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Postdoctoral fellow at @Brandeis Experimental Physicist | Soft and Active Matter| #WomenInSTEM #ActiveMatter #DNAorigami

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Excited to share our paper in Nature Communications! We developed a system of deformable active cell mimics & observed a reentrant #jamming transition mediated by cell shape changes. #active #glassy #cellshape #research #confluent @Rajesh_JNCASR @AjaySoodIISC @sarojnandi1983
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"Today my total citations hit 10 and for a moment I compared myself to others and felt down. But then I remembered - DOUBLE DIGITS!! Every PhD journey is unique, so let's celebrate the small achievements along the way 🎉" #phdlife #smallwins #academichatter @AcademicChatter
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"Yesterday, with tears of joy and a heart full of gratitude, I completed my PhD journey. It was a rollercoaster of hard work, sleepless nights, and endless determination. But it was all worth it. #PhDComplete #DrLife #DreamsAchieved @ThePhDPlace @AcademicChatter @ThePhDPlace
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"Yesterday was a milestone for me as I presented my PhD thesis colloquium! Grateful and elated doesn't even begin to describe it. Even more special - my twin sister presented hers just one day before me. So proud of us both! 🎓👩‍🎓 #PhDLife #Twinning " #physics @AcademicChatter
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🎓✨ Congrats to all the bright minds starting their PhD journey this fall! Remember, every challenge you face is a step toward mastery. Embrace the difficulties, for they pave the way to understanding! 📚🔬 #PhDBeginnings #EmbraceChallenges #womeninstem
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Double the joy in our academic journey! 🌟 While I'm the experimentalist, my twin sister Raagya shines as a brilliant theorist. She defended her thesis yesterday, and I couldn't be prouder! #PhDComplete #Sisterhood #AcademicAchievements @AcademicChatter @ZJAyres @ThePhDPlace
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Dr. Raagya Arora
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Today I poured my heart into defending my thesis. The overwhelming sense of gratitude is indescribable! Just 2 days after my twin did the same – sharing this incredible achievement doubling the joy! @pragyaarora26 Standing at the bridge b/w theory and experiment at @Harvard #phd
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🎓 Exciting update! Just submitted my thesis and joined Brandeis University as a postdoc fellow in the physics department! Thrilled to work with Prof. Seth Fraden and be part of the MRSEC team. DNA origami research awaits! 🧬Grateful and excited for this new chapter! #research
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Honoured and extremely humbled to be selected for the Rising Stars Symposium in Soft and Biological Matter 2022 organised by UChicago and UCSD MRSECs. Thank you for this opportunity. @UChicago #activematter
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Grateful and honoured to give a Squishy physics seminar at Harvard to such an esteemed audience. My talk was on liquids and glasses of designer active granules. Thank you to everyone who attended! #SquishyPhysics #Harvard @T_Litschel #active #softmatter #WomenInSTEM @Harvard
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Tough day in the lab? Let setbacks fuel your comeback! Every bad day is a stepping stone towards success. Embrace the lessons from yesterday’s challenges, for they shape the victories of tomorrow. Happy November 🥼🧬 #PhDStrong #Science #postdoc #experiments
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Our paper just got published in PRL. It has been selected as editor's choice & featured in Physics @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178002 (2022) - Motile Topological Defects Hinder Dynamical Arrest in Dense Liquids of Active Ellipsoids
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I was honoured to present my postdoctoral work at 99th New England Complex Fluids Workshop at Brown University. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to engage with the soft matter and fluid mechanics community. #SoftMatter #science #postdoc #sciencecommunication
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Honoured to attend my first Granular Gordon Research Confrence #grc2022 and win the best poster award. It was my first overseas confrence and was an amazing experience to meet people from all over the world. @GordonConf @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR #activematter #chiral
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Thrilled to have shared our latest work on "synthetic cell-mimics" at APS March Meeting. Grateful for the fantastic response and insightful discussions with fellow attendees. Thank you to everyone who made this experience memorable! #APSMarch #Gratitude #womeninscience #physics
