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For our 2020 graphic tracking real-time results, we worked with data scientist Andrew Therriault to create an exclusive voter-turnout model. Our live election map includes a state-by-state breakdow...
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Hi Reddit, I’m Tom Smith, MD for the UK’s Data Science Campus as part of the Office for National Statistics. I have 20 years’ experience using data and analysis to improve public services and am a ...
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We’re Jessica Holzberg and Ashley Amaya, both survey research methodologists based in Washington, D.C. Questions abound regarding the value and reliability of survey research, including federal dat...
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We’re Jessica Holzberg and Ashley Amaya, both survey research methodologists based in Washington, D.C. Questions abound regarding the value and reliability of survey research, including federal dat...
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Hi reddit! We're a group of scientists and advocates who believe that the traditional genetics research model is outdated. We think that people who participate in genetic studies should be involved...
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Hi reddit! This month the UN is holding its Climate Action Summit, it is New York City's Climate Week next week, today is the Global Climate Strike, earlier this month was the Asia Pacific Climate ...
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Hello, Reddit! We are a team of conservationists and scientists here to discuss artisanal and small-scale mining, its surprising importance to some of our most beloved possessions, and its effects ...
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Hello r/dataisbeautiful! We are Steven Rich, Aaron Williams and Andrew Ba Tran of The Washington Post’s data and design team!
We've compiled a comprehensive database on the sale of pain pills whic...
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Hi reddit! We’ve known since the 1800’s that pathogenic microbes are the cause of contagious diseases that have plagued humankind. However, it has only been over the last two decades that we have g...
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Hello Reddit! We are a group of scientists and engineers in academia and industry working on batteries and energy storage. Batteries are ubiquitous in our daily lives and we all have complained abo...
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Hi Reddit! Today's discussion is coming to us from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) and is a collaboration between r/science, LabX, and the Water, Science and Tech...
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Hi, I'm Alan Smith, Data visualisation editor at the Financial Times. I've just finished an experimental project at the FT to both visualise and sonify the historical yield curve - a large dataset ...
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Hi reddit! In honor of the Super Bowl yesterday, we have assembled a panel of clinicians and researchers who specialize in the study of traumatic brain injury (often referred to as concussions). TB...
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Thank you, readers of r/science, for helping us reach 20M subscribed redditors!
It's been a great path to 20M! Posts on r/science cover a diverse set of scientific fields; here is a chart of submi...
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Hi reddit! We're medical doctors who specialize in sexual and reproductive health. We are here to provide honest and judgement-free answers to your questions about sex, sexual health, your body, re...
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Hi reddit! Last week, researchers announced at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing that they had altered the genomes of twin girls using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing approaches. Thi...
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Hi reddit! We are scientists from Ancestry, 23andMe, and Nebula Genomics, as well as an academic scientist who works with companies like these to utilize consumer DNA for research. We are here to t...
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Hi Reddit,
We are graduate students and postdocs in Professor Frances Arnold's research group at Caltech. We use directed evolution, the algorithm for which Frances won the Nobel Prize last week, ...
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Hi there, I work in the graphics department at the Financial Times website/newspaper where I have worked for over 22 years and have seen many changes in this industry over my career. My main area o...
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Today is World Hydrography Day! Hydrography is the science that measures and describes the physical features of bodies of water and the land areas adjacent to those bodies of water. Here at NOAA, w...
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Hi Reddit!
We are Derek Sowers (NOAA seafloor mapping expert), Kasey Cantwell (NOAA ocean explorer), Cheryl Morrison (research geneticist, USGS), and Leslie Sautter (geologist, College of Charles...
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Hi Reddit! We’re NOAA Fisheries scientists Cali Turner Tomaszewicz and Larisa Avens. We study sea turtles using a combination of cutting-edge technologies and we’re excited to share our latest rese...
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Last month, I published a long-form story for Undark Magazine on a tiny, obscure fish (the Delta smelt) that's on track to become the first fish to go extinct in the wild while under the protection...
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With AI becoming mainstream, how will it affect the way we interact with our devices and how we communicate with each other?
My name is Rana el Kaliouby, and I’m an Egyptian-American scientist and...
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EDIT 2:37 This is David Grae, signing off. Thanks so much for all the great questions, it was a blast. Be sure to tune in this fall for Madam Secretary's 5th season (fortunately, not post-apocalyp...
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Thanks for all your insightful questions. This was really thought-provoking and I enjoyed answering every one of them.
Find me on twitter as @thorogoodchris1 or Instagram @IllustratingBotanist
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I’m a graduate student in Curtis Suttle’s lab at the University of British Columbia (Canada) where our research focuses on aquatic microbiology. I study pathogens that infect protists –...
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Hello Reddit! I am excited to talk with you today. I’m Dr. Megin Nichols and I’m a veterinary epidemiologist at CDC. I work on multistate outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli infections that come fr...
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The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Europe is hosting the 28th European annual meeting this week in Rome, Italy and has asked experts from across academia, government and ...
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Hi! 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...
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I’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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Edit: Thanks everyone for the questions so far! I'll be taking a break, but I will periodically check back throughout the rest of the day and tomorrow as well if there are any more questions! This ...
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Edit: Thanks everyone! We're stepping away for now but might check back for new questions later. This was a blast, thanks for the great questions! -Eric and John
Hi! I’m John Hawks and I’m a paleo...
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The 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...
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What 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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Hi, I'm Adam Becker, PhD, an astrophysicist and science writer. My new book, What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, is about the scientists who bucked the establishm...
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Hello 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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I really do build AI, mostly myself to study natural intelligence (especially human cooperation), but with my PhD students I also work on making anthropomorphic AI like in computer game characters ...
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Michal Lipson, MacArthur Fellow, Eugene Higgins Professor Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
Professor Michal Lipson joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Columbia Universityhttp:...
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Update: We’re all finished answering questions for the day. Thank you for all of the great questions and interest in our work! Thanks, The Dunn Lab.
Microbes live everywhere, and are linked to eve...
