Laurel A @anderspawn

Physics postdoc at UW, following Harvard PhD studying 2D (and 1D, and 0D) van der Waals materials. She/her. Currently elsewhere online. Joined September 2016

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Laurel A @anderspawn

2 years ago

@diannahaze So good to hear!

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Laurel A @anderspawn

2 years ago

@titonka Thanks for your excellent reporting, today and every day. I hope you get some time to process and support from colleagues, friends and family. This NPR listener is wishing you the best!

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National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences

3 years ago

Congratulations Philip Kim of @Harvard, newly inducted NAS international member! #NAS161 #NASmember #physics

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Laurel A @anderspawn

3 years ago

@scientistswrite Mendeley, but strongly considering switching...it seems increasingly buggy.

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Thanks to everyone who has shared this video about @DanaherCorp's price-gouging the world's poorest people. Please keep sharing it on reddit, facebook, and with friends who will care about the Danaher's Reverse Robin-Hooding. youtube.com/watch?v=tSC06P…

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Partners In Health @PIH

3 years ago

(🧵) IT'S TIME FOR $5. #Tuberculosis is curable, but right now it's still the deadliest infectious disease in the world. One reason? The artificially high price of testing cartridges. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=tSC06P… #PatientsNotProfits #TimeFor5

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🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen

3 years ago

Are you familiar with the printer ink business model? Sell a printer for a modest profit because you'll make the real money from forcing people to buy your ink? IT's also known as the razor blade business model. Danaher sells its diagnostic machines at a small profit and then price gouges for tests--thus denying millions access to affordable, accurate tests for tuberculosis. And then THEY BRAG ABOUT IT TO THEIR SHAREHOLDERS. Just listen to @DanaherCorp CEO Rainer Blair. #PeopleOverProfits

🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen

3 years ago

There is a corporation called @DanaherCorp with 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit is made by price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years. Today, we shine the light.

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Stu Rushfield: #Kindness @stu_rush

3 years ago

Hello, friends. Reaching out with a request if you're able. Brian Jarboe- a dear friend from @NPR-recently had heart surgery that led to serious complications. We're trying to help Brian and his family move forward. gofund.me/1c7cabc0 (Kindly re-Tweet, please!)

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Partners In Health @PIH

3 years ago

Barely containing your rage like @sportswithjohn over @JNJNews intention to put profits over the lives of people facing drug resistant tuberculosis (TB)? You're not alone. 🚨 Join us in calling for justice for people with TB worldwide ⬇️

John Green @sportswithjohn

3 years ago

An open letter to @JNJNews. Stop pursuing the secondary patent of bedaquiline. YOU KNOW that millions of people will be unable to access lifesaving treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis if you extend the patent. YOU KNOW it violates your credo. youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5…

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John Green @sportswithjohn

3 years ago

Johnson & Johnson (@JNJGlobalHealth) is unjustly extending a patent on a life-saving tuberculosis drug. Today's the day for them to realize denying MDR-TB patients treatment is not worth the harm they're causing to core brands like Tylenol and Neutrogena. youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5…

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🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 @johngreen

3 years ago

One of the reasons tuberculosis continues to infect and kill more people is because you refuse to allow the widespread distribution of affordable bedaquiline, which is essential to stopping the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and curing those infected by it. It takes some gall to wonder aloud what the problem is when you know that you are the problem. You've had 20 years of a bedaquiline monopoly. You've made your money. ENOUGH.

John Green @sportswithjohn

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Laurel A @anderspawn

3 years ago

@hankgreen Thanks to the recent SciShow video about HPV's ability to cause cancer, I finally scheduled my first cervical cancer screening. Glad that I'm fully vaccinated, so my risk is lower (but it's still important to check!).

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Laurel A @anderspawn

3 years ago

@hankgreen Campbell reclines on the wreckage he has wrought.

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@CatieSlaughts Ugh, sorry to hear...my mom seems to keep UHT milk for weeks without it going bad, but I've never had the same luck.

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@CatieSlaughts A quart-sized container of UHT pasteurized milk should keep for weeks, even after opening. Or get a carton of half and half?

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Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg

4 years ago

THIS! I MEAN ALL OF THIS!

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@timkmak Thank you so much for your work (and the same to all the reporters, producers, translators and others who help bring us the news, dark and light). I hope you are all taking care of yourselves as best you can.

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@CatieSlaughts Mine certainly was! (Experimental condensed-matter physics, not astro, but I had a friend in astrophysics whose thesis was basically "here are 6 projects of varying sizes that I did.")

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@vanessakaybooks Yes, 1990s. But I only know it from reading Discworld (Going Postal, I believe).

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Laurel A @anderspawn

4 years ago

@toomanyspectra Dang it, I just started a postdoc at UW and never worked up the courage to say hi! I've enjoyed your tweets (about science, dice and everything else), so...I guess I'll just keep doing that. Good luck!