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Read ItHi! I’m Tony Hey, the chief data scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK and a former vice president at Microsoft. I received a doctorate in particle physics from the U...
Read ItI’m Duncan Pritchard, Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. I work mainly in epistemology. In my ...
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Read ItThe moderators of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Professor Duncan Pritchard, Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy, UC Irvine & Professor of Philosophy, University of E...
Read ItWhat we do: Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that makes up 80% of the matter in the universe. We call it dark matter because it doesn’t emit or reflect any light or radiation, so it’s ba...
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Read ItHello Reddit, my name is David Linden and I’m a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In my lab, I study neural plasticity- the ability of the brain to be mo...
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Read ItThe moderators of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Dr Clare Chambers, University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. This AMA is the sixth in our...
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Read ItResearch on indoor environments has been conducted for decades, but new molecular tools and collaborative efforts are generating a deeper understanding of the complex interactions among human occup...
Read ItEDIT 4:35 pm ET: Thank you all for your excellent questions. It's been a lot of fun sharing our science with you. We're signing off now. We have just published a study detailing “Steve,” an aurora...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Teun Bousema and I’m an epidemiologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. My research focuses on understand...
Read ItWe regret to hear that Stephen Hawking died tonight at the age of 76 We are creating a megathread for discussion of this topic here. The typical /r/science comment rules will not apply and we will...
Read ItOn February 16, my colleague Gerald Oppenheimer and I published an article in Science that challenged high-profile claims in the academic literature and popular press alleging that the sugar indust...
Read ItThe human microbiome is one of the most fascinating areas of science and medicine, and we’re just beginning to scratch the surface. Jack Gilbert is the Faculty Director at the Microbiome Center and...
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Read ItHi, I'm Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle. Kaggle is the world’s largest community of data scientists and machine learners with over 1.4 million members. Data scientists come to Kaggl...
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Read ItSince accepting its first patient in 2015, the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, has been working to find answers for patients with unknown d...
Read ItHello Reddit! We invited your burning questions about non-Newtonian fluids in Part 1 of our lab's AMA series last year, promising to test the most interesting ideas with real experiments. The time ...
Read ItVirtual reality, one of the most rapidly expanding areas of tech and gaming, is also playing important roles in the arenas of medicine and health – and for good reason! The ability to simulate expe...
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Read ItI'm Debra Satz, the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and co-host of the Philosophy Talk radio program. I grew up in the Bronx, and was the first of my family to go ...
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Read ItHello, we are Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Damien Mansell, climate scientists from the University of Exeter. Together, our research looks into the science of Climate Change. We’re also passionate ed...
Read ItAre you on a first-name basis with Siri, Cortana, or your Google Assistant? If so, you’re both using AI and helping researchers like us make it better. Until recently, few people believed the fiel...
Read ItAs transportation emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have decreased due to stricter controls on air pollution, the relative importance of chemical products such as pesticides, coatings,...
Read ItDiscoveries of planets outside our solar system have burst from a trickle to a flood in recent years, transforming our understanding of the Universe. NASA's Kepler exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and ...
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Read ItHi, I’m Dr. Anne Carpenter, I lead a computational research group at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. My Ph.D. is in cell biology and my lab’s expertise is in developing and applying algorit...
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Read ItThe United States is currently experiencing an opioid crisis. The CDC website has some chilling facts: The majority of drug overdose deaths (66%) involve an opioid. In 2016, the number of overdose ...
Read ItThe moderators of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Professor Debra Satz, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and co-host of the Philosophy Talk...
Read ItHi reddit, I’m a physicist at the University of Bath, UK, working on microscopy and automated instrumentation. I’m very interested in using and developing open source hardware for scientific appli...
Read ItHi Reddit About us: Dr. Cheryl Stucky: Hi! I am a Marvin Wagner Endowed Professor in the department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and the Neuroscience Doctoral Program Director, at ...
Read ItI am Anna Alexandrova, currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. Born and bred in Russia (a city of Krasnodar in the northern ...
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Read ItUnfortunately, that's all the time we have to answer your questions today. Thanks, everyone for your engaging questions! Follow: @MIT, @MITEngineering, @MIT_CSAIL, and @mitbrainandcog to continue t...
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Read ItHi Reddit, We are Dr Anne Leonard and Dr William Gaze from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (http://www.ecehh.org/), based at the University of Exeter Medical School. We are her...
Read ItHello Reddit, I am Brenda Moore, Ph.D., a neuroscientist in Dr. Todd Golde’s lab at the University of Florida. We conduct disease-oriented research with a focus on Alzheimer’s and other neurodegene...