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🔬 Empowering women in science! 🌟 This festive season, found this gem at a carnival - Let's break stereotypes, promote equality, and celebrate the incredible contributions of women in STEM. #WomenInScience #EqualityInSTEM #MerryChristmas 🎄 @AcademicChatter @4womeninscience
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I will be talking about our recent experiments on artificial granular cell mimics tomorrow at @APSMeetings ! Come and learn how to make artificial deformable active matter in the lab. #activematter #apsmarch #physics @ApsDsoft
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So proud to see an Indian woman scientist Kalpana Kalahasti in Nature’s 10 – Ten people (and one non-human) who helped shape science in 2023. The engineer who helped India to reach the Moon #womenintech #STEM #WomenInSTEM
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Thrilled to be selected for the 2024 Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics! Over the next 4 weeks, I’ll dive into biophysics and soft matter #research . This prestigious school has always been a dream. #CondensedMatter #Biophysics #SoftMatter #STEM #Physics
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Just a regular Saturday in lab! Particle Tracking . Trajectories as complicated as phd lives. #phdvoice #phdlife #phdforum #active #networks #experiment #physics @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter
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Excited to see our article featured in a Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights @anjali_physics @NatureComms @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR @sarojnandi1983 @bdpmax @ssadhukhan1996 The Highlights showcases 50 best papers recently published in an area.
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Gloves on, ready for another year of learning and exploration! Happy New Year. May our research and insights shine in 2024. #AcademicYear #NewBeginnings #PhD #STEM @AcademicChatter @PhDVoice
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Poster presentation at In-house Symposium @jncasr . Had so much fun discussing my work work with a bunch of extremely enthusiastic students. It was an enriching experience! #poster #phdlife #science #womeninstem @VoicesofIndAcad @AcademicChatter
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Just posted our paper on Arxiv after 2 years of meticulous experiments! We unveil a morphodynamic link in deformable active cell monolayers, showing how geometric constraints dictate jamming/unjamming. #activematter #deformable #granularmatter
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Pragya Arora
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Forgot to mention - I'm a soft matter experimentalist and my twin sister is a hard condensed matter theorist. Different fields, but same drive and determination to succeed. Exciting times ahead! 🧪💻 #PhDLife #ScienceSiblings "
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Remember, ‘Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will’ – Suzy Kassem. As you start PhD journey this fall, wear your curiosity like a second skin, not your doubts. #GradSchoolMotivation #Science #FearlessInTheLab #PhD #phdlife @AcademicChatter
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Day1: squishy science Sunday! Such a wonderful session. Soft matter physics at its best! @APSMeetings @APSphysics #APSMarch #aps @ApsDsoft
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One-third of Indian STEM conferences have no women Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty are rare, and women speaking at conferences are even rarer quoted from the article. We need better representation. Any suggestions?
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This is amazing news. Super proud of my sister!
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Dr. Raagya Arora
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My paper co-authored with Prof. Umesh Waghmare and Prof. C.N.R. Rao just got published in Advanced Materials. We study metavalent bonding whose electronic mechanisms and origin remain controversial over the past decade.
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As the year comes to a close, reflecting on the journey – from completing my PhD to embarking on the challenges of a postdoc. Embracing the new! may dreams continue to fuel breakthroughs in the coming year. 🌟👩‍🔬 @AcademicChatter @ZJAyres #YearEndReflections #phdchat #postdoc
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It was a pleasure to present our work on the dynamics of programmableDNA origami triangles on engineered lipid bilayers at NECF(New England Complex Fluids Workshop), Tufts University. Brandeis MRSEC #science #physics #stem #postdoclife
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#apsmarch #physics @APSMeetings @APSphysics #womeninstem First APS March meeting and what better company than your twin.
