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@Caltech PhD Candidate, Cushing Lab, ultrafast TEM EELS and photocatalysis, @UMNChemistry '20, he/him 🏳️🌈 Current: @doescience SCGSR Fellow @argonne
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My 1st first-author paper of grad school is online, open access!!
We test the limits of photomodulated X-ray absorption spectroscopy for measuring steady-state carrier distributions:
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OMG!? I'M LGBT CHEM FAMOUS 😭 I was so honored to meet the bold and beautiful Professor Isaacs
@drdre4000
!
Got to see a lot of my favorite people and took the undergrads to their first ACS conference :)
#ACSSpring2023
@ACSorganic
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When you win the division's Day of Inclusion raffle 💀🤣! Y'all I'm SCREAMING (literally)
✅ Inaugural Day of Inclusion
After the keynote presentations, attendees were encouraged to engage in dialogue about DEI through workshops, discussions, and presentations from various
@Caltech
offices.
The day ended with a dinner and raffle giveaway!
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Although grad school has low points... The support I felt from faculty and staff this week was staggering. Throughout my third year meeting and the DOE review, I was 🫶🥹! THANK YOU
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Happy
#ComingOutDay
🏳️🌈! Being out in my lab is a breath of fresh air! 💙😎
@OUTinSTEM
@STEMforEquality
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So much news yesterday! My first grad pub will be on the COVER of JCP... I was rejected by a fellowship, received an award, my mentee passed candidacy, and our TEM repair started 😅🥳
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Y'ALL... check google scholar. 2024 really is MY year. "In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. etc."
Feeling blessed for each and every citation 🙏
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I am honored to have been a co-recipient of this award, and I'm so grateful that the KNI and Caltech have programs like these supporting student-driven efforts! 🙏💙
The KNI Catalyst Award recognizes changemakers for diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM.
Congratulations to this year's recipients Levi Palmer & Prachi Thureja for their contributions to building more supportive networks at
@Caltech
& beyond!
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Our perspective is online! We describe how steady-state and ultrafast electron energy-loss spectroscopy can probe (and even image) vibrational and electronic dynamics at the nanoscale! 🔬
@JChemPhys
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I had the opportunity to engage with Pasadena high school students last week! Our PV electrolysis demo overviewed the basics of water splitting ☀️🫧
Event Leads:
@JacobParresAu
in
@CaltechDICI
Demo Development:
@JustinBui888
and
@Alex_James_King
with
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
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The Argonne scientist and my lab mate kept our experiments running while I went to gay bars and brunch this weekend in Chicago🥹🙏! Active ALLYship ppl 😂!!!
#Pride2023
🏳️🌈
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$1 MIL!! 🤑 I'm proud to have helped Scott write this grant for a revolutionary ultrafast, all-electron experiment! So excited to start building this instrument alongside our great team and to study some evasive electronic processes!
#ultrafast
#spectroscopy
#nanoscience
Prof. Scott Cushing has received a $1.1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to build a new type of all-electron instrument for measuring processes that happen on a femtosecond timescale (a millionth of a billionth of a second).
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I'm late to the game BUT had an incredible time at
#acsspring2023
! I met some legends 🤩 and saw old friends 🥹
Feat.
@drdre4000
@ktluedecke
@icjennikins
@ColtonChem
@jillianldempsey
@bim_daniel
@jaramillogroup
@atwater_group
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Thanks so much for always supporting me, Ari!! I'm so happy to be part of our community and to have learned so much from you and the
@CaltechDICI
fam!
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Beautiful TEM imaging of single-atom catalysts in
@J_A_C_S
by
@sharonjmitchell
,
@SeanCollinsChem
,
@catalysis_eth
et al. I'm curious how the algorithm handles cumbersome samples (low contrast or FIB-prepared)!
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Come see me this week at the
@AmerChemSociety
meeting!! Totally down to get together for coffee or drinks as well!
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@UiisesPerez
Wow, Ulises... I'm so sorry... this is so disappointing. Hopefully you can contest this insensitive, racist comment. I'm trying to search for that option, but maybe it would be in your application portal? I hope grad school is going okay (outside of this)
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I spent DAYS making my first PhD research poster 😮💨😅! Attend the virtual poster session next Thursday (Nov. 3rd) to see my progress modeling plasmon-induced carriers in TiO2!!
#PhotocatChat
#photocatalysis
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Academic reality 🙃! Yes, I'm expensive (Caltech pays $45k). And yes, for those confused, we do make "that much" lol
What do you get paid
@pauldauenhauer
? I'm curious 😅...
How much does a graduate student cost per year?
Salary: $35,793
Benefits + Tuition: $26,463
Supplies: $12,000
Travel: $3,000
Overhead: $42,491
Total: $119,747
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158
1K
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I'm so proud of our team for making this $700 undergrad travel award happen! Please reach out to me if you or your students have questions! Thanks to
@CaltechCCE
DEI again for sponsorship 🙏💸💙!