Read ItThe mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Dr Anna Alexandrova, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. This ...
Read ItI am Derek DuBois the founder of DOCjobs, the leading recruiting site specifically focused on careers in industry for people with advanced biomedical degrees. DOC started with a drinks meeting for...
Read ItThe reach of genomics is wide-ranging and can touch on many different aspects of society from forensics, to how we understand our ancestry, to the promise of precision medicine for all individuals ...
Read It*The ARTEMIS mission has two spacecraft in orbit around the Moon, collecting data on how the Moon and the Sun interact. Yes, the Moon landings were real. Now that that is out of the way, we are a...
Read ItHi Reddit! I am Dr. Izumi Tabata, a professor at Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Sport and Health Science in Japan. More than 20 years ago, I reported that high-intensity interval traini...
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Read ItI am Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. I work and publish in a number of area of ethics, including ethical theory, moral psychology, practi...
Read ItHello Reddit! I’m Charles Day and I’m the editor-in- chief of Physics Today. The magazine goes out every month to the 100,000 members of the 10 professional societies that belong to the American In...
Read ItHi Reddit, I am David Zappulla, an NIH-funded researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine. I am here so you can Ask Me Anything...
Read ItThe mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy and Director, California Center for Ethics and Policy, California State Polytechnic Univ...
Read ItThe Doudna lab's research on CRISPR biology led to the 2012 discovery of the mechanism by which small RNAs direct the protein Cas9 to bind and cut specific DNA sequences within cells, thereby alter...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Steven Strogatz and I’m the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, New York. I have broad interests in applied mathematics. At the beginning of ...
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Read ItThank you everyone who sent in questions! That was a fun hour. Must run, but I'll come back later and address those that I couldn't get to in 60 minutes. Means a lot to me to see all of this excite...
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Read ItIt seems that every time a significant weather event is forecast, there’s a race to hype its impacts and severity on social media in order to catch eyeballs. But what was once limited to competitiv...
Read ItHi reddit, I'm Hilary Lawson - post-realist philosopher, director of the Institute of Art and Ideas and founder of the world's largest philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn. Born and rai...
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Read ItWater scarcity poses a severe threat to all humankind, with rapidly growing demand pressuring already-constrained water resources, many of which are unsustainable. Figuring out where our water ends...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Dave Topham and I’m a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. I’m also a member of the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology and d...
Read ItThe mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Hilary Lawson, Director of the Institute of Art and Ideas, Founder of the HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy festival and Vice Chair o...
Read ItHi everyone, happy to be here! Hyperhidrosis is a common condition, approx 3% of people deal with excessive sweating from their armpits, palms or soles of feet. It can be debilitating, the sweating...
Read ItOnly 15% of the surface of the Earth is not water, desert, ice or mountain. For humans, a tropical, low altitude, air-breathing animal, this means most of the planet represents a hostile or extreme...
Read ItHello Reddit! My name is Tom Pering and I am currently a Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield. My research focuses on the gases which volcanoes release. In particular, I am interested ...
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Read ItHi! I'm Daniel Blumenthal, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering specializing in optical communications and photonic integration at the University of California – Santa Barbara, Fellow...
Read ItAsk us about NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery, which was made using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demo...
Read ItHi Reddit! This is Johna Leddy, president of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). I’m joined by Jeff Fergus, editor of the Society’s official meeting proceedings, ECS Transactions (ECST). Today we’d ...
Read ItI am Jonardon Ganeri, Professor of Philosophy, Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. I studied Mathematics at Cambridge, including an MMath in Theoretical Physics, before turning to Philosophy, whi...
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Read ItHi Reddit, my name is Siobhán Cooke, and I’m an anatomy professor and paleontologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. My research (mostly) focuses on two things: 1) The evo...
Read ItWelcome to our new semi-regular Science Issues Discussion. This month, the discussion topic is net neutrality and potential impacts on science, science communication, education, and and informed ci...
Read ItHello, we are scientists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta Canada. The Royal Tyrrell Museum is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of paleo...
Read ItHi! We're a trio of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , home to people who invent brain-controlled robots, the World Wide Web, and a real version of that ...
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Read ItACS AMA Hello Reddit! We are M.G. Finn and Alexandre Marques, collaborators on the development of vaccines and diagnostic reagents against parasitic diseases. We recently published our research o...
Read ItHello, Reddit! My name is Aydogan Ozcan, and I am currently a Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA, in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering. I am also an HHMI Professor at the Howard...
