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Writing emails.
1. Write email
2. Read and remove all the "!"
3. Reread and remove all apologetic statements
4. Reread and reword (some) questions into statements
5. Reread and add some "!" back in
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I am incredibly honored to be selected as a 2020 Packard Fellow! This award is a testament to all the hard work of
@The_See_Group
over the last few years! I'm very lucky to work with such incredible people. Many, many congratulations to all the fellows! Thank you
@PackardFdn
!
We are excited to announce the 2020
#PackardFellows
in Science and Engineering! Over the next 5 years, these 20
@PackardFdn
Fellows will engage in groundbreaking scientific research and reach new frontiers of discovery. Meet the Fellows: .
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Broke a record today. Fastest time from submission to rejection: 11 h 47 m.
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Thank you so much to the
@SloanFoundation
for this tremendous honor!! Huge thanks to my amazing group and those who took the time and effort to write letters!
#sloanfellow
We are delighted to announce the winners of this yearβs Sloan Research Fellowship! These outstanding researchers are shining examples of innovation and impactβand we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: π
#SloanFellow
#STEM
#ScienceTwitter
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Many congratulations to all the NSF awardees!! To everyone else: fellowship rejections are NOT an indicator of future success or current worth! I was never awarded an NSF GRFP, NDSEG, or nationally competitive fellowship in grad school. I now have my dream job.
#phdchat
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I will never regret walking down the hall to ask Prof. Rudy Marcus to teach my Intro to Echem students Marcus Theory. An amazing class today
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Gave a talk to middle school students about my career path. I ended up explaining the difference between an Assistant Professor and a Professor. Kid raises their hand and asks, "How do you get evaluated for promotion to Professor?" π€―
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Very exciting and inspiring day today!
@joshjzak
defended his PhD!! My first PhD student! He gave a beautiful talk and certainly earned his new title ππ I can't wait to see what he does on his next step.
#proudadvisor
is an understatement. We will all miss you so much!!
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In case you need some positivity today: check out these awesome scenes from the celebration of Frances Arnold's Nobel Prize!!
@francesarnold
gave a very inspirational speech.
@Caltech
is an incredible place!! (Fun game: Spot the innovative glassware setup... π€)
#NobelPrize
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Almost all the assistant professors in CCE (just missing Alison and Mikhail!) with
@francesarnold
. Caltech is an amazing place! Congratulations again, Frances!!! Such an inspirational day!
#rolemodel
#chemnobel
@Maxwell_Robb
@RyanGHadt
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I miss when
#chemtwitter
was just photos and stories of Bob. Here's a photo of Bob (in his hiking shoes π) hanging out with
@GeoffreyWCoates
@Harry_and_Jay
and
@Maxwell_Robb
after Geoff's Arnold O. Beckman Lecture in 2019. I miss you Bob π
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Just submitted The Paper by my first PhD student on his first project. Never give up! Some things take time. And I did it on his birthday, boom π₯. Well done
@joshjzak
!!π
#proudadvisor
Happy birthday!!!! ππ°π»
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We are hiring a postdoc! Come work with us and the solar fuels hub, Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA)! Candidates interested in liquid electrolyte chemistry are encouraged to apply. Details and how to apply:
Please share widely and retweet!
@Chemjobber
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Check out
@zac_iton
's beautiful paper in
@ChemMater
! We discuss multivalent ion conductivity in inorganic solids and our view of the field. Really proud of
@zac_iton
and how this came together!
#battchat
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Congratulations to
@chansen991
and
@joshjzak
for their awesome paper on anion redox in Li-rich sulfides out today in
@J_A_C_S
! S/O to coauth
@ay_en_dee_why
@brentmelot
@JohannaWeker
& more not on Twitter! Someday, we will celebrate!
#SCALAR
#EFRC
#battchat
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Many many thanks to
@BASF
and
@VWGroup
for this incredible award and opportunity! Many congratulations to the finalists on their amazing talks
@KelseyHatzell
@CoskunLab
Jinhyuk Lee and Xiqian Yu! Very thankful to spend the last few days with the ppl whose shoulders we stand on.
Congrats to Dr. Kimberly See for winning the
#ScienceAward2019
for
#Electrochemistry
by
@BASF
&
@VWGroup
! With the
#Nobelprize
for chemistry for Li-ion batteries this year, we all are standing on the shoulders of giants. More about BASF's battery research:
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Thank you so much to the
@dreyfusfndn
for this incredible honor! This is really for my group members who have done all the work and been the best team to work with π Thank you also to everyone who has reached out after this announcement! I so appreciate all your support!
Congratulations to Dr. Kimberly See (
@echemkim
),
@Caltech
, for being named a 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar!
@The_See_Group
@CaltechCCE
#DreyfusAwards
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My group told me at subgroup today that we have an Al3+ conductor with a conductivity of 300 mS/cm. Can't say what the phase is yet (secret stage right now!), but it's safe to say it's all hands on deck! Look for it soon!
#bestgroup
#proudadvisor
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Thank you to
@ACSChemRev
for including me on their Early Career Advisory Board. I am honored to be part of it. I look forward to meeting all the other members!
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Thank you thank you to
@USNavyResearch
and Dr. Joseph Parker for the ONR YIP! Many thanks to my group who deserve all the recognition and helped put this together, especially
@Xiaotong__Li
@joshjzak
@epatheria
and Steve Kim! ππ»πΎπ
πCongrats to the 2022 crew of ONR Young Investigators!
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.
@ay_en_dee_why
's paper on divalent ion conduction!! TLDR: Zn2+ conducts with low Ea of 350 meV in ZnPS3 tx to [P2S6]4-. Great work w our awesome collaborators
@aschleife
, M Bernardi, CW Lee, I Lu,
@SCBevilacqua
,
@MBPbattgirl
.
@The_See_Group
#battchat
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Congratulations to all the 2019 Beckman Young Investigators! I'm very, very humbled to be in this crowd. Thank you thank you
@BeckmanFnd
!! Congratulations
@Frank_Leibfarth
@niu_group
@ChenfengKe
@Keribackus
@SchoopLab
@ZucheroLab
!!!
Congratulations to our 2019 Beckman Young Investigators! Weβre excited to support these 10 promising young faculty researchers from
@ucla
@dartmouth
@unc
@harvard
@bostoncollege
@caltech
@princeton
@penn
@stanford
READ MORE:
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References should not be included in any word count, page count, or character count for any document ever. Period. I will die on this hill. I really do not understand why they do!!
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This stunt by
@angew_chem
is taking attention away from the
#BlackLivesMatter
issues we should be focusing on. Diversity and inclusion in STEM is incredibly important, but don't let it overshadow the safety and lives of Black Americans.
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What a day!!!!!!!!! So excited for this prize!!!! Many, many congratulations!! My research is completely inspired by the work these three did and still do. Intercalation chemistry revolutionized energy storage. Finally!!!
#battchat
#chemnobel
π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³π₯³
The 2019
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino βfor the development of lithium-ion batteries.β
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It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it's beautiful!! βοΈ
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We were excited to collaborate with
@SongLinLab
on their sweet electrochemical C(sp3)-C(sp3) cross-electrophile coupling rxn!! Check it out!
@Nature
Our latest work on electrochemical C(sp3)-C(sp3) cross-electrophile coupling is now in print! This came out of a fun collaboration with
@The_See_Group
and our friends at
@Merck
. Read all about it in
@Nature
:
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.
@zac_iton
worked his a** off on this paper - we started writing in 2021π₯΄ ZnPS3 takes up *a lot* of H2O in the grain boundaries, Zn2+ solvates into the H2O, leaving it's anion behind in the solid, to yield a superionic Zn2+ and H+ conductor.
#proudadvisor
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Bob truly made me feel like family the second I stepped foot on campus. His kindness and humanity knew no bounds. My deepest condolences go out to Helen,
@barneygrubbs
,
@katymgrubbs
, Brendan, and their families. Bob will be intensely missed.
