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Research Development, Reading, Relaxing, Recovering Chemist who still wonders sometimes "Can you do that in a MOF" Mirzayan Fellow ('17)
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Wastewater from airplane toilets? We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread Short 🧵

We are searching for a new senior Program Manager for the cutting edge Network Science doctoral program @northeasternu.bsky.social! Come join us. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Deleting my FB this week but this was a good and apt reminder before it goes. 8 years feels like an instant and an eternity. The twitter sign is particularly timely.

A little bit of beauty covering the city tonight. The fleeting nature made the trip out to snap some photos worth it before the world disturbs it. I imagine we will all be looking for a bit of fleeting beauty in the world for a while so take the chance if you can.

Our report on TikTok, even more relevant today...

New year new opportunities on the NU Research Development Team! Northeastern University is hiring for three positions on the Research Development team. #researchdevelopment #resdev

Worm people: We are looking for a postdoc to join the C. elegans Mentor Match committee. This is a great opportunity to shape a global mentorship program and gain leadership experience. 📩 DM or email me and Andrea Calixto if interested—and please spread the word! 🙌

Colleagues, Students, Postdocs, Collaborators and Friends of Sir Fraser Stoddart: I am writing with the sad news that Fraser passed away suddenly on 31 Dec (Australia time) while on holiday with family. No details yet on any services. He is irreplaceable.

Selecting a few of the recommendations from our National Academies report on science misinformation to highlight. Recommendation 2 is simply that universities & researchers need better procedures for publicizing research. There should be accountability for overhyping science.

I finished Wind and Truth and overall very happy where most things landed. Brandon has grown as a writer and the characters here benefit (well at least their characterization benefits) greatly. As always looking forward to more #cosmere.

@briamgilbert.bsky.social Unless I missed it (I probably did) did nobody make the Autotune joke for @dropouttv.bsky.social #Nobodyasked? Loving the show so far!

In my experience it's the organic chemists in the inorganic lab that are most likely to set things on fire/blow things up.