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Our bodies have 37 trillion cells. And for decades, scientists have been sorting them into buckets of different types, such as neurons, skin cells, liver cells and so on. However, we still don't ha...
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We’re genetic counseling experts with the National Society of Genetic Counselors. Genetic counselors receive special training in two areas: genetics and counseling. We use our advanced training to ...
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The Smithsonian’s Center for Conservation Genomicshttps://nationalzoo.si.edu/center-for-conservation-genomics (CCG) uses genomics to better understand how we can care for and sustain genetically di...
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This Wednesday, April 25, we celebrate National DNA Day – a day which commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project! Flash forward 15 years later, we’re now at a time when taking a detail...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where I oversee the efforts of the largest public supporter of biomedical research in the world. Starting out...
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I’m [Michael Siegel]https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/michael-siegel/], MD, a public health researcher and public health advocate. I study firearm violence, a public health issue — particularly, the e...
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I’m Professor Tim Benton, Professor for Population Ecology at the University of Leeds and former UK Champion for Global Food Security.
At the moment, on a global basis, our food systems are not wo...
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I will return at 12PM EDT to answer questions live. Please feel free to leave questions ahead of time!
I am Clare Chambers, University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge....
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We are NASA Earth Scientists Susan Strahan and Anne Douglass and we recently published an article using satellite measurements to show that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is beginning to recover! An inte...
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We’re finding planets around other stars! So far we have discovered thousands of these exoplanets with missions like Kepler and K2. Today we’re at Kennedy Space Center eagerly awaiting the launch o...
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When severe weather strikes anywhere in the United States, weather radar is one of the most important tools forecasters use to track storms and warn the public. The current system, known as the WSR...
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Hi Reddit, happy to be here. I’m a thoracic surgeon at NYP/Columbia University specializing in disorders of the diaphragm. I’m the Surgical Director of the Diaphragm Center, Lung Volume Reduction P...
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In 2016, Web of Science (WoS) was sold to private equity and incorporated into Clarivate Analytics.
Our vision for WoS is both ambitious and long-term.
When used responsibly scientometrics and bi...
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The 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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The JOIDES Resolution (JR) is a research vessel that drills into the ocean floor to collect and study core samples. Scientists use data from the JR to better understandsubseafloor geology, tectonic...
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Hi Reddit! We are part of a big cross-university team that has been investigating what teaching practices are taking place in university classrooms.
We attended and documented over 2,000 class...
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Hi! I’m Ben Bergen, a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I study language, and my most recent book What the F is about the science of swearing. Profanity is special—it’s processed diff...
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My name is Clive Page and I am a Professor of Pharmacology at King’s College London and Director of the Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, King’s College London. I have spent my career wo...
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Hi Reddit, my name is Natalia Trayanova, and I’m a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins University. My lab uses predictive computer simulations to generate personalized...
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Just like last year, 2016
and 2015, we are not doing any April Fool's day jokes, nor are we allowing them. Please do not submit anything like that.
We are taking this opportunity to have a discu...
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EDIT: Thank you SO much for your very insightful and thought-provoking questions! We had a blast, and we are so excited so many of you are interested in medical physics! We're signing off for now, ...
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The YEARS Project is a multimedia storytelling and education effort designed to inform, empower, and unite the world in the face of climate change. We’ve had two seasons of storytelling on TV, firs...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Nathalie Miebach and I am Boston-based artist who translates scientific data related to ecology, climate change, and meteorology into woven sculptures and musical scores.
I ...
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Hi! We're Robert Katzschmann and Joseph DelPreto, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) who work in the field of soft robotics.
We just published a ...
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My name is Adam Welz and I’m a South Africa-based freelance journalist and contributor to Yale Environment 360 magazine, where I recently published the story, “Awaiting Day Zero: Cape Town Faces an...
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See the eLife flyer and this post for pictures!
Daniel Himmelstein (@dhimmel on Reddit, Steem, and Twitter) – Hi Reddit! I'm a data scientist in Casey Greene's lab at the University of Pennsylvani...
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Hello Reddit! We are filmmakers working with NOVA PBS on a film about artificial intelligence entitled NOVA Wonders: Can We Build a Brain. In the course of making the show, we spent a lot of time r...
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Immersive modes, such as Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality headsets, have the power to revolutionize how we work, play, teach, learn and shop. Enterprise already offers solutions for specific AR ...
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Hi Reddit, my name is Chris Ruff [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0000031/christopher-ruff], and I'm an anatomist and biological anthropologist at the Johns Hopki...
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Research 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...
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EDIT 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...
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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...
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We 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...
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On 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...
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The 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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Hi, I am Yaniv Erlich – the Chief Science Officer of MyHeritage and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. We published a paper yesterday in Science describing a family ...
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We do math in order to understand what has happened and what is happening, and one reason we want to understand those things is so we can make good guesses about what’s going to happen.
I’m Jordan...
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Our current focus is to solve the data challenge to model diseases the way they actually happen – where multiple factors from genes to lifestyle (how much you drink and smoke) work in parallel to p...
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Hi, 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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Multiple sclerosis is a devastating condition that affects the nervous system of young adults and results in significant disability.
Research in my group aims to understand the reasons for damage ...
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Since 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...
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Hello 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 ...
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Virtual 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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I’m Sandeep Mannava, M.D., Ph.D., an orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York and a volunteer physician for the U.S. Skii...
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Hi Reddit, this is Rob McKay and Laura De Santis, co-chief scientists on the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 374 to Antarctica. We’re pulling up sediments from below the sea...
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As director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, I lead a team of researchers focused on understanding the physical processes...
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I'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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Hi Reddit, my name is Albert Lau, and I’m a biophysics professor and computational and structural biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. I am interested in studying how biologica...
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Hello, 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...
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Are 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...
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As 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,...
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Discoveries 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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By the year 2050, populations in some urban centers in the United States could easily double, meaning that already-stressed and limited natural resources will need to be available for tens of milli...
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At the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, we will be delivering a presentation entitled “Research and Policy on Voter ID Laws and Voter Participation.” Duri...
