A chemistry graduate student with a lot of questions, not many answers, and a little YouTube channel. | He/His/Him
Chapel Hill, NC
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First video of my Youtube channel: How do automatic sinks work‽ youtu.be/91oBOMORhaM
RT, and let me know what you think!
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Quick reality check: the US COVID-19 curve is VERTICAL. The disease is spreading completely uncontrolled in nearly every part of the country. Hospitals are filling up.
Double your precautions now. Cancel your plans. Make an excuse and bow out; you’ll be saving lives by doing so.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.4M new tests and 144k cases, another all-time high. 65.4k people are hospitalized, 15k more than on election day. The death toll was 1,421, pushing the 7-day average over 1,000.
ALT 4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over time. Today, states reported 1.4M tests, 144k cases, 65.4k currently hospitalized, and 1,421 deaths.
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We just had MPD with support from outside sheriffs point weapons at us while we screamed that we were press. “Shut up!” one yelled back. We are safe.
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I’ve landed in Hong Kong after flying from Paris CDG, via London Heathrow. I now have to wait ~8 hours before I get my #COVID19 test results and thus have ample time to tweet about my experience.
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Having read Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell" many years ago, it does not surprise me to learn that, when a group of teen boys were actually stranded on a deserted island for 15 months, it turned out nothing like Lord of the Flies. theguardian.com/books/2020/m…
A @bakergrpIU virtual happy hour made for a really nice Friday afternoon, its so rare to actually talk to current and past lab members all at the same time!
Just finished my first @SkypeScientist session and it was a blast! Getting to talk one on one with a curious 4th grader made me remember just how wild and strange the world of academic chemistry is.
I personally owe a lot to Dennis Peters, without his mentorship I likely wouldn't have gone on to graduate school for chemistry. For future students, I can only hope to be half the educator that Dennis Peters was for me.
Today the hearts of the entire IUB Chemistry Department are heavy due to the loss of our dear friend and colleague, Professor Dennis Peters. He had almost 60 years of service to IU teaching undergraduates and graduate students. #iubchemistry #petersgroup #youwillbemissed #aloha
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The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.
Super cool work looking back at previous climate models and showing just how effective they have been!
After a year of work our paper on evaluating performance of historical climate models is finally out! We found that 14 of 17 the climate projections released between 1970 and 2001 effectively matched observations after they were published. doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085378 1/19
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.
(image credit @floragraham)
#EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
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Really excited to share that @weblmrb_ and I have won the University Award for the Advancement of Women for our work as President and VP of @UNC_WISE! Check out the article below to see a short summary of our work and read about the other awardees.
gazette.unc.edu/2019/03/13/u…
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A (very) early example of video game art... Atari's Space Race (1973) did not have a ROM to store data. So half of the rocket shape was stored as an 8x16 diode matrix, which was mirrored to create the full shape. This is plainly visible in the schematic and the circuit board. 🚀
Shouldn't be shocking but it is unbelievable to see that women were "59 percent of acknowledged programmers, but just 7 percent of actual authors"
Inspired by Hidden Figures, a team of researchers scoured the acknowledgements of old genetics papers & uncovered the names of many women programmers, who made important contributions but were never given authorship. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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This is how the bones grow and form in your hand buff.ly/2HmOfBq
Cookies matter! Shown in a well designed randomized controlled trial
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Over the next few weeks, students will get the chance to evaluate their professors and TAs. They're going to get it wrong. They'll be harder on women and people of color than on white men. Tenured white male faculty, in particular, should help their students understand this. 1/8
Thanks to #ThinkerCon for the great opportunity to pick people's brains! Thanks to @jabrils_ @redblobgames and @sallylepage for the helpful info!
Excited to be out at #ThinkerCon and have the chance to pick the brains of so many amazing creators!
