Alex Lai

Postdoc @WeizmannScience studying toxicology of air pollution • PhD Environmental Chemistry @UWMadison • Cooking, biking, hiking the rest of the time • She/her.

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

What happens to indoor air quality when a household transitions to cleaner stoves/fuels but its neighbors do not? Check out our new paper in #IndoorAir Thanks @sierraclark2 for the synopsis thread! @jillcbaum @EllisonCarter

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Excited to share our recent article in #IndoorAir on the chemical composition of PM2.5 from household cooking with multiple stoves/fuels in rural #China. Got to work with a great team including @jillcbaum @EllisonCarter and paper lead by @alxmlai (1/4). https://t.co/1wVIFK886D

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@tessuheagle @AcademicChatter @DataVizSociety Climate warning stripes? https://t.co/5JJZgUKBoI

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@academic_exit This is such helpful framing, thank you!

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@njoybetz Thank you so much for sharing this 💜

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@FromPhDtoLife The best kind! Check out recipes from Yossi Arefi and Sprouted Kitchen

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@Karapetian_A Chemistry - Weike Wang
Intuition - Allegra Goodman

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@AcademicChatter Two things I enjoyed about being mostly single during my PhD: 1) when you're writing your thesis, you can keep whatever odd hours or habits you need without affecting anyone else's life, and 2) you can go anywhere you want for a postdoc! (Possible w/partner, but more difficult)

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@dvaughan32 Yesss so much more intuitive, thank you!

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@Elijah_Meeks @DataVizSociety @megalodonatron Oops, I didn't think to check their profile before I asked. Thanks so much!

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@frogs4girls I think my social life (and beer consumption) peaked in grad school 😅 and I can honestly say I was way happier and more confident after my PhD than I was going into it, despite the challenges and stress along the way!

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@ZJAyres Yes same here with pouring liquids!! Also pretty quick with washing dishes. If only there was some application for my ability to manually shim an NMR... (Jk never doing that again)

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@EnviroBiotech Huge congratulations!! 🎉

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@paleymir Thank you for sharing this, especially being so open about what motivated each transition!

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@AliciaBrunner Ugh, I guess that dude just met his first academic ever... Throughout grad school and postdoc, everyone I know has used PPT, and one of my lowly PPT posters even won a prize

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@AnaMaPorras It's such a ridiculous expectation....and why it's all the more important and badass that there are PIs like you showing students that you can be an excellent scientist and an actual human being! 💜

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@nour_chemicall @PhDVoice Everyone I knew had published some chapters but not all. It's a balance: speaking from experience, the more you put off until after your thesis, the harder it will be to finish 😬 but also it's usually not realistic to get everything done before you defend

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@quendi So amazing that you did this! Hope they come around soon 🙄

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@b_jorges This is exactly what I need, too

[Alex Lai @alxmlai]

@FromPhDtoLife Awesome, thanks for the info :)