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Joseph Meany

@crimsonalkemist.com

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Science Advisor in Energy and Materials Science; Author, He/Him #matsci, #chemistry, #energy, #climatetech, #space, #renewableenergy, #circulareconomy

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 1d

LIVE NOW:
🔭🧪 Michael "Orbit" Nayak, PhD is giving his lecture on "Applying the DARPA method to becoming an Interstellar Species"

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 2d

🧪🔭IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!

#space #science #IRG2025

Photograph of the stage and screen set up, with the cover art of Distant Worlds, Neighboring Opportunities onscreen

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 2d

🔭🧪What's a space conference without also giving out sci-fi books as swag?

Thanks to Baen Publishing Enterprises for supporting @irg-space.bsky.social!

#space #science

Table of books neatly staged for packing into swag bags.

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Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 4d

Australian whale populations – what a pleasure to read this.

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 4d

🧪🔭Headed out early morning for #IRG2025 in Austin this week.

Distant Worlds, Neighboring Opportunities was the theme that I chose for this year's symposium. I chose it to highlight the need to build a resilient community to support #innovation and drive impactful change. Be kind, crew. #Aerospace

Photograph collage showing Arlington subway station, suitcases, and a selfie

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 4d

Oh yeah just what we need. The elimination of circadian rhythms

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 5d

They're promoting his movie

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 6d

You must bear the ring of power

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 6d

MOFs may have won the Nobel Prize today, but the Grand Moff is still Tarkin #chemistry #ChemNobel #NobelPrize

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 10d

Whats up with Penn? Lmao

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 22d

Just saw "Lithium Rising" about the effects of mining on marginal people. It was well put together, and sobering.

Cover image for the documentary, "Lithium Rising" featuring seven vertical stills of the seven stories contained within the movie

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · 29d

Light between apple trees seems nice

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Sep 14

Turns out, Instant Pots work a whole lot more instantly when you plug them in

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Sep 10

No, but now that I know that's an option I might!

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Sep 10

I recently sat with the folks at the Space Camp planetarium who walked me through the high res data that they have on the martian surface, and they would be giddy on something like this.

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 22

We absolutely love the overlap of science and art. We will be having an art showcase as a part of the events. Thank you for letting me know, and I'll have a look this afternoon. I appreciate this very much, thank you!

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 21

#Space friends, my organization the Interstellar Research Group is having a conference in the middle of October and we are handing out swag to our participants! Does your group or institution have swag? We would love to give it away for you! 🚀🧪

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

At the very least, my least favorite part of ochem can be streamlined! ##ACSFall2025 🧪

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

I wonder what the prediction pipeline would look like coupling this with material property-predicting tools.

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

AI-based Retrosynthesis analysis tools make up fictitious (not literature reported) molecules, allowing synthetic chemists to discover hypothetical materials as targets for monomer synthesis. Very interesting. ##ACSFall2025

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

@jakeyeston.bsky.social How about a spot of golf? Lol

Mini golf course on conference hall floor

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Jeffy 🌿 @jeffreon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Practical projects: One (1) Dyson Sphere with a radius of approximately one light year.

Absurd impossibility: everyone has one (1) house.

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Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

I feel like if I'd had access to High Throughput Experimentation tools during my PhD program, I would have enjoyed it more. ##ACSFALL2025

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

I really like these inflatable pods at #ACSFall2025!

Inflatable structures that look like frosted bundt cakes to create temporary rooms for speakers and sessions

Joseph Meany @crimsonalkemist.com · Aug 19

I'll be around starting tomorrow, and may skeet some of the sessions that I head to. Let me know if you want to say hi!

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