Charlotte Flatebo, PhD

🇺🇸 Spectroscopist and Microscope Innovator |
Left academia for an integrated photonics start-up

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

If you do science, you are a scientist 💯💯💯

You have every right to ask questions, propose solutions, express doubt. No matter what level you are when you're doing scientific experiments

The best moments in my workday are when our intern asks why or how

[Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 @ATinyGreenCell]

If you are an highschool student and you are conducting research in a lab, you are a scientist.

If you are an undergraduate student and you are conducting research in a lab, you are a scientist.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Just finished watching the sheep detectives. Super cute and a tear jerker

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Absolutely. And I would expect them to penalize anyone who lies on the product info portion.

I have bought "American" so many times on Amazon, it shows up and is clearly from China

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

If @amazon gave you a way to filter for American made products only, would you use it to buy American?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

C.S. Lewis

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

For people who read A LOT: which writer do you think is unbelievably good with words?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Texas is a wonderful place

[Rocketshipalx @rocketshipalx]

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:

- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Valid

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

My baby usually smells like fresh baked cookies (only to me, don't ask me why)

He now smells like a little avocado because he, in fact, smushed avocado all over himself this morning

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Love this so much

[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

One indicator that you’ve found a great wife is that you can outsource woman things to her that align with her feminine sensibilities and she accomplishes them with joy.

For example, I know exactly what I want to wear to work in terms of button ups, slacks, loafers, etc., but I loathe the actual shopping part (even online).

Spending hours trying to find the right fit, only to open the mail and find that the clothes are made for 115 pound marathon runners, not adult males, is my personal hell on earth.

So I asked my wife to take care of it. Here’s what I’m thinking, can you just find some that would fit right based on reviews and whatever, and just pull the trigger and order them. Don’t spend above x, please.

A week later, three pairs of linen trousers (navy, khaki, and olive) and three button-ups (oxford, classic white dress shirt, and university stripes) show up on my doorstep. Absolutely perfect fit. No returns. Incredible. Absolute natural.

The same for home decorating. In the vast majority of cases, you’re better off just saying, “Here’s your budget, work your magic” and watching her use her woman wizardry to turn a sterile, lifeless, hospital-like family room or bedroom into a place you love to come home to.

I guess the ultimate example is the magic of reproduction. You give her the raw ingredients (heck yeah brother), and in return, she gives you these little humans who bring a lifetime of purpose, joy, and beauty.

Just an unbelievable ROI on women (the right kind at least).

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

I've had reviewers suggest citing papers... obviously their own...and they don't add anything to the discussion after I read them

So I add the new one that's basically irrelevant and take away one that I already cited of theirs

[Chris Grocott @DrChrisGrocott]

Academic Twitter is having a meltdown because some people have just learned that you should actually read the sources you cite. This really shouldn't be as controversial as it appears to be.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Ordering for pick-up at target reduced my target purchases SIGNIFICANTLY

[Robb Allen @ItsRobbAllen]

My wife and I did the whole Ramsey thing when we were in debt and wanted to get out.

The first thing we did was completely move to cash for everything possible.

My wife had a habit of going to Target because she needed paper towels and coming home with two new outfits and some tchotchkes to put on the mantel.

She then started taking just enough cash with her to pay for whatever it was that she wanted and took notes about the things she wanted to buy so we could budget for it later.

We went debt-free, minus our mortgage, during a time when I was unemployed.

During this time we would eat out maybe once every couple of weeks. We were doing heavy meal prepping, tons of coupon cutting, and watched our budget like a hawk.

We still ate well and enjoyed life. My daughters never went hungry or without.

Eventually it became such a habit that we no longer missed the hundreds of money-sucking crap that we used to spend on.

But it took effort. And I'm just afraid too many people are looking for an easy button here to make everything better.

That easy button unfortunately will make everything worse.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

I feel this to my core

But I reframed how I think about this

Just because I no longer have a perfect streak doesn't make continuing any less important

It's like the gym. Going once a week when your goal is every day is better than not going at all

[𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 @homemakinghunny]

I was doing so good on my Bible reading plan - 100 day streak - and then I completely fell off track when I was away for a few days and have just been so behind and lost steam the last few weeks. Trying not to beat myself but I feel so guilty. I know that’s my internal legalism coming out and that I don’t have to be perfect in order to earn God’s love but it’s more so this expectation that I have of myself to be able to do it daily but I end up putting so much pressure on it and on myself that it stresses me out rather than fills me up. Can anyone relate to this or am I just psychotic?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Write it in your own handwriting. With a date. Type it up on your computer. Created date on the computer will show that, yes, in fact the date came after the handwritten one.

Or only submit handwritten work. Solves that problem immediately

[kitty @kittykareninas]

i hate ai detection programs so much. my fully HUMAN WRITTEN essay shows up as 87% ai written. what are you even supposed to do if your teacher brings it up? how can you disprove them?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

I feel seen

[Penguin Books USA @penguinusa]

Don't let anyone talk you out of buying that 1 book at the bookstore. Those 3 books could be the most life-changing 10 books you've ever gotten.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

What could your current company offer you to keep you?

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

One of the most effective hiring questions:

"What will your last boss say when I call him?"

Suddenly stories get a lot straighter.

Got a better one?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

I use my Amazon digital rewards for EXACTLY this 🥰

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Do you ever buy books you plan to read… while still having a whole pile you haven’t touched yet?

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

I love who I've grown into as a mom

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Just finished reading The Four Loves by CS Lewis

1. The way his mind works is jaw-dropping
2. Reading it out loud to my LO helped me understand and internalize his arguments for the kinds of love
3. The vocabulary was next-level and I'm thankful for Kindle look-up capabilities

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

Don't lower your standards

They will rise to them

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When I was teaching at a high school in Alaska, we read Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground" together. Paragraph by paragraph. We spent six weeks on that one story.

Here's what paragraph-by-paragraph close reading actually looks like: I'd read a passage aloud. Then I'd ask, "What is the Underground Man really saying here?" Silence at first. Then someone would venture an interpretation. Someone else would push back. Within ten minutes, they'd be arguing about human nature, about pride and spite and self-deception.

People hear this and assume I was working with exceptional kids. I wasn't. I was working with kids who had never been asked to grapple with genuinely profound ideas before. In my experience, when you treat young people as capable of serious intellectual work, and take the time to train them how to read difficult texts, they learn how to do so.

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

And then get very verbally upset that nothing is in their hands anymore

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

i admire how when babies dont want to hold something anymore they just drop it

[Charlotte Flatebo, PhD @AbbeLimitless]

To scale

[Monica ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 @Utterly_Jean]

Every house on the market should have a floor plan. I don't want a video or a million pictures of empty rooms I want to see the layout.