Adrian A. Lorenzana
@adrianlorenzana.ca
ChemE PhD from UMass interested in polymer architecture, mechanochemistry, and vitrimers
Postdoc in the Chitnis lab
Latino, he/him/él
Website: https://adrianlorenzana.ca
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897
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Postdoc in the Chitnis lab
Latino, he/him/él
Website: https://adrianlorenzana.ca
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897
🇨🇦🇺🇸🇭🇳
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Allo! Time for a new #introduction.
I’m a latino and doctor of chemical engineering. I study polymer mechanochemistry and bottlebrushes, and want to get a bit into exploring vitrimers and the catalysis involved. I *love* synthesis. I have more hobbies than any person should.
I’m a latino and doctor of chemical engineering. I study polymer mechanochemistry and bottlebrushes, and want to get a bit into exploring vitrimers and the catalysis involved. I *love* synthesis. I have more hobbies than any person should.
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GAYCORNS!! 💕 There is a very special charity stream coming up on Tuesday Dec 2nd. Jen and Aliona will be playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for @warchilduk.bsky.social & @jinglejam.co.uk and they won't be doing it alone! They'll be joined by Ben Starr & Kirsty Rider!🤩 Join us on Twitch at 7PM GMT 🙌
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
GAYCORNS!! 💕 There is a very special charity stream coming up on Tuesday Dec 2nd. Jen and Aliona will be playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for @warchilduk.bsky.social & @jinglejam.co.uk and they won't be doing it alone! They'll be joined by Ben Starr & Kirsty Rider!🤩 Join us on Twitch at 7PM GMT 🙌
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This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is great. More please! The more folk who rely on LLMs for funding planning means my chances go up even before I submit!
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👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
👇🎯 Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
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You too can become an enemy of your government.
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
You too can become an enemy of your government.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
1/2
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www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
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Still among my favorite science memes lol
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Still among my favorite science memes lol
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Five more capybara babies born at the Cape May Zoo! www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Five more capybara babies born at the Cape May Zoo! www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...
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"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Western civilization," the font, the 11 stars - 11 states in the confederacy, for the record.
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
Why is this never news? Why are we letting our government agencies do this sort of thing while the news agencies report on hallucinated trade deals and act like everything is normal
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“Career officials in the office overseeing sanctions at the Treasury Department have at times learned details of Witkoff’s meetings with Moscow from their British counterparts.”
This is one of the most important exposés published in WSJ in several years, and it derives from intercepts and analyses by foreign intelligence services studying the conduct of Trump and his inner team. It's first and foremost a wake up call to the people of the United States.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Career officials in the office overseeing sanctions at the Treasury Department have at times learned details of Witkoff’s meetings with Moscow from their British counterparts.”
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There. Is. No. Plan.
But the only way to communicate to voters, parents, students, etc. that there is no plan for cutting 20-25% of every R1 university's budget is for our university leaders to be out, loudly & collectively talking about this. The silence is maddening.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
But the only way to communicate to voters, parents, students, etc. that there is no plan for cutting 20-25% of every R1 university's budget is for our university leaders to be out, loudly & collectively talking about this. The silence is maddening.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Just pointing out how grim the funding situation is. If an institution fights you have no idea where future grants are coming from. Harvard won in court and is still telling researchers to cut everything 20% because they don’t know what happens next. Somehow everybody has to make it to Jan 2029
Yes I agree with this. The problem for grant-dependent researchers is that even if they win in court to get their illegally withheld funds, they’re sure to be denied any new grants by these corrupted agencies. 2026-2028 will be a killing field as institutions hemorrhage their research apparatus
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There. Is. No. Plan.
But the only way to communicate to voters, parents, students, etc. that there is no plan for cutting 20-25% of every R1 university's budget is for our university leaders to be out, loudly & collectively talking about this. The silence is maddening.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
But the only way to communicate to voters, parents, students, etc. that there is no plan for cutting 20-25% of every R1 university's budget is for our university leaders to be out, loudly & collectively talking about this. The silence is maddening.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Lopez Belloza, who is staying with her grandparents in Honduras, told the Boston Globe she had been looking forward to telling her parents and younger sisters about her first semester studying business.
“That was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“That was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order
Student ‘heartbroken’ after being sent to Honduras while trying to travel from Boston to Texas, attorney says
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lopez Belloza, who is staying with her grandparents in Honduras, told the Boston Globe she had been looking forward to telling her parents and younger sisters about her first semester studying business.
“That was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“That was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Look, everybody! Northwestern is run by a bunch of shitbird cowards!
$160 shipping to Victoria for a $160 item 😪
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
$160 shipping to Victoria for a $160 item 😪
BRO
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
BRO
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Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.
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Every university, every law firm, or every corporation that bends the knee chooses to do so in the face of one of the most unpopular governments.
Now is the time to fight not surrender.
Now is the time to fight not surrender.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every university, every law firm, or every corporation that bends the knee chooses to do so in the face of one of the most unpopular governments.
Now is the time to fight not surrender.
Now is the time to fight not surrender.
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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🚀 Publication Alert!
In this work, we introduce a new strategy for developing tertiary amine–based prodrugs with dual functionality:
1️⃣ Signal-triggered drug activation
2️⃣ Covalent incorporation into polymer materials via a built-in clickable azido group
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
In this work, we introduce a new strategy for developing tertiary amine–based prodrugs with dual functionality:
1️⃣ Signal-triggered drug activation
2️⃣ Covalent incorporation into polymer materials via a built-in clickable azido group
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Nucleophile-triggered prodrug release from polymer hydrogels
We present a new method to obtain tertiary amine-based prodrugs with dual functionality, enabling (i) signal-triggered drug activation and (ii) covalent incorporation in polymer materials through a cl...
pubs.rsc.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚀 Publication Alert!
In this work, we introduce a new strategy for developing tertiary amine–based prodrugs with dual functionality:
1️⃣ Signal-triggered drug activation
2️⃣ Covalent incorporation into polymer materials via a built-in clickable azido group
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
In this work, we introduce a new strategy for developing tertiary amine–based prodrugs with dual functionality:
1️⃣ Signal-triggered drug activation
2️⃣ Covalent incorporation into polymer materials via a built-in clickable azido group
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
It’s in nature?!
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s in nature?!
but do you satisfy Hückel's rule 🤔
my spellchecker correcting "aromantic" to "aromatic" should be considered a hate crime.
I'M NOT STINKY, I JUST DON'T GET ROMANCE, OKAY? STOP CALLING ME NAMES, COMPUTER
I'M NOT STINKY, I JUST DON'T GET ROMANCE, OKAY? STOP CALLING ME NAMES, COMPUTER
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
but do you satisfy Hückel's rule 🤔