Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥

PhD Agri-Genomics | Unlocking Africa's Food Future via Bioinformatics & Policy Reform | Threads on Crop Innovation + Consulting | DM for Collabs

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@Chris_Breezy93 @grok what season and episode of TBBT is this culled from?

[Curtis Morrison @curtismorrison]

I suspect most Americans don’t realize the extent to which legal immigration has been suspended.

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[PhysiciansOnPause @MD_pause]

A vascular surgeon friend spent $50,000+ and over 2 years navigating the U.S. immigration system from petitions to waivers to medical exams.

He did everything right. Lived legally in the country for 9 years now. Completed 8 years of US training.

His green card petition was approved based on EB1A for extraordinary ability. Based on that, he signed a job in an underserved rural area that had been searching for his specialty for years, accepted a $100,000 signing bonus, bought a home, and enrolled his children in school.

Then everything stopped because USCIS stopped processing application based on where he was born.

No final step. No physical green card. Not even the work permit or travel document normally issued while you wait for your green card. Even his H-1B extension that hospital filled has been sitting for 6 months despite premium processing.

In 1 week, he may lose his job, his health insurance, and his entire financial stability.

He told me:
“I don’t want this anymore.”

He is now thinking of leaving the country.

But then the question becomes:
Who pays the mortgage?
Who covers the loans he took?
Who repays the signing bonus he accepted in good faith?

When the government takes your money, approves your petition, invites you to build your life around it, and then freezes at the last step…

That is not policy.
That is not vetting.

That is state-inflicted financial ruin, and punishment for trusting the legal process.

#UscisPause #LiftTheHold

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@fortuneatlas Yup. Birth of a new era…

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

Apt…

And

Ouch 🤕

[Andres Flores @floresandresss]

If you have 100 runners in a race and 50 of them are told to stop and wait indefinitely at mile 3, the “average finish time” calculated from the 50 who actually finished tells you nothing meaningful about how long the race takes. The stopped runners are not slow finishers — they are non-finishers being counted as if they’re still running.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@garrytan I’ve had mine running for about a month now and it’s absolutely amazing!

Outside occasionally running out of tokens, it’s a game changer.

Using all my agents.

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@karpathy See this @_Izaka
Get to work 😜

[Lasisielenu @lasisielenu]

Accurate time keypad, and my fellow Subject 😭😭😭😭

[Dr. bugatti spaceships 🚀👩🏾‍🚀🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @astronaia]

Defending my PhD in aerospace engineering as the 4th Black woman to do so at Georgia Tech during the 100th Black history month was >>>>

First generation college student
First generation Doctor

6.5 years of masters + PhD done. I GOT OUT and I’m a helluva engineer!🚀

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

WE NEED HELP IN NIGERIA!

Pls do not open this video if you have a weak heart.

This is Gwoza LG in Borno.
Terrorists invaded this community, overpowered security, went on a killing spree and kidnapped over 100+ women and children.

LET THE WORLD SEE THIS.

[Crop Development Centre - USask @CDC_USask]

The CDC is recruiting for two faculty positions! Follow the links below for details. A Pulse Crop Breeder (https://t.co/THo2JPUcoe) and a
Cereal & Flax Pathologist (https://t.co/g1M7mHuWsB)

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

Did a thing for Science a few weeks ago.

Released the complete reference genome for a Fungus!

https://t.co/gcTgL6U3Wb

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This is gory, graphic and saddening.
Here is a kidnapped NYSC member dehumanised by terrorists.

I will keep posting these videos because this is the only way to awaken the anger in all of us. We must speak up and tell the animals in govt enough is enough.

[Talk2veee @talk2veee]

Are Nigerians angry enough?
This video will overwhelm you.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Most professors doing world-class work have zero followers.

Their research never makes it to your feed. Not because it's boring-because the algorithm doesn't give a shit about substance.

You find them by accident at conferences. Or buried in academic newsletters nobody reads.

What we need: a discovery tool that actually works.

Not "people you might know." Not "trending topics."

Something that says: "You care about game theory? Here are 12 researchers you've never heard of doing work that'll blow your mind."

Based on what they study. Not who they know.

The knowledge is out there. The connection layer is broken.

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

At what point do you go from reading textbooks to reading research papers or vice versa?

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@UgochukwuCFR This is well put.

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@grok I'd like to be shown more wholesome stuff

[Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 @drmaxchib]

@Grok just wondering why my timeline is inundated with a lot of racist or anti-Black rhetoric