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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 13h

I can laugh at it now, didn't feel very funny at the time - supervisor found it hilarious.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14h

Exactly. I'll just have to get my fill on the clean puppy smell this evening.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

he'll be in the first mucky puddle he sees - and Saffy will get photographic evidence.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15h

it is absolutely baltic here! I'm in the front room, in my oodie, with blanket and I've caved and put the heating on. Waiting for Bobby to get home from his shower, shave and a haircut with Andy!

He will be filthy again by about 10am tomorrow morning.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 17h

The way I am convinced that trans folks in the UK are all surviving off the same £20 note.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 17h

We never got the list, so took my own food. Which was a good shout, because basically nothing was vegan. And the "vegetarian" mac and cheese turned out not to be.

Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 17h

yeah. It should not have been so difficult to find out what was being offered at lunch... apparently it was.
(There's a lot of things I won't eat and quite a few things I can't eat and not a fan of mystery surprise food. So it's easier for me to ask what's on offer and see if anything is ok).

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 17h

They also have a bit of an issue with the organisation of the science in policy workshops for ECRs that they run.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

So that stuff is machine learning, and it's awesome. I'm currently having a smash at a Kaggle competition to build a ML model that can identify forged biomedical images.

GenAI - hate it. No-one needs the StochasticBSBlaster5000

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

urgh. And the train coffee isn't up to much? (The coffee in first on TPE is only fit for cleaning the lavvy with)

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

Well you could go an run another 5K PB about it?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

This is accurate. Like I have some massive names who follow me - I have absolutely no idea why. I'm not funny, I'm not clever? I'm in-between academic jobs, I have no interesting science things to post??!

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 18h

I hate Y'allbot (Sorry Y'allbot!). The voice goes through me like nails down a chalkboard.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 19h

I swear that was a bop around the time I started Uni.

Oh I feel so OLD.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 19h

So he's getting notification emails in real time for each of the comments I'm adding, on this version of the file that I thought he couldn't see 🤡

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 19h

oh no. I can top that. Supervisor duplicated a thesis chapter on onedrive because scotrail wifi is 💩. So onedrive see this as him "owning" the file.

I start accepting corrections and edits and talking to myself in the comments. "what the F was I on about here?" and so forth.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think I'll ever be sufficiently Professor Big Balls to be able to pull that one off.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

This did not bother her in the slightest. Also, if you're in the same institution, got an autoreply on in outlook and I'm on outlook, it'll tell me before I even send the email that you've got the OOO on!

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

I had one on when I was off sick - but I continued to see my mentor (long story, short version is "I get serious object permanence type issues with human beings if I don't see you for a long time"), so she'd get the autoresponder every week when she'd email me with this weeks Zoom link.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

I hope you've got support for reading the free text answers hen.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

There's a "digital meteorologist" on YT who I like (Ryan Hall, Y'all), and so many times on Monday's livestream did he go "There's so much AI generated stuff on social media from the hurricane making landfall on Jamaica".

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

Also whilst I'm here, and on this topic - set up one for when you're on annual leave that shunts EVERYTHING into an "Annual Leave" folder. Then even if you are naughty and log in whilst on leave "oh no, there's nothing in my inbox, clearly noone's emailed me"

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 20h

This is me thinking out loud here:
I'm assuming you're using Outlook.
Set up a filter to take all the newsletter guff and send it straight into another folder, bypassing your inbox, unless you happen to be in the to: field?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

And now I think I know what I'm making myself in lieu of a birthday cake

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Cardamom buns. Who really needs SQL?

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