Read ItVariations at the genomic level can have huge implications for how we understand our similarities and differences in disease risk, and even for how we respond to certain prescriptions or medical in...
Read ItWe’re climate scientists Katharine Hayhoe from Texas Tech and Bob Kopp from Rutgers. We were both Lead Authors on the recent Climate Science Special Report (https://science2017.globalchange.gov/) t...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Nathan Cummins, and I am the Research Chair in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Mayo Clinic Rochester. My research focuses on studying how HIV prevents cell death i...
Read ItHello r/science! From space, NASA has been keeping an eye on Earth’s energy supply from the Sun for more than 40 years. For a long time, scientists assumed the Sun’s energy output was unwavering, ...
Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit, I’m Terri Woods! I am an Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at East Carolina University (ECU). In 1971 I entered the University of Delaware with the goal of teaching hig...
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Read ItHi Reddit! I'm Ulrik Wisløff. I head the Cardiac Exercise Research Group and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Exercise in Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In 2005, my resea...
Read ItHi, we're NASA engineers working on space communications technologies that will help create an interplanetary internet. When data travels vast distances like the 30+ million miles to Mars, the pote...
Read ItThe mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Rivka Weinberg, Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College, who works on procreative ethics, bioethics and the metaphysics of li...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Caspar Hallmann and I am PhD candidate at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. My research focuses on population dynamics of birds and plants in relation to l...
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Read ItHi reddit! I’m Dr Todd Hartman, Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science at the Sheffield Methods Institute in the UK. I am also the SMI’s Q-Step Director and a Statistical Ambassador for the Roya...
Read ItEDIT: .... and that's a wrap! Thank you all for your great questions. We had so much fun answering them. We look forward to interacting with you again in the future! Hi Reddit! We are Martin Van ...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Judy Baumhauer, a professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Rochester and medical director of PROMIS, a computerized assessement system that captures and tracks patients’ persp...
Read ItThe Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is hosting the SETAC North America 38th annual meeting this week and we have tied this AMA to a specific session, “Microplastics in the...
Read ItThe Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is hosting the SETAC North America 38th annual meeting this week and we have tied this AMA to a specific session, “Pharmaceuticals in t...
Read ItAt NASA, we use the vantage point of space to study Earth and the life it contains. And, so far, our planet is the only one with life (that we know of). The more we learn, the more this question co...
Read ItACS AMA Hello Reddit, my name is Aaron Wheeler. I am Professor of Chemistry (with a cross-appointment in Biomedical Engineering) at the University of Toronto. I also serve as Associate Editor of L...
Read ItMy name is Nicola Jones, and I am a freelance science journalist who writes for Yale Environment 360, Nature, New Scientist, Sapiens and more. My scientific background is in chemistry and oceanogra...
Read ItAt a time when hundreds of federal rules are being rolled-back to weaken or eliminate environmental safeguards, I feel we’re at a critical moment in our effort to promote and maintain strategies th...
Read ItHi Reddit, my name is Seth Blackshaw and I’m a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. My research focuses on identifying the network of genes that controls ho...
Read ItWe’re Radley Horton, Lamont Associate Research Professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York and Sarah Doherty, Senior Research Scientist at the Joint I...
Read ItHi Reddit, The mammalian immune system is fascinatingly complex. Our understanding of how the immune system recognizes and responds to foreign pathogens has increased tremendously in the last 100 ...
Read ItI am Joel Thornton, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. My research focuses on microscopic nano-scale particles in the atmosphere, where they come from, and what they...
Read ItHi, we're Drs. Ben Poulter (NASA), Thomas Gumbricht (CIFOR), David Olefeldt (University of Alberta) and Etienne Fluet-Chouinard (University of Wisconsin) --- we study techniques to map wetlands aro...
Read ItHello, I'm Joe Scherrer. I spent the first part of my career as an information technology and cybersecurity innovator with the U.S. Air Force, culminating as the commander of the Air Force’s only c...
Read ItHi there, r/science! We are postdoctoral researchers (aka postdocs) at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle who are forming a postdoc union. Postdocs are researchers in academic labs who h...
Read ItThe International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) conducts scientific ocean drilling expeditions throughout the world’s oceans in search of clues to Earth’s structure and past. Right now we are cur...
Read ItHello Reddit, I’m Michael S. Okun. I received my M.D. from the University of Florida and was also trained at Emory University, one of the world’s leading centers for movement disorders research. ...
Read ItWhat can research studies on man’s best friend tell us about ourselves? As it turns out, quite a lot! That’s exactly what we’re doing as scientists who run the NHGRI Dog Genome Project. Dogs are a...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Lillian L. M. Shapiro and I am a postdoctoral scientist at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on how environmental changes affect the biology of mosquitoes and the di...
Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! Robert Strongin and Jiries Meehan-Atrash here from Portland State University. We recently had a paper in ACS Omega entitled “Toxicant Formation in Dabbing: The Terpene Story” (h...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Dr Sarah Malik, a dark matter researcher at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. In October 2015 I was awarded a grant from the Royal Society to carry out research on pro...
Read ItMicrobiome We examined over 1000 super-healthy participants in China (http://msphere.asm.org/content/2/5/e00327-17). Not an easy task in any country especially when the criteria included no histor...
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Read ItHi Reddit! I’m David Moreau and I’m a cognitive neuroscientist in the department of Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. My research focuses on the dynamics and plasticity of cogn...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Ke Lan and I am a professor and the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Virology at Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China. My researches focus on the mechanism of latent in...
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Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! Darla Henderson and Marshall Brennan here from ACS Publications! We are responsible for ChemRxiv a preprint server for chemistry launched in fully functioning beta form with str...
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Read ItHello, Reddit! I’m Steven Munger and I’m fascinated by how animals, including humans make sense of the chemosensory world…everything from how smell and taste influence which foods we choose to eat,...
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Read ItACS AMA Hello Reddit! My name is Warren Chan, and I am currently Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Toronto. I also serve as Associate Editor of ACS Nano. I am ...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Mark Dallas, I am a Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, where I have worked for 4 years, after postdoctoral posi...
Read ItHi Reddit, We are Alan Scott, Ph.D., a geneticist and Associate Professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and Stacie Robison, Ph.D., a resea...
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Read ItACS AMA Hey Reddit folks! My name is Charley Trowbridge and I am the Director of Peer Review Operations at the ACS. Along with my group, which consists of 15 team members distributed around the c...
Read ItHello Reddit! We are: Hakhamanesh Mostafavi: Graduate student in biology at Columbia University Molly Przeworski: Professor of biology at Columbia University Joe Pickrell: CEO at personal genomi...
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Read ItHello Reddit, My name is Jackson Champer and I am postdoc at Cornell. My research focuses on gene drives, which are genes designed to spread rapidly through populations. A successful gene drive in...
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Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! I’m Alexa Billow. I’m a writer for ACS Reactions https://www.youtube.com/user/ACSReactions, a YouTube show about chemistry from the American Chemical Society and PBS Digital Stu...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Johannes Hegemann and I am Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Institute for Functional Microbial Genomics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany. And...
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Read ItHey Reddit! We’re a group of scientists and engineers from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- a philanthropic organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. We’re working to help cure, ...
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Read ItMy name is Dr. Gerard A. Silvestri. I’m an international expert in lung cancer and interventional pulmonology. I am the President of the American College of Chest Physicians, the George Sr. and Mar...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Ben Halpern and I am a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis &a...
Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Donna Huryn. I am a medicinal chemist at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy and have an adjunct appointment at the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn’...
Read It*** THIS AMA IS NOW OVER, BUT I WILL CHECK BACK FROM TIME TO TIME TO ANSWER ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED. I WISH YOU CLEAR SKIES ON AUGUST 21! *** I hope you’ve got pl...
Read ItThat's all we have time to answer now! Thanks for all your pulsar related questions. You can stay up-to-date on the mission here: https://www.nasa.gov/nicer. And learn more technical information ab...
Read ItHi Reddit! My name is Seema Jayachandran, and I’m an economics professor at Northwestern University, specializing in low-income countries. I am affiliated with the Poverty Action Lab at MIT (J-PA...
Read ItHi Reddit! We lead the Center for Science and Democracy at Union of Concerned Scientists. Our work focuses on strengthening democracy by advancing the role of science, evidence-based decisionmaking...
Read ItTomorrow marks 5 years since the Curiosity rover's dramatic landing on the red planet! The rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite onboard Curiosity is the most complicated instrumen...
Read ItWe are members of Livermore Computing (LC) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. LC is home to some of the world's fastest supercomputers, including Sequoia...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Samuel Kou and I am a Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. My research interests include infectious disease tracking and forecasting, big data analytics, mathemati...
Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Suzanne Bell, and I am the Chair of the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science at West Virginia University. I teach and conduct research in analytical and fo...
Read ItHi Reddit, I’m Susanna Rosi and I’m interested in understanding why our brain loses the ability to learn and form new memories. One of the models we investigate is physical trauma, such as concussi...
