Diana Valencia

Exoplanet Pioneer | Mother | Dancer | Sports Lover |

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

#SpamDeCientificas Me uno a esta iniciativa. Soy Diana Valencia, astrofisica planetaria, nací en Colombia y ahora soy profesora en la U. Toronto (pit stops en Harvard, MIT, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur). 🇨🇴🇨🇦#WomenInScience

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

OpenAI announced that one of its models disproved an 80 yr old conjecture in discrete geometry.
https://t.co/rBGIj9Ej5A

This feels significant beyond mathematics.

The bottleneck neck is shifting from creation to verification.

Are we ready for this shift?

#AI#FutureOfWork

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

My mom was the 3rd woman in Colombia to become a chemical engineer. Her brother paid her tuition the 1st yr and then she received a merit award for the rest of her degree, she needed to maintain a high GPA. I never questioned whether I could be good in sciences. Thank you mom.

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Very proud of my student Bo Peng for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

Bo tackled 2 very different streams: magma ocean and atmosphere physics-chemical coupling & carbon outgassing of planetesimals with a different physical-mechanical-chemical model.

Well done!

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Tell me your story. Mine:
Me: how is the safety situation in Colombia?
Him: oh, you don’t live here?
Me: no, we were in France last year and thinking of living in Bogotá for a year
Him: oh, because of your husband’s job?
Me: no, because of mine
Him: puzzled look

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Active volcanism on Venus!! By using archive data (from the 90s) scientists were able to « see » , by comparing images, vents changing side and lava flows from three volcanoes (one reported last year, the other two recently).

https://t.co/STYouseH3h

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Another night of playing Tetris with the fridge and the dishwasher. I lost to the fridge tonight.

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

@sraymond_astro It was great to see you!

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Finished giving my talk on exoplanets to planetary scientists. This was my first in person talk after Covid, and I was nervous 😬. But in the end, I had a blast.

Shared so many good ideas. Science at its finest. Darn for carbon footprint 👣 #academic

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Heading to Earth and Planets Origin Workshop in Paris. Super excited to reconnect with my colleagues. But this #academic mom is with a heavy heart from leaving my girl crying in the train station. Ouch. I know it gets better, but darn.

[Cin-Ty Lee @CinTyLeeEarth]

If, at the most basic level, you cannot explain what you are doing to a kid, it probably means you don't understand what you are doing. If you need to use big words to explain your model, then it means you're hiding your insecurities. Kids are quite perceptive.

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

OpenAI called for ‘the best researchers and engineers in the world to meet the [superalignment] challenge’, very proud that my spouse Kristen Menou’s ideas got funded (1 of the 50 out of 2700!) #AIsafety.

[Jan Leike @janleike]

The superalignment fast grants are now decided!

We got a *ton* of really strong applications, so unfortunately we had to say no to many we're very excited about.

There is still so much good research waiting to be funded.

Congrats to all recipients!

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

The competition on the science fair should only be on how they communicate about their project but nothing on the basis of how innovative the idea is. It’s really easy to squash their confidence on taking risks with their ideas for the purpose of a good grade.

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Dear science teachers: please don’t ask your students to come up with innovative ideas for the #science fair. I have seen too many flashy projects that are taken from the internet. The students learn not to value their ideas. Instead…

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

Ask them to test any idea they have. It only has to be original to them. Discourage looking things up online, or even in books, just anything they can think of themselves. As long as they came up with it and follow the scientific method to learn something, then it’s a gold star.

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

@samayanissanke @AAS_HEAD @AAS_Office @ego_virgo @LISACommunity Congratulations!! Fantastic news

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

I wonder, howmuch more science could young Colombians do if they were not thinking about having to pay for the expenses that should be paid for by governing institutions?

[Isabella Aguilera C. @IsaAguileraC]

Hola a todos! Este año el grupo de 8 excelentes estudiantes de Física de la Universidad del Valle ganaron el torneo nacional de Física en Colombia y aseguraron su cupo para representar el país en el Torneo Internacional de Física (IPT) que será en Suiza en el mes de abril +

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

@IsaAguileraC @lauren_flor @Astroandrea @anaragomez @viviana_tes @UnivalleCol @AlcaldiaDeCali @alejoeder Difusión de que? No me he enterado aún

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

@juandiegosoler Gracias por la solidaridad, ayuda ⭐️. He pasado por todo el rango de emociones y mi cerebro está trabajando muy duro para permanecer ecuánime…

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

On my bday, I had to take my daughter to the hospital because a boy in her third grade class hurt her deliberately 😢. With her good hand she did this

[Diana Valencia @Valencia_planet]

I thought I would share a very important research result about plastic. In a nutshell, in bottled water they found copious amounts of nano plastic particles that the human bodies assimilate easily (more than microplastics).

https://t.co/VGQKMKPANx