Manny I. Fox Morone
@mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social
I edit stories and I wear tacky clothes @ C&EN ⚗️ News, features with freelance reporters: Pitch me. Formerly project, production, and people management. he|him
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I love a good complex natural product. This one has two α-tropolones, 10 asymmetric stereocenters, and a a labile hemiketal. After a longstanding effort, chemists in Seth Herzon's lab have made (–)-gukulenin A. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
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A guide to making gukulenin A
3-component assembly builds a natural product that could fight cancer
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November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I love a good complex natural product. This one has two α-tropolones, 10 asymmetric stereocenters, and a a labile hemiketal. After a longstanding effort, chemists in Seth Herzon's lab have made (–)-gukulenin A. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
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It’s pretty exciting that we might see big auroral displays in Maryland tomorrow night! Last fall, I couldn’t believe how purple the sky got… anyway, if you’re interested in how CMEs and solar flares form, check out the story I wrote last month for C&EN! 🌌☀️
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What causes space weather and how does it affect Earth?
The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly impacts
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November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s pretty exciting that we might see big auroral displays in Maryland tomorrow night! Last fall, I couldn’t believe how purple the sky got… anyway, if you’re interested in how CMEs and solar flares form, check out the story I wrote last month for C&EN! 🌌☀️
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In 2024, Belén González-Gaya tagged along on a tourist cruise to get to Antarctica and study contaminants of emerging concern. Among the chemicals she found were a human metabolite of nicotine, and degradation products of an ingredient in sunscreen. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
To measure Antarctic pollutants, this researcher took a cruise
Belén González-Gaya recounts hitching a ride on a commercial cruise to measure contaminants in a remote region
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November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In 2024, Belén González-Gaya tagged along on a tourist cruise to get to Antarctica and study contaminants of emerging concern. Among the chemicals she found were a human metabolite of nicotine, and degradation products of an ingredient in sunscreen. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
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Yes, there's lead in protein powders. No, there's no known safe level. But, exposure to trace amounts is inevitable, especially since plants naturally take up lead from the environment. And, people disagree on standards for manufacturers. Latest @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
Why scientists found lead in protein powders
Consumers shouldn't panic
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October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Yes, there's lead in protein powders. No, there's no known safe level. But, exposure to trace amounts is inevitable, especially since plants naturally take up lead from the environment. And, people disagree on standards for manufacturers. Latest @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
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"Inclusive design doesn’t just widen participation; it expands the very structure-function relationship of science itself. We all stand to gain from that."
#NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪
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#NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪
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The tools we build become the questions we ask
Why inclusive design is good for more than access—it expands the boundaries of discovery
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October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Inclusive design doesn’t just widen participation; it expands the very structure-function relationship of science itself. We all stand to gain from that."
#NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪
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#NDEAM #DisabledInSTEM #chemsky 🧪
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Years ago, when I began my journey in STEM, I never would have imagined chemists with disabilities like myself would ever been seen as "trailblazers".
Now, I am so grateful that the @acs.org and @cenmag.bsky.social have celebrated chemists with various disabilities in this years Trailblazers issue!
Now, I am so grateful that the @acs.org and @cenmag.bsky.social have celebrated chemists with various disabilities in this years Trailblazers issue!
I admit that when i started working on this project with @kvasquez.bsky.social, i didn’t think i knew any chemists with disabilities 🧵1/ cen.acs.org/people/profi... @cenmag.bsky.social
Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science
C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways
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September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Years ago, when I began my journey in STEM, I never would have imagined chemists with disabilities like myself would ever been seen as "trailblazers".
Now, I am so grateful that the @acs.org and @cenmag.bsky.social have celebrated chemists with various disabilities in this years Trailblazers issue!
Now, I am so grateful that the @acs.org and @cenmag.bsky.social have celebrated chemists with various disabilities in this years Trailblazers issue!
