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Faye McNeill

@vfmcneill.bsky.social

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@Columbia prof, aerosol science, atmospheric chemistry, air quality (esp. in India), climate, chemical engineering, and whatever else is on my mind 🌇 she/her

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · Jan 30

Patriotic education? Oh you mean like teaching the youth about this 🇺🇸 search.app/4XEViWcSVBdf...

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The Clean Air Act and the Economy | US EPA

Since 1970, cleaner air and a growing economy have gone hand in hand. The Act has created market opportunities that have helped to inspire innovation in cleaner technologies for which the United State...

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 13h

McNeill group presentations at #AAAR2025 start with the poster session this afternoon - Katie Stevenson (2AC.11) presenting on the application of AMORE 2.0 to reducing monoterpene oxidation mechanisms @mcneill-lab.org

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 20h

#AAAR2025! If you're here in 🦬 be sure to check out two posters from the group today (1-3p):

- Isabel Albores on simulating the oxidant and RO₂ chemistry of indoor environments (2AC.12)
- Jia Jiang on a framework for comparing lab data and mechanistic predictions (2IM.6)

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R Subramanian (he/him) @subu.bsky.social · 18h

Follow the #AAAR2025 hashtag for news from the annual conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, happening this week in Buffalo, NY! 🧪

Aerodyne Research @aerodyne.com · 6d

Aerodyne Research is heading to #AAAR in Buffalo next week!
Find us at Booth 312/314 — we’ll be sharing our latest work. Come say hi, grab some materials, and chat science.

We’ll post our full list of talks + posters early next week. Stay tuned!

#AtmosphericScience #AirQuality #AAAR2025

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 15h

No I think the ambassadors are only posting on LinkedIn

Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 16h

And the Friedlander award winner this year was Dr. Payton Becker, currently at PNNL, for her very impressive PhD thesis work. #AAAR2025

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 16h

This year's recipient of the Hering award was none other than @kprather.bsky.social for her major contributions to aerosol science and instrumentation, with applications in environment and public health #AAAR2025

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely star studded awards ceremony this morning - Welcome new AAAR Fellows Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social and Pat Keady! AAAR Fellows make up 0.2% of the AAAR membership. They are recognized for their significant contributions to aerosol research and service to AAAR #AAAR2025

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 17h

Awesome perspective on the use of optical trapping to study aerosols from opening plenary speaker Prof. Chuji Wang #AAAR2025

Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 18h

The conference chair works tirelessly behind the scenes to make these meetings happen!! Awesome job and nice blazer @surrattairchemlab.bsky.social #AAAR2025

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

It's so silent bro

Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Our actual social media ambassadors haven't posted since Friday, put me in coach

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

*Al is the name of this buffalo, he's a very good sport

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Who said AI never contributed anything positive to our culture? #AAAR2025

Buffalo cannibalism eating buffalo wings

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand that game so I don't even know what weapon to bring when I go outside, something pixelated and taller than me I guess

Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 1d

There's a streetcar or something droning outside that makes it sound eerie like the background sound when my kids are playing Minecraft Dungeons

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to Buffalo! #AAAR2025 🦬🦬🦬

Conference nametag with a lot of ribbons and a sign with beautiful Niagara Falls but probably AI?

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 2d

In the interim I have also seen actual samovars in museums and the occasional restaurant. I did not grow up in New York City (or travel internationally) when I was younger though! Now anyone with an internet connection, even hypothetical past me, can look these things up.

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 2d

Likewise, all those novels with extensive French and German phrases, I'd read them and think "welp people sure did know a lot of languages back then" but not really have hope of understanding what they said. Now we have Google Translate etc.

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate simple victories of the internet. Like, now when I read about a "samovar" in a novel I can look at pictures of them and almost understand their deal. When I was reading Russian novels for school all I had was a dictionary definition which probably raised more questions than it answered.

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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh what did he mean! 🤭 headass

Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 3d

Is now really the moment for vaguespeeching

John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social · 3d

Obama’s warnings about democracy fading sound increasingly directed toward the United States. www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

Obama’s warnings about democracy fading increasingly sound directed toward the US | CNN Politics

“We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale as...

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