Rachel O'Brien

@rachelOB1
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Atmospheric scientist. Environmental Engineering Assistant Prof at University of Michigan. She/They #aerosol #airquality #indoorair
I'm really excited to be hosting @kprather88 for this webinar! We also have great panelists Dustin Poppendieck and Jim Rosenthal. Register and join us next week!!
Registratiom: https://bit.ly/3wywyGU
@atmochem
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Human Habitat Experience: "Critical Role of Engineers in Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic" with Kimberly Prather. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Building the Future: A Distinguished Lecture Series for Academics and Professionals Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Professor and Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of California San Diego, discusses the "Critical Role of Engineers in Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic" and how it relates to the human habitat experience. This presentation will discuss coordinated efforts by scientists and engineers largely through social media. Highlights will be given of all methods used to induce this change including letters to the White House, Editorials, publications in top journals including Science and The Lancet, meetings with CDC officials and Dr. Fauci, as well as testifying for OSHA and congressional hearings. Finally, a discussion of the raised awareness and efforts now focusing on the need to clean indoor air will be discussed, including efforts being implemented in schools, homes, and businesses. A summary of lessons learned from these experiences and how they will benefit research going forward will be provided. A panelist discussion will follow the lecture. Our distinguished panelists include: Dustin Poppendieck, Environmental Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Jim Rosenthal, Chairman and CEO, Air Relief Technologies, Inc.

Zoom
Meanwhile, on Scotland’s Isle Of Skye … a digital version of an Anthony Rybak painting by Juuso Hämäläinen.
Hey @subu_caps. I was thinking it would be a good idea to have a hashtag for aerosol posts that everyone uses. What do you think? I ran a low-key poll on Twitter and came up with the following:
Jan 7, 2023: timelapse video from #HVO’s B1cam shows 1 day of lava flow activity on central-eastern portion of Halema‘uma‘u crater floor. Lava cooling on surface, forming crustal plates, stacking up along margins to build levees, holding up a perched lava lake.
#KilaueaErupts
Our latest ES&T study investigates how processes like groundwater transport and wastewater treatment change the fingerprint of #PFAS in fluorotelomer #AFFF. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c06600

I recently joined Mastodon, and I found it jarring that it has very few discoverability features.

So I’ve built this little tool to help build connections with people: https://followgraph.vercel.app/

Check it out!

#mastodon #discovery #discoverability #fediverse

Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

Bird of the Day - White-necked Jacobin, Ecuador 2017
White and dark habit, winged wonder

#birds #photography #nature #wildlife #hummingbird #Ecuador #Andes

This is beautiful. It fits so many pieces of things I've felt over the past year and pulls them together with context and understanding.
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

Welcome to Garbagetown
Good essay by @catvalente I am Xennial tthat grew up starting a BBS in Mexico City as a teen (Nopal BBS) and went through several social media migrations (Orkut, remember?) I learned how to detach from my follower count and number of RT addiction since moving here. Liberating.
For me, It is time to as munch as possible replace Zoom by in-person, online by books again and time to grab coffee IRL more offen. https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

Welcome to Garbagetown
Know your shit (as opposed to know you're shit 🤣 ) :