I admit that when i started working on this project with @kvasquez.bsky.social, i didn’t think i knew any chemists with disabilities 🧵1/ cen.acs.org/people/profi... @cenmag.bsky.social
Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science
C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways
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September 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I admit that when i started working on this project with @kvasquez.bsky.social, i didn’t think i knew any chemists with disabilities 🧵1/ cen.acs.org/people/profi... @cenmag.bsky.social
Did you know Dorothy Hodgkin had a disability? I did not! This is a little taster before @cenmag.bsky.social drops our big Trailblazers package featuring chemists with disabilities in Sept: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
8 chemists with disabilities who left their mark on history
Scientists with disabilities ascended to the forefronts of their fields long before labs were accessible and civil rights were codified
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August 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Did you know Dorothy Hodgkin had a disability? I did not! This is a little taster before @cenmag.bsky.social drops our big Trailblazers package featuring chemists with disabilities in Sept: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...
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Researchers have developed a spray that can keep fungi at bay. The nontoxic solution forms an extremely hydrophobic surface coating that makes it harder for fungi to latch on to a surface and kills them if they do take root. cen.acs.org/materials/co... #chemsky 🧪
Nontoxic sprayable coating prevents fungus growth in 2 ways
Food-safe fatty acids keep fungi off surfaces and kill them on contact
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July 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Researchers have developed a spray that can keep fungi at bay. The nontoxic solution forms an extremely hydrophobic surface coating that makes it harder for fungi to latch on to a surface and kills them if they do take root. cen.acs.org/materials/co... #chemsky 🧪
When you run 20 reactions on a stirrer plate, are they all *actually* stirring? Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
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How magnetic stirrers could be reducing your yield
From the lab that found impurities on your stir bar—your flask’s placement on a stirrer plate can mess with your reaction too
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June 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When you run 20 reactions on a stirrer plate, are they all *actually* stirring? Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
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This story will likely take you less time to read than it does to charge an EV. Check out @samlemonick.bsky.social's tech update in C&EN: cen.acs.org/materials/el... @cenmag.bsky.social
Can new chemistry make EVs that charge in 5 min or less?
Battery start-ups and larger labs scrutinize materials in every part of electric vehicle systems, especially anodes
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June 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This story will likely take you less time to read than it does to charge an EV. Check out @samlemonick.bsky.social's tech update in C&EN: cen.acs.org/materials/el... @cenmag.bsky.social
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Nitrogen allotropes are rare. A new one just dropped. Read about the work from Peter R. Schreiner, Artur Mardyukov, and Weiyu Qian in my latest piece for @cenmag.bsky.social
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A new nitrogen allotrope has been created at last
Chemists string 6 nitrogen atoms together to make hexanitrogen
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June 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Nitrogen allotropes are rare. A new one just dropped. Read about the work from Peter R. Schreiner, Artur Mardyukov, and Weiyu Qian in my latest piece for @cenmag.bsky.social
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When is a knot not a knot? Enter perplexanes, molecules my mind is not meant to understand.
Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
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Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
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June 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When is a knot not a knot? Enter perplexanes, molecules my mind is not meant to understand.
Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Pe... @cenmag.bsky.social
Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Pe... @cenmag.bsky.social
See how @laureloldach.bsky.social covers the news LIVE for @cenmag.bsky.social 👀
Covering this morning's Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the FY26 budget request from NIH.
June 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
See how @laureloldach.bsky.social covers the news LIVE for @cenmag.bsky.social 👀
In 2020, we hoped this wasn't going to become an "evergreen" story so soon.
Back in 2020, when protesters gathered around the country calling for the end of police brutality and were met with tear gas and pepper spray, my colleague @craigofwaffles.bsky.social reported on the chemistry of such riot-control agents. The story still seems pertinent: cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...
Tear gas and pepper spray: What protesters need to know
Experts discuss the use and chemistry of the riot-control agents and how to neutralize their effects
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June 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In 2020, we hoped this wasn't going to become an "evergreen" story so soon.
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Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025!
Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself.
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#chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter
Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself.
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#chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter
June 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025!
Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself.
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#chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter
Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself.
