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Jake Janey

@phlogiston1.bsky.social

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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Latest posts by phlogiston1.bsky.social on Bluesky

Angry as hell as I fill out my taxes and think about where my $ are going to. Also, when my accountant asked if I want to open a “Trump Account” for my child with a “free” $1000…had to bite my tongue to prevent myself from dropping a series of F bombs before answering NO

18.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

17.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 1834    🔁 525    💬 23    📌 9
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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Academia When You’re Six Raccoons Living in a Fjällräven Parka Imposter syndrome is real. In a competitive field like academia, everybody feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a nas...

In a competitive field like academia, everyone feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a bad comment from a student, or being shooed away by campus security when you get caught eating apple cores and chicken bones out of the dining hall dumpster at 3 a.m.

17.02.2026 02:20 — 👍 110    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 5
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Why Is Everyone So Angry? This Is What We Voted for, Right? I don’t get what everyone on all sides is so angry about. Isn’t this exactly what the country voted for? Do we not remember the affordability cris...

"Surely, a silent majority thought the White House needed to be desecrated to build an enormous ballroom to host some Caligula Chamber of Commerce convention of oil executives, Nazis, crypto weirdos, and for-profit preachers."

14.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 89    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

sigh

11.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 10521    🔁 2577    💬 82    📌 36

Enjoyed it much more than The Martian

13.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating Trump SAN FRANCISCO—Heralding what it called a “bold new age” in warping the mind of the nation’s elderly leader, OpenAI introduced a new premium video generator Thursday marketed toward White House advisor...

“Our new Stephen video generator is an easy, user-friendly text-to-video model that can create clips up to two minutes long and will easily trick the commander-in-chief into believing Mexico has deployed nuclear weapons on the U.S. border,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

13.02.2026 01:30 — 👍 1099    🔁 144    💬 18    📌 12
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 8851    🔁 2748    💬 48    📌 243
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

11.02.2026 00:37 — 👍 330    🔁 156    💬 8    📌 21

STOP BEING REASONABLE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS, TORTURING CHILDREN, ENGAGING IN DOMESTIC STATE TERRORISM, AND COMMITTING MURDER

10.02.2026 04:16 — 👍 1067    🔁 241    💬 15    📌 7
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I’m Correlation—Here’s Why I Shot Causation at a Harvard Medical School Conference I know you think I’m evil. And a copycat. But I assure you, I’ve wanted to take out Causation long before Relative Risk stabbed Absolute Risk in th...

"I know you think I’m evil. And a copycat. But I assure you, I’ve wanted to take out Causation long before Relative Risk stabbed Absolute Risk in the back at last month’s Stanford talk on the lethality of packaged, ready-to-eat kale."

09.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 46    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Tech Jargon Translations “We’re revolutionizing communication.” We’re putting cameras and microphones in your home. “Helping people forge connections.” This app alienates ...

“Helping people forge new connections.”
A fuck app.

“A new way to invest.”
An S&P 500 fund.

“Decentralized currency.”
Money you can use to buy drugs.

08.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 140    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 1
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Notes on “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor Hi, Axl — Just got your manuscript and demo for the song “Sweet Child O’ [sic] Mine.” I think we need to talk. As your editor, I am responsible for...

It's Axl Rose's birthday today, so no better way to celebrate than by sharing this classic @johnmoe.bsky.social piece.

06.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 85    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1

I was an extra in that movie. They shot one of the lecture scenes in the chemistry lecture hall at UChicago

06.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

04.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 6698    🔁 2465    💬 59    📌 234
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ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family CHICAGO—Saying he couldn’t remember the last time an immigration raid had been so convenient, fast, or fun, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Mark Hammond reportedly scored an easy win Monday ...

“It was awesome. I was able to do the raid without leaving my home and ship my family off to an immigrant detention center all before 9 a.m.” said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Mark Hammond

04.02.2026 00:30 — 👍 2183    🔁 317    💬 28    📌 17
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Hospital Evacuated After Frenchman Gets Live WWI Artillery Shell In Stuck In His Butt - Jalopnik Eventually, the shell, which dated back to 1918, was declared safe.

I have so many questions and not sure I want to hear the answers www.jalopnik.com/2091854/hosp...

03.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

03.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 11457    🔁 3348    💬 306    📌 876
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Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

03.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 394    🔁 162    💬 19    📌 20

The GOP should really go with this winning message in the midterms

03.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

WTF…George? Really?

02.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

31.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 4021    🔁 2191    💬 63    📌 120

Proud of my old home. This town is a couple of miles away from where I grew up.

31.01.2026 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

31.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 2585    🔁 1196    💬 11    📌 61

he always had trouble with anti-virus measures

31.01.2026 01:14 — 👍 4744    🔁 945    💬 47    📌 25
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The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

29.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 30621    🔁 5017    💬 592    📌 314
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So the reviews are in #Melania Really needs to be on #MST3K

29.01.2026 00:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

27.01.2026 21:30 — 👍 35894    🔁 12878    💬 638    📌 341

ICE has killed 9 folks in the first 26 days of ‘26:

• Alex Pretti
• Renee Good
• Keith Porter
• Heber Sanchaz Domínguez
• Victor Manuel Diaz
• Parady La
• Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
• Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
• Geraldo Lunas Campos

They all deserve justice. And for us to remember their names.

26.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 2339    🔁 1321    💬 15    📌 21
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

25.01.2026 15:47 — 👍 50127    🔁 16376    💬 1165    📌 634

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