Laura Xin Zhang (@zhx94) 's Twitter Profile
Laura Xin Zhang

@zhx94

Grad(uated!) student at PPPL. Member-at-Large to APS FGSA. Passionate advocate for women in plasma physics. Access to education is a basic human right.

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How do individual particles move in fusion plasmas? Take a look inside the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and follow a "fast" proton injected by neutral beam injection. Simulated by David Kulla, IPP, using ASCOT5 code (animation: Blender). #fusionenergy #physics #nuclearfusion

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So much fun being a woman at PPPL. I guess women by default get half portions of food at the cafeteria and pay the same price. This lactating mother has had quite enough.

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Audacity is when Adobe Reader freezes 5 times in a row when I’m trying to print something, and after each force quit and restart it asks me whether I’d like to set it as the default viewer for PDFs 🤗

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Think trying to finish a PhD thesis is hard? Try doing that with a 5 month old breastfed baby. Think that’s hard? Try doing that while single parenting a 5 month old breastfed baby. Guess there’s no award for just keeping the both of us alive until the day I defend 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Wearable pumps are the second most liberating thing for working moms next to daycare 🙏 Just pumped in a corner of the classroom during a lecture…..

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Positive energy of the day from a coworker - you don’t quit fusion because of code. You quit fusion if you don’t believe in it anymore, but not because your sh*t don’t work. 🤗