Application:
We are supporting undergraduate attendance at the
@AmerChemSociety
Spring 2023 Meeting through a $700 travel award! Encourage your students to apply ASAP! Kudos to
@CaltechCCE
for making this possible!
@ACSDivCHED
@ACSCatalysis
@InorgChem
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i highly recommend adobe capture/colors for manuscript color scheme inspiration 😄
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Thanks for organizing,
@cenmag
!! Found twitter handles of featured folks!
@TehshikYoon
@Kelly_N_Chacon
@AnalyticalBB
@craywand
@NancySBWilliams
@jennifercpetter
@drdre4000
@AlisonWendlandt
@professor_dave
@ProfArno
@DrCarolynLLadd
@songlin_chem
@ballnchemist
@CarolynBertozzi
Celebrating the stories and science of out and proud LGBTQ+ Trailblazers in the chemistry community! 🏳️🌈
#LGBTinSTEM
#QueerinSTEM
Read more at
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🥹 omg thanks, Ari! This is my boyfriend's suit... Isn't he stylish!?
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they need happiness pointers from Pumpkin
U of M researchers map the genome of the world’s grumpiest cat. The team is hopeful that their work will help with the species' conservation.
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At ACS this spring in Indianapolis I'm giving a poster (twice), a talk, organizing a symposium, and coordinating undergrads traveling to the meeting... why lol
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Could not be more excited for the LGBTQ+ Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium at ACS! Come through! Some of my friends and I are presenting 😍👀
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I finally connected with so many friends last week thanks to
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
! I also can't believe how many PIs and role models I met in person – at poster sessions, breakfast, on the beach, etc. 🥹🤩 I was star-struck!
@jaramillogroup
Last week, we celebrated our researchers and their amazing accomplishments this year, and we planned our steps moving into 2023! Thanks for the great reunion in Asilomar 🧡❤️💛
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Just submitted my first high performance computing task 😍🥳! I never wanted to be a computational chemist, but here I am!!
#Quantum
#Chemistry
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Days between Thanksgiving and New Years are a quantum dot, and I am a lowly electron tunneling through them 😪
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Sooo Caltech and
@AmerChemSociety
made a deal, and all our articles accepted to their journals can be published open access for free!? Wild!?
@CaltechCCE
@CaltechEAS
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My sub-group recently published a
@Chem_CP
Perspective about transient XUV and soft X-ray spectroscopies that study solar energy conversion!
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Thanks to
@CaltechCAEL
, I attended the
@OUTinSTEM
conference in Boston last weekend! It was such an amazing opportunity! We all loved the final keynote by
@sbrinton
! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙🤍
#oSTEM2022
@Shell
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I'm pumped to co-organize this symposium with
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
,
@ktluedecke
, and members of
@CHASE_Hub
! ACS 2023 is going to be a blast!
Be sure to check out this year’s GSSPC symposium, Solar Fuels Nexus: molecules and materials for light-driven catalysis, at
@AmerChemSociety
Spring 2023 in Indianapolis supported by
@ACSDivCHED
! Stay tuned for more details on our amazing speakers!
@CHASE_Hub
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
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I know exactly how to revolutionize my field! 💡 BUT I don't have the time to do it! I think I'm ready to be a PI! 🥳
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Apparently the perfect
#gradstudent
vacation is visiting a National Park! Cheap lodging, family visitors, and no cell service 😅
@NationalParkFdn
@SequoiaKingsNPS
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Weee! Yes, we made it on the cover too 😁 thanks so much for spotlighting Nicholas's beatiful artwork!
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David was this year's winner of CCE's NEW James LuValle Award (recognizing his excellent work supporting DEI in our division) 🥳😍!!
This week's
#MeetCCE
👋 features graduate student David Cagan! Read on to see which Nobel Laureate he would have dinner with.
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Caltech repping the Science cover this week! 🥳 congrats to our incredible collaborators in the Marandi group
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🫶 congrats, Justin!! (ft. my endless graham crackers)
After a long few weeks where I gave my exit seminar talk and went to AIChE, it was great to end this busy period with
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
at Asilomar! Being in LiSA has been the absolute highlight of my PhD so it was great to have one last All Hands Meeting with friends and colleagues!
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I'm hoping to mentor an undergrad next summer in our lab at Caltech! Have students check out this panel on landing internships!
LiSA is hosting a panel/info session for 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research available at our partner institutions 🤝🔥! Come hear from our four amazing panelists on how to land an internship 😍!