The Division is saddened to report the passing of Robert Grubbs. The outpouring of memories being shared is a testament to his profound impact and influence as a professor, mentor, colleague & friend -- not only in the chemistry community, but beyond.
He will be greatly missed.
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Many, many congratulations to
@Maxwell_Robb
who won the 2017-2018 GSC Teaching Award!! The award is given to one faculty member at
@Caltech
each year by the Graduate Student Council. Recognition from the students themselves is a big honor! Here's a nice shot of him with Harry.
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I canceled an expensive, international flight because of
#coronavirus
and
@AmericanAir
refunded my ticket within a day or so without much effort on my part (filled out short form online). Thank you
@AmericanAir
!
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I'm excited to share Wendy's last paper in my group! Are you trying to use a sacrificial Al anode in THF and your echem just doesn't work? Try adding a dash of salt!
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I'm so excited that this is out! Huge congrats to Steve and co, especially Daniil and Anton! We clearly show that cation vacancies enable anion oxidation using Steve's clever set of materials based on LiTiS2 and Li2TiS3. Vacancy = space and S nb states.
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Starting the proposal: How am I supposed to write 15 pages on this?!
Trying to finish the proposal: How do I delete 4 pages worth of stuff to get this down to 15 pages?!
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Many congratulations to Dr. Wendy Zhang for successfully defending your PhD thesis today!!! You have taught us so much and at will miss you!!
#proudadvisor
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The look on people's faces (sometimes followed by comments) when they meet me and learn that I'm the 'Prof. See' driving this lab renovation...
Yes. I'm a woman.
Yes. I'm young.
Yes. I've worked my ass off for this.
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It was an honor to talk in Hema's award symposium for the Harry Gray Award for Creative Inorganic Chemistry tonight! Congrats Hema! Many thanks to
@danna_freedman
and Jarad Mason for the invite!
@AcsNational
#ACSSpring2021
Thanks to my postdoc Forrest for this awesome pic π
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Many, many, many congratulations to Dr. Zachery W. B. Iton who beautifully defended his PhD today! I could not be more proud of his thesis, the scientist and leader he is, and all the work he's done. Congratulations,
@zac_iton
!! We will miss you!
#proudadvisor
ππΎ
@The_See_Group
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We are thrilled to welcome our new postdoc
@Xiaotong__Li
to the team!!! Welcome to Pasadena and
@The_See_Group
! π€π
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Many congratulations to Michelle who is now a PhD candidate!! π Now all five of
@The_See_Group
G2s are PhD candidates!! Just as they were ready to ramp up research, covid hit but they have all persevered! Brighter times are ahead!
#proudadvisor
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Many congratulations to
@The_See_Group
's
@SCBevilacqua
! Her first 1st author paper was just accepted in
@InorgChem
! Congrats also to 2nd author Kim Pham, our summer '18
@CaltechSURF
student (who will be a
@CaltechChem
grad student in the fall)!
#celebrationstation
#teamwork
π€πΎπ₯³
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Had a great visit to
@PrincetonChem
today!! Thank you
@SchoopLab
for the invite and hosting! Thank you to
@StilesJoseph
for schlepping me around all day!
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Just a bunch of electrochemists celebrating the (genuine) great and unmatched wisdom of the Nobel Committee! Many, many congratulations again to John Goodenough, Stan Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino!
@The_See_Group
toasts you!
#heroes
#battchat
#celebrationstation
#chemnobel
π
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Happy International Women's Day to these bad a** women!! So thankful to with with you all! Postdocs, grad students, and undergrads!
#InternationalWomansDay
#proudadvisor
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You know you're a solid state chemist when you can't draw a hexagon to save your life, but you can draw a nearly perfect 3d cube or octahedron.
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Had a great visit to Univ of Houston with this guy β¦
@BrgochChemistry
β© π thank you for a great day! Tons of solid state chemistry happening here!
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Nucleated this cat dimer using a highly efficient sweatshirt seed on a dining room table substrate.