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Read ItHi reddit! I am a MD, board certified psychiatrist, fellow of the European Committee of Sexual medicine and clinical sexologist (NACS), and a member of the World Professional Association for Trans...
Read ItHi reddit! We are Dr. Julie Thompson, Dr. Alexis Drutchas, Dr. Danielle O'Banion and trans patient advocate, Cei Lambert, and we work at Fenway Health in Boston. Fenway is a large community health ...
Read ItI am Karim Brohi, a trauma surgeon and director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences at Barts Health and Queen Mary University & London. The Centre for Trauma Sciences has a broad research into al...
Read ItHi reddit! My name is Ralph Vetters, and I am the Medical Director of the Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center, a program of Fenway Health. Hailing originally from Texas and Missouri, I graduated from ...
Read ItACS AMA Hi—we’re Raychelle Burks and Brandon Presley. We recently attended the 2017 IUPAC General Assembly and World Chemistry Congress, held July 8-14 in São Paulo, Brazil, as part of the U.S. Yo...
Read ItHi reddit, my name is Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, and I have spent the last 11 years working with gender non-conforming and transgender children, adolescents and young adults. I am the Medical Direc...
Read ItHi reddit! I’m Joshua Safer and I serve as the Medical Director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the BU School of ...
Read ItThis week we will be hosting a series of AMAs addressing the scientific and medical details of being transgender. Honest questions that are an attempt to learn more on the subject are invited, and...
Read ItHi Redditors, we are Robert N. Shelton and Patrick McCarthy, and we’re here to talk about what it takes to build the world’s largest telescope with all of you today. The Giant Magellan Telescope (G...
Read ItHi, Reddit! I’m Debbie Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., acting chair and professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester (URMC), New York. My lab conducts researc...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Roger Lemon, I am a just-retired Professor of Neurophysiology at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, where I worked for 22 years, after university posts in Sheffield, Melbourne,...
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Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Neelesh A. Patankar, and I am the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence and Associate Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northw...
Read ItI’m Dr. Adrian Owen, a professor of neuroscience, here to answer your questions about our breakthroughs in brain science. I’ve been fascinated with the human brain for more than 25 years: how it w...
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Read ItHi Reddit, I’m Professor Winfried Hensinger, and me and my team at the University of Sussex are working on constructing the world’s first large-scale quantum computer – the most powerful computer i...
Read ItNeonicotinoids are a group of pesticides that can be applied as seed coatings and are designed to protect crops such as oilseed rape (also known as canola), but were banned by the EU in 2013 due to...
Read ItHi reddit! Since 1987 I have been an academic neurosurgeon at Stanford University. During my professional career I also invented the CyberKnife, and in doing so, the field of image-guided radiatio...
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Read ItHi Reddit, I am Sara Carazo, a medical doctor working for a long time with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières). In 2005 I participated to the MSF response to a Marburg epidemic in Angola and in December...
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Read ItI am an animal geneticist at UC Davis with a strong interest in science communication. I am in the documentary film called Food Evolution which is showing in New York City this week at Village East...
Read ItEDIT: David Lombardi will not be joining today's chat. Hi Reddit, My name is Dorothee Fischer and I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. My research fo...
Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Nathan Gianneschi and I research nanomaterials at the University of California, San Diego, but I am moving my laboratory to Northwestern University; coming soon, at t...
Read ItI am Andrew Yau, Professor of Physics at University of Calgary, Canada, and Editor of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a research journal published by AGU focusing on high-impact scientific adva...
Read ItHey Reddit, Last month, I published a story for Undark Magazine (https://undark.org/article/virus-hunters-ebola-usaid-predict/) on a remarkable team of virus hunters in the Democratic Republic of ...
Read ItDisability labels are intended to improve children's learning struggles by providing them with extra supports and accommodations. Not only it is unclear whether these supports make a difference but...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Sarka Lisonkova and I am an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. My research focuses on risk factors and deter...
Read ItACS AMA I am Mircea Dincă, and I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at MIT, leading a lab focused on the design and synthesis of new materials for energy and environmental applications. In par...
Read ItHi Reddit! As we travel around the world and our economies become more globalised, plant and animal species are declining and in some cases disappearing due to the arrival of invasive non-native s...
Read ItThe mission of my research program is to accurately detect risk, especially for suicidal behavior, for all people at all points in time. To this end, there are four major elements of my research: (...
Read ItI am David Baratoux, Senior Researcher and geologist at the Institute of Research for Sustainable Developement (IRD), France, and Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research, Planets. I spent 15 year...
