Dr Kiri Thornalley
@kizzythechemist.bsky.social
Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist.
Queer. they/them
Queer. they/them
I just find it so strange that you used to be allowed to smoke in hospitals and similar here.
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I just find it so strange that you used to be allowed to smoke in hospitals and similar here.
You'd have loved Emma.
December 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You'd have loved Emma.
The food was grand, just the way she came out the pantry with two 500g bags on Orecchiette and went "do you think this'll be enough?" There were 3 of us for the Christmas that kinda wasn't
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The food was grand, just the way she came out the pantry with two 500g bags on Orecchiette and went "do you think this'll be enough?" There were 3 of us for the Christmas that kinda wasn't
I wish Emma was here to see this. Before she died, getting that place shut down was the thing she was practically dedicating her life to.
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wish Emma was here to see this. Before she died, getting that place shut down was the thing she was practically dedicating her life to.
To be fair, have you tried telling an italian that you do not want their food/ 1kg of dried pasta is absolutely excessive levels of pasta when there are just the three of you?
You just don't.
You just don't.
December 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
To be fair, have you tried telling an italian that you do not want their food/ 1kg of dried pasta is absolutely excessive levels of pasta when there are just the three of you?
You just don't.
You just don't.
that is WILD.
December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
that is WILD.
They think the only SM worth using is the Nazi place, don't they?
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
They think the only SM worth using is the Nazi place, don't they?
So basically by that point, had very much proved to myself I can't/ it's really ill-advised to do presentations without notes.
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
So basically by that point, had very much proved to myself I can't/ it's really ill-advised to do presentations without notes.
Group meeting during my masters. Managed two slides, hyperfixated on a specific word and couldn't recall it. Panicked, took flight.
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Group meeting during my masters. Managed two slides, hyperfixated on a specific word and couldn't recall it. Panicked, took flight.
I... yeah. I think you're right.
Just having flashbacks to that supervisory meeting where I got blindsided with the complaint that my progress had been shit and "what are you going to do about it". I don't remember much of that particular meeting.
Just having flashbacks to that supervisory meeting where I got blindsided with the complaint that my progress had been shit and "what are you going to do about it". I don't remember much of that particular meeting.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I... yeah. I think you're right.
Just having flashbacks to that supervisory meeting where I got blindsided with the complaint that my progress had been shit and "what are you going to do about it". I don't remember much of that particular meeting.
Just having flashbacks to that supervisory meeting where I got blindsided with the complaint that my progress had been shit and "what are you going to do about it". I don't remember much of that particular meeting.
Solidarity. I genuinely have an entire script for a talk written in presenter view in Powerpoint because I cannot generate mouth words on the fly.
I had to give a presentation from memory for a German module I did in my first year. It did not go well.
I had to give a presentation from memory for a German module I did in my first year. It did not go well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Solidarity. I genuinely have an entire script for a talk written in presenter view in Powerpoint because I cannot generate mouth words on the fly.
I had to give a presentation from memory for a German module I did in my first year. It did not go well.
I had to give a presentation from memory for a German module I did in my first year. It did not go well.
YES! (full disclosure, also very likely to be autistic). It's like the literary equivalent of going down to UEA for their open day (Norfolk, pancake flat), when you grew up in Lincolnshire (not flat, as I discovered running cross-country).
December 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
YES! (full disclosure, also very likely to be autistic). It's like the literary equivalent of going down to UEA for their open day (Norfolk, pancake flat), when you grew up in Lincolnshire (not flat, as I discovered running cross-country).
It said everything it needed to, and tbh - pretty much my response to finding that the PC has restarted herself.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It said everything it needed to, and tbh - pretty much my response to finding that the PC has restarted herself.
It's got this feeling of using a lot of words to say very little and comes across as lacking depth/ reads really flat?
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's got this feeling of using a lot of words to say very little and comes across as lacking depth/ reads really flat?
"Last-week-before-Christmas-itis"?
December 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Last-week-before-Christmas-itis"?
As I discovered a good 10 years ago - I can't think with my shoes on.
December 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
As I discovered a good 10 years ago - I can't think with my shoes on.
Absolutely counts. And well done you. There better be cake/fizzy pop/ new running shoes for finishing this?
December 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Absolutely counts. And well done you. There better be cake/fizzy pop/ new running shoes for finishing this?
I have legit emailled my PhD supervisor "Sorry to ruin your Thursday, but Nevis [the PC] seems to have installed updates last night, so anything that was running isn't running now"
and got just "😭" back. 😆
and got just "😭" back. 😆
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I have legit emailled my PhD supervisor "Sorry to ruin your Thursday, but Nevis [the PC] seems to have installed updates last night, so anything that was running isn't running now"
and got just "😭" back. 😆
and got just "😭" back. 😆
I don't know if CRNs can make decisions on their own. Use them alongside (hyper)graph neural networks, however, and oh the THINGS YOU CAN DO with graph-structured data.
I need to be careful not to say too much, otherwise I'm giving you the project spec I've submitted for the AI fellows @ Liv.
I need to be careful not to say too much, otherwise I'm giving you the project spec I've submitted for the AI fellows @ Liv.
December 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I don't know if CRNs can make decisions on their own. Use them alongside (hyper)graph neural networks, however, and oh the THINGS YOU CAN DO with graph-structured data.
I need to be careful not to say too much, otherwise I'm giving you the project spec I've submitted for the AI fellows @ Liv.
I need to be careful not to say too much, otherwise I'm giving you the project spec I've submitted for the AI fellows @ Liv.
This all sounds really cool, but I will never understand how folks have the spoons to write an entire book. Writing my thesis nearly did me in and I never want to write something of that length again.
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This all sounds really cool, but I will never understand how folks have the spoons to write an entire book. Writing my thesis nearly did me in and I never want to write something of that length again.
This is exactly how I learnt German, and when I get stuck with my academic writing, hello Manchester's academic phrasebank.
December 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is exactly how I learnt German, and when I get stuck with my academic writing, hello Manchester's academic phrasebank.
If anyone wants to have a go at me for it, it's like sorry I'm hyperlexic and was independently reading classic literature by the time I was 9.
December 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
If anyone wants to have a go at me for it, it's like sorry I'm hyperlexic and was independently reading classic literature by the time I was 9.
Every time I panic someone's going to think I'm chatGPT-assisted for my writing, do I go back and look at my MRes thesis - written pre-LLM and then realise "oh, I did use to use an em-dash, but not realise they're supposed to be typeset differently".
December 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Every time I panic someone's going to think I'm chatGPT-assisted for my writing, do I go back and look at my MRes thesis - written pre-LLM and then realise "oh, I did use to use an em-dash, but not realise they're supposed to be typeset differently".
Alright, I'll do it. About to ask something potentially breathtakingly dim here: how do they make decisions, because they're not alive?
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Alright, I'll do it. About to ask something potentially breathtakingly dim here: how do they make decisions, because they're not alive?
Came here to also suggest the late, great Alice Wong.
December 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Came here to also suggest the late, great Alice Wong.