Ludovico Cademartiri @LCademartiriLab Twitter profile

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

6 years

Transparent soil is coming! Stay tuned! @BeckmanFnd @JoseDinneny @PlantEvolution @SchnableLab @szintri @SchmaleLab @tomsizmur @NAPPN_org @RootDevo @GoreLab_Cornell @guillaumelobet @LarryMattYork @bradylabs @plant_image @RootBiologyNews @RootScientists #LCademartiriLab

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@LCademartiriLab

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Please retweet. Whomever would be interested in doing a PhD in Parma, Italy, starting January 2022, on the theme of sustainability in materials chemistry, please shoot me an email ASAP, include CV. Our government has suddenly released funding for fellowships, hence the timeframe.

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Shoutout to those in the academic community that are trying to do things differently. An important lesson about "doing things differently" that I learnt 🧵

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

One of the worst bits about doing exploratory work is that your students spend 1-2 yrs obtaining what look like nothing while their classmates doing incremental stuff churn out 50 slides of data... it is devastating for students who lack steely motivation.

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@LCademartiriLab

9 months

This thread wins the Internet for 2023. Dedicated to all those who still believe that new science requires new tools and lots of money, while it requires awareness, curiosity and lots of TIME.

Saverio Spagnolie

@SaverioIV

9 months

It turns out that sparkling water and raisins are *fascinating*. My daughter and I happened upon this effect playing together in the kitchen a long time ago, and I couldn't help but explore the system more deeply... 1/n

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

Just discovered the arboretum I planted at my former property in Iowa has been basically razed to the ground and converted to lawn... 250 species of trees. Some specimens unique in Iowa. Some unique on the planet. 6 years of work. Gone. I am heartbroken.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Just got an actual bio paper accepted in PNAS. I never had a biology course in my life. Life is weird.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

To those interested in this medium, please note that we are very happy to help if you have questions or doubts. If you'd like to collaborate and you are in Europe feel free to touch base with us. But most importantly have fun with it! Tinker, explore, play!

Tonni Grube Andersen

@TonniGrube

3 years

Nodules!!

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Looking for a PhD to conduct work on crystallization, growth and applications of colloidal nanocrystals. Guaranteed pay, and the possibility to learn a ton on synthesis, simulations and applications of these materials. And to live in Italy for three years... Please retweet!

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Happy to share the department and now the college have recommended my tenure.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

It is with mixed feelings that I announce that I will be leaving Iowa State to take up an associate prof position with tenure in the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Environmental Sustainability at my alma mater, the University of Parma.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

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2 years

@chigrl @Halsrethink Fruit farming is very susceptible to irreversible damage. Before the current corn/soybean absurdity, Iowa used to be an orchard. People don't understand that late freezes can be more devastating than droughts for the ecosystem.

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@LCademartiriLab

5 years

@mickeykats The temptation of submitting something under the name of Sultan of Swing would be very high

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

We'll train them on the job, they said!!!!!! BTW, the same is true for high end metallurgy in industry: knowhow is usually in the hands of literally a handful of ultrasenior employees. There are few things more important than metals. Single points of failure. @man_integrated

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

@amazon you miserable fucks. Why do you lock accounts of people that have just emigrated to Italy, in the middle of the worst pandemic in 100 years? And you provide absolutely no option to call you and speak with a representative. Shame on you!!!! (a customer of 20yrs)

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

Young faculty should completely ignore senior faculty advice. All of it. Everything about the world that coddled and protected that generation is either gone or going away. Look further. Live by your own rules. Otherwise what are you doing on this planet?

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@LCademartiriLab

1 year

Man, we have crippled the largest army on the planet in a yr only with our materiel in stock and being forced to fight with only one country with boots on the ground and no air support and long range artillery. And your conclusion from all this is that WE are afraid?

S.L. Kanthan

@Kanthan2030

1 year

Why the US/EU are afraid of China: In China, men are men, women and women, and they are both disciplined. PLA parade...

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Here is our latest work on @PNASNews Many congrats to @kararlind , @OSiemianowski , the co-first authors, as well as @tomsizmur and @HannahVanevery and all coauthors for this wonderful work. In this thread I will summarize our findings

Evidence for root adaptation to a spatially discontinuous water availability in the absence of...

We hereby show that root systems adapt to a spatially discontinuous pattern of water availability even when the gradients of water potential across...

www.pnas.org

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@LCademartiriLab

2 years

@FulvioPaglia A sentirlo parlare mi vien da piangere... un gigante

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Here is our paper in @angew_chem on the liquid-like coalescence mechanism in colloidal nanocrystals. We show how this mechanism is very effective and yet undetectable through traditional characterization and synthesis techniques.

