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Carl Poree
@cpchem.bsky.social
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Teaching-focused senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Manchester, training the next generation of lab monkeys and arrow-pushers. Occasional dabbler in ChemEd research.
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
Get a load of this. 😆
A post from ViperThreat: Worked as an on-call computer tech for about a year, and I've seen some weird shit. Plenty of Hoarders, elderly men with interesting sexual fantasies, Multimillonaire Lawyers with closets full of gay porn, etc. The weirdest one was this cool old dude who had retired and lived in a double-wide trailer in a fairly nice retirement trailer park. His house had one of those trains that traveled along the walls from room to room, occasionally poking through walls and such. The primary purpose of this train was to carry his bird (a blue macaw IIRC) around the house. From his explanation, the bird had some birth defects and had difficulty flying, so they built the train for the bird to cruise around the house on. This may not sound all that weird to you, but let me set the stage for you: You're a college student removing a stupid browser hijack from some old guy's computer. You're nearly done with the job when you hear a clacking sound and look up to see a toy train crossing your vision. Aboard the train is a decently sized bird that makes eye contact with you and says "choo choo motherfucker" before disappearing into the next room. One of the most surreal moments of my life.
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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diervilla.bsky.social
This is a thing of joy - why we need multiple disciplines within our universities, with a nod to the value of music too. Specialist institutions won’t produce these sorts of random encounters.
December 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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dawnbritten.bsky.social
Xx
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
cpchem.bsky.social
Anyhow, a very polite "screw you" to graduate admissions for Oxford and Cambridge for having the *same deadline* for applicants who want scholarships. Five bloody letters written and sent today... 😢
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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lukesteuber.com
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Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a "terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data." I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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ceefaux.bsky.social
20.00 AUF WIEDERSEHEN, PET Documentary following a day in the life with Munich's least qualified group of veterinarians.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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wiglet1981.bsky.social
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
Should cut back on the avocados
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…

“English folklore, that’s hot!”

I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
cpchem.bsky.social
Ordered some appliances from AO last year - membership made it cheaper, but I forgot to cancel it.

Thanks for the reminder, fuckface.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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hannahelias.bsky.social
Instead of plunging some of the country’s elite learning institutions into financial chaos and ruin, could the Treasury please consider taxing Starbucks more than £7m a year.

(Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.

What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.

What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
cpchem.bsky.social
Well, that's one of the more fucking moronic things you could do, Rachel.
sgfmann.bsky.social George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 13d
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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partialobserver.bsky.social
This is so irresponsible and absurd, it should make me angry but mainly I’m sad. All the billions of dollars we spend to make medicine incrementally better, and all the scientists and technicians who devote their lives to the work… 1/
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16d
The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.

“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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joshuabull.bsky.social
They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
cpchem.bsky.social
Ugly, yes. But also Birmingham, so... *shrug*
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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stupidlikeafox.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
I just revisited Tony Blair's 'forces of conservativism' conference speech in 1999 - two years into office. It's such a clear headed narration that balances people's continued frustration and what the government had delivered.
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
cpchem.bsky.social
If America wants to take our biggest arseholes (they've got form - Piers Morgan, James Corden), who are we to stop them?
telegraph.co.uk The Telegraph @telegraph.co.uk · 21d
Donald Trump’s administration is considering offering political asylum to British “thought criminals”, The Telegraph understands.

Read more here ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/trump-thought-criminals/
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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chaudman.bsky.social
You might think you know what this is going to be but no. It's far far better. Magnificent stuff.
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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joannabagniewska.com
For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

💩🧊🧪

By @chazhutton.com
Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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ajred.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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millsgroupchem.bsky.social
We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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henrymance.ft.com
"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM