstein
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I seem to be first grad student to realize* UNM l failed to provide us w/full insurance benefit books for this cycle. Which should have happened by Aug at latest. I am going to let Union know. *& to begin emailing people angrily
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Are You Kidding Me Cat Meme
Alt: Are You Kidding Me Cat Meme A cat wearing glasses is positioned at an open laptop looking at the screen and below white text reads “are you kidding me?”
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1. loss of interest in nip 2. opens multiple new credit cards 3. your cat applies to grad school
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Mario Guzmán @marioguzman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the spirit of advocating for more native Mac Development, I wanted to share (early) my new app: Address Book. It uses the Contacts API on Mac so it keeps everything in sync with your Contacts across your Apple devices — just a new UI for macOS. One that works. Coming Soon. #AppKit #macOS
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