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Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic

@SileNicChormaic

2 years

While Japan keeps its borders essentially closed and significantly limits inbound tickets per day, 100,000 Japanese fly to Hawaii as tourists for Golden Week. The irony of this seems to be lost on many.

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@NHKWORLD_News

2 years

After two years of pandemic restrictions, planes from Narita to Hawaii are finally filling up with excited tourists again.

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3 years

Today, my father who’d a “mild” case of COVID in September is having a heart procedure due to long term damage that was likely caused by the infection. Letting the virus rip through society is already causing longer health problems. He was vaccinated (hence it was mild).

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3 years

I’ve decided that I can no longer make offers to students only to have Japan’s border policy destroy dreams. We are tired of completing paperwork again and again, but never getting entry. Japan is not a country for foreigners and I don’t know when/if that will change.

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3 years

Japan's border closures since March 2020 are making research less and less competitive. I have 4 open postdoc positions and candidates unable to enter to take up the offered posts. I have about 6 project students waiting to enter, some since Summer 2020. My collaborative...

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1 year

Since moving to Japan I’m appalled how many reviewers tell me to have a “native” speaker fix my English in papers. They are never native speakers themselves and their reviews are riddled with mistakes. They make assumptions based on location and assume I am not “native”. Lazy!

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1 year

My recent response to an editor who sent out a lazy review

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3 years

Thank you @OpticalSociety #WomenInSTEMM

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4 years

Happy to announce that I've been elected to Fellow of The Optical Society! #OpticalSociety #optics #WomenInSTEM #OISTedu

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3 years

If anyone knows a young female Afghan physicist looking for an internship please send them my way. Should probably be pre-PhD level. Ideally undergraduate. @ictpnews @kabuluniversity

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4 years

This thread is not easy to write but was triggered by something I read today. As a young female physics student and postdoc, I was frequently sexually harassed by senior colleagues. Conferences were particularly bad...1/10 #WomenInSTEM #womeninleadership

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6 months

What’s not to love about this place?

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2 years

@OnjaliRauf Religion not important - I don’t want to have to do this and I’ve no religion

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2 years

Fantastic news! So excited to hear my former boss finally got his prize!! All fully deserve this.

The Nobel Prize

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2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.

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3 years

Hotel near Narita refused my zairyu card when they asked for ID (they should not look for any) and insisted to see my passport « to check you can fly to Europe ». I refused. Since when is a hotel doing immigration control for Europe? Bet they wanted to see if I’d landed 😡

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2 years

It finally got me - trip to USA cancelled. The masks off at work did it 😩

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3 years

Day 35 #100daysofwalking - after the rain

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3 years

For anyone who thinks this makes sense, it does if you want to destroy a country's reputation for international level scientific research. Why are the universities not campaigning more vocally about this outdated border policy? My projects are stalling due to lack of people.

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2 years

On my way to some remoter islands for Golden Week - away from my computer and email for seven days of reading and cycling

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5 years

@ArsenalReport @LukasHenselEcon @nairobigooner Because it is his home.

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2 years

When you hear that another group has received 100 times more research funding to start investigating a topic that you've been the sole group working on for a few years, you have to question if it is worth even bothering. 🤷‍♀️💰💰🤯

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2 years

Catching up with Nobel Laureate, Anton Zeilinger, in front of Boltzmann’s blackboard in Vienna @iqoqivienna @OISTedu

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3 years

I'm looking for a postdoc or staff scientist to work on (single) atom trapping in a slotted waveguide. Cold atom experiments. Please share widely. 2+ year contract at #OISTedu . #quantum #atoms

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5 months

I can offer one research internship to a student displaced from Gaza (if this is in anyway possible). If you know of a physics undergrad or MSc student with interest in optics and who has been displaced please get them to contact me.

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2 years

Sitting indoors on Okinawa - not a single American wearing a mask despite all staff serving them clearly masked. It is not a restaurant or bar. Clear selfishness?

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4 years

Arthur Ashkin, inventor of the #opticaltweezers has passed away at the age of 98. Many of us are indebted to him.

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2 years

Here’s Alain Aspect (Nobel Prize winner) visiting our cold atom lab @OISTedu #physics #OIST #Nobel #NobelPrize2022

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3 years

The Japanese government’s approach to international students trying to enter Japan is unforgivable. Since March 2020 there have only been a few months when we were able to get students into the country. Once more we are in a new academic year and students are blocked outside.

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2 years

Most of my group, including some sleepy ones!

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11 months

The Irish contingent of scientists heading to #Antarctica #WomenInSTEM #StrongerTogether @Dr_Niamh_Shaw @HomewardBound16

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4 years

Introducing my research group - I’m proud of its #diversity #Japan #OISTedu #DiversityandInclusion

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2 years

Day 112 #100daysofwalking - what a beautiful day!

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My accommodation 😀

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1 year

I am hiring researchers (postdocs or staff scientists)! @OISTedu

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11 months

Penguins just hanging out

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3 years

Our September start PhD students haven't been able to enter and we are a university that has to have a minimum of 50% international students so don't say that we can choose from within Japan - the usual response I get. I am sick & tired of this.