Growth of Colloidal Nanocrystals by Liquid‐Like Coalescence**

Ligand-capped PbS colloidal nanoparticles grow by liquid-like coalescence rather than Ostwald ripening in the absence of supersaturation. The effective activation energy of the coalescence process...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Something that should be taught in every science degree, IMO. Let's say an observable is power law distributed, i.e., the measurements are distributed as f(x)=a*x^b where b is negative. (in the case below b=-2).

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

5 years

@RebeccaGruby Glad you ignored that advice. I wish academe would make actual steps towards making maternity more compatible with tenure track. In most cases it is just lip service.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

5 months

Citations measure the quality of scientist the same way the number of speed tickets received measure the quality of a driver.

FX Coudert

@fxcoudert

5 months

Let's give a very clear example of these things go. Sometime at random, you come across a Google Scholar like that. Very weird. Early-career researcher, has published 11 papers in 8 years, reasonable. Something stands out, though… the number of citations.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

The owners accepted the offer. 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

I just made an offer on the house. Wish us luck

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Armani converts his entire production to make PPE. @man_integrated

La Stampa

@LaStampa

4 years

Coronavirus, Giorgio Armani converte tutta la produzione di moda in camici monouso per gli operatori sanitari

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@LCademartiriLab

5 months

On the next issue, Benjamin Franklin, politician and kite aficionado. BTW, this interview should be mandatory read for all grad students.

George Whitesides (PhD '64), Chemist and NMR Spectroscopist

Harvard chemist George Whitesides reflects on his life and career in this oral history

heritageproject.caltech.edu

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

Reviewing papers is becoming really painful. SO MANY experiments, SO MUCH money, SO MUCH time spent doing characterizations in poorly-designed experiments, hypotheses that violate thermodynamics. etc...: you could have saved 100K$ if you had just stopped and thought it through...

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

Good news for new generations. The soft skills that actually matter: (i) being able to take criticism (even coarse) (ii) being able to have discussions rather than debates (iii) not believe you are so important that everything is about you

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Italian doctors from Bologna hacked respirators to allow them to push several circuits at once.Local company built prototype in 72hrs. Already operational.First devices being delivered. Don't need fancy when you can do SMART. Dedicated to the anti-italians out there.With love.

Adnkronos

@Adnkronos

4 years

#Coronavirus , scoperto come collegare respiratore a più circuiti

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Am I alone in thinking that there is actually no fundamental reason why lab skills cannot be taught virtually but actually that they can be taught A LOT better that way?

Domenico

@AvatarDomy

4 years

Teaching chemistry 🧪 with simulation program....

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

7 months

I just got a paper to review for @angew_chem . It is only two pages!! An ACTUAL communication!!! I am in love...

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

1 done 1 to go

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

The most amazing scientists I have met are extremely NOT competitive. They actually have NO interest in competition whatsoever. 🤷‍♂️

Dr. Fiona (she/her)

@fiona_chembot

3 years

Academia: when the world's most competitive people enter a race, where the prize is literally bragging rights and getting to keep running, and we just can't get enough of it

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

If you can read only one american author, make it @Chris_arnade . The only writer I have read who is able to empathetically weave a thread across all subcultures of America, without judging them. This below is a stunning piece on the current crisis.

Chaos in the Time of Covid | American Compass

In physics, to reveal deeper truths, you slam particles together to expose their inner structure. The pandemic has been like that, slamming different parts of the country together, revealing it to be...

americancompass.org

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Just finished my first two orals (Nanochemistry course) as a professor at the University of Parma. The level of preparation is... surreal... I might have to raise my bar.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Finally moved into the new house. We are home and there is nothing but blue skies above. I hope you all get to go home one day, wherever or whatever home is for you.

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@LCademartiriLab

2 years

A 🧵on how "Content Inflation" in the scientific literature is, IMHO, damaging to science and is absolutely obliterating its inclusivity and diversity. Not a rant but rather something publishers could fix tomorrow at virtually zero cost.

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@LCademartiriLab

2 years

Can we just remove memberships to societies as a part of CVs? Please... No other part of the CV is really quite as elitist, obsolete, and frankly ridiculous. Raise you hand if you ever cared about someone having been part of the ACS, MRS or other such societies.

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

@j_bertolotti That's called flipped class. Some people manage to make it work. The reality is that few students have the discipline to take the lectures online and study ahead of class instead of ahead of the test. I also think that, in theory, it is the best approach.

