AskScience Panel of Scientists XXVII

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/w3rut0/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxvii/

created by AskScienceModerator on 20/07/2022 at 17:14 UTC

213 upvotes, 13 top-level comments (showing 13)

*Please read this entire post carefully and format your application appropriately.**

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

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/s93rpe/askscience_panel_of_scientists_xxvi/

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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*You are eligible to join the panel if you:**

Are studying for at least an MSc. or equivalent degree in the sciences, AND,
Are able to communicate your knowledge of your field at a level accessible to various audiences.

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*Instructions for formatting your panelist application:**

Choose exactly one general field from the side-bar (Physics, Engineering, Social Sciences, etc.).
State your specific field in one word or phrase (Neuropathology, Quantum Chemistry, etc.)
Succinctly describe your particular area of research in a few words (carbon nanotube dielectric properties, myelin sheath degradation in Parkinsons patients, etc.)
Give us a brief synopsis of your education: are you a research scientist for three decades, or a first-year Ph.D. student?
Provide links to comments you've made in AskScience which you feel are indicative of your scholarship. Applications will not be approved without several comments made in /r/AskScience itself.

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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 physics_defector at 17/09/2022 at 20:30 UTC*

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/physics_defector

General field: Medicine

Specific field: Complex systems science and mathematical methods

Research: Machine learning and mathematical methods for medical data and systems physiology research

Education: MD candidate, MS in Physics, BS in Math, BS in Computer Science, BS in Physics

Comments: 1[1], 2[2], 3[3], 4[4], 5[5], 6[6], 7[7]

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/wyavwe/how_does_fat_and_protein_digestion_works/ilvrz4h/

2: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/wxa2d4/can_someone_who_previously_had_pox_get_it_again/ilvyhou/

3: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/wv3r6x/do_quantum_mechanical_effects_have_any/ilw1m90/

4: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/x9vffi/how_much_influence_does_chaos_theory_have_over/ins5oqs/

5: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xe2r2e/ask_anything_wednesday_physics_astronomy_earth/iou2fmk/

6: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xdfs8a/are_there_pathogens_that_cannot_be_lysed_by/iou50eb/

7: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xkjni6/googles_alphafold_breakthrough_allows_us_to_see/iplzbwe/

As a note to explain my scattered answers, my area of research isn't one super accessible or familiar to the general public but is very interdisciplinary. I've answered a number of questions which intersect with it even though I don't directly study them, but take great care to only speak to areas where I have knowledge. For example, I'm not a climatologist, but my background in math, physics, and complex systems meant that I could offer some relevant information on chaotic dynamical systems and climate here[8]. I'm also not a theoretical computer scientist, but my work sometimes connects with computational complexity theory and computational learning theory so here[9] I referenced some discussions of complexity theory in the context of a question about artificial general intelligence. Most of my answers are likely to touch on medicine, applied math, or complex systems science, but other than the first on that list these can end up somewhat scattered across AskScience topics.

8: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/x9vffi/how_much_influence_does_chaos_theory_have_over/ins5oqs/

9: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/xe2r2e/ask_anything_wednesday_physics_astronomy_earth/iou2fmk/

Comment by acewing at 23/09/2022 at 16:57 UTC*

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/acewing

General field: Engineering

Specific field: Material Science

Particular areas of research include Silicon as a Li-ion battery anode, Li-ion battery chemistry, and thin film generation/analysis through PVD and CVD processes (I'm a battery engineer)

Education: BS in Physics and Math, ME in Material Science, 4th year PhD candidate in Material Science.

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

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/lj3rtu/is_there_a_theoretical_limit_to_the_energy/gn9wgnx/

2: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/lj3rtu/is_there_a_theoretical_limit_to_the_energy/gn9800n/

3: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kmflwp/why_does_sic_have_a_larger_band_gap_than_most/ghgv6f0/

4: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/lj3rtu/is_there_a_theoretical_limit_to_the_energy/

Comment by Ph0ton at 28/07/2022 at 14:41 UTC*

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Ph0ton

General field: Biology

Specific field: Molecular Biology

Researched I-C CRISPR-cas, specifically looking at the Cas3 protein among several microorganisms and biochemical activities of residues

Education: MSc Biological Chemistry, BS in Biology with a minor in Bioinformatics

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

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/w77xx3/til_that_humans_have_the_highest_daytime_visual/ihmn2np/

2: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/w6drps/if_mount_toba_didnt_cause_humanitys_genetic/ihf701s/

3: https://old.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/ve68bd/can_gene_therapy_be_used_to_change_adult_human/icps632/

4: https://old.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/ucyz52/is_it_possible_to_sequence_the_genom_of_one_cell/i6ekt63/

I haven't been particularly active within AskScience as I've dragged my feet in getting my panelist application in. In general I enjoy answering big questions about Biology and specific questions about gene editing.

EDIT: Switched my specific field for consistency's sake from Biochemistry and to reflect the nature of my research.

Comment by palepinkpith at 09/08/2022 at 18:32 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/palepinkpith

General field: Biology

Specific field: Genomics, Computational Biology, Cancer Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Epigenetics, Hematology

Research: Tumor Evolution, single cell genomic methods, stem cell population dynamics, post-translational histone modifications, DNA base modifications

Education: 5th Year PhD Candidate in Computational Biology, MSc Neuroscience, B.S. Evolutionary Biology

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

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/qwwp2o/comment/hl5w04y/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/v4yvuk/comment/ib88b5p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/u2hi85/comment/i4n1gvt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/trzjtw/comment/i2r4wy3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by MadcowPSA at 21/07/2022 at 01:48 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/MadcowPSA

General field: Geology

Specific field: Hydrogeology | Soil chemistry

Particular areas of research include: soil composition and plant nutrition; mm-scale immiscible fluid flow; and hydrological inverse methods

Education: MS holder in geology and soil science, PhD candidate in geophysics

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

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/t220ez/comment/hykho44/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/so5lbq/comment/hw7wiqq/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/t220ez/comment/hyjth91/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/t220ez/comment/hykshc4/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/sh2jje/comment/hv1r54u/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Comment by [deleted] at 15/08/2022 at 23:22 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/Pyr0Duck

General field: Engineering/Chemistry

Specific field: Chemical Engineering, Combustion, Mechanical Engineering

Research: Evaluating the performance of aluminum alloys in composite rocket propellants, the effects of metal additives in nitrogen-containing pnictogen hydride combustion, and the use of various metal alloys in enhanced blast formulations.

Education: 3rd Year PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering, MSc Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering

Comments: New to Reddit, but would like to start answering some questions.

Comment by kftrendy at 21/07/2022 at 16:14 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Username: /u/kftrendy

General field: Astronomy

Specific field: High-energy astrophysics

Particular areas of research: X-ray binaries, X-ray spectroscopy, plasma physics, cyclotron resonance scattering features

Education: PhD in astrophysics, researcher for 10 years

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

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/w3n2ex/ask_anything_wednesday_physics_astronomy_earth/igy3app/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/w3n2ex/ask_anything_wednesday_physics_astronomy_earth/igxwqb6/