#Sunday
#academicswithcats
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Congratulations to Steve and
@joshjzak
on their paper published in
@ChemMater
today! Steve showed that cryomilling prevents particle fractures in the anion redox material LiNaFeS2. The fractures are caused by removal of large Na+.
#battchat
#SCALAREFRC
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Picnics at the Electrochemistry GRC with our tenacious chair
@maldonadogroup
and
@JustinSambur
@CoGroupResearch
@ThoiLab
and Will. Thank you
@maldonadogroup
! I'm so thankful for this opportunity! π
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Happy to be at
#ACSSpring2024
to celebrate
@Maxwell_Robb
@Piero_Canepa
and Jarad Mason's awards!!! Congratulations!!!! ππ
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ACS is starting which means... new group photo so I can properly acknowledge my awesome group!
#bestgroup
@The_See_Group
See you in SD!
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.
@ay_en_dee_why
@joshjzak
's and coauth beautiful work on anion redox in Li2FeS2-ySey solid sol'n is out! Controlling covalency shifts the contr. of Fe vs. S/Se and shifts the ch. V. Mixed materials support anion redox on S and Se.
#battchat
#proudadvisor
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The See Group's first potentiostat!! How do I focus on preparing lecture at a time like this?!
#electrochemistry
#battchat
#biologic
#sp150
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Sooooo proud of these graduates!!!!! The group will not be the same without you!! πππ
#proudadvisor
@abigailyjiang
@CaltechCCE
#caltech2023
πππ§ͺπ
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Check out
@ay_en_dee_why
, Skyler, and Brian's paper! We leveraged the ionics of our divalent solid electrolyte to make a divalent cathode after introducing redox centers and vacancies
#battchat
ty to Serena Corr for the invitation to submit!
#proudadvisor
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Apparently today is
#NationalBatteryDay
! I am thankful to be studying battery chemistry with my awesome group and collaborators π
@The_See_Group
There are Li-ion batteries on the Perserverance Rover that lands on Mars today!! π
#battchat
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Excited to share our new work using ML to predict superionic conductors for Li+. Take homes:
- spatial descriptors are the best predictors of ionics and they point to Li3BS3
- Li3BS3 is a superionic conductor w/+defects
How do we include defects in ML?
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If anyone is interested in a postdoc position studying the effect of electrolyte composition on electrochemical CO2 reduction in
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
, please send me an email with your CV with a subject line: "CO2R postdoc." We have some cool results to understand!
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Forrest, Steven, and Michelle's work on Mg anode passivation in the presence of dissolved S8 is out! Mg electrodes passivate faster when less S8 is in solution, suggesting interesting S speciation effects
@ACS_AMI
#battchat
#proudadvisor
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.
@skylerdware
's new paper is out! She shows redox on Sm needs weakly coordinating ions, enabling electrochem. prep. of Sm(II) reagents. Tired of scraping Sm metal? Electrochemically reduce Sm(III) instead! Collab with
@sarah_reisman
πin
@NSF_CSOE
!
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Just got back from our group camping trip to Kings Canyon! π» We didn't get a pic of everyone together :( but it was such a great long weekend! It's sooo nice to do things together again π and I'm so grateful for such a great crew!!
@The_See_Group
@TheRobbGroup
@Maxwell_Robb
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Huge congratulations to
@CTMorrell
and
@abigailyjiang
on their NSF fellowships!!!! Both are so well deserved!! Now
@abigailyjiang
needs to decide where she will go to grad school!! ππππππ
#proudadvisor
don't mind the Halloween decorations π₯΄
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I am really, really excited about this. Congratulations
@ay_en_dee_why
!!!! We got the cover of
@ChemMater
!!! We made that sweet image with structural data from the awesome calculations by our collaborator and coauthor
@aschleife
π»
#teamwork
π€πΎ
#battchat
Issue 10 is out today. On the cover, work from the See group
@echemkim
on ion diffusion through ZnPS3, an insulating material w/conductivity of divalent cations.
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An online application for a professional award is forcing me to indicate if I am a "Mr." or a "Mrs." Non-binary folks and unmarried women (or women who don't use their spousal situation to define themselves) need not apply, apparently.
