Dad 1st / poet / chemistry prof / #WomenInSTEM / strength coach / #FirstGen / bibliophile/ baker 🍰 of human & pet treats 🦴/ scientific consultant

Quiet….I’m reading
Joined February 2015
Unpopular opinion: I’m not easily impressed with top-tier R1 faculty w/ an army of postdocs, multiple R01 grants…cranking out high profile pubs But show me a prof at a PUI working with part-time undergrads and a few bits and bobs who publishes regularly, then color me impressed
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There’s no preparation for poetry —Simic @parisreview
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Angira did brilliantly today at her PhD defense: congrats, Dr. Roy!! 🥂🎓 So incredibly proud to see your hard work pay off. Time to celebrate! #ProudAdvisor #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter @MizzouChem @Angira_Roy_
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Blackberry = not a berry Raspberry = not a berry Strawberry = not a berry Banana = a berry Cuttlefish = not a fish Starfish = not a fish Jellyfish = not a fish Seahorse = a fish đź’€
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I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.
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It’s important to remember attacking scientists, teachers, universities and other “elites” is one of the oldest political strategies in the book. What seems especially pronounced now is the suggestion that expertise itself is evidence of corruption Hot take: It is in fact, not
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People who complain about high snack prices on airplanes make me laugh. I mean, you just spent $1100 on a crappy seat behind the first class curtain. What’s another $500 for some Twizzlers?
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A chemical used to make flexible plastics and rubber sells for $975 per gram, 10.3 times the price of gold. Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phenyl phosphate is a plasticizer. Manufacturers add chemicals like this so finished plastic and rubber parts bend instead of cracking. That makes it useful when a rigid material needs to stay flexible in use. AstaTech, Inc in the United States sells 1 gram for $993. Angene Chemical in Hong Kong sells 1 gram for $1,167. This is one of 838 molecules selling today for more than gold per gram. Here's the list:
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Me, learning there’s cake in the break room
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Technique #1: stop scrolling
14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world 1. The 5 - second rule
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academics working for free over the summer watching paid faculty go on extended vacation
toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store
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me, moving into a new field of research
Lizards and many other reptilians are famous for walking on vertical surfaces or even upside down. They use van der Waals forces. Yet, when the friction is very low, even lizards experience huge issues. [📹 oryzae1824]
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A pharmacist in Taipei walked off a trail in 2022 and photographed a 1mm blue mushroom on a piece of wood. It turned out to be one of the smallest mushrooms ever described. The mushroom is now called Mycena subcyanocephala. It grows on decaying wood in Taiwan's subtropical lowland forests. Its cap is about 1mm wide, the whole fruiting body just a few millimeters tall. When young, the cap is intensely blue and fuzzy. As it matures, the blue fades to a pale whitish color. It has been formally documented in the wild only a handful of times. Eric Cho, the man who found it, is a working pharmacist in Taipei. His friend told him there was a "special tiny mushroom" on a trail in Shilin District. He went looking, found one on a piece of wood, took it home, and was initially disappointed because it wasn't glowing in the dark like he'd hoped. He posted the photos to iNaturalist anyway. The images went viral globally. Mycologists at Taiwan's Academia Sinica formally described the species in 2023, citing Cho's photographs as part of the documentation. Most new species described in the last decade have not been found by professional biologists in remote jungles. They have been found by amateur naturalists with smartphones, posting to platforms like iNaturalist, in places like trails behind suburbs in Taipei. The forest behind your house may still be full of things nobody has named yet.
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Today is World Bee Day.
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O pessoal com medo do detergente contaminado sendo que a esponja que tá na pia tá desse jeito
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The five stages of academic writing: 1. Procrastination 2. Panic 3. Caffeine overdose 4. Submitting a barely coherent mess 5. Swearing to do it differently next time
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Sir David Attenborough responds to 100th birthday greetings
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And also with you
May the fourth be with you
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Me after one social event :
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