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2 years

Great idea to offer professional headshots at #PhotonicsWest #SPIE

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3 years

@BBCWorld Maybe India should have voted against Russia in the UN Security Council to avoid this pointless loss of life. Important to note they did not take a stand against the invasion.

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3 years

Featured in the Women in Optics 2022 Planner and pretending I get to do lab work! #WomenInSTEM

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2 years

After too long, paper on evanescent field manipulation of Au-SiO2 Janus particles is published. Many lessons about review processes were learnt during the intervening 18 months since submission. The effect on authors’ mental health was devastating. 🤬

Evanescent field trapping and propulsion of Janus particles along optical nanofibers

Nature Communications - Manipulation of Janus particles is challenging and has limited precision. Here, the authors propose manipulation of Janus particles by optical forces in the evanescent field...

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Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic

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1 year

The sun was shining, the sea was glistening, so we took a new research unit photo.

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3 years

... projects with colleagues are suffering. Two visiting PhD students have been waiting more than a year; a visiting postdoc has been waiting more than a year; a JSPS-funded visiting fellow has been waiting more than a year and I now have another waiting for this year.

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3 years

This has gone beyond a joke. How can I be an educator if I have no students to educate? #Japan #Omicron #COVID #TravelBan

magdalena osumi | 大住マグダレナ 💁🏼‍♀️

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3 years

Japan to reimpose an entry ban on overseas students & business travelers due to concerns over the Omicron variant just after the government started relaxing the restrictions. The ban will apply to all countries. 水際対策ビジネス目的や留学生も入国停止へ

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Alain Aspect (Nobel Prize in Physics 2022) delivering a lecture to a very busy room @OISTedu

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2 years

Those who want to stop online parts of conferences ignore that a large % of the world’s population still has restricted or no travel. Aside from access to international meetings for those from poorer countries or without research funds. It’s a privileged viewpoint.

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3 years

Day 50 #100daysofwalking - glorious sunshine in the city of light

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2 years

I'm so excited! I'm going to #Antarctica in Nov with #HomewardBound & other women in #STEMM from around the world. It will let me reflect on the world we live in and actions to take to for a sustainable future. For support: @HomewardBound16 , @ACCIONA_EN

Síle's Leadership Journey with Women in STEMM to Antarctica #HB6

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3 years

I didn't come from a top tier university as an undergrad or PhD (if we look at biased world rankings). My parents are not university educated. I come from a country on the wild edge of Europe and I'm female. If amazing people hadn't given me a chance I would not be here now.

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3 years

Day 45 #100daysofwalking - caught in the rain

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2 years

On my way to Taipei with #Pokemon plane

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3 years

Jennifer Sanchez, from Yachay Tech University Ecuador, has joined us for an internship with the hope that Japan will let her enter Okinawa in the near future. Jennifer has completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics. We hope we can welcome her to @OISTedu soon!

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3 years

I never thought this would get such attention! I eagerly await welcoming new students to my lab after two years of no entries. I just won’t make offers or promises to new students that I cannot keep because of this irrational border policy.

Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic

@SileNicChormaic

3 years

I’ve decided that I can no longer make offers to students only to have Japan’s border policy destroy dreams. We are tired of completing paperwork again and again, but never getting entry. Japan is not a country for foreigners and I don’t know when/if that will change.

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1 year

Well done - a great prize in a really exciting field

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

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2 years

Student housing @OISTedu - rooms with a view

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2 years

Because I criticized the Taliban for their treatment of women, Facebook has restricted my account! Claiming I promote terrorism. So is it because I’ve feminist views or is it because I don’t like the Taliban????

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3 years

Day 84 #100daysofwalking - could never tire of this view

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3 years

@igordownunder @OISTedu on Okinawa definitely one of them - stunning location and amazing modern architecture that’s sensitive to the environment

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2 years

Yonaguni scenery and the westernmost point of Japan (in a storm)

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2 years

In Germany with 2 of my PhD students to attend the German Conference for Women in Physics. The two students haven’t had the chance to get to Europe before as they both started during COVID times. Hope they also enjoy Christmas markets! @OISTedu #ChristmasMarkets #womeninSTEM

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2 years

Two physicists in Warsaw

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3 years

Interesting way of ensuring that infection rates in Ireland look very low. Stop PCR testing for under 55s and anyone over 55 who has a booster shot. Very odd approach for votes (my guess).

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Varadkar also confirms that PCR tests will no longer be offered for under-55s in good health, or boosted over 55s, from next Monday. Some exceptions for those who are pregnant, or live with/care for an immunocompromised person

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2 years

An article about my work bring Ukrainien scientists to ⁦ @OISTedu ⁩ ⁦ @Sci_for_Ukraine ⁩

「ウクライナの研究者にチャンスを」　紛争地からの受け入れに奔走する教授の思い：朝日新聞GLOBE＋

質の高い論文の割合で東京大を超え、世界9位となった沖縄科学技術大学院大学（OIST）。そこに集う世界各国の科学者たちは異能の人ばかり。そんな彼らを紹介するコラム「美ら島の国境なき科学者たち」は随時掲載します。

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2 years

15 hour flight to Frankfurt - too long 😫

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9 months

Two new students have started their PhDs in my research unit this month. Hania will work on plasmonic trapping and optical beam shaping, while Sergei will work on holographic atom tweezers. Best of luck to both of them!

