Persistent Weak Layer
teresabarnes.bsky.social
Persistent Weak Layer
@teresabarnes.bsky.social
Scientist working on reliable solar for decarbonization. Researcher, mountain biker, lifter, skier, mom, punk. she/her, #energysky
All posts my own and not endorsed, accepted, or associated with my mysterious employer. Love solar. Hate fascism.
I’m trying for terrible mom jokes.
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I see what you meant there. Those rocks were reduced.
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Minimal biting is fine if you trade snacks for shots. Maybe a few scratches.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I know. I rewrote them all correctly. Still mad about it. You can’t be handling tetramethyltin under a III-V system SOP.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You absolutely rock for posting these today. We need this.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I may have to put this on my office door.
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
As a former HPM lab steward, I respect that they tried to get out of doing it. I ended up inheriting a bunch of SOPs for nasty shit that referenced or copied other docs that weren’t relevant, and just deleting it all would have been much faster and dumber than fixing it.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Didn’t they just get busted completely making up a nature paper on this topic?
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I must Fill the freezer at every h-mart run.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I was tempted by my UMCP friends who went to work for frito lay and Snyders doing the lord’s work with dough extrusion, cheese powder, potatoes, corn, and salt. Grad school promised the beginning of the microbrewery boom with beer labs, but I was always an energy nerd.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I was also motivated by a “10 best degrees for the environment” list. No idea why chemical engineering (aka petroleum) was on there in 1995, but it was an interesting and useful path into solar and clean energy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s weed or Greeley, but we can pretend that it’s ponderosas.
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We knew they were dipshits then. Good to know they haven’t learned.
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I am as unsurprised as every other femme scientist. The fact that we all know a few who would gladly jump into those files for “prestige” or “networking” makes me want to barf more.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Preach it! With an added note for my research friends that efficiency and energy yield are very different things. We don’t live in a solar simulator.
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM