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Jake Janey

@phlogiston1.bsky.social
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Synthetic Organic Chemist. biocatalysis, automation, and data. Leads Research IT at a big biotech in Seaport Boston. Hobbies involve being exhausted by a kindergartner, a large Great Pyrenees, and a Finnish Lapphund puppy #ChemSky #Chemistry #Software

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6h
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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HPLC Column Reverse Flushed Against Its Will
HOUSTON, TX—An HPLC column confirmed Tuesday that it had been reverse flushed without its consent, describing the experience as “violating” and “completely unnecessary.” “The manual is very clear…
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"I really like free speech. I love how I get to say anything I want, and it’s totally fine, no problem. I don’t like when you do that, though. I only like it when I do it, or when people do it the way I told them to do it. That’s when I really like free speech." buff.ly/grNcahK
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I Like Free Speech So Much That I’ve Decided It’s Just Mine Now
“I like so many things about free speech. I like that my friends on TV can say they want to kill homeless people and then keep showing up for work like nothi...
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bluesky User Surprised Fascists Won’t Fund His R01
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Molecular biologist and social media influencer Dr.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration tries - yet again - to get federal research research funding under its ideological control. Let’s defeat it like we did the last one!
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Yet Another Attempt to Strangle Scientific Funding
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Applications to the UChicago PhD program are open! chemistry.uchicago.edu/graduate-pro... Please check out the information sessions too - anyone who *registers* *and* *attends* an info session will get a fee waiver code sent to them after the session!
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Classic chemistry films... #chemsky @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
A parody of the movie "Corvette Summer". it is a movie poster that says "Cuvette Summer".  The stars, Mark Hamill and Annie Potts are standing on a cuvette as opposed to a corvette.
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Took the family on a ride up the cog railway to the peak of Mount Washington. 157 year old line with a 117 year old steam engine. “Peak” fun and mild weather.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/09/2026
"We're the party of Lincoln. The party of small government and personal freedom. But the time has finally come to say this: when Grand Chancellor Trump demands that he be bathed in the blood of the impure, it concerns me. Look at how I’m frowning. You can tell I am concerned." buff.ly/mm4gN3K
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I’m a Moderate, Sane Republican Who is Very Concerned With Grand Chancellor Trump’s Demand to Be Bathed In the Blood of the Impure
“Today I, along with my Republican colleagues at the Imperial Figurehead Parliament say this in the strongest terms: America is not about extracting the bloo...
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Regev Daughter Bags Science Fair Win, Edges Baking Soda Volcano With Single-Cell Atlas Of Murine Tumor Microenvironment
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Genentech head of Research and Early Development Aviv Regev confirmed Tuesday that her 12-year-old daughter independently conceived, designed, and executed a 450,000-cell…
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Michael Gilman @gilman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Priceless
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Grape nuts. Like eating gravel. My revenge was having it break my braces and parents having to pay to get them repaired.
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Steve @tnsteve.com · 12/09/2026
Happy to help translate trump bullshit for you.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/09/2026
"Take staircases, for example. A person might be walking down a staircase, trip, and wham! Dead. It’s sad, but it happens. And if that can happen to one person, isn’t there a non-zero chance that it could happen to every human being on Earth in the next decade?" buff.ly/gxvK6pV
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Technically, There Is a Non-Zero Chance That Anything Might Kill Off Humanity in the Next Decade: A Response from Anthropic’s Claude
“Human lives are fragile. A piano might fall on a person’s head. A person might get mistaken for a piñata at a birthday party and get beaten to death. An aut...
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh #NYC how I miss you. (Credit WhatIsNewYork on insta)
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is absolute Dear Leader shit, the sort of nauseating stuff that the flunkies put together in the last years of a horrible personality cult. Let's bring back a country where demented bootlicking like this never appears again. Where it's foul and stupid and shameful.
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/2026
7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 8 a.m. I go to my corner bodega for a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese. On the way, I get mugged. 9 a.m. I get on the subway and immediately get murdered. buff.ly/puREmHa
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A Day in the Life of a New Yorker, According to My Fox News-Watching Florida Family Members
7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
oh boy
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/09/2026
"The screen looks back at her, unforgiving and brutal as the nature that lies forgotten outside her window." (Happy birthday, Werner!) buff.ly/7DgmET2
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Werner Herzog Narrates My Life As a Graduate Student
There is a woman who waits in the darkness for the same bus each morning. Another woman stands stands nearby, in front of the graffiti-covered advertisement ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/09/2026
"Generic State has more students involved in Greek organizations than several current Dark Academia institutions have in their entire student body. We believe these more than fulfill the criteria regarding both violence and hedonism." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gen...
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Generic State University Pivots to Dark Academia
“Generic State University has been proudly upholding its mission to provide opportunities and build character in all students since its founding. Now, we tur...
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poondonkus @poondonkus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
one of my favorite photos: Arnold Schwarzenegger (middle) posed with Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant.
