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Manny I. Fox Morone

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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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Blaine Fiss, PhD @canukchemist.bsky.social · 22d

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!

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

Ok, if you can’t read all of this year’s profiles, *at least* click through a couple of them and peek at the portraits and photos for the package. Damn i wish i looked that good cen.acs.org/people/profi...

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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

I just liked this one about Karl Booksh. He realizes that doing experiments is hard, so he’s using machine learning to avoid the need for extra benchwork. @fmorningstar.bsky.social was even able to capture his southern charm: cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

Karl S. Booksh supercharges chemical measurements

This sensor scientist and chemometrician uses data to make the most out of analytical instrumentation

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

Every word about Neetu Jha made me go ‘wow’: She turns garbage into zinc-ion batteries and got her university to install ramps and an elevator for accessibility. Read @payaldhar.bsky.social
inspiring piece: cen.acs.org/energy/energ...

Neetu Jha turns dead flowers into high-performance electrodes

This materials scientist builds energy storage and conversion components from biomass waste

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

Artur Mylin lost half a leg fighting in Ukraine. A year later, he walked back into the lab to defend his country in a new way. @rowanwalrath.bsky.social wrote a knockout about him: cen.acs.org/physical-che...

Artur Mylin uses science to help Ukraine in wartime

This physical chemist shifted from catalysis to combat to defense research

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

We lead the issue with Mona Minkara’s POWERFUL personal essay. Start here: cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

The tools we build become the questions we ask

Why inclusive design is good for more than access—it expands the boundaries of discovery

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

Just about all of our modern-day Trailblazers had stories like this. I really think you should read all of them 😉 But i’ll put a spotlight on a couple that’ll appeal to the people on here …

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

This crystallized as we wrote our historic biographies. Going back >300 years, many of these scientists had to hack together their own lab accommodations by necessity Lots of “firsts” on this list. 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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

Think about how many students have been alienated from science because they didn't feel they belonged or because they weren't given effective accommodations. Accessibility is hard; compromising is easy. That’s what Cary Supalo told Soren Lipman in his Q&A: cen.acs.org/education/Tr...

Cary Supalo: STEM students with disabilities deserve an authentic experience

Graduate student <b>Soren Lipman</b> talks with this chemist and education researcher about accessibility gaps in teaching labs and assessments

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

That’s one theme of Trailblazers this year. There’s a stigma imposed on chemists with disabilities by the chemistry enterprise. Many scientists don’t want to be viewed as less than or, worse, a hazard in the lab. Many hide their disability if they can.

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

As we went through about 100 nominations, recruited a bunch of science writers with disabilities, and started building these profiles, i realized that i knew kind of a lot.

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 22d

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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Jun 17

When you run 20 reactions on a stirrer plate, are they all *actually* stirring? Read @markpeplow.bsky.social's latest in C&EN:
cen.acs.org/research-int... @cenmag.bsky.social

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

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

cen.acs.org/materials/in...

A new nitrogen allotrope has been created at last

Chemists string 6 nitrogen atoms together to make hexanitrogen

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

A molecular knot with three-way rotation symmetry. But where a usual knot would have a cross, this knot threads through smaller rings inside itself, as if the threads pass through each other rather than overlap.

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Jun 10

See how @laureloldach.bsky.social covers the news LIVE for @cenmag.bsky.social 👀

Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · Jun 10

Covering this morning's Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the FY26 budget request from NIH.

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · Jun 10

In 2020, we hoped this wasn't going to become an "evergreen" story so soon.

Fionna Samuels @fmorningstar.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Jun 3

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.
👉 cenm.ag/nominatetrai...

#chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter

C&EN's Trailblazers

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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · May 29

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)

cen.acs.org/people/award...

Shaw Prize honors cryo-electron tomography innovator

Max Planck Institute biochemist Wolfgang Baumeister will receive $1.2 million

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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · May 27

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

cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

US CDC drops COVID-19 vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant people

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sidesteps advisory committee in changing immunization schedule

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · May 27

That is an indirect reference to Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, yes.

Shadow the Hedgehog shrouded in darkness raises a green glowing fist. He appears ready to harness the power of the Chaos Force and show you his "real power."

Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · May 27

Chili peppers are holding back their true power. Read
@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