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
Never done a #FieldPhotoFriday before...here is an ancient [1999] shot of being very thirsty while mapping a Metamorphic core complex in Idaho, USA. That was a good year.
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If you want something to look forward to, Mastodon 4.0 will be released on Monday so soon enough you'll be able to translate posts and follow hashtags! 
@DrVic2r
Very cool. My biomanufacturing program used #GFP as our model molecule because we could literally watch the protein all the way through #downstream purification. Fabulous tool for teaching #chromatography capture and polishing. Welcome!
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Today's M7.3 #earthquake near #Tonga was a different type of event, generated by compression in the outer rise due to the bending of the #subducting slab. The shallow part of the outer rise is usually experiencing tensional #stresses and produces normal faulting quakes. The deeper section is in compression, causing reverse #faulting #earthquakes, usually with low #tsunami generating potential due to their depth.
Got a new soundbar with a woofer and my cats ARE NOT enjoying field testing.
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@Drosmel @Geolizzy
Personally, my favorite geo-bio crossover event was when cyanobacteria declared war on the Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
As a former geochemist who worked on chemical cycling but now does biomanufacturing it's just a fabulous story.
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Never thought Elon Musk would do so much for the adoption of a decentralised infrastructure…
Please Elon, can you buy Elsevier ?
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Analyzing graphite on #raman to estimate metamorphic temperatures in subducted sediments. Here's an example of graphite (black) in muscovite (clear) from one of the standards. #ThinSectionThursday
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I think I'm getting the feeling that people are beginning to get it. This place was built on the premise that it listens to people that were not listened to on the other site, so they went and built what they needed. Now that everyone has had to come here you're seeing what we needed but was ignored. This is just a site. Think of what the outside world could be like if you listened to us there too. There's a lesson in all of this #Trans #MastoDaoine
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Hi folks! In case you weren't already following me on The Bird App, I'm Jessica Ball, a physical #volcanologist who specializes in volcanic stability, volcanic #hazard modeling, assessment, and communication. I work for a US #volcano observatory and #scicomm is actually part of my job! I also dabble in #usability, #Python & #datavis.
In my free time, I mushroom hunt, knit, and occasionally do cosplay that involves knitting.
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Hi! You may know me as @Geolizzy from Twitter. I’m an ore deposit geologist and I like to talk about geology, mining, random science stuff, and occasionally my nerdy hobbies.
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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For all it's advantages and faults, #Mastodon was not built to be a *new* Twitter. It was built to be *not* Twitter.
That distinction is important.
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I am going to try to find time this weekend to add in several new features to QOTO, fix a few small bugs, and if we aare REALLY lucky and things go well I might release a new version of QOTO this weekend (no promises though my life is CRAZY right now, hard to predict).
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I love the graphic on the cover of this 1977 Bulletin from the Oregon Dept. of #Geology on North American #Ophiolites.
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Free advice for people who aren't paid to watch cable news: Turn it off, log out, read a book or something, see where things are when you wake up in the morning. You aren't learning anything useful right now.
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This looks like it might turn into the first big drama of this #TwitterMigration
Scholar.social (academic server) is defederating from journa.host (journalist server) because of the history of some of the journalists on the latter.
If others follow suit, there might be a lot of confused journalists out there soon.
Biomanufacturing Quality Control Terrorist
Metamorphic Geochemistry PhD in Exile
Bury my heart at the slab/mantle interface
Metal, baseball, hockey, cats
Joined Nov 2022
