Dr. Emily Petroff

Assoc. Dir, Strategic Partnerships, Perimeter Institute. Project Manager. Former Astronomer. Expat in Canada 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) Dog mom to Delta the Corgi

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@redtwitdown I'm like Beetlejuice but if someone on the internet says "microwave ovens" too many times.

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

Applications are still open for Perimeter’s world-leading postdoctoral fellowship program in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Apply before November 8th!

[Perimeter Institute @Perimeter]

Reminder!
The deadline for the 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship program is November 8, 2024.
PI offers a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment with maximum research freedom and opportunities to collaborate within and across fields.
Apply here: https://t.co/Wtg3byQLlv

[Igor Ulitsky @IgorUlitsky]

A 1,000,000th reminder the crucial importance of basic research. Ambros and Ruvkun were looking into understanding nematode genetics and development, not looking for a drug, and ended up opening an entire new area in biology

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

1962 of course being a recent time a woman named Rosalind was snubbed for this exact same prize
https://t.co/aj9wks664b

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

"was the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee"

but did not receive the Nobel Prize.

Is this 2024 or 1962?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨

This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.

#NobelPrize

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

Awesome to see that some of the winners are papers from 5+ years ago. TBH still holding out hope that our "perytons are microwave ovens" paper will be nominated for one of these someday. @improbresearch

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year https://t.co/F1fpIFcXwk

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@thealterego4 @dog_rates Pretty good!

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

This is the face Delta makes right after I give her 20 tiny kisses in a row on her forehead 🥹
To be loved by a dog is like nothing else.
@dog_rates

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@matthewbailes @UBC Are you stopping in Toronto on your Canada tour or heading straight to Montreal next week?

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@catgyoung Government relations, partnerships, and research administration for an institute for theoretical physics.

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

As always, Delta just looks happy to be included in the big dog group in the pictures from her dog walker.
@dog_rates

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@jenphelan3 Delta was diagnosed with early-onset arthritis at 5 1/2 years old a few months ago. She's only got arthritis in her front shoulder but it was causing her quite a lot of trouble. She started Librela and it helped her so much! She's back to her old self. Hoping it helps Kiki!

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

It's true! Oregon Episcopal School alumns out in the wild!

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@xkcd This is the highlight of my entire research career.

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

It's me!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Fast Radio Bursts https://t.co/uYls0yDRv8

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@karlglazebrook Maybe someday this work will get an @IgNobel

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

Well, that's it. I've peaked in life having been cited in XKCD *and* making it into the alt text. Going to retire to nerd heaven now.

https://t.co/hTxwREVlSS

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@CburgesCliff Wasn't just on it! I wrote it! 😊

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@StellarTayar HA! Truly a missed opportunity.

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

Secretly hoping my colleagues at Perimeter, who mostly know me for non-research stuff, do their daily @xkcd check and think "hey, that's Emily's last name!" 😂

[Dr. Emily Petroff @ebpetroff]

@danfalk Ha! Honestly, no higher honour than being Delta's Human