robbie @rocknuts@qoto.org
Biomanufacturing Quality Control Terrorist
Metamorphic Geochemistry PhD in Exile
Bury my heart at the slab/mantle interface
Metal, baseball, hockey, cats
Joined Nov 2022
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Biomanufacturing and Science Research
I spent a very valuable hour tonight talking on the phone with a good friend in #Biomanufacturing. Her research is in #Upstream process development for fancy #AAV #GeneTherapy stuff. Her work is all very much "If we figure this out it will massively change the lives of millions of people someday! Unless it doesn't work and my research ends up as a footnote..."
BUT WAIT...most good #Science is built on footnotes! Footnotes are actually the bones of the researchers who found out their ideas didn't work. They did it right, but they were wrong. Most science is TOTALLY the future. Right up until the moment it's NOT...
It's important to remember that none of the people in footnotes were failures.
Long ago I did frontier research and I know the rewards of that life. I also know the feeling of seeing data from the international community CRUSH YOU because your paradigm was proven false. That's life in science. No one figures anything out alone.
In contrast to my friend, my work is as a #GMP #Downstream #QualityControl analyst in #Biomanufacturing. My job is to make sure we make the known science work. We make it work EVERY TIME.
I'm results-focused because the comparatively mundane #biotherapeutics I help produce go in patients every day. Therapeutic #Proteins like the ones that combat #Autoimmune #Disease are a massive benefit to society. I didn't develop any of these therapies but I make sure no one dies because of a mistake at the factory.
So I don't push any boundaries as a scientist. I very much make sure to NEVER push boundaries. NEVER EVER. Pushing boundaries is a problem. I'm here to execute.
So all I can leave you with is this: Is science a series of questions, or a series of answers?
What do we really need more? I've always struggled with this. I still don't know.
If you're honest and remember reading Kuhn, you know science has never proven anything. But wow we've had some results.
Go out.
Never settle.
Demand results.
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Biomanufacturing turf wars...
With the holidays approaching, Upstream and Downstream faced off and Quality tried to mediate...
Holiday Cocktails
Ideally, people follow me for science content...but I'm terrible at actually doing that.
ALCOHOL, HOWEVER.
'Tis the season where I take a break from my usual of spamming whiskey Old Fashioneds and buy Fancy Liqueurs and mix stuff.
I approached The Cabinet this evening with a theory and it's actually pretty good! If you are of similar inclination, I suggest:
8-12oz glass
1 sugar cube
~3 dashes orange bitters
~2 dashes ginger bitters
~4 cm^2 orange peel
*MUDDLE*
2 parts Grand Marnier
1 part Amaretto
1 part Bailey's
*ice to desired dilution*
Stir you cocktail and post to Mastodon!
Happy Holidays to all y'all! I also recommend you focus on a few mental health days so we can attack January like it deserves.
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@urbangeology Yey! You're here!!
Let me greet you with this glorious polished #serpentinite cladding a wall in Nottingham. 🙂
You can lose yourself looking at what you could swear is 3d detail (Reader, it isn't!)
(For folk who are interested, serpentinites are rocks that form from changes to certain existing igneous rocks. Hydrothermal fluids that percolate through them can deposit minerals that solidify in in a snakeskin-like pattern - hence the name.)
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“Little by little, over more than two centuries, the local stories told by rocks in all parts of the world have been stitched together into a great global tapestry - the geologic timescale. This "map" of Deep Time represents one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity, arduously constructed by stratigraphers, paleontologists, geochemists, and geochronologists from many cultures and faiths. It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer calibrations being made.”
~ Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
https://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2022-10.pdf
#DeepTime #GeologicTime #GeologicTimeScale #Geology #v2022 #InternationalChronoStratagraphicChart #InternationalCommitteeOnStratigraphy
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My partner surprised me with an advent calendar and I can't stop laughing 😂
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Today in “hashtags I am delighted to discover”: #PterosaurPtuesday
My "rocknuts" screen name shenanigans
OK PEOPLE...the below screenshot seems to present an opportune moment in time to explain that my screen name "rocknuts" is from my college friends realizing 25 years ago that I...
1. Like rocks. Like I really really like rocks. I went on and did a whole dissertation on rocks. People were all impressed at the end and stuff...=ROCK
2. My friends also recognized that I am insane. To this day my shrink continues to be confused about my psychosis, but she would be the first to assure you I am not dangerous. None of my problems are offensive...=NUTS
So I'm just rock+nuts and that name stuck really fast. It was far too accurate for me to disavow. I mean...that nickname gets big approval from objective scientists familiar with the topic.
All of that said, the good people at Pokémon have recently decided my screen name is a problem for them. I've been using it for 10+ years with Pokémon. SO...let's hear it for the new intern at Nintendo who felt the need to flag my shit as offensive...👏👏👏👍
Thanks kid! Always good to know QA is ever vigilant...
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Travetonics in central Nevada. All I want for Xmas are some good U-series results... #geology
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Geochronology grant opportunities for graduate students! AGeS3 is back, and has funding opportunities for up to $10,000 for US based graduate students interested in collecting geochronology data. Check out https://agesgeochronology.org/ for more info, including details on an upcoming zoom informational session.
#geology #geochronology
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My Crustal Rheology class students have fixed up some key
@Wikipedia
articles including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinization (with complimentary adjustments to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentinite and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentine_subgroup), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotachylyte, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slickenside and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_gouge
all topics I care deeply about and very extremely happy about the improvements they made!
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What if the universe is set up just like the Fediverse, but we don’t know about the existence of any other life because our Earth instance was preemptively blocked for hateful conduct.
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With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.
If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.
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Birdsite & Mastodon
Twitter is a dopamine slot machine without the wager — open account, log in, start scrolling, get your fix while the algorithm discovers your addiction triggers and leverages your outrage threshold to maximize infinite scroll time.
Here, without a certain amount of curiosity & interest in discovery, the UX might be a shrug. But if you’re curious about and interested in the world, this place is a GOLDMINE of potential for connection.
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#introduction
Hello! I'm new here, nice to meet you all!
I'm Francesca and I'm an Italian #artist currently based in London, UK.
My work is mostly #digital, painted with Corel Painter. I love reading #fantasy and #SciFi novels, and I love painting fantasy and sci-fi art. Recently, I paint a lot of #portraits in #oils too.
Apart from books and art, my main passions are live music and theatre and that's why I love London!
#MastoArt #DigitalArt #Dune #digitalpainting #fantasyart #illustration
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The last few days before the asteroid crashed into Earth were filled with resignation, reminiscence, and confessions. All over social media:
"I have a crush on you."
"I actually like banana on pizza."
"I didn't lose the ring, I sold it."
"I faked the asteroid."
"I kiss... What?"
#MicriFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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PLEASE BOOST: Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
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I didn't take this photo but I was with my husband when he did. It was breathtaking up on Stenbury Down on the Isle of Wight, watching the mist roll in at sunset. The sheep were surprised to see us and for once the weather did what we'd hoped it would do! #SheepofMastodon
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From @AtmChemAeroJobs@twitter.com:
Looking for postdoc to join the Aerosol Physics Group, University of Eastern Finland. Focus on organic aerosol and mass spectrometry (CIMS) and set in a new multi-institute atmospheric/computer science collaboration. E-mail
@SchobesbergerS@twitter.com
Biomanufacturing Quality Control Terrorist
Metamorphic Geochemistry PhD in Exile
Bury my heart at the slab/mantle interface
Metal, baseball, hockey, cats
Joined Nov 2022