Read ItHi reddit, I’m Steve Bradbury, a professor of environmental toxicology at Iowa State University. My research spans pesticide resistance management, pollination services and monarch butterfly conse...
Read ItVector-borne diseases – infectious diseases that are carried between humans or from animals to humans by organisms such as mosquitoes and ticks – infect over 1 billion people and cause more than 1 ...
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Read ItI am Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the Executive Producer and Host of the Hi-Phi Nation podcast, the first story-driven documentary-style show about philosophy....
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Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Nicholas Staropoli a science journalist, director of the Epigenetics Literacy Project and a writer/editor for the Genetic Literacy Project—two initiatives of the 501c3 non-profit Sci...
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Read ItACS AMA Hi Reddit! My name is Mallory Hinks. I recently defended my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry at University of California, Irvine. For the last 5 years as a graduate student, I have worked fo...
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Read ItThe International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) conducts scientific ocean drilling expeditions throughout the world’s oceans in search of clues to Earth’s structure and past. Many people will kno...
Read ItThe mods of /r/philosophy are pleased to announce an upcoming AMA by Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the Executive Producer and Host of philosophy podcast Hi-Phi ...
Read ItHi, Reddit! I’m Eddie Schwarz, Ph.D., Burton professor of Orthopaedics and director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. ...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Hui Wu, a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My research focuses on microbial molecular mechanisms that contribute to oral infectious diseases, such as de...
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Read ItHi, I’m Dr. Bonnie Buratti, and I’ve worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 35 years. Most recently I’ been on the following missions: Cassini to Saturn, New Horizons to Pluto, and Rosetta ...
Read ItThis past academic year the moderators of /r/philosophy organised an ongoing AMA series with 18 different philosophers working on a variety of different topics, from metaphysics to logic, bioethics...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Dr. David Robertson and I am Teaching & Research Fellow at the School of Psychological Sciences & Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). My research focuse...
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Read ItHi Reddit! My name is Corinne Le Quéré. I am a scientist and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. I work on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle. I s...
Read ItHi, Reddit! I’m Stephenie Livingston, and I’m here to talk about my experiences covering science for UF News and anything else you’d like to ask me about science communication. My job is to help s...
Read ItHi, reddit! There are so many things we don’t know about the Universe. For example: What is most of the Universe made of? What is dark matter? Where does dark energy come from? Why does the un...
Read ItA third of all human disease is related to the nervous system. That’s why President Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative. That’s why the two of us have devoted our lives to studying the brain. We ar...
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Read ItThe Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe is hosting the 27th European annual meeting this week and has asked experts from across academia, government and industry to an...
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Read ItHi Reddit! We are Scott France (deep-sea biologist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Del Bohnenstiehl (geophysicist, North Carolina State University), Michael White (NOAA seafloor mapping exp...
Read ItHi reddit! The NanoCar Race is an event organized by the CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, in which molecular machines compete on a nano-sized racetrack. These "NanoCars" o...
Read ItI am Jeff Moore (http://tinyurl.com/k5bz36x) assistant professor of Geological Engineering in the Department of Geology and Geophysics (http://www.earth.utah.edu/) at the University of Utah. I stud...
Read ItSevere weather touches every state in the U.S. Tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, hail, strong winds and floods are real threats to our property and our lives. NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed works to...
Read ItUpdate: We just learned Kristen, MFSSF lead organizer, will not be joining this AMA. Stephanie will be representing MFSSF in this forum. Hi Reddit, My name is Valorie Aquino, and I am a PhD Cand...
Read ItACS AMA Hello, Reddit! I’m Prof. James E. Patterson of Brigham Young University. I completed my B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry at BYU, and my Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of I...
Read ItHello Reddit! My name is Marie Bragg, and I am the director of the SeedProgram at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Population Health. I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Ya...
Read ItHello Reddit! I am Dr. Beau Lotto, a neuroscientist fascinated with human perception for over 25 years now. Originally from Seattle, Washington, I have lived in the United Kingdom for over twenty y...
Read ItMillions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents. But alarmingly, scarce attention has been pai...
Read ItHi reddit! My team’s research is focused on measuring spatial disorientation, i.e. getting lost in everyday environments, in dementia. To investigate these symptoms we use virtual reality and real...
Read ItHello reddit! I’m Cathy Spong, and I am deputy director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). At NICHD, we focus on the entire life proce...
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Read ItHi Reddit, I’m Francisco Fornasiero, a Staff Scientist within the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate at LLNL and I am part of a team working on the development of highly breathable “smart” mat...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Raina Plowright and I am an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Montana State University. I use field, lab and modeling approaches to understand how pathogens persist in w...
