Taking a bit of time offline to rest and get through Christmas - I’m okay, just very low on spoons, and the brainfog is exceptionally thick at the moment. I’d still love to be tagged in your dog/cat/knitting photos, and I can see DMs if needed. ❤️

#Whamgeddon is unexpectedly fascinating. On the face of it, it’s an auditory Floor Is Lava, where you have to make it through December without hearing ‘Last Christmas’ inadvertently - not in shops, bars, parties, TV, anything. What it does is make you so much more bloody aware of everything.

UCNPs @lemackz.bsky.social you might like this :)

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.

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!!

A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!

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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

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!

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: 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

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

#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.

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.

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

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

I think this is important enough to share with both #Chemsky and #ChemChat

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.

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, part 2: Oops. I think we're going to need more RAM. #AdventOfCode

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 I still hate regular expressions. #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

You know what, maybe I do need to get my skates on about sitting the TestDaF to prove my German language skills.

I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1 Apparently Eric is going for "Half the puzzles; twice the difficulty" this year 😭

Fly my pretty fellowship proposal!! (And now we wait).

Microphones Do I really need a microphone? Yes! You might think you have a booming voice, but It's not about you & folks at the back may be struggling with the echo, or the hum of the air con, or using a hearing aid & induction loop. If its provided, use the mic. #Academia #PHDChat #Presentations

Considering how dark, wet and miserable it is outside, apparently the universe really does want me to get this fellowship proposal written.

Released v0.2.0 of the @coreacter.org code SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a Julia package for dealing with my current mathematical obsession, directed hypergraphs. New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs. #mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang

Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN

Not really sure if this is normal, but apparently "start writing new fellowship proposal, get obsessed with a different food" is how it's going here. The last one - cheese and ploughmans plum chutney toasties. This one - tea loaf and very specifically Assam tea.

At drink and draw tonight and the first prompt- and hey listen I just wrote the prompt I did NOT choose it, they chose it! You can’t blame me! I am blameless!!!!!… Was beluga with a boob job lmfao

I feel like an absolute Cassandra. I definitely remember having a conversation in supervision 2 and a half years ago about how they'll come for Gillick competence, and later it'll be contraceptives and a persons right to abortion.

Join us for a live webinar with @royalsociety.org to see how we can make science more accessible for everyone. Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM. Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht #ChemSky

This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces

More real talk from James Richards if EDICa at the @edicaucus.bsky.social symposium today: EDI as messy, not a 'nice' subject. People who want to make a difference need to get their hands dirty.

If you are looking for resources, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social produced an extremely comprehensive document with a long list of articles, papers, books, and more: prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...

It's #LGBTQSTEMDay so why not treat yourself to an "It's Dr Actually" pride pin or some queer #SciArt from a trans femme scientist? canopyrobin.etsy.com #PrideInSTEM

Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM! How are you celebrating it? #LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM

I know it's very in fashion to bring back things from the late 90 and early 00s, but maybe we didn't need to bring back the concept of a Furby and somehow make it even worse?

“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government” Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government. You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.

Realised I was a lesbian at 14-15. Learnt the word non-binary at 23, took about a year to realise that applied to me - that was fun having to misgender myself during PhD applications, just in case things got sent in the post. I'm 32.