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1/3 "There. It will scar, which is good. A scar is not the mark of a mistake made, Natasha."
C. Brandon Ogbunu
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C. Brandon Ogbunu
@big_data_kane
Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist.
70% Smoke. 30% Stack.
Joined July 2009
- Atlanta: elderly African-American concierge sees me in the hotel lobby (dressed in jogging pants, a hoodie, baseball cap), greets me: "Let me guess! Cardiologist?" Wrong, of course, but this is the type of predictive algorithm I can live with. Also: only in Atlanta
- New for @WIRED on the college reopening "strategies." "The analogy writes itself: Higher education has acted like a bunch of students who didn’t prepare for an exam, and it’s trying to squirm, lie, and make excuses to get out of it.” I said what I said.
- "Antiracism in science must be about much more than challenging the bigoted greybeards of our past." I said what I said. New work for @sciam #BlackIntheIvory #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMindsMatter
- If the airline really can’t find my luggage, I’m going to give this department seminar in the Wu-Tang sweatsuit I wore to the airport Pray they don’t find it
- Prof @CarolynBertozzi responded to my random e-mail when I was a 20 y/o undergrad, met with me for 15 minutes, and gave me some perspective that really changed my life. (Too long for Twitter, maybe will detail later) The point: What a generous, inspiring person and scientist.BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
- Replying to @helenenothelen"Faces hard reality." Top 5 ever athlete loses to best current player in tennis. It's called sports. You should be ashamed of yourself.
- Giving a talk @MIT today, and the organizers asked me what song I want played as entry music. 😮 Let's normalize this ritual, please. --- 'Nas Is Like' (Nas, 1999) youtu.be/BHWATHUXPV0 (Clean version)
- New work @WIRED “….scientists can no longer justify silence in the name of objectivity or use the escape tactic of “leaving politics out of science.” Quashing Racist Pseudoscience Is Science’s Responsibility
- That poem got me out here believing
- Damn. ‘Women Dominated Beer Brewing Until They Were Accused of Being Witches’
- 1/2 Dr. JC Buckner (@bog_buckmoth) is too modest to share broadly, and so it is my privilege to be loud & and not-modest on her behalf (with her permission, of course): She was recently awarded her first NSF grant as a professor!! And she only JUST started her job 😀🙌🏿👊🏿
- My voting site: Black & brown faces everywhere, masked up, determined to vote. A DJ spinning the happy jams. Black teens wearing baseball caps directing traffic, giving out hand sanitizer. Black sororities running an info table. #Democracy
- Before I get upset, I remind myself that it was never designed to be fair. But then I get upset because it was never designed to be fair.BREAKING: U.S. magistrate rules Capitol riot suspect Eric Munchel to be released from jail pending trial, to be placed on home detention (except for work, etc.) supervised by a family friend, must not possess firearms, prohibited from traveling to DC except for legal reasons.
