It’s hard to believe that I defended my PhD thesis a year ago! My first year as Dr. Wilkins has been a busy one. This post shares some reflections on what I’ve done and how I’ve grown in my first year as a postdoc. 
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      Science art, conferences, travel, and moving. These are the highlights from my terms 10 through 18 of my Ph.D.
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      It’s March Madness… Nebula March Madness! Which nebula do you think will triumph in this Twitter tournament? Follow along at #NebulaMM2019! In Round 4, the birds and the bugs go head to head with the Eagle Nebula versus the Butterfly Nebula!
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      It’s March Madness… Nebula March Madness! Which nebula do you think will triumph in this Twitter tournament? Follow along at #NebulaMM2019! The theme of Round 3 is “Discovery”
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      It’s March Madness… Nebula March Madness! Which nebula do you think will triumph in this Twitter tournament? Follow along at #NebulaMM2019! The theme of Round 2 is “What’s it made of?”
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      It’s March Madness… Nebula March Madness! Which nebula do you think will triumph in this Twitter tournament? Follow along at #NebulaMM2019!
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      Science art, travel, conferences, travel, moving, and travel. These are the highlights from my eighth and ninth terms of graduate school.
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      I recently went on a bit of a speaking tour about south-central PA. I gave six talks in two weeks while there. Here is how I arranged my tour!
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       At the end of January, I joined Caltech's chemistry club at Cleveland Elementary in Pasadena. Being at an elementary school, my audience seemed obvious: the younger half of the popular K-12 outreach target. What I found, however, was that parents were just as, if not more, interested in the demonstrations, and I realized that in outreach to students, we often overlook an important ally: their parents and guardians.
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