Not to get too sappy on main. But I love coding. It's like painting, but without ending up covered in paint.

How lucky am I to be able to call most of these wonderful humans friends. And how lucky was I to do my first ever conference talk at the LGBTSTEMinar.

Someone stop me from working out how to handle my emails via the terminal/ falling down a LuaSnip/espanso shaped rabbit hole. I need to stop going off on side quests. I have bigger projects to finish.

They make April autism month because we all have a history of getting catastrophically April Fooled

Trans Day of Visibility and 5 years to the day my department finally* let me suspend my PhD on health grounds, so today's a bit... much. * yeah, they didn't let me first time, put me through hell for a fortnight first, and Dean of the faculty had to get involved.

Can someone ELI5 what this Attie thing is? Like what are they going to use it for/ what's the point. Because I don't get it.

FINALLY!! Hoping this means SSDs start to come down as well.

"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.

I love open source software. @charm.land Because everything is just better when maximalist joy hits the command line, and everything is matchy-matchy.

Well yeah. Use the Big Internet for big things, and the small internet for small purchases??

How I know there's tonnes of new goodies in a shared Zotero library with a colleague - Zotero goes "not responding".

It's ALIVE!!! dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

Yay! Another Rejection 🙃 Admittedly, I expected this one.

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

Our latest out today in the journal Analytical Chemistry: "Disintegration Fingerprinting" uses a $4 optical sensor (meant for use in toy robots!) to identify substandard and falsified medicines, which are a massive problem in many parts of the world. [1/4] 🧪#chemsky

PhD project to identify ME/CFS diagnostic markers @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Interdisciplinary #MEcfs science involving #ML #AI Fully funded if eligible for home fees Contact us: @aryback.bsky.social @avakhamseh.bsky.social @sjoerdvbeentjes.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Miya Wilkes, 37, who counts several trans and non-binary people among her dearest friends, has announced that any law that discriminates against people she loves will be disregarded.

Look how pink this is!!

Anyone else just not feeling in the mood of TDOV this year?

Neurodivergent scientists bring vital creativity, focus, and new ways of thinking. But many labs and workplaces aren’t designed with them in mind @rsc.org Neurodiversity isn’t something to fix, it is something to embrace rsc.li/3PlotCd #NeurodiversityWeek #Neurodiversity #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM

*screams in unemployed postdoc* THE STUDENTS ARE THE BEST PART OF THIS ENTIRE FREAKING RIDICULOUS JOB. WHY WOULD YOU GET RID OF THE GOOD BIT?? They're kind, they're funny, they'll sniff out every hole in your knowledge like a pack of foxhounds given a scent to chase.

The further you are from a sound's source, the less well you can hear it compared to local background noises. Even if a speaker is loud, their voice at any distance 2-100+ meters is less clear and loud than a mic which is 5-10cm from their mouth. Shouting distorts lipreading and the speech sound

So I didn't expect to be sending an email that's basically "ace research project, but like, what are you doing with the snails?" and trying to work out how you professionally go "the snails don't end up dead at the end of this, do they?"

The right is always happy to weaponise mental health and disability. It just depends on the day whether they’re arguing you’re incapable because of it or you’re faking having it.

oh no. I appear to have said something on the internet that other people seem to have found funny 😬

The CoReACTER is hiring!! Evan is genuinely wonderful to work with.

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

Going to sound like a stuck record, but I say it all the time because it's true. Look how clever my friends are!!

If only Emma was still alive to see this. Getting this place shut down was the thing she rightfully had a bee in her bonnet over.

Now officially published! Our latest paper @angewandtechemie.bsky.social puts chemistry in charge of biology! Simple gelators, with minor modifications in molecular structure, direct the growth of stem cells in different ways. @chemistryatyork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Why are we putting AI inside toys? Doesn't anyone remember how terrifying Furbies were??

The dam against sorrow and dread is held by your will. Joy is a form of resistance. Keep it up.

This resonates. It's silly little things, like seeing papers I want to read, and knowing I can no longer get through the paywall. Having to pick the "right" RSC journals to subscribe to on renewing my subs, when before it really didn't matter. Fellowship proposals that want current affiliation.

Chat, do you also get nerfed every so often by basic facets of your chosen coding language? I definitely haven't spent two hours debugging why the loop would process some groups of files, but not others...

Well those Google nest thingies are the current bane of my actual life 🙃. New internet provider, so new modem = they don't work, and guess who's expected to be technical support 🥴

I would absolutely die for Ozzy. I'm not even a cat person.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

Aand another rejection 🙃. I'm really good at this!

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social How's the snow in Philly? (Yes, I am watching Ryan Hall Y'all and apparently it's *snowwy*)

I want to say something wise and profound, and not littered with expletives, but that's not happening. Professor Nair basically says what I'm thinking. Thank god I'm old.

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New frogs just dropped 🐸🏳️‍🌈 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4327...

Yay! Another rejection 🥳

Making sticky toffee pudding was probably the best idea I've had in a while.

So I didn't think we were going to get to the point where I'm basically considered to be a gender traitor *quite* this fast for what it's worth.

Does anyone happen to know what Debs might be talking about?

Happy Valentine's Day to all the trans and non-binary folk and also all the cats.

This is incredibly cool. Thanks @zackpolanski.bsky.social for wearing one of my designs to celebrate queer scientists and innovators!

A timely valentine from Dr Grammar: pronouns have histories.

Delighted to be included in the Attitude 101 List of LGBTQ+ people in the STEM category. The full list includes megastars like Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things), Scott Mills (Radio 2) and Leah Williamson (England Football). @attitudemag.bsky.social @york.ac.uk @chemistryatyork.bsky.social #Attitude101