patrickthomson.bsky.social
Chemistry Education (introductory lab inquiry, anxiety, secondary project work), University of Strathclyde. SFHEA, gamer, scot, DIY, usually not on fire.
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Wonderful! On the higher education pedagogy side, the UK and Ireland work closely together so you'll get to know lots of wonderful people on our side of the pond. When you swing by TCD, check in with @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social for lots of Ireland-specific wonderful stuff!
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I hate this, more please
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AI should be treated like a school-issue calculator, and subject to the same question: why do we still learn to do it the hard way if these tools exist?
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Ooh, "Chemistry Education Research and Practice" is up as well? Notable absence from some starter packs a while back.
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There aren't that many notes, surely we were gonna run out of melodies at some point anyway.
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Inexperienced operators, even!
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Heptane was my first thought; this is for teaching labs (introduced operators and no FC) so the less "volatile" the better. Combination of vapour pressure, BP, enthalpy of evaporation, kinetics, etc..
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Spend long enough in a teaching post and you end up taking to smartness like a penguin takes to flight
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If snakes were wide
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To be fair, a dish of Heart and Sole would have a pretty low glycaemic index, cook well in the air fryer, and contain plenty of vitamins and minerals for changing bodies. Your book should be higher!
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This carbon compound has four disastermers.
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I wish I was joking!
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This has big "300 invitations to speak" energy, an actual take I saw from a guy who counted up his academic spam folder
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Not sorted.
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Ed Balls
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I think it has to be worth caveating your experimental like that, it can only make papers better. I reported a reaction at 8° for 3 weeks (I.e. Christmas break windowsill vial) and starred it with a "please don't do it like this"
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Related: for a given post, which celebrity would incur the messiest drama from a like?
Even more specifically, which celebrity would have to issue a hacknial for liking this post?
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Nice! Lots of stuff in the education-o-sphere for cheap hands-on teaching activities, but rarely gets the quality/precision needed for research.
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Oof, single summative! I wish the lab teams the very best of luck...
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Erdös's biography is accessible arguably because he never graduated from puzzles to theorems. Prolific wild man of maths. Strong rec for "The man who loved only numbers"
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Sounds like some of the questions have been philosophised under different banners. Did people do work on human meaning in a post-singularity or post-scarcity society, in the wake of e.g. TOS?
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Update: Now I get to learn just how little I knew about doing good TA
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Much as I love organic chemistry, Making Biphenyl With Even Less Palladium isn't quite big enough to be the model we're known for.