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Michael Findlater

Michael Findlater

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Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Merced... officially unofficial... opinions may be the ravings of a mad Titan / PI. He/His

Katılım Nisan 2016
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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
@PracheeAC Thanks! Did not know that detail - would be great if folks could circle back around (ewww, admin talk) for updates in the future about if they used it and whether it had any impact on who was interviewed / selected. Cheers.
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Prachee Avasthi
Prachee Avasthi@PracheeAC·
You may not trust these but the consumer versions have a setting to not train off your content and that's the default for enterprise versions for entities that have a ton of skin in the game for this to be trustworthy. And then there are things like confer.to that are specifically built for privacy
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Prachee Avasthi
Prachee Avasthi@PracheeAC·
Hey are any of you faculty hiring committees leveraging state of the art AI tools (not several generations behind) to traverse your past workflows with greater depth and see if it would have made similar or different decisions to unearth candidates for your long/short lists? yes yes the world is ending -- we must hold as sacrosanct the highly sophisticated triage mechanism of ....counting papers and.... sorting by journal name. Even without incorporating any of these tools yet, has anyone done a retrospective on choices/filtering already made by humans?
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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
I understand intellectually that wasps do play an important role in our environment but god damn it isn’t in my office that’s for damn sure
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Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller@BenStiller·
@MichaelDBrandt Hey there! Ben doesn’t have a social media manager. It’s me. I can’t stop taking about myself in the third person. Wait i just did. Hope you check out our soda. It’s low sugar and all natural and taste great. 🖖@stillerssoda
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Michael Brandt
Michael Brandt@MichaelDBrandt·
Got ratio’d by Ben Stiller’s social media manager 😭 happy Monday.
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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
@josiezayner @Jpit3 Dang, what’s the hourly on that part time undergrad position if it’s close to $60k!? (Sniffles in old timer that went to UT for grad school on a $17,500 stipend)
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Josie Zayner
Josie Zayner@josiezayner·
@Jpit3 In what world? We pay our part-time undergrad at the upper end of that
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Just T.J. the Army Vet
Just T.J. the Army Vet@thomas_garrard·
I just had a conversation with Grok about one of my all time favorite books “Ender’s Game” I had to talk to Grok, because I’ve never met anyone who’s read it, besides me. Lol. It’s a great book, though, if you’re ever so inclined.
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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
“Michael, sometimes you score a touchdown. Sometimes you kick a field goal. That’s what calculations are for.” Said in good nature - as someone that really respected his computational colleagues and collaborators… but was a dyed in the wool experimentalist. 😂
mpilo@MpiloKhumalo_

Your Supervisor once said:

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Chris Yndo
Chris Yndo@ChrisYndo·
@SaraForTexLege Love Schlotzky’s. What’s up with the random individually wrapped pickle spear no one asked for nor wanted. No one eats the pickle.
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Sara McGee for Texas HD 132@SaraForTexLege·
Y’all. Discovery of WHAT?! I am a 45 year old mom who decided to run for office. I have a DWI on my record from when I was 19 and learned a really important lesson. Like what? You gonna pull up my old divorce records and validate my story that I left my ex because he beat me when I was pregnant? Wanna see if I really worked At Schlotzky’s when I was 15? Because I still have my name tag. What on God’s green earth are you trying to discover lmao? I’ve laid every single detail out for the world. With the exception of my place of employment. And that, my dear, is where you effed up. 😉
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD

@SaraForTexLege lol… you are something else! Please sue me! Discovery will be rich.

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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
is @ucprez really running this account... favourite taco place in Austin? 😉
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Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
@jonathanbfine huh... it is in the UC system - ugh, why does academia have to be so difficult in everything it does (fumbling something as simple as uniform titles)?
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Jonathan Fine
Jonathan Fine@jonathanbfine·
Assistant Teaching Professor is a non tenure track position. Having a fancy research fellowship on your CV doesn’t help much when you’re in a position where you’re not supposed to do said research.
Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.)@NairYasmin

@jonathanbfine @StarkConor @DeivonDrago You are currently an assistant professor at Brown. Clearly, it worked out for you, yes? Getting a Mellon is great for your CV.

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Kerr Group Research
Kerr Group Research@kerrgrpresearch·
PhD positions available in the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde. Projects are collaborative with GSK and span a number of areas related to the biopharma industry. Deadline is 2nd March 2026. Full details: strath.ac.uk/science/chemis…
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Purdue Chemistry
Purdue Chemistry@PurdueChemistry·
Congratulations to Professor Suzanne Bart! The Purdue University Board of Trustees has ratified a named professorship, and Dr. Bart will now hold the title of Edwin F. Peters, Class of 1942, Professor of Chemistry. Read more: purduesci.com/4a237Sj
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Michael Findlater
Michael Findlater@FindlaterGroup·
@TeawithTolkien Based on the answers I think I can jeopardy-style guess all the questions except for “17 years”… what was the question?
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Tea with Tolkien@TeawithTolkien·
FINAL UPDATE I WON I got 29/30 becuase I couldn’t remember what color of arrow Smaug was killed by lol
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Tea with Tolkien@TeawithTolkien·
going to LOTR trivia at a bar tonight and I just know I’m going to get tripped on a dumb basic question because my head is stuck in The Silmarillion lore lol
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