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Science Writers 2015 (#sciwri15)
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RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
@Laelaps @scicurious @jgold85 @SciFleur Great job by all of you on unpanel. #sciwri15
Everyone at #sciwri15 has made it tons of fun to meet them in person.
Met a bunch of super cool twitter followers for the first time at #sciwri15! You are awesome! Thank you for the lovely comments <3
Our writeup of Saturday at #sciwri15. Can't wait for tomorrow! http://t.co/0cyX7tn0xp
LOOKIE! 4/9 of Santa Cruz class together! @laurahelmuth @cragcrest @sciwriter #sciwri15 http://t.co/dvyNxcf078
90 members in my #SciWri15 attendee Twitter list and growing! Subscribe if you dig science writers. 'Night, Tweops.
Don't forget to check your emails for info on our next meeting!--- Kenyeda Adams
PS Follow #sciwri15 for tweets from Science Writers 2015!
OH at #sciwri15: "I'm not allowed in the country of Belgium."
Check it out! @jtotheizzoe #sciwri15 https://t.co/55oQyAm55U
The scientists in this video took their dedication to research to a new level
http://t.co/0YxEnLe997 http://t.co/BGvtY0TtYl
#sciwri15 I am so excited! Tomorrow's plenary talk is about optogenetics! I think this is one of the coolest techniques out right now!
RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
Glad #sciwri15 ethics discussion underway. Hoping we can all adhere to level of respect & thoughtfulness set by @mschrope & @erikvance
#sciwri15 Sony Life F%#K Music Video
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Ended the night eating liquid nitrogen ice cream with @MIT_Sciwrite alums. 😎 😎 What a day. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 touched by the expressions of sympathy about my dad @David_Dobbs @estrellaburgos @TinsleyHD @LinaZeldovich @DaveMosher @rkhamsi
RT @AjSolliday: From @MarcAbrahams: Describe the unexpected clearly. It's funny. #HumorNASW15 #sciwri15
RT @ashleybraun: How do we write this stuff so that it's really really clear? "It" is funny, not us. @MarcAbrahams #sciwri15 #HumorNASW15
.@E_Bizzell Keep your eye out for @drjudystone @tarahaelle @davidkroll @laurahelmuth all wonderful #sciwri15 people I follow on Twitter
RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
RT #VJin140: #sciwri15 award for #longform science reporting goes to #insideclimate team: http://t.co/TXKAZBcnQS https://t.co/qwE
i feel like i've been walking around #sciwri15 in an impostor-syndrome fugue.
Brooke Borel @brookeborel sentiment score is 11.5 #Happy. What is yours? https://t.co/ivnFtS9xtx #sciwri15 #MoodSwing
Preparing for Day 3 of #sciwri15 as the action moves to @MIT for @ScienceWriting's New Horizons in Science talks. http://t.co/YEEoiI5MmL
First up at #sciwri15 today: @maria_zuber and @eboyden3. Shuttles depart Hyatt and Fairfield for Kresge Auditorium starting at 7 am.
#sciwri15 http://t.co/RiJLYXRqJs
The Eero Saarinen @mit chapel view from Kresge ... minutes before #sciwri15 Day 3 begins #sciwriphotos http://t.co/pWGK5QX85d
"@wroush: Gorgeous sunrise over the Charles for Day 3 of #sciwri15" #aroundMIT http://t.co/ZwclCD70s7
"wroush: Gorgeous sunrise over the Charles for Day 3 of #sciwri15" #aroundMIT http://t.co/4ggm33ORSm … http://t.co/KflUihwKlx
#sciwri15 it's been fun! So great to see old friends and make new ones.
MIT MIT :
"wroush: Gorgeous sunrise over the Charles for Day 3 of #sciwri15" #aroundMIT http://t.co/j9HqTAX1gh
Great @carlzimmer story on why elephants, with way more cells, don't get more cancer http://t.co/AiPRM6I3uK @Ashworth_SF @nytimes #sciwri15
We would like to reassure you that the oatmeal at the #sciwri15 breakfast is alcohol free. Good or bad? http://t.co/8Dj4QohF5X
Ready for New Horizons in Science at #sciwri15
Great pic Jeff. #sciwri15 attendees, please tag photos for @KSJatMIT retrospective with #sciwriphotos! https://t.co/WMkKdXYMxv
Waking early for science. (Blink, blink) #sciwri15 http://t.co/yoIaUma0nq
Getting fueled up for the start of New Horizons in Science at #sciwri15. Talks by @AlanStern and @ProfSaraSeager http://t.co/vJ67femJDV
Good morning #sciwri15. Know anyone with a spare bed in their hotel room tonight? DM me pls. V happy to pay half of course
If you tried to email me yesterday and got a bounce back, please try again. Bad time to run out of storage. Problem now sorted. #sciwri15
.@b0yle is welcoming us to the @ScienceWriting "New Horizons in Science" meeting. #sciwri15
So I just learned that PIOs can't be officers in NASW. Really? Really?!?!?????!!!!? #sciwri15
There's something very funny about ringing a hand bell to indicate it's time to go to the Paul Revere room #sciwri15 #yesterday
I had a great time at #sciwri15 ! Thanks to everyone who participated in the power pitch session.
@wroush introducing the New Horizons talks. Ready to get my science on! #sciwri15 https://t.co/ugOJclpuDG
after a word from our sponsors, @maria_zuber to kick off the sciencyness today at #sciwri15
What do you have to do to get President Obama to sign your lab equipment? #sciwri15
At @ScienceWriting sessions looking fwd to @AlanStern who wrote this for @AmSciMag: http://t.co/LqUJXNCHMi #sciwri15
Useful tips for PIOs (public information officers) from @ivanoransky in yesterday's #scipitch session at #sciwri15 https://t.co/ulRckj1C58
How to pitch reporters without being annoying: A top 10 (OK, top 20) list http://t.co/XIzocb3U2Y My #sciwri15 slides
We’re at @MIT for the @ScienceWriting part of #sciwri15. Listening to the VP of Research at MIT, Maria Zuber. #everymolecule
#Diversityscholars represent at #SciWri15 Thx @ScienceWriting @ScienceWriters @MinorityPostdoc @mit @KSJatMIT w @luis_quevedo @mapache_rm
New Horizons in Science getting going. MIT's @maria_zuber welcoming us. First up Edward Boyden talking about biomolecular mapping #sciwri15
Intéressant constat à #sciwri15 Can't cover politics without covering science -that's where investigat. writing comes in #sciwricontroversy
THX @ScienceWriting @ScienceWriters @MinorityPostdoc @mit @KSJatMIT for opportunity #Diversityscholars #SciWri15 @luis_quevedo @mapache_rm
.@maria_zuber is giving a shout-out to GRAIL, an awesome Moon mission she helped lead. #sciwri15
My morning has started off well: a good breakfast and discussing college #quidditch teams with attendees of #sciwri15!
#sciwri15 #MIT VP research Maria Zuber: science provides optimism, inspiration, hope
Maria Zuber: Most ppl in my family didn't go to college. I believed I would grow up to make discoveries abt the universe. #sciwri15
MIT's @maria_zuber says science in the usually dystopian news provides a fresh breath of optimism #sciwri15
.@MIT developing its own climate change policy and action plan, will release this fall, says @maria_zuber #sciwri15
Science provides optimism, inspiration, hope - Maria Zuber @mit #sciwri15 from #synbio to space exploration
#sciwri15 Zuber: we believe education is key to peace and prosperity
RT @kellyperil: New phrase: "Trump-like moments": when person in position of authority spews anti-sci message #sciwricontroversy #sciwri15
#sciwri15 @maria_zuber says: "Every scientist has a story. Some have been realized. Some have yet to be realized." http://t.co/vqZ1f799eI
Maria Zuber: "Science isn't just the greatest show on earth. It's the greatest show in the universe." #sciwri15
"Science isn't just the greatest show on Earth, it's also the greatest show in the universe." - @maria_zuber #sciwri15
Upcoming @ScienceWriting speaker Penny Chisholm profiled in @amscimag on why to be a scientist: http://t.co/Lo1rAPZltM #sciwri15
Kicking off day 2 with an inspirational talk about the future of science with Dr. Maria Zuber of MIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/65TDIF5EeK
"Science is not only the greatest show in the world, but the greatest show in the Universe" Maria Zuber, #sciwri15
Looking for a ticket to Story Collider. Anyone unable to use their ticket? Let's talk. #sciwri15
Day 2 of #sciwri15, the CASW-sponsored science portion, kicks off with a talk on lighting up cell molecules: http://t.co/oRLwNFCnNr
@eboyden3 talking abt synthetic neurobiology. #sciwri15
Used the talk hashtag too early. #SciWri15 🙈
"Science is not only the greatest show on earth, it's the greatest show in the universe," MIT's Maria Zuber #sciwri15
First science talk: "Lighting up biology: The quest to see every molecule in every cell" by Edward Boyden #everymolecule #sciwri15
"Science is not only the greatest show on earth, it's also the greatest story in the universe" <3 #sciencehumor #sciwri15 @mit @MariaZuber
Important msg from @rosreid: If you signed up for a lunch/tour/party and can't make it, plz scratch your name off list at desk. #sciwri15
This is valuable stuff: Statisticians who know their shit volunteering to work with journalists. #sciwri15 https://t.co/B5a9QHmtl4
Journalists! We have volunteer statisticians from across the US waiting to help you with #datajournalism http://t.co/5F8pgFtgta
Boyden: why is biological and medical progress so slow compared with technology? (Seems a bit apples-and-oranges.) #everymolecule #sciwri15
first science talk: Ed Boyden, @MIT 'Neuroengineer' @eboyden3 #sciwri15
@eboyden3: biology & medicine have slow progress. Life is complex. #sciwri15
Si ça ne dépendait que de nous... #sciwri15 @sethmnookin tells students, 1 way to deal w/ controversy is not to cover it #sciwricontroversy
Wow! 💕RT @MIT: "@wroush: Gorgeous sunrise over the Charles for Day 3 of #sciwri15" #aroundMIT http://t.co/Pk2fAbphbc
Boyden: the brain is a macroscopic organism with centimeter-scale structures, but the building blocks are nanoscale #everymolecule #sciwri15
Boyden: brain processes take place over milliseconds, but things like growth and memory are years-long processes. #everymolecule #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #everymolecule All cells are different in shapes & sizes which leads to varied spacial demands... which makes studying them hard
Intractable problems in neuro/med, as told by MIT's @eboyden3: spatial and temporal scales are so large #sciwri15
@eboyden3 on "Lighting up biology" -- nanoscale building blocks, millisecond events achieve macro scale effects, long-term action #sciwri15
Boyden: we don't have a complete catalog of all the types of brain cells. I did not know this. #everymolecule #sciwri15
"We don't know how many cell types are in the human brain" @eboyden3 #sciwri15 #everymolecule
@eboyden: nervous system has nanoscale bldg blocks but w/ some nerves cm or even a m long. Need new tech to bridge those scales. #SciWri15
MT @DrMRFrancis: @eboyden3: the brain is a macroscopic organism w/ cm-scale structures, but the building blocks are nanoscale #sciwri15
Why isn't science front page news every day? Imagine how different news would look w more science Maria zuber @MIT #sciwri15
Ed Boyden @MIT talking synthetic bio @ScienceWriting #sciwri15 talking length and time scales in neurology. http://t.co/nByvy3uyne
@eboyden3: brain disorders not only affect how long we live but also our identities. #sciwri15
Boyden: brain conditions of various sorts affect >1 billion people, but we can't treat most of them. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3: therapies for brain disorders are time & $ intensive, w/ high # failures b4 success #sciwri15
Listening to @eboyden3. I love brain stuff. 😍 Dendrites and axons and neurons. The brain is still a mystery. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Biotech's yin and yang: need new technologies to reveal truths and new science to drive therapies -- @eboyden3 #sciwri15
RT @kellyperil: @sethmnookin: Flat Earth Society is alive & well. But no one covering it, so it's a non-issue #sciwricontroversy #sciwri15
scienceing on sunday #sciwri15
Sodium polyacrylate is the stuff in diapers. #sciwri15 #funfacts
How do we ensure medicine and biology start to catch up to the rate of advance in computers/technology? Biology is much harder! #sciwri15
Boyden: sodium polyacrylate is a polymer used in diapers that grows when wet. Can we do the same with biomolecules? #everymolecule #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #everymolecule Discussing how to enlarge tissues using sodium polyacrytate... it did not go well.... #opps
Boyden: embed polyacrylate molecules in brain tissue to physically magnify. Problem: tissue too damaged. #everymolecule #sciwri15
.@eboyden3 wove in the expanding polymer from diapers into the brain, then swelled it by adding water. Easier imaging! #sciwri15
sodium polyacrylate. swells with water. infuse brain sample w/components, form polymer, add water. swell 100x. but distortion. #sciwri15
Upcoming at @ScienceWriting #sciwri15 from Scott Aaronson on black holes; wrote on quantum randomness for @AmSciMag: http://t.co/10STyu10JI
Can't see molecules in cells? @mit engineers use polymers from diapers to blow cell up 100x. #sciwri15
If you can't see it, blow it up. Ed Boyden physically magnifies brain with same polymers found in diapers. #sciwri15 http://t.co/QQA6ajFNtN
Kicking myself for not bringing a parka to the talks #sciwri15
The #everymolecule talk at #sciwri15 is mind blowing. (Pun intended.)
Boyden: solution involves marking the relevant parts of a cell before adding polymer. Result: details are preserved #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3: Expansion microscopy--using sodium polyacralate (molecule in diapers) to expand brain tissue 100 fold. #sciwri15
after labeling and expansion, can image the distinct 'in' and 'out' sides of a synapse. #everymolecule #sciwri15
.@Eboyden3 is expanding my brain #casw #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #everymolecule Boyden discusses how the removal of the restriction of tissues allows for cleaner expansion
Why zoom in on brain cells when you can just enlarge the cells 100-fold w/ baby diaper polymer? @eboyden3 on expansion microscopy #sciwri15
Boyden: with physical magnification, you can preserve 3D structures, networks, even viruses in brain tissues. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Mind blowing indeed. Once you physically expand the brain, you can use cheap equipment--a phone!--to diagnose disease. #sciwri15
@eboyden3: polymer blows up cell, preserving relevant molecules in place. Then image. #sciwri15
Speaker at this morning's #sciwri15 session showing research using confocal microscopy. @UWiscSeaGrant has funded work using it in zebrafish
Brainbow slides always make me crave Fruity Pebbles. #sciwri15
We still don't know how many cell types there are in the body, including in the brain, says@MIT's @eboyden3. #everymolecule #SciWri15
Mmm, Fruity Pebble mouse brains. #everymolecule #sciwri15 https://t.co/hdQQ08Y1jb
Brainbow slides always make me crave Fruity Pebbles. #sciwri15
"Brainbow mouse" has color-coded neurons to show neuronal connections and layouts -- @eboyden3 #sciwri15 http://t.co/Iu0PTtVc0w
Hey @sj_ackerman check out brain cell imagery from @eboyden3 @mit from @ScienceWriting #sciwri15 http://t.co/0ZiCe1taRw
Lighting up Biology with Dr. Edward Boyden of MIT. Learning about new kinds of microscopy #sciwri15 http://t.co/hk31pX5GLe
Color-coding neurons -- @eboyden3 explains brainbow method at #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/1fAc72RO0e
Yin & yang of #biotech: Need new tech to reveal ground truth mechanisms and need new science to drive therapies. #everymolecule #SciWri15
This #everymolecule lecture by @eboyden3 is like a CSI episode: zoom in and enhance! #sciwri15
Boyden: use DNA as a molecular label for different parts of the system before expanding the tissue. #everymolecule #sciwri15
We're trying to figure out what causes a molecule to become pathological (disease-causing), says @eboyden3. #everymolecule #SciWri15
@eboyden3 what causes a molecule to become pathological? #sciwri15
Boyden: not just useful for brains. Can also tag molecular changes in body for e.g. breast cancer. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3 have to understand molecules in context of cells and cells in context of organ of the brain #sciwri15
"Honey, I expanded the brain sample." And not just brains - tumors, too: @eboyden3 at #sciwri15 #everymolecule: http://t.co/9AuxgLHWcE
Wait, that was just 1/3 of the talk... What else does @eboyden3 have in store?? #sciwri15
Boyden: obviously this can only be done for dead tissue (biopsy or autopsy). How to connect w/ living tissue? #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3: expansion microscopy cannot work in a living system. Need high-speed 3D imaging that can work in living organism. #sciwri15
Physically expanding cells literally gives extra room for reactions, including DNA readout, once only done in test tube @eboyden3 #sciwri15
Of course, this only works on preserved samples. That's a euphemism for dead samples. @eboyden3 #sciwri15 #everymolecule
Boyden: analogy with X-ray tomography (e.g. CAT scans), which lets you construct a 3D image of a living organims. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Thanks #scicomm! The need for your skills to interpret science + engage the public has never been greater: http://t.co/ETsYYVsMzB #sciwri15
Now looking for ways to expand cells 6,000-8,000 fold -- not just useful to brain, also for tumors/cancer @eboyden3 #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #everymolecule Using a 3d microscope with angled lens to capture different layers and parts of a sample and can create a 3d image
Cool! @eboyden3 using microlens array to take multi angle pics of orgs to create 3D videos #sciwri15 #everymolecule http://t.co/IZDzwgQCbe
@eboyden3: Light-field microscopy images entire nervous system activity in C. elegans. #sciwri15 http://t.co/KJ1MyAkGJq
Biology uses standard specimens like astronomy uses standard stars: use well-studied targets to calibrate techniques/instruments #sciwri15
Boyden: using custom probes with lots of electrodes, can oversample neurons to extract information from network. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3: using 3D electrode arrays to "eavesdrop" on the brain. Could help study seizures etc. #sciwri15
Do worms think? Inadvertently deep question at #everymolecule #sciwri15
If you have 5 people talking, and 10 mics, can mathematically unravel individual voices. SImilar w/ sensors on brain electrodes #sciwri15
Thought of you @CKopietz - are you at #sciwri15??? https://t.co/7nDnU8uFE3
The word of the day is Brainbow #sciwri15 http://t.co/S1BK6lA8dq
Boyden: easy way to modify brain operation is pharmaceuticals. Easier way: coffee or wine. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Thanks to @cagraber @MaraHvistendahl @abexlumberg and @VirginiaGewin for a great #sciwri15 panel!
Is it possible to have brain cell specific electrical stimulation? #sciwri15
.@eboyden3 uses light instead of electricity to trigger brain activity. Better spatial and temporal specificity! #sciwri15
@eboyden3 discussing his lab's innovative synthetic neurobiology research (http://t.co/1EoNYiaHD4) #sciwri15
Now @eboyden3 talks about controlling neurons w/ light. Check out story I did last month on optogenetics http://t.co/kHZuiS6oVT #sciwri15
Electrical stimulation is very useful, e.g. for Parkinson's treatment, in cochlear implants, but it's nonspecific @eboyden3 #sciwri15
Noted abt #sciwri15 pitching panels--for freelance it’s “Power Pitching” and for PIOs it’s “How To Keep From Being Annoying.” Says a lot.
Boyden: lots of microbes have light-sensitive molecules. Modify neurons to be light-sensitive to switch off/on. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3 I need a brainbow canvas for my wall at home. #sciwri15
Problem w/ electrical (deep) brain stimulation is that it's nonspecific. MIT using optics to target certain cells. #SciWri15 #everymolecule
@eboyden3: put light sensing gene from alga in brain cell so neuron excited when light shined on it. #sciwri15
Perturb brain cell to und what do using light w sensors fr algae @eboyden3 #everymolecule #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting http://t.co/MK7f638SSX
.@eboyden3 talking #optogenetics #everymolecule #sciwri15
took gene from algae and spliced it into neurons to make them light-sensitive. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Boyden: by picking specific neurons to be light-sensitive, target certain cells inside a living brain. #everymolecule #sciwri15
Fun fact: some brain cells look more like snowflakes than amorphous blobs like most cells do #sciwri15
Optogenetics can target these star-shaped cells associated with schizophrenia and other illness @eboyden3 #sciwri15 http://t.co/rnbErNeygX
@RickBorchelt My takeaway from #sciwri15 is that the tone needs to change. A bit more respect for PIOs would go a long way.
I need a "probability of being awake" graph for myself... #sciwri15
Neuron optogenetics makes it possible to wire mice to "work for light." @eboyden3 at #sciwri15 #everymolecule
@RickBorchelt I want to see some awards for institutional science writing. Some great writing is happening from the inside #sciwri15
Mouse gets pleasure by turning on blue light to activate specific neurons churning out domaine; reminds me of mice/cocaine studies #sciwri15
.@eboyden3: can use red light or other wavelengths to reach cells deep in the brain. #sciwri15
Our knights in shining armor bring arguably the only thing keeping this conference going. The #coffee. #sciwri15 http://t.co/LVQV2IzT6u
group in Japan studying narcolepsy used technique to make mice take a nap. within 30 sec of light exposure, all mice were asleep #sciwri15
.@eboyden3's team at MIT investigating infrared light as a noninvasive way to activate brain cells. #optogenetics #everymolecule #SciWri15
#sciwri15 question, folks: check-in/badge pickup is at Kresge today, right?
Clap-on, clap-off: triggering neurons using various frequencies of light. More highly-targeted electro-therapies #sciwri15 @eboyden3
Trying to apply optogenetics to blindness @eboyden3 #everymolecule #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting
Optogenetics could help macular degeneration patients. Like my dad. #sciwri15 #everymolecule
Boyden: possible therapeutic use: placing light-sensitive proteins in retinas for certain types of blindness. #everymolecule #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #everymolecule optogentics used to treat genetic blindness in mice!
Swimming mice are too cute #sciwri15
if use same/similar gene to put light-sensitive proteins in eye tissue, can treat various vision disorders??? mouse studies.#sciwri15
Boyden: this type of work is multidisciplinary, involving nearly every branch of science & engineering. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@earthspacewrite @RickBorchelt Any member is welcome to make such a proposal. I suggest starting with the Awards Committee. #sciwri15
@RickBorchelt Would take award program over shot at NASW leadership. Much institutional writing is not PR spin, not "compromised" #sciwri15
.@eboyden3: Light-triggering molecules for optogenetics need to go thru pre-clinical studies for safety. #sciwri15 #everymolecule
This is (ha!) mind-blowing. #everymolecule #sciwri15
@eboyden3 Every field coming together to solve these problems, http://t.co/rTuLgdLtMw #sciwri15
Applying light-sensing cells to degenerated retina to treat blindness @eboyden3 @ScienceWriting #sciwri15 http://t.co/vsOoIL1kWo
Targeted neuro-therapies to help mice process visual information
-> lead to reversing neurological causes of blindness in humans #sciwri15
.@eboyden3 helping biologists get to ground truth to enable ultra-targeted, possibly side-effect free brain therapies #sciwri15 great talk!
When #everymolecule is shivering, you know the room is cold. ❄️❄️ @ScienceWriting @ScienceWriters #sciwri15
@laurahelmuth @RickBorchelt Thanks. Was wondering how to do that. Will also propose to #AGU (my sub-tribe within larger #sciwri15 tribe.)
Learning about using light sensitive proteins from green algae to activate neurons in the brain with Dr. Edward Boyden #sciwri15
#sciwri15 https://t.co/9J1LaSm3Tg
The week's top #scicomm stories (10.9.15) http://t.co/a7raDxmOMh w/ @CMBuddle
@jz_MDC @SmallPondSci @mpgroome @NYASciences
Great talk from @EBoyden3 on work being done to 1) Map 2) Record 3) Control brain cells. Research Group @ http://t.co/EvlcOUWpZz #sciwri15
Great talk about advances in neuroscience, microscopy, and optogenetics by @eboyden3 at #sciwri15 :) #everymolecule
Disclaimer: I'm a physicist with zero biology background, so I apologize for any errors/misconceptions in tweets. #everymolecule #sciwri15
I've amended my tweet with the correct Ed Boyden tagged. Thanks to the #factcheck crowd who alerted me in real time! #sciwri15
92% of drugs fail @eboyden3 is it because we can't predict human results based on lab & #animaltesting ? http://t.co/EN5AnjOlSs #sciwri15
#sciwri15 1/2 If you haven't picked up your Story Collider tix, please do so at desk. Bedard, Braun, De Chant, Martin, Nguyen #sciwriupdate
Not only great talk but great Q&A from @eboyden3 #everymolecule #sciwri15
#sciwri15 2/2 Also have Story Collider tix for Powell, Reuter, Sojurner, Srinivasan, Tompa, Woo, Zuraw at desk #scriwriupdate
Next up is @AlanStern to talk about #Pluto! @NewHorizons2015 . #sciwri15
At the ScienceWriters2015 conference @MIT, where @AlanStern is going to give an update about #Pluto. #sciwri15
Next up here at #sciwri15 is @AlanStern to give an update on the @NewHorizons2015 mission. http://t.co/AZ8aSYjwcd
Great talk by @eboyden3. Using opto-genetics to target 'specific cells' for therapeutic use!
#sciwri15, #everymolecule
#sciwri15 #Pluto More news on Pluto!
and now excuse me while I PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO PLUTO! @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 up next at #sciwri15
El periodista científico Alan Boyle presenta a Alan Stern de la misión New Horizons
#sciwri15 http://t.co/YMGVXvNoad
Time for #Pluto and @NewHorizons2015 with @AlanStern. #sciwri15 🚀🌌
Nerding Out en el MIT!!! Todo sobre #Plutón en #sciwri15 #Pluto @NewHorizons2015 http://t.co/GUeSYfZTb0
You can be an astronaut researcher?!?!? How did I not know about this before? @AlanStern #sciwri15
Planetry is a spectrum, y'all #pluto #sciwri15
Dwarf planets are planets, too. Awwww. Talking about Pluto. #sciwri15
@AlanStern nos cuenta la historia de cómo la humanidad llegó a #Pluto #sciwri15
Fangirling a bit to see Alan Stern talk about #Pluto #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting http://t.co/dx3cLUndT8
"Chasing New Horizons" es el título del próximo libro de Alan Stern, jefe de la misión @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15
This room is so cold I feel like I'm on Pluto. Heh. #scijokes #sciwri15 #Pluto
Like I've said before, whether we call #Pluto a planet or not is the *least* interesting thing about it. #sciwri15
Just saw IIIIIAAAAAPETUS! #sciwri15
Pretty sure the temperature in this auditorium has been turned down to Pluto levels for Stern's talk. #sciwri15
"It has been a long wait since our visit to Neptune..." #Pluto @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern #sciwri15
Alan stern @mit @KSJatMIT pluto's close up the latest from new horizons mission #dwarfplanetsmatter #sciwri15
Watching @alanstern talk on # Pluto at #sciwri15 with new @NewHorizons2015 data http://t.co/mPvbTi8Q0j
I’m getting chills, and it’s not even the cold auditorium. #SciWri15 #Pluto
#pluto article by @AlanStern in @amscimag #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting @NewHorizons2015 http://t.co/LqUJXNCHMi
An historic era of exploring the planets - Alan Stern #sciwri15
50 años de exploración planetaria en portada del @nytimes @NewHorizons2015 #pluto #sciwri15 @AlanStern http://t.co/vb3pgnu2u6
"We live in a historic time." Kicking off the session on New Horizons mission to Pluto. #sciwri15
It is an opportunity for scientists and communicators to capture the imagination of the public, especially children #new horizons #sciwri15
Stern: for every mission NASA flies, there are dozens equally qualified that aren't accepted. #Pluto #sciwri15
Por cada misión elegida por NASA hay decenas descartadas
Alan Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/JofZJF3nPc
Stamp - Pluto not yet explored. #sciwri15
Hearing from @AlanStern about the @NewHorizons2015 mission to #Pluto. #sciwri15 http://t.co/pLnvezLD2w
.@ChisholmLab_MIT talking abt Prochlorococcus, the phytoplankton cell w/ the "gene App Store." #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : "Gene App Store" "charismatic microflora": Prochlorococcus #sciwri15
Stern: Before New Horizons, scientists tried to get 5 other #Pluto missions off the drawing board, starting in 1990. #sciwri15
"Gotta catch'em all!" Can't just go to #Pluto to check that last box @AlanStern @NASANewHorizons #sciwri15
New Horizons was the first Pluto mission to get off the drawing board #sciwri15 http://t.co/qaaQ1jTN5d
Shivering both because it's chilly in this #sciwri15 conference room, and because I'm listening to a talk about the exploration of #Pluto.
