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Glenn Roberts Jr. @iSciWriter

I am a professional writer employed as a science communicator @BerkeleyLab. This is my personal Twitter site. All views, interests are my own.

Joined January 2016
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
2 Mar 2021
Join us in celebration of our 90th Anniversary by taking a #virtualtour of our world-class facilities! Register: berkeleylabnext90.lbl.gov/co… @advlightsource @molecularfndry @BerkeleyLabETA @BerkeleyLabPSA @NERSC @ESnet @ENERGY @doescience #BerkeleyLab90 vimeo.com/459164648/3ef4858f…
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
3 Mar 2021
COSMIC, an X-ray instrument at our Lab, has made groundbreaking contributions in fields from batteries to biominerals since its launch. @advlightsource @NERSC newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/03/0…

X-ray Instrument Takes a COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science

COSMIC, an X-ray instrument at Berkeley Lab, has made groundbreaking contributions in fields from batteries to biominerals since its launch.

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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area @LBNLcs
3 Mar 2021
Warp drive: An open-source supercomputer code called WarpX, developed @BerkeleyLab, simulates laser-made plasmas and presents a path for shrinking particle accelerators: bit.ly/WarpX_LBNL cc: @doescience #BerkeleyLab90 @ENERGY #HPC @exascaleproject @AmrexAstro
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
27 Jan 2021
Does getting to #carbonneutral by 2050 sound expensive and undoable? It’s actually feasible and will cost <0.5% of GDP, or the equivalent of $1/person/day, says new study published in @AguAdvances. @UNSDSN @UCBerkeley @youthvgov @eesalbnl More: newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/01/2…
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Michael V. Drake @UCMichaelDrake
3 Mar 2021
For 90 years, @BerkeleyLab has been a dynamic hub of scientific innovation and discovery. From the cyclotron to CRISPR, our research scientists have never stopped innovating to make the world a better place. #BerkeleyLab90
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AI Finds More Than 1,200 Gravitational Lensing Candidates newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/02/0… via @BerkeleyLab

AI Finds More Than 1,200 Gravitational Lensing Candidates

A research team has found more than 1,200 possible gravitational lenses – objects that can be markers for the distribution of dark matter.

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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
3 Feb 2021
We can't wait for February 11th! #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Cindy Lee @geneandtonic
3 Feb 2021
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @USPS is issuing a stamp honoring Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who grew up in China. about.usps.com/newsroom/nati…
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) @jbei
4 Jan 2021
ICYMI: We reviewed recently published rankings databases for our JBEI scientists and found 9 of our researchers ranked in the Top 2% of scientists in the world @BerkeleyLab @LBNLBioSci @BlakeBiotech @jaykeasling jbei.org/nine-jbei-scientist…
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Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2020 newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/12/2… via @BerkeleyLab

Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2020

It was a year dominated by COVID-19 research, along with some beetles, batteries, and a Nobel Prize

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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
4 Dec 2020
DYK? Scientists at our Lab have contributed much to the field of #neutrino science since the Dec. 4, 1930 letter, 90 years ago today, that theorized the particle’s existence. #neutrino90 Details: newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/12/0… @BerkeleyLabPSA
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Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
2 Dec 2020
It’s 90 years since the neutrino’s proposed existence, and #neutrino science has come a long way. This week, share how your institution has helped expand our knowledge of this particle with this tag: #neutrino90 @Fermilab @BrookhavenLab @SLAClab @argonne energy.gov/science/doe-expla…

DOE Explains...Neutrinos

DOE Explains...Neutrinos

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Aerial Video: Berkeley Lab From Above newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/09/0… via @BerkeleyLab

Aerial Video: Berkeley Lab From Above

View Berkeley Lab from the sky in this aerial video, which features drone footage taken earlier this year.

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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
28 Aug 2020
Lab researcher and physics undergrad shares poster project honoring black physicists. Story: newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/08/2… @LBNLphysics @BerkeleyPhysics
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
27 Aug 2020
Magnet system R&D hones in on better beams for #cancer-fighting therapy. Story: newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/08/2… @VarianMedSys @psich_en @UMich @Livermore_Lab @LosAlamosNatLab
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
27 Aug 2020
A @UCBerkeley-led center will bring together researchers from 13 institutions to model astrophysical explosions and detail what’s at work. bit.ly/NSFphysicsfrontier @NSF @UCSanDiego, @universityofky @UMNews @UofNH @NotreDame @UW @UWMadison
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLab
23 Jun 2020
Introducing a new isotope: mendelevium-244. It is the 17th and lightest form of the mendelevium, element 101 on the #periodictable, which was first discovered here in 1955. newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/06/2…

A Berkeley Lab-Led Team Discovers a New Isotope: Mendelevium-244

A team of scientists working at Berkeley Lab has discovered a new form, called an isotope, of the element mendelevium.

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Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/06/0… via @BerkeleyLab

Telescope Instrument Poised to Begin Search for Dark Energy Answers

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument in Arizona has reached its final formal approval milestone prior to startup.

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Laser, Biosciences Researchers Combine Efforts to Study Viruses in Droplets newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/05/2… via @BerkeleyLab

Laser, Biosciences Researchers Team Up to Study Viruses in Droplets

Laser and biology researchers at Berkeley Lab are working together to develop a platform and experiments to study viruses in liquid droplets.

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Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/05/1… @BerkeleyLab
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Glenn Roberts Jr. retweeted
AdvancedLightSource @advlightsource
6 May 2020
A short explainer video on swap-out injection accumulator for the ALS Upgrade (ALS-U) project. @BerkeleyLab
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