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Lisa McElwee-White

@mcelweewhite.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Crow Professor. Amateur flutist. Weekend trail rider.

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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Spotted on a door in Leigh Hall. Thanks to my UF Department of Chemistry colleagues for their support in the #ACSElection! The ballot is open now. Don’t forget to fish the email out of your inbox and use your link to vote. #chemsky #chemchat
Poster for Lisa McElwee-White in the ACS President-Elect election.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Voting in the ACS election starts on September 14. In the meantime, check out the website. #chemsky #chemchat www.lisamcacs.org
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Lisa McElwee-White for ACS President-Elect
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m still running for 2027 ACS President-Elect. Register for the webinar if you would like to hear the discussion. #ChemSky #chemchat www.acs.org/acs-webinars...
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Spotted today in the Marriott Marquis lobby at #ACSFall2026. #chemchat #chemsky
Campaign poster for Lisa McElwee-White for ACS President-Elect 2027.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The cat does not approve of 3rd octave flute practice. He has found a new place to glare at me even though I’m finished playing and I’ve moved on to cleaning out the instrument.
Cat behind books on bookshelf above open flute case
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026
We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you intend to comment on the OMB proposed rule on federal funding, do it now! The window closes at 11:59 EDT. #chemsky #chemchat
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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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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
$21 here. While running A/C in the Florida summer.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The annual backyard blueberry explosion has begun. Even with letting our grandkids run rampant through the bushes last night and leaving all the low ones for them to pick tonight, this is what happened today. Those few blackberries are a bonus.
Three large bowls of blueberries.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.
diabetesjournals.org
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
We need to pay attention here and act. #chemsky #chemchat
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Missed us so far….
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I got a flower for Mother’s Day…but it was from the cop on gate duty at Gators baseball.
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Keith "Alcinous" Putnam @timetravel.camp · 08/05/2026
Kind of a shame that more universities, which were once instrumental in the infrastructure of a decentralized internet, don't host their own instances of stuff like Canvas.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Sporting my UF Department of History T-shirt at Gators baseball. See, @elizabethrdale.bsky.social, what happens when your folk set up a merch table right outside my CHM 6225 class.
Woman wearing history T shirt at baseball game.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Thanks for your support #ChemSky! Coming out of the Council meeting at ACS Atlanta, I am one of the two remaining candidates for 2027 ACS President-Elect.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There are still things to love about universities. There was a History merch table outside the classroom where I was teaching Chem 6225. I bought a T-shirt after class.
Black University of Florida History T-shirt with a white alligator.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Occasionally input from a consultant can have value. This is not a general principle.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know this is a cheap shameless plug for my own paper but this is really cool. #chemsky advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Self‐Organized Metal‐Carbon Multilayers Formed by Ion Beam Induced Deposition from Trimethyl(methylcyclopentadienyl)platinum(IV)
Ion beam induced deposition (IBID) of MeCpPtMe3 using low-energy Ar+ and H2+ generates self-organized multilayers of Pt and C, in marked contrast to the homogeneous deposits created by typical IBID a....
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Organic Division of the ACS @organicdivision.org · 25/01/2026
It is time to nominate Organic Chemistry Assistant Professors to speak at the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS) held at the Fall 2025 ACS Meeting. Nominations are due Feb 16th, 2026. Use the form via the link or QR code below. zurl.co/DotxD
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Do you know an innovative up-and-coming Organic Chemistry professor? Nominate them for the Academic Young Investigator award Go to www.organicdivision.org @organicdivision.org #ChemSky #ChemChat
organicdivision.org
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry - Homepage
The official home page of the ACS Organic Chemistry Division (ORGN, DOC). Information on the division's activities, awards, and resources.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
When the students are gone, the campus (non-human) wildlife comes out!
Great egret on a bush in front of a campus building. Great egret on a bush in front of a campus building.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
Cat with its butt on a tablet keyboard.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Definitely willing to go around again.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I haven’t posted from my #horse for a while but we’re still out there. Happy Holidays from the neighborhood bear statues!
Statues of bears and a fawn with a Christmas tree, as seen from the back of a Palomino horse.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Another PhD from my group! Congratulations to Dr. Johnathon Johnson! #ChemSky #ChemChat
Photo of a PhD advisor and new graduate in academic regalia.
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Your Saturday afternoon timeline cleanse. There is something very zen about riding down a long empty road. #horse
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We are the morning crew for the pledge break @wuft.org for UF’s public radio station. Support public radio!
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Buncha 19 year old girls are gonna learn the hard way that financial independence is important when they're stuck in shitty marriages and have no ability to enter the labor market and support themselves.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse. A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse. Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 06/06/2025
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Tara Setmayer @tarasetmayer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
PREACH!!!!!
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Yolanda Perez @yolandapereznmr.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country by Art Edison. #NMRchat artedison.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
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This is no way to run a bagel shop or a country
Academic science in the US is being gutted by Trump
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
There is nothing more gratifying than waiting for your spouse at the men’s toilets because They. Had. A. Line.
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Jim White @jimwhitegnv.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is awesome! The sign at Trump’s Doonbeg, Ireland golf course has been vandalized to remove the “T”. I barely had time to snap the photo as we drove past. Gotta love the Irish!
Sign for the rump International Golf Links & Hotel.
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday. By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children. Today, in 2025, that number is *7* And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology. 9/
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Oh yes.
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Thanks Ted!
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Amid the chaos, science goes on and education goes on. Meet the two newest PhDs from my group: Dr. Atul Chaudhary and Dr. Bishwaprava Das! #ChemSky
A professor and two PhD graduates in academic regalia.
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Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Researchers from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Florida scrutinized ion-induced surface reactions and deposition from Pt(CO)2Cl2 and Pt(CO)2Br2.  ➡️ www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/a… #IonBeam #MassSpectrometry #BJNANO 💎 🔓 @mcelweewhite.bsky.social
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
#chemsky (not enough coffee before original post)
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Lisa McElwee-White @mcelweewhite.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
And the run of @mcelweewhite.bsky.social group talks at #ACSSpring2025 begins with Rashmi Singh.
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The @organicdivision.org has a really packed schedule with tons of amazing symposia for #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego To help you find it all and plan your schedule here is our hand grid schedule #ChemSky
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Hate Liberals? Bite Me. @happyliberal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/02/2025
Texas measles outbreak update: 124 cases, 18 hospitalized, & now the first death of a child, who was not vaccinated. Tragic, preventable, & a direct consequence of the deadly lies spread by anti-vaxx grifters, one of whom is now the most powerful health official in the US.
Texas announces first death in measles outbreak
The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions.
The school-aged child who was not vaccinated was hospitalized in Lubbock last week and tested positive for measles.
As of Feb. 25, 124 cases of measles have been confirmed in the outbreak since late January. Most of the cases are in children. Eighteen people have been hospitalized over the course of the outbreak.
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