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Hi, 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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Creating LiDAR your life can depend on, Luminar Technologies uses advanced LiDAR sensors to measure millions of points per second, and put that resolution where it matters most. This allows Luminar...
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The 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 ...
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The 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...
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Hi 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...
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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 ...
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I 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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Hi Reddit, we are Xingde Li (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/0800034/xingde-li), professor of Biomedical Engineering and Wenxuan Liang, a postdoctoral fellow at J...
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Unfortunately, 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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Through a long career in embedded reasoning solving challenges in healthcare, industrial automation, aviation and aerospace safety, I’ve applied systems engineering, modeling, simulation, diagnosis...
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Hi 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...
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Hello 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...
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The 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 ...
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I 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...
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The 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 ...
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*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...
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Hi 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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Hi all! My name is Dr. Christopher Carroll. I am a pediatric critical care physician at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut, and I serv...
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I 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...
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Hello 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...
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Hi 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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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Hi 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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Hi Reddit!
I am Clifford Spiegelman. I grew up on Long Island and was a rather undistinguished High School student (rank about 80 out of 400). I graduated from the same small High School (Berne...
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Thank 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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I am an ecologist that studies big questions about how landscapes change and what direction they will go in the future. Are our landscapes, forests, and fields resilient to climate? Will they ada...
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In a year where we experienced record-breaking forest fires, floods, hurricanes, heat waves, and cold spells, one can’t help but wonder - in what ways is climate change already impacting American c...
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It 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...
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Hi 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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Hi Reddit, we are Karen Swartz, M.D., a psychiatrist and founder of the Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and ...
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Water 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...
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Hi 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...
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The 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...
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Hi 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...
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Only 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...
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Hello 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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Hello Reddit! We are PhD student Noam Brown and Professor Tuomas Sandholm at the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. We do research on developing AIs that can reason about hi...
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Hi Reddit!
Jason Spence: Hi! I’m an associate professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology and Bioengineering at the University of Michigan. I am broadly inter...
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Hi! 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...
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Ask 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...
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Hi 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 ...
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I 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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Under the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, the world has agreed to do what is needed to keep global temperatures from not rising above 2°C as compared to pre-industrial levels. According ...
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Hi 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...
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Welcome 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...
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Hello, 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...
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Hi! 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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First and foremost, full disclosure: I am the CEO of Posit Science, which is a company that develops BrainHQ, a brain training program. I joined Posit Science at its inception because I believed it...
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My research group, the Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group, works on technologies for detecting special nuclear materials, such as uranium-235 and plutonium-239, that can be used to make n...
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ACS 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...
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Hello, 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...
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Variations 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...
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We’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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The radiation treatment field has invested a lot of research into making better dose distributions and delivering accurately to patients. Many advances have been made in tracking breathing motion, ...
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Hi 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...
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Hello 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, ...
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ACS 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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I'm Rivka Weinberg, Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College, which is one of the Claremont Colleges, in way too sunny California. I grew up in Brooklyn (before it was cool), worked my way throu...
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Hi 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...
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Hi, 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...
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The 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...
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Hi 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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Common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are highly complex, with multiple factors that play into your risk of disease development. These factors – like genetics, shared environm...
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Hi 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...
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EDIT: .... 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!
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We are Martin Van ...
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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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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At 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...
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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...
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My 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...
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At 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...
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Hi 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...
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We’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...
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Hi 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 ...
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I 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...
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Hi, 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...
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Hello, 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...
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Hi 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...
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The 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...
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Hello 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.
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What 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...
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Hi 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...
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ACS 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...
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Hi 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...
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Microbiome
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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That's a wrap! Thanks for all the great questions today. Don't forget to check out #DarkMatterDay tomorrow via http://www.darkmatterday.com.
I'm Dan McKinsey and am here to answer your questions ...
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Hi 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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Hi reddit,
My name is Marc Hurlbert and I am the Chief Mission Officer of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation https://www.bcrf.org/, the nation’s highest rated breast cancer organization. I lead...
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Edit: Hi everyone! Many thanks for those who were interested in this topic, I really enjoyed answering your thought-provoking questions. I am signing out now, but will try to check back later and a...
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Hi 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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I’m James Owen Weatherall, a professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, where I’m also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science. I’m...
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Hi Reddit, my name is Haig Kazazian and I’m a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For the past 27 years, I’ve been studying human genetics and I am passionately committed...
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I’m Chris Cogswell, a PhD in Chemical Engineering and host of “The Mad Scientist Podcast”, a show that discusses scientific concepts by teaching the history and philosophy of pseudoscience! I’m her...
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We’re talking about how potential misuses of advances in life sciences research raise concerns about national security threats and about mechanisms that would allow researchers to manage the dissem...
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Hello!
We are scientists and engineers working at NASA Goddard, and leading the current testing on the James Webb Space Telescope in NASA Johnson’s historic Chamber A. Why is this testing notabl...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Natasha Agramonte and I am a Research Fellow at the CDC Entomology Branch and a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida. My research focuses on how insecticide resistance ...
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Hi Reddit! My name is Max Roser. I visualize global development data on OurWorldInData.org, a free online publication on how living conditions around the world are changing.
Now I am working wi...
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ACS 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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Hi Reddit!
EDIT: And that's all for us from the Swope Team! Thank you for the great questions. Sorry we couldn't answer every one of them. And thank you for the reddit gold, even if it wasn't made...
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Hello, 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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Hi Reddit!
My name is Phil Sharpe and I am here today with a few of my colleagues from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN). This is Nuclear...
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Nice to virtually meet you, Reddit. I’m Dr. Gary Brunette, Travelers’ Health Branch Chief at CDC.
Hi, I’m Dr. Jeff Nemhauser, Chief Medical Officer with CDC’s Travelers’ Health Branch.
I’m Dr. Al...
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I am Sue Natali, Associate Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center (http://whrc.org/staff/susan-natali/). I've been working in the Arctic since 2008, and my research has involved fieldwork across A...
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Hi Reddit! We are NOAA scientists Dr. Mitch Goldberg and Tom Wrublewski with the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program. For years, we have been working with our colleagues to prepare JPSS-1, ...