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Dr. Raagya Arora
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Excited to attend the APS March meeting with my twin @pragyaarora26 ! Happy to meet and chat:) Day 1 More updates about my talk and poster session soon! #apsmarch #APSMarchMeeting @APSMeetings
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Group photo of GRC Granular Matter 2022! It was an enriching experience attending this conference with these amazing bunch of people. @GordonConf #granularmatter
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One of the best schools I have ever attended! Learnt a lot about the field. Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity. @SoftLiv_Cornell @squishycell1 @ShilaBanerji @SaricLab
@SoftLiv_Cornell
Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials
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The 2024 Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter Physics took place from July 1-26. Students gathered to learn from experts about the latest research in “Self-Organizing Matter: From Inanimate to Animate.” Here are their key takeaways💡
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Do watch to find out how active glasses are fundamentally different from passive ones? #topologicaldefects #activematter #glasstransistion
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The India
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. @jncasr और @iiscbangalore के शोधकर्ताओं ने पाया है कि सक्रिय पदार्थ कणों को कांच में परिवर्तन से बचने में मदद करने वाला तंत्र कैंसर मेटास्टेसिस के अध्ययन में सहायता कर सकता है। @DrJitendraSingh @IndiaDST
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And it’s a wrap! Here are my key takeaways from 4 weeks of learning. Science thrives on collaboration, networking and building a strong research community. Let’s grow together #network #collaboration #united by physics Thanks to everyone! Good byes are always hard.
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Pragya Arora
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Congratulations! Proud sister 🫧
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Dr. Raagya Arora
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An honor to be a part of the Rising Stars in #Materials Science and #Engineering workshop 2024 at #Stanford ! Met brilliant minds in the field. A huge thank you to the organizers, faculty, and staff for creating such a valuable experience.
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A woman’s place is in science. "The other reason why we ought to adopt a broad definition of a woman in science is that they can become multipliers, sharing their love for the natural world and technology with more and more girls and women. " #science
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The #3Dprinted rice shaped ellipsoids have a handedness in their trajectory under vertical vibration. We develop a strategy to precisely tune the nature of #chiral activity. @SciResMatters @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR @ScienceAdvances #activematter
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Can someone help me identify these eggs? Found them on my campus JNCASR, Bangalore. #eggs #identify #nature #wasp #insects
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@PhysicsMagazine
Physics Magazine
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Experiments on 3D-printed particles could help researchers better understand the behaviors of living particles, such as the cells in our bodies.
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Congratulations 🙌
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Sharing this special paper! Our work sheds light on metavalent vs hypervalent #bonding . An enriching experience collaborating with Prof. M. Wuttig and the team. Metavalent or Hypervalent Bonding: Is There a Chance for Reconciliation? - Advanced Science
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What is soft is strong!
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Paul Salopek
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“Water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” – Tao Te Ching. Qinling range, #Shaanxi , #China . #EdenWalk
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Only the second woman to receive the #FieldsMedal2022 (the first was Maryam Mirzakhani).
@QuantaMagazine
Quanta Magazine
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@jordanacep @EricaKlarreich BREAKING: Maryna Viazovska, a Ukrainian number theorist, has been awarded the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor. She is the second woman to receive the medal in its 86-year history. @7homaslin and @EricaKlarreich report:
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Our work covered by Indian express! Read more to find out how active glasses relax by swirling.
@IndiaDST
DSTIndia
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Mechanism that helps active systems to escape transformation to glass can aid study of cancerous metastasis: Scientists @jncasr & @iiscbangalore . @DrJitendraSingh @srivaric @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR
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Living cell collectives can jam/unjam through many pathways, yet the details remain elusive. We design a monolayer of deformable cellmimics composed of chiral active granular ellipsoids confined in paper rings and show a re-entrant jamming transition mediated by cell shape change
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Pragya Arora
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Congratulations! @AroraRaagya
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Dr. Raagya Arora
2 years
Excited to share our work published in Phys. Review B titiled "Pressure-induced topological and structural phase transitions in natural van der Waals heterostructures from the (SnTe)m(Bi2Te3)n homologous family" @AjaySoodIISc @kanishkabiswas @waghmare16
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Our recent work on 3-D printed chiral active matter published in @ScienceAdvances . @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR
@DDNewslive
DD News
4 years
New clue about how particles self-assemble can pave the way for understanding dynamics in living cells Details: @IndiaDST @tapascancer
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Happy to share my first publication on "3D printed designer chiral active matter" published in Science Advaces. We show the first evidence of chiral activity mediated stereoselective interactions and self-recognition. @ScienceAdvances #activematter
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So happy to be a part of this, thank you so much. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
@PhDsofIndia
PhDs of India
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Sorry for the delay. Here's looking at the incredible women scientists we had the honor to feature on our page. #INTERNATIONALDAYOFWOMENINSCIENCE Tagging a few of them @GKangInd @WormlockHolmes @Sci_Lipi @vaishnavigator @SohiniBioPharma @rupalsriv @ipsawonders @sreshthamondal
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We develop a strategy to precisely control the nature of chiral activity of 3-D printed granules. @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR
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Our recent work on "3-D printed designer chiral active matter" covered by @IndiaDST @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR @jncasr #activematter #chiral #3dprinting
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Pragya Arora
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COVID-19, Delhi and Pollution! Please test and isolate yourself as soon as you feel mild symptoms. @ArvindKejriwal @CMODelhi @msisodia @DelhiVsCorona
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Wish you all a vibrant and colorful new year ahead. #NewYear2022wishes #grating #experiments #lab #science
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@AroraRaagya Congratulations! Super proud of my sister.
