Everything is moving fast now except my progress in research 😑

No idea what Netflix's new ad means 🤔 42 what?

I've never met irl a PhD student or a postdoc who truly enjoys academia

Today I said 'I hate academia' 5 times💔

Other people have coffee breaks at work; I have apple breaks

It's frustrating to see some scientists believe in pseudoscientific stuff 😕

Lol, just got invited to a Halloween party, the venue of which is a cemetery 🪦💀☠️

This year I forced myself to attend many social events in order to feel more connected. But now, looking back, I found those small talks so draining - they made me feel even less connected with people💀

I think I should attend no indoor gatherings within the next few months. There are coughs everywhere in the city. It's scary even though I have KN95/FFP2 masks. I may need to buy better masks but I'm broke.

A guy invited me and four other ladies to his birthday party. It'll be this evening, but at this moment he's still not sure where to hold the party. And he told us he can't afford to pay for any food. But he told us what type of gift he expects from us. I think we shouldn't attend this party? 🤔

As a millennial, I have conflicted feelings when people ask me 'Are you a student?' 😬🤦‍♀️😅

On Twitter I can see no one talking about the chemistry Nobel, but here on Bluesky there's so much chatter about it. Bluesky feels like the old Twitter now😄

A few years ago, I heard Omar Yaghi's students say Yaghi had been expecting himself to win Nobel for a couple of years

Tomorrow we're gonna see whether the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year will be awarded to biologists or physicists 👀

COVID is so nasty. It steals my appetite and makes me feel food is disgusting. It tries to starve me so that my immune system no longer has enough energy to fight it. Just like Israel trying to starve Gazans so that they can't fight back. Nasty. #covid #freepalestine

It's heartbreaking to hear that Greta Thunberg has been detained and physically abused by Israel 💔😡 She deserves much better!

Just a reminder that COVID is still everywhere and you still need to take tests for COVID. Once you test positive, you know what you should do to not spread it. COVID is still killing and disabling people on a daily basis. Let's try not to spread it. #covid

This is the second time I've got COVID. The first time was in May 2023. Although I was glad to be COVID free for a long time, now I'm feeling miserable 😖🤧😩 This time it makes me lose my appetite for everything and gives me nausea. Also severe headache - l feel as if my head were going to explode.

Does anyone on #ChemSky know how to effectively remove silica dust from aluminium foil or any metal surfaces? It's not easy to wash it off with water🤦‍♀️ I'm ready to throw it away tbh

I've just got some aluminium foil from another lab but it turns out their lab is so messy that everything has some silica dust (yeah, the silica for column chromatography) sticking to it 🤦‍♀️ I have to wash the foil

RIP

Two colleagues brought us some snacks (homemade Basque cheesecake and Twix) today. I really enjoy these small joys at work! 😋😄👍

Every day when I get off work, it seems that I'm the last one who gets off work in the physical chemistry building. But when I walk out of the building and walk past the organic chemistry building, I notice that lights are still on in many rooms of that building.

I showed this pic to my aunt and she asked me why I put the plate on the floor😂 I swear this is a table, not a floor!

Heard a few young PIs chatting in the corridor. They blamed everything on students and postdocs. I found it insufferable, so at one point I walked to them and told them they're the reason why academia is so toxic. And their reactions?

Coming back to work right after hiking is so exhausting

A few photos of the mountains I've been hiking in: the Tatra mountains along the border between Poland and Slovakia. If you live in the EU and want to hike in an affordable place in the EU, Tatra is a good choice. Don't go to the Alps, which is not friendly to your purses/wallets/bank accounts.

There isn't always a good bistro along a hiking trail, but this time I'm lucky! Eating BBQ during a hike is so enjoyable 😁

As broke as I am, I still decide to take a few days off and travel a bit. Now on a train to a hiking spot.

My only task today: 😴💤

Today we (millennials and Gen Zers) are struggling to figure out how to use these decades-old lab gadgets to measure the thing our boomer supervisor wants us to measure😅 Next week we'd better ask those boomer colleagues...

Also, it's a small research institute, so the amount of beaurocracy is smaller. I guess I can no longer tolerate universities.

Four months and a half into my new job, I think my current supervisor is better than my former ones. Unlike my former supervisors, he is not pushy, not ill-tempered, not hysterical, not micromanaging, not manipulative, and not saying anything racist to me.

I think the burnout pandemic is real. In recent years, people have been less productive in general. I think it's caused by a variety of things on this planet: the COVID pandemic, the political turmoil, climate disasters, the super rich getting even more greedy, etc.

Lol, seeing the '40 countries by 40' challenge on social media and wondering when those rich kids can stop giving us anxiety

A colleague claims 'Students these days are so lazy. We need to either recruit more international students or stop supervising students.' But I wonder if these students are really lazy or are suffering from mental health issues 🤔

Broke but hoping to travel. Browsing Couchsurfing but having no courage to try it.

When the washing machine doesn't have a screen showing me how many minutes left, it gives me anxiety 😬

Just saw someone sharing his newly published paper on Facebook. This is probably the only human who's still sharing their work on Facebook.

Me on a normal day: I don't have enough clothes. I need to buy more. Me when moving to a new apartment: Why do I have so many clothes 😭 I can't put everything in my two suitcases 😭

He really deserves this

'Am I broke?' 😭

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Just tried Threads. Pretty sure that's not a place to build communities. They don't have things like ChemSky, ChemTwitter, AcademicSky, AcademicTwitter, etc. 😕 I've already deleted my account there.

In most cases, I find my apartment too small. But when I'm deep cleaning my apartment, I find it too large.🤦‍♀️

Our world needs more anti-AI art

I remember I saw a video in which Dua Lipa says she likes to put pickles in Coke

A few months ago I moved from a place that suffers from deflation to a relatively normal place. Now I find I don't have the mental strength to accept the fact that my favourite cake here is 20% more expensive than a month ago.🤦‍♀️

I don't know why but whenever I see someone post online a photo I'm in, I always freak out for a few seconds...

Spending days searching for the things I need in the labs is crazy