Matthew
@drmceep.bsky.social
I'm a biochemist who spends his time blogging and cartooning @ErrantScience.bsky.social
Been a beat since I last used @overleaf.com but coming back it’s like a warm fuzzy blanket of well coded LaTeX editing
April 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Been a beat since I last used @overleaf.com but coming back it’s like a warm fuzzy blanket of well coded LaTeX editing
I would like to take a moment to thank past me for leaving myself a nice well organised todo list to help my brain restart after the long weekend
April 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I would like to take a moment to thank past me for leaving myself a nice well organised todo list to help my brain restart after the long weekend
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They look crispy in the dark. 😈
April 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
They look crispy in the dark. 😈
I have one day in the office with my computer in the next two weeks period… time to get ALL the code done :)
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I have one day in the office with my computer in the next two weeks period… time to get ALL the code done :)
This morning I found a kimchi jar in the back of my cupboard had exploded… I’ve decided to focus on that problem rather than the global economic disaster, it seems more at the level I can worry about.
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This morning I found a kimchi jar in the back of my cupboard had exploded… I’ve decided to focus on that problem rather than the global economic disaster, it seems more at the level I can worry about.
Oooo a smeary laser. Looks terrible, but trust me it’s pretty exciting ;)
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oooo a smeary laser. Looks terrible, but trust me it’s pretty exciting ;)
I have a new computer which will massively help what I can get done… once I’ve written off 2-3 days to get it setup properly
April 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I have a new computer which will massively help what I can get done… once I’ve written off 2-3 days to get it setup properly
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🚨Two Announcements🚨
Do please share
1. Introducing Gay-9 & the Doctors. My first new pins in over a year. All profit goes to AKT who support homeless lgbtq+ people
2. I’m so incredibly proud that the pins have now raised £40,000. Thank you so so so much for the support.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Do please share
1. Introducing Gay-9 & the Doctors. My first new pins in over a year. All profit goes to AKT who support homeless lgbtq+ people
2. I’m so incredibly proud that the pins have now raised £40,000. Thank you so so so much for the support.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🚨Two Announcements🚨
Do please share
1. Introducing Gay-9 & the Doctors. My first new pins in over a year. All profit goes to AKT who support homeless lgbtq+ people
2. I’m so incredibly proud that the pins have now raised £40,000. Thank you so so so much for the support.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Do please share
1. Introducing Gay-9 & the Doctors. My first new pins in over a year. All profit goes to AKT who support homeless lgbtq+ people
2. I’m so incredibly proud that the pins have now raised £40,000. Thank you so so so much for the support.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
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I also have bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool; you're a fucking idiot.
Surprised? Not really 😑 "AI models gave an incorrect answer to more than 60% of queries. Perplexity was the most accurate (..), but it still got 37% of answers wrong. Grok fared the worst, with a frankly shocking 94% failure rate"
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
www.techradar.com/computing/ar...
I’ve got bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool - AI web search isn't worth your time, yet
Research suggests your favorite chatbot is rubbish at search
www.techradar.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I also have bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool; you're a fucking idiot.
I'm report writing today… please save me
March 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm report writing today… please save me
I did 23andMe a long time again (before it was cool) and when I did I did it assuming that despite all the promises the data was going to be essentially ‘public’… which it kinda now might be 😬
March 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I did 23andMe a long time again (before it was cool) and when I did I did it assuming that despite all the promises the data was going to be essentially ‘public’… which it kinda now might be 😬
I make a lot of TOC images and I’m always amused (ironically) but how many journals have a specific no humour or joke policy. Nice to know someone is keeping enjoyment of science in check ;)
March 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I make a lot of TOC images and I’m always amused (ironically) but how many journals have a specific no humour or joke policy. Nice to know someone is keeping enjoyment of science in check ;)
Making a start on the winners cartoons for #RSCPoster. I started on one this morning which has led me into a hour long rabbit hole becasue it was interesting… these cartoons are never getting drawn
March 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Making a start on the winners cartoons for #RSCPoster. I started on one this morning which has led me into a hour long rabbit hole becasue it was interesting… these cartoons are never getting drawn
Been a super busy start to the year but today I’ve carved out a whole day specifically to doing some sensor platform building… this means I get to spend the day watching a small update bat progress on my raspberry pi, woo
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Been a super busy start to the year but today I’ve carved out a whole day specifically to doing some sensor platform building… this means I get to spend the day watching a small update bat progress on my raspberry pi, woo
I think we’ve finally found a route to getting ErrantScience and proper archive for my cartoons… maybe
February 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I think we’ve finally found a route to getting ErrantScience and proper archive for my cartoons… maybe
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Still time to join us today at 4pm (UK time) for our exciting webinar ‘How To Cartoon Chemistry’ with Matt Partridge of Errant Science.
If you want to get creative with your #RSCPoster, don’t miss this free webinar full of valuable tricks and tips: rsc.li/4aCojwW
If you want to get creative with your #RSCPoster, don’t miss this free webinar full of valuable tricks and tips: rsc.li/4aCojwW
January 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Still time to join us today at 4pm (UK time) for our exciting webinar ‘How To Cartoon Chemistry’ with Matt Partridge of Errant Science.
If you want to get creative with your #RSCPoster, don’t miss this free webinar full of valuable tricks and tips: rsc.li/4aCojwW
If you want to get creative with your #RSCPoster, don’t miss this free webinar full of valuable tricks and tips: rsc.li/4aCojwW
Been very kindly sent some great cartoons from the 1800s by @roysocchem.bsky.social for the How To Cartoon Chemistry talk I’m doing this afternoon
January 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Been very kindly sent some great cartoons from the 1800s by @roysocchem.bsky.social for the How To Cartoon Chemistry talk I’m doing this afternoon
Well aren’t these some quite surprising mirrors
January 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Well aren’t these some quite surprising mirrors
I’ve brought a label maker to the lab… time to ORGANISE!
January 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I’ve brought a label maker to the lab… time to ORGANISE!
Any time I am teaching people about the importance of accurate wording I will now be point people to the executive order that made everyone in the US female mashable.com/article/trum...
Did Trump's executive order just make everyone in the U.S. female?
All Americans are now AFBT (assigned female by Trump).
mashable.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Any time I am teaching people about the importance of accurate wording I will now be point people to the executive order that made everyone in the US female mashable.com/article/trum...
I might need to spend a few days exclusively reading Positive News based news services
January 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I might need to spend a few days exclusively reading Positive News based news services
I don’t talk politics very much on social media but yikes, yesterday really was the (re)launch of “we want to hurt people” politics in the US :(
January 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I don’t talk politics very much on social media but yikes, yesterday really was the (re)launch of “we want to hurt people” politics in the US :(
If you don’t write all your slides 2 hours before you’re going to present them are you really an academic?
(A: Yes you are, you’re just one with better planning than me)
(A: Yes you are, you’re just one with better planning than me)
January 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you don’t write all your slides 2 hours before you’re going to present them are you really an academic?
(A: Yes you are, you’re just one with better planning than me)
(A: Yes you are, you’re just one with better planning than me)