@kmca43

Communicator and research enthusiast @UMengineering. Has opinions. Does Twitter wrong. She/they. (Why they? See @sciam: https://xitter.cf/t.co/rfofbzLDvK)

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Joined October 2012
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This is true. A loved one faced with a fetus that was already dead had excellent support when she chose induction. She would have had nothing if she'd chosen a D&E. She wouldn't have been allowed to see the remains. Women should not be coerced into labor.
Jessica Valenti
@JessicaValenti20 Oct 2023
Replying to @JessicaValenti
Finally, the hospital informs you that if you go through with the birth, they’ll provide you with therapy, financial help and remembrances like ultrasound pictures and a teddy bear with your baby’s name embroidered on it. You’ll get no such mementos if you end the pregnancy.
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I think I might be done here. It's been real, folks.
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Chattel slavery was not a jobs or apprenticeship program. It was a system of violently enforced stolen labor and a crime against humanity and the fact that enslaved people resisted, used their minds, had skills, lived and survived does not in one bit diminish the crime.
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Paul Fairie@paulisci19 Jul 2023
The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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I know many of you who have that option have moved on from the affirmative action ruling, but I can't stop obsessing over that Sandra Day O'Connor said that after four centuries racism would be over in 25 years, as if that were an indisputable fact, and the Court said:absolutely!
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I am in LOVE with this picture of us at the White House!! An astronaut, aquanaut, two astrophysicists and a molecular biologist right here in this photo 🥰 these are the faces of science.
A group of beautiful black women in colored suits at the White House

ALT A group of beautiful black women in colored suits at the White House

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As a NextProf (Engineering) alumna, I definitely recommend this opportunity to eligible #engineering grad students. The PathFinder program is unique in targeting early-stage grad school students instead of students close to graduation/postdocs.
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I never fully understood "work wife" until I called one of my closest colleagues by my husband's name 😆
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A forced birth is a form of sexual violence. Pregnant people are traveling as far as a thousand miles and more to escape that violence. This is the state of human rights in the US for those in female bodies.
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A state government demanding medical records so it can go after those it deems deviant. This isn't a slide toward fascism - we're in it now.
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller22 Jun 2023
WATCH: “It really does feel like a betrayal by a friend.” A mom whose daughter received the “lifeline” of gender-affirming care at Vandy says @VUMChealth giving their medical info to the partisan @AGTennessee hurts because they trusted Vandy. PODCAST: overcast.fm/+SGpSJbdJQ
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Sophia Chen@sophurky22 Jun 2023
Happy Pride Month! A big thank you to the trans scientists, ranging from early career to emeritus professor, who shared their stories with me. Thread: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Sophia Chen@sophurky22 Jun 2023
(4/n) Computer scientist Lynn Conway (1938- ), who invented dynamic instruction scheduling, a way for computers to execute commands out of order, which pioneered the development of supercomputers. IBM fired her when she transitioned in 1968. ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/con…
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Bring on the sun 😎 ☀️ @umichece researchers created a solar panel that can convert water into hydrogen & oxygen as opposed to using methane. This new method can also reduce carbon emissions [article] bit.ly/3InhDXr
Peng Zhou, a postdoctoral research fellow, conducts an experiment on the roof of the Wilson Student Team Project Center

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You and your solar panels could soak up the sun at the same time 🌞 @umichece Professor Stephen Forrest’s research has gotten even closer to the production of semitransparent solar cell windows [article] bit.ly/3WJwXTr
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This is a key point. Misinformation begins by equating these clusters with embryos. They absolutely are NOT embryos.
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Juneteenth is to be commemorated more than celebrated. I know media has coined “Happy Juneteenth”, but would we say “Happy End of the Holocaust” to Jewish people? Bc slavery was just that, a genocide torture camp that legally lasted for 246yrs, for context the holocaust was 4yrs
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If you're seeing headlines about "synthetic embryos" - they're not. They're partial models. But they could help researchers understand human development. We need to be careful about how we discuss embryos, especially when embryos are weaponized in many countries and US states.
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz@ZernickaGoetz16 Jun 2023
These tiny clusters of cells mimicking aspects of post-implantation human embryo that we and others make, have no developmental potential and are not real embryos. Nevertheless, they help to understand why many pregnancies fail. Remarkable times uniting stem cells & embryology.
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NEW ARTICLE: “$27 million for laboratory astrophysics and nuclear fusion, led by U-M," BY @kmca43. Two centers, supported by the @NNSANews, will explore physics relevant to modeling the performance of the aging nuclear weapons stockpile. [article] bit.ly/44dEFb3
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Ibram X. Kendi
@ibramxk19 Jun 2023
As we celebrate #Juneteenth, let us keep in mind that African Americans during the Civil War distinguished between *abolishing slavery* and *freeing people.* Many formerly enslaved people did not feel *free* in 1865 and thereafter, and they clearly articulated why. A thread 1/
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I feel like "CoreWell" is a cautionary tale for marketers. Against the backdrop of a continually narrowing healthcare oligopoly in Michigan and ever-rising costs, it rings of dystopia. Trying too hard to sound benevolent when we know what's happening in healthcare isn't.
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