Manny I. Fox Morone
@mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social
I edit stories and I wear tacky clothes @ C&EN ⚗️ Freelance reporters: Pitch me news and features. Formerly project, production, and people management. he|him. Views are mine
Since editing this piece, i have wasted a lot of time watching videos of careen through his mass spec lab. Victoria Atkinson profiled him excellently for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Ben Katz showed the internet that some vegetables aren't vegetarian
His work has revealed a lack of transparency in fruit- and vegetable-based products
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Researchers have developed a small-molecule glue that not only bonds strongly to nonstick surfaces but is easily removed with ethanol: cen.acs.org/materials/ad... #chemsky 🧪
DCM has been here the whole time...but will its newfound amide-coupling abilities be a game changer? Yet another new thing from me @cenmag.bsky.social : cen.acs.org/synthesis/re...
Dichloromethane was an amide coupling reagent this whole time
Chemists make simple amides using only inexpensive lab chemicals
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ICYMI: Update on the helium scramble caused by the war in Iran. Asia is shopping for North American helium, supplies are getting shaky in Europe, and GCMS is hit harder for now than NMR. cen.acs.org/business/spe... #helium #chemistry #NMR #GCMS #Iran #news
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"Although some may find joy in the music of the digestive tract, there are more pleasing sounds you can make by forcing gas through a constrained space. Look no further than the venerable pipe organ." #chemsky 🧪
Data discovered in surprising places
There’s scientific information right under your nose, but some smells better than others
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Ultrasound-activated nanoparticles breach bacterial biofilms: When hit with low-frequency ultrasound, the nanoparticles release antibiotics deep inside bacterial communities. #chemsky 🧪
Ultrasound-activated nanoparticles breach bacterial biofilms
When hit with low-frequency ultrasound, the nanoparticles release antibiotics deep inside bacterial communities
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Diagnosing bacterial infections deep inside your tissues can be highly invasive, requiring procedures such as tissue biopsies or blood cultures. Now researchers have made strides toward solving this issue. #chemsky 🧪
A breath test reveals infections deep inside tissues of mice
Bacteria turn sugars labeled with carbon-13 into detectable carbon dioxide, quickly identifying infections in mice
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Biologists would love to know exactly what happens inside a cell, but measuring every cellular process simultaneously is impossible. That’s why they turn to simulations, like this one, which tracks how a bacterial cell divides into two: cen.acs.org/physical-che... #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
Looking for some #FridayFun? I highly recommend @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social's #Newscripts column in @cenmag.bsky.social. It's full of data delights. #chemsky cen.acs.org/biological-c...
Data discovered in surprising places
There’s scientific information right under your nose, but some smells better than others
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How do test subjects feel about wearing a bonafide fart-rate monitor? @brantleyhall.bsky.social says: “At some point, Fitbit was weird, right? We got over it.” Read about it in C&EN: cen.acs.org/biological-c... @cenmag.bsky.social
Data discovered in surprising places
There’s scientific information right under your nose, but some smells better than others
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In editing this script, i got to revisit what is perhaps my favorite piece of science journalism: www.fastcompany.com/3008346/deep...
Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco
From handshake deals to experiments at Home Depot, the history of Taco Bell's disruptive faux cheese-dusted taco.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 4mo agoEach month, ChemReels features science communicators diving into chemistry subjects you've been curious about, with all the technical detail intact. Join Ruha Tacey as she guides us through the chemistry and engineering challenges at work in updating the Doritos formula. #ChemReels #chemsky 🧪
Only 2% of your serotonin is in your brain, and I've got questions. Read Elizabeth Hlavinka's feature breaking it all down in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
Serotonin’s role in mental health is more complex than we thought
Recent research has opened the debate on whether chemical imbalances cause depression, anxiety, and other conditions
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One by one, hospitals are abandoning trans kids as they preemptively cave to HHS threats over Medicaid/Medicare funding. They ought to consider the terrible message walking away from some kids sends about their dedication to caring for all of them. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):
Hospitals Are Walking Away From Trans Kids. They Shouldn’t
Over the last year, through fear and intimidation, the Trump administration has succeeded in shrinking transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming care. One by one, programs that previously se...
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Looking for some #FridayFun? In the latest #Newscripts for @cenmag.bsky.social, Prachi Patel tells tales of two crystals. cen.acs.org/materials/Gr...
Growing crystals tiny and large
Edison unknowingly created graphene, and students meticulously produce a copper sulfate colossus
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Gotta love a new big ol’ sheet of carbon 😙👌
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 5mo agoResearchers have prepared flat, porous sheets of just carbon and hydrogen arranged in a hexagonal network. The 2D material is the first crystalline covalent organic framework (COF) with an all-carbon backbone. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/2-... #chemsky 🧪
Journalists lost a lot of public trust when politicians turned the term “fake news” (a term journalists came up with!) into a weapon. Similar things have been happening in the language of science. I got to spew a bit about it in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/sc...
As always @markpeplow.bsky.social's stories spark curiosity, but this one about cuprocene also sparked debate: sandwich or hot dog? Well, cuprocene is definitively a sandwich. If you're looking for something to argue about, this californium complex seems more hot-doggish: cen.acs.org/physical-che...
Californium complex offers bonding insights
Unusually orange crystal contains a californium-carbon bond that is largely ionic
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 6mo agoCuprocene is the first neutral, stable copper metallocene, created by a team led by William J. Evans, an organometallic chemist at the University of California, Irvine. cen.acs.org/synthesis/cu... #chemsky 🧪
Hope that one day my capable colleagues will have a say in the direction that C&EN is headed. Here we go …
@cenguild.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
I've been at C&EN for over four years and I can genuinely say our staff is some of the most thoughtful, dedicated people I've ever worked with. With @cenguild.bsky.social, we can make sure we're all supported in our effort to keep putting out our unique brand of high-quality science journalism!
@cenguild.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6
In the age of gpt, i appreciate this edit more than i used to. Feels quaint but necessary. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0d...
Paul McCartney by 'Wonderful Christmastime' but all the lyrics are THE MOON IS RIGHT
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I think it says a lot about the current moment that we chose molecule that is surprisingly holding itself together despite a thermodynamic incentive to break down...
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe asked, you voted! Hexanitrogen is your 2025 Molecule of the Year! To get all the details on the spectacular finalists, check out our full coverage at cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo... #chemsky 🧪
Final round of the bracket closes on Sunday. VOTE!
Manny I. Fox Morone@mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe're getting to the end of 2025, so why not: We made a bracket. VOTE on our best science photos. These scientists ... man, are they doin' some wild stuff! #CENChempics @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/sc...
I don’t know who needs to hear this…so I’m not going to say it until I have better info
It's that time again: C&EN's molecule of the year poll is now open! Vote for your favorite molecule of 2025: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo... #chemsky 🧪
I know #chemsky was dabbling in the #mincup @mineralcup.bsky.social . Now we have our own bracket. Vote for your favorite chempics!
Manny I. Fox Morone@mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe're getting to the end of 2025, so why not: We made a bracket. VOTE on our best science photos. These scientists ... man, are they doin' some wild stuff! #CENChempics @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/sc...
We're getting to the end of 2025, so why not: We made a bracket. VOTE on our best science photos. These scientists ... man, are they doin' some wild stuff! #CENChempics @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/education/sc...
Our first-ever Chempics Bracket is here. Vote for your favorite science photo
Only one photo will emerge victorious
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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 cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
A guide to making gukulenin A
3-component assembly builds a natural product that could fight cancer
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