Joel C. Corbin

Aerosol Scientist at NRC Canada:
Laser-based instruments to measure airborne nanoparticles relevant to combustion, air pollution, human health, & mask-wearing.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

If your Windows workflow also involves ~10 GB of paper PDFs and >20 GB of personal files, the fastest way to search them is:
- Set Explorer to open to Home (not "my PC")
- Gather files in your user folder
- Set indexing to ignore PDF contents
-> WIN+E, CTRL+E, enter search terms

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

This paper shows that the effective density of any nanoparticle aggregate is 0.35x the material density *after liquid condensation/evaporation* (Eq. 15).

It also summarizes the various equations that have been used to describe fractal soot (Table 1).

https://t.co/di2hfHxsPA

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

How to search for academics' consensus on a research topic you know nothing about:

1) Use https://t.co/bobpBGrkqi
2) find a relevant but old paper on the topic
3) click Cited By
4) Repeat #3 on the most highly cited, high-level paper result, until find a highly cited paper <5yo!

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@subu_caps @coletteheald @jesse_kroll It is fantastic to see this issue quantified so elegantly.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

While reading literature, I regularly see American papers citing American work, Europeans citing Europeans, and Asians citing Asians.

Surely someone has once tested this idea -- meta-analysis, correlating authors' addresses with cited authors' addresses?

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

This takes some effort but now you have an auto-updating publications list.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

How to make your research CV in #LaTeX:
- Find & update a template
- Export your Google Scholar to BibTeX from google scholar to <filename>
- Make sure there are no "inproceedings" etc. in the file
- add \nocite{*} and \bibliography{<filename>} to your TeX
- Done!

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

Effective Density Characterization of Soot Agglomerates from Various Sources and Comparison to Aggregation Theory https://t.co/rk1wOTtMAy

@ASTJournal please consider linking to corrigenda in the cover page of downloaded PDFs.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

#DHL has left my equipment at customs for SIX WEEKS, putting our whole project at risk. This type of paperwork (ATA carnet) normally gets cleared in a day. Every time I contact them I get a new excuse. Unbelievable. A whole project at risk now.
@DHLexpress @DHLCanadaHelp

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@DrGregSmallwood @masknerd @CAPPEM2 @NRC_CNRC Indeed, we do!

[Aaron Collins @masknerd]

One of the best reads if you want to quickly come up to speed and nerd out about the physics and methodology to testing masks. @DrGregSmallwood and team did a really great job summarizing it all.

https://t.co/k9szd5GnCJ

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@subu_caps Were there 60? Wow. I wish attendees could see (and private message with) others, like at the Cambridge Particle Meeting. Just a matter of changing a checkbox in Zoom, I think.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@_rbuencon @richardhmoore @Don_Milton Point 2 on the slide (the RCT) would imply causality, whereas the others are correlations.

Also, interesting that my bottle of Vitamin D at home suggests 1000 IU daily but the data suggested that 4000-6000 would be better.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@marinavance In what context @marinavance? I personally sometimes use "nanoparticles" (airborne nanoparticles, when appropriate) when speaking to physicists and engineers, to clarify that they aren't protons or tachyons.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@MeganDWillis @csu_chemistry Awesome, congrats Megan!

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@LizT1 Is this title a realistic representation of the risks? I don't think it is. The article also might have discussed the fact that contact tracing is a powerful strategy to avoid a second wave of COVID.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

@JanHoffmanNYT @NYTHealth @BySheilaKaplan I found that this article leaned heavily on anecdotes from other diseases, but this article (https://t.co/c9aAoRnmtR) does support the claim that smokers experience worse cases of COVID-19.

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

Is your workload sustainable? "What do you do when you’re in a place, a system, or situation with which you disagree but that supports your very presence?" https://t.co/HcgivBmckL

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

Since I'm posting links, I might as well add my favourite: https://t.co/22yRRDyuWZ

[Joel C. Corbin @CorbinJoelC]

How to get Section 1.2.1 etc to show up in your Word document: https://t.co/ekX8eupbas
(it's worth starting with a journal's template when doing this)