Very curious, often excited. Works on alternative energy, still digs fossils. #scicomm
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Victoria Russell retweeted
For all the outlets and people saying that the black hole photo "isn't very good."
Y'all-we turned our *planet* into a telescope. A telescope as big as the Earth! We went back in time 55 million years to look at an object that eats light. Melt your icy hearts you monsters!
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Hearing about #BlackHoles this morning? Here's a refresher on what a black hole IS. 🤔 It's a place where a large amount of mass has been squeezed into a tiny space. The gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from a black hole. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/2Us0m7v
ALT An artist's drawing a black hole named Cygnus X-1. It formed when a large star caved in. This black hole pulls matter from blue star beside it.
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Reminds me of a story. There once was a Harvard professor named EJ Corey. He had a long career including a famously toxic lab culture, allegedly falsified reaction yields, and a Nobel Prize. One day Theodora Greene joined his lab. “Women can’t do chemistry!” He ... 1/3 – at Palo Alto, CA
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Hello, I'm a chemist! You may know me from my greatest hits "Everything Is Chemicals", "There's No Such Thing As Chemical-Free Food" and "Yes, I Know How To Make Meth, But I Don't Do It" teapawt.org/LynnSosnoskie/status/1…
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Today is Carl Sagan's birthday. Not only did he engage generations of people to think about space, our own planet and the connection we have to each other-he also wrote extremely relevant passages like this from A Demon-Haunted World. We are worse off without him.
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It's World Wombat Day, so let's all remember that wombats can crush their enemies against the walls of their own burrows using their specially reinforced butts. Be the wombat.
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When you think of biodiversity, rainforests & coral reefs may come to mind, but freshwater ecosystems of the southeast U.S. are no slouches. This region is home to
~two-thirds of the country’s fish species, many found nowhere else in the world #FreshFacts southeastfreshwater.org/
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This is easy. Post an animal and retweet this. One with the most likes gets a signed copy of Carl Went to the Library: Inspiration of a Young Carl Sagan. We will stop tomorrow at 7pm. I will check to see If retweeted.
Like this Fennec Fox.
Victoria Russell retweeted
Want to see 168 years of climate change in two minutes?
Here is our movie, updated through 2017.
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"Your mental and physical health are by far the most important consideration in all that you do while in our lab. Moreover, success should not come at the cost of maintaining your interests/hobbies or healthy relationships in your life."
-excerpt from our lab policy manual
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Victoria Russell retweeted
By age 35, you should have saved twice as many PDFs of scientific papers as you could possibly read in your remaining lifetime.
Victoria Russell retweeted
Complimenting a professor for asking a "great question," the grad student hopes to flatter his way out of having a terrible answer.
ALT LGS stands in a conference room, giving a talk. He looks at a professor seated near him.
Victoria Russell retweeted
Still waiting for a job that pays me to read books under a blanket fort with French wine.
