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Bringing Fusion to the Grid 'tweetstorm'

Nat'l Academy of Science on bringing #fusion to the grid

#fusion would be key to future electrical generation mix

Report suggests the beginning of #fusion operating plant as soon as end of the decade

https://t.co/UMapDuWjTa

Keyed to a particular fusion #fuelcycle

https://t.co/yd9hjFgLQS

Key guidepost - pilot plant cost of $5-6 billion

https://t.co/onJm1NOrLM

https://t.co/5P1eSNehy7

https://t.co/00dksiNrZH

significant hurdles include basic science and materials needs

https://t.co/O5WP346Z5m

https://t.co/lexcg30Uku

https://t.co/0pd9a8xCBY

Availability of #tritium - very limited worldwide supply - key hurdle and need for urgency

@threadreaderapp unroll #fusion #NAS #fusiontweetstorm

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Rebekah Fenton, MD, FA...
@RFentonMD

It is past due time we talk about microaggressions on interviews (a thread #MedTwitter #AcademicTwitter):

First, microaggressions are harmful! Despite their name, they signal “you don’t belong here” to marginalized groups.

Second, interview days are already nerve-wrecking.

One comment or experience has the ability to undermine an interview day. Applicants may not have the ability to report immediately and anonymously or may fear retribution for doing so. Interview day microaggressions put applicants in an awkward spot in addition to the harm.

They are also not rare experiences. As a Black woman, I have experienced them at multiple institutions and different levels. I’m sharing my stories as examples of what happens, but I have no doubt there are many others, even within your institution, that need to be responded to.

College: I had an in-person panel interview for a full-tuition scholarship. One POC on the panel repeatedly asked, “where are you from?” I was 17 and eager to please, but also knew I didn’t have to share that my ancestors were traumatized thru slavery. I got flustered and bombed.

Med school: A diversity website wrote, we need more physicians of color because they are more likely to serve in underserved communities. While true, the reason we need more representation in medicine is because minoritized groups have been kept out. PERIOD. I didn’t apply there.

President Warren G. Ho...
@PopeAwesomeXIII

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the tweets
Not a user was stirring, not even in fleets
The drafts were all scheduled for the a.m. with care
In hopes that virality soon would be there

The children were all nestled all snug in their snaps
Their instas, their twitches, their lit tiktok apps;
And mamma in her Pinterest, and I in my LinkedIn,
Had just settled down (the edible had kicked in)

When out on the lawn there arose such a ruckus!
I cursed the doorbell stream app I'd deleted for 'Among Us'
Plus the wi-fi was down, so I leapt from my bed
Flung open the window and lifted it over my head.

I could see nothing, I was in no mood for jokes
Snowblinded by moonlight, climate change is no hoax
When what to my furious eyes did appear?
The outline of a sleigh, and eight tiny... I wanna say, deer?

With a round little driver, he was no kind of runt
It was either St. Nick or a damn YouTube stunt.
More rapid than retweets, they came on like vandals
And he whistled and shouted and called out their handles

Koshiek Karan
@iamkoshiek

Here are 20 of my best threads from 2020 covering personal finance, entrepreneurship, economics & finance, investment banking ++ useful resources.

Massively grateful to everyone who took time out to read, comment & share these across the year. I really appreciate you.

[Thread]

1. Breaking-in – study notes, free textbooks & past

If you have any study notes, past exam papers, quick excel models... anything you feel could help Twitter peeps, post the links below \U0001f4aa\U0001f4aa
— Koshiek Karan (@iamkoshiek) May 29, 2020

2. Breaking-in – the job connector

The interview job connector thread. If you're currently job hunting, please post the industry/role & someone who is already in the field can give you tailored tips ++ share their experiences \U0001f4aa\U0001f3fd\U0001f4aa\U0001f3fd
— Koshiek Karan (@iamkoshiek) December 4, 2020

3. Breaking-in – book smart vs. street

Anyone who has ever worked a corporate job will tell you where you studied means very little.

Education doesn't guarantee ability.
— Koshiek Karan (@iamkoshiek) August 8, 2020

4. Personal Finance – MEGA Property

The Reserve Bank cut the repo rate by 25bps & just like clockwork, the rats who are paid to sell houses are encouraging people to go out & buy

The usual "influencers"/ estate agents/ mortgage brokers/ banks/ loan sharks/ excavator salesmen

Here's a useful MEGA property thread:
— Koshiek Karan (@iamkoshiek) July 23, 2020

Preetam Nath
@hipreetam93

📊 My Twitter stats for January (vs December)

💬 Tweets: 271 (154)
👀 Tweet impressions: 560k (210k)
📃 Profile visits: 56.7k (24.4k)
﹫ Mentions: 445 (105)
👋 New followers: 899 (390)

What changed between Dec to Jan?

👇

1 - Tweeting more frequently

Up til Dec, I would tweet on Sundays and remain mostly inactive during the week.

From mid-Jan, switched things up and started tweeting almost daily.

The goal is to share 1 useful thing / day.

Takeaway - Tweeting daily is work, but rewarding.

2 - Building in public

I've been sharing since 2019, but it was never as intense before. My SEO course literally got built while I was tweeting about it.

Takeaway - 💯 for the engaging experience. But it's exhausting if this isn't your main thing. I'm building @delightchathq

What didn't change 👇

• Delivering value to the lives and journey of others.
• Being transparent about progress.
• Being nice to every person who DM'd or emailed me about their struggles in life or business.

Final note - I 100% think people should build in public IF the target audience for what they are building live on Twitter.

If that's you, try it out. Go through all my tweets for January, see what worked (and what didn't lol), and replicate it in February.

All the best 💪

Cosmic Penguin
@Cosmic_Penguin

So regarding to my "bombshell"...it's perhaps a bit less dramatic than many presumed, yet it still troubles me a lot, to the point that I wondered whether I should stop posting on certain things

I'm going to make a bomb shell statement here around the turn of the year, something so risky that I face prospects of the Twitter account being attacked or even banned.

It's about my very uneasy Twitter experience over the past 2-6 months, the worst I could ever remember.
— Cosmic Penguin (@Cosmic_Penguin) December 31, 2020

You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.

And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.

It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.

This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.

I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.