Awan NanoBio Lab

Associate Prof. in Electronics & Nanotechnology @plymuni, Quantum Impedance Standard, graphene sensors for Alzheimer’s & cancer, RF metrology, MDS, MRI.

[Cambridge Graphene Centre @GrapheneUCam]

Great to welcome the @ParkSystems team to the CGC this week for hands-on AFM training. From SMIM and C-AFM to SThM and wafer-scale mapping, our researchers are building new skills and exploring advanced nanoscale characterisation. #Graphene #Nanotechnology #AFM

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

@eocharging can anyone advise how to get a response from EO Charging when there is a hardware problem with EO Mini Pro 3 home charger - emailed them at [email protected] month ago and again but no reply!!!

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

@eocharging Can anyone help with getting EO Mini Pro 3 working (fitted 1.5 years ago still in 3 year warranty), no one is responding from [email protected] !!

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Malcolm Gladwell revealed why you shouldn't go to Harvard:

1. America does not have a shortage of students who want science and math degrees. It has a shortage of students who finish them. Half of all high school seniors who intend to study STEM drop out by the end of their second year. The problem is not interest. It is persistence.

2. The obvious assumption is that smarter students persist longer. So Gladwell tested it. At Hartwick College, a small liberal arts school in New York, the top third of math SAT scorers took the majority of STEM degrees. The bottom third dropped out in large numbers. The data seemed to confirm it. Smarter kids stick around longer.

3. Then he looked at Harvard. The bottom third of Harvard's math SAT scores are equal to the top third at Hartwick. By the logic above, everyone at Harvard should graduate with a STEM degree. They are all brilliant. Nobody should be dropping out.

4. Harvard showed the exact same pattern as Hartwick. Top students graduated. Bottom students dropped out like flies. Even though the bottom Harvard students were objectively brilliant by any global standard. Something else entirely was driving the dropout rate.

5. That something is called relative deprivation theory. Human beings do not measure themselves against the world. They measure themselves against the people immediately around them. A Harvard student in the bottom third does not think I am in the top one percent of all students globally. They think that kid next to me keeps getting everything right and I keep getting it wrong. So they quit.

6. The research from UCLA puts a specific number on it. Your odds of graduating with a STEM degree fall by two percentage points for every ten point increase in the average SAT score of your peers. Choose Harvard over the University of Maryland and your chance of finishing a STEM degree drops by thirty percent. Thirty percent. Just to put a brand name on your resume.

7. Relative position matters more than absolute position when it comes to confidence, motivation, and self belief. The eightieth percentile student at Harvard looks up at the people above them and feels like they cannot compete. The number one student at a state school feels like they can conquer the world. That feeling drives everything.

8. The practical hiring implication is radical. Class rank matters more than institution name. Gladwell argues companies should have a don't ask don't tell policy for where someone went to college. Hiring only from top schools means missing the top students from every other school. That is not smart hiring. That is brand worship.

9. When choosing a college, never go to the best school you get into. Go to the school where you are guaranteed to be near the top of your class. Being a big fish in a smaller pond does not just feel better. It statistically produces better outcomes than being a small fish in the most prestigious pond available.

10. So why do we keep choosing Harvard over Maryland? Because we are flattered. Because the acceptance letter feels like validation. Because we make an irrational decision in a moment of enormous flattery and call it ambition. Gladwell's conclusion is simple and brutal. When we have the chance to join an elite institution we do things that are genuinely against our own interest and we feel great about it the whole time.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in near future. To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture. We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region.

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@SecRubio
@SteveWitkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
@drpezeshkian
@mb_ghalibaf
@araghchi

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

@dolphinsands Where is the video?

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

@NobelPrize Ouch…for the two characters involved in handing over/exchanging the peace prize. These kind of people think they are above “international standards and norms” long established and accepted quite broadly across the globe. Stop the childish nonsense!

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

It was a pleasure to host the UK X-Ray Free Electron Laser (UK-XFEL) event at the University of Plymouth, 18-19th Jan 2024, on "Fundamental Physics, AI and Quantum" . Proposed facility could cost £2 Billion to build see here: https://t.co/XLNgJK3xDF

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

New Babbage building at University of Plymouth opened and pleased to have access to the new Nano-Bio Science and Technology Laboratory to continue developing our Graphene sensors to detect protein biomarkers in blood for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's, Cardiovascular and Cancer.

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

It was a pleasure hosting the "UK X-ray Free Electron Laser (UK-XFEL)" townhall meeting at the University of Plymouth on 18-19 Jan 2024. Hybrid meeting attracted over 130 delegates to hear talks and discuss latest developments for a UK-XFEL national facility (cost £1-2 billion).

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Cells are very fast and crowded places.

A molecule of glucose flies through a cell at 250 mph.

A protein tumbles 60 million times per minute.

These numbers seem made up. How did we figure this stuff out?

[Science and Technology Facilities Council @STFC_Matters]

A UK XFEL town hall event in Belfast will focus on the frontiers of measurement and promises to be a lively and thought-provoking event for anyone involved in scientific measurement.

📌 20-21 June 2023
📌 Queen’s University Belfast
📌 More info: https://t.co/rTzPLgbvZe

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

Excellent 'Torbay Hi-Tech Cluster Research and Innovation Conference' held on 4th May 2023 at South Devon College and presentation from my PhD student Abigail Parsons on "Tumour Treating Fields: a non-invasive treatment of Brain Cancer".

[Graphene Flagship 🇪🇺 @GrapheneEU]

Our inaugural 🇪🇺EU-SG 🇸🇬 workshop, organised by @GrapheneEU & @NUSingapore's Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials is now in full swing!

We're here geeking out with leading researchers talking latest developments & new possibilities for #graphene & #2Dmaterials! 🤓💡

[Cambridge Graphene Centre @GrapheneUCam]

Fantastic talk from the CGC's Prof. Andrea Ferrari at @NUSingapore today as part of @GrapheneEU's inaugural EU-Singapore workshop 🇪🇺🇸🇬 With topics ranging from optoelectronics, to 6G, to quantum - & even including a spot of humour - this presentation was informative & engaging!👏

[npj Journals @Nature_NPJ]

Who's attending the @IOPPublishing
@PhysicsofLifeUK conference next week? We'd love to meet! Our new #npjSBA Editor in Chief @mkjolly15 will be there as well as Managing Editor @nfanget. We'll be happy to discuss manuscripts 📜, journals 📄, science📡! https://t.co/vthHJCEoML

[Mark Leake @BPSIYork]

Super to finally kick off Physics of Life 2023 in Harrogate, looking forward to 4 days of super science! #POL2023 ⁦@PhysicsofLifeUK⁩

[Awan NanoBio Lab @awan_lab]

It was a pleasure and honour to give invited talk at PTB, Braunschweig, Germany on "DC to THz properties of Metals, Superconductors, Graphene and QHE: Towards a Quantum Standard of Impedance (QSI)", 28th Feb 2023. My thanks to Juergen Schurr & all staff I met & kind hospitality.