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Hi there! My name is Shirley, and I love creating highly interactive visualizations. My most successful thus far is An Interactive Visualization of Hamilton, which was tweeted about by Lin-Manuel ...
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Hi reddit,
My name is Michael Inzlicht and I am a professor at The University of Toronto. My research focuses on the topic of self-control and the related concepts of cognitive control and executi...
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ACS 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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Hi Reddit, my name is Mark Bicket, M.D., I'm director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship training program at Hopkins. My research focuses on treatments of acute and chronic pain, including prescriptio...
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Hi! We're a group of Computer Scientists and Mathematicians working on an application to predict wildfires using machine learning and data analysis! We worked on the application part-time for 2 mon...
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Hi Reddit! Sunday, October 8th, is National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, so let’s look at how far hydrogen fuel cell technology has come, and more importantly, where emerging technologies can take u...
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Hi Reddit! When most people think about producing electricity at a private business or residence, they think of solar panels on rooftops. This is one form of ‘distributed energy’ or distributed gen...
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I’m Mike Liemohn, a Professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/) at the University of Michigan (umich.edu). You've probably seen Gravity...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Graham Lord and I am the Professor of Medicine at King's College London. My research focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that cause inflammatory bo...
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Hi fellow dataviz enthusiasts! My name is Nadieh Bremer and these days I freelance as a data visualization designer, under the name of Visual Cinnamon.
Since July of 2016 I've been doing a person...
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Hi Reddit! We're the editors for Science Advances, an open access journal that accepts longer research articles (up to 6,000 words). Since our launch in February of 2015, we’ve published more than...
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My name is Marinho Lopes and I am a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. And I’m Leandro Junges and I am a Research Fellow at the EPSRC centre for predictive modelling in health...
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Hi Reddit, I'm Elijah Meeks. I wrote D3.js in Action and I just open sourced Semiotic, a data visualization framework focused on information modeling. I used to do data visualization in the digital...
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I am Sarah Hörst, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. I study planetary atmospheric chemistry and have spent most of my career trying ...
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Thanks for the great questions, Reddit! We're done answering for the day and are off to finish preparations for tomorrow's Earth Gravity Assist maneuver.
Tomorrow, NASA’s asteroid-hunting spacecra...
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We are the team behind Project Discovery - Exoplanets, a joint effort of Wolf Prize Winner Michel Mayor’s team at University of Geneva, CCP Games, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), and t...
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Hello everyone. My name is Andy Kirk and I am a UK-based freelance data visualisation specialist. I do dataviz design consultancy, run training workshops, write books, give talks, undertake researc...
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Hi 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...
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Hi 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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Our recent publication was recently posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6xs76y/duke_university_scientists_have_created_a_lethal/.
We've been working on this project for three ye...
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Hi, Reddit!
I started out with a medical career in psychiatry but then shifted my focus to studying the cognition of dogs — man’s oldest and best friends. Five years ago, my lab became the first t...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Selena Bartlett and I am a Professor of Neuroscience and Group Leader at the Translational Research Institute, Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Queenslan...
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ACS 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...
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Hello 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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Thank you so much for your excellent questions today. I'm sorry I didn't get to answer all of them, but I will try to come back later today to answer those I missed. I hope it was as en...
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Right now, I am at 34°26.7 south latitude and 171°20.8 east longitude, or about 400 km northwest of Auckland. Along with a large crew and international science team, I am on board the research ship...
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Hello 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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Every day I work on the cutting edge of science and technology and I love it. Our team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, works specifically with advanced optical imaging technologies which wor...
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ACS 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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Hi Reddit, my name is King-Wai Yau, and I’m a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine studying sight and smell!
I started out in medical school at the University of Hong K...
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Hello, I am a medical epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor at CDC in the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch. I work to prevent and stop infections caused by free-living amebas, which are ...
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We are SynTouch: the world leader in the technology of human touch. We invented the only sensor in the world that endows machines with the ability to replicate the human sense of touch. We call thi...
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Hi 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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Happy Eclipse Day r/science! We're here early to answer any last minute questions you might have about today's historical event. Here are your AMA eclipse chat hosts:
Alexa Halford is a heliophys...
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My most recent column (https://undark.org/article/soy-formula-babies-endocrine-disruptor/) looked at soy formula (and other soy products) which contain a remarkably high level of hormonally active ...
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Extreme temperature and precipitation events are often driven by unusual patterns in atmospheric circulation such as strong high and low pressure systems. Learning about these large-scale meteorolo...
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The total solar eclipse on 21-August will be the most attended in American history. I'm prepared to answer questions and discuss eclipse viewing, eclipse safety, the wonder of the event, and last-...
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Hey 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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Hi Reddit!
I’m Dr. Deborah Ossip and I have been studying smoking behavior in teens and adults for more than 30 years. My research focus has included e-cigarettes and I am principal investigator o...
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My 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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Our recently published paper in the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal describes a quantitative assessment tool to evaluate chemicals and chemical processes against the 12 Principl...
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Edit 12:46 PM ET: We are signing off! Thanks so much for all your questions. Remember to check out eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety to make sure you are ready to watch the eclipse safely! Happy eclipse ...
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Hi 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...
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ACS 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’...
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*** 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...
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That'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...
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Hi 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...
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Hi 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...
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Tomorrow 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...
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We 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...
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Hi 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...
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ACS 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...
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Hi 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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Hi Reddit,
I am Michaeleen Doucleff, a global health reporter for NPR, and I am joined by Rick Ostfeld and Felicia Keesing – disease ecologists from the Cary Institute in New York and Bard College...
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Political leaders and their constituencies debate climate change, global warming, and the effects of pollution. Yet most of the public are totally unfamiliar with the basic, classical physics conce...
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Hi 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...
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Hi 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 ...
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I 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...
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Hi 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 ...
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ACS 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...
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Hi 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...
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Hi 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 ...
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This 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...
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Hi 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...
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Hi, 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...
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Hi 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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ACS 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...