#wtf
#mansworld2019
#microagression
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πThanks to everyone who came to our labwarming party to celebrate the opening of our new lab!! We are beyond excited!! Now, let's get all the dirty stuff moved in! π
@CaltechChem
@The_See_Group
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Cancelled my trip to the Solid State GRC to protect my not-quite-yet vaccinated 2 yo. I'm so sad to miss it! I'm happy, though, that
@zac_iton
@Xiaotong__Li
will be there representing the group! Go chat with them if you see them!
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Many, many congratulations to
@chansen991
and
@joshjzak
for being awarded the NSF GRFP!!! Well done!! ππ₯³πΎπ
#proudadvisor
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Heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Kim who defended his PhD today! His thesis is a beautiful body of work on multivalent electrolytes and anion redox in Li-rich sulfides (some of which isn't out yet!).
#veryproudadvisor
ππ π€π»π€π»
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Woohoo!!!! Welcome back to
@CaltechCCE
@Caltech
@KManthiram
!! I am so excited to have you as a colleague!
The Division is excited to officially welcome our newest chemical engineering and chemistry professor -- Karthish Manthiram (
@KManthiram
)! Prof. Manthiram officially joined the division early November.
Learn more about Prof. Manthiram and his research.β¬οΈ
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My group is the best! πππ’ I'm very excited about our new group photo. Special thanks to Forrest for his awesome Photoshop skills!
Hopefully weβll be able to take a dip in the turtle pond together soon! For now, photoshop will have to do!
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We have another PhD candidate in
@The_See_Group
! Many congratulations to Eshaan who passed his candidacy exam yesterday!!!
#proudadvisor
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Look what showed up in my groceries today! My first
@apeelsciences
avocado! It's been amazing to see the evolution of this company starting from a concept in
@jamestrogers
's head in grad school to an avocado on my counter. Congrats James and co!
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Check out Steve's paper looking at isostructural mats that undergo anion redox, but with metals of different d band positions. The anion oxidation potential is unchanged - confirming that anion oxidation occurs from nonbonding S p states.
#battchat
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Thank you, thank you
@ECSorg
and
@ToyotaResearch
! This is a great honor! Many congratulations to
@muziolog
, as well!! ππ
Congratulations Professor Kimberly See, of the California Institute of Technology, and Professor Iryna Zenyuk, of the University of California, Irvine!
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Just got invited to talk at my alma mater
@coschoolofmines
@MinesChemistry
!! Thank you thank you to Christine Morrison for the invite! I can't wait! See you in March, Orediggers π
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Many congratulations to our newest PhD candidate Kim Pham!!!
@The_See_Group
#proudadvisor
πΎππ» and yay for portrait mode photos back in the office!
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It's alma mater week! Giving a talk at UCSB this week and Mines next week. What are the odds?
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Congratulations to
@SCBevilacqua
!! She was awarded the
@resnick_caltech
Graduate Research Fellowship!!! πππ€
#celebrationstation
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Happy
#InternationalWomenDay2020
! Proud of the awesome women and allies in
@The_See_Group
. Thankful for the strong women and allies I've had as peers and mentors. Excited to keep progressing together.
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Hills I will die on:
strict word count/character count/page count limits waste A LOT of time
and
references should never, ever be included in these counts.
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Check out our new fancy, professional group photo! Thank you to
@resnick_caltech
for the photo!!
#sofancy
#battchatters
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Many, many congratulations to my amazing colleague and friend
@francesarnold
on the Nobel!!! πππππ I'll never forget seeing her inspiring talk for the first time at UIUC, and now I get to see her all the time :) Congratulations, Frances!!!
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.
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Contactless champagne drop off for
@The_See_Group
! This is the first time we've all been in the same place since March. It was so good to see everyone, even if only briefly!
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...and then there were 3!!! Follow us for group updates and general echem/materials/electrolyte stuff:
@The_See_Group
!!
#battchat
#Dec1
#letsgetcookin
#genesis
@ay_en_dee_why
@SCBevilacqua
@joshjzak
@CaltechChem
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