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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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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 03/09/2026

Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights saying “and remember, i’m saying ‘with all due respect.’”

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 19/08/2026

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 09/02/2026

The academic experience

A plot of “severity of mania” vs “severity of depression”, oscillating wildly between “we’re so back” and “it’s so over”

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 03/02/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

An image of internet explorer from the early 2000s. There are so many addons/toolbars enabled that you can hardly see the actual webpage.

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 03/02/2026

Finally got the small printer working

An image of a black and orange Voron 0.2 3D printer with a gold door, flat layer of plastic barely visible against the black print plate

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 24/01/2026

It’s not much, but it’s honest work

Adrian’s activity this week on Bluesky. 11 posts, 12 likes, 8 reposts, and 12 follows. Powered by @GetSkyscraper.com

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 04/01/2026

incredible work Apple thank you for this

A screenshot of the WiFi dropdown shade over the system preferences in MacOS. Liquid Glass makes the white text of the WiFi network names completely unreadable against the white background.

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 16/12/2025

my academic experience

A sort of timeline/plot, with the Y axis being "severity of depression" to "severity of mania." The "data" in the plot vacillates between "it's so over" and "we're so back" over time

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 01/11/2025

*dark souls font* LOGO UPDATED

A cartoon of a black cat with a little pink nose playing with a ball in the shape of the classical mayan glyph "kuk," which means "rubber ball." Inside the ball there are some cartoon atoms.

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 27/10/2025

Perfectly normal wire/cable management

A photo of a 350mm Voron 2.4 with a wire hanging down in the middle of the chamber. The tool head is also a rats nest of wires, and the umbilical connected to it is flopping over to one side.

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 25/10/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, the Linux experience™️

A photo of a Linux desktop, it’s mostly black and covered in visual artifacts

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 08/09/2025

I should implement the hartree-fock algorithm in mojo

Image of a cat in a suit sitting at a table with a newspaper and cup of tea on a saucer. There are white curtains in the background.

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 07/09/2025

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 26/08/2025

love it when the timeline syncs up @staceyhauff.bsky.social

Posts by SwiftOnSecurity and Stacey Hauff one after the other, both showing screenshots of their group chats discussing Taylor Swift getting engaged

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 15/07/2025

preparing for yet another day of race training

Adam Driver in Marriage Story holding his head in his hands and crying

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 04/06/2025

opening my dissertation again

Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story with red, teary eyes, looking askance

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 27/05/2025

Multi trillion *

A larger man with a thin mustache and square glasses brandishing a knife in a silly combat pose saying “leave alone the multimillion dollar company”

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 20/05/2025

Homer telling Bart “worst day of your life so far”

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 15/05/2025

Jeb Bush in front of an electoral map showing him with 538 electoral college votes, while Trump and Clinton have zero

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends:

Three generalized structures, on the left a thiocarbonylthio used for RAFT, in the center a halocarbon used for ATRP, and on the right an aminoxyl used for NMP

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 15/04/2025

I’m back with my favorite too many guys

Verdant Embrace
{3}{G}{G}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has “At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.”
Illustrated by Stephen Tappin

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 05/04/2025

dodging several economic catastrophes by staying in school until age 31 only to enter the job market under the trump regime

A cartoon of a man using a rake to kick flip down a flight of stairs only to land on it such that it hits him in the face

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 09/03/2025

Same energy

Mark Proksch playing Daniel Wormald in Better Call Saul, standing in front of his flame emblazoned yellow Hummer

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 12/02/2025

Unironically the only thing keeping me right now from switching to a GrapheneOS phone is the capybara icon for Tapestry it’s so good

Cropped image of the top of an iPhone Home Screen showing icons for FaceTime, Skeets, Signal, and Tapestry with the built in capybara icon

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 05/02/2025

say the line bart!

An image of Susan Collins above a Politico headline. The headline reads "Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far." Underneath that it reads "Susan Collins says she is 'concerned' about Elon Musk and the Trump administration's efforts to control congressional purse strings."

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 16/01/2025

I was gonna say I’d be shocked if erythrosine was particularly toxic, the other xanthene dyes are so well tolerated Bonus, xanthene dye spill in my fume hood, think this one was rhodamine

Photo of a large pink stain in a fume hood

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 03/01/2025

Yes FedEx I'm sure this route makes sense

A screenshot of a map showing FedEx taking a package from Woodbridge, ON, to Memphis, TN. The final destination is Detroit, MI, which is ~4 hrs away from Woodbridge.

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 01/01/2025

I have been doing that

A photo of a human sized dog bed from Floof Couture

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 16/12/2024

I cannot

A tabby cat holding a blissfully asleep black cat and licking her head

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 30/11/2024

“Swelling experiments were performed in trichlorobenzene”

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 29/11/2024

*You will finish your dissertation you will graduate*

Man pointing at himself in the mirror meme without text

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 22/11/2024

I’ve also got a little angel named Remi!

A black cat lounging in the sun

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 17/11/2024

Chiming in with my latest tattoo, a little ethylene oxide on my shoulder (minus the oxygen)

A photo of an idealized structure of ethylene oxide, missing the oxygen, tattooed on a man's shoulder.

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 06/11/2024

“What’s an election”

A tabby cat laying on a fluffy blanket with his mouth and eyes a little open

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 05/11/2024

Let’s fucking go

Photo of a man from the nose down wearing a gray shirt with an incredible werewolf themed “I voted” sticker on it

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 17/09/2024

Late to the party 🥲

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 07/09/2024

grad school was a mistake

Meme of drawing a horse where it goes from good to bad, where the good side says "Proposal" and the bad side says "Dissertation"

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 01/09/2024

Log on to linkedin log off

A screenshot of Adrian's notification page on LinkedIn with an ad saying "This mother uses AI for everything - including parenting. See how she leverages it in her daily life."

Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 21/08/2024

Química de azufre

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 14/08/2024

PI calmed me down gbless

Simpsons character Moe Szyslak looking at a noose in the background with a caption that says "Not today, old friend."

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 19/06/2024

doubters?????

A plot of G' vs time, showing the red curve increasing in G' while the black curve stays mostly the same

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Adrian A. Lorenzana @lorenzana.phd · 10/05/2024

Can’t believe these babies are already two years old

A man carrying a backpack on his chest with a black cat looking out

A close up of a sleeping tabby cat with his chin resting on the rim of a basket