Dr. Emily Petroff

@redtwitdown I'm like Beetlejuice but if someone on the internet says "microwave ovens" too many times.

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A 1,000,000th reminder the crucial importance of basic research. Ambros and Ruvkun were looking into understanding nematode genetics and development, not looking for a drug, and ended up opening an entire new area in biology

1962 of course being a recent time a woman named Rosalind was snubbed for this exact same prize nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

"was the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee" but did not receive the Nobel Prize. Is this 2024 or 1962?

Awesome to see that some of the winners are papers from 5+ years ago. TBH still holding out hope that our "perytons are microwave ovens" paper will be nominated for one of these someday. @improbresearch

@thealterego4 @dog_rates Pretty good!

@ebpetroff @dog_rates Delta! Long time no see. How's that Big Red Bone doing?

This is the face Delta makes right after I give her 20 tiny kisses in a row on her forehead 🥹 To be loved by a dog is like nothing else. @dog_rates

@matthewbailes @UBC Are you stopping in Toronto on your Canada tour or heading straight to Montreal next week?

View from the beautiful @UBC campus during Dawn VII.

@catgyoung Government relations, partnerships, and research administration for an institute for theoretical physics.

You have a STEM PhD but you don’t work in academia. What do you do?

As always, Delta just looks happy to be included in the big dog group in the pictures from her dog walker. @dog_rates

@jenphelan3 Delta was diagnosed with early-onset arthritis at 5 1/2 years old a few months ago. She's only got arthritis in her front shoulder but it was causing her quite a lot of trouble. She started Librela and it helped her so much! She's back to her old self. Hoping it helps Kiki!

It's true! Oregon Episcopal School alumns out in the wild!

@xkcd This is the highlight of my entire research career.

Fast Radio Bursts xkcd.com/2886

It's me!

@karlglazebrook Maybe someday this work will get an @IgNobel

@ebpetroff Hah better than a Nobel prize!

Well, that's it. I've peaked in life having been cited in XKCD *and* making it into the alt text. Going to retire to nerd heaven now. xkcd.com/2886/

@CburgesCliff Wasn't just on it! I wrote it! 😊

Hey! That’s Emily’s last name! (Didn’t know you were on the microwave paper 😁👍)

@StellarTayar HA! Truly a missed opportunity.

@ebpetroff I have always wondered why you didn't call it the 'terrestrial microwave background'?

Secretly hoping my colleagues at Perimeter, who mostly know me for non-research stuff, do their daily @xkcd check and think "hey, that's Emily's last name!" 😂

@danfalk Ha! Honestly, no higher honour than being Delta's Human