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Olivia Lanes
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Olivia Lanes
@Liv_Lanes
Global Lead, IBM Quantum advocacy & education| PhD @PittTweet | @DickinsonCol | “Sufficiently amusing” | Ask me about my qubit.
- I asked my boyfriend to edit the introduction of my thesis and he actually had the audacity to edit it and not just tell me it was excellent.
- hi physics expert here! this isn’t cute! oxygen atoms only do this when they are rapidly stripped of their electrons!!The Aurora Borealis made and appearance in Southern Ontario and pretty much most of the world tonight
00:00 - The brain drain is happening now. Reddit is flooded with kids who planned to do their STEM PhDs looking for advice to apply in Europe. All because a huge chunk of people in this country can’t admit that actually, having smart people around is good and we should listen to them
- Replying to @Liv_LanesI told this same man I had a viral tweet going and he said, I kid you not, “viral means over 40k likes in 4 hours so no.”
- Replying to @Liv_LanesUpdate! The man now admits, “yes, ok it’s viral now! Please ask the internet people to stop telling you to dump me.”
- Replying to @Liv_Lanesjust kidding it’s breathtaking af and I’m super bitter NYC was cloudy last night
- Physicists: i want to study the fundamental nature of reality Also physicists: ...turns out that was too hard so here’s a questionable approximation
- I love when you open a copy of a physics textbook and you realize its previous own was really going through some shit
- Replying to @Liv_LanesI truly believe a huge part of this can be blamed on ego. Egos of the people who felt inferior because at some point it became hard to understand. But also egos of the well educated, working in their own fields who turned their noses up at edu opportunities for the public.