All the planned #Pluto missions that didn't get off the ground before @NewHorizons2015 explains @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/u1CAzaIuW5
Started trying to get a mission in 1990. New Horizons started in 2001. Persistence pays off. - Alan Stern #sciwri15
.@AlanStern: #PlutoNewHorizons shows persistence in science needed to get off the drawing board #sciwri15
Stern: the best picture of Pluto before @NewHorizons2015 is a blob of pixels. Lots of laughter over that. #Pluto #sciwri15
There were many proposed #pluto missions, six within an 11 year period. @NewHorizons15 took 14 yrs to get funded. #sciwri15
"You have no idea how many papers were written about this," @AlanStern says, pointing to a pixelated blob representing Pluto. #sciwri15
.@AlanStern shows 2015 pic of #Pluto + 1965 pic of #mars on @nytimes front page at #sciwri15 @NASANewHorizons http://t.co/OyiZc7flJv
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Phytoplankton do 1/2 the photosynthesis on Earth. #sciwri15
Esta es la mejor foto de Plutón antes de la misión @NewHorizons2015
Alan Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/0x0P8TexJ4
Charismatic microbes -- the invisible forest in ocean. @chisolmlab_MIT #sciwri15
Stern discussing prior Pluto mission concepts. Here's an infographic I did with some details: #sciwri15 http://t.co/auSd1EoQ9l
Charismatic microbe of the sea "@Pchloro " is Penny Chisolm's fave #sciwri15
Stern: we did know a lot of things about Pluto: chemistry, moons, atmosphere. #Pluto #sciwri15
Watching @AlanStern talk about #Pluto at #sciwri15 (trying to make up for missing the actual flyby) http://t.co/tNnDgHPaHj
.@AlanStern describing 11 years, several proposed Pluto missions that never got off the drawing board. need to persevere.. #sciwri15
Stern shows a very pixellated image of Pluto; the best prior to New Horizons. “It’s very easy to overinterpret an image like this” #sciwri15
Stern: old view of solar system is misleading: 4 rocky planets, 4 gas giants, 1 oddball. New view: Pluto is one of many. #Pluto #sciwri15
Penny Chisholm of @MIT on the phytoplankton with an "App Store" #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/J6W8ZDYJ19
#sciwri15 I have a new perk for backers of my blog reader study - pledge $25, I'll blog any research paper for you! https://t.co/vwpG9ST7ti
"It's very easy to over-interpret an image like this." @AlanStern on the Hubble image of Pluto. #SciWri15 http://t.co/T1NeOKD3Jl
Stern: This is best image of #Pluto before New Horizons - very easy to overinterpret an image like this! #sciwri15 http://t.co/LcUlEZ56uL
Best #Pluto image before #NewHorizons: "It's very easy to over-interpret an image like this." - Alan Stern #sciwri15 http://t.co/QrmzQc0nKy
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: 1979--John Waterbury discovered 10micrometer photosynthetic cells #sciwri15
"#Pluto...who ordered that?!?" @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15
We thought the solar system had 4 terrestrial planets, 4 giant planets, and "little misfit Pluto. Who ordered that?" @AlanStern at #sciwri15
The old view: 4 terrestrial planets, 4 giants, one misfit #pluto #sciwri15
#DYK @NSF-funded researcher Dr. Penny Chisholm (@ChisholmLab_MIT) has authored 3 children's books about science? #sciwri15 #Prochlorococcus
El cinturón de Kuiper es la estructura más grande de nuestro Sistema Solar
Alan Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/YwLjcnqfAf
Stern: Surface area of the Kuiper belt is 7x the surface area of everything from Neptune inward. #Pluto #sciwri15
.@AlanStern: This was the best picture of #Pluto before New Horizons. #sciwri15 http://t.co/MLtBswJaDk
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: then in 1985, discovered Prochlorococcus, smallest photosynthetic organism,1 micrometer #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus tiny phytoplankton 600 nm -- smallest photosynthetic cell on earth. "minimal life" #sciwri15
Stern says of misfit #Pluto, "who ordered that?" Apparently that quote applies to Pluto as well as muons. #sciwri15
Stern: the Kuiper belt has more collective surface area than other outer Solar System objects. Video from @Alex_Parker #Pluto #sciwri15
The largest structure of our solar system is the Kuiper Belt, and Pluto is the largest, brightest & most complex in it -@AlanStern #sciwri15
@Alex_Parker great Kuiper belt discovery movie! @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15
Listening to principal investigator @AlanStern talk about @NewHorizons2015 @MIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/LO4ePhak5S
The new view: think in 3D, Kuiper Belt context with more dwarf planets #Pluto #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto Pluto is the star---well celebrity--- of the Kuiper Belt!
At one time this was our best image of #Pluto says @AlanStern at #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015 http://t.co/3hoBrcA3g4
Graphic @AlanStern showing made by @Alex_Parker explaining Kuiper belt discovery and how #Pluto fit in #sciwri15 http://t.co/gMDPPG8yxE
#Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic cell on Earth (3 billion billion billion cells!). @ChisholmLab_MIT #sciwri15
"The solar system was very good at making planets, most of them small." -- @AlanStern #sciwri15
Stern: the solar system was very good at making planets, most of them small. #sciwri15
The solar system is really good at making planets--most of them small! -@AlanStern #sciwri15
TIL Pluto is the archetype of dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. #sciwri15 #biologistlearningastronomy
Stern: #Pluto fits into the range if you include all planets, moons, Kuiper belt objects, asteroids. Not an oddball! #sciwri15
Recurring theme: should use power of humor to level the playing field. @SorenWheeler #sciwri15
Hedge words = the error bars of science writing. #factcheck #sciwri15
Advice in fact-checking panel is also a guide to being a critical news consumer. Wish this were required training for ALL PEOPLE. #sciwri15
Stern: The solar system was very good at making planets -- most of them small. #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Prochlorococcus--10^27 cells in ocean--most abundant photosynthetic cell on Earth. #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- 50% of the chlorophyll in many places in ocean. #sciwri15
El sistema solar es bueno haciendo planetas. Sobre todo pequeños
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/UzTF69XA0Q
.@AlanStern "the solar system was very good at making planets. Mostly small ones" #sciwri15
@AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15 #Pluto is in the middle of that list... http://t.co/2HBCCQ1mjg
"The solar system was very good at making planets - most of them small." -@AlanStern #sciwri15 #plutopower
Kuiper Belt - third zone of our solar system. The dwarf planets represent a revolution in the field. #sciwri15 #pluto
#Pluto is one of many dwarf planets. Mind goes poof. #SciWri15
"You have no idea how many papers were written about this image," says @AlanStern. easy to over-interpret #sciwri15 http://t.co/QGKVYsho0i
'There are so many [planets in the Solar system] that we can’t remember all their names’ dice @AlanStern #pluto #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus has features that allow researchers to study many aspects of biology -- in the lab or field. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
As small as the light they process. Smallest possible photosynth cell in ocean. @chisolmlab_MIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/HLl09aeC3v
Esta es la tapa de nuestra propuesta de @NewHorizons2015 que presentamos a la NASA
A Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/se7HFwdhFe
Alan Stern: it took 11 years of failed Pluto mission plans until New Horizons got off drawing board. Science takes persistence! #sciwri15
Thank you NASW for a great #sciwri15! Catch you next year in San Antonio…
Sizes of planets explains @AlanStern; #pluto in middle of tail. Lots of small ones #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting http://t.co/kEMppONYLM
.@AlanStern says approval for @NewHorizons2015 came not b/c of "little misfit" (Pluto) but the discovery of the larger Kuiper Belt #sciwri15
Stern: Solar system likes making planets, most small. Need to get over there are too many to remember names - like rivers, mntns. #sciwri15
Stern: had to build @NewHorizons2015 in 4 years and 2 months. A huge commitment and labor of love for all. #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern dubs 2002-2005 "The Blur," where a team feverishly worked to get New Horizons ready for launch. #sciwri15
Prochlorococcus: "minimal life form" most abundant photosynthetic cell on earth 3 x 10^27 cells on earth #sciwri15 @Prochlorococus
.@AlanStern shows former best picture of Pluto (before the fly-by) at #sciwri15 http://t.co/K29wQj8DDN
Stern: @NewHorizons2015 was built small and light. Only 1000 kg including fuel. (Did I get that mass right?) #Pluto #sciwri15
2500 americans worked in @NewHorizons
in 02-05, 52 weeks a year, nights & weekends
‘it was[…] a labor of love’ #sciwri15 @AlanStern
No recuerdo nada de mi hija durante los años del viaje de la @NewHorizons2015 a Plutón
A Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/HKEtFwUyX4
#Prochlorococcus cells divide every 1-2 days, can be infected by viruses, live in a dilute environment. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Prochlorococcus divide every 1-3 days and are eaten abt as often. Very dynamic but stable system. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto New Horizons wieghs 1000 lbs (453.6 kg) with fuel!
New Horizons and @AlanStern sent Plutonium to Pluto #sciwri15
Stern: nice symmetry in using plutonium battery to reach #Pluto. #sciwri15
2002-2005: "the blur" 2500 ppl worked to complete @NewHorizons2015 craft in time, budget, spec. Working weekends, nights. #sciwri15
Alan Stern showing a picture of the spacecraft that executed the New Horizons mission #sciwri15 http://t.co/CjFHooz8zm
At #SciWri15, @AlanStern shows off the best image of #Pluto ever taken... before @NASANewHorizons, that is http://t.co/8r0Ma3e3a1
Though #Prochlorococcus divides frequently, the pop size is quite stable, decade in, decade out. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
.@alanstern shows great visualization of worlds beyond Neptune by @Alex_Parker at #sciwri15 #pluto talk: http://t.co/lM8EIZH1oP
USPS made stamps for all the planets in 1991. Time to update Pluto's stamp! New Horizons talk w @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/1GfC1aC7PL
Need a Plutonium nuclear power generator (hehe) to get us to #Pluto, there isn't enough solar energy out there #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015
Fitting that @NewHorizons2015 to #Pluto was powered by plutonium says @AlanStern #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting @NASA http://t.co/zL2MsnAAXA
Stern: @NewHorizons2015 uses 2000s technology, a big edge over Voyager's '70s tech. 7 small and efficient instruments. #Pluto #sciwri15
Miniaturized instruments and they draw less power than a lightbulb. #sciwri15
The @NewHorizons2015 probe was built in four years. Should have taken right says @AlanStern #sciwri15 #Pluto http://t.co/NQqQUi5YXZ
All 7 instruments on @NewHorizons2015 weigh less than the camera on @CassiniSaturn. Draw 28 watts combined. #sciwri15
I wrote a feature on the lead engineer for the #NewHorizons radio isotope battery when I was an intern! #sciwri15 https://t.co/nAw7uJZISj
.@AlanStern Kuiper belt: so many objects; hard to remember names. Like the mountains and rivers on the Earth, the stars in the sky #sciwri15
Optimizar y ahorrar 'Los 7 instrumentos de @NewHorizons2015 juntos pesan menos que la cámara de Cassini’
@AlanStern #sciwri15
Stern: all 7 of New Horizons' instruments draw only 28W of power--about half a light bulb! #sciwri15
Los instrumentos de @NewHorizons2015 son muy livianos y consumen menos energía que una lamparita
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/Y7lmTZOOr6
To generate power @NewHorizons2015 used plutonium #PlutoFlyby @AlanStern #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern: Ralph and Alice - instruments on New Horizons - "sometimes we call them the Honeymooners" #Pluto #sciwri15
"We need to get over the fact that there are so many (planets) that we can't remember their names." - @AlanStern #sciwri15
Stern: instruments include UV spectroscopy for chemistry, plasma experiments, and a dust instrument built by students! #Pluto #sciwri15
@NewHorizons2015 es la primera nave de exploración planetaria que llevó un instrumento construido por estudiantes, dice @AlanStern #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus from diff depths of ocean are differently adapted "ecotypes" -- adapted to diff light levels. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
Es la primera misión espacial que tiene un instrumento hecho por estudiantes
A. Stern
@NewHorizons2015
#sciwri15 http://t.co/Dgp4T6mFaD
#sciwri15 #Pluto #NewHorizons was the first planet focused ship to include a student built instrument! They built a dust counter!
Justification for exploring Pluto: Kuiper Belt is full of dwarf planets like it. #sciwri15
Student Dust Counter on New Horizons was the first student-built instrument. They delivered before everyone else, on budget #sciwri15
Stern: "we tricked out the rocket" to get @NewHorizons2015 the acceleration needed to get the trajectory to reach Jupiter. #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern on selecting Atlas V 551 for New Horizons: “we completely tricked this out” with every upgrade possible. #sciwri15
Tweet wherein following #sciwri15 and #suicidesummit overlap https://t.co/GQ2v9ncabD
As in therapy, there has to be a desire and willingness to change on the part of the patient. https://t.co/cagOyGyBEP
"We completely tricked this out." -- @AlanStern describes the massive rocket that launched New Horizons. #sciwri15
The student instrument on @NewHorizons2015 to #Pluto was the first one completed and was on budget. Student motivation for ya #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus "ecotypes" also have optimal temperatures at which they can live. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
Stern: @NewHorizons2015 experienced 14 g's of acceleration. The launch went supersonic in 2 minutes! #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern re: New Horizons' powerful Atlas V 551: Was very fun to put out RFP for the rocket. "We completely tricked this out." #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto The rocket went to 2 Gs in a half minute bc of the super light load and powerful rockets!
Alan Stern: "The solar system is very good at making planets." #Pluto #sciwri15 #casw #MIT #newhorizons
.@Alanstern describing fun of issuing RFP to 'sell me the biggest rocket you make' Atlas 5 -- "We took every upgrade.,." #sciwri15
The @NewHorizons2015 probe was the first instrument to include student project inside. @AlanStern #sciwri15 #Pluto http://t.co/s2bw8aZwng
Interesting- a #Prochlorococcus ecotype does well in fluctuating light environments (where there's ocean mixing). @ChisholmLab_MIT #sciwri15
Proclorococcus fix 1/10th of carbon fixed in ocean 'forest'. Feed the ocean. #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Physiology revealed that Ecotypes of Prochlorococcus partition niche by difft light intensities & temp. #sciwri15
I love watching spacecraft launches. Can't get enough. #Pluto #sciwri15
The New Horizons Atlas V rocket went from zero to supersonic in no time, "and that was the last we saw of NH." -- @AlanStern #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus' is among the first microbial genomes to be sequenced. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
Had only 4 years 2 months to complete New Horizons (previous projects took 6-8 years) #sciwri15
14 años para financiamiento
4 años construirla
10 años para llegar a Plutón
@NewHorizons2015
#sciwri15 http://t.co/yguUViRQNd
.@AlanStern says of @NewHorizons2015: "this is all about delayed gratification." Nine and a half year mission. #sciwri15
New Horizons: this is all about delayed gratification-- @AlanStern #sciwri15
.@NewHorizons2015 "tricked out" their rocket, which was the height of a city skyscraper. #sciwri15 #PlutoFlyby http://t.co/2sK2cuhRPK
Stern: most missions don't have to endure for 10 years. @NewHorizons2015 will go for a few more. #Pluto #sciwri15
Student Dust Counter (which, despite name, doesn't count student dust) was only @NewHorizons2015 instrument finished on time #sciwri15
14 yrs to get funded, 9 & 1/2 to fly across the solar system- @NewHorizons2015 was all about delayed gratification says @AlanStern #sciwri15
14 year to fund, four years to build and nine years to get to Pluto. Takes patience to a new level. - Alan Stern #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT found, tho #Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflected traditinal def of being the "same species," they were very diff. #sciwri15
So many notes from @edboyden3 talk on #everymolecule #sciwri15 ! Ready for my interview with the… https://t.co/7R0y2gVoTv
Stern: @NewHorizons2015 flew by Jupiter for a gravity assist, and got to test scientific instruments as a bonus. #Pluto #sciwri15
Atlas rocket "monster" set @NewHorizons2015 going at 14gs says @AlanStern-here is launch to #pluto #sciwri15 http://t.co/KzNgxQTuKe
#PlutoNewHorizons mission went to Jupiter for a gravity assist, the assist shaved 4 years off the fly time to Pluto! -@AlanStern #sciwri15
28 watts: Esta lámpara consume = q todos los instrumentos @NewHorizons2015
http://t.co/53Z1zW24Yi #sciwri15 http://t.co/6nyjHXEcxG
Few New Horizons numbers: 14 years to get funded. 4 years to build. 9 years to cross the solar system. #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: 2002--Prochlorococcus genome sequenced--revealed those adapted to hi & lo light intensities fundamentally difft #sciwri15
Stern: We set a speed record for crossing the orbit of every planet in the solar system. (Reached Jupiter in a matter of months) #sciwri15
Recently, @ChisholmLab_MIT has been exploring all #Prochlorococcus genomes to answer, "What is the 'collective' gene pool?" #sciwri15
RT AstroKimCartier Need a Plutonium nuclear power generator (hehe) to get us to #Pluto, there isn't enough solar energy out there #sciwri15…
Stern: Voyager tean had 450 people. New Horizons had 50 people to plan entire Pluto encounter. #sciwri15
Stern: the flyby is only part of the mission. The Pluto encounter started in January and continues for two more years. #Pluto #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto The team planning the encounter with Pluto was small about 50 people!
Needed to be that fast to be able to make it in time for Jupiter gravity assist #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus many strains -- 1200 shared core genes, 80,000 combined in the "superorganism" - #sciwri15
Plasma instruments are studying environment in Kuiper Belt and Pluto #PlutoNewHorizons #sciwri15
Penny Chisholm: Same "species" of ocean microbe prochlorococcus has radically different genome content #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT projects that the #Prochlorococcus collective gene pool may comprise 80,000 genes! (Humans = ~35,000). #sciwri15
Stern: one way to save money was to reduce the communication equipment. Result is slow data transfer but light spacecraft. #Pluto #sciwri15
Alan Stern: Jupiter's gravity assist was essential for making New Horizons work. #sciwri15 #MIT #casw #newhorizons
#sciwri15 #Pluto Correction: the rockets got speeds of 14 Gs
"If you can wait 9 and a half years to get there, you can certainly wait another year to get all the data on the ground." #sciwri15
Stern: the best data is still on the spacecraft, including the highest-resolution images and much scientific data. #Pluto #sciwri15
Will be spending 16 mos downloading data. Cost-saving move. Only have about 15% of data on Earth. #Pluto #sciwri15
Aún estamos descargando información de la @NewHorizons2015
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/FBolfdVUV6
Think the Pluto pics we've seen so far are great? "The very best data is still on the spacecraft." -- @AlanStern #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- think of genes like apps -- some basic, on all, others flexible, depending on need #sciwri15
Stern: Only about 15% of data currently on ground. "The very best data is still on the spacecraft." #sciwri15
Stern: only about 15% of the data from the flyby has been downloaded. The very best data yet to be transmitted. #sciwri15
.@AlanStern Best data from New Horizons is still on the spacecraft. We only have 15% #sciwri15
We have only 15% of data from Pluto flyby. So much more to come! @alanstern #sciwri15
"The very best data is still on the [@NewHorizons2015] spacecraft." @AlanStern @ #sciwri15 #Pluto
All of the best data from #PlutoFlyby still to be downloaded says @AlanStern #pluto @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15 http://t.co/m8sUjbzQKM
Vamos a demorar 16 meses en bajar toda la información recopilada por #newhorizons, dice @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/nuYML3NxDX
Stern: "This is all about delayed gratification." Takes 16 months to download all NASA New Horizons data on Pluto. #sciwri15
.@AlanStern : If we can wait 9.5 years to get to Pluto, we can wait 1 year to download data. Huge savings in telecommunications #sciwri15
A great analogy! #Prochlorococcus #sciwri15
Image credit: Dr. #Chisholm, @ChisholmLab_MIT http://t.co/uXZ5M9FP6N
Still downloading Pluto fly-by data - have only 15%. "The very best data is still on the spacecraft." -@AlanStern #sciwri15
We don't have all the New Horizons data on Pluto yet bc smaller communications system = lighter spacecraft, $ savings #sciwri15
Stern: "we were 96 seconds *early*" on Pluto flyby. Trajectory was carefully planned to fly through Pluto & Charon shadows. #Pluto #sciwri15
After 9.5 years and 3 billion miles, New Horizons arrived at Pluto 96 seconds early. Take that, airlines. #sciwri15
#PlutoNewHorizons arrived 96 secs earlier than scientists planned when they designed the flyby
-@AlanStern #soclose #sciwri15
"It's equivalent to a golf putt from New York to LA and landing in a soup can." @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15
Life has the iPhone B. 20b genes in the ocean. 80% of genes related to distant organisms. #Sciwri15 http://t.co/b8ejQqO9oJ
#sciwri15 #Pluto There were 6 celestial bodies that the @NewHorizons2015 team wanted to study
We only have 15% of the #NewHorizons #Pluto data. "The very best data is still on the spacecraft." -Alan Stern #sciwri15
#PlutoFlyby like a golf put from LA to NYC that lands in a soup can, the mission arrived 96 sec early #sciwri15
Learned some impressive new French swear words on the way to the airport. Survived. Missing everyone already. 💙💜#sciwri15
Increíble precisión: 'llegamos con 96 segundos de diferencia a nuestros planes’ [más pronto!] @AlanStern #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015
@alanstern: navigational targeting = hitting golf ball LA to NYC & hitting soup can. #sciwri15
RT @nadiamdrake: After 9.5 years and 3 billion miles, New Horizons arrived at Pluto 96 seconds early. Take that, airlines. #sciwri15
.@AlanStern sez 15% of @NASANewHorizons data is on ground. "Very best data is still on spacecraft," yet to be downlinked. #sciwri15 #Pluto
Going to Pluto was the equivalent of hitting a golf ball from LA to NY and landing in a soup can @AlanStern #sciwri15
The best data from @NewHorizons2015 is still to come from #Pluto says @AlanStern at #sciwri15 http://t.co/mGXGgz3T0P
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- many of flexible genes acquired through horizontal gene transfer #sciwri15
Flight Window was 100km, like hitting a golf putt from LA to NY into a soup can. @NewHorizons2015 was 96s early. 😉 #Pluto #sciwri15
Reminder that only 15% of the #Pluto flyby data has been downloaded. "The best data is still on the spacecraft" @AlanStern #sciwri15
Window of accuracy for @NewHorizons2015 was like golf putt from LA to NY and land in a soup can says @AlanStern #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting
@AlanStern New Horizons' trip to Pluto was like putting from NY to LA into a soup can #sciwri15 #pluto
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Prochlorococcus do not use nitrate--big discovery. #sciwri15 http://t.co/39HLvV7nHf
.@AlanStern: The very best stuff is still on @NewHorizons2015 only 15 percent has made it back to Earth. #sciwri15 #Pluto
Nix! Hydra! I love Pluto's tiny potato moons. #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern: Don't have color imagery of Nix on the ground yet. Not sure whether Nix or Hydra is more colorful. #sciwri15
It took @ChisholmLab_MIT about a decade to identify nitrate-utilizing #Prochlorococcus -- why can some use it and some can't? #sciwri15
Can you hit a golf ball in LA and have it land in a soup can in NYC? Alan Stern can. #sciwri15 #newhorizons #casw #MIT
But Charon is the one that gets me. Stern: northern half is old and battered, southern is young and less cratered. #Pluto #sciwri15
Everything we've learned about #Pluto and Charon shows that it's much more complex that we could have imagined #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015
En Caronte vemos agua congelada. No entendemos su polo norte. No vimos nada igual
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/XBGld1QpLJ
Stern: the red region at Charon's north pole is a complete mystery. Some hypotheses, but no clear answers. #Pluto #sciwri15
"Hitting Pluto was like making a golf putt from LA to New York and landing in a soup can." #sciwri15
Stern: Charon has a complex geological history. Can’t yet explain the feature at its north pole. #sciwri15
Lo mejor está por llegar: apenas tenemos el 15% de las imágenes de @NewHorizons2015 nos recuerda @AlanStern #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: found some Prochlorococcus have gene for growing in nitrate but others don't. Don't know why some lose gene. #sciwri15
New Horizons arrived at #Pluto only 96 seconds off-schedule from mission plan. "And by the way, we were 96 s EARLY." -Alan Stern #sciwri15
Stern: "who could've ordered this? Pluto has a heart!" Informal name is Tombaugh Regio, roughly the size of Texas. #Pluto #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- a lot don't use NO3, though some do. Why is NO3 use not selected? #sciwri15
re red top of Charon "We don't understand this feature at the N Pole, never seen anything like it elsewhere in the solar system." #sciwri15
Caronte, la mayor luna de #Plutón... Un satélite lleno de enigmas.@AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/H37tsc1eMg
Showtime! A tour of Pluto system. @AlanStern grand finale at #sciwri15
Makes me think of prochloro as #hacker..tiny engineer #nitrogen #sciwri15 https://t.co/b9SadTQOoW
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- think of genes like apps -- some basic, on all, others flexible, depending on need #sciwri15
Read about @ChisholmLab_MIT's #NSFfunded research to study nitrate assimilation & #Prochlorococcus here: http://t.co/nmWNr6jH6d #sciwri15
At #sciwri15, @AlanStern calls Pluto the real "star" of @NewHorizons2015, but I just want to point out that it's not even a full planet ;)
Stern: Rusty red region on Charon: Impact stain? Material from inside? Or sprinkling of stuff from #Pluto's atmosphere? TBD! #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: N and P acquisition genes in Prochlorococcus acquired by horizontal gene transfer. #sciwri15
Charon has an interesting geologic story: old and battered top half, younger bottom half -Stern #sciwri15 #Pluto http://t.co/5qYsl05Y0r
Image of atmosphere on Pluto's limb still gets a gasp from the audience. Stern: can see the haze and atmospheric layers. #Pluto #sciwri15
Family pics of @AlanStern with #Charon and #Pluto @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting @NASA http://t.co/KDHD7rFUZe
"#Prochlorococcus keeps giving us new mysteries to explore." - Dr. Chisholm #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
#sciwri15 #Pluto An unknown red spot on Charon. Some theories about its origin. One is space radiation reddened it, is sediment from Pluto
Stern: Pluto's moon Charon (only the size of Texas) has tectonic feature that would dwarf the Grand Canyon #sciwri15
Stern: "hazeshine" is atmospheric reflection onto surface. We can use that to map some of Pluto's night side. #Pluto #sciwri15
#Pluto and #Charon "have been together for 4 billion years and look how different they are." -Alan Stern #sciwri15 http://t.co/anMv7tlbNE
¿Quién se iba a imaginar que #Plutón tendría un corazón? @AlanStern #sciwri15 @SciAmEspanol http://t.co/DeZ4jjBuCW
They say that couples start to look alike after a while. Not so for #Pluto and Charon! After 4.5 Byr, they are so different #sciwri15
Stern: haze in Pluto’s atmosphere creates a “hazeshine” that makes visible some features on night side of planet. #sciwri15
using 'haze shine' can sometimes map up to 100km into the *night* side of Pluto. #sciwri15
Pluto's heart, called Tombaugh Regio, is an ice field about the size of Texas - @AlanStern #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- N and P acquisition genes are being shared horizontally. #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Prochlorocins=mysterious cmpd made in abundance by Prochlorococcus. Don't know why. #sciwri15
"Hazeshine" on Pluto will let the New Horizons team map hundreds of km on the planet's night side. #sciwri15
Stern: Pluto's mountains were surprising. Surface is frosted in nitrogen, but you can't build mountains from it. #Pluto #sciwri15
Useful things I learned about yesterday: all things #scicommart, @KSJatMIT's #datajournalism tool list https://t.co/Sk1QKhgrb6 #sciwri15
Mountains on Pluto! Why? Nitrogen surface should cause mountains to slump under their own weight. Must be more underneath #Pluto #sciwri15
Pluto,s crust must be water ice says @AlanStern #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern: Mountains on #Pluto are made of water ice and are as high as the Colorado Rockies. #sciwri15
Mountains on #Pluto are evidence that nitrogen is only the "frosting" on pluto's surface. #sciwri15
Stern: mountains are big as the Rockies and made of water ice. Nitrogen is the frosting on the Pluto cake. #Pluto #sciwri15 #mmmcake
"Seeing snowcaps in the Kuiper Belt is really something." @AlanStern at #sciwri15
Nitrogen's just a frosting on Pluto's surface--@AlanStern #sciwri15 #talkchemistrytome
Pluto's mountains are as high as the Rockies, and like Colorado's peaks they're covered in ice and snows, says @AlanStern #sciwri15
Sobrecogedora imagen -sin alterar- de #Pluto #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015 https://t.co/JZSMDCzBoe
#Pluto's eerie, beautiful haze. #sciwri15 http://t.co/6oEeec3FPz
Mountains on #Pluto are evidence that nitrogen was merely frosting on the surface with water ice below #sciwri15 http://t.co/vODJ2zmmb9
#sciwri15 #Pluto Pluto has mountains, that settled the debate of whether atmoshere has water in it? Can someone check me on this?