Read ItHello Redditors! I’m Elad Yom-Tov, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. I am a Machine Learning and Information Retrieval researcher, and for the past few years my work has focused on usi...
Read ItHey everyone, I'm Marko Russiver, founder & CEO of Guaana, a digital platform where scientists connect to each other and collaborate on open and private multidisciplinary projects. I’m here ...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Gerbrand Ceder, though I go by "Gerd" as my first name. I'm the lead scientist for multi-valent batteries at the Joint Center for Energy Storage at Berkeley Lab, and a faculty scie...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Simon “Niels” Groen and I am post-doctoral fellow at New York University. My research focuses on plant-microbe-insect interactions. I am joined by Nik Cunniffe, a University ...
Read ItHi! I'm Caspar Hare. I'm a Professor of Philosophy at MIT. I work on ethics, rationality and I am currently running an edX course: Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness, whi...
Read ItHi Reddit! Karl here. I am a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. I have a successful research group with over 100 publications and 5 patents on the design and app...
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Read ItAs previously announced, /r/philosophy is hosting an AMA series this fall semester which kicks off this upcoming Tuesday August 30th, 1PM EST. Caspar Hare, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, will be...
Read ItHello, reddit! I am Tyler VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and I study the mechanisms by which religion and spirituality affect health outco...
Read ItReddit-ors! As someone who started off as a drug designer in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries I have always had a keen interest in natural products. Consequently I have worked for many ye...
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Read ItHello Reddit. As mentioned above, we are Jack, Jevon and Richard. We are Qico. While we aim to transition the funeral services industry to our water based cremation service, what brought us toge...
Read ItHi reddit! I’m Sarah Richardson. I specialize in the design of genomes and the creation of all the technological tools necessary to be able to write this sentence with a straight face. I work on ...
Read ItHello Reddit! We are: Yaniv Erlich: Professor of computer science at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center Joe Pickrell: Professor of biology at Columbia University and the New York ...
Read ItNature provides us with a wide toolbox of enzymes as biocatalysts, we just need to refine them in order to fit to our process. I am a biologist by training, but thoughout my academic career I alway...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Susanne Sokolow and I am a disease ecologist and a Research Associate at Stanford University. My research focuses on feedbacks between health and the natural environment. I...
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Read ItHi Reddit, I am Stefano Tonzani, Executive Editor for ACS Omega (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/acsodf ), the new multidisciplinary open access journal from the American Chemical Society. My backgrou...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Karen Mustian, an associate professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center. I’ve been studying exercise for cancer patients for 12 years, and several of my team’s studies ...
Read ItPurple Tuesdays, words that taste like buttered toast, or experiencing the calendar as a winding line in the space around you - these are all examples of synesthetic experiences. The synesthesia re...
Read ItHi reddit! I am Kevin Lothridge, CEO of the National Forensic Science Technology Center (NFSTC) in Largo, Florida. I’ve been working in forensic science since taking my first job nearly 30 years a...
Read ItHi reddit! I first became interested in facial recognition when one of my patients mistook me for George Michael, of Wham fame. While somewhat flattering and very funny, it also provided an insigh...
Read ItHi everyone, I’m Nerida Wilson Senior Research Scientist at the Museum of Western Australia and Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Western Australia. I work in phylogenetics, biodiversity and s...
Read ItHello Reddit! We are excited to be here to share our expertise in the field of fabrication and testing of mirrors and other optical surfaces. Joining me (Dae Wook) in answering questions are my st...
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Read ItHi Reddit! Stigma is a Greek term, denoting a literal mark or brand burned into the skin of members of groups deemed unfit for society. In modern times most stigma is psychological, referring to t...
Read ItHi Reddit! Ask me anything about the chemistry of disinfecting water for swimming pools or other treatment needs!* I’m Susan D. Richardson, Ph.D., the Arthur Sease Williams Professor of Chemistr...
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Read ItThanks so much for all the great questions! It is clear that IBS is so important. We will keep working on this disease. Sorry I could not get to all of you. Hopefully we can do this again soon. I h...
Read ItHi reddit! I became interested in science because I grew up in India having access to clean water for only about a couple of hours each day, where we also had limited access to reliable power. Yea...
Read ItHi Reddit! I am Steven Hauck, a planetary scientist, professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Case Western Reserve University, and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Geophysica...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Ken Tape and I am a Research Scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. My research focuses on the effects of climate change on the landscape, including its soils, vege...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Dr. Wilfredo Colon. Call me Freddy. I’m a Professor and the Chair in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (http://rpi.edu) in Troy, NY. ...
