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Liz Decolvenaere

@tallakahath.bsky.social
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Computational chemist with a focus on QM, Force Fields, and how ML can aid in both. Also: Cosplayer, LARP writer, birder, occasional science communicator, and several other things. She/they.

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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am a very serious real adult scientist, I swear
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In the age of agent-driven experimentation, hypotheses must be treated as cattle, not pets
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
its happening again!
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
To all the reporters harassing caltech MechE alums of '17, including sending unsolicited contacts to the alumnis' *family* because the alum didn't reply to your original unsolicited contacts: 1. You fucking suck 2. The social graph of Caltech doesn't work like that 3. You really fucking suck
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This came through my shitposting social network, and now I'm sad it's not real enough for me to buy into some of these markets paulimarket.com #compchemsky
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PauliMarket — The World's Largest Prediction Market for Chemistry
Bet on the future of chemistry. Nobel prizes, quantum methods, AI breakthroughs, basis set wars, and more.
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This came through my shitposting social network, and now I'm sad it's not real enough for me to buy into some of these markets paulimarket.com #compchemsky
paulimarket.com
PauliMarket — The World's Largest Prediction Market for Chemistry
Bet on the future of chemistry. Nobel prizes, quantum methods, AI breakthroughs, basis set wars, and more.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
lmao 🤌🏾 'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Come build software and ML models with us!
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A new research paper by Ed Glaeser, Sam Silverberg, et al. identifies several fundamental problems with the US bus market: - It’s a duopoly, dominated by Gillig and New Flyer - Foreign (and cheaper) competitors are blocked by federal Buy America rules - Transit agencies customize *everything*
brookings.edu
Paying less for public transit buses | Brookings
This paper proposes three sets of recommendations to reduce the cost of procuring transit buses in America.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I am begging everyone: if you are going to make a product involving cardinals, please talk to literally anyone who looks at birds to know, 1. Those are two *male* cardinals 2. Most seasons of the year is the males are *very* territorial This depiction is highly ornithologically suspect!!!
A photo of the front of the magazine USA Philatelic, showing their new fall stamp with two stylized bright red cardinal birds among greenery.
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The panel I was on about "Where Physics Gets Weird" was featured in the Daily Dragon! I love doing science speaking at Dragon Con each year, and this one was a doozy. I definitely felt like the odd person out as the quantum chemist among a bunch of (astro)physicists, but it was great!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
GUYS. The comment period for the upcoming ACIP meeting ends on the 13TH. If you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. You CAN submit anonymously!
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Simone G 🏳️‍🌈 @sim0ke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
And, of course, we can’t forget about coca!ne
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Simone G 🏳️‍🌈 @sim0ke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Simone G 🏳️‍🌈 @sim0ke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
3rd dragon con in the books, now I’ve finally been convinced to download this app so I can keep in touch with awesome Science track folks. As my first act on this app, please see attached some motivational posters made from some quotes I gathered over the Con.
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Do this!!! And if you want more ballroom content with more seats, mention in the app that Sci Track NEEDS BIGGER ROOMS! It really does help!
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
More Dragon Con notes: everyone needs to appreciate this slide from @tkingfisher.com from her talk on the four sexes of white-throated sparrows at the Solve for X variety show in the Science track ( @dconscitrack.bsky.social )
A PowerPoint slide shown on a projector. The slide shows a busty cartoon woman in the left, with a white-throated sparrow's head (white-striped), and a female gender marker. On the right are two white-throated sparrows indicated as male, one white-striped, one tan-striped. The two male sparrows have voice bubbles saying "would" and "oh yeah".
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It is the time where I travel home from Dragon Con, and emotionally, as well as physically, I am here:
A sculpture of a corn-plane hanging from the ceiling in an airport terminal. The front half of the plane is a corn cob, with wings made of leaves on the stalk, a tail of stalk, and nacelles of smaller corn. The sculpture is titled "Corncorde".
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Dragon Con Science Track @dconscitrack.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Oh, and did you get turned away from a panel you wanted to go to because the room filled up too quickly? Please add a comment in the ratings in the app to let DragonCon know. This could help us get a bigger room in the future so that we don’t have to turn anyone away.
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Dragon Con Science Track @dconscitrack.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Did you attend a Science Track panel this weekend that you loved? Go in the DragonCon app and rate those panels! Your ratings and comments help us to know what types of panels you love and we should do more of in the future!