Stern: evidence of flowing fluid on Pluto's surface, which means it probably had a thicker atmosphere in the past. #Pluto #sciwri15
The big Q - "How diverse is #Prochlorococcus?" In 1 ml of sea water? Extreme diversity (single cell genomics)! #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
In its past, Pluto has gone through epochs when it had a thicker atmosphere, says @AlanStern #sciwri15
Seeing mountains on #Pluto meant the soft nitrogen ice seen from afar is "just a frosting". Crust must be harder water ice. #sciwri15
My 11-year-old will be bummed that this is the best photo I could get of Pluto at #sciwri15 http://t.co/8yxNbbtG8T
Pluto geology show strong evidence of tectonics and slurry/sludge carving out features #Pluto #sciwri15
dendritics - sign atmosphere once could support liquids on surface? also, dune features - can't make w/ current Pluto atmosphere #sciwri15
Stern: dunes, channels seen on Pluto’s surface suggest that Pluto’s atmosphere was thicker in the past. #sciwri15
Why interesting to find mountains on Pluto: evidence that crust is made of water ice (not soft nitrogen that frosts surface) #sciwri15
"All these names are informal," @AlanStern cautions after discussing features in Pluto's Cthulhu Reggio. Check. #sciwri15
Stern: no craters visible in Tombaugh Regio. That part of the surface must be less than 100 million years old. #Pluto is active. #sciwri15
Image in Cthulhu on #Pluto shows tectonics says @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 @NASA #sciwri15 http://t.co/13qciwVDNj
The big picture - #Prochlorococcus is a "masterpiece of nature, 'designed' by millions of years of fine tuning." #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
PS, it's Oct and the AC is *cranked* in this auditorium where Stern is talking - trying to give us a sense of being on Pluto? #sciwri15
Algún líquido en el pasado de #Plutón creó estos canales... @AlanStern @SciAmEspanol #sciwri15 #newhorizons http://t.co/KP3hucDjuz
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Just as iPhone comes w/ Apps you can't delete plus optional apps, genes of Prochlorococcus are core & adaptive. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto Pluto's engine is still running says Sten
Stern: that's a huge surprise. Small worlds should be inactive according to our theories. #Pluto #sciwri15
En la planicie Sputnik no encontramos cráters. Es una región joven. "Ayer" en tiempos geológicos
A Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/7VOiM3rMbq
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorcines -- molecules with antimicrobial & signaling functions, big diversity Doing new things?#sciwri15
El ‘corazón’ de #Pluto ‘fue creado ayer, en tiempos geológicos’ esto implica q el 'motor’ geológico del planeta sigue funcionando #sciwri15
Surface of Pluto ice plain has no creators, which means it is young--created YESTERDAY in geologic time! #Pluto #sciwri15
"Pluto's engine on the inside is still running. It's sending a lot of geophysicists back to the drawing board." @AlanStern #sciwri15
Pluto's engine is still running, generating smooth surface features that "were created yesterday, geologically." -- @AlanStern #sciwri15
Stern: We can't find any craters on Sputnik Planum, tells us surface young, did not think small planets could stay active so long. #sciwri15
"We did not think small planets could be active billions of yrs after formation," says @AlanStern - note the word "planets" #Pluto #sciwri15
Correction tot my mountain tweet--- #sciwri15 #Pluto https://t.co/RB3SwbfGUv
@ebonyphd Solid crust of water ice (not atmosphere). Water ice can form mtns, nitrogen ice can't.
#Pluto is still pretty active (after all these billions of years).Unexpected discovery. #SciWri15
Stern: can see glacial flows in the region known as Sputnik Planem. Also high ridges w/ deep troughs between. #Pluto #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: "kinda interesting that the Federation of Prochlorococcus drawn marching on land" #sciwri15 http://t.co/0jWk3ZgmG8
Pluto's sending a lot of geophysicists back to the drawing board. Appears to still have an "engine" running inside--Stern #sciwri15
This information is going so fast, I'm not sure people realize how big a deal *all* of this stuff is. TOO MUCH. #Pluto #sciwri15
Penny Chisholm: prochlorococcus is masterpiece of nature, designed by millions of years of fine tuning #sciwri15 #MicrobesAsComplexOrganisms
@NewHorizons2015 mapeará en 3D con img stereo la superficie de #Pluto #sciwri15
many semi-parallel icy ridges -- never seen elsewhere. harder material left behind after scouring? extruded somehow? idk. #sciwri15
Pluto less than 2% age of solar system ("created yesterday, geologically") - and still active billions of years after formation. #sciwri15
Stern: spectroscopic data shows that methane goes along with the bright icy regions on #Pluto. #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus reveals a new feature of ocean ecosystems...the release of vesicles into sea water! #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
Something is giving #Pluto a face-lift. Subsurface geophysics or something else making the young-looking plains? #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015
.@AlanStern on glacial flows on Pluto: "Who expected that?" Time for meme like this but for glacial flows #sciwri15 http://t.co/FsyULrGU17
Announced last week: confirmed exposed water ice on Pluto! More to come from data -@AlanStern #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Whole new dimension of ocean biochem: many marine microbes make membrane-bound vesicles. Don't know function. #sciwri15
Stern: Pluto's icy plain, Sputnik Planum, "shows evidence of glacial flow." At least #Pluto still has flourishing glaciers! #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- makes membrane-bound vesicles -- contain DN, RNA -- "message in a bottle". #sciwri15
Read about @ChisholmLab_MIT's #NSFfunded research on membrane vesicles produced by marine bacteria here: http://t.co/acwEeBY78k #sciwri15
Media and public was enamored of @NewHorizons2015 - "people just love this mission" #Pluto #sciwri15
Gracias a periodistas científicos la misión New Horizons también fue un éxito
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/SxuaJduekB
Data on water ice and methane on #Pluto surface says @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15 http://t.co/Eq7ojwdRkU
Stern: the Pluto mission was boosted by the existence of social media. "We went viral!" #Pluto #sciwri15
Stern: people really loved this mission, because people love first-time exploration. #sciwri15
"We were really lucky to be running this anchor leg: the last first exploration" @AlanStern #sciwri15
Lots of love for @NASANewHorizons' #PlutoFlyby at #sciwri15 =)
People love first-time exploration, says @AlanStern, explaining overwhelming popularity of #newhorizons #PlutoFlyby #sciwri15
Stern's neighbor gets 6 mags per month. One month, Stern's team/Pluto team was on cover of 5. (Did not make cover of Cosmopolitan) #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- vessicle hypothesis: for horizontal gene transfer? messaging? Phage decoys? #sciwri15
Public loved @NewHorizons2015 because #Pluto was the "last first exploration" in the solar system, says @AlanStern #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Phages are extension of Prochlorococcus genome. Contribute to essential diversity #sciwri15
.@alanstern 's neighbor: "we get 6 magazines. You're on the cover of 5. The only one left is Cosmo." People love this mission. #sciwri15
Raj freaking out about @NewHorizons2015 in @BigBang_CBS pretty much was exactly what I was doing that day too #sciwri15
Stern: we even were written into “The Big Bang Theory”, and if I had more time I’d show you the clip. Audience: show it! #sciwri15
Federation of microbes: "demands a revision of organism, species & evolution itself." #sciwri15 @chisolmlab_mit http://t.co/Tncmv48B1D
Emergence! @ChisholmLab_MIT studies "collective metabolism" of #Prochlorococcus and other bacterial friends with which it grows. #sciwri15
@AlanStern presume de aparecer en @thebigbangshow con @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15 http://t.co/BITTviY9ZJ
Stern: People *love* exploration. #PlutoFlyby was NASA's biggest day for web traffic. #Pluto #sciwri15
People love #newhorizons2015 because people love new exploration says @AlanStern at #sciwri15 http://t.co/spgKCJ9CSb
450 newspapers put #Pluto above the fold. "People love exploration; they love coming along for the ride," says @AlanStern #sciwri15
A la gente le gusta la exploración. Los diarios deberían tener más ciencia.
A. Stern
#sciwri15 http://t.co/OnxH0l38yn
How much coffee has this writer had today? The answer might surprise you. #sciwri15 #upworthytweets
People love exploration. They love coming along for the ride. -Alan Stern, New Horizons. #sciwri15
Stern: Why all the #Pluto luv? "People love exploration. They love coming along for the ride." #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus -- viral phages part of the system #sciwri15
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Phages no longer seen as pred-prey relnship w/ Prochlorococcus, but rather positive for both--symbiotic. #sciwri15
Stern: most recent color image of Pluto eclipse, showing that sunset on Pluto is blue. #Pluto #sciwri15
NASA website got 12 billion hits on July 14, 2015 when New Horizons did its Pluto flyby. Biggest media moment for the agency. #sciwri15
#Prochlorococcus has lost genes to make catalase peroxidase (to reduce oxidative stress), so needs its friends! @ChisholmLab_MIT #sciwri15
#NewHorizons #PlutoFlyby made the cover of 450 newspapers worldwide #sciwri15
Fantastic talk from @AlanStern on @NewHorizons2015 and #Pluto. So many fantastic images and behind-the-scenes of science. Thanks! #sciwri15
El sobrevuelo de #Plutón en la portada de cerca de 450 periódicos @AlanStern @SciAmEspanol #sciwri15 http://t.co/L3iTheB50M
You can only get an image like this by going past Pluto and looking back - @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/22jAAk9nxt
.@AlanStern ends presentation w color image of Pluto, an image only possible if you go past and look back #sciwri15 http://t.co/7lIEr9E5oU
Alan Stern very excited #Pluto was above the fold in 450 newspapers the day after the closest approach. #sciwri15 http://t.co/vvxg7cpzuK
Public loves Pluto as much as @AlanStern does @NewHorizons2015 made above the fold headlines in450 papers. #sciwri15 http://t.co/WhLRGBaYd3
Kuiper belt partially creat from material closer in solar system, but moved out, and other material formed outside #Pluto #sciwri15
Q: how did the Kuiper belt form? Stern: a lot of it formed closer and got booted out farther. That includes #Pluto. #sciwri15
Errr...I think there's a magazine missing from that slide! #sciwri15 cc @JamieShreeve
.@ChisholmLab_MIT: Evol of Prochlorococcus shows progressive reduction in genome size as moved into hi light niches #sciwri15
@chisolmlab_mit : Prochlorococcus and the "metametabolism" of the ocean. If you are going to study life, you need to study whole #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto Was the Kuiper belt pulled into our solar system or made in it? Both. Some planets were pulled in and others formed.
Foto de la atmósfera de #Plutón @AlanStern @SciAmEspanol #sciwri15 #newhorizons http://t.co/MPUzuE5YGd
Most recent #Pluto photo - its atmosphere. #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern #beautifulview http://t.co/W1OSJ9Z5hq
Much more science to come from @NewHorizons2015 - extended mission will fly by small Kuiper Belt Objects found with @NASA_Hubble #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto Pt 2 Pluto's origin is unknown as of now,
Very impressed by @AlanStern's talk about @NewHorizons2015 and #Pluto. Glad to be reminded about why this mission is so awesome! #sciwri15
Microthrusters or UCE surveillance? I know nothing about either so it's a toss up. #sciwri15
Stern: New Horizons due to fire engines in about 2 weeks to refine trajectory for KBO flyby. #sciwri15
Stern: in just over two weeks we’ll start firing New Horizons’ engines to retarget for Kuiper Belt object flyby. #sciwri15
"An extraordinary complexity" of microbes with "collective metabolism." If you don't undrstnd collective, can't undrstnd organism. #sciwri15
Stern: @NewHorizons2015 extended mission objective (PT1) is about 10x bigger than Comet 67P. ~20 miles across. #Pluto #sciwri15
Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object. Expected date, Jan. 1, 2019. #sciwri15
I haven't followed #Pluto news closely enough to know how good the educated guesses were. #sciwri15 https://t.co/YNQh0q2HiG
Stern: This is best image of #Pluto before New Horizons - very easy to overinterpret an image like this! #sciwri15 http://t.co/LcUlEZ56uL
Dr. Chisholm's closing msg. #sciwri15 #Prochlorococcus
Image credits: Dr. Chisholm, @ChisholmLab_MIT; Molly Bang http://t.co/iQe8Tfx1HR
First #Pluto color images coming back now. Will also get 3D pics from @NewHorizons2015 @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/ubp9UJWdXV
Stern: 1st flyby in extended mission will be 1/1/19. (Here's a thing I wrote about mission after #Pluto: http://t.co/w65O0UaQDr) #sciwri15
Mark your calendars! NASA New Horizons's extended mission will take it to Kuiper Belt Object PT1 on 1 Jan. 2019. #sciwri15
Speaking of ❤️ for Pluto - I love this roundup of #Pluto inspired creativity
http://t.co/i6gfOvzBw7 #sciwri15 @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015
.@MIT's Penny Chisholm says to understand life we need to study it across all scales of space and time. #SciWri15
"Microbes as gene swapping collective" Dr. Penny Chisholm great talk on @Prochlorococus #sciwri15
@bug_gwen it was so nice to meet you!!! Pumped you brought at least a mini-mantis to #sciwri15 :).
Next will propose fly-by of Kuiper Belt object 10x bigger than comet Rosetta is orbiting (which came from Kuiper Belt) #sciwri15
Next Kuiper belt target for @NewHorizons2015 and scale compared to New England says @AlanStern #sciwri15 http://t.co/KV63k53SEV
Pluto's a great brand. It really took off by itself, says @AlanStern #scicomm #sciwri15
"People love exploration. They love coming along for the ride," says @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #Pluto #sciwri15
Good point: reason why New Horizons got lots of media coverage because NASA folks thought strategically about communications. #sciwri15
La estrategia de medios fue fundamental @NewHorizons2015 ‘thought long & hard’ about how to engage the public @AlanStern #sciwri15
.@AlanStern shows est. size of @NASANewHorizons' next target, PT1, compared to Massachusetts. #sciwri15 #pluto http://t.co/LuAzNnjiyU
Stern: Pluto's a great brand. It really took off on its own. All we had to do was light a match. #sciwri15
.@AlanStern says Jan 1, 2019 is the flyby date for Kuiper belt object, now just called 2014MU69 #sciwri15
Q from audience: does Prochlorococcus have circadian clock. @ChisholmLab_MIT's A: yes, but not complete 1. #sciwri15
#Pluto es una ‘gran marca’ dice @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 #sciwri15
Question about planetary status. Take a shot. :P #Pluto #sciwri15
Ha, follow-up on branding: "#Pluto's a great brand." -Stern #sciwri15 #Bwordsciwri
#sciwri15 #Pluto The electricity management of #NewHorizons was done by low energy use designs for the instruments and the engines.
How much #Pluto love is because of its underdog status as a demoted dwarf planet? Def played a part, says @AlanStern #sciwri15
Would arrive Jan 1, 2019 - in just over 2 weeks, will fire engines to set course #sciwri15
Here's the skinny on Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, targeted for 2019 New Horizons flyby http://t.co/fLZNRUWPoR #sciwri15
"#Pluto is a great brand," Alan Stern says of the @NASA publicity effort. "It really took off all by itself. We just lit a match." #sciwri15
Person asks about “controversial” launch since it used RTGs. Stern notes only one protest, with 30 people. Public mindset changed. #sciwri15
The RTG was also featured on the movie #TheMartian. It is powered by an alpha emitter Pu-238. Good for long missions #sciwri15
(From Q&A) For those who are curious -- #Prochlorococcus doesn't have a CRISPR/Cas system. @ChisholmLab_MIT #sciwri15
RT @b0yle: .@AlanStern shows est. size of @NASANewHorizons' next target, PT1, compared to Mass. #sciwri15 #pluto http://t.co/kYwW0n5IkY
"I personally get around 15 speaking requests every week." says @AlanStern . "You can't beat success." #sciwri15
Very cool to learn about @NASANewHorizons comms + social media strategy. Says PI @AlanStern: "Pluto is a great brand." #sciwri15
Q: what’s the next big thing for NASA? Stern: humans to Mars. #sciwri15
Audience Q: Next big thing for NASA? Stern: Humans to Mars. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Pluto There was a bit of competition and controversy surrounding @NewHorizons2015 win for Pluto!
Audience Q: What's the next big thing for NASA? Stern: In my view, humans to Mars. (wee!) #sciwri15
Fantastic and inspiring talk on the #newhorizons mission! #Pluto is a great brand says @AlanStern
#sciwri15
What's the next big thing for NASA? Humans to Mars, says @AlanStern #sciwri15 #highhopes #letsgo
What's the next big thing for @NASA? "Mars" -Stern #sciwri15
(From Q&A) #Prochlorococcus lineage may be 50-100 million years old; but some backbone ecotypes may be ~1my old. #sciwri15 @ChisholmLab_MIT
.@AlanStern in reply to Q: What's the next big thing for @Nasa? Humans to Mars in my opinion. #sciwri15
What does @AlanStern think the "next big thing" is for @NASA ? "Humans to #Mars." Simple as that. #sciwri15 #Pluto
@AnnaNowo Then again, I was interviewed by 17 science writers in the last 12 mo (I'm a pharmacologist by training). 16 were women #sciwri15
New Horizons powered by RTG that uses plutonium (radioactive element named after the planet) #sciwri15
This is beautiful. #nasw15 #sciwri15 https://t.co/GCfpfQdXOA
Hey #nasw15 before you leave town MUST see this colossal, quiet sculpture by local artist Janet Echelman. At night. http://t.co/fCgXItdMNp
RT LizNeeley LizNeeley :
If you are writing about vaccinations #sciwri15, please take note this #scicomm research… http://t.co/wg9rbfQrEs
Disappointed to see Fiji water at the New Horizons speakers' podium. #sciwri15 #productmisplacement http://t.co/quoRymA5uF
Seguimos elevando la mirada al espacio en #sciwri15 con mis amigos boricuas en mente en la #SalaDePuertoRico http://t.co/OYqbc2PdxN
.@ChisholmLab_MIT just joined Twitter, so be sure to follow! #sciwri15 #Prochlorococcus
Getting ready to cover #whatsaUCE at #sciwri15.
Next big thing for NASA? Humans to Mars says @AlanStern #sciwri15 #TheMartian
Forgive frequent tweets from conf. in Boston #sciwri15 Mute me if you like. Will continue through Tues.
At #SciWri15? Try @cloverfoodtruck local eats, brainchild of an @MIT grad and just down the street from NIBR http://t.co/qcb5GK00ho
#HumanosEnMarte. El próximo gran reto para NASA según @AlanStern. Sin pestañear. ¡VAMOS! #sciwri15
Alan Stern of New Horizons: Getting to Pluto like a golf putt from L.A. that lands in a soup can in NYC. #sciwri15 http://t.co/SYe8kbTiE9
Loving the hashtag for the next #sciwri15 talk on CubeSats with @PauloLozanoMIT : #TinyThrusters
Defrosting here for the #TinyThrusters talk. #SciWri15
Next for me at #sciwri15 - a talk on spray-on microthrusters for miniature satellites by @PauloLozanoMIT http://t.co/m153qY8Jo6
Tell me about #tinythrusters @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
Next up is microthrusters for small satellites. The hashtag is #tinythrusters, sung to the tune of Tiny Bubbles. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #WhatsaUCE Learning about ultra conserved elements (UCEs)
How was I the only one clapping for @carlzimmer? I guess it's good I didn't give the "wh00p" I was inclined to. #sciwri15
now up: @PauloLozanoMIT talking miniaturized space exploration #TinyThrusters #sciwri15
Ting Wu: Ultraconserved Elements (UCE) in the genome and their "surveillance system" #sciwri15
#tinythrusters the quadcopter for space? #sciwri15
#TinyThrustaers will open up spaceflight and launches to people who don't have easy access @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
Spray on micro thrusters for micro satellites by @PauloLozanoMIT #TinyThrusters #sciwri15
The speaker is Paulo C. Lozano of MIT. Idea: how to expand ability to construct very small spacecraft. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Harvard's Ting Wu starts by thanking journos for boosting public understanding of science. #sciwri15
Personal satellites? #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: analogy is to computers, which started huge and expensive, and now are ubiquitous and personal. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
For more on Paulo Lozano's fascinating #TinyThrusters, see my longform piece from last year: http://t.co/pMlS1vUhyF #sciwri15
Snort. RT@DrMRFrancis: Next up is microthrusters for small satellites. Hashtag #tinythrusters, sung to the tune of Tiny Bubbles. #sciwri15
Lozano: by building tiny spacecraft, many people get access to space who didn't have it before. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Presente y futuro de satélites de telecom. Sucederá lo mismo q antes con las computadoras #sciwri15 @PauloLozanoMIT http://t.co/mf93qnBRor
Miniaturization of satellites for simplicity, cost says @PauloLozanoMIT #TinyThrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/H1nlYp2fwj
Excited to hear about student involvement in #tinythrusters. Like Brad King and the Oculus satellite students @michigantech! #sciwri15
cubesat standard is 1L volume, ~1kg mass, launched as 2ndary payload for some other mission. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Es un gran momento para la genética. Los paradigmas cayendo
Ting Wu (Harvard) y la Genética personal
#sciwri15 http://t.co/fkOSEt4hFM
Alan stern @MIT @NewHorizons2015 even worked into @BigBang_CBS "space ice is no joke I can't even watch @DisneyFrozen anymore" #sciwri15
Early minisats were toys, last a few hours and emit a few signals b4 burn up, but start #tinythrusters @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
We had to revise a #sciwri15 session on contracts unexpectedly & this is why. Blame anti-trust law, not NASW plz. http://t.co/ueEHv7d3Io
RT @grimkat: .@AlanStern shows former best picture of Pluto (before the fly-by) at #sciwri15 http://t.co/BiC4zLSCHh
Ting Wu taking the podium to talk re: #epigenetics. I'm psyched. She totally stole the show at this panel: http://t.co/ZkxQ3IRMeT #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT is talking cubesats - notes that even high school students can get payloads into space #tinythrusters #sciwri15
The future of satellites is small. Not big according to @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/bN4Vz1dCUR
#TinyThrusters = shrinking propulsion tech to work with smaller satellites like CubeSats. #sciwri15
Wondering what the insurance premium would be for a multi-million-dollar satellite, given they sometimes explode. #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
La previsión de crecimiento del mercado en micro satélites es brutal #sciwri15 @PauloLozanoMIT http://t.co/CSNIGzKucA
#TinyThrusters on Cube-Sats would open up space to countries w/o large budget space programs. Break the monopoly #sciwri15 @PauloLozanoMIT
So will small/personal #satellite just contribute more #spacejunk? #tiny thruster #sciwri15
MIT’s Paulo Lozano talking about growth in smallsats (not mentioned: that growth is temporarily slowed: http://t.co/qOVpndAvXd ) #sciwri15
I'm a huge fan of any talk that includes #histsci. DYK Nettie Stevens discovered the Y-chromosome? #WhatIsAUCE? #sciwri15 #womeninstem
.@PauloLozanoMIT : there's a real strategic opportunity with small sats, Comms, Navigation, Debris Mitigation #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Ting Wu highlighting overlooked early #genetics labs, e.g. Nettie Stevens & her role in establishing chromosomes' importance #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #WhatsaUCE Nettie Stevens was a woman scientist that discovered the Y chromosome and that XX are female and XY gives males.
