sustainable solar sleuth at @UW_CEI @NREL | outdoor science ed @Wild_Rockies | sci-clist at @cycleforscience | #crystalcakes | #AcademicMentalHealth | she/her
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I estimated the CO2 footprint of my 5-year PhD in solar cells & materials science at @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyLab @NREL @SLAClab & @EPFL
My emissions were >1.5x the US average, which is >5x the global average
Poster from @Materials_MRS #s22mrs
Assumptions: rachelectron.org/co2
Curious how much carbon we toot out while researching renewable energy materials? Check out my poster "The CO2 Impact of Materials Science Research" tomorrow (Monday) at @Materials_MRS #s22mrs in poster session EN03, 5-7pm HST!
Undergrad students: want to get class credit for a month-long bicycle adventure while learning about energy and climate change? I’m delighted to be returning to @Wild_Rockies to teach “Cycle the Rockies” this summer, and there are a few spots left – help us spread the word!
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Our review in @acsnano is out! Perspectives on data-driven computational materials design and predicted synthesis, and on bridging the gap between bulk and nanomaterials. Thanks to all coauthors especially @KPatBerkeley
doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c08…
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“These contracts will “change how academia functions, as far as how it treats its workers,” said Stacey Frederick, an academic researcher at UC Berkeley who is on the bargaining team that signed onto the tentative agreement late Monday night.”
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Gooo @elizabeth_case!!! If this site doesn't melt before they get there, follow Elizabeth & the @GlacierThwaites glaciology team as they journey to Antarctica to stick giant science probes into ice and learn more about the role of melting & moving glaciers in a changing climate!
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“We’re the ones who perform the majority of the teaching, and we’re the ones who perform the majority of the research,” said Rafael Jaime, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is president of U.A.W. Local 2865 #FairUCNow
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Concerned about the climate but feeling overwhelmed & unsure how to act? (I am 🙋♀️)
Step 0*: Try @KyleGraycar's @decarbonapp to estimate your own CO2 use decarbonapp.com/
I'm leading their 1st "collab", join us to take some simple climate actions: decarbon.notion.site/Letters…
Out of curiosity I estimated the CO2 impact of my PhD recently, which helped contextualize my emissions as a scientist. Imagine how this must scale up across all science research? We have a moral imperative to take systemic action to reduce our emissions. xitter.cf/rachelectron/status/15…
I estimated the CO2 footprint of my 5-year PhD in solar cells & materials science at @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyLab @NREL @SLAClab & @EPFL
My emissions were >1.5x the US average, which is >5x the global average
Poster from @Materials_MRS #s22mrs
Assumptions: rachelectron.org/co2
*🚨Disclaimer🚨for decades Big Oil has championed personal carbon accounting to shift blame to individuals and evade changing hostile business practices. I still see it a useful tool for self assessment, but we need massive systemic change
@RebeccaSolnit: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Join us for the next #USMAP webinar on September 28! Samantha Reese, Senior Analyst at #NREL, will work to answer the question: How Do We Reduce the Carbon Impact of a Green Technology? ⚡ 🔋 Register: bit.ly/3Jqii94
ALT Webinar "How do we reduce the carbon impact of a green technology?" Sept. 28 11:00 AM
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This is so cool! Taking it to my solid state chemistry module with due acknowledgment. @UzairArshd how about baking a crystal cake instead of designing it's model as a class assignment? :D
A physics cake @BritishBakeOff #GBBO for @CERN??? A cakewalk!🚶♀️🍰🚶🧁🚶♂️ 🎂
A sampler of my #crystalcakes creations in the shape of different crystal structures, the result of #procrastibaking my PhD #dessertation 💎
More cakes and slices of science 🧵⬇️
#HappyBirthdayCERN!
ALT Four cakes in the shape of crystal structures: perovskite (perovscake), rocksalt (rocksalted caramel), wurtzite (wurtzbite), and boron-nitride's charge density (battenboronitride)