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Definitely doing less for #dragoncon this year on costumes. Its been A Year and I never get to spend enough time with my friends as I want to while at con. But! I'm still doing plenty with the Science track! Moderating four panels and speaking on a fifth. Who will I see this year? Sound off!
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NPR @npr.org · 06/08/2025
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
ANOTHER earthquake!
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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 05/08/2025
Got my tentative schedule for DragonCon, and FOLKS...
"POKELAW - speculative ethics of Pokemon" - SUNDAY at 1:00 PM.
Panelists: Meredith Rose, Lucas Matos Hernandez, Will Harris, Jess Eppstein, Ryan Consell
Description: Capturing wild animals for bloodsport, using unsupervised preteends for fieldwork, how did any of this get ethics clearance?
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
My god. 1.6%. I knew at some level a lot of it was as scammy as it felt but hearing that number is numbing. Completely emblematic of the ineffectiveness of the Democratic party.
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Earthquake! (in Westchester NY! My second since moving here!)
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In non-work, non-politics news: Almost ready to debut a new secrets-and-powers LARP my co-authors and I have been working on. I'm pretty sure I've cranked out >30k words over the weekend, and there's still a ton to go, but it's getting there!
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A 4th of July like no other in our lifetimes, unfortunately. But despair is not an option:
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The Fourth Of July, 2025
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peteratmsr.bsky.social @peteratmsr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We're excited to reveal this major advance in computational chemistry, an AI model called Skala @MSFTResearch for the exchange-correlation functional, accurate enough, and super fast, for precise in silico predictions of chemical experiments. An early access program is now open.
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Rianne van den Berg @riannevdberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
So proud of this work with our amazing team 🤩
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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
NO KINGS 🇺🇸
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I'll be at Be-Con this year bringing one of my trademark "shitpost turned into a LARP" games! More on which one soon(ish).
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I've been having a great time using Modal at @achira-ai.bsky.social to splat my off-the-shelf QM processing jobs across the cloud without even having to think about it! The one hitch was that I could saturate our receiving client... but not anymore, with how easy modal makes it to batch tasks :D
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Robert M @rmcgibbo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Still missed the train
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Lin Meneguin @linmeneguin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My husband lied to me about the time the train was coming by 7 minutes because he didn’t trust me to be on time! We did need those 7 minutes but not the point, @rmcgibbo.bsky.social
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What bitteren? Just a nice collection of reeds there
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
As someone still masking in a lot of indoor contexts: exactly this
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/04/2025
WATCH: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest U.S. Senate speech. Booker's marathon speech breaks the previous record — Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.
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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.shop · 25/02/2025
Did you know we have a real physical store now? You can visit us in Scranton, Pennsylvania Fridays and Saturdays!
The bright indoor shop floor of Pigeon Post featuring shelves and tables full of art, books, and prints!
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
til @ckennelly.bsky.social can't smell ants (i can smell the ants)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
At the session on protecting science, APS chief external affairs officer, Francis Slakey, notes that APS submitted an amicus brief in this case about federal workers being terminated. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69655...
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Amicus Curiae Brief – #93, Att. #1 in American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-01780) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Leave to File AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF SUPPORTING PLAINTIFFS REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY RELIEF filed by American Physical Society. (Attachments: # 1 Amicus Curiae Brief, # 2 Proposed Order)(Harring...
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Me: why does my body hurt at APS? Also me:
A graph from the poster's fitness tracker, showing an average of 9.74 miles/day walked since Sunday (when the poster arrived at APS)
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
✨conference dinner✨ (don't @ me on the pink Red Bull, it is objectively the best flavor)
Photo of a can of pink Red Bull, And an upside down APS conference badge saying Liz
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d-orbital.bsky.social @d-orbital.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sorry babe, the APS business socks stay ON during business time
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You've heard of girl dinner, and boy dinner, but are you ready for: ✨conference dinner✨ (technically lunch, but time doesn't exist at conferences)
A photo of someone holding a can of (pink, berry flavored) red bull, against a blurry background of a conference session
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
An amazing first day of talks at the APS Global Physics Summit!!! I just wish I had content to present (but changing jobs tends to put a dent in that process). By this time next year tho... 👀 #compchem
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Liz Decolvenaere @tallakahath.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The Dragon Con'er in me is always pleased to see how the ribbon selection at APS gets bigger every year (this booth had a back side with more ribbons!). ...next time I need to bring and drop off a few of my own...
A large display booth showing off a variety of badge ribbons available, a mix of pronoun ribbons and funny ribbons like "Trouble Maker" and "Your Mic Is Muted"
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