Debris mitigation is particularly interesting; there's a real possibility that some orbits might be unusable #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Debris mitigation i.e. #spacejunk is an opportunity #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Writing, writing, writing #sciwri15 #comscicon https://t.co/U3GDEVwCR3
Lozano: big expensive satellites are a huge investment. The future: networks of microsatellites doing same work. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT : With CubeSats, space junk is a worry - are we going to make some orbits unusable? We can if we're not careful. #sciwri15
Discoverer of Y chromosome was a woman (Nettie Stevens in 1905)! Did not know that. #sciwri15
Small satellites can be for communication, national security, debris mitigation, &training next gen of scientists -@PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
More and more Small satellites like Cube sats (1 liter, ~1 kg, cheaper than traditional) #sciwri15 #tinythrusters http://t.co/BOWH4jFZLa
.@PauloLozanoMIT : There's also the possibility for providing communications using cubesats #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
From Nettie Stevens in 1908! #WhatisaUCE? #histsci #sciwri15 #genetics #heredity http://t.co/6yR70TOjDG
Unlike larger companies and orgs that launch large satellites, many #startups are launching these small satellites. #TinyThrusters #SciWri15
Someone’s going to have to explain this to me. I don’t get this at all. #sciwri15 https://t.co/Kmi8VDaWsr
We had to revise a #sciwri15 session on contracts unexpectedly & this is why. Blame anti-trust law, not NASW plz. http://t.co/ueEHv7d3Io
Ten small satellites for every launch of every large spacecraft #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: microsatellites have specific problems w/ power supplies, communications, and propulsion. How to fix that? #tinythrusters #sciwri15
key challenges for small sats: power/thermal, comms, propulsion. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Limitations of small satellites: power, transferring information,& no capability to move in space -@PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: smallsats have 3 key limitations: power/thermal, communications, propulsion. Addressing propulsion has biggest impact. #sciwri15
Lozano: Key challenges for SmallSats: Power/thermal, communications, propulsion. #sciwri15 Propulsion is what he's going after.
.@PauloLozanoMIT notes microsats can't move much - the propulsion becomes key here #tinythrusters #sciwri15
A key challenge is propulsion. For small satellites #tinythrusters will mitigate #spacejunk 😃 #sciwri15
Bc minisats are secondary payloads, need propulsion to move to where they really want to be @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #WhatsaUCE Loving the science history lesson during UCE talk! Wanna find that rogue and type paper in genetics...
.@PauloLozanoMIT we want to design propulsion that allows microsats to do missions that now only big ones can do #tinythrusters #sciwri15
"Lamarck is right back on the table." @harvard's Ting Wu on modern genomics #sciwri15 #histSTM #WhatisaUCE
Lozano: can we make #tinythrusters for tiny satellites, and how? What are the possibilities for such thrusters? #sciwri15
Ting Wu: "I actually teach a class called 'Weird Stuff'". topics has to have 50-50 chance of being wrong. #sciwri15 #whatisaUCE
Ting Wu teaches a course at Harvard called "weird stuff," focusing on science with 50-50 chance of being wrong. #sciwri15
Ting Wu from @harvardmed teaches a class called "Weird Stuff!" I want to take or teach that course! :-) #WhatisaUCE #sciwri15
Thrusters for microsats mean at end of life can move into atmosphere and burn up so no #spacejunk #TinyThrusters @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT the amount of fuel needed on a chemical thruster is larger than that for an electric thruster #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: electric thrusters need less fuel compared with chemical thrusters. @NASA_Dawn uses electric thrusters. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Chemical vs electrical propulsion- who knew? #tinythruster Electric uses less fuel than chemical #porsupuesto @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
Propulsores eléctricos son mucho más potentes que los químicos, necesitan menos combustible. #sciwri15 #TinyThrusters @PauloLozanoMIT
.@PauloLozanoMIT : The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres was sent with electric propulsion (ion engines) #tinythruster #sciwri15
Dawn Mission is an example of a prob using electrical propulsion to move through space: ion propulsion #tinythrusters #sciwri15
UCE = Ultra-Conserved Elements (non-coding DNA sequences that have not changed in 300-500 mya. Slow changes). #sciwri15 #whatisaUCE
Chemical propulsion weighs more too #tinythrusters #sciwri15
What is a UCE? An ultraconserved element. UCEs are chunks of DNA, essentially unchanged for 300-500 million years. #WhatisaUCE? #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT needed a change in velocity of 11 km/s - we don't have a rocket that can do that now #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: if @NASA_Dawn used chemical thrusters, it would have needed 26,000 kg. Ion thrusters are more efficient. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Ting Wu: Ultraconserved Elements -- something happened in the ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds that "froze" 481 genes #sciwri15
Lozano: electric thrusters are simple physics. Produce electric charges, accelerate them, throw them out the back. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
@NASA_Dawn 's success at Vesta and Ceres is largely due to electric propulsion system. Chemical propulsion is much less efficient #sciwri15
(not mentioned by speaker) in the Star Wars universe, the TIE Fighter is a 'Twin Ion Engine' craft. #sorrytoogeeky #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Ultraconserved Elements in the genome have been virtually unchanged for 300-500 million yrs! #sciwri15 #WhatsaUCE
Lozano: $100M satellite providers don't like CubeSats riding along with pressurized containers that could blow up the rocket. #sciwri15
Electric propulsion answer is an ion engine - #thisiscrazyscience #tinythrusters #sciwri15
We have downlinked only 15% of @NASANewHorizons data so far. Lots more grin- and goosebump-causing #Pluto data to come. @AlanStern #sciwri15
Dr. Wu's research hypothesizes that even a single BP mutation in male or female homolog of UCE would = loss of fitness #WhatisaUCE #sciwri15
Ting Wu: Most popular model is that UCEs are doing important regulatory stuff, but regulators usually mutate FAST #sciwri15 #whatisaUCE
Each one of these boxes occupies mass - @paulolozanoMit #sciwri15 #tinythrusters http://t.co/jM0hezL9dp
Lozano: regular ion propulsion doesn't work for microsatellites. Need enough energy to make the ions. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Electrons collide with energy to create ions #tinythrusters #sciwri15
But how to test this? Dr. Wu & her students know any day they could wake up & find out they're wrong. That's science! #sciwri15 #WhatisaUCE
Conventional wisdom = highest conserved = most essential function. But don't know what UCE's do. #sciwri15
#whatsaUCE: hashtag for a talk about genes or a debate on condiment preferences? #WhatSauce #sciwri15
Reporter @MrMattDavenport wrote a story about tiny satellites (cubesats) earlier this year #sciwri15 http://t.co/erRfFTzD1J
.@PauloLozanoMIT just a few electrons have the ionization we need for thrust #tinythrusters #sciwri15
To work in Ting Wu's lab: "You have to wake up every morning prepared to be completely wrong" #whatisaUCE #sciwri15
Schematic of ion engine like one on @NASA_Dawn says @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/m5J6AboPwZ
Improve ionization? Make it big. But plasma thrusters won't scale down. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT what would be best propellant for ion thruster? #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
.@PauloLozanoMIT if we had atomic sized tweezers... #tinythrusters #sciwri15
#FieldEvaporation para sacar nota en microsatelites con @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/Q6nrOdvb96
.@PauloLozanoMIT Looking for electric field of 1.6 billion volts per meter - that would produce an arc in air #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: Use solids or liquids as ion source. Field evaporation: use strong electric fields to strip ions. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
After taking a break last year, heading into #sciwri15 today to reconnect with fellow writers. http://t.co/dp57SWlgOi
Fascinating talk by Ting Wu on #UCE. "Incredible time to be geneticst. Paradigms are falling. Larmark back on the table." #sciwri15
UCEs tend to be in regions that don't undergo deletion, duplication, translocation, or transfer. Why are they there? #WhatisaUCE #sciwri15
Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) are chunks of DNA that have remained virtually unchanged for 300-500 million years. #whatsaUCE #SciWri15
Wu & team looked at where the break points, where cancer patients get translocations & inversions relative to UCEs #whatisaUCE #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT uses method of field evaporation. 1/2 mm needle and liquid #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Scientists aren't sure what UCEs do, but one hypothesis is that they sense traumatic damage to the genome. #whatsaUCE #SciWri15
People following #sciwri15: You may have noticed trolls in the feed. Muting them is easy--see command under the three-dot symbol below tweet
Field evaporation may be the answer with a trick applied - take a needle with some magic substance to get ion - #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: use a sharp electrode tip to intensify the field and use a special liquid effect to boost field. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT system makes ions fly away very fast, but thrust is 10 nano-newtons #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Hypothesis:Some parts of genome are highly malleable like playgrounds for mutations, fenced off from other parts #whatisaUCE #sciwri15
Ting Wu: Are UCEs in the genome to sense extreme damage -- and prohibit radical change -- to the genome? #sciwri15
Magic substance is an ionic liquid propellant #tinythrusters contact @PauloLozanoMIT for more info #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT Propellant is room-temperature molten salt
- they stay liquid in vacuum
- non reactive
#sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: fuel is "molten salts", which are liquid at room temp, but don't evaporate in space. Very cheap fuel! #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Are UCEs like beacons of major "damage" to regions of the genome near them? How does this work? #WhatisaUCE? #sciwri15
Paulo Lozano: miniaturized ion propulsion system could help cubesats perform missions--and avoid space debris #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Nanoagujas evaporan un propelente iónico: nano fuerza repetida muchas veces @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/o0WTUTP4sB
.@PauloLozanoMIT with this liquid can use capillary effect to get liquid along needle to get ionized #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Tricks to prod mini ion thrusters @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters uses rm temp molten salts coat micro tip #sciwri15 http://t.co/ITqf0The4D
Ionic liquid propellants for #tinythrusters stay liquid in space #sciwri15 salts are amazing!
use ionic liquids as ionizing material. don't need pump, it wicks to the tips via capillary action. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Reading all the #sciwri15 posts/photos makes me really regret not going. Next year!!
Lozano: resulting device: 500 thrusters on a chip smaller than a quarter. "Much more expensive than a quarter!" #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Micro machining means hundreds of needle tips can be put on CubeSat for Ion propulsion #TinyThrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/i5Y3ZKBfKO
Wu:UCEs let genome detect breaks in central parts of genome. In cancer patients & neuro disorders, UCE surveillance may be glitchy #sciwri15
We're talking microns micrometers folks - #tinythrusters #sciwri15 @PauloLozanoMIT http://t.co/xhadMwfdK9
In diseased individuals, scientists have observed damage around UCEs. #genomics #whatsaUCE #SciWri15
@PauloLozanoMIT Ion Electrospray propulsion system are smaller than a quarter, about as thick, much more expensive #sciwri15 #TinyThrusters
Wu: can UCE's be forged into tools that protect against genetic changes linked to diseases like cancer? #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT talks about ionic liquid used as propellant for "glorified candle" #tinythrusters at #sciwri15: http://t.co/P43PTfFQpA
Funciona igual que una vela: los nanopropulsores para la próx generación de nanosatelites @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/24kJiNF73P
So much potential for #SciArt, thanks to Brainbow and now Oligopaints. #sciwri15
Image credit: Ting Wu, @harvardmed http://t.co/iaLUndJdVk
It's the thickness of a quarter dollar. It's smaller than a quarter dollar... it costs a lot more than a quarter of a dollar. #sciwri15
Ionic electrospray thruster for small satellites is smaller than a quarter, but much more expensive than a quarter #sciwri15
Lozano describes the ion electrospray thruster his group has developed for cubesats is “glorified candle” #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT : Will Thrusters corrode? Will spacecraft charge up? Can thrusters fire stably? #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: but does it work? How long do thrusters last? Can thrusters fire stably? What do we do with excess charge? #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Ultraconserved Elements of genomes: perhaps cellular geiger counters that trigger cell death if too much mutation? #sciwri15
Wu: If #UCE's have survellance purpose against genomic damage, can be used to prevent disease before it even occurs? #whatsaUCE #sciwri15
Micro thrusters are just like candles says @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/ZPqERpJSwl
Wu: Gotta use super-resolution microscopy (which detects stuff shorter than visible wavelength) to see structure of the genome. #sciwri15
Q: What's the next big thing for @NASA? A: "Humans to Mars" -@AlanStern #pluto #sciwri15 @NewHorizons2015
Moving satellites with ittybitty ion candles. #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
.@PauloLozanoMIT ion engine emits ions and need to emit negative ions from craft to keep it from charging up #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Was sorry to miss the humour session #HumorNASW15 at #sciwri15 yesterday but enjoyed these Tweets...
#harvard Fall. #nofilter #sciwri15 #hahvahd #wickedbeautiful #leaves #autumn #autumnleaves by loefftovers http://t.co/i00hefp66K
How NASA Will Get Humans To Mars #sciwri15 #mars #nasa http://t.co/wzUDaLHi9y http://t.co/rwU0FEyMcr
Using pos and neg ch ions in parallel so neutralize and won't charge satellite @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT: ion propulsion system smaller, but still more expensive than a quarter. #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/fj471ClpZL
Lozano: to prevent excess charges, produce both positive and negative ions. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
I'm ready to be completely wrong every morning - and I often am, ha. Love Prof Ting Wu's #humility & brilliance #whatsaUCE #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT I challenged one of my students to prove the thrusters would work stably #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Inspired by Jaume Plensa's "Alchemist" on @MIT campus #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/xTxZMI0k33
If don't discharge, sat will charge to thousands of volts in microseconds and ion engine won't work @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Scientists propose UCEs can be used as secret weapons against diseases causing genome damage #sciwri15, #cancer #genomics
Lozano is now showing a test of a cubesat being magnetically levitated. The thrusters make it spin. AWESOME. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Wu: Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) still 10x too big for looking at 10-20 nm long DNA structures, so they use STORM #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT 's student managed to get the sat spinning in a vacuum chamber #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: takes 20 minutes of continuous thrust to reach 2 RPM. Not huge forces, but inertia keeps things moving. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
#sciwri15 friends, the @HammerschlagLab #SharkScience boat often has room for journalists. Email me. Whysharksmatter at gmail. Please RT!
.@PauloLozanoMIT unexpected: no emission of light from thrusters (That's why we have LED to indicate) #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Lozano shows video of magnetically levitated CubeSat in space-like chamber moving under power of mini ion thrusters. #sciwri15
Video of test microsat spinning from ion thrusters v slow still but moves @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/QmgySpYHQA
If any #sciwri15 friends need expert sources for articles on marine biology/conservation or fisheries articles, I can help you find them!
Lozano: tested thruster on a magnetically-levitated cubesat in a vacuum chamber; successfully spun up satellite. #sciwri15
@PauloLozanoMIT Cubesat networks as coronagraphs to look for exoplanets? Oooh, tell me more! #sciwri15 #TinyThrusters
Wu's team gets the fluores (glow-y probes) to blink, so you can distinguish 2 close together. Also use OligoDNA-Paint #sciwri15
Ion thrusters don't generate a lot of force but flip on 10 micronewtons for a year you can get going pretty fast #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Para aprender más sobre #TinyThrusters y @PauloLozanoMIT
su pág en el MIT http://t.co/hwiPW8fHDb #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT We were ablt to fire for a very long time #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Can you really move a Cubesat with an ion candle? Hells yea! #sciwri15 #tinythrusters http://t.co/SfR4ctSC82
@PauloLozanoMIT Probably a lot more manageable than previously proposed independent starshades, more adjustable #TinyThrusters #sciwri15
Lozano: after operating 140 hours until fuel was exhausted, thruster still looks good. V. little degradation! #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT the thruster ran 140 hours - we were able to get every ion out #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: tested thruster for 140 hours, no signs of corrosion (as some feared). Completely depleted propellant tank. #sciwri15
Ideating includes amazeballs language #sciwri15 #comscicon https://t.co/HdFsLncbS1
#tinythrustersshow stopper is being able to deplete fuel without problem! Congrats @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
Thruster test showed could fire for 140 hrs, no damage @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 http://t.co/UknfaPbQOS
OK, Ting Wu is making me think I should go ahead & actually do @MIT_Sciwrite thesis on my super-resolution feature idea #sciwri15
Lozano: fired nano-thruster for 140 hours, consumed propellant, was in good condition. "Most exciting test we've done so far." #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT gives a shout out to grad students #sciwri15 #tinythrusters [gotta love that]
140 horas funcionando sin pausa. Nano sólo en tamaño. @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 #tinythrusters http://t.co/t4vKHAwjaP
.@PauloLozanoMIT It's very small, I wanted to take a selfie with it for scaling purposes #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano is now showing a palm-sized single chip with *everything* on it: electronics, thruster, fuel. Amazing. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Amazing considering the electrochemical challenges says @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15 https://t.co/v8ctDmgjmT
.@PauloLozanoMIT the thruster ran 140 hours - we were able to get every ion out #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
The whole thing fits in a 10x10x10cm cube, amazing to me #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Take a selfie with your cubesat #TinyThruster. Just for scaling perspective of course... :P @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT shows off ion electrospray #tinythrusters that used full 140-hr fuel supply. "Most exciting test so far" #sciwri15
#tinythrusters delivered to @NASA fits in palm of hand! @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/FhFzF6LmYP
.@PauloLozanoMIT we want to expand the capability of the thruster see if it really can be applied to cubesats #sciwri15 #tinythrusters
Lozano: recently completed NASA Micro Electrospray System, with 8 thruster units; takes up small fraction of 1U cubesat. #sciwri15
A micro thruster demonstration at #sciwri15 #tinythrusters https://t.co/mOMjwfZ9gN
Lozano: power consumption is ~1 Watt, comparable to abilities of cubesats. Could be used for other spacecraft too. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Taking a break from #sciwri15 to march in Honk! Join in between Davis Sq and Harvard Sq 12 - 2 http://t.co/4AspajY4jX
La ciencia proporciona experiencias estéticas de enorme intensidad. #tinythrusters #sciwri15 @PauloLozanoMIT http://t.co/bbh2Uq2z8S
Lozano: delivered three Micro Electrospray Propulsion units to NASA. Each fits on a 10 x 10 cm CubeSat end. #sciwri15
Very exciting #tinythrusters from the lab of @PauloLozanoMIT could animate the petals of a #starshade #sciwri15
For everyone who found my Fini tweet too cryptic http://t.co/puaMr4r1bA #sciwri15
The latest cubesat technology. NASA Micro Electrospray Propulsion #TinyThrusters #SciWri15 http://t.co/6xcdORh9l8
Lozano: scalable and modular. Want more thrust? add more thrusters! #tinythrusters #sciwri15
When micro looks macro... new imaging technique makes parts of chromosomes look like galaxies. #sciwri15 http://t.co/mB8wKAvYje
From meters to millimeters to microns to nanometers for field evaporation #tinythruster #isthat5ordersofmagnitude #sciwri15
Ting Wu: Can aggregating UCEs be used to rid our bodies of diseased cells?Stay tuned! #sciwri15
It's so great when researchers give well-deserved shout-outs to their students and post-docs. #WhatisaUCE? #sciwri15
More re #sciwri15 #tinythrusters: http://t.co/HJl5694ioD https://t.co/WJ4fgTrZik
#tinythrusters delivered to @NASA fits in palm of hand! @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15 http://t.co/FhFzF6LmYP
"I had tears in my eyes when I saw this. When u work in science, u love your chromosomes!" TingWu #sciwri15 #scilove http://t.co/jUkv0g3TAz
How to make a flying Kleenex box go? Electrospray thrusters, an appealing concept. #sciwri15 #tinythrusters http://t.co/NRJ4uTywPA
Microtips in thrusters now .5 mm apart, want to get to 10 micrometers @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Nanomaterials in space - sounds like a #scifi movie title but really about #tinythrusters @PauloLozanoMIT #sciwri15
Ting Wu- "Can we rid our bodies of disease cells using UCEs?" #sciwri15, #dna
If I were still teaching, I'd be talking about this to all my classes. All levels of physics involved. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Can turn ind tips on/off so can direct thrust @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
2nd only to ~ "be prepared to wake up knowing you're wrong. Science is like that" as best line of #sciwri15 https://t.co/KkdM7kGLmk
"I had tears in my eyes when I saw this. When u work in science, u love your chromosomes!" TingWu #sciwri15 #scilove http://t.co/jUkv0g3TAz
Micro thrusters are being tested at @NASAglenn @PauloLozanoMIT #tinythrusters #sciwri15
.@PauloLozanoMIT: To make #tinythrusters better, they must get tinier, more powerful. Potential risk: toaster-in-bathtub issue. #sciwri15
Lozano: did the thruster tests discussed in his talk in August. Thruster systems now being tested at NASA Glenn. #sciwri15
Hey, that's in my town! I should go have a look. #tinythrusters #sciwri15 https://t.co/Y3rdZdsFmS
Lozano: did the thruster tests discussed in his talk in August. Thruster systems now being tested at NASA Glenn. #sciwri15
Exactly!This is what I love about cell & molbio. There's a whole other universe in every cell in bodies! #sciwri15 https://t.co/Zmt6YCoxkn
When micro looks macro... new imaging technique makes parts of chromosomes look like galaxies. #sciwri15 http://t.co/mB8wKAvYje
After much talk of mutation & evolution, @MIT's Wu shows 1 of most fascinating genomic studies is what DOESN'T evolve #whatsaUCE #SciWri15
Q: will these be affordable to nations without major space programs? Lozano: yes, that's the hope! #tinythrusters #sciwri15
#tinythrusters goal is to make satellites affordable for developing countries #sciwri15
For those in Dr. Ting Wu's #WhatsaUCE? talk at #sciwri15 right now. #radiation https://t.co/tjSKalemuN
Radiation is a real challenge on our #JourneyToMars. Find out how we plan to minimize the risks.
https://t.co/k9kKDEjPY0
Lozano: Using one of the Micro Electrospray Propulsion units sent to NASA Glenn, 3U CubeSat at 400km orbit could be sent to 800km. #sciwri15
Not mentioned by Lozano: this tech is being commercialized by Accion Systems; he’s on their advisory board http://t.co/u8Nob3Kf6A #sciwri15
@mbloudoff agreed!! Also love how she blended the science and her personal (and team) narrative! Captivating! #sciwri15
Lozano is from Mexico, and is interested in making space technology available to many nations, not just rich ones. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
Oops!! I've been using #WhatisaUCE -- hashtag should be #WhatsaUCE. #sciwri15
@AnjanetteRiley She's a fantastic orator! #sciwri15
Prof ting Wu @harvardmed "I have to tell you, you're going to see blobs (next pictures), but it is still very exciting" #sciwri15
Ting Wu's of @harvardmed fascinating research on potential of UCEs to prevent cancerous genome mutation #sciwri15 http://t.co/SS6R0ZhycT
#tinythrusters can have navigation - reentry to atmosphere to prevent #spacejunk default in system #sciwri15
@Paleophile UCE= ultra conserved elements (I only just googled this myself;) #sciwri15
Lozano does mention Accion later, founded by his students. “A startup: very strange in aerospace!” #sciwri15
Lozano's company affiliation is Accion (sp?), which is developing this product. #tinythrusters #sciwri15
I asked @eboyden3 what his brain lab looked like. He sent this pic! #sciwri15 #everymolecule https://t.co/Ed1qnZo0RU
.@cbquist Yup! Here is an expanded piece of brain in the left dish, and an unexpanded piece in the right dish. http://t.co/GPTjjj4iC6
Welcome to MIT! #fusion #plasma #science #sciwri15 @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) https://t.co/y5l0ht370C
Opening NASW up to anti-trust suit is unacceptable risk: What really happened w/ #sciwri15 fair contracts panel: http://t.co/kIxeReZGkX
Fascinating. So sorry, @amymaxmen! RT @sethmnookin: Opening NASW up to anti-trust suit: #sciwri15 contracts panel: http://t.co/1R9w1PXGJR
A salute to scientific notation, courtesy of the @MIT Greek system. #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/17xomsNAwC
Finally figured out the source of my deja vu: profile of Robert Langer I read in undergrad. http://t.co/gaa39nBB6x #sciwri15
With pitching, couldn't men just listen to women more? Why is on us to change? #SciWri15 #sciwriwomen
#sciwri15 Lunch with a Luminary Lawrence Susskind talks about #climate #adaptation http://t.co/XPJAXTlhEB
Sitting 1 foot away from Bob Langer at #sciwri15! Kinda like being backstage with Bono...
Lunch w Dina Katabi @mit who is using wifi like sonar to map wo touch #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting http://t.co/CgQeQa3Zz6
So frustrating. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of creating contracts that don't stink. #sciwri15 https://t.co/TmiNkZpZd7
Opening NASW up to anti-trust suit is unacceptable risk: What really happened w/ #sciwri15 fair contracts panel: http://t.co/kIxeReZGkX
Dina Katabi: such wifi sonar could be used w smart home tech to meas vital signs (ex elderly, babies cking for SIDS, sleep apnea) #sciwri15
Lawrence Susskind talks about @NOAA NERR sites! #sciwri15
#Climate #adaptation at a local level necessary - interview stakeholders as part of assessment #sciwri15
Dina Katabi: one device monitors up to 5-6 people in multiple rooms #sciwri15
#sciwri15 lots of scientists came to Bob Langer and told him they didn't believe his work. 'My career wasn't going really well'
Dina Katabi; wifi signal reflection can meas sm dist change when chest moves w breathing @ScienceWriting #sciwri15
Bob Langer at #sciwri15: failure, failure, failure, then: Judah Folkman. Then: studying angiogenesis to fight #Cancer. Lesson: keep at it!