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I’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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I’m Barani Raman, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis. I started my career as a computer engineer trying to develop an “electronic nose,” (a non-invasive chemical sensing sy...
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Hi Reddit,
My name is Ronnie Sebro and I am an Assistant Professor in Genetics and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. As a statistical geneticist and radiologist, my research interests c...
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Hi 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...
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Neonicotinoids 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...
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Hi 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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Hi 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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Ed: Thanks everyone for a fascinating AMA - some really great questions. Time for us to go now but we'll check back later on to answer any more questions and comments.
Did you know that if you use...
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EDIT: Thank you everybody for all the GREAT questions! Some of us will have to go do some sciencing, but we'll keep checking in and continue to answer your questions - please keep 'em coming!
Hi R...
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I 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...
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EDIT: 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...
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ACS 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...
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I 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...
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Hey 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 ...
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Disability 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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Edit, 4:31 PM ET We're signing off. Thanks for all of your questions! Some of us will try to answer more questions throughout the next couple of days. And remember, all our eclipse info is at eclip...
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Hi 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...
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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...
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Hi 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...
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The 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: (...
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I 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...
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Hi 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...
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Vector-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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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are really common – there are about 20 million new cases every year in the United States and about 110 million total infections according to the Centers for D...
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I am Jill Trepanier, Assistant Professor in the Geography and Anthropology Department at LSU. I’ve been at LSU for five years, and my area of expertise is the understanding of hurricane risk variab...
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Thanks so much for your questions this morning. We had a great time! IBS and SIBO receive almost no federal funding and yet these conditions affect up to 40 million Americans and almost 1 billion w...
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Ever wanted a real material scientist to test your favorite ideas/hypothesis? This is your chance!
What is a non-Newtonian fluid or soft matter? The hydraulic press channel has a great video showi...
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Hello Reddit! I am a chemical scientist and a designer. I combine PhD-level scientific knowledge with years of experience in graphic design to develop attr...
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I 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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Hello Reddit, we will be answering questions starting at 1 PM EST. We have a large team of scientists from many different timezones, so we will continue answering questions throughout the week. Kee...
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Thank you for all the questions! We are signing off now.
Hi, we’re NASA technologists working on space communications systems that allow NASA to connect astronauts to Earth. This can include commu...
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Hi 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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Hi everyone!
In April 2014, a decision was made to switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Since then, the city has faced unending water woes. After numerous boil advisorie...
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Research is an exhilarating journey of discovery; you learn something new and exciting each week of the year. My team at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy is working on the next generation of astr...
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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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The 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...
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The 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 ...
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Hi, 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. ...
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Hi 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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Our analysis published this week in Environmental Research Letters (16 May 2017) estimates that cocaine trafficking is responsible for 30% of annual deforestation since the 2000 in the Central Amer...
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Hi, 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 ...
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This 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...
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Hi 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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Hi 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...
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Hi, 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...
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Hi, reddit! There are so many things we don’t know about the Universe. For example:
What is most of the Universe made of?
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A 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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The 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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Thanks to you all for these insightful questions! I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to discuss our research with so many interested people. I want to thank my lab team (especially Akram Sal...
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I’ve been fascinated by birds ever since taking a class in ornithology as an undergraduate. Now, as a professor and researcher at U of I, a lot of what I do is about bird populations an...
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Hi, I'm Matt Hourihan and I run the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, where we follow trends in federal science spending and analyze legislation--like the recent omnibus--for its impact on sc...
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Hi Reddit! My name is Thomas Hofmann, I am currently Full Professor of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. I also serve as Ed...
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Hi 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...
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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...
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I 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...
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Severe 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...
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Update: We just learned Kristen, MFSSF lead organizer, will not be joining this AMA. Stephanie will be representing MFSSF in this forum.
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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...
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Hello 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...
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Hello 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...
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Millions 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...
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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...
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Hello 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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I'm back again, ask me anything about drug discovery or blogging about science.
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Hi Reddit! I'm Dr. Lily Raines, Manager of the Office of Science Outreach at the American Chemical Society. I completed my B.S. in Biochemistry with a Spanish minor at Eckerd College and m...
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Pet ownership has been shown to reduce stress, improve physical health, increase social interaction and reduce loneliness. A recent study (https://t.co/dBq8rIRCJm) funded by the National Institute ...
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My name is Karen Mifsud. I’m Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol in the Neuro-Epigenetic Research Group. Our current research is investigating how the brain copes wit...
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My name is Rebekah L. Rogers and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte. My research focuses on genome structure changes and new gene formation...
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I’m Jessie Rosenberg, a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center. I started my physics career as a young child dreaming of black holes and understanding how the world worked, a ...
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I completed several studies examining how feeling overqualified at work affects morale, well being, performance and retention. A recent paper I have forthcoming in Journal of Management...
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I’m Suzannah Iadarola, and I’m an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center. I’m a clinical psychologist and board certified behavior ...
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I'll return at 11AM to answer questions live!
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Hey Reddit! We’re organizers from the March for Science, here to answer your questions about the March.
The March for Science champions robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pill...
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As previously announced, /r/philosophy is hosting an AMA series this Spring semester which will host AMAs by a number of world class academic philosophers working in a variety of different areas of...
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My name is Ole Andreassen and I am a Professor in Psychiatry at University of Oslo. I have also a clinical position where I see patients regularly in the outpatient clinic at Oslo Unive...
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Hi Reddit! My name is Lindsay Johnson and I am a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the University of Minnesota (UMN). I received my B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 2012; my undergrad...
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Hi Reddit!
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is here to promote Polar Week! What is that? There are two International Polar Weeks each year – one in March and one in Se...
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Hi reddit! The 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 peop...
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Ben and Ken: Thanks for offering many great questions, Redditers. We hope that our responses advanced the conversation about global climate change and possible solutions that include climate engin...
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My name is Kaitlin Raimi and I am an Assistant Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on how people think and act when it comes...
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I’m Ghinwa Dumyati, M.D., professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and director of the communicable diseases surveillance and prevention pr...
