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Adrian A. Lorenzana
@lorenzana.phd
1.6K followers 3.6K following 1.3K posts
ChemE PhD from UMass interested in polymer architecture, self-assembly, and controlled synthesis
Postdoc in the Chitnis lab
Latino, he/him/él

Website: https://lorenzana.phd
ORCiD: 0000-0002-6517-6897
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It’s not much, but it’s honest work
Adrian’s activity this week on Bluesky. 11 posts, 12 likes, 8 reposts, and 12 follows. Powered by @GetSkyscraper.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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incredible work Apple thank you for this
A screenshot of the WiFi dropdown shade over the system preferences in MacOS. Liquid Glass makes the white text of the WiFi network names completely unreadable against the white background.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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my academic experience
A sort of timeline/plot, with the Y axis being "severity of depression" to "severity of mania." The "data" in the plot vacillates between "it's so over" and "we're so back" over time
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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*dark souls font* LOGO UPDATED
A cartoon of a black cat with a little pink nose playing with a ball in the shape of the classical mayan glyph "kuk," which means "rubber ball." Inside the ball there are some cartoon atoms.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Perfectly normal wire/cable management
A photo of a 350mm Voron 2.4 with a wire hanging down in the middle of the chamber. The tool head is also a rats nest of wires, and the umbilical connected to it is flopping over to one side.
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Linux experience™️
A photo of a Linux desktop, it’s mostly black and covered in visual artifacts
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I should implement the hartree-fock algorithm in mojo
Image of a cat in a suit sitting at a table with a newspaper and cup of tea on a saucer. There are white curtains in the background.
September 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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love it when the timeline syncs up @staceyhauff.bsky.social
Posts by SwiftOnSecurity and Stacey Hauff one after the other, both showing screenshots of their group chats discussing Taylor Swift getting engaged
August 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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preparing for yet another day of race training
Adam Driver in Marriage Story holding his head in his hands and crying
July 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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opening my dissertation again
Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story with red, teary eyes, looking askance
June 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Multi trillion *
A larger man with a thin mustache and square glasses brandishing a knife in a silly combat pose saying “leave alone the multimillion dollar company”
May 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Homer telling Bart “worst day of your life so far”
May 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Jeb Bush in front of an electoral map showing him with 538 electoral college votes, while Trump and Clinton have zero
May 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The average American has three friends:
Three generalized structures, on the left a thiocarbonylthio used for RAFT, in the center a halocarbon used for ATRP, and on the right an aminoxyl used for NMP
May 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I’m back with my favorite too many guys
Verdant Embrace {3}{G}{G} Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has “At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.” Illustrated by Stephen Tappin
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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dodging several economic catastrophes by staying in school until age 31 only to enter the job market under the trump regime
A cartoon of a man using a rake to kick flip down a flight of stairs only to land on it such that it hits him in the face
April 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Same energy
Mark Proksch playing Daniel Wormald in Better Call Saul, standing in front of his flame emblazoned yellow Hummer
March 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Unironically the only thing keeping me right now from switching to a GrapheneOS phone is the capybara icon for Tapestry it’s so good
Cropped image of the top of an iPhone Home Screen showing icons for FaceTime, Skeets, Signal, and Tapestry with the built in capybara icon
February 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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say the line bart!
An image of Susan Collins above a Politico headline. The headline reads "Senate's top appropriator says Elon Musk has gone too far." Underneath that it reads "Susan Collins says she is 'concerned' about Elon Musk and the Trump administration's efforts to control congressional purse strings."
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I was gonna say I’d be shocked if erythrosine was particularly toxic, the other xanthene dyes are so well tolerated
Bonus, xanthene dye spill in my fume hood, think this one was rhodamine
Photo of a large pink stain in a fume hood
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Yes FedEx I'm sure this route makes sense
A screenshot of a map showing FedEx taking a package from Woodbridge, ON, to Memphis, TN. The final destination is Detroit, MI, which is ~4 hrs away from Woodbridge.
January 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I have been doing that
A photo of a human sized dog bed from Floof Couture
January 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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I cannot
A tabby cat holding a blissfully asleep black cat and licking her head
December 16, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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“Swelling experiments were performed in trichlorobenzene”
November 30, 2024 at 11:28 PM