Mildred Dresselhaus....asked us what WE want to hear about. Too sweet. #sciwri15 http://t.co/J50CkmNlTC
Super engaging & clear explanation of Bell's Inequality from @MITPSTS's David Kaiser #lunchwithaluminary #sciwri15 http://t.co/baIw0jQQUs
Dina Katabi: even more sensitive: can see sub mm movement of body jitter ea time heart beats (wow!) @ScienceWriting #sciwri15
Luminary lunch with Dina Katabi full of fascinating uses of wifi to monitor people's personal biology. #smarthome #sciwri15
Scientists: Support #SciComm research and get a blog post about your paper! Sounds like a win-win to me. #SciWri15 https://t.co/yPDBmAEqRq
I'll translate ANY science paper you want into a blog post, if you pledge $25 to my #scicomm research! https://t.co/vwpG9ST7ti @altmetric
Dina Katabi:every time your heart beats your skin vibrates. Wifi can pick it up. #sciwri15 #lunchwithaluminary
Can't believe I'm listening to a lecture by MIT legend Robert Langer in person. #SciWri15 #nanotech #drugdelivery
Robert Langer talks making a "pharmacy in a chip" #sciwri15
Learning about drug delivery microchips with Dr. Robert Langer #sciwri15
David Kaiser at MIT is explaining Bell's inequality over lunch with cookies and Downton Abbey. Awesome. #sciwri15
NASW wasn't kidding about lunch with a luminary: hearing from the legendary Robert Langer about intelligent drug delivery #sciwri15
Wifi monitoring of heart beat/breathing: could it have prevented the NYState prison break? #smartprison? #lunchwithaluminary #sciwri15
Langer at #sciwri15: Docs talk to med implants on radio Hz approved by FCC and FDA. Hackers? Langer sez hard enough getting implants to work
That is incredibly appropriate! @fedkukso #tinythrusters #sciwri15 https://t.co/46YGzbxuQJ
@DrMRFrancis he is from Ciudad Satélite (satellite city) México
Kaiser: One of my fav things about being a cosmologist - get to say things like "since the dawn of time" and really mean it. #sciwri15
Smarter methods of administering medicine could greatly reduce the rate of prescription drug abuse #sciwri15
MIT Plasma & Fusion Center is working toward fusion energy production. #mit #fusion #sciwri15 @… https://t.co/KpOE6IzvoL
Building collaboration doesn't happen naturally - need to work to bring different views together to come to consensus #sciwri15
Personal fertility control systems via long-term implant would keep women and families in developing countries safer #sciwri15
That's from National Writers Union. Unions are permitted to deal with labor issues. NASW is not a union. #sciwri15 https://t.co/TEBHJMfIxF
@virginiahughes @sethmnookin This, lawyers tell me, is the exact same idea. http://t.co/Ts39E3Teya
One project: birth control implant that could last 17 yrs. Woman could turn it on or off as needed. #sciwri15 #boblanger
MIT's Langer Lab working on a personalized fertility control system for women in Third World. Amazing. #SciWri15 #womenshealth #globalhealth
Larry Susskind talking about role-playing games as a means to build public readiness to talk about regional climate change. Yes!! #sciwri15
MIT is studying how to keep matter in its plasma state from flying apart to advance fusion energy research. #sciwri15 #mit #plamsafusiontour
Susskind: Role playing is a way to educate about different views and problem solve #seriousgame #climate #adaptation #sciwri15
Bob Langer talking about developing personal fertility control system for women in third world countries. Funded by Gates Fdtn. #sciwri15
MIT Plasma/Fusion Center: in terms of Joule/gram, fusion produces 20 million times as much energy as Twinkies! #sciwri15
„Most of the visible universe is composed of plasma“ #sciwri15 tour at MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Dina Katabi: how deal w multiple reflections? Divide space into buckets. #sciwri15 http://t.co/GdIT8Qm0cO
There was a session on ethics at #sciwri15? I should mention @spj_tweets Code of Ethics. http://t.co/cqRDOq6LQ8
Susskind: Decision makers listen when provided citizen collective risk concerns #sciwri15
.@FromTheLabBench @altmetric Amazing! All scientists would benefit from having their work translated for the public. #SciComm #SciWri15
Everyone's disappointed that the law is what it is. But that doesn't change the reality. #sciwri15 https://t.co/TEBHJMfIxF
@virginiahughes @sethmnookin This, lawyers tell me, is the exact same idea. http://t.co/Ts39E3Teya
I am currently assembling a BlockTogether list to identify and block trolls on the #sciwri15 hashtag.
Developing super long-acting drugs could be more important than finding new ones, says Langer. Adherence to meds is big problem. #SciWri15
Longer-acting pills new target for Langer + @gatesfoundation #sciwri15 #nanotech
Susskind: experiential and immersive learning best way for adults to learn #sciwri15
Langer lab is trying to make a longer lasting pill to solve the problems of lack of medical adherence. #sciwri15
Dina Katabi: augmented baby monitor w breathing and heartbeat monitor as a ck against SIDS #sciwri15
Susskind: Create safe space for people to talk about concerns and learn about climate science for region to make decisions #sciwri15
http://t.co/s2s5HcFLRJ to see examples of how water issues can be resolved #sciwri15
Checking out the tokamak at MIT's Plasma Science & Fusion Center at #sciwri15. I've lived a mile from here for 4yrs and have never seen it!
Larry Susskind says immersive games and experiences are the best kind of learning. @theNOVALabs does exactly that. Check it out! #sciwri15
A hula hoop in your tummy? Langer at #sciwri15: new drug delivery idea: polymer expands to hoop inside stomach, stays there & releases drug
Correction #sciwri15 this is the website mentioned by Susskind http://t.co/OHvVILcLo0
"I didn't know you couldn't do any of this, I hadn't read that stuff. So I did it anyway." Bob Langer creating injectable drugs #sciwri15
Adult learning works best when it's immersive and experiential.@lsusskind #sciwri15
Langer on release of drugs through polymers: "It's very winding & tortuous. It's kind of like driving a car through Boston". #sciwri15
Hearing from Robert Langer about if it's possible to make the effects of pills last longer and birth control implants last longer #sciwri15
I love how Robert Langer's storytelling includes failures on the way to success. "I found over 200 ways to get this to not work." #sciwri15
Forget clap on lights, Dina says wifi can monitor when you point at a device to turn it on or off #sciwri15 #lunchwithaluminary #smarthome
Bob Langer at MIT is improving patient compliance with self delivering smart drugs. #sciwri15 because he didn't give up :)
http://t.co/kWSwJJ5jeL Consensus Building Institute helps bring different sides together to make decisions #sciwri15
Super-Happy that all the stuff I learned on fibrous encapsulation & implants from my BioE class is helping me w/context of Langer #sciwri15
@Joe_DeSimone Having a great time listening to Bob Langer at MIT!! #sciwri15 Amazing projects!
Here is the story LA TImes story about Exxon Mobile: http://t.co/syMuPjj8Uf #sciwri15
"We shouldn't waste half the population when we need more scientists." -Mildred Dresselhaus on the need for more women in #STEM #sciwri15
How do you keep matter in plasma state avoiding to fly apart? #FusionEnergy #sciwri15
Via: @luis_quevedo http://t.co/dcu4reaSCe
I'm kinda surprised that patient safety didn't come up until the 4th question...Like that's pretty important w/longterm implants #sciwri15
Bob Langer using temp or fibreoptics to induce shape change in polymers. Loops that tie themselvs in stomach = long-lasting drugs. #sciwri15
Wifi monitoring could dramatically improve gaming. No need for camera, consider dodging bullets behind table #sciwri15 #lunchwithaluminary
Design a knot that ties itself or unties itself in your body. Polymers that expand in the stomach for slow release. #boblanger #sciwri15
Please don't swallow the prototypes, Bob Langer asks us as he passes around some props for us to look at #sciwri15
@ScienceEngage this has been tested on pigs with no adverse events #sciwri15
Kaiser says independent source in story on his work by Zeeya Merali @NatureNews was inspired to become a collaborator. #sciwri15
Audience gets to feel new polymers that might allow long acting oral drug delivery #sciwri15 #nanotech @MIT http://t.co/AB6BdBXcLJ
Dina Katabi says wifi monitoring of elderly could help combat high suicide rates in that popn #lunchwithaluminary #sciwri15 #stopsuicide
I have set up a preliminary block list for #sciwri15 trolls, which I will add to as they pop up. https://t.co/sZMoG4DcrK Please share!
He's really a great science communicator! #sciwri15 https://t.co/ciJvZzefGr
David Kaiser at MIT is explaining Bell's inequality over lunch with cookies and Downton Abbey. Awesome. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 https://t.co/l4VkHcMnTj
Prof. David Kaiser tells the story of the 19th century hunt for new elements on "The Mystery of Matter." http://t.co/KFsftWu35l @MIT_Physics
Langer: "You can have any kind of nose you want!" an upturned nose, a hook nose, whatever. #sciwri15
If you want me to add someone to the list, please ping me privately. No need to expose yourself to the trolls. #sciwri15
Bob Langer - future of plastic surgery, grow your own nose. Want a hook nose? Well, prob not, but you could have one. Love #sciwri15 humor
http://t.co/8gfYhAOzCT group may be the best social media platform to do collaborative work on things like #climate #adaptation #sciwri15
Langer made sure to tell us not to swallow the demo version of the pill he designed. Lol I know it's lunch but... #sciwri15 #funny
Robert Langer shows a biodegradable polymer suture that self-tightens in the body. Whaat?! #sciwri15 #tissueengineering
Dr. Dina Katabi doing amazing stuff with @EmeraldForHome - monitoring breathing/heartrate/movement with WiFi! #sciwri15
Apparently I'm hanging out with Martin Greenwald, namesake of the Greenwald density limit. Nbd. #sciwri15
How do you fit this star in this pill? The Rob Langer hopes this could change the way we take drugs. #sciwri15 http://t.co/oDT1R6H8iH
Scaffolds for neurons reminds me of this work on Schwann cells following blood vessels to fix nerves! http://t.co/0fWfgk4H4M #sciwri15
Robert Langer is a rock star!!! #sciwri15
#NSFfunded researcher Dr. David Kaiser & collabs are researching the existence of quantum entanglement. #sciwri15 https://t.co/c81kgMwPKb
History of Chemistry, PBS series- The Mystery of Matter! http://t.co/6ZaTl2j7at -MIT's David Kaiser a featured expert and narrator
Treating rats with stem cell scaffold restores some motor ability. Scaffold in humans can alleviate paralysis. Bob Langer at #sciwri15
220 MegaWatt cada vez q encienden el tokamak #fusionnuclear más que toda la ciudad de Cambridge #sciwri15 http://t.co/QxxukrWVGh
25 year old man who had been paralyzed had scaffolding implanted that had been design in Dr. Langer's lab #sciwri15 http://t.co/QUYQBM8szc
Take a tour inside the Alcator C-Mod: http://t.co/FKe9CmIr1f #sciwri15
Si a un grano de arroz le aplicáramos la potencia de 10.000 microondas... Eso es el tokamak #sciwri15
Now Bob Langer is acknowledging that there are lots of social & research issues embedded in these awesome bioengineering plans. #sciwri15 <3
I'm so glad Bob Langer chose not to join Exxon to improve some oil process by 0.1% and chose instead to go after healing 100% #sciwri15
#sciwri15 fantastic talk by Bob Langer. From fundamental research all the way to human clinical trials on the spinal scaffolds.
Students at #sciwri15: NASW travel fellowships, mentoring program, more for AAAS available; apply by 12/1: http://t.co/VlwDb66xmv
Dr. Kaiser's @NSF_MPS-funded INSPIRE award, "Testing Bell's Inequality with Astrophysical Observations": http://t.co/7lGIOQO0mY #sciwri15
"I kept trying. I believed in what I did, I believed the science was right. So I kept trying." Good inspiration from Bob Langer. #sciwri15
Astounded by potential applications of wifi monitoring: fall prevention, search and rescue, gaming #sciwri15 #lunchwithaluminary #dinakatabi
Part of the #sciwri15 Plasma & Fusion Center tour group! Hard hats required :) #mit http://t.co/BaNVPz7pMC
Audience Q: Why is the public so fascinated with quantum physics? Kaiser: It's the weirdness per square inch factor! #sciwri15
Checking out fusion-reactor melt damage to molybdenum tiles. Just a normal Sunday afternoon. #sciwri15 http://t.co/AMzYWhyEwj
@MIT David Kaiser on the public's fascination with quantum mechanics: "it's full of insults to our intuition." #sciwri15
Este polímero lleva la medicina de varios días y se toma en solo una pastilla: un invento de Robert Langer #sciwri15 http://t.co/6vDIcOYJNg
"One of my favorite things about being a cosmologist is you can say things like 'the beginning of time' & really mean it." Kaiser #sciwri15
1/2 "Some disputes are abt interests, some abt values. When it's about interests you can make trades, when it's values you can't." #sciwri15
Mildred Dresselhaus on resiliency: "I was interested in studying it myself, and if you didn't want to join me, too bad for you." #sciwri15
Some disputes are about interests and some are about values. In the 1st, you can trade. 2nd you can't. @lsusskind at #sciwri15
Este es el tamaño de la puerta (y su pestillo) de seguridad del #tokamak, 100 toneladas #sciwri15 #fusionnuclear http://t.co/42NdQ8wqwB
.@DrMRFrancis @_klburke And I've got a public Twitter list of attendees. :-) #sciwri15
2/2 "The difficulty is when what looks like an interests dispute is really a values dispute." -Lawrence Susskind #sciwri15
"Quantum theory is weird, strange, beautiful, and hard." - Dr. David Kaiser #sciwri15
@Ferretgrove @craig_mcfarlane She is on the #sciwri15 troll list. Looks like I'm in good company 😆
Having a blast at #sciwri15! Sessions on topics from genetics to fact-checking... and the food's pretty good too.
Susskind: you can resolve interest-based disputes; you can only reconcile values-based disputes. #sciwri15
Greeted by AT-ATs upon landing in Boston for #sciwri15 #latergram #starwars @ Boston Logan… https://t.co/QkTWJL8BHV
Sage advice from our tour guide Ted: "Don't push any buttons or touch any wires" @ MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center #sciwri15
Kaiser worked with his young daughter to craft a Bell's inequality metaphor - she suggested the chocolate chip cookies! #sciwri15
Our tour guide, Ted, has a really dry sense of humor. Here he is in front of the tokamak. #sciwri15 http://t.co/tWRA84R1FV
LillianHwang : Greeted by AT-ATs upon landing in Boston for #sciwri15 #latergram #starwars @ Boston Logan… … http://t.co/Yp64zxpswX)
Greeted by AT-ATs upon landing in Boston for #sciwri15 #latergram #starwars @ Boston Logan… https://t.co/QkTWJL8BHV
Lawrence Susskind: we can resolve interest-based disputes; best we can achieve in value-based disputes is reconciliation #sciwri15
Wish I were at #sciwri15 -- grateful to be able to follow the sessions via livetweet. #NextBestThingToBeingThere
Q: why is #quantum physics such a compelling topic for the public? A: David Kaiser invokes "the weirdness-per-square-inch factor" #sciwri15
Q:Will this expanding pill hurt in your stomach? Langer: "So far we've had no complaints from the pigs." #sciwri15
A palpable sense of excitement about #Pluto just from following along with the #sciwri15 tweets.
Bob Langer of MIT had his 1st 9 grants rejected in 1970s. New research field didn't fit w/in established disciplines. #inspiring #sciwri15
Not sure I want to eat this. But at #sciwri15 Bob Langer sez it may help folks with #malaria http://t.co/HpjV5RQ4uY
„The rest of Cambridge doesn’t even know that there’s something hotter than the sun on their block“ - guide on #sciwri15 fusion center tour
For some reason I'm tickled to see George Church just chilling on the lawn outside one of the #sciwri15 venues.
We all want to be @laurahelmuth when we grow up, decided @DrMRFrancis @couchcs @RA_Becks @schwartz_sarahL @ZachZorich #sciwri15
Tens of drugs on implantable chip = bringing the lab into the patient in future of translational med. - Bob Langer #sciwri15
So incredibly honored to accept the #sciwri15 reporting award. What a great community of people we have. https://t.co/1CjIpP9o2W
And this guy - he's not so bad. SO PROUD OF YOU @erikvance. #sciwri15 http://t.co/WhQL1X69xh
Bummed I'm so far down on the waiting list for Tuesday's #sciwri15 @MBLScience tour. Really wanted to visit. :-/ @NeilShubin
ADX: Advanced Divertor Experiment @ MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/V1xFhSdKzz
Susskind: #Alaska needs to have regional "dividing seminars" to problem solve #climate change #sciwri15 https://t.co/TFJGKBHstD
Estas cintas mínimas (con núcleos de una micra) han revolucionado la superconducción y la #fusionnuclear #sciwri15 http://t.co/ujGj4NAltQ
"Fusion energy is cleaner, safer and more sustainable" than fission reactors. #sciwri15
Breakthrough way of administering long term medicine safely. Swallow the pill to releases the dispenser #sciwri15 http://t.co/1ZKeND7rcN
Had a blast doing the Pluto Salute w @AlanStern & @EHorizonMag at #sciwri15! Thanks for coming to talk to us, Alan! http://t.co/s3xGlXRFmU
Enjoyed lunch with a luminary! Dina Katabi - how #interdisciplinary research enables radio signals to detect human motion #sciwri15, #mit
Sadly this tokamak at MIT is shutting down in the spring, mostly bc of budget. Not clear what future of fusion in US is. #sciwri15
'El atractivo de la fusión es inversamente proporcional al número de PhDs necesario para hacerla funcionar' #sciwri15 #fusionnuclear
I'm fascinated by developments at #sciwri15 #nasw2015 re contract issues for writers.
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Tenemos que hacer de la #fusiónnuclear algo práctico AHORA (x ej fuentes de neutrones) y no esperar 30 años de nuevo #sciwri15
Listening to string version of "Shut up & dance w me" sitting outside rehearsal room & transcribing morning interview #comscicon #sciwri15
A day of hard science/medical lectures at MIT. #SciWri15 @ Kresge Auditorium https://t.co/9biWvnNcLG
Today I toured the MIT Plasma Sci & Fusion Center #sciwri15 #controlroom https://t.co/B6lEF9l539
lunch w/Dina Katabi of @MIT_CSAIL. Heard about using wireless tech to track heartbeat, breathing, movement, falls etc w/o contact. #sciwri15
@juliebastuk: Lesson repeated several times by Mildred Dresselhaus: Have a backup plan. #sciwri15
Main auditorium of #sciwri15 is super freezing! Luckily for me most of the talks I want to see are in the *other* auditorium #AlwaysCold
Happy to meet #sherpie @chelswhyte & hang w/ @kmcwalsh --even if she is a @NYRangers fan #sciwri15 #cbj http://t.co/mekuvXO1UN
Is the temp in the hall some sort of experiment by @mitmeche or @MIT_CEE? And if so, can i be in the control group please? #sciwri15
Ooh, our next speaker has TWO Twitter handles! @Jo_Microbe (microbes) & @Jo44 (gov). #sciwri15 Patrusky Lecture FTW. http://t.co/WIL0DnxsyR
#sciwri15 I had a great time learning about Dina Katabi's work on new uses for wireless by using to monitor motion, heart rate,and breathing
Oh, you have GOT to see the pic of @POTUS on @Jo44 Twitter home page. Seriously. #sciwri15
2015 is the International Year of Soils...who knew?! #sciwri15
A brilliant hour with 85yo MIT physicist Mildred Dresselhaus at #sciwri15, who spoke on carbon, nano & persistence. http://t.co/U9ZF3SFEoG
Jo Handelsman talking abt the Earth's micro biome #sciwri15
Today's #Patrusky Lecture is by @whitehouseostp's Jo Handlesman. A previous speaker was my PhD advisor @drdonjohanson! #sciwri15
#amazingface #sciwri15 https://t.co/xh7Sr820tu
Oh, you have GOT to see the pic of @POTUS on @Jo44 Twitter home page. Seriously. #sciwri15
Apparently 2015 is the Int'l Year of Soils. My kids will happy to know that while they're playing in the dirt. #sciwri15
Next up at #sciwri15: @Jo44, @WhiteHouseOSTP to talk about Earth's microbiomes http://t.co/gR62iWrFyN
Thrilled to hear @Jo44 speak about microbiomes. #sciwri15
Ready to nerd out about the Earth's microbiome at #sciwri15 with @Jo44
Listening to Jo Handelsman from the @whitehouseostp discussing the earth's microbiomes. #sciwri15
Today, @whitehouseostp's Dr. Jo Handelsman is discussing "The Earth's Microbiomes: Opportunities for Research and Policy" at #sciwri15.
Trolls getting in the way of enjoying your #sciwri15 Twitter feed? Here's an easy fix. Thanks, @DrMRFrancis https://t.co/z5cInbZswx
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Protists get bonus points from @Jo44 for being particularly pretty. #prettygoodlookingmicrobes #sciwri15
Jo Handelsman (@Jo44): protists are particularly gorgeous, but the truly wonderful microbes are the prokaryotes #sciwri15
Bacteria have suffered. Be sympathetic. #sciwri15
"The truly wonderful microbes are prokaryotes." After talking fungi all weekend, that hurts me a little! #sciwri15
.@Jo44 giving microbes their due respect. #microbesrule #sciwri15
Jo Handelsman (@Jo44): microbes rule! #sciwri15 #truefact
Why don't microbes get much respect even though they rule the world? @Jo44 #sciwri15 #microbiome #microbesrule
"Microbes rule! And that's an absolute truth" #sciwri15
One of the reasons I love what I do: I get to visit fusion reactors. #scicomm #sciwri15 @… https://t.co/3B5aPRxXq3
.@Jo44: "Microbes rule!" So why do we view them negatively? #sciwri15
Patrusky lecture featuring Jo Handelsman -- on the microbiome #sciwri15
"Microbes rule!" @Jo44 #sciwri15
The world does not like microorganisms. @jo_OSTP says they rule. Advocate for microbe love? #sciwri15
Microbes rule! @Jo44 #sciwri15
@jo44 Who run the world? Microbes. #sciwri15
FYI, #sciwri15 - Jo_OSTP is NOT the Twitter handle for Dr. Handelsman. #Patrusky @ScienceWriting @ScienceWriters
Microbes rule! No function on earth isn't influence by microbes. #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: "Microbes rule. Ppl always laugh when I say that, but it's true." #sciwri15
"Microbes rule." - life philosophies from @Jo44 #sciwri15
For centuries, pathogenic microbes were the only microbes we knew. But I can kind of understand still holding a grudge. #sciwri15
Disease microbes are like the comments section: generally pretty negative, don't really represent the true scope of the issue #sciwri15
"#Microbes rule! That's the absolute truth." @Jo_OSTP
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“Microbes rule” says Jo Handelsman @Jo_OSTP: they’re under appreciated but essential to life and planet earth #sciwri15
As seen in the MIT plasma center control room. #nerdhumor #sciwri15 @ Massachusetts Institute of… https://t.co/sHfPJ9k3uc
Widespread death and damage will have that effect. #sciwri15 https://t.co/2b13S1Ifbo
For centuries, pathogenic microbes were the only microbes we knew. But I can kind of understand still holding a grudge. #sciwri15
The potato-phytophthora relationship makes potato farming very chemical-intensive even today. It's still out there #sciwri15
Only about 80 species of bacteria cause disease. #sciwri15 @Jo44
@jo-OSTP at #sciwri15: Microbes rule! (But maybe not this one.) (Black plague) http://t.co/mhGF8h1dro
"Microbes rule," literally, says Jo Handelsman (@Jo44) of @whitehouseostp at #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/lrRmzFdF1C
#sciwri15 Mark Twain wrote a manuscript on microbes.... who knew!
Two-word theme for @Jo44's #PatruskyLecture at #sciwri15 about the #microbiome: "Microbes rule!"
Mark Twain wrote an unpublished story about microbes, in the first person. Wow. #sciwri15
.@Jo44: Mark Twain wrote an unpublished novel, "My 3000 Years with the Microbes" #sciwri15
TIL that Mark Twain wrote about a fantasy life as a microbe! Courtesy of Jo Handlesman. #sciwri15
Where can I get a copy of Mark Twain's "My 3000 Years with the Microbes"??! #sciwri15
Mark Twain wrote about microbes in "My 3000 Years with the Microbes." Gotta love literary & scientific connections! #sciwri15
I thought the fungus phytopthora caused the potato famine? #sciwri15
Little known fact, mark twain wrote an unpublished no el@from the perspective of a microbe. "My 3000 years as a microbe." #sciwri15
Mark Twain in the early 1900s on the amazing heroes that are microbes. Lit meets science. Thanks @Jo44 #sciwri15 http://t.co/Tr5dTauzg1
"My 3000 years with the microbes" by Mark Twain. Next on my reading list #sciwri15 #microbiome https://t.co/AsDDk437SS
#sciwri15 Mark Twain wrote a manuscript on microbes.... who knew!
¿Podemos llamar a Mark Twain un Science Writer?
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.@Jo_Microbe: Mark Twain called the microbe the "most valuable citizen" in buried ms "My 3000 yrs w/ the Microbes" #sciwri15
Mark Twain escribió una novela desde el punto de vista de un microorganismo [no publicada] #sciwri15 ‘My 3000 years with microorganisms'
Unpublished manuscript by Mark Twain explains how fundamental Earth microbes are to life as we know it. Mark Twain, science writer #sciwri15
Mark Twains unpublished work written from the perspective of a microbe via @Jo_Microbe @Jo44 #sciwri15
I need to read this!!! #sciwri15 Mark Twain writes from the perspective of a microbe! @Jo44 #nerdgasm http://t.co/1aIioGTRGj
Jo Handelsman (@Jo44): mark twain (!!) wrote about the life of microbes, "the most valuable citizen of the earth" #sciwri15
@whitehouseostp Handelsman: cultural shift is happening in terms of how people think about microbes. Yes! #sciwri15 https://t.co/lIgSv3xKvM
Today, @whitehouseostp's Dr. Jo Handelsman is discussing "The Earth's Microbiomes: Opportunities for Research and Policy" at #sciwri15.
