I successfully defended my PhD at Purdue this week!
My research is on developing sustainable materials to address contamination in water systems. I am so grateful for the many people and communities who have supported me along the way. Looking forward to the next chapter as Dr. Taymee Brandon! ✨
🎓 Presented my doctoral work & future faculty vision, “Advancing Sustainable Adsorbents for Aqueous Contaminant Remediation,” at the 2025 SSMN Symposium in Atlanta (US) as a SIGP Scholar.
🌟 4th time attending the SREB Institute on Teaching & Mentoring and joined the welcome panel for new attendees.
🎓 Applying to grad school? Our Gateways to Graduate School site has updated resources for MS and PhD applicants this season.
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It was a privilege to attend the @aeesprofs.bsky.social AEESP Conference #AEESP2025 held at Duke University last week. I enjoyed presenting during the "Meet the Candidate" session and connecting with colleagues as I search for postdoctoral opportunities and explore pathways toward a faculty career.
This week, we held the opening reception for "Celebrating Indigeneity," a collaborative exhibit by Indigenous scholars at Purdue, including members of the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP). I am grateful to have presented my piece, Nookomis okaaden niinizisan, alongside other artists 🎨🏛️✨
Thank you to ACS @acs.org for sponsoring my trip to the ACS Leadership Institute in Houston, TX last weekend, and to AISES for facilitating the invitation. I enjoyed leadership training & networking with other chemists on the @yccacs.bsky.social YCC-ACS Leadership Track!
#Chemsky #ACS #WomenInSTEM
Abstract The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial. A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to use open access research outputs and where users are located. Here we address this gap by examining the association between an output’s open access status and the diversity of research outputs that cite it. By analysing large-scale bibliographic data from 2010 to 2019, we found a robust association between open access and increased diversity of citation sources by institutions, countries, subregions, regions, and felds of research, across outputs with both high and medium–low citation counts. Open access through disciplinary or institutional repositories showed a stronger efect than open access via publisher platforms. This study adds a new perspective to our understanding of how citations can be used to explore the efects of open access. It also provides new evidence at global scale of the benefts of open access as a mechanism for widening the use of research and increasing the diversity of the communities that beneft from it
Did you need another reason to share your work as a preprint #AcademicSky? Turns out that open-access articles, but particularly green open-access articles, have higher citation diversity, not just higher citation counts.
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I made a post feel free to share it to your networks! Here is the link also: go.bsky.app/RxwzD7c
Let me know if you would like to be added to the Environmental Engineers (Water) starter pack!
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I actually just made one and saw your post so you have been added! Please let me know if you would like to stay on the list. @sarahdorner.bsky.social @sunflowerstupid.bsky.social @harrycallahan.bsky.social
Women in chemistry starter pack here: go.bsky.app/LjumNEg
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Hello! I am an aquatic chemist and would love to be added
Hey I made an Indigenous Beadwork Artist starter pack! Shoot me a DM or comment here if you're a native beader and I'll add you to the list!
Please share, I'd like to find the indigibeading community here ~
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@bleuschenkohl.bsky.social check it out!
Boozhoo! I am Ojibwe from MT and am just starting my beading journey again and would like to be added.
We were just talking about this - happy to see one is started I replied to be added!
Boozhoo! My name is Taymee I am Ojibwe from MT. I currently am doing my PhD in Environmental Engineering at Purdue, and do water quality research. I would love to be added.
This fall, I have had the privilege of learning and growing as an educator alongside my friend and co-instructor, BeKa @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social, through our course Gateways to Graduate School! 🎓
Teaching this course has been an incredibly rewarding experience - I'm so proud of our students!