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Tori Barber

@vbarber.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @ UCLA. Physical and Atmospheric Chemistry. I love a weird radical. All views my own.

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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We've been running experiments for the last 3 years in our mini-chamber (affectionately dubbed 'the bounce house' by my students) but today is a big day because we inflated our big chamber for the first time!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is nice and high school students should do it
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Lyssa Freese @lfreese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am hiring a postdoc to join my group at UC Irvine's Department of Earth System Science to work on rapid response modeling of air quality and health impacts of energy policy! You can learn more about the position and apply here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10361
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Postdoctoral Scholar - Climate, Pollution, and Solutions
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My neighborhood is getting absolutely wrecked by smoke tonight.. all the air purifiers in my house running on full blast
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Life update: I made another really good baby. Enjoying maternity leave with this little peanut.
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Hannah S Kenagy @hannahskenagy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Join Hannah Horowitz and me in Chicago for ACS Fall 2026 (August 23 - 27) for a discussion of “Atmospheric Chemistry from Molecular to Global Scales!” Abstract submission is available here through March 30: callforabstracts.acs.org/acsfall2026/...
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ACS Fall 2026 - American Chemical Society
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have a young child and a newborn on the way and measles outbreaks are uniquely scary for me. This is why herd immunity is so important; so people who can't develop immunity don't get sick. Please, get vaccinated
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A fun fact about me is that I am measles non-immune. I have been vaccinated 3x (twice as a child on the regular schedule, and once after my first pregnancy when my titers came back negative for measles). They tested my titers again at the beginning of this pregnancy and still no measles immunity.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Replace "eating food" with "walking" amd it's still true
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Cannot believe this little goober turns 3 in just a few short weeks! Loving my big kid but missing having a baby.. good thing we're getting another one this spring!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
3 full days of rain in los angeles! Yes we are doing MOVIES
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
UPS keeps attempting to deliver us a package and, without knocking, simply leaving a slip and walking away. They want to charge us 8 dollars to hold it at the UPS location. I need to lie down for 12 years
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A scourge on the human body, truly
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So relatable
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Tell me you have a toddler without telling me you have a toddler
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Another terrifying article about Stardust, with (what I think is) some new info: - they claim they'll finally release info on their secret particles starting in early 2026 - they plan a first atmospheric test in 2027 - they've been funding academic research (with one PI named)
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Every word of this www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My near 3-yo wants to watch only lion king 2 (which he calls "the regular lion kind with Kiara). He will not watch lion king 1. Only lion king 2. We watch it on average 1x per day.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Year round amazing weather is an underrated joy of raising kids in LA, but let me tell you, there are like 5 indoor activities in the whole city and on a rainy day every single one of them is a mob scene.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It is raining so much in LA and now I have to decide if I want to spend a Saturday cooped up at home with my toddler or if we both want to get a hideous virus at an indoor playground
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Add this to my list of stuff to worry about: LA is about to get atmospheric river-ed. Just as a reminder, this is what happened last time we got a big storm. Please cross your fingers and toes for a flood free weekend in the barber lab!
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
the transition from programs/files/folders as the default mode of interacting with an OS to an app-based model where most things are stored on the cloud has already made things hard- students often have no idea that files are organized in directories, and that you can navigate that structure
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If you or someone you know are looking to do a postdoc in our areas of interest (organic oxidation chemistry in environmental chambers, spectroscopic studies of atmospheric intermediates, indoor air impacts of smoke) let's chat!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am able to sponsor postdoctoral fellows through this program! www.chemistry.ucla.edu/bhaumik-priz...
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Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program – UCLA
The Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites nominations for the Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program. This newly instated program seeks to bring the brightest young scientists to UCLA to expand their scientific training, make new discoveries, and network with interdisciplinary scientists of all stages. The Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program is made possible by the philanthropy of physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Mani L. Bhaumik. The program supports three fellows annually for a three-year postdoctoral position.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Imagine thinking that having a baby that only needs 4 hours of sleep is a desirable trait lmao we live in hell
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I have a student with a full draft, who now is ineligible. What a waste. Especially challenging for students in chemistry who don't settle into labs until at least half way through their first year.
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Jason West @profjasonwest.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A good read on an important chapter of Earth science history, and what is at risk of being lost under Trump.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Joseph S. Francisco named 2025 Pauling Medal Award winner The award will be presented Oct. 18 at Seattle University as part of a poster session and symposium. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky
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Joseph S. Francisco named 2025 Pauling Medal Award winner
The award will be presented Oct. 18 at Seattle University as part of a poster session and symposium
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is Beautiful (and unknowingly I have read that JCE paper!) thank you!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Same!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We took my 2 yo to his first baseball game today and my favorite part was when we told him it was over and the Dodgers won, and he thought for a second, then put up his hand and waved goodbye while yelling "bye bye Dodgers! Bye bye baseball guys!"
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We also just hit this milestone and oh my god. Top 5 parenting moment so far
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My kid's daycare seems to play this song like 2-6 times a day every day
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hey, uh, what the FUCK
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our RAPID grant to study the air quality impacts of the January 2025 wildfires is suspended effective immediately. We have another NSF grant that has been in limbo for months that I assume will stay there until this is resolved.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The vibes at UCLA today are not good.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
God what a demoralizing time to be an early career scientist in the US
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
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Matthew Goss @matthewgoss.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Nadia’s paper exploring technologies that can be used to minimize harmful byproducts of 222 nm germicidal light is now published! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Mitigation of Indoor Ozone and Secondary Products from 222 nm Germicidal Ultraviolet Light Using Commercial Air Cleaners
Far ultraviolet-C (UVC) light, especially germicidal UV light at 222 nm (GUV222), has received considerable attention for its potential to deactivate airborne pathogens indoors and prevent the spread ...
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Surreal to be back in Cambridge today!
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The absolute hold that the chicken banana song has on my 2 year old
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
An underrated part of being a lab scientist is how much confidence it gives you for small fixes around the house.
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 02/07/2025
Here’s Spencer Ackerman with by far the best take I’ve read on the racist moral panic targeting Zohran Mamdami. zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-...
To put it bluntly, when you have a "feeling" that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you, and you are unable to articulate how that threat is supposed to plausibly manifest, and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism.
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Wow! Time flies
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
coming in with the important questions
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Tori Barber @vbarber.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Amid all of the truly terrible federal funding news, I am extremely pleased to report my group has received our first multi-year NSF support!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building! I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together! www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...
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What the Floc: Educational Wastewater Video Game
Educational video game where players operate a wastewater treatment plant to protect the city and environment from pollution!
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