90 percent of cells in human body are microbial. #sciwri15
Mark Twain wrote part of a book about microbes. You learn something new everyday. #sciwri15 #ToRead
twain: "the most valuable citizen of the earth was the microbe" #sciwri15
Mark Twain says microbes are amazing and imagined life as one in the first person. #sciwri15 http://t.co/KeW2E4rpYH
Mark Twain wrote in early 20th c that microbes saved humans from destruction -- Jo Handelman @jo_OSTP #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: "We are only 10% human." Rest is microbes. Who's calling the shots? #sciwri15
Historic view of microorganisms=pathogenic and simple. Evolving view=beneficial and complex. #microbiome #SciWri15
Can't find the link now, but hasn't someone questioned the 90% / 10% stat on microbes vs. human cells? #sciwri15 #factcheck
This always blows my mind: Microbes are 90% of the cells in the human body. Only 10% human. Who's in charge? @Jo44 #sciwri15 #microbiome
Mark Twain knew ubiquity and value of microbes - @jo44. View Twain as a science writer? #sciwri15
"Microbes comprise 90% of the cells in the human body -- we are only 10% human." -- @Jo44 #sciwri15
I am not a human being; mostly microbes. #sciwri15
@Jo44: microbes make vitamin K in our gut and prevent us from bleeding to death #sciwri15
Humans are 90 % microbial cells, 10 % human...who's calling the shots? #sciwri15 #bugsrule
Jo Handelsman: Micirobes comprise 90 percent of the cells in the human body - we are only 10 percent human. #sciwri15
paging @carlzimmer @edyong209 for a #microbiome #factcheck #sciwri15 https://t.co/x9LBV0kaZP
Can't find the link now, but hasn't someone questioned the 90% / 10% stat on microbes vs. human cells? #sciwri15 #factcheck
Great photo! http://t.co/nlJ8a5J5QS MT @laurahelmuth: Oh, you have GOT to see the pic of @POTUS on @Jo44 Twitter page. Seriously. #sciwri15
.@Jo44: We are 90% microbes, 10% human. Curious? @NPR story here: http://t.co/48UQJIj3SC #sciwri15
Microbes comprise 90% of cells in human body. "We are only 10% human." Handelman @jo_OSTP #sciwri15
In #microbiome talk, @jo44 points to amazing manuscript by Mark Twain, written from microbe's perspective: https://t.co/EmZkMWmMxF #sciwri15
Learning about microbes with Dr. Jo Handelsman. For instance: Microbes comprise 90% of the cells in the human body. #sciwri15
Identity crisis for humans? we’re 90% microbes. They produce vitamins, extract energy, help immune system @Jo_OSTP #sciwri15
Mark Twain was a science writer!? #sciwri15 here is an excerpt from his unfinished autobiography of a microbe http://t.co/mOvunsrTRV
@SnarkyScientist We have space at the party for those on waitlist before today. Stand by for word on those who joined today. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 Microbes are instrumental in all processes in us... does that we are all controlled by Yeerks after all?! http://t.co/exrV9Op4fl
Other thing is that human cells are so much bigger than bacterial cells that we're mostly human by mass. #sciwri15 https://t.co/uH3gyb3YIB
Can't find the link now, but hasn't someone questioned the 90% / 10% stat on microbes vs. human cells? #sciwri15 #factcheck
.@CatalyticRxn @laurahelmuth "Mostly human by mass" would be an awesome t-shirt. #sciwri15
Microbes first good PR didn't come until the early 20thbcentury and the production of antibiotics. #sciwri15
I've always loved microorganisms! Happy cultural perceptions are shifting positively. Totally geeking out here #microbesrule #sciwri15
Funny enough, I once wrote a story about collegiate quidditch for @cenmag . #sciwri15 http://t.co/zEtnNbZnCE
til: penicillin was once so precious that urine from patient was collected, penicillin isolated, re-used in patient. #microbiome #sciwri15
TIL Mary Hunt discovered strain of Penicillium that produced high conc of antibiotic. She found it on a melon #sciwri15
According to @Jo_Microbe although Fleming ID'd penicillium the person who found the key producing strain on a melon was Mary Hunt #sciwri15
#sciwri15 Mary Hunt changed the medical outcome of the war during WW2
@Jo44 Penicillin was so precious it used to be recycled and re-administered by purifying the urine of patients #dedication #sciwri15
Moldy Mary: new life hero. #microbiome #sciwri15
Ww2 first war where people died more of wounds than infections #SciWri15
@Jo44: WW2 was 1st war that more people died of gunshots over infection b/c antibiotic discovery #sciwri15
Mary Hunt found the mold strain that could produce abundant penicillin on a cantaloupe melon 2/2 #sciwri15
Check out the MIT (& DOE-supported) Alcator C-Mod tokamak fusion reactor, next to postdoc Ted Golfinopoulos #sciwri15 http://t.co/2hRr2HNahN
.@Jo_Microbe: WWII 1st war when those that died from weapons > those who died from infections. #sciwri15
@laurahelmuth @DrMRFrancis Yeah. I think I remember hearing that, but I don't remember what the counter-statistic was. :-/ #sciwri15
Ken Raper asked ppl to find mouldy food in WWII. Mouldy Mary obliged with cantaloupe giving penicillin strain that saved troops. #sciwri15
Learning about Moldy Mary Hunt and Dr. Ken Raper and their contributions to penicillin treatments #sciwri15 http://t.co/A8n6ZMMzK1
Mary Hunt forever known about microbiologists as "Moldy Mary" for discovering the mold that could pump out penicillin. On a melon. #sciwri15
@MoranWriter just learned how Moldy Mary's melon made rockin' penicillin and changed WWII at #sciwri15
"If all of the cells in your body could vote, the human cells would lose ten to one every time." #sciwri15
Learning about "Moldy Mary" leading to WWII troops having enough penicillin at the Patrusky Lecture. #sciwri15 #casw #MIT #microbes
Used her melon for the public good? #moldymary #sciwri15 #microbiome https://t.co/KHMfmh9YRM
Mary Hunt forever known about microbiologists as "Moldy Mary" for discovering the mold that could pump out penicillin. On a melon. #sciwri15
For her efforts, Mary Hunt got the moniker of Moldy Mary. Can't see that happening to a guy. #womeninscience #sciwri15 @ScienceWriting
Jo Handelsman: microbes 90% of cells in our body. We are 10% human! #sciwri15
Can we start a petition for #prokaryotic #emoji 😁?? #sciwri15 #microbesrule
PR for microbes turned positive with the discovery of antibiotics. Also with use in vaccines. Handelsman @jo_OSTP #sciwri15
Much less than 1% of all microorganisms can be grown in standard laboratory cultures. Necessitated a revolution in lab techniques #sciwri15
El estrellato del periodismo científico de EEUU está en el auditorio Kresge de MIT en este momento. #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: 2nd 1/2 of 20th cent was a very reductionist time. Ppl didn't want to think about complexity. #sciwri15
Citizen science contributed to discovery of mold that could produce abundant penicillin #sciwri15 #citizenscience
Handelsman: 2nd half of 20th century was a "very reductive period" for biology. So true. Hard to shake public perception of that. #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: H. pylori heralded in the recognition of unculturable microbial world. #soundthetrumpets #sciwri15
Most microbes don't grow under standard culturing conditions, @Jo44 #microbiome talk at #sciwri15
Scientists drank H. pylori to show microbe connection to ulcers. Now that's some dedication! #sciwri15
Earlier #sciwri15 tweets, spell it Jo Handelsman jo_OSTP.
Hey @seefoodwrite and @Gastropodcast - you should meet up at #sciwri15 - similar interests!
Talk about commitment to your science. Scientists who discovered the microbe responsible for peptic ulcers drank it as proof. #sciwri15
2 scientists who found bacteria caused ulcers drank the bacteria solution to demonstrate it. #commitment #microbiome #sciwri15 #ouch
Thank you for finding this! @Jo_Microbe talk is fantastic, but 90/10 percent stat not solid. #sciwri15 #factcheck https://t.co/tsoIsvAHO7
.@laurahelmuth yes! by @petersm_th "The oft-cited 10-to-1 figure is almost certainly inaccurate." https://t.co/JavAERV1Qe
What came w/ ulcer-microbe connection: We've been microbial creatures living in a largely unculturable microbial world #microbiome #sciwri15
Firmaba ahora mismo volver a la universidad por unos años: qué y cuánto placer y gozo intelectual [como diría Wagensberg] #sciwri15
Ability to make abundant penicillin came too late for my aunt who died of strep @ 18 mos. This is not ancient history #sciwri15
What are we not thinking about because we can't culture it in our Petri dishes?-@Jo_Microbe @Jo44 @ScienceWriting #sciwri15
Ah, H pilori, our little ulcer friend. But antibio trtmt, bit of a shotgun approach? Mass wipeout of friendlies too! #sciwri15
#sciwri15 For a century microbes studied in cell cultures. But most microbes can't be grown in cultures ...
How do you prove bacteria cause ulcers? Drink a vial of them and get an ulcer. Science made simple. #sciwri15 http://t.co/uCZYoU62MW
Culturing gets hold of <0.1% of microbes in some environments - @Jo44 Just think about that for a sec. #sciwri15
.@TerriCamesano Any insight on this microbe question? https://t.co/vs7pKmoIQa #sciwri15
This always blows my mind: Microbes are 90% of the cells in the human body. Only 10% human. Who's in charge? @Jo44 #sciwri15 #microbiome
Culturing captures <0.1% of microbes in some environments. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 including stomach bug h pylori, much studied @vbi_vt
"There was far more diversity than we ever imagined in the microbial world" @Jo44 on Earth's microbiomes / history of the science. #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: DNA-based methods enabled culture-independent study of life. So, now we have 3 domains of life. #sciwri15
Vast majority of life is microbial. They do dominate and they do rule says @Jo44 @Jo_Microbe #sciwri15
Multicellular organisms couldn't survive without microbes. #sciwri15
Ulcers provided first breakthrough to revealing the existence of unculturable microbial world. Jo Handelsman @Jo_OSTP, #sciwri15
No real evolutionary basis for 5 kingdoms -- phylogenetic life really prokaryote, archaea, eucaryota. #microbiome #sciwri15
When Jo Handelsman (@jo44) of White House OSTP was in grad school in 80s only a few thousand known species of microbe #sciwri15 #microbiome
Tiny invisible bosses http://t.co/7iviKrxYfn Love how @Jo44 is explaining scale #sciwri15 I tried same thing in blog
Enjoying @Jo_Microbe’s talk on microbial diversity. 1 note: Tree of life probably looks a bit weirder: #sciwri15 http://t.co/2k25Mb2ugh
Loving the tweets coming out of #sciwri15!
Most microorganisms don't grow in standard culture environment, maybe < 0.1% "the invisible unculturable microbial world" @Jo44 #sciwri15
Jo Handelsman: Vast majority of life microbial. Humans - 10% human and 90% microbial-what really defines what it is to be human? #sciwri15
today, scientists think there are probably millions of species of microbes, says @Jo44 #sciwri15 #microbiome
100 billones de bacterias pueblan tu cuerpo ¿qué hacen allí? pues sabemos bien poco… #sciwri15 #microbiome
@JRMorber Oh! Is that what all the whooping & hollering outside the lecture hall is all about? (Not loud but audible) #sciwri15
@Jo_Microbe What are 100 trillion bacteria doing in the human microbiome? #sciwri15
Fun fact: there are more bacteria in a single human body than stars in the Milky Way galaxy #sciwri15 @Jo_Microbe
Microbiome: microorganisms associated with a habitat #sciwri15
Based on architecture I thought: Harvard is Hogwarts. Based on Quad Quidditch: MIT is #sciwri15 http://t.co/qs750o22AG
.@Jo_Microbe: Cancer, asthma, diabetes, & autism all have links (tho not solely causative) to microbiome. #sciwri15
Handelsman: "Most diseases are multi-factorial." And the microbiome is almost always *a* factor. (Autism =/= asthma, though) #sciwri15
For microbes that can't be cultured, transfer them to another species, like germ-free mice. @Jo44 at #sciwri15 #microbiome
For record, I've asked Sarkis Mazimanian to talk to me multiple times. He's never answered my emails. #sciwri15 #neurodiverseSTEM
Happy to be a recent "evolutionary invention" & a home to 100 trillion bacteria: aka human microbiome @Jo44 #sciwri15
Metagenomics: study of the dna extracted from the organisms in the microbiome - gold! Much broader view than cell culture #sciwri15
Based on photo, one side effect of germ-free mouse inoculated with human microbes is that the mouse can play banjo. #sciwri15 #microbiome
Note to other SciWriters: Please say "autism model mice" not "autistic mice" or "autistic behavior"...Autism is a people thing. #sciwri15
WashUStLouis researchers once inflicted obesity on a mouse by transplanting a human microbiome. #sciwri15
Here’s the Mazmanian paper on autism-model mice & microbiome http://t.co/QXl6xszk0e (NB: Mice do not have autism) #sciwri15
Dr. Handelsman references #microbiome work by Dr. Jeff Gordon + collabs. Read about the @NSF award here: http://t.co/8aqTwYU1mD #sciwri15
Power of microbes: add bacteroides fragilis, leaky gut seals up. Wow. #sciwri15
En #sciwri15 científica @Jo44 cuenta las novedades sobre los miles de millones de microbios que conviven en el interior de nuestro cuerpo
cc @Mcriverame MT @carlzimmer: Enjoying @Jo_Microbe’s talk… 1 note: Tree of life looks a bit weirder: #sciwri15 http://t.co/qmHwKecWgQ
Remember the ulcer thing? We did the same to mice with obesity and autism by giving them human microbes. #sciwri15 http://t.co/Y8ZBgEpKQL
"...at least in a mouse model." #sciwri15
Cómo presentar historias sin ser un peñazo… #sciwri15 https://t.co/SYTj3MzfkH
How to pitch reporters without being annoying: A top 10 (OK, top 20) list http://t.co/XIzocb3U2Y My #sciwri15 slides
Jo Handelsman of OSTP: There are about 500 species of bacteria in your colon. (Get used to it.) #microbiome #sciwri15
And now: Reloaded - Seizure of Power (Resident Evil) https://t.co/eNYaUCfaly #sciwri15
Are crops going to be treated with probiotics in the future? #sciwri15
Scientists show link between #autism and leaky gut syndrome, making an interesting connection between behavior and microorganism! #sciwri15
The first science writer on the #microbiome was Mark Twain, says @whitehouseostp's Jo Handelsman: http://t.co/tSSvnUQ9Vq #sciwri15
& others made Arabidopsis plants drought-tolerant by treating them with root bacteria (Pseudomonas chlororaphis o6) #sciwri15
Biggest event in Earth's history: Cyanobacteria makes oxygen. Thanks, Cyanobacteria! #sciwri15 #microbiome
Current state: mm. Sun. Wish I could hear cool microbione lecture out here but this is too delicious. #sciwri15 http://t.co/7AWFQJufTU
El mundo es microbio: Tal vez el único modelo cosmológico razonable no se el antrópico sino el microbiótico #microbiome #sciwri15
What's nerdier than a gathering of 800 science writers? The students playing quidditch on the lawn outside #sciwri15, perhaps?
One of the themes of my #sciwri15, it turns out, is 'really small organisms': Prochlorococcus & now @Jo44 talk on microbiome
#sciwri15 friends, come grab your @CapSciComm chili pepper pins at the Kresge swag table! #keepsciencespicy http://t.co/xdTefM61Km
Drought tolerance in plants influenced some by microbes, based on Arabidopsis experiments says @Jo44 #sciwri15
Listening to @Jo44 speak makes me think of this fun piece by @DamnRebelBitch - 11 Reasons to Love Microbes http://t.co/DmsMFcQSCe #sciwri15
#NSFfunded People may inherit ‘gut’ bacteria that cause Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis (Dec, 2014): http://t.co/ofQUFBnkIT #sciwri15
Basically microbes do all the things - and are awesome #sciwri15 #microbesrule @Jo_Microbe
No somos sino la evanescente consciencia de la vida microbiana terrestre #microbiome #sciwri15
@JRMorber @Gastropodcast Thanks for the connect, Jenny! Cynthia/Nicola, would love to correspond. Here at #sciwri15 today.
@laurenkwolf @DrMRFrancis #scicomm #sciwri15 looks like something out of a Rod Serling nightmare. 😉😶
Factoid: Cyanobacteria in ocean trap 50 percent of greenhouse carbon #sciwri15
.@Jo44: Global cow population has same greenhouse gas impact as all cars. #sciwri15
Esto resume muy bien la charla de @Jo_Microbe #sciwri15 https://t.co/8wgrGLdu6F
Basically microbes do all the things - and are awesome #sciwri15 #microbesrule @Jo_Microbe
Methane produced by Archaea in cows ==20+x more powerful GHG than CO2. Feeling slightly guilty abt roast beef s/wich lunch. #sciwri15
Alternative energy sources: wind, solar, biodiesel ... microbes! @Jo44 describing research on harnessing power of microbiome. #sciwri15
Nice to be in a room where the phrases "of course" and "obviously" can be used in expos of global warming. *coughUSpoliticscough* #sciwri15
#NSFfunded Mapping the Healthy Human Microbiome (2012) http://t.co/R51cFn46Mo via @broadinstitute #sciwri15
#Biosphere experiment failed because they forgot microorganisms #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe uses Biosphere2 as an example of consequences of ignoring microbes. #sciwri15
How bacteria ruined Biosphere 2 http://t.co/qhQYaozMCC #sciwri15
Pseudomonas chlororaphis can increase drought tolerance in plants. http://t.co/dV7LxeEL3N #cadrought #sciwri15 #patruskylecture
Eliminating cows, cars would have roughly equal effects on greenhouse gas emissions, says @Jo44. (How about both?) #sciwri15
If we get all the cars off the road, due to methane production, we'd still see the same rate of climate change--Dr. Handelsman
#sciwri15
Overlooking microbes in soil stymied Biosphere 2 efforts to create self-sustaining module. Oops. #sciwri15
.@Jo44: Biosphere 2 failed because they forgot to take into account soil microbes. #sciwri15 http://t.co/jOA6LgXeHK
What's Next for the #Microbiome? via @WhiteHouse #blog https://t.co/ZfB1jH6KPO #sciwri15
Very cool. Arizona algae featured in @Jo44's presentation on Earth's microbiome. #sciwri15 http://t.co/hqUEGrqWy1
Handelsman: One reason Biosphere2 failed? Organizers ignored the soil microbes. Tsk. #sciwri15 #microbiome
Microbes matter. RT@gracechua: Overlooking microbes in soil stymied Biosphere 2 efforts to create self-sustaining module. Oops. #sciwri15
So, policy implications: if microbiomes so impt, what research needs to be supported? @Jo44 weighs in at #sciwri15
@bmahersciwriter I mean, it's definitely interesting that the microbiome affected their marble-burying but not conclusive. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 folks: my new @seefoodwrite cards are at Kresge swag table! T'is my new food/longform writing portfolio. http://t.co/1VcurrGqFD
Ever wonder what happens to plasma when you put a powerful magnet nearby? Well, now you know. #sciwri15 #oooplasma http://t.co/QIBoIaEzvw
.@whitehouseostp formed a Multi-Agency #Microbiome Fast-Track Action Cmte (FTAC) & sent out a request for info from public, et al. #sciwri15
What is a healthy microbiome? We need to know, for us, other organisms and whole ecosystems. #sciwri15
@MoranWriter asks @Jo44 at #sciwri15: what happens when germ-free human eats mouse microbiome? Less talking, more squeaking? any volunteers?
Hope @Jo44 mentions #citizenscience #microbiome #sciwri15 Models and data from patients
.@whitehouseostp identified emerging themes in the information they obtained from the RFI regarding research, tools, & technology. #sciwri15
How do you know whether a change is a good change or a bad change in a microbiome? @Jo44 on emerging themes for research. #sciwri15
Would love to see this session! Was it filmed? This guy looks so engaging! #sciwri15 https://t.co/jxL6KYHpdI
.@AlanStern shows former best picture of Pluto (before the fly-by) at #sciwri15 http://t.co/K29wQj8DDN
Liked @Jo44's microbiome #sciwri15 talk? Come see The Secret World Inside You at @AMNH next month: http://t.co/cvm8go7MFa
Changing a microbiome in a particular way is absolutely essential...but nobody has a clue how to do it. @Jo44 at #sciwri15
.@Jo_Microbe: FTAC report on microbiome is forthcoming. Stay tuned! #sciwri15
FTAC has been asked to put together a report inc. an inventory of #microbiome research supported by US Gov't & recommendations. #sciwri15
Microbiomes: complex universes living inside us all, critical to survival and health, we don't know much about them! #sciwri15 @Jo_Microbe
Love @whitehouseostp @yale Dr. Jo Handelsman @jo44 "The Earth's Microbiomes: Opportunities for Research and Policy" so fascinating #sciwri15
Two #AZ mentions in @Jo44 's #sciwri15 talk - Biosphere 2 (fail related to soil microbes) & site of big glass vats of algae that create fuel
Problem with studying microbiomes in nature is that many of them have been perturbed. Are there invasive microbes? We have no idea #sciwri15
Thanks for a great talk on the earth's microbiome, @jo_ostp #sciwri15.
Awesome talk by @Jo44 about microbiology...I need to learn more about microbiology! #sciwri15
Not sure I 100% buy argument that we shouldn't tamper w/genes but ok to tamper w/microbes. Microbiome = part of us, too. #sciwri15
So excited to hear that microbiomes are a priority of the white house. Thanks to @Jo44 for a great talk at #sciwri15
How to make a depressed mouse, sounds like witchducking. #sciwri15
Interesting interview of Scott Aaronson, soon to talk about black holes, firewall paradox http://t.co/DzkprhKqhG via @NautilusMag #sciwri15
Autism is defined based on human behavior. Animal models exist, but should be viewed with critical eyes. #sciwri15 #microbiomes
@CatalyticRxn Like it would be awesome if we could treat depression w/microbiome but not sure the ethical distinction here holds. #sciwri15
#Microbes have a bad reputation among humans, but the joke's on us - they're pretty much in charge. @Jo_OSTP #sciwri15
Forced swim test is one way we evaluate antidepressant efficacy, but other ways to create "depression" #sciwri15 http://t.co/hYX3nJyukw
One of these fits into the other (hint: the #stellate goes into the capsule) #drugdelivery #sciwri15… https://t.co/oJFv0AqnO2
@ugahealthjourn braving the White House's @jo44 to question about infectious madness. #sciwri15 http://t.co/zvobslcNkE
You can tell whether a person is left-handed or right-handed by looking at the microbes left on a person's keyboard. Cool! #sciwri15 @Jo44
#Jo44 at #sciwri15: depressed mice still swim, but give up before they reach the island. @MoranWriter needs to think about that for a while.
#microbiome Q&A @Jo44: the 90/10% microbe:human cell count matters for genetic diversity, though microbe cells MUCH smaller #sciwri15
http://t.co/vYQsUhRUEx collecting our data by mail American gut, stay away from meeee.... #sciwri15
Ways to create what we call "depressive phenotype" tends toward chronic mild stress, social defeat. FST can be part of this. #sciwri15
Jo Handelsman: Twain made a 'typo" when he referred to microbe as "him." https://t.co/B7wTlpbOlC #sciwri15 #microbesrock #casw
90% (by genome) of the human body is microbial, 10% is human #sciwri15
For more, I've got a rather old (still useful!) post on how depression is studied behaviorally in mice. http://t.co/hYX3nJyukw #sciwri15
Puede su microbioma tener influencia en el desarrollo de la depresión o el autismo? Interesantes hallazgos compartidos por @Jo44 #sciwri15
Interesting. American Gut Project-you can submit "samples from any orifice" and @NIH uses this to build a microbiome dataset #sciwri15
Looking forward to #sciwri15 tomorrow @MIT to talk healthcare hub in @KendallSquare w @wroush
@Jo44 inspiring #sciwri15 talk - thank you!
Ingredients of innovation: Join us @ #sciwri15 tomorrow @MIT w @wroush @ScienceWriting @KSJatMIT
Yes they are playing quidditch (sp?) at MIT whatever happened to hacky sack #sciwri15 http://t.co/WAFBFzcrok
A beautiful fall in Cambridge. #sciwri15 https://t.co/nPGfTL7PLF
#sciwri15 friends, I'm finally here! Say hi if you'd like. I'm in my orange sweater per usual :) http://t.co/GdevcZUWqq
Sports I've seen students in Cambridge, MA playing include rugby, lacrosse, and quidditch #sciwri15 #MIT #Harvard #Hogwarts
Quantum computers and black holes at #sciwri15. More to come
Next up is Scott Aaronson, to talk about quantum computing and the black hole firewall problem. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: "I'm not a black hole expert. I work on more down-to-earth things like quantum computers." #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Ready to hear how quantum computing might help solve the firewall paradox in black hole physics! #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Too much text on the slide. Do not do this. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
I've talked to more people face-to-face in the last 24 hours than I have in the last two years. #sciwri15
Scott Aaronson is about to explain whether computer science can help solve the firewall paradox, aka the #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
I have a black hole information problem: I can never get enough! #sciwri15
Can computer science solve the firewall prpblem with Scott Aaronson #blackholefail #sciwri15 http://t.co/FSYkg0EovM
The singularity at the center of a black hole is where general relativity causes its own failure #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
Aaronson: In black holes, the singularity is the point where general relativity predicts its own breakdown. #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
.@rosreid says that this year they deliberately included scientists who address societal issues, not just classic bio & physics #sciwri15
The black hole information paradox: bringing compsci and physics together since the 1990s #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
Aaronson: different observers will see very different things depending on where they are near a black hole. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
@deborahblum I really hope I cross paths with you at #sciwri15! :-)
"The firewall paradox is inexorably sucking in theoretical physicists who venture near it." WHAT. Must see this. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: like @SirPatStew , black holes have no hair. They have only mass, spin, and electric charge. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#interstellar reference that black holes make great communication devices by Scott Aaronson #sciwri15
Never has our name been more apt #blackholefail #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: When caring for homeless ppl, you can't tell them to "Stay home & get some rest." Med adherence is tough for them. #sciwri15
I had this idea: maybe we could think about homelessness the way we think about chronic illness - @UCSF's Margot Kushell #sciwri15
Aaronson: Jacob Bekenstein realized the entropy of a black hole must be proportional to its surface area. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Black holes are good to communicate with if you make a mess of your books. #interstellar #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Kushel: In the 1990s, homelessness was problem of young people. Which helps for health. But that has changed recently. #sciwri15
Aaronson invokes @SirPatStew in his slide about black holes and the no-hair theorem (http://t.co/k2sgXI2KiJ) #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
Aaronson: Hawking rejected this idea, then realized he was wrong. Result: black hole radiation and evaporation #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Excited for medical talk entitled "lessons we can learn from older homeless adults" at #sciwri15
#homelessness shift in demographics, now older pts. In 1990, 11% over 50; in 2003, 37% were
#sciwri15
Aaronson: black holes are good for storing information, but very bad for information retrieval. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Black holes are great for storing info if you don't need to get it back. So #blackholefail. #sciwri15
1999 11% of homeless were over 50. 2003, 37% were. Much harder to treat illnesses. @MKushel on lives of homeless adults #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: Median age of homeless population is over 50 #sciwri15
Kushel: admitted homeless patients just so they could have the rest to heal #sciwri15
Median age of homeless people in the US is over 50 #sciwri15
#sciwri15 now median age of #homelessness is >50; 2nd half of baby boomers are at higher risk.
.@MKushel: Current median age of homeless pop is >50. Only 11% were >50 in 1990. #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Aaronson: from computational perspective, more than 10^43 computations per second forms a black hole. #KeanuWhoa #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Black holes are the most efficient data storage device in the universe,just really bad at data retrieval. #BlackHoleFail #sciwri15
Kushel:2nd half of baby-boomers have been at elevated risk of homelessness entire lives. (Due to combo of Vietnam, economy, drugs) #sciwri15
Margot Kushel of UCSF: the dramatic #aging of #homeless population #sciwri15
Black holes the most efficient hard disks in the universe...but not great for retrieving info ;) #sciwri15
Interesting! RT @carlzimmer: Here are the @nytimes ethics guidelines. You don't get to vote on them. #sciwri15 http://t.co/m6u1mD7Rfr
Homeless population is aging, esp risk of homelessness for those born in 2nd half of the baby boom #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: In homeless population, 50 is the new 75 #sciwri15
@lindy2350 I met Carl Zimmer face-to-face & then retreated to my hotel room. #sciwri15 #anxiety ObsessivelyCrafted
Aaronson: problem is that Hawking radiation is independent of what falls into black hole. Information is lost! #sciwri15 #blackholefail
.@MKushel: 50 may be the new 40 for people with homes, but 50 is the new 70 for those without homes. #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Sooooo, what's everyone wearing tonight to the Boston Globe party tonight? #sciwri15
50 may be the new 40, but for those who are #OldandHomeless, 50 is the new 75, says @MKushel #sciwri15
Black holes most efficient hard disk in the universe, stores 10^69 bits/sq. meter. But terrible in retrieving bits #blackholefail #sciwri15
@mkushel's son on homeless man outside Trader Joe's: "Mom, why doesn't that grandpa have a house?" :( #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
HOPE HOME study: Health outcomes of people experiencing homelessness; set in Oakland to offset gentrification of SF. #sciwri15
70 is the new 55 for homeless #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
In homeless population, 50 is equivalent to 75 in terms of health problems. @MKushel and team began Hope Home study in Oakland CA. #sciwri15
Aaronson quotes @seanmcarroll : you can scramble an egg because of the Big Bang. Laws of physics are reversible. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
In fundamental physics, information is always conserved. BHs violate this: a BH made of marshmallows looks like a BH made of stars #sciwri15
Homeless population is aging, which means greater chance of chronic disease says @mkushel #OldandHomeless #sciwri15 http://t.co/UUH6MQYJlS
Margo Kushel: Poverty wears on the body. For homeless 50 is the new 75. #sciwri15 #casw #homelessness
Dr. Margot Kussel of SF General: "50 is the new 75 if you're homeless." #sciwri15
Aaronson: this is a problem. Information should not be destroyed, without doing violence to all our physics. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Margot Kushel: for the homeless, 50 is the new 75 health wise #sciwri15
Over clock supercomputer and might destroy the earth. Why were we ever worried about CERN? #blackholefail #sciwri15 http://t.co/R9jDlTmdfF
"To be able to say something is representative you have to actually *know* what you're representing."-Kushel. #foodforthought #sciwri15
Aaronson: No-cloning theorem: you can't duplicate quantum systems because complete knowledge isn't available. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
For many healthy adults 50 is the new 40. For homeless adults, 50 is the new 75: Margot Kushel @MKushel #sciwri15
#homelessness #sciwri15 50 is the new 75 re health problems. HOPE HOME study, UCSF/Oakland now. 350 ppl. 12% >65yo. 77% men, 80% Black
77% are men; 80% African American; 5% married. Social ties protect against homelessness. 13% working & still living on streets #sciwri15
New approach - collect data to work out how to determine causes of and treat homelessness as if it were disease @MKushel #sciwri15
African Americans are 3-4x more likely to be homeless #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
Blacks over-represented among homeless by factor of 3 or 4. (This stat consistent across many studies.) :( #sciwri15
To be African American in this country is to have to live with the dramatically increased risk of being homeless #blacklivesmatter #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: To be African-American in this country is to live with dramatically higher risk of becoming homeless #sciwri15
Margot Kushel @MKushel of UCSF: African-Americans are over-represented in #homeless pop by factor of 3 to 4. #sciwri15
@MKushel @ #sciwri15 "To be African-american in this country is to live with a dramatically increased risk of becoming homeless."
