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Michael Evans

@mevans86.bsky.social
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Dad. Director of First-year Chemistry at Georgia Tech. Organic chemistry "expert"; armchair biochemist and photochemist. “He started out great, but by the end of the term I’d tuned him out.”

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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 22h
Rise up!
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Person Jumps and Falls Down
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 23h
The Falcons defense simply giving up with 3 minutes to go in the fourth quarter is responsible for this impending loss, and there’s honestly no excuse for it. Offense played solidly. The secondary has been AWFUL.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 23h
Two awful football teams, with the Ravens infinitesimally worse than the Falcons.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
…and the Falcons have Falcon’ed once again. 🔔🐣🏈 I’ll be astounded if we win this one. Atlanta sports demons are summoning the curse as we speak.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Falcons hanging on by a thread.
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Raven-Symoné's Anxious Look in That's So Raven
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Holy mackerel. I was at the game referenced in this call, in the 8th row of the student section in 2007. Probably the greatest moment of sport I’ve ever witnessed live, as LSU was number 1 at the time IIRC. youtu.be/y0gHXM7jb7g?...
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Kentucky defeats LSU - 35-34 in overtime. End of game video from ESPN & Tom Leach's call on WSGS.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#chesspunks A sketch about the exact opposite of the typical “chess parent.” 😂 youtu.be/IuhG712NOak?...
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Chess Tournament - SNL
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have not said this in a very, very long time, but I‘m proud that Ossoff is my Senator. Dude has actually advanced bills that address real issues.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I can't promise that stereochemistry will always sweep a woman off her feet. But it worked for me once! 😛 www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2026...
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...but of course, you need TWO sets of hands to really explain enantioselective reactions. Diastereomeric transition states and all that. So I took her hands into my own... 😂 You can imagine the rest. A real art-meets-chemistry love story.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I explained that I was a graduate student studying asymmetric reactions, and started using my hands to explain the difference between enantiomers...
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She was a ceramicist, and IIRC, we met at a bar in C-U through a mutual friend-of-a-friend who was also a grad student in Chemistry. At some point, the inevitable "what do you do" question came up.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my gosh, now is the perfect time to share the story of how asymmetric catalysis was involved in meeting my first girlfriend in graduate school.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I can't be the only one to notice that the "dog" in this image isn't correctly mirrored...?! #ChemNobel 😫
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I imagine we both learned about the Soai reaction from the same guy, which is fun to think about! 😂
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love organic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, non-linear effects, and autocatalysis. I'm not sure it was Nobel worthy, and the Nobel press release is obnoxiously sycophantic. However, the area has been on Nobel prediction lists for many years—I remember seeing it on the old ChemBark list.
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Bad Take
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Waking up knowing Saints fans are sad today.
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Man with Long Hair Winks
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kool Aid Man Oh Yeah
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m drinking the Kool-Aid! Thanks man! 😂🏈
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“WHAT?! We can’t hear you!“ Costs a timeout. 😩🐣🏈
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One reason I just can’t quit football is the players that completely surprise you. CJ Henderson can PLAY, and no one expected this before this season. Huge positive impact on the Falcons defense.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tyler Shough has played at Louisville and New Orleans, making him basically the anti-me. 👎 Falcons working really hard to beat themselves right now. Not that this is anything new. 😩
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RISE UP! 🐣🏈
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I recently showed my kids the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode with the pool—this episode and “it knows what scares you” both terrified me as a kid.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? Intro
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have the EXACT same story…that film left an IMPRESSION, and still does. Penguin and Catwoman are extremely unsettling!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The funny thing is, education is required BEFORE one can make informed choices with things like this. 🤷‍♂️😂 ”Empowerment” without education is just dangerous and/or stupid.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
White to play and checkmate in four moves. I did not find it, but managed to mate a longer way in time. 😅 #chesspunks lichess.org/iZSNdnFZ/white
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1…h6+ 2 Kxh6 Qf6#
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1...Qc3+ 2 Ke2 Qe3# Boxed in!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1…Ne3+! 2 dxe3 Bxc2# Pretty!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From a discussion of updating a department website...
A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did tetanus (don’t ask, it sucked) and flu earlier this year. Feel you. Hang in.
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like if you’re watching Phillies-Braves and you’re thinking about oxidation when you see that sleeve! IBX baby! 😂⚾️👨‍🔬
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another year of incredibly nerve-wracking Braves baseball. 😓
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bryce Harper better watch his back when he gets back to Philly. 😂
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Alyssa Goss: You And I Are Done Pamela
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
D'oh! Thank you!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An amazing molecular mystery…solved!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1 Qb3+ Re6 2 Qxe6# From downtown…swish!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1...Bxf3+ 2 Qxf3 Qxf1# Deflect and win!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh my goodness, this blew my mind. The rate of radical scavenging by kinetin depends on the concentration of its deprotonated form, so a plot of log(k) versus pH looks like a titration curve...! #chemsky pubs.acs.org/joceah/artic...
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bullet is a hell of a drug. 😂 #chesspunks lichess.org/KqgtqxaX/black
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1 Rf3+ Rf7 (1...Ke8 2 Qg8#) 2 Qh8# Although checking with the rook or queen first both seem to work...
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Meonly: Confused Math Lady Meme
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Used to follow you back in the day on Twitter, but I was younger and quieter back then. 😊
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting context!
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh totally. This was for a textbook publisher. One of their books explicitly makes the distinction between alcohols and phenols but the other doesn’t. And the debate rages on…
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oof. So sorry for your loss, Jen. For folks like us, arguing about silly shit can be good medicine. 😊
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Michael Evans @mevans86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1…Qh3+ 2 Rh2 Qf1# Giggity.
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