Jake Yeston
@jakeyeston.bsky.social
Editor at @science.org, shepherding chemistry papers; views here are my own; he/him
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Jake Yeston
@jakeyeston.bsky.social
· Mar 10
וגר לא תלחץ ואתם ידעתם את נפש הגר כי גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים
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One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Enough ice has melted off the solar panels that we're finally generating more power than we're using!!!
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Enough ice has melted off the solar panels that we're finally generating more power than we're using!!!
What can you even say about shredding the WaPo staff? Richest guy ever won't backstop news from the capital city. And the craziest part is if they'd bought Wordle it probably would have made a tangible difference. That's where we are. It'll be an essay question in 100 years.
February 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM
What can you even say about shredding the WaPo staff? Richest guy ever won't backstop news from the capital city. And the craziest part is if they'd bought Wordle it probably would have made a tangible difference. That's where we are. It'll be an essay question in 100 years.
Other thing about the new iOS is it now always says I have one unread email when I don’t, and if someone tried to come up with a trivial thing that would drive me completely bananas, they couldn’t have done much better….
February 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Other thing about the new iOS is it now always says I have one unread email when I don’t, and if someone tried to come up with a trivial thing that would drive me completely bananas, they couldn’t have done much better….
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Good night to all the trees and the trees only.
Hope your Rosh Hashanah was a meaningful one and your coming year is a great one!
Hope your Rosh Hashanah was a meaningful one and your coming year is a great one!
February 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Good night to all the trees and the trees only.
Hope your Rosh Hashanah was a meaningful one and your coming year is a great one!
Hope your Rosh Hashanah was a meaningful one and your coming year is a great one!
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House Republicans released a discussion draft (PDF) of a bill to update the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary oversight law for industrial chemicals in the US. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪
Republicans release draft proposal to update TSCA
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s discussion draft of a bill to amend the chemical regulation law is drawing mixed but predictable reactions
cen.acs.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
House Republicans released a discussion draft (PDF) of a bill to update the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary oversight law for industrial chemicals in the US. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi... #chemsky 🧪
The thing is on the one hand it’s very frustrating they’re closing school again but on the other hand every time I’ve tried to walk on a sidewalk for the past week I’ve fallen down, so it’s probably the right call. Just a ridiculously hard kind of snow to clear.
February 2, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The thing is on the one hand it’s very frustrating they’re closing school again but on the other hand every time I’ve tried to walk on a sidewalk for the past week I’ve fallen down, so it’s probably the right call. Just a ridiculously hard kind of snow to clear.
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IMO Molière should be mandatory in Med Chem 😅
February 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
IMO Molière should be mandatory in Med Chem 😅
Also I wrote a final paper where I argued comedies are actually tragic and used the word neanmoins a lot and that’s why it was probably good that I majored in chemistry😭
Not doing the 5 courses thing because I’m opposed to memes that haven’t made me laugh yet but I took a French drama class freshman year with 2 other people in it where we read Molière outside on sunny days and it was probably my favorite course.
February 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Also I wrote a final paper where I argued comedies are actually tragic and used the word neanmoins a lot and that’s why it was probably good that I majored in chemistry😭
Not doing the 5 courses thing because I’m opposed to memes that haven’t made me laugh yet but I took a French drama class freshman year with 2 other people in it where we read Molière outside on sunny days and it was probably my favorite course.
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Not doing the 5 courses thing because I’m opposed to memes that haven’t made me laugh yet but I took a French drama class freshman year with 2 other people in it where we read Molière outside on sunny days and it was probably my favorite course.
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Chocolate cake.
I like chocolate! I like cake! But somehow chocolate cake is almost always the worst cake flavor option.
I like chocolate! I like cake! But somehow chocolate cake is almost always the worst cake flavor option.
Guys, I really need to talk about something dumb and meaningless. What's a universally beloved sweet treat that you think is just mid? For me, it's meringue.
February 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Chocolate cake.
I like chocolate! I like cake! But somehow chocolate cake is almost always the worst cake flavor option.
I like chocolate! I like cake! But somehow chocolate cake is almost always the worst cake flavor option.
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A look at the new MOSAIC paper on an LLM-based system to try to help with predicting synthetic chemical lab procedures:
A New LLM System for Synthesis Planning
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January 30, 2026 at 8:48 PM
A look at the new MOSAIC paper on an LLM-based system to try to help with predicting synthetic chemical lab procedures:
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It is somehow still January
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It is somehow still January
I’m reduced to busting up rock solid snow with a sledge hammer—how’s your day going?
January 27, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I’m reduced to busting up rock solid snow with a sledge hammer—how’s your day going?
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The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 AM
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
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extremely wholesome scenes in my neighborhood (I bet in yours too): kids building snow forts, neighbors freeing each others' cars and sidewalks from ice. nice to get the opposite of the doomscroll in
January 26, 2026 at 10:53 PM
extremely wholesome scenes in my neighborhood (I bet in yours too): kids building snow forts, neighbors freeing each others' cars and sidewalks from ice. nice to get the opposite of the doomscroll in
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
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Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed for applications. cen.acs.org/materials/el... #chemsky 🧪
These quantum switches need a materials makeover
Fixing the materials flaws in quantum computers is key to unlocking their advantage
cen.acs.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed for applications. cen.acs.org/materials/el... #chemsky 🧪
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Because I want them to be worldly and cultured, I'm teaching my kids to make French toast, instead. Exotic.
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Because I want them to be worldly and cultured, I'm teaching my kids to make French toast, instead. Exotic.
10yo currently upset that because of tomorrow’s forecast, school might not actually be canceled on *Tuesday*😭
January 25, 2026 at 1:43 PM
10yo currently upset that because of tomorrow’s forecast, school might not actually be canceled on *Tuesday*😭
Like I was saying a little while ago. These have just enough chocolate chips. Also go great with this rye-finished hickory syrup from Mount Vernon
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Like I was saying a little while ago. These have just enough chocolate chips. Also go great with this rye-finished hickory syrup from Mount Vernon
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You can't spell "Washington" without "Hating Snow."
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
You can't spell "Washington" without "Hating Snow."
In @science.org for chemsky this week, Dave MacMillan’s group use cobalt catalysis to fuse saturated and aromatic rings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Couple-close: Unified approach to semisaturated cyclic scaffolds
Couple-close as a synthetic paradigm has the potential to change the way that synthetic organic chemists approach cyclic scaffold construction. One class of cyclic molecules that has been increasingly...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
In @science.org for chemsky this week, Dave MacMillan’s group use cobalt catalysis to fuse saturated and aromatic rings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...