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Lucas Moore

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I make molecules.

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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m trying to work out and there’s a guy at the gym reading the Bible at a stranger.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Suffering is the peer review of character” OOF
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Product placement in Ted Lasso was particularly egregious this week.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My Chemistry Nobel prediction is sort of boring: it’ll be one of the squishy ones. It’s an even year. (Since 2018, even years are biology-related, odd years are materials/organic/etc)
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Administration has been so uselessly, pointlessly destructive of our country's military personnel and system and I hate it. I hope this terrible decision is reversed.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well that’s it, all my shouldered impurities are just deuterium, case closed, I will not be taking additional questions at this time
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone willing to replace students with tokens doesn't understand what it is universities do and probably should never have been allowed to have students to begin with
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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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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🚨THE COLTS HAVE WON A FOOTBALL GAME, THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Metroid Dread is still a really fun game.
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Sven T. Stripp @stripplab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OK who did this
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last meeting today ended a little after 11:00 pm. First meeting tomorrow starts at 7:00 am. Woo, process chemistry. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you interact with an LLM made by Facebook in any way, you are a dumbass.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It has been three hundred and fifteen days since the Indianapolis Colts last won a football game.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Look at this terrible thing!” is why I’ve disabled reposts and quote posts for many, many accounts. (Let he who is without sin cast the first stone; I was insufferable with this in the past.) www.smbc-comics.com/comic/roach-2
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Roach
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Roach
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Propriety @proprietous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nerd pet peeve: when people arrange things that have NO INHERANT PERIODICITY into a "periodic table" Vegetables are not periodic! Logical fallacies are not periodic!!! You cannot create a periodic table with them!!! The structure of your table reveals nothing!!! *Muffled scream*
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think it is bad that Republicans are holding our children’s vaccines hostage and would like to prevent them from being able to do that
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this makes prescription drugs MORE expensive by exempting them from government price negotiations. unprecedented corruption at a massive scale
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STAT @statnews.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs www.statnews.com/2026/09/14/c...
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Judge blocks Trump administration plans to limit visa length for grad students, postdocs
A federal judge halted a Trump administration plan to place a four-year cap on the kinds of visas used by graduate students and postdocs
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me: OK, BRAIN, WE ONLY HAVE AN HOUR TO WORK ON THIS PERSONAL PROJECT.

My brain: Y'KNOW WHO I BET HAS AN INTERESTING WIKIPEDIA PAGE?
BUN E. CARLOS FROM
CHEAP TRICK.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...
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Climate action comes in waves
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it’s pretty clear that our collective response over the past 25 years has been worse than the event itself.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026
The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s upgrade time for me and her. (From 14-series phones, so it’s time.) Anyone have $4000 I can borrow?
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We’re boiling the oceans and polluting the land so that you can avoid asking sorry, say again?”
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just tell me how much the folding phone is gonna cost
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s gonna be an expensive day.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
IYKYK
The weighted companion cube from the video game, Portal.
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qntm @qntm.org · 09/09/2026
AIs will hack anything, push any button within reach, they'll do anything that they can do just because it can be done, they have no brakes. It's architecturally psychopathic and it's because the institutions building them are also psychopathic
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dear god.. a flavor scientist at the Cheetos factory has published a blog post saying no one is prepared for how "dangerously cheesy" they are
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Saturday night! Woo! Washing machine died! Wringing out all my clothes! $150 part to fix! Woo!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To go back to the well again, the PhD advisor model is fundamentally broken.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕
Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000. 

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s really weird to switch map apps for political reasons, but things haven’t been normal for a while now.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I saw a cubane and a ladderane fly by in some slides yesterday 🙃
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎉 I solved today's Multiplet in 7:59! ‼️ Very Hard Puzzle #116 🔥 2 day streak 🧩 Play the daily chemistry puzzle: www.multiplet.app (Goodness, a tough one for only playing this game for two days)
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Multiplet — Daily NMR Spectrum Puzzle
A daily puzzle game inspired by chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. Build a structure whose spectrum matches today's target.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.
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Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says
An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I accidentally clicked on the button in Excel once. Do I count as a Copilot user? I bet I do according to the AI guy at Microsoft who wants a promotion, and those are the people who are reporting these numbers.
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Lucas Moore @lucascmoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think there’s a huge gulf between “we asked the robot to do our literature search and generate ideas” and “we made millions of compounds and tested them and built a model to predict potency and ADME.” (I’m biased. The place I work at does the second one.)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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