@doescience
@BerkeleyLab
@NREL
@SLAClab
@UCIPhysSci
@uoregon
@UCSanDiego
@CaltechCCE
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Yas! All the rainbows! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
With rainbow sherbet, balloons, and bubbles, it was another fabulous Gaypril Kick Off🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#persistwithpride
@caltechedu
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This renovation is drastically needed. I spent years working with class/lab mates on hallway floors to write lab reports. Several of my friends switched majors and colleges because of this experience in
@UMNChemistry
. Not ideal for a great department!
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I need to keep reminding myself not to base my self-worth on the success of my plants
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I love the memes demanding the cis hets give us money during Pride month, but can we get access to proper bathrooms and sports for trans athletes?
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My candidacy committee is entirely composed of Cottrell Scholars! Congrats,
@RyanGHadt
! Mentorship from these amazing teacher-scholars is a blessing ❤️
RCSA has named a diverse group of 24 early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy as recipients of its 2022
#CottrellScholar
Awards. Each awardee receives $100,000.
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We are seeing some changes at Caltech, thanks to hard working students! Sam, Panangaden, Badroos, Nuñez, and Mukasa are mentioned in this recent Nature Article.
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The Cushing group is always looking for outstanding postdocs in our field! Check out this HUGE fellowship offered by
@caltechRSI
!! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🤎🤍🖤
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I think I'm submitting to this symposium! 😊🏳️🌈
As in-person ACS meetings are ramping back up, so too is the
@ACSPride_prof
Symposium for LGBTQ+ grad students and postdocs, back this Spring at the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis. Abstracts due Oct 17!
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💸🙏 I'm beyond excited to tackle big challenges in renewable
#energy
and
#photocatalysis
alongside the Ardo Lab and the new
@ENERGY
EFRC!!!
@UCIChemistry
Please join us in congratulating three
@UCIChemistry
Professors — Jenny Yang
@icjennikins
, Sarah Finkeldei
@FinkeldeiSarah
and Shane Ardo — who just won big re:
@doescience
funding for renewable and nuclear research.
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Join Scott's talk virtually or in person this Wednesday, May 11th 5PM PST! He'll share an overview of quantum and entanglement and how these principles govern processes in everyday life!
Attend a hybrid Watson Lecture on Wed., May 11 at 5 p.m. PDT with Scott Cushing, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, discussing what we can learn about small and somewhat larger objects when they are forced to interact with entangled photons. More info:
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Congratulations, President SLAY
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When i say FOMO i meeeean it! Look at the material... Gorgeous views, gorgeous people, gorgeous science... it's the Gorg Gordon
@GordonConf
, and it is the moment! Aspirational.
LiSA members (Junko Yano,
@ericlees__
,
@AKing_MI
, Ian Sullivan, and
@FMTLabs
) are sharing some of the great strides we’ve made in artificial photosynthesis 🌱 at the
@GordonConf
on Solar☀️Fuels⛽️ in the Tuscany region of Italy 🇮🇹!!
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Congrats to the 2023 Quad Fellows including
@V_Teja_
!! I was honored to make it to the interview stage 🥳😮
@QuadFellowship
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If you can, please support Larry and his family during this difficult time.
Larry Mendoza, recent
#wsuchemistry
PhD graduate, was struck in a hit-and-run incident last Friday night.
A GoFundMe has been setup to help his family out. Please consider donating.
Support Larry's Family
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Of course my top-tier, world class, pioneering PhD work runs on Windows 2000 Professional
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Our lab's new postdoc, Ye-Jin, told me "we will have your instrument working in two days!" I'm loving the optimism! 😍😊
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Isabel's paper is out!
Ab Initio Prediction of Excited-State and Polaron Effects in Transient XUV Measurements of α-Fe2O3
@CaltechCCE
@Caltech
@LiSA_Hub_DOE
@doescience
@CHASE_Hub
#AbInitio
#ExcitedState
#Polaron
#XUV
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Me doing any form of comp chem
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I met
@H_LARRY_OH
at ACS, and WOW he is so caring. Even though we just met, he helped hang my SciMix poster, made sure everyone got home safely after a night out, and so much more. His generosity was humbling... We were texting Friday night before he was struck in a hit-and-run💔
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Today in
@ScienceMagazine
: "California EV rules jolt battery science" 👀
They claim "recharging an EV takes anywhere from... an hour to a day" and demand new battery chemistry. BUT it takes my boyfriend 20 minutes to charge his
@Tesla
. AND we do it while watching
@netflix
LOL!
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@OUTinSTEM
@STEMforEquality
If you aren't out and you have questions about anything queer in STEM, please DM me! Always happy to talk 💙
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@pauldauenhauer
I took CHEN 3101 (cheme thermo) for fun learning as a chemistry major, but I regretted it 😆! Hardest class EVER, and I hardly passed while publishing a paper, applying to grad school/fellowships, and maintaining research.
