AskScience Panel of Scientists XXV

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/or5p3q/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxv/

created by AskScienceModerator on 25/07/2021 at 05:25 UTC

395 upvotes, 22 top-level comments (showing 22)

This post is for new panelist recruitment! The previous one is here[1].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/l4yi0i/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxiv/

The panel is an informal group of Redditors who are **either professional scientists or those in training to become so**. All panelists have at least a graduate-level familiarity within their declared field of expertise and answer questions from related areas of study. A panelist's expertise is summarized in a color-coded AskScience flair.

Membership in the panel comes with access to a panelist subreddit. It is a place for panelists to interact with each other, voice concerns to the moderators, and where the moderators make announcements to the whole panel. It's a good place to network with people who share your interests!

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Ideally, these comments should clearly indicate your fluency in the fundamentals of your discipline as well as your expertise. We favor comments that contain citations so we can assess its correctness without specific domain knowledge.

Here's an example application:

`Username: /u/foretopsail`

`General field: Anthropology`

`Specific field: Maritime Archaeology`

`Particular areas of research include historical archaeology, archaeometry, and ship construction.`

`Education: MA in archaeology, researcher for several years.`

`Comments: 1, 2, 3, 4.`

Please do not give us personally identifiable information and please follow the template. We're not going to do real-life background checks - we're just asking for reddit's best behavior. However, several moderators are tasked with monitoring panelist activity, and your credentials will be checked against the academic content of your posts on a continuing basis.

You can submit your application by replying to this post.

Comments

Comment by PhysicsVanAwesome at 25/07/2021 at 06:04 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Physicsvanawesome

General field: Physics

Specific field: Condensed Matter Physics

Particular areas of research: mesoscale transport, thin film conductivity, and molecular electronics.

Education: MSc in Physics and in my final couple of semesters of my PhD in physics (ABD).

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4os8i7/why_does_thermal_radiation_exist_if_atoms_are/d4fbp9u/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bqr8tm/chemistry_is_it_at_all_possible_of_accurately/eo8ldbn/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5wy3zi/what_would_be_the_implications_if_the_existence/deeuomq/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kvnieo/if_the_near_centre_of_a_record_rotates_in_1/gj2vo4n/

I'm also fairly active on /r/physics and /r/askphysics (probably more so than here!)

Comment by jwillis0720 at 24/10/2021 at 21:20 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/jwillis0720

General field: Immunology

Specific field: Vaccine Engineering

HIV/Influenza/COVID vaccine design. Computational Biology/AI

Education: PhD in Chemical and Physical Biology

Comments: Publications

Comment by PlacatedPlatypus at 21/09/2021 at 22:06 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/PlacatedPlatypus

General Field: Biology

Specific Field: Computational Biology & Cancer Biology

Areas of research include genomics, data science, cancer, biochemistry, and machine learning.

Education: PhD candidate in computational biology, researcher for eight years (three years pure experimental, three years pure computational, two years hybrid).

Comments: Genomics[1], Genetics[2], Cancer[3], Biochemistry[4]

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ps2s3o/long_noncoding_rnas_and_open_reading_frames/hdps6n0/

2: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pm318k/how_do_gene_mutations_work_when_we_have_two/hcj2azb/?context=3

3: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pmmz1e/why_are_some_cancer_cells_not_detected_by_the/hckaop9/?context=3

4: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pqvycl/what_happens_to_your_eggs_when_youre_on_the_pill/hdi92i8/?context=3

Unfortunately not many questions about computational biology for me to respond to here. Can just flair me as cancer biology until I get some more.

Comment by t-b at 29/08/2021 at 09:22 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/t-b

General field: Neuroscience

Specific field: Systems & Computational Neuroscience

Particular areas of research include optogenetics, all-optical electrophysiology, and machine learning.

Education: PhD candidate in neuroscience; researcher for six years.

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4],

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/cgeycw/just_how_much_does_functional_specialization/eugvhb0

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bew9ft/cpus_have_billions_of_transistors_in_them_can_a/el9s6hz

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/pdiz59/why_cant_fish_get_rabies/has7xhc

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hjakc8/are_albino_animals_ever_shunned_for_looking/fwlrpoz

Comment by dombar1 at 23/10/2021 at 19:39 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/dombar1

General field: Engineering

Specific field: Aerospace

Particular areas of research include propulsion systems, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics

Education: PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, 15 years in industry research.

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qaxw8e/comment/hh6e0k5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qe65vo/have_there_been_any_attempts_to_build_a_solid/hhr05cj/?context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qbafyi/comment/hh8g5it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ouwtma/comment/h7hq9uk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by DramShopLaw at 03/11/2021 at 23:00 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/DramShopLaw

General field: planetary sciences

Specific field: thermodynamics of magma and igneous rocks

Particular areas of research include computer modeling of crystallizing melts, for use in geothermometers and geobarometers and to study the origins of extraterrestrial igneous rocks.