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EDIT, NOTE FROM THE MODS: The Spring Equinox 2017 will occur in the Northern Hemisphere at 6:28 AM EST on Monday, March 20, NOT today. The date of the AMA was moved and the headline was not updated...
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Hi Reddit! We are a team of scientists at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and we’ve been working for 27 years to create an American chestnut tree suitable f...
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Hi, reddit! I’m Albert Hofman, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I study the epidemiology of common neurologic and vascular diseases, in particul...
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Hi Reddit! My name is Chris Yarosh, and I’m the Science Policy Fellow at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, D.C. I work with ACS’s External Affairs and Communications (EAC)...
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Hi, Reddit! I’m David Steadman, and I study the evolution, conservation, and extinction of tropical birds. An overriding theme of my work is to learn how animals survive through time on tropical is...
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Creating effective visuals to explain your research can be intimidating but also critical to communicating your ideas and findings. I'm passionate about science communication and I'm he...
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In order to feed a growing population, estimates suggest that world food production must increase by 70% by 2050. Wheat is a major crop grown worldwide and increasing its yields provide...
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I am Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. At Birmingham I work mainly in th...
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Hello Reddit! We are Sylvia Daunert, Suzana Hamdan, and Irena Pastar of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In February 2017, we published our research in ACS Central Scienc...
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I am Mike Brudzinski, Professor of Seismology at Miami University in Ohio. I've spent most of my career studying earthquakes big and small. The big ones I have worked on are the megaquakes formed...
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Hi, Reddit! I’m Michelle Johnston, research ecologist with NOAA’s Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary; I’m Steve Gittings, science coordinator with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctu...
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Hello Reddit! We are a team of researchers at Michigan State University who recently published a paper in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology examining how preschool kids’ social networks...
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I recently received $467,000 from two federal grants to launch a community based participatory research study to understand the challenges and success factors for autistic people in the workplace. ...
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I’m a historian of science, technology, the environment, and American capitalism. I have a PhD from MIT's program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, where my research w...
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Hey Reddit! I am Sijbren Otto, joined today by Gaël Schaeffer (postdoc), Andreas Hussain and Jim Ottelé (PhD students) to discuss systems chemistry[1] and synthetic life. You can find a video descr...
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Hi Reddit: we are two researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists. We work on a variety of transportation issues, including how self-driving cars will impact our economy and environment. We ju...
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I'm a philosopher at New York University and the Australian National University. I'm interested in consciousness: e.g. the hard problem
(see also this TED talk, the science of
consciousness, zombi...
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My name is Erin Mordecai and I am an Assistant Professor of Biology at Stanford University. My research focuses on the complex ways in which global change (including climate, land use, ...
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I’m Paul Wyman, Senior Scientist at DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. My specialties are polymer synthesis and coating technology. At DSM I am part of a...
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Hi Reddit, my name is Prashant Kamat, and I am a Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science and a principal scientist at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. My research ...
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Hi reddit!
Research and educational institutions and industries in the United States have encountered difficulty attracting and retaining individuals from underrepresented groups, particularly in ...
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Hi reddit! Misunderstood or “silly sounding” research is often much more than it seems. We are interested in creative ways to explain the value of esoteric work in the face of public or political s...
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Hi reddit! The microbes that inhabit humans -- collectively called the microbiome -- play a critical role in human development and physiology and can be considered an additional organ. They play ma...
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We are Eric Jonas (a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Konrad Kording (Professor at Northwestern and RIC). Our research focuses ...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Martin Gibala, PhD, professor and chair of the kinesiology department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. I conduct research on the physiological and health benefits of inte...
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I’m Dave Petley, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. I also run the Landslide Blog, which sits on the website of the America G...
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I’m Phil Baran and I teach Organic Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute. I also head the Baran Laboratory, a vibrant and passionate team of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars vigoro...
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My name is Nicola Jones and I write for Yale Environment 360 magazine and the journal Nature. With a background in chemistry and oceanography, I cover the physical sciences, from environmental issu...
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In my daily position, I am a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford University, where I lead the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab in the Ginzton Labor...
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My name is Joel Wertheim and I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. My research focuses on the molecular evolution of RNA viruses, like HIV....
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Hi Reddit! My name is Michael Qiu and I’m the Library Relations Manager with ACS Publications. In my current job, I am responsible for developing our marketing, outreach, and engagement programs wi...
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This month, as part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology (RP:CB), we published the results of our first five Replication Studies in the journal eLife. We plan to complete 20+ more replica...
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Along with providing many of the services that support human life and wellbeing, terrestrial ecosystems help us in the fight against climate change by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. But our uns...
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My name is Gene Richardson and I am and infectious disease physician and anthropologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I use biosocial approaches to conduct...
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I'm Chris W. Surprenant, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans, where I direct the Alexis de Tocqueville Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality.
I am the author of Kant...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Allison Campbell, President of the American Chemical Society. Currently I am the Associate Laboratory Director of the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate at Pacific Northwest N...
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Hi Reddit! I'm Brian Hanley, PhD and CEO of Butterfly Sciences, in Davis CA. I work on gene therapy approaches to aging, HIV/AIDS, adaptation to space, and the future.
I designed a system that sho...
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The 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. The current expeditio...
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My name is Lars Chittka and I am a professor of sensory and behavioural ecology at Queen Mary University of London. My research focuses on the learning processes, the sensory organs and...
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Thanks for your awesome questions, everyone! We're going to start winding things down now. We had a ton of fun!
We’re scientists from Rice University and University of Iowa, and we recently descri...
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My name is Joel Frohlich and I am a neuroscience PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the lab of Dr. Shafali Jeste. My research uses “brain waves” or neura...
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Our bodies are inhabited by literally billions of microbes, with thousands of distinct species of bacteria, viruses, fungi and others that are referred to collectively as the microbiota. The most ...
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The first observations made about most bacteria include a description of their cell shape. Only recently have we started to figure out how all of these different shapes arise, and to understand the...
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When asked, I used to tell people that I study the impact of pornography use, emphasizing "impact." I guess I just didn't want to give the wrong impression (“People pay you to do what?”). So, much ...
