Dr Kiri Thornalley
@kizzythechemist.bsky.social
Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist.
Queer. they/them
Queer. they/them
There are two things I need to do today:
1. sit down, stop getting distracted and get Semantic Scholar working with Pyzotero.
2. Find my book light, because I think this is a massive part of why I've not really read much fiction, and the more I read the better my (scientific) writing is.
1. sit down, stop getting distracted and get Semantic Scholar working with Pyzotero.
2. Find my book light, because I think this is a massive part of why I've not really read much fiction, and the more I read the better my (scientific) writing is.
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There are two things I need to do today:
1. sit down, stop getting distracted and get Semantic Scholar working with Pyzotero.
2. Find my book light, because I think this is a massive part of why I've not really read much fiction, and the more I read the better my (scientific) writing is.
1. sit down, stop getting distracted and get Semantic Scholar working with Pyzotero.
2. Find my book light, because I think this is a massive part of why I've not really read much fiction, and the more I read the better my (scientific) writing is.
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When the real-world experience doesn't live up to the hype promised by statements, it's time for a rethink. Emma Pewsey looks at the contributing factors.
Statements alone don’t make labs inclusive for disabled chemists
Leaders need to provide proactive support to disabled employees making adjustment requests
www.chemistryworld.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When the real-world experience doesn't live up to the hype promised by statements, it's time for a rethink. Emma Pewsey looks at the contributing factors.
RT because I know some of you will have pre-christmas madmin to do!!
It's Mid December so I'm doing the med check in our house, join me!
• do you have stocks of your prescribed, OTC and supplement meds you will need?
• are there empty boxes, blister packs, expired meds to gtfo your house?
• sometimes an emergency stash of meds helps tolerate bad times, sometimes
• do you have stocks of your prescribed, OTC and supplement meds you will need?
• are there empty boxes, blister packs, expired meds to gtfo your house?
• sometimes an emergency stash of meds helps tolerate bad times, sometimes
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
RT because I know some of you will have pre-christmas madmin to do!!
A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!
How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our vibrant research group. We have an opening for a PhD position to work on radical Frustrated Lewis pairs. Check out the link below for more information and contacts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our vibrant research group. We have an opening for a PhD position to work on radical Frustrated Lewis pairs. Check out the link below for more information and contacts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Day 12: Christmas present tetris? This is even worse than the "roasting tin tetris" I play on christmas eve 😭.
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Day 12: Christmas present tetris? This is even worse than the "roasting tin tetris" I play on christmas eve 😭.
I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11
Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11
Two days of not being able to do the puzzles for #AdventOfCode, so imagine my surprise that today is another graph puzzle. I know what to do with these!
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Two days of not being able to do the puzzles for #AdventOfCode, so imagine my surprise that today is another graph puzzle. I know what to do with these!
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Maybe we need a public rogues gallery of the faces of any researcher and student who data mines from ND/ mad community spaces for their own gain. A big old wall of shame for lazy people doing pseudoscientific stuff instead of decent lived exp led research?
I've known about this dodgy removed Kaggle file for years, dissuaded a few students from doing "facial ML to detect autism" with the quality and ethics of this dataset as one of many arguments - 100+ papers used it!? www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Maybe we need a public rogues gallery of the faces of any researcher and student who data mines from ND/ mad community spaces for their own gain. A big old wall of shame for lazy people doing pseudoscientific stuff instead of decent lived exp led research?
I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8
Day 8: IT'S A GRAPH!!! I know what do to with this one!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Day 8: IT'S A GRAPH!!! I know what do to with this one!!!!
I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
I've completed Part One of "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
Guess who forgot zip and enumerate operations exist in Python and thus made things far harder and more loopy than it needed to be.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
Guess who forgot zip and enumerate operations exist in Python and thus made things far harder and more loopy than it needed to be.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've completed Part One of "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
Guess who forgot zip and enumerate operations exist in Python and thus made things far harder and more loopy than it needed to be.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
Guess who forgot zip and enumerate operations exist in Python and thus made things far harder and more loopy than it needed to be.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
#AdventOfCode Day 6 - 🎶 If you like it you should have put a loop in it...
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#AdventOfCode Day 6 - 🎶 If you like it you should have put a loop in it...
This whole entire thread. Harriet says it better than I ever will.
And how lucky was I to have a supervisor who was more than happy to have a meeting with me and my disability advisor about what a viva voce is, in its "traditional" format.
And how lucky was I to have a supervisor who was more than happy to have a meeting with me and my disability advisor about what a viva voce is, in its "traditional" format.
Boy do I have a lot to say about competence standards and PGR assessment (i.e. vivas). Happy to see a nod to the guidance I co-wrote in this article. FWIW it is NOT difficult to make adjustments for PGRs. People just don't want to....
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
Why is it so difficult to make reasonable adjustments when assessing disabled PGRs?
Reasonable adjustments for disabled postgraduate research students are still running up against opposition. Theresa McKinven, Katherine Dean and Paula Holland explore what’s going wrong and how to put...
wonkhe.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This whole entire thread. Harriet says it better than I ever will.
And how lucky was I to have a supervisor who was more than happy to have a meeting with me and my disability advisor about what a viva voce is, in its "traditional" format.
And how lucky was I to have a supervisor who was more than happy to have a meeting with me and my disability advisor about what a viva voce is, in its "traditional" format.
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5
#AdventOfCode Day 5 - I have a plan. I somehow do not think this is going to work for part 2.
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#AdventOfCode Day 5 - I have a plan. I somehow do not think this is going to work for part 2.
I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
I saw what to do almost immediately. Working out what to Google to find out how to do that in Python, and get that code working was a whole other different kettle of fish.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
I saw what to do almost immediately. Working out what to Google to find out how to do that in Python, and get that code working was a whole other different kettle of fish.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode
I saw what to do almost immediately. Working out what to Google to find out how to do that in Python, and get that code working was a whole other different kettle of fish.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
I saw what to do almost immediately. Working out what to Google to find out how to do that in Python, and get that code working was a whole other different kettle of fish.
adventofcode.com/2025/day/4
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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Chemistry labs are failing disabled scientists with inaccessible design and equipment, a Royal Society of Chemistry report is warning.
Royal Society of Chemistry calls for labs to become more inclusive for disabled chemists
Innovative thinking could address many of the problems that makes labs inaccessible
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
um, like, since WHEN has Github had automatically copilot-generated commit messages for commits made via the website?
I don't think I've ever hit a menu to find my settings to turn something off that quickly.
I don't think I've ever hit a menu to find my settings to turn something off that quickly.
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
um, like, since WHEN has Github had automatically copilot-generated commit messages for commits made via the website?
I don't think I've ever hit a menu to find my settings to turn something off that quickly.
I don't think I've ever hit a menu to find my settings to turn something off that quickly.
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Picard management tip: Keep a log of your journey. You will understand better by writing it down.
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Picard management tip: Keep a log of your journey. You will understand better by writing it down.
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
Day 3, part 2: Oops. I think we're going to need more RAM.
#AdventOfCode
#AdventOfCode
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Day 3, part 2: Oops. I think we're going to need more RAM.
#AdventOfCode
#AdventOfCode