Kindle Williams

She/Her | Postdoc Tarpeh lab @ Stanford | Ph.D. @ManthiramLab at MIT | EChem Engineer | B.S. Alabama ChE. 🏳️‍🌈 Black lives matter.
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[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

Our new preprint (@ManthiramLab), with co-authors @adityal, Trent, @chung_minju, & @KManthiram, is now up on @ChemRxiv!

https://t.co/lfxbskeKvc

We show the importance of accounting for thermodynamic nonidealities in electrochemical kinetic studies!

A tweetorial 🧵... 1/16

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

The process is called EDNR, and this first report on it has been a long time coming! Congrats to Jinyu and all co-authors on submission, and looking forward to full publication soon!

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In the @TarpehDiem lab we're good at separating NH3 from wastewater. We can also turn NO3 into NH3. This new preprint from @JinyuGuo03 answers the question, "how can we recover ALL of the nitrogen from a wastewater containing a mixture of NH3 and NO3?" https://t.co/CjwKX5WoVA

[AIChE WIC @aichewic]

Joy Zeng is a postdoctoral researcher @HarvardCCB with research interests in electrocatalysis and metal clusters. @js_zeng is a martial arts enthusiast! #WICisYOU

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@edtheestallion Except I can't eat Valentines chocolates bc I gave chocolate up for lent 🙃

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Update for any onlookers - just started moving again, from San Antonio to Cal Ave

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@CaltrainAlerts any estimates on when train 305 currently at San Antonio will get moving again? Deciding whether to get off and bike to Palo Alto or not

[Rachel Baker @racheljbaker17]

New year, new Baker lab members! The Baker lab is growing, and we are seeking chemists, chemical engineers and engineering chemists that like to explore complex science and engineering challenges, and have fun doing it. Interested? See the posting for how to apply!

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

@hankgreen While my curly hair was long (29yrs), I either had to wet/wash it in the morning or just pull it back. Recently I went short & found that wetting it on day 2+ can be optional if I use some curl cream after the shower and fluff it a bit to refresh the volume when I wake up

[Minju Chung @chung_minju]

I'm happy to share our work published in Science! This work demonstrates a safe, efficient, and sustainable way of producing propylene oxide using water as the oxygen source.

[Karthish Manthiram @KManthiram]

Propylene + H2O -> propylene oxide + H2

Electrified at room temprature, ambient pressure, aqueous electrolyte, and with fast rates. Overcomes longstanding safety and environmental challenges. Check it out! @ScienceMagazine

https://t.co/8zj25I4QOS

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@ohmyreigen It doesn't even make sense because when I traveled home this time there were dogs AND you had to take shoes off. So inconsistent!

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

@ohmyreigen Yeah this 1 is rough. One time I was putting my stuff in the bins, &I put my shoes up there, &the TSA agent goes, "Shoes stay on! That's why we had the dogs." &I go, oh, sorry, I didn't see any signs saying that. But can I plz just go through now that my shoes are already off? 😭

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

Can hear announcements now. Seems like the tow truck is on scene and should be resolved soon

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@CaltrainAlerts do you have a status on 264 SB? I am on the train but can't hear any of the announcements. Something about a vehicle on the tracks? Looking for estimated time until resolved. Thanks!

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@LanguageDoodad I have also thought this

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@LanguageDoodad Lil abdominal inflammatory mass

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@ohmyreigen Just happened to me today on Caltrain. Same has been happening on elevators.

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

This reflects how I've thought about donations in the last few years (largely due to vlogbrothers) - giving is also a form of relinquishment of power that has tangible positive effects for those who receive. Important point for really anyone with expendable income to consider!

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Some Money Talk...

Because of how the P4A works, we raise money all throughout the year now, but don't send it out until after the livestream. That means that we can have as much as a million dollars in the bank for over six months. So we put that money in a CD so that it can generate a little extra income. It's 5% for six months so a meaningful amount...maybe $25,000.

The thing is, you can look at that and say, "Oh, why not just do that? Why not take all of the money the P4A has ever raised and, instead of donating it, you could earn 5% on it and then donate the 5% forever?"

This is what endowments are and that's how they work. If we did this (WHICH WE WOULD NOT (which i'll get into)) then there would be like $15M in that account and we'd be donating $750,000 per year...theoretically forever. That sounds amazing!

There are a lot of people who are very compelled by endowments like this, because the main nugget of money never goes away and is always throwing off more good into the world.

This misses something very important. It imagines that donations are one-time goods while capital throwing off money in an endowment is a forever good.

But that's not the reality. The reality is, when you donate money, the good that money does does not vanish the moment the money is spent, it continues to do good forever, you just can't see it anymore.

If you help a mother not die in childbirth, then that doesn't just do good that one time, it does good for her and her community and her children for the rest of her life...longer than the rest of her life! Her children will have the support of that person who otherwise would have died. They will continue to live healthier and better lives because they did not lose their mother as children. They will be better prepared to serve their own community and their own children. Those returns continue /forever/.

There is economic return on donations, they are just returns that you can't see as a number in your bank account. And those returns are MUCH BIGGER than 5% per year.

If you are a person with money and you have a charitable giving account and you can see that there is currently more money in that account than you have ever donated...I'm sorry but you are doing it wrong. The money needs to get out and do good now. There isn't some future time when it will be more capable of doing more good because it has grown.

It needs to get into the world. It can be doing so much good. And if you don't know what to do with it, just send us an email at [email protected]. We've got you.

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In which @dean_m_miller et al. (it's me, I'm part of al.) advocate for use-informed research and development into making all the basic chemical products you could dream of - just from wastewater!

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Electrochemical Wastewater Refining: A Vision for Circular Chemical Manufacturing | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Stanford @TarpehDiem #JACSPerspective @sciam @NYTScience @EconUS #Electrochemistry #Wastewater #Refining #Circular #Manufacturing https://t.co/bVLulgF3b6

[Kindle Williams @ReadMeLikeANook]

@MinteerLab @yogi_chem Classic Yogi move 👍