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#chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter
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Meanwhile in the rest of the world, they are celebrating scientific progress instead of dismantling it. (Hong Kong based prize for a Munich based researcher)
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Shaw Prize honors cryo-electron tomography innovator
Max Planck Institute biochemist Wolfgang Baumeister will receive $1.2 million
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May 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Meanwhile in the rest of the world, they are celebrating scientific progress instead of dismantling it. (Hong Kong based prize for a Munich based researcher)
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I am grateful to @rowanwalrath.bsky.social, @helenbranswell.bsky.social, @melodyschreiber.com and all the other reporters covering this today for giving me a chance to book a CVS appointment today before the bottom falls out, which would leave my 3rd trimester unboosted
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US CDC drops COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant people
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sidesteps advisory committee in changing immunization schedule
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May 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am grateful to @rowanwalrath.bsky.social, @helenbranswell.bsky.social, @melodyschreiber.com and all the other reporters covering this today for giving me a chance to book a CVS appointment today before the bottom falls out, which would leave my 3rd trimester unboosted
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Chili peppers are holding back their true power. Read
@samlemonick.bsky.social's latest in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/Hot-pep...
@samlemonick.bsky.social's latest in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/Hot-pep...
Hot peppers have 3 chemicals that actually make them less spicy
Farmers might be able to breed less-pungent chilis by boosting the levels of these compounds
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May 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Chili peppers are holding back their true power. Read
@samlemonick.bsky.social's latest in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/Hot-pep...
@samlemonick.bsky.social's latest in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/Hot-pep...
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Here's a Q&A with chemical oceanographer Sambuddha Misra for Chemical & Engineering News @cenmag.bsky.social
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Sambuddha Misra spotted a doubling in the Indian Ocean’s lead levels
The chemical oceanographer reconstructed a 24-year history of pollution
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May 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Here's a Q&A with chemical oceanographer Sambuddha Misra for Chemical & Engineering News @cenmag.bsky.social
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Nominate this year's @cenmag.bsky.social Trailblazers! We will be featuring the work of chemists with disabilities and highlighting how they make their workspaces accessible. Before June 4, use this form to tell us about who inspires you—maybe even yourself? :)
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May 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Nominate this year's @cenmag.bsky.social Trailblazers! We will be featuring the work of chemists with disabilities and highlighting how they make their workspaces accessible. Before June 4, use this form to tell us about who inspires you—maybe even yourself? :)
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I'm helping lead @cenmag.bsky.social's Trailblazers 2025, and I want you 🫵 to nominate a chemist with disabilities for us to feature. Before June 4, fill out this form and recognize a chemist who inspires you: cenm.ag/nominatetrai...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'm helping lead @cenmag.bsky.social's Trailblazers 2025, and I want you 🫵 to nominate a chemist with disabilities for us to feature. Before June 4, fill out this form and recognize a chemist who inspires you: cenm.ag/nominatetrai...
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This engineer drives a water-cleaning lab around the US
Tzahi Cath's lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
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#ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay
Tzahi Cath's lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
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#ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay
This engineer drives a water-cleaning lab around the US
Tzahi Cath's lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
cen.acs.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This engineer drives a water-cleaning lab around the US
Tzahi Cath's lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
cen.acs.org/environment/...
#ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay
Tzahi Cath's lab on wheels turns effluent from wastewater treatment plants into drinkable water
cen.acs.org/environment/...
#ChemistsCelebrateEarthWeek #CCEW #EarthDay2025 #EarthDay
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This is the best-sourced reporting on what we should all call the Colossal Dire Wolf Debacle™️ from now on. Chapeau to @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social over at @cenmag.bsky.social for shedding some light on what went down...
#ExtinctionIsForever
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#ExtinctionIsForever
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Dire wolf debate raises concerns on scientific overhype
Even de-extinction advocates say that Colossal Biosciences’ claims are misleading
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April 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is the best-sourced reporting on what we should all call the Colossal Dire Wolf Debacle™️ from now on. Chapeau to @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social over at @cenmag.bsky.social for shedding some light on what went down...
#ExtinctionIsForever
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#ExtinctionIsForever
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