Kathryn Baker

PhD in tree ecophysiology | Postdoctoral Researcher at UGA | CC alum | She/her

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Check out our paper in @AoB_PLANTS! Can you spot the very good field dog in the picture?

[Luke Wilson @LukeAWilsonOK]

I am defending my thesis on Friday at 1PM! Titled "Longleaf pine seedlings are extremely resilient to the combined effects of experimental drought and fire". Let me know if you'd like a zoom link!

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Academic freedom guaranteed by tenure is more than a hiring gimmick. Georgia cannot compete for talent or produce innovation if we undermine our public universities. @BORUSG has already abandoned the physical health of our schools. Let’s not destroy intellectual capacity as well.

[Dan Johnson @TreePhysDJ]

We are looking for a new M.S. or Ph.D. student to start in the Fall of 2021. Potential research topics: tree water storage, drought tolerance, xylem anatomy, climate change and tree physiology, young seedling biology and conifer comparative physiology
https://t.co/xPt4FMFrZT

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

@jfrickuga At the precinct where I was clerking (2B), it looks like there was one person who voted for P and neither L nor W, and two people who voted for P and W. 614 voters, 83% blue.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day has to be ‘suspire’: to (finally) breathe out.

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

I keep hearing about these Outstanding Male Ballots. Leave it to bro votes to procrastinate, inconvenience everyone, and still be considered outstanding.

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Lab celebrity, @LukeAWilsonOK featured. Both my lab and actual family who coincidentally knows him from his childhood are very proud of him. https://t.co/7KapNQMECX

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Ahem, as a celebrity guest in the @UGATreePhysLab lab meeting, the prodigious @RaquelFeltrin spun this as "healing xylem"

[Henry Adams @EnvEcoLab]

Contrary to expectations, @RaquelFeltrin found no evidence of hydraulic failure or xylem deformation right after fire. But xylem conduits grown post-fire were ugly and increased vulnerability. #WhatKillsTrees https://t.co/UFFfjuSMrt @pyroecophys @UGATreePhysLab @pyrogeog

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Snaps to the person who designed the backdrop to have the same word above their heads. #BidenHarris2020

[Dr. Merav Ben-David @MBenDavidWY]

It’s time to reject “I’m not a scientist” as an excuse for inaction. It’s time to send an actual scientist to the U.S. Senate. If you’re ready to put #ScienceInTheSenate, join me today at https://t.co/xwD90cXxwu.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

May the Lord see Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to her well-earned rest. May we continue fight for Justice here with her passion, brilliance and extraordinary mischief. Until good is done. #RBG

[Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz]

@jfrickuga Risk that one (or more) is infected in a gathering of n individuals when p=0.08 is 1 - (1-p)^n

Class sizes and associated risk:

n = 10 -> Risk = 56%
n = 20 -> Risk = 81%
n = 30 -> Risk = 92%
n = 50 -> Risk = 98%

Even small gatherings pose elevated risk of exposure.

[Carrie Bishop @carriecbishop]

I finally got a response from the President's Office at #UGA! My questions were: why they aren't doing the following: 1)Daily reporting of data 2) Public reporting of how many UGA students, staff, & faculty are hospitalized. 3)In-house contact tracing 4)Saliva rapid result tests.

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Acc. this working paper, a *hypothetical* university in Georgia with 50,000 people on campus would have to be testing 6,200 people daily to keep an R0 below 1... it's time to start working from home again.

[John Drake @drake_lab]

New working paper on containment of COVID-19 on college and university campuses #COVID19 #HigherEducation https://t.co/Dm2zztUvi6

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

@pyrogeog knows some stuff about fires.

[Maddie Sofia @maddie_sofia]

Hey Twitter, do you know any lady thermodynamics/fire/physics nerds who could explain to me the best/scientifically backed way to make a (safe) camp fire? Asking for a friend (who is a podcast).

🔥🧪🔥🧪

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

Oof, I'll take this one right on the nose, having complained about it yesterday.

I don't remember any interaction where a stranger on campus thought I was a professor, not an undergrad, this past year. But I was always "supposed" to be in the building.

[Elizabeth Ruiz @Fish_Ruizearch]

What's funny about white women profs getting mistaken for grad students is that they are still assumed to belong in that academic space.

For BIPOC, the police are called, students and profs are harassed for simply being in the building, and on and on....

[Raquel Partelli Feltrin @RaquelFeltrin]

Irregular xylem in the vicinity of fire scar. The beauty of tree anatomy! 🌲🔥

[Kathryn Baker @KathrynVBaker]

@BLCoulthard I was just in a meeting and tried to describe the version of this you explained to me 6 years ago, only to open up twitter and see that you'd posted this minutes before... convenient timing. I don't have access to it, either, though.

[Dr. Bethany Coulthard @BLCoulthard]

Just so we're clear, the @AAPG president just stated:
'I can’t imagine a female geologist going out in the field in places like Argentina, South America, the Middle East, & places like that & being out there miles & miles away from everything.' 🤬
https://t.co/WV0Na3r5zu