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@LCademartiriLab

2 years

@Prep4Disasters Prunus spinosa, hands down, if you want the hedge to be impenetrable. Stunning when in bloom - first bloomer of the spring. You can make one of the best liquors on the planet from the fruits. The thorns will puncture tractor tires... so...

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

9 months

To PhD students. Apparently it doesn't matter if you make a Nobel-worthy discovery. You boss will get it for you. 👍

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Very cool study. Cities with cars are like brains short of myelin.

Wrath Of Gnon

@wrathofgnon

6 years

Donald Appleyard's famous 1969 analysis of how urban traffic destroys communities. Three nearly identical streets in San Francisco, but with light, medium and heavy traffic. The less traffic the more interactions, the more friendships, the more meeting points. Cars kills cities.

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@LCademartiriLab

1 year

That's not how it works. Why do people keep thinking that studying is in any way different than learning to play an instrument? Most exercises are boring by definition. It is the price you pay for competence.

Andrew Ng

@AndrewYNg

1 year

I wish schools could make homework so joyful that students want to do it themselves, rather than let ChatGPT have all the fun.

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Italian teachers are very pragmatic. My daughter (7) has been coopted as assistant teacher of english. My daughter does all the pronunciation for the class and the teacher translate it in italian. My daughter feels awesome. 😂

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Cool. But we have a very different idea of what a "complex environment" looks like. Try Piazza Venezia in Rome or pretty much anywhere in my hometown during rush hour traffic.

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@LCademartiriLab

5 years

Gotten hit on the side by a car traveling 50mph. They ignored stop sign. No sign of breaking. My full family aboard. Miraculously alive, in shock and banged up, but alive. Thank God and @Honda engineers👏👏. I have no idea how the car didn't flip and how we all made it.

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

@PlanningShit It fits like a shoe down a throat.

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

One of the worst things that can (and will) happen to you as a scientist is to discover a paper you should have cited after your paper is already out. I personally feel horrible about it every time. In 2021 we should be able to edit and modify papers after publication as a wiki.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Italian fast food. 200 g of gambetto di prosciutto, onion focaccia. 5 euros. Eat like a king.

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Numbers are good today. Declining trend is confirmed. We are winning!

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Thanks @angew_chem for the paper version.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Funny bit of academia for PIs: the harder you work the less people see you and the more they assume you are not in 🤣🤣🤣 At ISU everybody complained they never saw me. I am like: yes of course you are not. I am in my office typing and you are here gossipping.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

So, take your time to appreciate those around you that truly try to do things wildly differently in science, technology, industry. Don't assume that because they are famous it was easy. It never is. It is ALWAYS easier to coast than going off into uncharted waters. /End

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@LCademartiriLab

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In science we do the opposite than Pharrell does. If someone works on something unusual we sabotage them, we don't try to understand, we pity their recklessness. If someone instead makes incremental work on hot topics we admire their "ambition", "contribution", and "timelyness".

Billy Oppenheimer

@bpoppenheimer

1 year

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs. After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”

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@LCademartiriLab

2 years

shameless plug Modular ecosystems made with LEGO - paper we published years ago and yet never got much traction.

HOMEs for plants and microbes – a phenotyping approach with quantitative control of signaling...

We describe a simple, scalable, modular, and frugal approach to create model ecosystems as millifluidic networks of interconnected habitats (hosting microbes or plants), which offers (i) quantitative...

pubs.rsc.org

Ricardo Henriques

@HenriquesLab

2 years

🚨😍🔬 #LEGO in #Science is back!! In our latest work, we showcase what you can do with it in a bio-lab and more! A project led by @EtienneBoulter with Julien Colombelli and @FeralLab . From stretchers, microfluidics, to full-fledged (light-sheet) 'scopes.

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Unpopular opinion: combustion is, BY FAR, the most important and least studied chemical reaction on the planet. It runs virtually everything that matters in our engineered environment and yet it is entirely absent from chemistry departments. It is like it doesn't exist.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

5 years

Here is the paper on TRANSPARENT SOIL!!!!! (). Great kudos to Lin and Yichao, our great collaborators, and @USDA and PSI @IASTATE for funding this work. We hope this will be useful and will encourage engineers and chemists to help plant science and agronomy!

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

It never ceases to amaze me that the most special person I have ever met ended up deciding to stick around with me for so many years, in so many countries, through so many hardships. She is still here and I still can't quite believe it.

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

When you don't care about solving the problem but only about your ideology. Lack of a nuclear supply is making coal necessary, e.g., Germany.

Greenpeace International

@Greenpeace

3 years

Nuclear is not a 'green' energy source. Giving dangerous #NuclearEnergy a green label in the EU taxonomy will make the waste problem worse and actively divert investments away from real solutions like energy savings, energy storage and renewables. #COP26

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@LCademartiriLab

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This is the key excerpt from the abstract. I am not afraid of people scooping this because the experiment design is a nightmare to figure out (at least to do it so that the results are conclusive). Probably the most beautiful paragraph I have ever co-written in a grant.

Jacopo Bertolotti

@j_bertolotti

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Sad fact: just about a geological era ago, me and @LCademartiriLab wrote a beautiful project to study such things, which was rejected by the reviewers because neither of us is a plant biologist. And bit by bit, what we proposed has appeared in the literature with much fanfare.

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@Nicola_Bressi prima ancora di tutto questo bisognerebbe evitare lo scempio delle mutilazioni... l'Italia e' l'unico paese in cui sono mai stato dove gli alberi vengono mutilati a quella maniera. Un obbrobrio che dovrebbe farci vergognare.

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@LCademartiriLab

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So, for the students reading this. An average of experimental values is not just an average. It is a very strong assumption you make on your data. It could mean something (in the best case scenario) or it could easily mean absolutely nothing. Tread carefully!

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@LCademartiriLab

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The more a student has potential the more her/his grades mean nothing. People with crap grades are NOT necessarily great. But there is a significant subset of students with crap grades who actually think like scientists. And student with A grades who think like accountants.

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@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Souffle reveal... never gets old 😊

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@LCademartiriLab

6 months

To PhD students: you'll likely never have again the opportunity to learn a job from a world-class practitioner whose incentive is to see you learn and succeed. When you treat this as just a job, you are disrespecting the enormity of the opportunity life has given you.

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@LCademartiriLab

5 years

GREAT Research Highlight on @NaturePlants about our work (with D. Nettleton's lab) on the CO2 starvation of A. thaliana plants in common plate culture protocols (). Original paper in @PLOSONE here!!! ().

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@LCademartiriLab

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@simonealiprandi beh, direi che la foto contraddice la sua tesi: nella foto c'e' il nulla tra la sedia e la tastiera.

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@LCademartiriLab

7 months

Talking about recipes, my wife and I have perfected over the past few months the nearly lost recipe for the original Micca di Parma, THE traditional bread of Parma. Our last visitor, who lived across Europe for decades said it was the best bread she ever ate. Recipe posted soon.

Riccardo Sapienza

@r1cc4rd0

7 months

Nothing like the crostata recipe of @LCademartiriLab , an emulsion of butter+sugar and eggs, no yeast.

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First baking at home in more than 1 year. Let's start from the basics. Crostata. Base is pasta frolla. 300g butter, whisk with 200g of sugar until you get a cloud of heaven in food form. You'll know it when you see it.

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5 years

My dear student Bin is now a PhD after 11 pubs, including Nature Comm, PNAS, Adv. Mater. and more. And the best work still to be submitted! Well done Bin!

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For my English-speaking friends who might not be aware of this gem.

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4 years

I just made an offer on the house. Wish us luck

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3 years

Funny how, in spite of all divisions and prejudices we might have as silly petty adults, we all cheer for children, regardless of their origin. We are all on the same team.

Sharing Travel

@MyChinaTrip

3 years

Though scared, the brave little girl insisted on receiving nucleic acid China, cities with a population of less than 5 million can generally complete nucleic acid detection within 2 days. #Covid_19 #DeltaVariant

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@LCademartiriLab

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Found an old suit of my dad in which I finally fit. Now I finally have something to wear when I need to credibly threaten someone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I think this epidemic has brought to light something unexpected in its magnitude. Just how many people have absolutely no intuition about math. It is staggering really how a simple nonlinear function could shortcircuit so many brains, who desperately try to reduce it to a line.

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@LCademartiriLab

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New house 🏠 Fireplace in kitchen! 🔥 💡GOTTA HAVE SALAMINI ON THE FIRE! 😥 realize too late you have no grill 😎 activate Macgyver mode! 👍use sparkscreen as a grill #achievementunlocked #ChemistsWhoCook

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

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Pissing off people like this is a virtue of my country. Scientists like to talk about The Great Filter. Well, this is the Italian version of it. 🤣🤣🤣

justin

@WeNotSocks

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She is fucking fed up

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One of the great chemists of the century: "It often takes half a decade to carry out a good piece of fundamental research in chemistry and see it through to publication." Rando MDPI-published colleague or PM at govt funding agency: "Why aren't you publishing 20p/yr like me?"