Education: I now actually practice law, but I have a MS in planetary geosciences

Comments intro: I comment on many fields in addition to my specialty, and I address questions about the basics of thermodynamics all the time. Thermodynamics (and chemical kinetics) is the basis of the work I did.

Comments: on the tendency of systems to spontaneously minimize free energy [1], my multiple answers in this post about the origin of the earth’s salty oceans and plate tectonics [2], describing the relationship between different definitions of informational entropy[3], on the nature of ionic bonding (pretty important in minerals!)[4]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/gpvd6a/is_this_thought_process_on_why_boats_float_or/frp96xn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

2: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjA8b6akP3zAhWLg-AKHb2xBhoQFnoECAMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Faskscience%2Fcomments%2Fedcfay%2Fwhere_did_all_the_salt_in_the_oceans_come_from%2F&usg=AOvVaw1syQX0XwsVPYXBKzq3dJxT

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/hong2f/whats_the_relationship_between_entropy_and/fxpxf35/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

4: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiw8bm1pf3zAhUoc98KHRnmAKkQFnoECAUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Faskscience%2Fcomments%2Fkod66l%2Fwhy_is_ionic_bond_stronger_than_covalent%2F&usg=AOvVaw13s86qwcGVG7uXgmJIxc4G

Comment by thericciestflow at 08/10/2021 at 05:38 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/thericciestflow

General field: Applied Mathematics

Specific Field: Mathematical Physics

Particular areas of research include probability, geometry, PDEs.

Education: BA Math/CS, PhD candidate Applied Math

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q2x84g/is_there_a_way_to_measureevaluate_the_randomness/hfp3xim/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q23nyd/whats_the_physical_meaning_of_potential_flow_in/hfjrils/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q212sj/what_is_the_relationship_between_conditional/hfjmtax/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q1ggqf/why_is_laplaces_equation_so_important_in/hff4b4e/

Comment by [deleted] at 08/12/2021 at 17:39 UTC*

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: MoiJaimeLesCrepes

General field: Linguistics

Specific field: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Historical Linguistics

Particular areas of research include indo-european linguistics, Romance linguistics, sociolinguistics; data science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.

Education: PhD in Linguistics, been working as a research scientist in AI, for 8 years

Comments: Latin question[1] , another Latin question[2]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q7f7qs/comment/hgkuaec/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/r9r25h/comment/hnqtzh5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by drmarcj at 11/12/2021 at 02:33 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/drmarcj

General field: Neuroscience

Specific field: Cognitive Neuroscience

Particular areas of research include developmental disorders, reading disability (dyslexia), language development, language processing, reading and writing, neuroimaging, computational neuroscience.

Education: PhD, researcher for 20 years.

Comments: dyslexia[1], more about dyslexia[2], MRI technology[3], measuring intelligence[4].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q5vmde/can_you_be_dyslexic_in_one_language_and_not_be_in/hg9ozz1/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9ssf5r/does_dyslexia_occur_in_blind_people_for_instance/e8reo61/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/286seh/if_our_brains_are_run_with_electricity_why_dont/cib2s7x/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/d2rmk9/ask_anything_wednesday_economics_political/ezxysqw/

Comment by capt_yellowbeard at 23/08/2021 at 21:52 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/capt_yellowbeard

General field: Anthropology

Specific field: Modern Cultural - Specifically Internet Dating, Mating behaviors, and costly signaling

Particular areas of research: I was working on my MA Thesis on internet dating in 2002 when I met (through participant-observation in the field) my future wife. I am currently a high school science teacher who teaches 7 subjects.

Education: BA - philosophy (cum laude), BA - anthropology and minor - geology (all simultaneously), MA in Anthropology

Comments: 1[1], 2[2] Sorry that these are not anthropology explanations but I do think they exhibit how I explain things.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bjk5mb/why_doesnt_the_crust_of_the_earth_melt/em9m0xm/?context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/bjk5mb/why_doesnt_the_crust_of_the_earth_melt/em9owb4/?context=3

Comment by SwaggerSpice at 07/09/2021 at 23:33 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: u/SwaggerSpice

General field: Medicine

Specific field: Rural health, public health, community medicine, musculoskeletal physiology and pathology, parasitology

Education: BSc in Biomolecular Sciences, Medical Doctorate, Family Medicine residency training

Comment by chazwomaq at 17/12/2021 at 20:57 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/chazwomaq

General field: Psychology

Specific field: Evolutionary Psychology, Animal Behaviour

Particular area of research is human mate choice.

