kizzythechemist.bsky.social
Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist.
Queer. they/them
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Chris, folks I lived with as a fresher at Sheffield in 2012, some of them are actually academics.
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Is that structural drawing making anyone else feel physically uncomfortable, or is it just me?
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Could be worse?
A colleague of mine during my MRes took great joy in telling/reminding @professor-dave.bsky.social that he started his PhD <6 weeks before I was born.
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😂
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I was firmly in "is this sweat or have I wet the bed and not realised?" It was awful. Every known side effect apart from being sick, and weirdly felt like all my teeth were going to fall out?
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post first covid jag, i got to 38.6c and then tapped out and took paracetamol, purely as an antipyrexic as I had no desire to find out how high we could go. Eli got an awful lot of incoherent nonsense over whatsapp.
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" Multi-Objective GPSampler coming in V5".
Oh hello. I am gently placing this bad boy in my bookmarks
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Wait. So THIS is why the spell checker seemed to completely stop working, such that I genuinely am not sure if I've written covering letters in US or UK English.
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Same here. Usually 36.4. 37.3 - I've got a touch of something and I am *sweaty*.
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I love researchrabbit if you want the connections between them, but i can't remember if you can automatically upload folders.
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A review is literally "hey, are you new to the field? Welcome, here's a very potted summary of the field one of your fellow nerds has written".
Can't remember the journal, but there's one where in reviews, authors go through the refs and highlight the really important ones.
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So I think this says a lot about my ability to read on my laptop, and why I used TTS to proof-listen to my thesis.
Genuinely didn't notice the typo.
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like the ENTIRE POINT of notepad is to be half a step up from pen and paper (imo)
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This. I'm not mad that sci-hub/ Library Genesis has my Angewandte Chemie paper. I'm furious it's been used by meta to train their AI chat bot.
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Thank you Nina!!
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they are typically quite robust. You should see how hard we cut the buddleia back in October - you wouldn't know for looking at it this morning!
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The Lancet comment piece was complete and utter serendipity - and Matthew's bravery. We all thought he was lying when he said the lancet were interested in our piece.
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On this note - I definitely didn't put a cookie recipe halfway through my PhD thesis in the version that got sent to examiners.
My PI thought this was hilarious.
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Izzzy!!!!! You don't need to come for me this hard! (I need to stop comparing my CV to newly minted academics and somehow forgetting that there's usually anywhere between 3 and 10 years of PDRA experience between us).
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Someone's got to be last! (was always me). I still got cake and hot choc at the end though; the rest of the club weren't about to gatekeep cake on your race time!
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Boo!
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yeah, M&S is a bit naff for free-from cake. (I am utterly distraught that our local M&S doesn't have the plant kitchen victoria sponge.
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LEGEND!! Well done you.
Also, apparently we have thoroughly tested the hypothesis that stress is a trigger for your chronic illness(es)
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But she *does* own the joint Jess?
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You made that. With clay and your own actual hands?!!
Any chance of a shot from a different angle to see if it has that good bowl shape.
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Why would you defile peanut butter by doing that to it?! What did pb do to you ðŸ˜
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DO IT YOU COWARD.
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My sister literally initially went to uni to do games design and animation, because she's always been obsessed with video games; transferred after her foundation year onto forensic computing (no, idk what that is either).
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I do blooming love AJAX though. It's witchcraft.
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Not yet.
Context: PDRA job application. Split between UoM and AN Other uni. Know Other Uni is Google. Then fell down rabbit hole of "so how do we share data between both places". 🤔
I'll panic about it if I get the job, and considering current success rate for getting to interview @ UoM is 0%...
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I do try not to be an arse if I can help it! There are (as you might be surprised to hear) folk who think I'm "impossible to work with" and I'm possibly not as deferential to hierarchy as I'm probably supposed to be as an ECR.
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oh knickers. I have no idea about the republic.
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Also: join the RSC, they put their money where their mouth is re: ED&I and if you pay tax here - fill this in. You'll get some of the cost of your ACS etc subs from the tax man.
www.gov.uk/guidance/sen...
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Anna is wonderful. 100% certified good egg that one (and tbh, that stands for every single one of the MIF massive that i've met.
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it's bad enough doing PDRA interviews. I'm like *nervous laughter, how am I old enough to be supervising people?*
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"As a faculty member"
Sorry, this will sink in one day - today is not that day.
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wait, so we can use JS for things other than "make my website have some degree of functionality"
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took me an embarassingly long time to realise quite why this is the number often used in the documentation, mind...
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YES.
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Genuinely I think I remember seeing this job (or a similar one) advertised whilst browsing jobs(dot)ac(ddot)uk.
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ouch.
like atleast I 75% deserved the last time I was stung by a bee.
I was about 4, in my defence. It looked fluffy. I wanted to stroke it. It did not want to be stroked.
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one in use and a spare!!
I cook Xmas dinner the same way I would a big experiment. Except there's typically more yelling at people to get out of my way.
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*deep breath* So like if you know Python... I think this is actually possible. Fitbit has an API, Google Calendar has an API. Adding in the coffee machine might be a bit difficult - a lot of the "smart" bluetooth/wifi enabled ones don't have a public API - but they can be reverse engineered.
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To be fair, that's similar here - a friend who went to York didn't have stat thermo as a compulsory module (or atleast didn't have to answer the Q in the exam).
Sheffield do.
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Wet, cycling uphill AND stung by a wasp?
If 12 has quite the cob on after that wee lot - I don't blame him.
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At the risk of sounding very slow upstairs - Does the ACS not accredit chemistry degrees in the US, like the RSC does here?
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Treat yo self.
I am absolutely shocked, horrified and frankly disgusted at how much these help during hot weather - genuinely, I'm quite upset by it.
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Like i've seen the new t-shirts quite a few times, but it really doesn't bother me?
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I think I know which uni this is?
From what i gather on reddit - a chunk of ££ equal to a decent % of your salary.
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Photos when I don't feel like a mouldy teabag, but they're from
notyourgrandmas.co.uk?srsltid=AfmB...