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Anthropic Expands AI For Science Program In Hopes Someone Will Love It
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Anthropic announced an expansion of their new AI for Science initiative Thursday in the hope that helping cure diseases might make people feel warmly toward the artificial…
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The (alleged) dimethylmercury incident at MIT: thoughts based on whywe know so far:
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The Alleged Dimethylmercury Incident
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026
"I’m not trying to scare anyone, but the beer might be bitter, watery, and have virtually no notes of caramel or citrus. Trust me, people, if you try that stuff, you’re gonna freak out." buff.ly/9ICei7z
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Sorry to Interrupt This Wilco Festival, but There Are Some Bad IPAs Going Around
“I’m not trying to scare anyone, but the beer might be bitter, watery, and have virtually no notes of caramel or citrus. Trust me, people, if you try that st...
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steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When you click on this article you’re offered a “beginners guide to betting” before reading the article, good shit ESPN
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
More info here: emergency.mit.net
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That’s really not good #Chemsky #Chemistry #Safety www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/29/m...
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MIT student hospitalized after being exposed to dimethyl mercury, city of Cambridge says - The Boston Globe
Late Wednesday night, officials at Massachusetts General Brigham said a person who had possibly been exposed to mercury was being treated.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Dolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccine" 🔹The Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library provide scholarships and books to children worldwide. 🔹Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine research.
Imagination Library: A black-and-white portrait of a smiling Dolly Parton. The text notes that she launched the program in 1995 to mail free books to children up to age 5. By June 2025, it had gifted over 284 million books globally, with no income requirements or qualifications.Funding the COVID Vaccine: A color photograph of Dolly Parton at a microphone. The text states that in April 2020, less than a month after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, she donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to fund Moderna's vaccine research, later getting her own shot on camera.
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is a process appreciation post. It’s the next morning and I haven’t stopped thinking about how I learned in Tiffany Piou’s talk that the highlighted sentence fragment below about the decanoate sums up A YEAR AND A HALF of intense, sophisticated innovation chemsky
Finally, the hemisuberate salt 1a was extracted as bicarbonate salt followed by treatment with decanoic acid and crystallization….
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/08/2026
"Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened before? A method or tradition for studying prior events? No, that’s impossible. That’s not in the modules." buff.ly/AGaHs7b
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Our University Does Not Require Books, Paper, or Human Knowledge
“Such a radical shakeup in learning has never happened before, as far as I know. Is there even a way to learn about whether or not something has happened bef...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/08/2026
During first-year orientation at UChicago I remember everyone saying "Oh my God it SO nice to be with SO MANY smart people" while having the "oh shit they're ALL as smart as me" look in their eyes (yes me too). We all got over it, but, yeah, recognizing you're no longer "the smart one" is a thing
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/08/2026
I was IQ tested when I was a kid and rode that high until Briggs-Myers tests came into vogue and then I reveled in being an INTP and now I recognize that both are basically the nerd equivalents of zodiac signs, but then that's a very Taurus thing to say, isn't it
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is really peak #Boston #Running
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
…so, the arsonist has set a bunch of fires and graciously offered to put one of them out?
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
100% Been saying this forever. How can you objectively measure a property that people struggle to even define? (More true of a Myers-Briggs type of tests, which I may have been very vocal about at previous employers that required people to take them.)
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Woman Experiences Fleeting Joy As Scale Reads Exact Target Number
SEATTLE, WA—Holding her breath as the analytical balance stabilized Monday morning, University of Washington graduate student Aubrey Smith, 27, experienced a fleeting moment of pure joy as the digital...
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Uniqure CEO Still Not Sure How To Pronounce Company's Name
LEXINGTON, MA—Trailing off midway through an introduction at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference and then restarting with a slightly different pronunciation, Uniqure executives confirmed Tuesday they...
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What is the heterocyclic variant of carbonyl olefination? Today we report isoxazole-to-pyrrole O-to-C replacement - check out the full story here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's Ties Getting Longer With Each Public Appearance
BETHESDA, MD—Expressing growing concern about a trend that has accelerated markedly since his confirmation in March, aides to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya confirmed Tuesday that the director’s neckties...
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is this parody? Hard to tell
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Picked up peach flavored Coke from Teso Life in Boston today….must say it is good on a very different way
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Too true…
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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David Sinclair Issues Warning About Health Misinformation; David Sinclair
BOSTON, MA—Expressing grave concern about the spread of bogus medical claims online, Harvard longevity researcher Dr.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy!
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This transported me back in time. I forgot what a f-ing amazing song this is. Added to my playlist.
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Wendi Aarons @wendiaarons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Dance partner in a high-end pharmaceutical commercial." @mcsweeneys.net
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How Gen X Can Make Money in This Economy
“Dance partner in a high-end pharmaceutical commercial.” 6/2/26
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
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Jake Janey @phlogiston1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Saw a lot of people buying this today. I must say, this is exceptional #FanTuan I know nothing about this other than it seems like a very popular breakfast food in Taiwan and I am now addicted to it as well. #Newton #MA #CrystalBakery
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