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Hi Reddit!
I really do build intelligent systems. I worked as a programmer in the 1980s but got three graduate degrees (in AI & Psychology from Edinburgh and MIT) in the 1990s. I myself mostl...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Adam Boyd, the Program Director for AACT (https://teachchemistry.org/). I have a background in chemistry and business. I work with our extremely talented staff and teacher...
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For decades, pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) has been the prevailing technology used for foodborne outbreak detection. PFGE identifies the pathogen’s DNA fingerprint which is then uploaded ...
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My name is William Mair, and I’m an assistant professor of genetics and complex diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. My lab recently published a paper in Nature wh...
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We are a group of researchers who just published a new open access paper in Science Advances showing that ocean warming was indeed being underestimated, confirming the conc...
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My name is Warren Grill and I’ve spent the past 15 years trying to understand how deep brain stimulation treats symptoms in persons with Parkinson’s disease. This understanding will all...
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Air inequality - the unequal access to clean air to breathe - is responsible for one out of every eight deaths in the world (WHO, 2014). According to the World Bank, this equates to a l...
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I’m Liz Davison, a graduate student at Princeton University in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. My research centers on development and application of analytical and...
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Hi reddit, I'm Greta Shum, and I work as a science communicator at Climate Central. I'm out here on a boat off the coast of Antarctica with other scientists who are studying different aspects of th...
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At its vibrant frontier, neuroscience is becoming the playground of a worldwide interdisciplinary community which our team reflects well: we come from 4 different continents and diverse backgrounds...
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Hi Reddit,
I’m John Cox, a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. And I am Yasser Abdelrahman a Senior...
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This December, the first issue of Science Robotics was released. We wrote the research articles in that issue.
I'm Huichan Zhao, and my research focused on how to imbue prosthetics with some attr...
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Hi reddit!
2016 was an amazing year for science, and much of the breakthrough research appeared in the pages (both physical and digital) of Science Magazine. Now, we're working on a special end-o...
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Over the last 40 years, video games have transformed from a niche market to a multibillion-dollar industry. However, along with their growing popularity has come a growing concern about...
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I am a disturbance ecologist (think fires, windstorms, landslides) that primarily studies the response of forested ecosystems to emerging disturbances triggered by climate change. I'm ...
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Thanks so much everyone for your questions! I'm out of time now.
I'm Carrie Jenkins, a writer and philosopher based in Vancouver, BC. I am a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at the University o...
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UPDATE: Wow, Reddit. We were blown away by the amount and quality of the questions asked today. Thank you for participating, and we apologize that there were so many great questions/com...
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I’m Amy Smith, and I work in Tufts’ Cognitive Aging and Memory Lab with my advisor, Ayanna Thomas. We recently published a paper in Science showing that retrieval practice, a strategy w...
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My name is Hui-Chen Lu and I am a Professor at Indiana University Bloomington. My research focuses on how neural circuits wire up during development and how to keep neurons healthy desp...
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We are scientists at UC Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory, and Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute interested in a range of processes in the ocean. We are currently exploring new idea...
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We're Dr. Joe Levy and Cassie Stuurman—we study geological systems in cold regions on Earth to try to understand the evolution of the surface of Mars and how cold landscapes on Earth record e...
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I’m Dr. Dean Elterman, a urologic surgeon at the University Health Network in Toronto. My focus on urology and its related diseases has led me to look more closely at how this field fit...
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My name is Alex Lu and I’m Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I study the decline of honeybee populations around the...
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Thanks all for the great questions. We'll be signing off in a few minutes (4:45 PST), but please look out for the full manuscript - it should be online and open access for all soon!
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ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is fatal. There is no effective treatment or cure. In 2011, the drug company Neuraltus conducted a Phase 2 trial ...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Dr. John M. Newsam and I serve as CEO of Tioga Research is a contract research organization (“CRO”). Our specialty is formulations applied to the skin. We undertake research and earl...
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I'm Stephen Puryear, assistant professor of philosophy at NC State University. I'm interested in the history of philosophy (esp. early modern philosophy and the German philosophical tra...
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World View is providing a new perspective of our planet and revolutionising access to space for communications technology, sensors and people. I believe that seeing the Earth from space...
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I am investigating the mental capacities in young children and in animals to answer fundamental questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind. What sets us apart from other...
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Hi Redditors! We are the Nanostructured Hierarchical Assemblies and Composites group, aka NanoHAC, from Imperial College London. Nanomaterials, in particular graphene and carbon nanotubes, have exc...
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Hi reddit! My name is Brad Hayes and I’m a postdoctoral associate at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) interested in building autonomous robots that can learn from, com...
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My main interests are doing science, writing books, and keeping a photographic record of the plants and animals on the land behind my office and residence. Since 1990, I’ve measured the...
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In advance of this year's national election, AAAS is bringing together scientists who have studied how people make up their minds about political issues and, once their opinions are set...
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Plants produce hundreds of thousands of complex molecules called "natural products" that have many uses. Anti-cancer medication such as vinblastine and taxol, and the anti-malarial dru...
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Hi, redditors! We’re genetic counseling experts with the National Society of Genetic Counselors. Genetic counseling is the process of helping people understand and adapt to the medical, psychologic...
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Hi, I'm Rochelle Poole*, and I recently published a Working Life article in Science Magazine that detailed my experience of bullying during scientific fieldwork. Ask me anything!
Last year, I was...
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We’re experts with Bright Pink. Helping young women receive better breast & ovarian healthcare is what we do best.
Today we’re here to talk about breast cancer risk assessment. M...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Megan J. Palmer, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. I lead a research program focused on governing ris...
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My name is Shannon Bragg-Sitton and I’m here today with a few other researchers from Idaho National Laboratory. This is Nuclear Science Week, so we thought it would be great to start a ...
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Purifying ethanol is energy-intensive and expensive. When we're just using it in a fuel blend, it's also unnecessary. The real end-product of ethanol production for fuel use isn't pure ethanol itse...
