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Taylor Sparks @[email protected]

43K subscribers - no pronouns :c

I'm a Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the Un


Welcoem to posts!!

in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c

Taylor Sparks
Posted 2 months ago

I want high school students to know what cool jobs and opportunities exist if they study Materials Science! This interview was really fun.

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 8 months ago

My sister gave me a giant Beaker costume for Halloween. It's amazing. I think if I hit 40k subscribers I'll teach a class wearing it lol.

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 9 months ago

Hey everybody, I'm kicking off the "Materials Minutes" playlist which will feature concise video summaries of select materials science papers! I'm still trying to decide on the ideal length though. I've done one <59 seconds so it qualifies as a short, but it's hard to squeeze all that goodness in there. Then, I tried the same paper with a slightly longer approach at 6 minutes. Is that closer to what we're looking for? Or should I stick to short reels??

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 10 months ago

Looking for an easy way to stay up on scientific literature or understand a particularly complex topic? Check out SciSpace. You won't be disappointed! typeset.io/?via=taylor
I'm filming a new video on their latest tool, the SciSpace GPT in the Open AI GPT Store. Totally blown away!

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 10 months ago

Hey, would people be interested in short video summaries describing the key advances in recent publications? I'm thinking of starting a new playlist modeled after the 2-minute AI papers but aimed at material Science papers.

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 1 year ago

Any subs here at Spring Materials Research Society meeting!? I've got a talk on wed morning 9am (room 320)

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 1 year ago

Curious to learn more about my year overseas during my sabbatical? Did you know I also spent 3 summers doing research in China during grad school? I just released a video where I cover what I learned from those experiences and my tips for those considering a sabbatical or research stay abroad!

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 1 year ago

New school year and I'm back from sabbatical! A bunch of new great content coming for my intro to material science class, software tutorials, materials, informatics, materialism podcast ...and we've even got another episode of material science hot takes being recorded next week!! Stay tuned for a fun year!!!

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 1 year ago

All this LK99 talk has me remembering when we cooked up our own superconducting YBCO samples and sent them levitating along our track

youtube.com/shorts/Zq7HqOPIB-...

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Taylor Sparks
Posted 2 years ago

I've done a few interviews of the years, but this was definitely my favorite conversation
https://youtu.be/cBBLzSunlWI ‪@theswellpod‬

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