Rachel Lackner
@rachlack
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PhD from @pennchemistry. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow @MetMuseum. Interested in the intersection of science & art.
New York, NY
Joined May 2022
RT @Heritage_MDPI: Questioning if and where #Indigenous and #colonial influences meet and overlap: a new in-depth analysis of #17th_century….
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The lord giveth, and the teens taketh the Met! . The Department of Scientific Research had so much fun yesterday talking good (and bad vibes), corrosion, and crazy colors at the 10th anniversary of Teens Take the Met.
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This is today!.
This Friday (5/24) from 1-3pm EST, I will join my fellow #metfellows to present our research. Register here to learn about my work developing a new tool for minimally invasive, high resolution analysis of organic colorants (down to the single fiber level)!.
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This Friday (5/24) from 1-3pm EST, I will join my fellow #metfellows to present our research. Register here to learn about my work developing a new tool for minimally invasive, high resolution analysis of organic colorants (down to the single fiber level)!.
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨. Analysis of a 15th c. tapestry revealed unusual chlorinated xanthones produced only by certain species of lichen. Is this the 1st evidence of a new lichen dye?. To learn more, check out our open access article: via @Heritage_MDPI
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Very excited to be giving this month's Art Bio Matters seminar on lichen metabolites in a medieval tapestry! Join Art Bio Matters ( to hear more about our findings and how it could change our understanding of the historic uses of lichen dyes.
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RT @JoanneDyer_BM: Just back from a wonderful DHA meeting in Copenhagen #DHA42 to the great news that papers from last year's meeting #DHA4….
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Tomorrow! 10am!.
Did your #metgala invite get lost in the mail?. On Friday, May 12, at 10am EST, a few of my colleagues & I will be discussing our research as part of Research Out Loud @metmuseum. The virtual program is free & open to the public. Register here!.
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RT @boazbaraktcs: Kempner Institute announces the first cohort of research fellows starting this fall! Looking forward to learning from and….
kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu
For the Study of Natural & Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University
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Did your #metgala invite get lost in the mail?. On Friday, May 12, at 10am EST, a few of my colleagues & I will be discussing our research as part of Research Out Loud @metmuseum. The virtual program is free & open to the public. Register here!.
metmuseum.org
Join us online to hear the leading minds and rising voices of their fields as our current Met fellows explore new avenues of research in art history, visual culture, education, and cultural heritage...
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RT @HanSuthers: This week was our first staff crafting lunch club. Mainly knitters and crocheters. To celebrate, here are some cute friend….
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Starting my week by preparing some 15th century wool fibers for LCMS! . (These are HUGE samples from a conservation perspective, so I’m cutting them down to size before extraction)
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I cannot image a more perfect name to give a future curator of arms and armor.
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“Making a Snow Dog,” by Suzuki Harunobu, 1767-1768, Japan. “Making a Snow Dog,” by the Lackner Family, 2022, Buffalo, NY
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RT @brandfonbrener: I am on the job market!. I’m looking for research scientist or postdoc positions starting in fall 2023 and I’m generall….
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Me, a chemist, ordering coffee: “can I get a small black coffee, please?” . A chemist in a book ordering coffee: “give me 354.882 millimeters of C25H28N6O7, at precisely 369.25 kelvins, no lactose, galactose, glucose, or sucrose.”.
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I am offering my services as a consultant for writers who insist on writing novels about scientists while refusing to meet a single scientist. For $400/hr I will hit you with a ruler whenever your protagonist refers to an object by its chemical formula in conversation.
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