It's 11am, it 'feels like' 20C and will pretty much feel like this until 8pm tonight. I've the brolly out in the garden and we have WiFi, lofi, electric and a vegan 🌿 BBQ this evening.

Spring has sprung My ass has rizz I wonder where Dem girlies is… 🤣

While we are doing this, can I also share my favourite trans-owned shop for beautiful pride pins? An Etsy shop ran by a scientist who makes ecology themed pride merch. Not affiliated, I just absolutely love her stuff ❤️ www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Cano... #chaffproject #transrights

This is my almer mater. This is where I truly became a chemist. It's 10 years next week (☠️) since I sat my finals for BSc(hons) Chemistry. The rate the powers that be are going, there's not going to be a Department of Chemistry left in another 10.

You know it's too hot already when you've had to fight your compression socks in order to get them on :/

Well. This is all a bit shit, isn't it.

Hands up if you've just spent hours debugging why, when wrapped as a function the code doesn't work, but works when you don't have it in a function. Guess who's somehow ended up with two versions of the function in two different files 🥴

JUST SO WE’RE ALL CLEAR, WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT BEING A BRAIN IN A JAR MIGHT BE NICE, I DID NOT MEAN THIS JAR:

Are you getting ready for a summer full of research? Register early for our event, so you don't forget before it heats up! 🥵 (Registration is free, like it always is for the LGBTQ+ STEMinar. Please let anyone you may think is interested know!) sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...

why is it that every programming idea I have goes from "oh yeah, that's doable in a few hours" to *mushrooms*??

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, or that I'm a robot who only has one phrase programmed into their TTS module: HOW CLEVER ARE MY FRIENDS THOUGH??

YAY! I love it so much when Google Oauth glitches and just returns 'localhost refused to connect', the day before I want to demo the thing at an interview. Totally what I needed...

And this is why I'm still learning to code in spite of the existence of claude code, github copilot etc. Because I think there's a future where these don't exist, or are so expensive, they may as well not exist.

I will not be watching Eurovision, a thing I love deeply because I am queer and European, because they once again are choosing to include a state that is actively committing genocide, and also because I’m in Ireland and the whole country is not broadcasting the show for the same reason.

It's a bank holiday the weekend after this one so if you need to order your repeat prescriptions a bit early, this is the get yer meds klaxon 🚨

Wes Streeting: wait times are down across the NHS!* *trans people and trans youth especially with their wait times ranging from decades to indeterminable are a statistical outlier and have been discounted from the results.

Terrence. He's part of my mini book of monsters that's now live on Kickstarter! Get yours here: buff.ly/ai5bWD7 #monsterart #cutemonster #dragon #hopecore #joyful #happymonster #watercolour

This is me and @sachacoward.bsky.social 's Queer as Folklore. Kiri, why do you want this for your birthday? "frend wrote it".

OH FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST. NOTHING. Absolutely frigging NOTHING in response to job applications, from the back end of July, until the end of March. Then suddenly I can barely move for interviews.

genuinely, I hate flash presentations. I get why it's been asked for, but I swear they're more work than a longer talk?

Starmer talking about “dignity and respect” as he prepares to disrespect trans people and remove our human dignity.

#MadSky has anyone spoken to @adamfare1996.bsky.social recently? He's gone quiet and idk if he's accidentally logged himself out and forgot the password/ decided to go touch grass or something bad has happened.

I thought 6 month long FTC for postdocs were bad. I've just seen one wanting 2x PDRAs for a TWO MONTH post.

And if anyone wanted to know why I'm slowly losing the plot at my mum and dad's, this is why: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any tech that's marketed as 'assisting' Disabled and older people, but not designed by Disabled and older people, will inevitably be (a) crap and/or (b) cause harm. #TechSolutionismInTheBin

10 years ago I attended my first LGBTQ+ STEMinar and realised what I'd be missing for years without even knowing it: a sense of community. I never looked back. If you're queer, in STEM, and in the UK, I strongly recommend going.

SHE'S BACK 🌈 #LGTSTEM

You’ve got to be bookmaxxing. You have to be knowledgepilled and on that information grind. Checking in and looking things up and citing sources. Dont let them bookmog you. Read.

We Have Enough Dead Friends by Lena Oleanderson

THEY'RE LIKE BUSSES. THEY'RE LIKE FLIPPING BUSSES. Someone send help.

@k2mey.bsky.social invite to interview at your place. Would have liked a touch more notice mind!

Is it just me, or is anyone else suddenly finding that they're getting 2 days notice prior to interviews?

If you know you are, or think you might be the most senior speaker at an event - use the mic, and properly. Because if *you* don't, everyone else thinks "Professor BigName didn't, so why should I". I've seen this happen so many times.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

I am a simple creature, every time I see Hannah posting about her communications cards, I repost. I think my most useful card is the severe heat intolerance one - even just as a reminder to myself that what I consider to be too much is valid, even if other people disagree.

'feels like' 20C, and yet today is probably the worst my reynauds has been in weeks. Someone make this make sense?

Comrades in Ireland, I'll be speaking about neurodiversity and capitalism at Rupture Radical Bookfair in Dublin on May 30th. Not sure what time yet but the book fair is on 12 to 5 at the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square, Dublin.

instead of "planet" or "dwarf planet", we instead could have: 🪨 tiny rock (comets, asteroids, etc) 🌑 smol rock (makemake to mercury) 🌍 earth-like rock (mars upto a bit bigger) 🌕 super-rock 🔵 mini gas fren (neptune, uranus) 🪐 gas fren! (saturn, jupiter) 🟤 large gas fren!!!

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

@hpsvanessa.bsky.social is this the sort of thing you know?

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

Don't eat at the same table as your enemies, don't stand next to your oppressors in shiny ballrooms, nothing is worth complicity.

In a new #ScienceReview, researchers discuss a variety of methods to reimagine human-centric drug development. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42ow8Tv

And if you want to join our celebration, why not buy our limited edition 10th anniversary, glow-in-the-dark pin badge designed by the wonderful @canopyrobin.com? prideinstem.org/product/10th...

This sparks joy. I HATE the dyson hand dryers.

What's the worst food from *your* cuisine? None of that "oh, one region over they eat some awful shit." Remove the beam from your own eye. And I'm calling dibs on aspic, so you can't pick that one. My mom threatened to make it for me the other day.

Change the colour of the tasks in your calendar to better match how much they matter. It won't take long!! This is actually more involved because of the limited colour palette accessible via API. 😭

MUM!! Come get me, I'm being bullied on the internet!