#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “If you think you know everything, then you really don’t know anything.”
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “If you think you know everything, then you really don’t know anything.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I feel like I need a spicy new font for every presentation.”
January 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I feel like I need a spicy new font for every presentation.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “There’s always a secret key.”
August 20, 2024 at 12:12 AM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “There’s always a secret key.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I kid you not: in the appendix of one of my papers, I have the quadratic formula, and when I wrote it, I thought, this is such a beautiful moment."
February 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I kid you not: in the appendix of one of my papers, I have the quadratic formula, and when I wrote it, I thought, this is such a beautiful moment."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Kilocals? Get with the modern system!"
April 10, 2024 at 3:33 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Kilocals? Get with the modern system!"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "A payload mass of 42.5 kilograms means a launchpad mass of 15.5 metric tons. That's the tyranny of the rocket equation."
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "A payload mass of 42.5 kilograms means a launchpad mass of 15.5 metric tons. That's the tyranny of the rocket equation."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “When you’re young, you think all older people have everything figured out, but actually, everyone is just barely holding their shit together.”
September 13, 2024 at 6:20 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “When you’re young, you think all older people have everything figured out, but actually, everyone is just barely holding their shit together.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Here's some unsolicited wine advice."
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Here's some unsolicited wine advice."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Instead of writing 'Dear Professor X,' I accidentally wrote 'Dead Professor X' and hit send before I realized my mistake."
January 3, 2024 at 9:58 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Instead of writing 'Dear Professor X,' I accidentally wrote 'Dead Professor X' and hit send before I realized my mistake."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “It’s good to know that if there are Oreos on Mars, we’d be able to identify them.”
December 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “It’s good to know that if there are Oreos on Mars, we’d be able to identify them.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "This is it—the storm before the calm."
November 20, 2023 at 10:44 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "This is it—the storm before the calm."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Department chair is like a combination of a social worker and a priest.”
March 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Department chair is like a combination of a social worker and a priest.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "It is a fact: I have a gummy bear problem."
February 9, 2024 at 12:06 AM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "It is a fact: I have a gummy bear problem."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”
October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Do not train your brain to multitask. Train your brain to focus. Multitasking is the devil.”
November 16, 2023 at 5:52 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Do not train your brain to multitask. Train your brain to focus. Multitasking is the devil.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "That's the first law of cooking dynamics—minimize the number of dishes."
December 4, 2024 at 6:36 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "That's the first law of cooking dynamics—minimize the number of dishes."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Postdocs’ job is to prove their advisors wrong.”
January 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Postdocs’ job is to prove their advisors wrong.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "But for a few kinetic barriers, you and I should be bursting into flame."
May 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "But for a few kinetic barriers, you and I should be bursting into flame."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "What a time to be a scientist. What a time to be anything other than a billionaire."
February 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "What a time to be a scientist. What a time to be anything other than a billionaire."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Never pour chemicals down the drain while laughing maniacally.”
June 3, 2024 at 2:08 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Never pour chemicals down the drain while laughing maniacally.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “It wouldn’t be a good referee report without a few contradictory statements.”
October 30, 2023 at 5:04 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “It wouldn’t be a good referee report without a few contradictory statements.”