Fraser Stoddart

@sirfrasersays

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It often takes half a decade to carry out a good piece of fundamental research in chemistry and see it through to publication. This piece of research is the crème de la crème and should continue to be supported up to the hilt. Congratulations Andrew et al.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

I just submitted a paper - first since lockdown. And I am not even ashamed.

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@LCademartiriLab

4 years

This comes for the price of the average iowan mcmansion. 35 mins commute. 400 yrs old.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

1 year

The system already largely works like that even without GPT

New-Cleckit Dominie

@ncdominie

1 year

With ChatGPT, academic papers can now be authored by people who didn't write them, refereed by people who don't understand them, and cited by people who haven't read them, all while someone else makes billions running the carousel. How transformational.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Have a great weekend everyone

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Excellent (!!!) numbers from Italy today: 300 new cases in the whole country. Several big cities (e.g., Florence) did not report new cases. We are crushing this!!! 👍👍👍 (praying that the moderate opening being gradually implemented is not going to revert things)

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Very interesting. The cost of the shutdown is 14 billions a day. Next time your govt tells you they have to cut on research show them how they are now losing three NSF budgets A DAY.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

"New" chest of drawers for my son. ~400 yrs old. Should last him a while. Costed less than a new one...

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Another touch of humanity. Staff in central admin just called me. They don't have a way to deposit my salary because I have no Italian bank account. She was very upset. Then I realized she was upset not with me, but because she was worried about me. Never met her before.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Noah get the boat

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

One of the best things about Parma. If the heat becomes too much, in 45 minutes you are 1300 m up in the Appennini, enjoying some of the most gorgeous beech woods on the planet in complete relax and cool.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

@wrathofgnon The problem is that the masses have no means to understand the difference between a fringe visionary scientist and a crackpot. And they usually fall for the crackpot.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

TLDR: 1. in general you don't know the distribution of your data. 2. to ascertain it needs huge numbers of reps 3. without knowing it, even simple averages can easily mean very little about the "true value" of the observable. 4. use such "compressions" of your data with care.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Time to retire the old profile photo. So I fed my name to an AI and got the new one. Thank you AI, you even gave me a hat!

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Now accepted in Angewandte Chemie. Finally. Thanks to the editor and reviewer for being reasonable.

Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

4 years

Paper on coalescence rejected by JACS. Gem from the reviews: "Such studies greatly rely on methods applied, but unfortunately, the authors are still using those established about 20-30 years ago by Alivisatos group, Bawendi group, and Peng group"

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

10 months

💯 . Tons of influencers farming engagement by pushing the narrative that PhD work is a magnet for unhappiness. Now students are afraid of enrolling and when they do they blame any discomfort on their PhD work. Short of a sociopath PI, PhD is the greatest opportunity.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

6 years

Transparent soil paper finally submitted after ~4yr of hard work led by superstars Lin Ma and Yichao Shi. Very proud of them! Now hopefully we'll breeze through editors and referees 🤞 #transparentsoil @RootBiologyNews @RootDevo @DanforthCenter @cpib_news

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

They just made me Undergraduate Chair of Materials Science here at UniPR. Unanimous decision... The proverbial offer you can't refuse 🤣🤣🤣

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

8 months

Biologists are overreacting to this piece. Reading it now, will post some comments below.

nature

@Nature

9 months

Nature research paper: Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

Interesting data. Nationality of PIs (orange) and of the institutions (blue) winning ERC Consolidators in 2020. Many ways to slice this salami, but it seems the "old school" Italian education system produces exactly what it is supposed to.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

11 months

My colleague undergrad Manuel is coding some Brownian dynamics in Matlab. The other day he said: " Prof., just for kicks I translated the code in Fortran and executed it.... FFS the thing is a rocketship!". Yes, son, yes... All hail the King Fortran.

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

3 years

One disclaimer. One risk of getting into this program is that, once you have lived in Parma for three years you are very unlikely to want to leave 🇮🇹. But other than that, we have a kickass program, facilities, and GREAT collegial environment!!! 😉

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Ludovico Cademartiri

@LCademartiriLab

2 years

So... chatGPT just spit out a Brownian simulation code in Matlab format with all necessary annotations in about 10 minutes. And some colleagues are like... meh... Then the same kind of colleagues rave for months about a instrument with an extra decimal of resolution...

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