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@NatureMaterials @Cris_LoGiudice Amazing cover. Love this!
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Thank you @EkashmiRathore . This video shows 8000 particles under vertical vibration as a function of net chirality. The dynamics of the liquid state is fundamentally different in the three panels.
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Ekashmi Rathore
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Most interesting part during her experimental journey was to see her handling those tiny terribly cute 3D printed rice size particles for her experiments with tiny little fingers! A glimpse of particles & patterns is attached here. @pragyaarora26 #activematter @ScienceAdvances
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Going around in circles! Video of displacement map of an enantiopure liquid of around 8000 #chiral right rotating #3Dprinted particles. Note the large right spinning vortices. Read more at: @ScienceAdvances @AjaySoodIISc @Rajesh_JNCASR #activematter
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‘Dear those in charge’: A scientist’s coronavirus impact statement
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@hollielloyd_8 @GordonConf It was great to meet you all. Looking forward to more such conferences.
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Congratulations....
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Thanks to the wonderful team @Rajesh_JNCASR @AjaySoodIISc @sarojnandi1983 @go2souvik and Prof. Max Bi.
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@AroraRaagya Congratulations 🎉
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Pragya Arora
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My experience with COVID-19 Please don't be in denial of the disease and wait for severe symptoms before getting tested. Early intervention by doctors will help you and your loved ones recover quickly. #COVID19 #COVID #COVID19India
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Boulder School 2024: Self-Organizing Matter
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@FakhriLab @AlexandruBacan2 @MIT_Physics @NatureNano Congratulations! This is really interesting.
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@pintupatra05 @IITKgp Congratulations!
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@ItaiYanai This is beautiful!
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@HarmitMalik @ThePhDPlace @AcademicChatter Thank you so much! You have been a constant source of inspiration!
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@Jacinta_Conrad This is so cool!
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A leading anxiety researcher argues that habits can fuel our worry, and suggests two surprising strategies to combat it: Curiosity and kindness.
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal
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A leading researcher argues that anxiety can become a “habit loop.” He suggests two surprising strategies to combat it.
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@sarojnandi1983 Thank you sir, it was a pleasure to collaborate with you.
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@KenCaldeira @AcademicChatter Thankyou so much for the motivation!
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@demian_levis @UB_ICS @FisicaUB This is really nice work. Congratulations to the team!
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@EkashmiRathore @ScienceAdvances Thank you @EkashmiRathore . Indeed, it was a long journey. Glad that you liked the particle design. That's the heart of the work.
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@alexxr97_ I am sorry that this happened to you. We need more compassion and kindness towards each other.
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@RobLavigne1 @AcademicChatter Yess! Thankyou so much.
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An Omicron investigator, a Mars explorer and an AI ethics pioneer are some of the people behind the year’s big research stories. via @nature
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@EKing_Sci Thank you for sharing. Really insightful!
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@tncvidya @ThePhDPlace @AcademicChatter Thank you so much ma’am for always inspiring!
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