Read ItHi reddit! I became a scientist because I wanted to make a difference. I had prepared myself for a life of numbers, statistics and working in a lab. Never did I imagine that I would be travelling ...
Read ItHi reddit! After getting my PhD in organic chemistry, the first 27 years of my career were in new drug discovery—the lengthy process (typically 10-15 years) during which a potential drug will go f...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Nick Wareham and I am Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on the genetic and environmental determinants of type 2 diabet...
Read ItI’m Tina Saey, the molecular biology reporter at Science News magazine. I’m a former scientist turned journalist. I write about things microscopic and molecular like cells and DNA and how they aff...
Read ItHey Reddit--I’m Elaine. I’m a producer for the American Chemical Society’s Reactions YouTube series, where we discuss everyday chemistry. We’ve covered topics ranging from “Is It OK To Pee In The ...
Read ItHi Redditors, I’m Pat McCarthy, and I’m looking forward to talking about life as a working astronomer with you! A little about me: I’m best known for my work observing the formation of the earliest...
Read ItHi reddit! In series one of Dexter, we learn that signs of Dexter Morgan’s psychopathic behaviour began to appear in childhood. In one flashback, he confesses to killing a neighbour’s dog and to t...
Read ItHi redditors! We are Steve Goodman and Andrea Schumacher and we are excited to talk to you about NOAA’s GOES-R, a state-of-the art satellite set to launch November 4, 2016 that will transform hurri...
Read ItUnfortunately, that's all the time we have to answer your questions today. Thanks to everyone for your fantastic questions! Follow @MIT_alumni, @MITMeche, #MITBetterWorld to continue to get news ar...
Read ItHi Reddit, We are Jessie Abbate, Carmen Lia Murall, and Christian Althaus, infectious disease researchers collaborating between France (Research Institute for Development), Switzerland (University...
Read ItHi Reddit! I am Darlene Cavalier and I’m a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Center for Engagement and Training, part of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. Help...
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Read ItGreetings--My name is Carl Zimmer. I'm a contributing national correspondent for Stat, a new online publication about medicine and life sciences. (You can find out more at http://carlzimmer.com ) ...
Read ItHi reddit! I'm Sam Arbesman, Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm investing in emerging science and technology startups, where I help explore what the future of science an...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Dave Petley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Geology at the University of East Anglia in the UK. I also run the Landslide Blog, which sits on the website of the A...
Read ItHi Reddit! I’m Dave Petley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Geology at the University of East Anglia in the UK. I also run the Landslide Blog, which sits on the website of the A...
Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Jorge Ahumada and I am the executive director of the TEAM Network at Conservation International. Ahumada completed his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton Un...
Read ItHi Reddit! We are leaders of a global research effort to identify and characterize the mechanisms responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes (and related conditions including obesity) usin...
Read ItHey Reddit, I am a Harvard-trained medical doctor. I have been in practice for 30 years and for the past 15 years I have been using medical cannabis as part of my practice. I have recently publish...
Read ItHi Reddit! I am Shib Mookherjea, Principal of Val Qual International, a Consulting/Training company offering various advisory and Management Training services to the Pharma, Biotech, and Medical ...
Read ItHi Reddit, I am currently CSO of Collaborative Drug Discovery, CEO of Phoenix Nest, CEO of Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc and CSO of the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation and I am on the Edito...
Read ItHello Reddit! I’m excited to take this time to answer your questions and engage in thought-provoking dialogue around a topic I care very much about – optical communications. As you may know, optic...
Read ItHi reddit! We are scientists working to directly image planets around other stars in our galaxy using the world’s biggest ground-based telescopes. Directly imaging the faint light of planets orbit...
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Read ItHi Reddit, My name is Courtney Lane-Donovan, and I am an MD/PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. I’m interested in the underlying bi...
Read ItHi Reddit we are scientists from Toronto/Boston working on improving the use of nanomedicine in the clinic. If you're curious about our list of credentials: Shawn Stapleton PhD, Research Fellow at...
Read ItHello Reddit, I am a professor of Chemistry (as well as Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Medicine) and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at No...
Read ItHello, Reddit! We are: Gonçalo Abecasis, professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan’s Center for Statistical Genetics (UM / CSG) Scott Vrieze, professor of Psychology & Neurosci...
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Read ItHi Reddit! I am Brian Hogg and I’m the Senior Historic Preservation Planner at the University of Virginia (http://www.officearchitect.virginia.edu/index.php/historic-preservation). I work with a sm...