Cassandra Porter

I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers in Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2022! War Eagle! My lab will develop & apply novel materials/polymers for membranes & other processes in water treatment & resource recovery.

@codyritt @TheElimelechLab @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers @YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS @EpszteinLab No Hyraxes. No fruit bats either.🤣 Just one Nubian Ibex.

@TheElimelechLab @CassPorterCEE @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers @YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS @CassPorterCEE please tell me you painted a rock rabbit in there (@EpszteinLab 😉)

Congrats to @CassPorterCEE on completing a successful PhD defense, and best of luck in your upcoming faculty position at @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers Your artistic skills are as good as your scientific prowess. Your painting of Ein Gedi, Israel, is beautiful @YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS

@TheElimelechLab @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers @YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS Thank you Meny for being such a wonderful mentor. I will miss the Elimelech Lab and Yale. So many incredible memories.

We also thank key funding sources for this work, including @NSF for the NSF-GRFP of C. Porter and R. DuChanois and for @NEWTCenter, and the 2018–2020 @NWRIwater - @AMTAorg Fellowship for Membrane Technology awarded to C. Porter.

Bottom-up synthesis of TEAMs affords a high degree of control and tailor ability that are instrumental in fundamentally understanding membrane transport and in enhancing selectivity. TEAMs reside at the precipice of applications like resource recovery and water softening.

Excited to announce our newly released research article, “Tethered Electrolyte Active-Layer Membranes,” @J_Membrane_Sci, with big thanks to @TheElimelechLab, @MingjiangZhong, @rduchanois, @Erika_MacD1 , and Scarlet-Marie Kilpatrick. Access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1d%7E7q1LgHN…

Excited to announce the release of our paper @J_Membrane_Sci detailing the Open Membrane Database (OMD) 👉 bit.ly/3oBQciF Supported by the groups of Vankelecom (@KU_Leuven), Ramon (@TechnionLive), @ChuyangT (@HKUniversity), and @TheElimelechLab (@YaleEngEng). (1/7)

Excited to see our lab’s research featured in the video of the @Yale campaign ‘For Humanity’ @YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS forhumanity.yale.edu/about-campaign… #Vimeo vimeo.com/620297300?ref=…

Strategies that the United States pursues under the infrastructure act will determine service quality, equity, resiliency, cybersecurity, climate preparedness, and costs for generations. Build back wiser: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@JaehongKim_Yale No problem 😊 Undeniably you and also undeniably very hot outside for moving.

@CassPorterCEE Thanks for recognizing me at Yale Instagram.

instagram.com/p/CTF5ARMsQmk/… A paparazzi shot from Yale Press. I helped my daughter move into Yale College yesterday. But this photo was taken after the move, and I was with my another, younger daughter (who enters high school this year) 😅

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Two, science takes resources such as space, time, materials, and energy, which are limited. I think you think science is like magic. Wave your hand and all problems can be solved. Not so. Some of the best solutions are preventative. You don’t seem to like those…

@CassPorterCEE @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally One, not every inch of the world would be covered "thousands of humans thick", two, science IS the answer to growing more & better food, three, science IS the answer for where all the waste goes.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally You’ret contradicting yourself. You can’t support exponential growth but deny its outcome.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally One, it would at the current fertility rate. You are arguing to maintain a fertility rate that would eventually lead to this unless the fertility rate does go down (which you also don’t want). I don’t think you understand math.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally If every inch of the world is covered a thousand humans thick, where do we grow food? Where does all the waste go? Explain how that works.

@CassPorterCEE @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Okay... I don't understand how you can be a Scientist and embrace Malthus. More to your liking?

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally I have never said “I support Malthus.” I am telling you how scientifically there are limited sources. I cannot understand how you think mass and matter can be created. Newton’s laws of conservation of mass show this cannot be done.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Wrong. Moderate. I said “case-by-case.” I fully agree with certain things on both the left and right. Try again.

@CassPorterCEE @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally The pronoun specification would indicate that you are left leaning. Maybe not progressive then.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Is your only criteria for “progressive” the pronoun specification? What other criteria do I meet for “progressive?”

@CassPorterCEE @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Maybe all progressives embrace Malthus & I actually am not wrong in my basic belief that progressives are on the wrong side of history ... a lot.

@BakaKarasu @justletitgo101 @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally They correctly identify that below 2.1, the population begins to fall. Has to do with mortality versus birth rate, not size of population. 2 folks per 2 children in their lifetime, plus premature death (the 0.1 part) maintains. This stands regardless of starting population size.

@CassPorterCEE @justletitgo101 @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Good news if true. Still much confounding of decreasing rates with decreasing population, which is not at all the same thing. This is "would you like 50% of $100 or 10% of $1,000,000 ?" math.

@BakaKarasu @justletitgo101 @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally Yes, I understand the math. Growth, maintenance, and decline all can occur with fertility rate decline, depending on how much decline. Many developed countries are choosing to have fewer kids without any restrictions imposed to a point where population is decreasing.

@justletitgo101 @AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally I take particular stances case-by-case, based on logic, morals, data, and projected consequences. You’ll be surprised to know some of the ideas I support that are not “progressive.” You may want to stop stereotyping based solely on someone writing their pronouns on their bio.

@AveragePm @joshsoren151 @tiredgenerally I'm learning that via this thread. My head is exploding learning that "progressives" are also Malthusian.