Lipsa Nag
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Lipsa Nag
@lipsascience
Shining light on climate deeptech | Science @MarbleClimate


My book is published today in the US 🇺🇸 Published in the UK (& elsewhere) on 11th. It looks at 7 of our big environmental problems & how to solve them. These problems are massive. Urgent. But solvable. It's a critical decade for us to take action. nottheendoftheworld.co.uk




A survey of thousands of US academics has found that the number one reason that women leave faculty positions is poor “workplace climate”, which can encompass discrimination, dysfunctional leadership, a feeling of not fitting in and other problems. More: go.nature.com/46ZGmtU


2023 physics laureate Pierre Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds. At the same time, his 2023 co-laureate Ferenc Krausz was working with another type of experiment, one that made it possible to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds. #NobelPrize

More firms are incubating companies as early-stage valuations rise. A few successes: • Snowflake ($49B mrkt cap) by Sutter Hill Ventures • Affirm ($6B mrkt cap) by HVF Labs • Hims & Hers ($1.3B mrkt cap) by Atomic Our latest Signature Block essay is on venture studios...

Chemical Engineers and Electrochemists will save the world.

#DirectAirCapture is too energy intensive. It will never reach gigaton scale. How many times did you hear that? Well ...



Taylor Swift as math functions, for all the Swifties. A thread. y = -x