Education: PhD in psychology, researcher for 16 years.

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rdial5/comment/ho3yiz2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qsaxk0/comment/hkdxbin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qgxc40/comment/hidp8nk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q7z2xb/comment/hgn15ky/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by Lepmuru at 02/01/2022 at 16:31 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Lepmuru

General field: Biology

Specific field: Immuno-Oncology

Particular areas of research include peripheral stem-cell biology, fat metabolism and immune regulation in cancer. Consecutively been working in advertisement and as a sales rep for prescribed medicines in oncology.

Education: MSc in Biochemistry, several years of experience in Pharma sales and marketing - especially oncology

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4], 5[5]

1: https://new.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rgaqe5/are_there_completely_harmless_viruses/homfxzl/?context=3

2: https://new.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/r9mo6t/health_people_with_poor_immune_response_to_the/hng15dz/?context=3

3: https://new.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/r1744j/ask_anything_wednesday_biology_chemistry/hm1aesl/?context=3

4: https://new.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rpsa8y/why_dont_we_regularly_produce_antibodies_against/hq9pq3u/?context=3

5: https://new.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qwkx4g/why_do_viruses_such_as_smallpox_chickenpox_and/hl3ylsg/?context=3

Comment by Goober_Bean at 03/01/2022 at 18:31 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Goober_Bean

General field: Biology

Specific field: Molecular oncology

Particular areas of research include tumor microenvironments, soft-tissue sarcoma; comparative oncology in canine models; histopathology; drug discovery; and genomics

Education: PhD in Pathology; currently a third-year postdoc in academia

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4], 5[5]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/riyd87/comment/hp1sqat/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/rpkcwm/comment/hq58ram/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/r3l3zc/comment/hmbfbxe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/qx3dkh/comment/hl6ytd8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/qtszia/comment/hkmd7j6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by UpSaltOS at 16/01/2022 at 01:26 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: u/UpSaltOS

General Field: Chemistry

Specific Field: Food Chemistry

Areas of Research: Flavor chemistry, Maillard reaction, alternative proteins, food enzymes, food fermentation

Education: PhD in Food Science, 8 years of research, 3 years of technical consulting

Comments: 1[1] 2[2] 3[3] 4[4]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s36osg/when_borax_is_added_to_spoiled_milk_is_the/hssjsvj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rywhla/does_taste_of_food_matter_in_animals_does_it/hssyulm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/ry09hs/how_do_fruits_heal/hsszzgp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rk0ohs/do_calories_in_food_change_based_on_what_you_do/hst3c33/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

Comment by [deleted] at 23/08/2021 at 05:53 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

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Comment by [deleted] at 21/09/2021 at 19:43 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by Expensive-Thoughts at 08/01/2022 at 20:59 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: u/Expensive-Thoughts General Field: Chemistry with Medicinal Science and pharmacology Education: Phd in Organic Chemistry first year. Multidisciplinary project of drug discovery in oncology of neurodegenerative disease and tumour.

Comment by qwerter96 at 10/01/2022 at 05:18 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/qwerter96

General field: Engineering

Specific field: System Dynamics

Particular areas of research include covid and economic modelling.

Education: MS in system design and management (graduating in May), a year of quantitative modelling of various economic systems in financial contexts.

Comments: 1[1] 2[2]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rn0075/how_are_people_who_test_positive_with_an_at_home/hppoh7x/?context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rofd56/how_do_scientists_determine_that_the_new_covid/hpz040m/?context=3

Comment by PM_ME_YOUR_CORNS at 19/01/2022 at 16:43 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/PM_ME_YOUR_CORNS

General field: Biology

Specific field: Plant Breeding

Plant breeding, genetics, agriculture, agricultural IP and legal issues

Education: MS is plant breeding, several years in public and private corn breeding

Comments: 1[1] 2[2] 3[3]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/507exz/what_nonbiological_factors_contribute_to_regional/d72p98x/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s73vk1/has_there_been_any_measurable_increase_in_goiters/htbupiw/

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s73vk1/has_there_been_any_measurable_increase_in_goiters/htbwomx/

Comment by burntpeaches at 19/01/2022 at 21:36 UTC*

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Burntpeaches General field: Chemistry Specific Field: Environmental Chemistry Particulare areas of Research: Water/sediment remediation, PFAS remediation/detection, passive sampling Education: B.Sc in Chemistry Comments: 1[1]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s5s6gd/can_some_ice_be_harder_than_other/htk9umr?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

Comment by crazunggoy47 at 20/01/2022 at 17:57 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Hi. My flair has a typo. It should be Exoplanets. Can someone please fix it? Thanks.