The lack of social ties is a strong predictor of homelessness #sciwri15
Proud to be among @ivanoransky's good advice here: How to pitch reporters without being annoying http://t.co/ZJRLWvbLPS #sciwri15
#homelessness #sciwri15 story of being Black in US. ~ 20 % of Oakland Black; 5% married. 13% wroking for pay, 28% looking for work.
Aaronson: various solutions have been proposed to the black hole information problem, which are very complicated. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
"People more expert than me admitted they also didn't understand complementarity either" (Aaronson) #blackholefail #sciwri15
.@MKushel: To be African American in the country means to be at increased risk of being homeless #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless #BlackLivesMatter
As predicted, female science writers make up two-thirds of the audience at #OldandHomeless at #sciwri15. http://t.co/7cmhBLrCxb
@MKushel @ #sciwri15 13% of homeless people she surveyed held paying jobs #oldandhomeless
Margot Kushel: 80% older homeless in Oakland are African American. #BlackLivesMatter shouldn't overlook this popn #sciwri15
"To be AfricanAmerican in this country is to live with a drastically increased risk of homelessness." 80% of grp in @MKushel study #sciwri15
"To be African American in this country is to be at a dramatically higher risk for homelessness." #sciwri15 #homelessadults
Pathways of homelessness - 43% age of 1st homelessness 50 and over #sciwri15
Aaronson notes you have to know what happens to an observer as they fall into a black hole. What would they see? #blackholefail #sciwri15
I'm not going to try to explain black hole complementarity because I don't understand it myself. #confession #sciwri15 #blackholefail
43% participants had never been homeless until they were in their 50s- the HOPE HOME study #sciwri15
Health plummets when person becomes homeless #sciwri15
"It doesn't take very long for someone homeless to begin to look homeless"Hard to know how long they've been on streets by eye #sciwri15
homelessness cannot be separated from the struggles of the Black population in the US #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #endhomelessness "the moment they become homeless their health begins to plummet" http://t.co/l2FQaAP4GX
@MKushel @ #sciwri15 almost 50% of homeless people she surveyed became homeless after age 50 #oldandhomeless
"43% of our participants had never been homeless until they reached age 50." A survey of homeless adults in Oakland. #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: those becoming homeless after 50 v diff't pop'n psych-wise than those becoming homeless young #sciwri15
Almost nothing that's ever written about entanglement explains what is so special #sciwri15 #blackholefail - True that.
#homeless #sciwri15 43% had 1st episode at age >50. 15% lost housing d/t someone else being unable to pay rent. 7% lost job. 10% building
43% of homeless in Oakland study became so after the age of 50 @MKushel #sciwri15 #OldandHomeless
(Second time I've heard @seanmcarroll mentioned at #sciwri15 today! #scrambledeggs)
People living in poverty and living in close conditions may equate conditions of people not getting along this get kicked out #sciwri15
Aaronson: entanglement connects two quantum states. Outcome of two experiments on entangled states is connected. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Bell's theorem says entanglement is different: no FTL signals | - so no ansibles, scifi nerds :-) #sciwri15 #blackholefail
.@MKushel: Stories re: struggling to keep their job or being injured. Sometimes roommate loses a job or spouse dies. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 - I don't have a smartphone, so apologies to folks I didn't respond to earlier this weekend. #20thcenturytech
#homeless #sciwri15 job loss, injury more common now, or loss of spouse; 10% building condemned
Oh look, bra-ket notation in a science talk. I thought I left that behind @cwru physics #sciwri15
Aaronson: Entanglement is monogamous: it is possible to have entangled state with three systems... #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Early onset homelessness - difficult childhood, no support, juvenile crime. Late onset - struggles with jobs, losing family care #sciwri15
This is a longitudinal cohort study with quantitative and qualitative data on the health of these older homeless adults #sciwri15
Aaronson: "entanglement is monogamous". More than two entangled quantum states reduces to simpler system. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
To be clear, my #scipitch session was about honing skills - not bashing PIOs. Sorry if some folks didn't see it that way. #sciwri15 (1/2)
Enjoyed my first NASW conference. Sorry to leave so soon! 🇨🇦🍗 Nice to make so many new acquaintances & see old friends. Goodbye #sciwri15
Ppl who become homeless earlier in life were more likely to leave b/c of conflicts in the home, but it happens at all ages. #sciwri15
If I'm understanding this right then if you measure entanglement of 3 states then 2 look classical, I hope so :-) #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#homeless #sciwri15 cut hours, bringing in temp workers => unable to make rent.
Aaronson: quantum computing is based on multiple entanglements between many quantum states. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
"I thought, can I survive a car chain? Probably not." -homeless man's story re:leaving home b/c father threatened him #sciwri15
I am, of course, a PIO myself - and I like what I do. But I welcome constructive criticism -that's what #scipitch was about. #sciwri15 (2/2)
#oldandhomeless people “stunned and surprised" to land on the streets sez @MKushel. Stories "like watching a horror movie unfold” #sciwri15
Margot Kushel @MKushel of UCSF relates heartbreaking stories of how older people became #homeless #sciwri15 #homelessness
#homeless #sciwri15 Family’s can’t stay together sometimes d/t Section 8 housing rules, risk family losing apt
Often family members can't help homeless for fear of losing their own housing, breaking lease rules. #sciwri15
So much respect for @MKushel's persistence & being able to read these transcripts every day.Also for resilience of these homeless #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #blackholefail All this talk of spinning is making my head spin! But fascinating stuff!
Aside: the hashtag trolls are still about. You can use this list to block them. #sciwri15 https://t.co/UrmEYg9ShA
I have set up a preliminary block list for #sciwri15 trolls, which I will add to as they pop up. https://t.co/sZMoG4DcrK Please share!
#homeless #sciwri15 56% report health as fair or poor. predicts who will end up in hospital in next year
Aaronson: In quantum field theory the vacuum is far from empty... It has an enormous amount of entanglement. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
@ShipLives I am staff writer/sort of PIO at my job & I found your panel very helpful! Learned a lot about building relationships #sciwri15
.@MKushel: Only need 1 question to predict likelihood someone will end up in hospital – "How's your health now?" #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Chronic diseases (which are hard to manage for everyone) often not diagnosed until they seek out medical help. #sciwri15
Now we get to the Firewall Paradox. oh boy... #sciwri15 #blackholefail
56% of homeless pop @MKushel studied in Oakland reported fair or poor health #sciwri15
Aaronson: now we reach the firewall paradox. Take an old black hole, which is halfway evaporated. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: So to begin this thought experiment we wait 10^67 years. We assume we have a long grant #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#homeless #sciwri15 11% had a prior cva, 9% Ca, 7% chf. 40% c problems w ADL, 30% w 2 or more prob
Firewall paradox: we look at an old black hole that's halfway evaporated #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Alice (per Aaronson) has been gathering all the Hawking radiation and putting it in a quantum computer #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#homeless #sciwri15 ADL impairment => high risk of NH placement.
.@MKushel: Can't give homeless ppl commodes or handrails b/c they don't have bathrooms. #sciwri15
Aaronson: over the 10^67 years, a lot of Hawking radiation. An observer Alice entangles outcoming Hawking radiation #sciwri15 #blackholefail
50% of homeless over 50 have 1 or more functional impairments doing independent activities of daily living. #sciwri15
Listening to Scott Aaronson on the black hole firewall problem... #sciwri15 #physics
Those qubits she has gathered have to be entangled with the ones just emitted... #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#sciwri15 Of course a quantum computer's name is Alice! Instead falling down a rabbit hole... she jumps down black holes! #blackholefail
Many older homeless individuals with limited mobility have to walk miles a day to get from one meal program to another. #sciwri15
.@MKushel: Lack of resources for those w/ physical impairments = higher chance they get placed in a nursing home #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Many of her homeless patients who know how to read can't read due to poor eyesight, exec fxn probs, & poor short term memory. #sciwri15
@ShipLives can't think of anything. I feel more enabled to reach out to journos now bc I know how to approach them sincerely #sciwri15
..and those have to be entangled with those inside the black hole, but since Alice is one observer that violates QM #sciwri15 #blackholefail
#homeless #sciwri15 25 % 3Ms impaired severely; Trails B 35% severely impaired (executive fxn); we demand things beyone their ability
Aaronson: now Alice jumps into the black hole. But now she runs into problems with monogamy of entanglement. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
"We can't read the paper of someon who jumped into a black hole" a real #blackholefail #sciwri15
Aaronson: "Black holes are like Vegas: what happens there, stays there!" #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Travel demands to be able to apply for and access assistance can be prohibitive for many older individuals. #sciwri15
.@mkushel "We have an enormous mismatch btw/what we demand of these ppl and what their abilities allow them to do." #sciwri15
Many cognitive troubles w/ exec functioning. Enormous mismatch btwn their abilities and what we tell homeless to do to get help #sciwri15
@MKushel: 43% don't enter homelessness until age50+ & 50 is new 75 due to poor access to care and logistics of living in poverty. #sciwri15
43% of homeless people in an Oakland study are 50 and up and many would qualify for nursing home care. #OldandHomeless #SciWri15 @MKushel
We have an enormous mismatch of what we demand of these people & what their abilities will let them do - @MKushel #sciwri15 #OldandHomeless
Substance use often worsens following losing a home. #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: Homeless score severely low in cognitive tests. Saying "go to this office at that time on those days" doesn't work #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: Enormous mismatch btwn what we demand of homeless and older homeless cognitive fnctn #sciwri15
Black holes are like Vegas...what goes in a black hole, stays in a black hole :) #sciwri15
#oldandhomeless mirror the problems in our society - poor healthcare, no jobs, no cheap housing, poor mental health, lack of rehab #sciwri15
#homeless #sciwri15 26% alcohol; lot of prior cocaine, drug use.
There's a mismatch between what we demand of the homeless and their abilities... Severe executive functioning deficits are common #sciwri15
At-risk drug use declines with age, but this could be the result of survival bias. #sciwri15
56% of the studied homeless people reported their health as fair or poor (the general baseline is only 11%) #sciwri15 how do we change that?
"Many participants could barely walk across the room... Yet they must carry their lives on their backs each day." #sciwri15 #homelessadults
Aaronson: one possibility is any experiment on Hawking radiation would take longer than black hole lifetime. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Stereotype of homeless with thought disorders. But most w/ mental-health disorders have depression or PTSD. #sciwri15
#homeless #sciwri15 38 severe depressed 33 PTSD; 18 prior psych hosp
Mental health problems can lead to homelessness but homelessness itself can lead to mental health problems. #sciwri15
Most common psychiatric disorder of older homeless: depression #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
The most common psychiatric problem among the homeless is depression. #OldandHomeless #SciWri15 @MKushel
.@MKushel: Illicit drug use declines with age, but alcohol abuse does not. #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
My apologies, I'm having trouble distilling these arguments into individual tweets. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
. @MKushel "Mental illness increases risk of homelessness but homelessness also increases risk of mental illness." #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Harlow-Hayden: how long would quantum computation to detect entanglement between near and far regions take? 2^10^67 #blackholefail #sciwri15
"Mental health problems lead to homelessness... it's important to remember that homelessness leads to mental health problems." #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: having primary care doc doesn't mean easy access. Homeless may not have phone, transport, way to remember appt #sciwri15
Having PCP =/= access to their PCP. Probs include: no phone to call doctor, no way to keep track of appointments, no transport #sciwri15
So the computations take so long that the black hole would evaporate #blackholefail #sciwri15
53% of homeless have a primary care provider but they have no phone when they need one #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
Having a primarycare provider is NOT the same as being able to use one. Many have no phone to call PCP, make appt, find transport. #sciwri15
.@MKushel Hard to treat these chronic illnesses even under ideal circumstances, and homelessness is far from ideal #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
#homeless #sciwri15 high rates of falls, fx, hit by car. 58% had ER use in 6 mo prior to study
#KCA #VoteJKT48ID DrJudyStone: #homeless #sciwri15 high rates of falls, fx, hit by car. 58% had ER use in 6 mo prior to study
Aaronson: "quantum entanglement is really easy once you take the physics out of it." #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: QM is really simple once you take the physics out of it #sciwri15 #blackholefail | well, yes. :-)
"Quantum mechanics is pretty amazing when you take away the physics" #sciwri15 #BlackHoleFail
Homeless don't have resources to keep medical appts, "It's not like they have iPhones to track things," not even regular phones #sciwri15
After 12 months, @mkushel finds over half of older homeless are still homeless. #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
Just over 1/2 of @MKushel's partcipants remain homeless. This winter is going to be an El Nino winter. :( #sciwri15
Studying #oldandhomeless is important but wow is it disheartening #sciwri15
Aaronson: to simulate a quantum system needs 2^n complex numbers - and that takes a long time to do #sciwri15 #blackholefail
"Quantum mechanics is really just probability theory with minus signs." Aaronson #blackholefail #sciwri15
Is anyone studying effects of #ElNino on #oldandhomeless? #sciwri15
The push for permanent supportive housing is laudable but not a panacea. #sciwri15
#homeless #sciwri15 f/u at 12 mo, >50% are still homeless.
Quantum mechanics: Probability with the minus signs...Nature seems to prefer it that way. #sciwri15
Aaronson: quantum computing is a way to solve problems by implementing them using quantum entanglement. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Hmmm...can we free this article, @sciencemagazine? "Free the Tweet at Scientific Conferences" @aaas #sciwri15 http://t.co/KLTEejq4RL
On bright side, US is working on permanent housing. Some homeless able to move back in with their families. But more work needed. #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: permanent housing works wonders, but can't address mental problems or cognitive difficulties. Also expensive. #sciwri15
.@MKushel: Permanent supportive housing not meant to address old age problems, is expensive, not widely available #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
A quantum computer could take problems that can be solved in exponential time & solve them in polynomial time #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Quantum computing could solve complex problems in polynomial time rather than exponential time,tangible improvement #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: quantum computing can't do everything. Key is to set up system to produce "right" answers. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
RT @myglobalpac: If you are writing about vaccinations ... note this ... #sciwri15
http://t.co/53djv9Svlr http://t.co/oC4rBnhreP
Audience Q: 25% of Oakland homeless are addicted to opoids. Any chance it's higher in Boston? (seems like it) #sciwri15
Aaronson: it's a misconception that quantum computers try every possibility #sciwri15 #blackholefail | A lot of us have made this mistake
#homeless #sciwri15 Great talk by @mkushel on homelessness in Oakland. #socialjustice
.@MKushel: Strong El Niño will be great for drought, but worrisome for CA homeless population #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
With ACA, slight increase of use of primary medical care for homeless participants in @MKushel 's #OldandHomeless study #sciwri15
Aaronson: quantum computers can't solve the old P vs NP problem #sciwri15 #blackholefail
There ain't no way he's finishing this talk in the next 10 minutes. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Permanent supportive housing costs roughly $30,000 per year vs. $100,000 annual cost to house someone in a nursing facility. #sciwri15
.@mkushel says it's likely b/c the Boston studies don't focus on over-50s. Younger homeless more likely to be addicts. #sciwri15
#oldandhomeless El Niño will bring rain to California but be dangerous for the homeless there #sciwri15
Aaronson: showed any quantum algorithm to find collisions ~2^n/5 steps, but a classical computer wd be faster #sciwri15 #blackholefail
13% of @mkushel's homeless sample report use of opioids in life, low cf. to coke, pot. Why? > opioid users died #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
.@MKushel "We tell them they are doing us a favor. They are participants in the study, NOT subjects." #sciwri15 #STEMjustice
@MKushel on high participant retention in #oldandhomeless "we treat them with respect. They are participants, not subjects." #sciwri15
Aaronson: use quantum computing algorithms to simulate Hawking radiation from a black hole. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Homelessness is not exclusively an urban problem. 2/3 of homeless people become homeless in suburban and rural areas. #sciwri15
Homeless ppl tend to migrate from rural into cities because services are closer together. Rural homeless are more hidden. #sciwri15
2/3 of ppl become homeless outside urban areas. Not an urban phenomenon but they tend to migrate into big cities. #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
An insightful observational study, hope to ameliorate the multifaceted homeless phenomenon @MKushel #sciwri15
It can be more difficult to address in rural areas. #sciwri15
Quantum computers can't solve everything, for example the NP-Complete problem. #sciwri15
.@MKushel Homelessness not just an urban problem – rural too. 2/3 of homeless become homeless outside cities. #sciwri15 #oldandhomeless
Because some problems are hard even for quantum computers, firewalls for black holes can't exist? I think? #blackholefail #sciwri15
#sciwri15: Going to tonight's party? If you want to write for #NOVAnext (@novapbs), find me & I will put you in touch w/ @tdechant
Great reflection on difference between urban and rural homelessness @MKushel: esp access to transportation and visibility #sciwri15
Aaronson: is there a way to encode the black hole information paradox so that it becomes simple? Good #$% question. #sciwri15 #blackholefail
@MKushel: "Emergency departments are frantic" caring for #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
Aaronson: the idea of quantum money - you couldn't physically copy it #sciwri15 #blackholefail
Aaronson: secure quantum money would show creating the black hole firewall would be hard #sciwri15 #blackholefail
The contrast between the #sciwri15 tweets on homeless & the ones on quantum computing is really weird to me. But cool. Go Science Writing!
Rural homeless "less visible" than urban, but 2/3 of homeless are outside urban areas says @MKushel #oldandhomeless #sciwri15
Time for @ProfSaraSeager's talk on the controversy of the hab zone. Much excitement! #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience
For homeless adults, 50 is the new 75 @mkushel #sciwri15
Margot Kushel: when someone asks me for money, I buy us both a sandwich and eat with them #sciwri15
At this rate I might not even be awake for the Boston Globe party tonight #sciwri15 #morecoffee
The 15 minute time constraint limits what PCPs can do. Healthcare designed for homeless provides longer visits. #sciwri15
Now the last talk of the day: Sara Seager, exoplanet expert extraordinaire. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Imma probably head over to the exoplanets talk after this. Need to hear re:something happier before party. #sciwri15
last talk of the day: @ProfSaraSeager talking 'Goldilocks Zone' exoplanets. #sciwri15
.@ProfSaraSeager recommends NASA 'Eyes on Exoplanets' app http://t.co/j41pRTGe3M #sciwri15
Next up at #sciwri15, @ProfSaraSeager on a controversy in the search for habitable planets! http://t.co/fkYgd1wBU1
Seager: Eyes on Exoplanets simulator for free download: http://t.co/aEdAPYxYz7 #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
@DrMRFrancis Seriously?! Does this have to do with the bots trolling #SciWri15?
Seager: If we had a @NASAKepler for every part of the sky, we would see exoplanets everywhere in the Milky Way. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
"WE have evidence, statistically speaking, that every star has a planetary system," @ProfSaraSeager talking #exoplanetscience at #sciwri15.
Everyone is oohing over the "Eyes on exoplanets" simulator. Y'all should check it out. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Cada estrella que vemos con em telecopio Kepler tiene un sistema planetario
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/DmE88v5INY
Shoutout to @nasa_eyes on Exoplanets - really cool app! @ProfSaraSeager #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15 http://t.co/UtyJrjSMd6
I am thankful for the opportunity to attend #SciWri15 as a Diverse Scholar Fellow. I'm looking forward to the party tonight.
Seager: planets have a huge diversity of mass, size, and distance from host star. We haven't found Earth 2 yet. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Sara Seager: kids today think it’s perfectly normal that we know of exoplanets in the habitable zone of other stars. #sciwri15
@ProfSaraSeager : The world we live in now, we go "Of course there are planets in the habitable zone!" we didn't know that before #sciwri15
At #sciwri15, @ProfSaraSeager touts @NASA's Eyes on #Exoplanets software: http://t.co/lvw5V2yvHG http://t.co/KwrwBPLoxU
Kids today will never live in a world without knowledge of alien worlds #WhenIWasYourAge ...and I'm still pretty young! #sciwri15
Seager: we used to think big planets are more common than smaller ones, but we've found the opposite is true. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Seager: one of the highlights of exoplanet discoveries is that there are far more small planets than large ones. #sciwri15
#vacunas para periodistas científicos en #sciwri15 con @tarahaelle Daniel Salmon @sethmnookin @baby411
.@ProfSaraSeager Highlight of #ExoplanetScience so far = realization that small planets are far more common than large planets. #sciwri15
.@statnews story on vaccines/autism https://t.co/3Aoo80wBnv #sciwri15 #VaccineNuance
Seager: whole category of planet that doesn't exist in our Solar System: sub-Neptune planets. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
#Planets have a huge diversity @ProfSaraSeager , #exoplanetscience,#sciwri15
Photos sensationalize, show kids crying during vaccines - contributes to hesitancy. #vaccinenuance #vaccines #sciwri15
"I know you didn't come here to hear about Neptunes"...Awwww...I like Neptunes. #sciwri15
McCarthyism now; Jenny McCarthy against vaccines #sciwri15
The #ExoplanetScience travel posters make me so very happy #sciwri15 @ProfSaraSeager
Seager: problem is that we don't know a lot about planets yet. We get size, sometimes mass. Not much else! #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
#Vaccines and #vaccine hesitancy: lessons for science journalists #sciwri15 @tarahaelle @baby411 @sethmnookin @vaccinenuance #sciwri2015
Reporting on vaccine and the media's role in spreading vaccine misinformation. #SciWri15 http://t.co/BOp7qwfcDX
Multitasking at #sciwri15 today with @jtotheizzoe and the It's Okay To Be Smart emotional support team. http://t.co/dJAiW6RwHu
It's important for us to see ourselves in all areas of science. I'm looking forward to growing as a Black PIO. Thanks to #sciwri15.
Eyes on Exoplanets: a fully rendered 3D universe that is scientifically accurate. So neat! http://t.co/B7y9gy1jZP #sciwri15 @NASA
#sciwri15 Visit Kepler 16b, where your shadow always has company! #sciencejokes
Listening to a panel on vaccines and lessons for science writers #sciwri15
No tenemos fotos de exoplanetas. Dependemos de los artistas.
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/m8wMGaJEgX
Seager: most exoplanets are found by transiting, eclipsing their host stars. We have to be lucky to see them! #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Exoplanet travel poster: Relax on Kepler 16b, where your shadow always has company (it's an exoplanet orbiting binary stars). #sciwri15
.@ProfSaraSeager says most common #exoplanet type has no solar system analog. 2x Earth size. #sciwri15
The images we use in the media to represent vaccination matter, says @tarahaelle #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
#ExoplanetScience? There's an app for that. @ProfSaraSeager recommends @NASA's "Eyes on Exoplants" http://t.co/Bh4K10w03n #sciwri15
Transits are the main way we have found exoplanets, but the majority of planets don't transit their stars #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Este boom de descubrir exoplanetas en algún momento se va a acabar
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/K4N8Z9Gtvc
Seager is showing an animation of a transit. Not much light gets blocked by a transiting planet, but we see it. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Great start to #sciwri15 vaccines sessions, by @tarahaelle. Joint production of @ScienceWriting & @ScienceWriters http://t.co/bRFrh4r7JY
eventually astronomers will run out of planets that can be detected by watching for transits. will have to move to direct imaging #sciwri15
Seager: "We all want to find habitable planets. I want to find them even more than you do!" #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
The most common type of exoplanets, super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, have no analog in the Solar System #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience
Seager: we all want to find habitable worlds. Trust me, I want to find them more than you. #sciwri15
Creanme, yo quiero encontrar exoplanetas habitables más que ustedes
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/ROXFZqteHd
#sciwri15 We've emailed those who got into Globe party from today's paper waitlist. If you don't get an email by 5 pm, sorry. #sciwriupdate
Travel poster for Kepler-16b, 'Where your shadow always has company' #sciwri15 http://t.co/cVZXYZbloJ
Seager: "habitable zone" is where liquid surface water can exist. Depends on distance to star and air chemistry #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
"Water vapor is the most efficient greenhouse gas on Earth,we just don't hear about it because humans are not contributing to it" #sciwri15
Seager: different star types have different habitable zones. Small stars have close-in habitable zones, e.g. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
More on measles, Bob Sears & anti-vax movement, by @tarahaelle #sciwri15 http://t.co/fuPIQCv57d via @slate
Travel poster for Kepler-16b, 'Where your shadow always has company' #sciwri15 http://t.co/iecoj3yJ3R
The images often used in #vaccine stories--giant needles and screaming babies--help fuel vaccine doubt. @tarahaelle #sciwri15
At @UWMadScience, I helped start this Tumblr to show the positive side of vaccines http://t.co/4khPNThkUU #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
Seager: are we being too conservative in our definition of habitable zone? Diverse atmospheres are very likely. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Acá @ValeriaRoman y @debbieponchner en acción
Periodismo científico latinoamericano.
#sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/gFB2zjC6Ik
Seager: imagine a planet with much less water, so less water vapor. Result: far less greenhouse effect. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Cool #exoplanetscience posters shown by @ProfSaraSeager at #sciwri15: http://t.co/saYP286KC6 http://t.co/2DEX1c46p1
I always think it'd be hard to judge what #exoplanet is habitable for life when we have a sample size of 1 #sciwri15
Listening to the always-terrific @ProfSaraSeager on the search for Earth-like planets... #exoplanets #sciwri15
.@ProfSaraSeager admirably conveying the nuance of the "habitable zone" concept. #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Goldilocks zone = "not too hot, not too cold, just right for Earth." @ProfSaraSeager talks #exoplanetscience and habitable zone at #sciwri15
'habitable zone' size can depend on the stuff in the planetary atmosphere, ability to hold in heat. #sciwri15 @ProfSaraSeager
"I personally blame Oprah." @baby411 at #sciwri15 on anti-vax movement.
Seager challenging the canonical definition of habitable zone: exoplanet atmospheres could be diverse, affecting habitability. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 Los padres no verifican la información disponible sobre vacunas y autismo. Así creció el movimiento antivacunas en E.U.
Travel poster for exoplanets: 'Experience the gravity of HD 40307g, A Super Earth.' #sciwri15 http://t.co/njArVRaMO1
Seager: Other end of habitability: more mass and lower temperatures. Liquid water on hydrogen-atmosphere planet #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
This is the Habitable Zone, or Goldilocks Zone--just right for sustaining life. #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15 http://t.co/x2rTgR4EwK
Seager: hydrogen is an extremely efficient greenhouse gas. Big-ass planets could have very warm surfaces. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Impt to fig out right approach. These are not bad parents, but scared parents. Discussion is of utmost importance. #vaccines #sciwri15
Most vaccine-resister parents are not bad, they're scared, says @baby411 #VaccineNuance #sciwri15
I am pestering @alibranscombe with excited noises about this talk. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Pediatrician Ari Brown: Blame @Oprah for vaccine hesitancy. She gave @JennyMcCarthy a voice. #sciwri15
.@laurahelmuth Yesterday's #JusticeOrElse did incredible damage- promoted #AntiVax message that #MMR harming Black, Latino boys #sciwri15
#exoplanet atmos are diverse, need tailored HZ for each one. Surface conditions are controlled by atmos #sciwri15 https://t.co/Sn1d9tXLuD
Seager challenging the canonical definition of habitable zone: exoplanet atmospheres could be diverse, affecting habitability. #sciwri15
How would the media cover anti-vax movement if it were in another country? By @joshuakeating #sciwri15 http://t.co/YgzCDeMBd4 via @slate
Seager: revised habitable zone includes arid worlds much closer to stars and hydrogen-atmosphere worlds far out #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Some people even think that rogue planets with the right atmosphere could be habitable #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience @ProfSaraSeager
Seager's paper: http://t.co/kROBipKPOS #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience Takeaway: we need observations to settle our models.
@DrJudyStone are you at #sciwri15 ?
Highest concerns in hot pockets of US where vaccine-hesitant parents send kids to same schools, daycares etc. #vaccines #sciwri15
Revised HZ is also dependent on the size of a planet, not just the incoming stellar radiation #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Earth is close to the very edge of our own Goldilocks Zone #exoplanetscience #sciwri15
@baby411: "Que seas doctor no significa que sepas todo sobre medicina". #VaccineNuance #sciwri15
Seager: Hydrogen is a potent greenhouse gas - rogue planets (not orbiting stars) could be habitable if they have H atmospheres. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 we have boundaries of habitable zone of planets, but not the observations to back it
Seager's gripe is mine too: we keep announcing habitable exoplanets. But we love finding these things anyway. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
.@astroquizzical blogger wants to know, what are you curious about? She'll blog about it! https://t.co/0otZ2ozupN #space #sciwri15
Seager notes the overload of "most Earth-like planet yet" news stories ... too confusing to readers? #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Queremos creer que Kepler 452b es habitable. Pero no estamos del todos seguros
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/1Ly9mXO98d
#sciwri15 pediatrician @baby411 says shouldn't trust her w/ brain surgery. Why trust @BenCarson2016 w/ vaccines? http://t.co/4khPNThkUU
Personal promotion aside: my article for @Forbes on Kepler-452b http://t.co/SM5d3jQ0EE #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Pediatrician Ari Brown @baby411: Less than 1 percent of small children do NOT get vaccinated. #sciwri15
Kepler-452b is a nice exoplanet, but not really all that special in the grand scheme of things #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience
Dr. Ari Brown #VaccineNuance #sciwri15 fewer than 1 percent of American kids 19 to 35 months are unvaccinated.
Remember Less than 1% American kids 19-35 months are unvaccinated so parents still choosing to vaccinate #sciwri15 @baby411 #sciwri2015
Seager: uncertainties about size, energy received by Kepler-452b meanit’s uncertain it if is in habitable zone. #sciwri15
Los amigos de @Naukas_com iban a pasarlo en grande en la charla #vaccinenueance #sciwri15
Seager: stop saying something is Earth-like. We don't know of any habitable worlds, and astronomers disagree. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Advantage science writers have over scientists: we can write things up, get it out, and move on #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Is Kepler 452b habitable? Possibly #sciwri15 but that does not work for a sound bite
@ProfSaraSeager takeaway message: use "Earth-sized" or "Earth-massed" not "Earth-like" since we don't know that #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience
Seager: Earth and Venus are very similar in size and mass. We'd get excited if we found a Venus exoplanet! #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Menos del 1% de niños norteamericanos NO está vacunado: una gran mayoría SÍ vacuna en EEUU #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance https://t.co/yFMCEvCD4v
Remember Less than 1% American kids 19-35 months are unvaccinated so parents still choosing to vaccinate #sciwri15 @baby411 #sciwri2015
Seager: Should we throw out the habitable zone concept and just go case by case? #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Earth is just such a great place to live...compared to Venus #sciwri15 #ExoplanetScience
Diverse star types and atmosphere makes the habitable zone variable for every system #sciwri15, @ProfSaraSeager , #exoplanetscience
Seager: but Venus is a greenhouse powerhouse. Inhospitable to life (as we know it). #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
.@ProfSaraSeager offers advice to reporters who cover exoplanet discoveries #sciwri15 http://t.co/CQyr81oGFU
Is media so aware of scaring ppl from #vaccines that it will now miss the important stories? Media has impt responsibility. #sciwri15
@laurahelmuth No excuse how POC have not been covered by #sciwri15 many missing the point focusing on affluent @joshuakeating @Slate
#StarTrek got it wrong: had to travel to exoplanet to analyze the atmosphere. Building telescopes does not make great TV! #sciwri15
From afar both Earth and Venus would look like they're in the habitable zone, but we know one is much nicer #sciwri15
Things to keep in mind when writing about 'goldilocks zone' from @ProfSaraSeager #sciwri15 http://t.co/QhGDhO23tk
Describing exoplanets in habitable zone, say "earth size" or "earth mass," not earth-like. #ExoplanetScience talk by Sara Seager #sciwri15
#sciwri15 @sciencewriting @ScienceWriters who wants to meet for dinner on Monday night? Email alaina@alainalevine.com
Seager: we're getting better at finding spectral lines in exoplanet atmospheres, determining chemistry. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
What's interesting is not that we found water vapor on #exoplanets but that we see nothing for many exoplanets due to clouds #sciwri15
Seager: transit spectra of hot giant exoplanets suggests most may be cloudy. #sciwri15
Seager: we see evidence of clouds on giant exoplanets. That still amazes me. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Expect cloudy days on (at least some) exoplanets. ☁️☁️☁️ @ProfSaraSeager #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
@EHorizonMag yes, at #sciwri15
Seager: we need a lot more data, the common refrain. We need atmospheric data for habitability studies. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
datos contra intuiciones - cómo la mayoría de personas decide sobre las #vacunas 💉 #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
Seager: we want to look for gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, and others (maybe oxygen). #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
One of the forefront topics in #exoplanetscience is atmosphere analysis, whether clouds are suspected -- @ProfSaraSeager at #sciwri15.
Atmosphere measurements a must to assess habitability #sciwri15 of a planet
While more parents are having the conversation on vaccines, most of them are getting their kids vaccinated #sciwri15 #brightside
Seager: the next generation of telescopes will be needed to start doing real atmospheric work. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Seager: when will we find truly habitable worlds? It really is going to be a while, requiring next-gen telescopes. #sciwri15
No vamos a encontrar un exoplaneta como la Tierra ni mañana ni el año que viene
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/bJTG6BZCmN
At #sciwri15, @ProfSaraSeager lists points on atmosphere and the H-word in #exoplanetscience: http://t.co/KvcnwHXFWT
Slate: RT laurahelmuth: How would the media cover anti-vax movement if it were in another country? By joshuakeating #sciwri15 …
Slate: RT laurahelmuth: More on measles, Bob Sears & anti-vax movement, by tarahaelle #sciwri15 http://t.co/qxhWcT7OOO via slate
Seager: future ground-based telescopes won't find Earth twins, but they can image planets orbiting dwarf stars. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Sorry y'all, it'll be quite a while until we find truly habitable worlds. Wait until the next-gen telescopes #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
Seager: @NASAWebbTelescp and @TESSatMIT are future space-based observatories that will be good for exoplanets. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Estoy trabajando en la misión "TESS" de 2017 para encontrar planetas habitables
S. Seager
#sciwri15 http://t.co/sjZGIbPjWP
Only decisions re vaccinations that parents make on feel rather than data, drs, research. Why. What is truth. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #vaccinenuance panelist leaves stage, tiptoes back on with blanket. It's cold in here.
Seth Mnookin: as a reporter, be wary of overvaluing personal recollections. Verify. #sciwri15
@sethmnookin at #sciwri15: I'm not pro-vaccine, I'm pro-truth
Our speaker put on a blanket. Can we please raise the temp in the auditorium? #sciwri15
We overvalue people's testimony & recollections. Great point by @sethmnookin on course of autism & vax but relevant for much more #sciwri15
"I'm not pro-vaccine, I'm pro- truth," says @sethmnookin #sciwri15 #sciwriphotos http://t.co/qIlK927gLm
@sethmnookin ‘he tenido que recordarme muchas veces que yo no soy #provacunas sino #proverdad' #vaccinenuance #sciwri15
Seager: @TESSatMIT is *tiny*: shorter than the scientists who built it! #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
#sciwri15 I should have never downloaded the Eyes on Exoplanets app... so much fun!
En #sciwri15 @profsaraSeager habla de explanetas, recuerda a Spock de Star Trek y @fedkukso está feliz
@sethmnookin "I don't want to be seen as pro-vaccine, I want to be seen as pro-truth" #sciwri15
@sethmnookin: "Yo no estoy a favor de las vacunas; estoy a favor de la verdad". #vaccinenuance #sciwri15 💉
Seager: we're running out of what we can do with transits alone. Direct imaging: block starlight, find planets. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
.@ProfSaraSeager says @TESSatMIT will provide #exoplanetscience target list for @NASAWebbTelescp. #sciwri15
to do direct imaging of exoplanets, need to block the light from our own sun to 1 part in 10B. #exoplanetscience #sciwri15
Seager: star masks need to have spiky shapes to prevent light from diffracting, "leaking" around edges of mask. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Next gen telescopes for #ExoplanetScience = @NASAWebbTelescp and @TESSatMIT . GAIA and GPI are already up and running! #sciwri15
Writing about controversial topics = risk of activism, but @sethmnookin says "I'm not pro-vaccine, I'm pro-truth" #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
Science journalist @sethmnookin: don't take sides when writing about controversial issues. Be pro-truth. #sciwri15 #VaccineNuance
Seager: after upcoming missions like TESS, will largely be done with transits to detect exoplanets; move on to direct imaging. #sciwri15
Seager is showing a great concept for a star mask that flies separately from an orbiting telescope. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
"Finding an Earth is really hard," @ProfSaraSeager sharing new research and techniques for continued #exoplanetscience / search. #sciwri15
For direct imaging of exoplanets, need spiky petal star shade. Diffraction around round ones. #sciwri15 http://t.co/yNsoK0hEEB
Journalists bear the primary responsibility for creating the vaccine controversy, says @sethmnookin #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
Man! @profSaraSeager is talking at #SciWri15 and I'm totally missing it ... sigh
Seager: nightmare is planet systems may have big asteroid belts and lots of dust, which would confuse images #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
@sethmnookin at #sciwri15 Nobody should have written about Wakefield study. "We bear the primary responsibility for creating this story."
Forget fraud, financial conflicts etc.--media never should have covered Wakefield vax & autism study in first place. @sethmnookin #sciwri15
S.Seager muestra su proyecto Starshade, "pétalos" espaciales p/bloquear luz de estrella y ver exoplanetas
#sciwri15 http://t.co/ybpNiC3vJp
RT laurahelmuth: How would the media cover anti-vax movement if it were in another country? By joshuakeating #sciwri15 …
RT laurahelmuth: More on measles, Bob Sears & anti-vax movement, by tarahaelle #sciwri15 http://t.co/JPLyldIb4I via slate …
no mezclemos: una cosa son los #antivacunas y otra los padres q se preocupan y dudan #vaccinenuance #sciwri15
.@Mad_Science_Guy wrote a gr8 piece on direct imaging from Earth with projects like GPI: http://t.co/BGF3C8jdGx #ExoplanetScience #sciwri15
role of journalists in anti-vaccine hysteria. Why did anyone cover Wakefield in first place? Not a real study #sciwri15 @sethmnookin
More about telescope starshades: http://t.co/Ejsf4cXQbf #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience https://t.co/t9o2PiWBRj
For direct imaging of exoplanets, need spiky petal star shade. Diffraction around round ones. #sciwri15 http://t.co/yNsoK0hEEB
A video of @ProfSaraSeager's Sunshade, which will block starlight and image exoplanets directly http://t.co/ljyc91JGjH #sciwri15
@laurahelmuth Is media role also about educating the public- demonstrating how people can separate fact from fiction? @sethmnookin #sciwri15
Seager: on our exoplanet wish list, detecting moons around exoplanets has eluded us so far. Thought we might seen them w/Kepler. #sciwri15
Just because a parent is concerned about vaccines does not mean they are anti-vaccine. There is a difference. #sciwri15
@laurahelmuth Does media have a role in #healthliteracy for their readers @sethmnookin #sciwri15
#VaccineNuance Dr. Daniel Salmon: Don't confuse anti-vax w/vax concern among parents. (But vax are very safe.) #sciwri15
This distinction made by @sethmnookin drew applause: He isn't pro-vaccine; he's pro-truth. #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #Vaccine Nuance Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Daniel Salmon:
vaccines we use in children today are extremely safe.
Dan salmon: can journalists please resist polarizing the vaccine debate? Few are truly idealogically against vax. #sciwri15 #vaccinenuance
Scientists hope next generation telescope will aid in identifying a habitable world similar to #earth. #sciwri15, #exoplanetscience
On the Wakefield fiasco, doesn't it only take one reporter with exposure to create a story? How does the field police itself? #sciwri15
Seager: other potential types of liquid for life (e.g. methane) are inaccessible to us: too far out from stars. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
@sethmnookin at #sciwri15 vaccine controversy has been "a huge drain on autism research."
MIT Scientist says she believes that habitable planets are out there and emerging technologies will help find them...eventually. #sciwri15
Media bears the primary responsibility 4the Wakefield vaccine-autism story. It shld never hv been covered 17yrs ago @sethmnookin #sciwri15
.@ProfSaraSeager says first exo-life assessment likely to be something like 75-25. "I'm not sure how that's going to go over" #sciwri15
Formation flying for spacecraft is really how to do a lot of science. Seager's star shade is one of those. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Seager: my personal dream that WFIRST will be “starshade-ready”, able to work with separate starshade craft for direct imaging. #sciwri15
Don't polarize the vaccine conversation, most parents' concerns can be solved with proper comm of science - Dr Daniel Salmon #sciwri15
Anti-Vaccination hysteria took money away from real autism research & scared away researchers who didn't want to get into vitriol #sciwri15
#sciwri15 #VaccineNuance @tarahaelle says don’t talk to crackpot doctors
Y U suck so much lately #scicomm? cliques, segregation, circling the wagons, stasis. reruns of #sciwriwomen evry yr doesn't cut it #sciwri15
The #cdcvax arguments showed plenty of nonscientists are committed to spreading misunderstanding. Wakefield isn't the whole story #sciwri15
#sciwri15 We're working on making it warmer in Kresge tmrw. It's not under control of MIT, but of contractors doing renovations. Apologies!
Seager: in the Solar System, we can visit other planets. For exoplanets, we favor quantity over quality. #sciwri15 #exoplanetscience
Small, quiet thrill as my profession & obsession ('90s sweet-potato-eating @B2science) meet on a slide #sciwri15 http://t.co/gP6QnBWBke
Most science bloggers I talk to don't have a good idea of who their readers are. Let's change that: https://t.co/ZJypu7DRvK #sciwri15
Journalists have responsibility to not quote crackpot doctors for false equivalency re #vaccinations #sciwri15 #sciwri2015
El mayor sueño de Seager es que el James Webb Telescope se lance listo para "alinearse" con sus pétalos #sciwri15 https://t.co/annVLwLu3E
S.Seager muestra su proyecto Starshade, "pétalos" espaciales p/bloquear luz de estrella y ver exoplanetas
#sciwri15 http://t.co/ybpNiC3vJp
Anyone heading to Boston globe from Fairfield? Wanna share a uber? #sciwri15
A video @Steph_Yin & I made on researchers studying autism to gather clues about how babies learn to speak http://t.co/KLWFzIn0Zv #sciwri15
Tough to be told "we know it's not this, but we don't know what it is." On debunking vax autism link. Need to support families. #sciwri15
@sethmnookin at #sciwri15 "If we did a better job as a society helping children with autism, it would go a long way" Hear hear! Thanks, seth
@ScienceWriters what is address for Boston Globe #sciwri15 #nottakingshuttle
The good news is <1% of American kids ages 19-35 months are unvaccinated. @baby411 #VaccineNuance #sciwri15
And what of university/institutional science communicators? #PIOghetto #sciwri15 https://t.co/pNoT1iCccd
Excellent session on vaccines and vaccine hesitancy. Great to hear prospectives of journalists, pediatrician, public health doc. #sciwri15
Oof. Shuttles were pulling out right at 5:30...glad we flagged them down, got 'em to wait. @ScienceWriters @ScienceWriting #sciwri15
Anyone else exhausted after today? Wow. All the science my little heart could desire. And still there's tomorrow. #sciwri15
.@gargdevika That doesn't apply to all parents -- there can be a backfire effect. #vaccines #scicomm #sciwri15
There was *science* at #sciwri15? Coulda sworn it was all catfights, enforcing archaic rules & rehashing bora trauma https://t.co/PUNIrBzvRg
Q at #VaccineNuance: how should media deal w/crackpot vax docs? @tarahaelle: "Don't quote them" #sciwri15
Risks in writing re #vaccinations too Anti-Vaxxers Fight to Unseat State Senator, Pediatrician Richard Pan http://t.co/vFTEPIMk9k #sciwri15
Great talk by Sara Seager on the search for habitable exoplanets! I look forward to hearing more...and to writing about it! #sciwri15
Heading home to Virginia after #sciwri15. Great weekend, but I'm ready to drop!
Science writers take over MIT! #sciwri15 https://t.co/U1Okl1n2Mu
@CatalyticRxn (I should say potential cell membranes, b/c it's speculative but still...) I feel like a real astrobiology journo! #sciwri15
That's the last of my #sciwri15 live-tweeting. I head back home early tomorrow morning.
Women led 5 of 6 sessions I attended today, yay! On behalf of girls who love #science, thank you @ScienceWriters #sciwri15 #sciwriwomen
#sciwri15 https://t.co/56D6TIXGTJ
Journalists! We have volunteer statisticians from across the US waiting to help you with #datajournalism http://t.co/5F8pgFtgta
This park is cannonical. #sciwri15 https://t.co/vlP3Im28Q3
Cool to see how well @MarquetteCHS's Dr. Klockow prepared me for @Jo44's Patrusky lecture. #sciwri15 #WeAreMarquette http://t.co/dg6cUYTCMk
RT @DrJudyStone: #homeless #sciwri15 56% report health as fair or poor. predicts who will end up in hospital in next year
@FromTheLabBench Do you know what was the ethics subject about which people voted at #sciwri15? I couldn't figure out from tweets.
#sciwri15 not taking shuttle - is party by jfk library?
@theWinnower @aaas @ScienceWriters #sciwri15 Have a research paper you’d like to see blogged? Send it to me! http://t.co/pZkqGJdeAb
Today's sunrise over Boston. #sciwri15 https://t.co/nKvefYWOpl
Lactation room now in old riot gear room. What does that say about @BostonGlobe? #SciWri15 http://t.co/u6jBTj2de9
Apple and Google map tell me to walk from Berkeley street to Broadway to get to JFK/UMass. Developers clearly don't grok transit. #sciwri15
I am intensely jealous of everyone at #sciwri15 right now. Bit too far way for me here in Australia, so keep the tweets and links coming!
Dying on the bus. No air and driver is lost. #sciwri15
.@davidkroll #sciwri15 tweets today- necessary antidote to #JusticeOrElse #antivax message abt #MMR #Autism that went to millions of POC
Most (?) interesting thing I've learned at #sciwri15 : https://t.co/ivH2gUwhqc
If you are writing about vaccinations #sciwri15, please take note this #scicomm research
http://t.co/F3DO7VnPNd http://t.co/WPG2SuW52a
#sciwri15 Nice NYTimes story about Globe movie "Spotlight." Much filmed in the building where you party.
http://t.co/VEbq0AQItM
#sciwri15 Nice NYTimes story about Globe movie "Spotlight." Much filmed in the building where you party.
http://t.co/cn5Bgn71dw
The Boston Globe has a gorgeous building. #SciWri15
"Everywhere life sciences is happening, we'll be embedded." @statnews/@BostonGlobe owner John Henry at #sciwri15 http://t.co/jSHBO6lXKM
Good panel, good questions, good moderator--incredibly tone deaf click bait title that offended #sciwri15 https://t.co/iGNK7AyZxl
@RickBorchelt Pretending everyone is already doing a hunky-dory job only holds people back. It helps nothing.
"We cannot afford to produce commodity journalism." - @rickberke on what @statnews will do. #sciwri15 http://t.co/UGRnHGlf0q
Start a conversation about diversity at the @BostonGlobe #sciwri15 party! http://t.co/RhwouJgfEA @DNLee5 We can do better.
This is probably the only time I'll ever get close to a Pulitzer Prize. #sciwri15 http://t.co/BrwOFkVJ94
#ff #sciwri15 diversity fellows @ScienceWriters: @fkwang @luis_quevedo @XdelCarpio @FitnessFleetCEO http://t.co/ElHSgniKHG
Walking in, the smell of newsprint & ink took me right back to my past. Here's to journalism's future! #sciwri15 http://t.co/64bYc5PAwp
Thanks to the Boston Globe for hosting this great reception for science writers. #sciwri15 http://t.co/A1jRrdsgpw
Was I the only journo at #sciwri15 who felt like journos were disrespectful to the PIOs in attendance? (Namely during the ethics session.)
Dear Future Children, This is what a printing press looked like in 2015! #longliveprint #sciwri15 @BostonGlobe http://t.co/Ln31tUx5OZ
No sense memory is more powerful than scent's memory #sciwri15 @BostonGlobe #partylikeajournalist http://t.co/MnKSZ2UmK5
How badly do I date myself by feeling nostalgic for linotype? @BostonGlobe #partylikeajournalist #sciwri15 http://t.co/idUGUcWsP4
I hope tomorrow's headline is not "Rogue Science Writers Lost in Boston Globe Building." I think we just walked into the bullpen. #sciwri15
Opted not to Tweet earlier when an OWM opted to bash Twitter and defend Tim Hunt. Since then, I've had wine. #sciwri15 cc: @kejames
Intrigued for launch of @statnews after #sciwri15 party @BostonGlobe. Round 2 - #Seattle office?
Thanks, #sciwri15. My visit was brief, but beautiful. I'm exhausted and happy. Ciao! http://t.co/NuENUmH98Q
#ff #sciwri15 diversity fellows @ScienceWriters: @DeviShastri @fkwang @luis_quevedo @XdelCarpio @FitnessFleetCEO http://t.co/E3Tmi4OLo5
#ff #sciwri15 diversity fellows @ScienceWriters: @fkwang @luis_quevedo @XdelCarpio @FitnessFleetCEO @DeviShastri http://t.co/PbJfOePrha
Cambridge history + textures. #sciwri15 #Boston https://t.co/zlkyUVlC0x
Oh hi #MIT, you are so leafy + pretty. #sciwri15 #Boston #Cambridge https://t.co/21yCFfFwD9
I'm available for #sciwri15 tattoo photography all night, folks
John Henry, owner of The Boston Globe + Boston Red Sox, addresses #sciwri15 at the Globe HQ. #Boston https://t.co/f5FP2QwuUX
@MalloryLocklear look! Someone else had our tattoo! #sciwri15 http://t.co/4xWRHgIvzW @thescientish
@elanazak @rickberke @statnews thanks for this because it was very hard to hear! That's great news! #sciwri2015 #sciwri15
On Boston's #water use in 1872, from scroll of first Globe edition hanging at office entrance. #sciwri15 sidelines: http://t.co/BAoJ7rwF89
@carlzimmer my DNA tat has inspired my twitter handle! the double helix ink is a replica from the original waston & crick paper #sciwri15
SO to @mbloudoff for being awesome and giving me all the advice about everything. And for just talking to me whenever. :) #sciwri15
Also thanks to @NidhiSubs for being the best dang #mentor ever! She's just the coolest. #sciwri15
Blood, sweat & tears ... and newsprint in a bin. #sciwri15 @ The Boston Globe https://t.co/fOAfuhSnKg
Great to meet @MUCollegeofComm alum @chrisbarncard at the @BostonGlobe party. Thx @TeecycleTim for the intro (and kind words)! #sciwri15
Two months' worth of paper ready to be printed. #sciwri15 @ The Boston Globe https://t.co/rpxbZOTeff
@mbloudoff @BostonGlobe wait BG is at #sciwri15? Yes, please inquire about "diversity" issue w/ their science desk. #divsciwri.
Very much enjoyed the lectures today, as well as the sun. Thanks @ScienceWriters ! #sciwri15 http://t.co/kXRRRxmdIs
RT @nadiamdrake: After 9.5 years and 3 billion miles, New Horizons arrived at Pluto 96 seconds early. Take that, airlines. #sciwri15
Had a blast at the #sciwri15 party at @BostonGlobe offices! Tomorrow, looking forward to tour of BU Photonics Center. Will dream of photons.
Early flight home tomorrow. I already miss everyone at #sciwri15 .
Thank you, @ScienceWriters, for making a non-science writer (but a science communicator) feel so welcome! It was an honor. #sciwri15
@KaceyDeamer you're like one of my favorite people ever. Soooo glad I got to hang with you tonight at #sciwri15. <3 http://t.co/iOH8P4J0CI
Ok. Any #sciwri15 peeps up for a run 6:30 am near Hyatt bar.