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2 years

A shout out to all my wonderful team who surprised me when I came out of a 2-hour lecture on cavities!

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9 months

Meeting up with women in optics @ProfArmani #PhotonicsWest

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3 years

Day 24 of #100daysofwalking - the sun came out so I had to make sure not to miss it!

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3 years

Early in my career here a senior Japanese physicist told me they’d successfully done research for years without needing foreign/female interference and that they didn’t need it now! Gate keeping at its finest and fully legal right now. All those dinosaurs must love the ban.

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2 years

Sunset in Onna village

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6 months

The blatent misogeny that happens in academia will never cease to amaze me. It is 2024 and I often feel we have made zero progress. One day I will write a thread about things I have witnessed in my career. For now I'm focussed on not quitting and always fighting it.

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9 months

I’ve arrived in the Arctic so I’ve been in both polar regions within a few weeks 🥶

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@SileNicChormaic

2 years

I'm looking for a postdoc or staff scientist to join an existing experiment on cold alkali atoms integrated with nanophotonics devices. Please spread the word! #coldatoms #nanofibers #nanophotonics #lasercooling #ultracold #Japan #postdoc #researcher #OIST

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When the society behind a conference I co-chair says all papers must be reviewed from 24 Dec. to 02 Jan. by the volunteer committee I have to speak up. I refuse to do this work during this time and to ask our committee members to do it. #WorkLifeBalance @OpticaWorldwide

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2 years

It’s sakura time in Prague

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@OIST_KonoLab You can eat them!

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Sunset in #Antarctica

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The cosmos are blooming #Okinawa

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5 years

@MillieReagan Absolutely not. He’d have helped by reporting this as it was happening. He brought the poor girl to her death, provided the tools for it and witnessed it. We simply don’t know what else he may have done. Guilty!!

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Brief update from on board. On sea all day heading to Islas Malvinas (Falkland’s). Lots sick so far, I’m not! Islander toughness in me. Too much food, very busy day with lots of information (overload). Should reach land tomorrow afternoon and maybe touch it the next day.

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1 year

The amazing lack of self-awareness of Japanese politics

朝日新聞映像報道部

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岸田内閣は15日の閣議で副大臣26人と政務官28人の人事を決めました。計54人はすべて男性議員で女性議員はゼロです。朝日新聞の調べでは、2001年に副大臣・政務官が導入されてから「女性ゼロ」は初めてです。（郁）

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3 years

Here’s my shot by Sam Barker Photography for the Faces of Optics exhibit by @OpticalSociety for which I had to get my hair brushed. @sambarking (maybe?)

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If anyone knows a physics senior undergrad or MSc student from Ukraine I’m able to offer one 6-month internship in Japan. Research in cold atoms, optical trapping or nano-optics. #ScienceForUkraine

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Day 99 #100daysofwalking - in the daylight for a change

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At least we still have this daily view #Okinawa

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6 months

Welcome to two new research interns - Sophia from Bonn in Germany and Chris from Auckland in New Zealand @OISTedu Hope they enjoy their summer on Okinawa!

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And I’m off #ReturnToJapan

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Hearing of so many people from all around the world who’ve been refused entry to Japan in last 24 hours as their visas to move were suddenly cancelled. So cruel to those about to board planes. #Japan #TravelBan

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11 years ago my group moved with me to @OISTedu

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Day 72 #100daysofwalking - back to the rain

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A small taste of Kazakhstan on an 18 hour bus journey

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@AnnetteMckay15 I fell in March this year in the centre of Paris and shopping went flying. Several people helped me get up, gathered my shopping for me. I was impressed!

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Exciting times ahead - finally I hope that the 5 postdocs, 2 exchange PhD students, OIST PhD students, and 8 research intern students may be able to enter Japan in the coming months! After 2 years of essentially no arrivals, projects stopped, collaborations not fulfilled.

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My stunning workplace

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Hanging out with old friends from my Innsbruck days while having a great time in Vienna - 28 years ago in Ibk we were all starting our careers!! The photons don’t age even if we do!

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Bad Honnef after the rain

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Loving my new kimono shoes

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I’m on my way to Paris to finally take up a LabEx PALM visiting position for a few months that I’ve postponed since March 2020. This is the food in the lounge for breakfast. It’s safer to stay in Japan but I need a change. I’m expecting lockdown or WFH on arrival 😂

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On my way to Taipei

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A walk through rural Japan

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Arrival no 11 to the group since Japan relaxed its border entry. Meet Maryna Khrypko, a physics graduate from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. She'll work on plasmonic materials and is funded by @OISTFoundation @OISTedu

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Day 36 #100daysofwalking - around China Town

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