Aurora Clark

@BenningtonChem Brian says Hi! Will share w/my 16 yrs old - that one has 👌 🎵 taste.

And if @chemnetworks sees this list, see "hi" to the family and let me know if the kids found anything on it appealing! Happy 2025!

My New Year's routine. Finishing up grading for the fall and listening to the #WEQX annual countdown. Sharing my faves from another good year - thanks guys! And Happy 40th!🧵(1/~11)

congratulations @noriega_lab! @UtahChemistry @UUtah

We collaborated with the Swanson team to understand abiotic lasso peptide folding. Led by @gcdahora, we used new algorithms to better understand how acyclic microcin J25 peptides can adopt pre-lasso folds. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… @J_A_C_S @UtahChemistry @UUtah

@fiona_chembot Mrs Culp! Mr Hodges!

My heart is happy after a wonderful visit with my dear PhD advisor Ernest Davidson and his lovely wife Reba. 20 years post PhD and still so impt to me.

@SteeleLabUofU I don't think Grandma has to be worried about being replaced anytime soon! But I'm intrigued by a British baking show +robot wars spinoff

@DrLCsquare somehow very apt!

type the year you turned 21 into the gif bar and see what pops up…

@JahanDawlaty how hard is it to say that if you are advocating violence or withholding life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to a group of people - that is hate speech?

I see academics who support the presidents of MIT, Harvard and U Penn. I am strongly against the views that these presidents expressed during the hearing. Their performance was at best incompetent and at worst disgusting and dangerous. The remaining two should resign.

Very proud of Qing's last paper in the group - out now, a detailed AIMD study of umbrella sampling gibbsite dissolution pathways under aqueous and alkaline conditions and including surface defects! in @GCA_Journal and part of the @PNNLab IDREAM EFRC. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very proud of Qing's last paper in the group - out now, a detailed AIMD study of umbrella sampling gibbsite dissolution pathways under aqueous and alkaline conditions and including surface defects! in @GCA_Journal and part of the @PNNLab IDREAM EFRC. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Dr_Dani_AR @kzoochem Utah is awesome!

@nanophononics I hear you and agree - I purposefully did not bring up salary for several reasons. A higher salary is a good motivation but if you aren't prepared to change as a person, grow and adapt intellectually then it is not enough to succeed generally.

@chemnetworks Higher first-employment salary

What is the value of a PhD to the student? Piggy backing on this bc the responses to @pauldauenhauer were overall disheartening. 1/n please share and add!!!

@scienceandbears @pauldauenhauer There is no doubt that some expcs are awful and I'm very sorry yours was so bad. These pts need to be part of Dept policies that help protect students (and this helps advisors too). Its taken me a while to dev. this infrastructure/persp, & I would have loved the help earlier on.

@Subharthi10 If a PI was only interested in getting research done they would only use PD's. Early students have few research skills and spend 2 yrs learning yet they still get paid and get infrastructure to help them succeed. It's certainly symbiotic and both sides should be respected.

@chemnetworks This is a nice thread, but at the same time the salary should be commensurate with experience. I think the research conducted by the students benefits the advisor in the same way as it does to a student. It is helpful for someone to get tenure and what not. Definitely no charity

@Subharthi10 Also, as PI most ideas do come from me as I write the grant with ideas students are paid on. Ideas change, grow and adapt as student gains skills. Typically the last project of PhD is 80/20 student/me in the context of concept/implementation. That when they are ready to graduate

@chemnetworks Anyone can live in denial but to some extent the truth is the PI is the one who ends up being more benefitted by going to conferences and places and trying to show the students works as their own, as if they generated the ideas. If that's the case, then do your own research.

@Subharthi10 A lot of PIs do do their own research. But it is completely true that I spend more of my time advising,training, teaching and writing. I acknowledge my students on slides of their work (pic and name) and my colleagues do the same.

@batatalal Depends entirely upon discipline...I've analyzed the net income increase accumulated for my students relative to BS and it is hands down financially a win.

Comraderie and friendship - as an advisor I actively promote and foster a working environment that helps my team create long lasting friendships that will benefit them throughout not just their PhD but whole career. Science is personal and it starts during your PhD.

Other parts of your portfolio - I strongly encourage my students to have their own repository of codes, educational videos, scientific communication, blogs, etc that help their professional goals and establish their identity as a scientist.