Dr Kiri Thornalley
@kizzythechemist.bsky.social
Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist.
Queer. they/them
Queer. they/them
Aaand that's my RSC subs paid for another year.
So hoping 2026 is the year I get to email Membership to go "hiya lovely pals in the Membership team, can I upgrade to MRSC and pay you the rest of what I owe, because I have a big girl job with big girl wages now".
So hoping 2026 is the year I get to email Membership to go "hiya lovely pals in the Membership team, can I upgrade to MRSC and pay you the rest of what I owe, because I have a big girl job with big girl wages now".
December 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Aaand that's my RSC subs paid for another year.
So hoping 2026 is the year I get to email Membership to go "hiya lovely pals in the Membership team, can I upgrade to MRSC and pay you the rest of what I owe, because I have a big girl job with big girl wages now".
So hoping 2026 is the year I get to email Membership to go "hiya lovely pals in the Membership team, can I upgrade to MRSC and pay you the rest of what I owe, because I have a big girl job with big girl wages now".
Santa brought me a raspberry pi pico.
Currently transfixed by the results of random.choice to randomly light the LEDs and about to fall down a pinout diagram shaped rabbit-hole.
Currently transfixed by the results of random.choice to randomly light the LEDs and about to fall down a pinout diagram shaped rabbit-hole.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Santa brought me a raspberry pi pico.
Currently transfixed by the results of random.choice to randomly light the LEDs and about to fall down a pinout diagram shaped rabbit-hole.
Currently transfixed by the results of random.choice to randomly light the LEDs and about to fall down a pinout diagram shaped rabbit-hole.
So apparently the cishets genuinely have no idea JKR is a hateful transphobe.
Guess who got Harry Potter things for Christmas 🙃
Guess who got Harry Potter things for Christmas 🙃
December 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
So apparently the cishets genuinely have no idea JKR is a hateful transphobe.
Guess who got Harry Potter things for Christmas 🙃
Guess who got Harry Potter things for Christmas 🙃
*stares in 'spent several hours debugging why my programme wouldn't print the unique ID for the task from Todoist'. Guess who forgot how to format an f-string. 🤡
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies.
This is a universal experience.
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
*stares in 'spent several hours debugging why my programme wouldn't print the unique ID for the task from Todoist'. Guess who forgot how to format an f-string. 🤡
Is a standard human lifetime long enough to read everything in the discipline(s) I did my PhD in - no. And I say this as someone who reads incredibly quickly, but I'm going to give it a damn good go.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Is a standard human lifetime long enough to read everything in the discipline(s) I did my PhD in - no. And I say this as someone who reads incredibly quickly, but I'm going to give it a damn good go.
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. ❤️
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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. ❤️
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#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.
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.
December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#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.
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 :)
Out in @natcomputsci.nature.com: A roadmap for inverse design of #nanomaterials heterostructures via HT data gen -> representation dev -> heteroGNN training -> gradient-based global opt! w/ @emorychannano.bsky.social @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Free link rdcu.be/eTH72
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Free link rdcu.be/eTH72
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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.
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.
December 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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.
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.
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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.
Statements alone don’t make labs inclusive for disabled chemists
Leaders need to provide proactive support to disabled employees making adjustment requests
www.chemistryworld.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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!!
It's Mid December so I'm doing the med check in our house, join me!
• do you have stocks of your prescribed, OTC and supplement meds you will need?
• are there empty boxes, blister packs, expired meds to gtfo your house?
• sometimes an emergency stash of meds helps tolerate bad times, sometimes
• do you have stocks of your prescribed, OTC and supplement meds you will need?
• are there empty boxes, blister packs, expired meds to gtfo your house?
• sometimes an emergency stash of meds helps tolerate bad times, sometimes
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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!!
How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A day in the library saves a week in the lab, and that is the hill I will die on!!
Reposted by Dr Kiri Thornalley
Reposted by Dr Kiri Thornalley
We’re looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our vibrant research group. We have an opening for a PhD position to work on radical Frustrated Lewis pairs. Check out the link below for more information and contacts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
We’re looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our vibrant research group. We have an opening for a PhD position to work on radical Frustrated Lewis pairs. Check out the link below for more information and contacts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Day 12: Christmas present tetris? This is even worse than the "roasting tin tetris" I play on christmas eve 😭.
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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!
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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!
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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've known about this dodgy removed Kaggle file for years, dissuaded a few students from doing "facial ML to detect autism" with the quality and ethics of this dataset as one of many arguments - 100+ papers used it!? www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/e...
Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications
The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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
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
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
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...
December 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#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.
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.
Boy do I have a lot to say about competence standards and PGR assessment (i.e. vivas). Happy to see a nod to the guidance I co-wrote in this article. FWIW it is NOT difficult to make adjustments for PGRs. People just don't want to....
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
Why is it so difficult to make reasonable adjustments when assessing disabled PGRs?
Reasonable adjustments for disabled postgraduate research students are still running up against opposition. Theresa McKinven, Katherine Dean and Paula Holland explore what’s going wrong and how to put...
wonkhe.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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.
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
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/5