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I’m Toby Smith, Vice President for Policy at the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization of 60 leading U.S.research universities. I have been working in Washington ...
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I am Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. I worked for over 15 years with the late Dr. Bill Gray, a renowned scientist who con...
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I do epistemology and philosophy of language, and I'm the graduate adviser for NIU's terminal MA program in philosophy. My recent work is on contextualism in epistemology, norms of assertion, and s...
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We are members of the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory (TAL) and the Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC), two University of Florida labs, who have aquacultured the Pacific...
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We're Igor Grigoriev, Steve Goodwin and Gert HJ KEMA, and we recently published an article titled Combating a Global Threat to a Clonal Crop: Banana Black Sigatoka Pathogen Pseudocercos...
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I’m Neil Brown, a fungal biologist and a BBSRC Future Leader Fellow at Rothamsted Research in the UK.
In my school leavers book, my friends were asked “What will Neil end up doing?...
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I’m Chris San Marchi, a hydrogen and metallurgy researcher on a team at Sandia Labs in California studying how hydrogen and materials interact, and developing codes and standards for hy...
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My most recent study (https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/06/16/overtime-women/) found that women, in particular, have higher rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and arthritis when they...
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As previously announced, /r/philosophy is hosting an AMA series this fall semester which kicked off with AMAs by Caspar Hare (MIT), Kevin Scharp and Kenneth Ehrenberg. Check out our series announce...
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Hi redditors! We are Greg Mandt, System Program Director for NOAA’s GOES-R satellite series, and Dr. Steve Goodman, GOES-R Senior Scientist. Together, we have worked with our team to plan, develop,...
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The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is hosting the 5th Australasian annual meeting this week and has asked experts from across academia, government and industry to an...
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The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas has caused global concern. To help advance the fight against this debilitating virus, we launched OpenZika. OpenZika is a project running on Worl...
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The 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. The curre...
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Today, Science Magazine published “Doing Science while Black,” by Dr. Ed Smith, a native of Sierra Leone who studied and now teaches in the US. He writes “Being an academic scientist i...
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My name is Christian Schwägerl, and I write for Yale Environment 360 magazine. In my work as a journalist and book author, I have covered science, environment and politics for more than...
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I’m Wilson Smith, an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, studying solar energy. My team researches variou...
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Kite Pharma is a biotech company that manufactures CAR-T cells. Essentially, CAR-T cells are T-cells taken from a patient, engineered to recognize and destroy the patient's tumor, and then put back...
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I'm Andrea Bonior, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist on the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. I treat adults with anxiety disorders and depression, using mostly ...
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I direct the jurisprudence specialization at the University of Alabama and work in the areas of the nature of law and its relation...
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I am Benoit Lavraud, I am permanent staff researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie in Toulouse - France, and Editor of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a research...
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Hi Reddit! As hurricane season is in full swing we wanted to give you the opportunity to ask us any questions you have:
My name is Dr. Frank Marks. I am the Director of the Hurricane Research Div...
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Good morning, Reddit! This is Peter Diamandis here to answer your questions. You may know me from the XPRIZE Foundation or Singularity University. 20 years ago, I had a vision to use an incentive p...
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Our team has completed a digital analysis of the extremely fragile En-Gedi scroll — the oldest Pentateuchal scroll in Hebrew outside of the Dead Sea Scrolls — revealing the ink-based wr...
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As previously announced, /r/philosophy is hosting an AMA series this fall semester which kicked off with AMAs by Caspar Hare (MIT) and Kevin Scharp. Check out our series announcement post to see al...
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This is Burt Rutan here to answer your questions. While I am best known for just those two projects, I am known in aviation circles for an unprecedented list of 45 other res...
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I am Keira Havens - you’ve seen me here on Reddit before when I shared my color changing flower project a few years ago. I’m a molecular biologist by training and focused on synthetic...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Olivier George, principal investigator at The Scripps Research Institute and member of the Committee On The Neurobiology Of Addictive Disorders here. My lab recently published a nove...
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Hello r/science! My name is Alberto Pepe; my co-founder, Nathan Jenkins and I created Authorea after we both grew disappointed by the slow, inefficient, and obsolete ways by which research papers a...
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We're a team of scientists at the University of Marburg: Department of Medical Psychology which specializes in Chronic Pain. Our research is focused on making people pain free again. W...
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My name is Scott Hensley and I am an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses on how our immune systems try to stop pathogens and how pathogens fight b...
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We are Paul Nuyujukian MD PhD (Postdoc, soon to be Bioengineering faculty at Stanford) and Jonathan Kao PhD (Postdoc, soon to be Electrical Engineering faculty at UCLA), neuroengineers in the Stanf...
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Hi, my name is Paul Helquist, Professor and Associate Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at the University of Notre Dame. I was a native of Northern Minnesota where I grew up literally in the “s...
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Hi Reddit! I’m Dr. Teresa Woodruff from Northwestern University here to answer any questions you may have about ovarian biology, oncofertility, and the importance of sex and gender inclusion in the...
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Hello reddit! I’m Cathy Spong, and I oversee NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which supports research on fetal, infant and child develo...
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My name is Randy Olson. I was a scientist, I became a filmmaker, now I’m back working with scientists and environmentalists, helping them strengthen the narrative elements of thei...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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Hi! 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...
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Hi 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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We work for the Schmidt Ocean Institute, a non-profit established to advance oceanographic research of the ocean through exploration, innovation and data sharing. This is the first submersible vehi...
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As 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...
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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...
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Reddit-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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Hello 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...
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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 ...
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Hello 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 ...
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Nature 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...
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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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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...
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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 ...
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Purple 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...
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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...
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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...
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Hi 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...
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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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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...
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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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Thanks 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hi 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.
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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 ...
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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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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...
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I’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...
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Hey 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 ...
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Hi 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...
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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...
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Hi 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...
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Unfortunately, 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...
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We are Jessie Abbate, Carmen Lia Murall, and Christian Althaus, infectious disease researchers collaborating between France (Research Institute for Development), Switzerland (University...
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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.
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Greetings--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 )
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Hello 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...
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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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