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Dr. Warren is a strong and active ally for anyone looking for a job at NREL 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😊
Dr. Emily Warren
@DiatomaceousE
is a Staff Scientist
@NREL
🌱⚡️! As our Systems and Integration⚙️ Team Lead, her LiSA research focuses on photoelectrode architectures and carrier management. She integrates semiconductors into high performance solar energy conversion systems!
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Undergrad chemists: check out these travel awards for upcoming conferences!
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My undergrad bestie does it again - now in Nature Reviews Materials! Check out her latest
@NatRevMater
🥳
Excited to share that our review paper on studying emerging non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum matter using novel ultrafast spectroscopies has been published in
@NatRevMater
🥳🐻
@UCB_Chemistry
@BerkeleyLab
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Even with imposter syndrome rampant, I believe that anyone who's willing to help others is a perfect fit for academia.
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CONGRATS to Nick Heller, the Cushing lab's electron-electron expert and future Dr.!
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I STILL feel so valued when a professor acknowledges me... even if it's just saying my name in the hallway or liking my tweet 😭!
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I wrote an LoR for an undergrad and they WON the award :)!! I'm so proud of them!
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I just heard from
@amorri28
that ACS GTCA is now ACS Pride!! So excited to see her talk at our upcoming ACS symposium in Indianapolis!
Next up is Amanda Morris the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellow and Professor of Inorganic and Energy Chemistry
@VTChemDept
! The Morris Lab is at the intersection of physical and inorganic/molecular materials chemistry focused on the areas of light-matter interactions and catalysis
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Great work featured in
@ChemCatalysis
from the
@jaramillogroup
!
The
@jaramillogroup
recently published a study of Cu-Zn catalysts capable of high-performance electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO, without employing precious metals!! 👀🔥 Check out the article here ()
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The fact that Caltech holds a graduate housing lottery, evicts me two months later if I don't win, and now I might pay $500/mo more in rent >>> 😍🥳🍾💞💫🌈
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I have one thing in common with OER catalysts: we're both difficult and expensive
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We are implementing DEI moments in Caltech chemistry (1-5 minutes on DEI before research talks). Most faculty support them, but there is underground resistance from some (including assistant) profs?
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California bathroom codes only cater to "male" and "female" users... so we can't get a non-gendered restroom within five floors of our lab. Sound like a problem???
@Caltech
@CaltechCCID
@GavinNewsom
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@GroupHelms
my faves are
@sambuddhalab
@drdre4000
@ballnchemist
@AnalyticalBB
to name just a few on Twitter!
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@AlexSolivan
I'd recommend going somewhere that has 2-3 advisors that you know you'd love to work under. Even if the chemistry isn't a perfect match, the stipend at the end of the day is typically set to the cost of living or competition. Hoping money isn't too tight for you 🙏
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When your colleagues are starting to publish papers and your instrument is so clearly 1+ years from working, how do you keep persevering?
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Received this text from my older sister last night... I said "I don't blame you 😆😭!" For context, she finished (aced) gen chem last spring 🥲🙏
#ochem
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Check out this opportunity! Please note that international students are ineligible for WAVE at Caltech (I'm running into that problem right now)
Applications are open for summer undergraduate research fellowships
@Caltech
! Students who apply for WAVE & are interested in nanoscience-based projects will be considered for the KNI SURF-the-WAVE Prize fellowship.
WAVE apps due Jan 9. More info:
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Excited to have you here, Professor Fong!
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Safety moment: TEM and electron optics are made out of beryllium, which is highly toxic! Use gloves when handling!
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im afraid of anyone with a BS in mathematics and a PHD in physics
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So excited to read this work from my undergrad bestie!!! It's finally out!
@JVSTAB
article on Sn-modified
#BaTiO3
replacement for Pb-containing relaxor-based thin film devices from
@JalanMbeLab
,
@UMNews
Gopalan lab
@PennStateMatSE
James LeBeau
@mit_dmse
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ACS Webinar: How to Approach Gender, Language, and Intersectionality with Your Students 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Next Thursday, June 23, 2022 @ 2:00–3:15pm ET
@ACSCatalysis
@ACSPHYSDivision
@ACSCATLDivision
@ACS_ANYL
@gtca_acsprof
@ACSINORDivision
@OUTinSTEM
@STEMforEquality
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The GUI for X-ray absorption simulations is abbreviated CRISPY, which sounds uncomfortably scrumptious ...
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wait... $50k salary!? 1-2 conferences/yr!? Is
@Stanford
hiring??? 🤣
A
#STEM
PhD in the US costs around $100k/yr in taxpayer (e.g.
@NSF
) or other grant money that the faculty must raise. At Stanford, an experimental PhD student is about $140k/yr. Theory students (no lab, only coffee) are $116k/yr. A 5-year PhD is well over $0.5M!
#AcademicTwitter
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