Rajib Roy

Mech Engineer, PhD candidate at @UWyo, love #CFD, like to travel, hike and cook

[Rajib Roy @roy_rajib]

@Hertz Can I use the restroom and feed my kids, without losing my place in the Looooong line?

[Rajib Roy @roy_rajib]

@Hertz LAX location: No cars on lot. 2 hr to counter, 2 more get one. Overflowing lines, i had to use the rest room after 35 mins, told to start at the beginning. Can't you solve this with a ticket? Net time i will bring picnic blankets

[Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife]

Consider asking this of your prospective PhD advisor:

"How will my experience in your program, working with you, set me up for success in my desired career?"

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

If people kept using microscopes to kill people, I'd find a different hobby.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Under Biden’s covid stimulus, 70% of the tax benefits go to households making $91,000 or less in 2021.

Under Trump’s tax law, nearly half the benefits went to households making $308,000 or more in 2018.

(via @TaxPolicyCenter)

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Learn more: https://t.co/Da1EINZJE9

[Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed]

This conveys the state of affairs so much better than the commonly used red/blue map.

[SimScale @SimScale]

In this interactive webinar, we will explore the different wind effects produced by building designs and urban layout. Register now: https://t.co/zniIq2B3NL

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

“When I chose my major my adviser, who still is at UCLA, advised me to go into home economics,” Ms. Bacon-Bercey said. “I got a D in home economics and an A in thermodynamics.” https://t.co/4vYUJU9dnD

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

Dr. Heather Ashton dedicated much of her career to understanding the effects of anxiety drugs like Xanax, Valium and Klonopin on the human brain. She then put together a manual on how to wean off those drugs. https://t.co/SDYecm6oQK

[Smarter Every Day @smartereveryday]

After reading today’s social media stream which seems bent on influencing me to dislike Iranians...

I reject it.

Dinner with 15 Iranian friends the other night. They could not be more kind to me. I love these people. They’re my brothers and sisters.

-Destin from AL

[John Chawner @jchawner]

Only 8 more email subscribers needed to hit 4,000.

[Akash Palrecha @akashpalrecha98]

I've created a notebook that attempts to clear out all the confusion about @matplotlib ’s figures, subplots, axes and GridSpec objects. https://t.co/Xq19fELGRZ
Should have done this a long time ago! Hopefully this is helpful to others.
#DeepLearning #Datavisualization #Python #ml

[The Daily Star @dailystarnews]

আর কতো বছর, আর কতবার উপাচার্য-প্রক্টরদের মুখ থেকে দেশের মানুষ শুনবেন “লিখিত অভিযোগ পেলে তদন্ত করে ব্যবস্থা নেওয়া হবে”! নুরদের পরিণতি আবরার না হওয়া পর্যন্ত, এভাবেই কী চলতে থাকবে সবকিছু? #Bangladesh
https://t.co/B873krGCqu

[John Chawner @jchawner]

Today's tech reading - Ten Guidelines for Effective Data Visualization in Scientific Publications by Kelleher and Wagener (2011). This paper is rich with references to supporting material. Worth reading before you make your next chart.

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

Glassblowers at @ORNL make custom scientific equipment that helps make the lab’s research possible. #NationalLabs

[NREL MTES @NREL_MechTherm]

Brain bender: @NREL Researchers Pursue the Biggest Possible Wind Plant Model
https://t.co/g3cS05hkeJ

[NREL ESIF @ESIFlabs]

Researchers from @NREL partnered with @holycrossenergy to develop a #netzero housing community in Basalt, CO using a groundbreaking real-time optimal power flow algorithm. Watch to learn how NREL's unique capabilities helped Holy Cross set a national example for #grid control:

[Vox @voxdotcom]

After #SandyHook, we said never again.

And then we let 2,320 mass shootings happen. https://t.co/hFXxeAh9dT