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Chris Constantine-Armstrong
@rhodium103.bsky.social
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🖥️ Digital Arts and Crafts
🧑‍🏫 Reformed Education Academic
🧪 Officially Former Chemist
📊 Spreadsheet Apologist
🎨 Occasional Artist
⚔️ Warhammer Adjacent
📜 SFHEA
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Professional shitposting account: @rhodium103@mastodon.social
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Modifying the equipment inventory to include the important information.
Close up of a screen showing an Oculus Quest V R headset named Cherry, with she slash her pronouns.
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Newcastle vs Spurs?

I think 2-0 up, then losing 2-3.

Which way around? No idea! It's very stoppable force vs a very moveable object, here.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
#AdventOfCode Day 2 in #Excel. I got it down to *two* cells. The array engine isn't clever enough to just substitute one bit of code into the other. There's probably some workaround involving processing the input differently, but it gets the answer.
Formatted Excel code that includes a regex match for repeating digits, a summation, and a lambda function iterating over an array. Formatted excel code to process a string into an array of values.
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
rhodium103.bsky.social
#AdventOfCode Day 1 done in a way that will hopefully utterly infuriate a lot of people.
Screenshot of Excel, with a list of left/right dial combinations, numbers, and a final output that says "3".
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Chris Constantine-Armstrong
chemscrapes.bsky.social
Americium Gothic #chemsky #sciart #chemistry
two atoms of americium standing out the front of their house in a chemistry parody of the famous painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Ah, I do still have the video version of this!

youtube.com/shorts/eZC0Z...
Taylor Swift dressed as organic chemicals...
YouTube video by Chemistry at Hull
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November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reposted by Chris Constantine-Armstrong
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Via @matthartings.bsky.social & @rhodium103.bsky.social

I think about this one a lot
Mad men meme with the caption chemistry is the central science. Meanwhile, Draper is represented by physics, math and biology. Who says I don’t think about you at all.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
From On This Day last year.

For... various reasons... I will not be partaking in this nonsense this year, but if anyone else is getting ready, may I suggest the "don't talk to Health and Safety about the #Chemistree" approach.
A table with a lot of clamp stands on it and bars to make the frame if a very tall chemistry Christmas tree.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Wikipedia:
▫️Free
▫️Sources at the bottom
▫️Full edit history
▫️Discussion page to check controversies
▫️Openly stated editing policies
Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!"

AI:
▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite
Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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💅
September 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
I promised some #ViCEPHEC / #ViCEPHEC25 people I'd dump a load of this in a folder. It's on an as-is basis. I'll work on curating and making it better later.

durhamuniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...
Screenshot of an Excel sheet featuring some data, and ticks and crosses showing whether it has been inputted correctly. Feedback poster saying "every time we respond to something you have said, mark or annotate your work, or comment on an answer you give, this is feedback", with four icons representing the different categories of poster produced. A pop-up cardboard periodic table A complicated and shiny diagram of skills, stylised like a computer game
August 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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glempy.bsky.social
If any of you knit, @mrsglempy.bsky.social showed me this adorable little tea bag friend last night. Use this knowledge wisely.

Original Source:
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A knitted tea-bag friend dangling from it's string A knitted tea-bag friend doing a little sit Front view of a knitted tea-bag friend doing a little sit Teabag by Jenny Church Seed stitch Row 1 and all odd rows - K1,P1,K1,P1 (Repeat for all stitches) Row 2 and all even rows - P1,K1, P1, K1 (Repeat for all stitches) Front Back and sides (make 2) Cast on 16 stitches in light brown Rows 1-18 seed stitch all rows Change to dark brown Rows 19-26 seed stitch all rows Cast off knitwise Bottom piece Cast on 12 stitches in dark brown Rows 1-6 seed stitch all rows Cast off kit wise Tag Cast on 8 stitches in teal/turquoise Rows 1-16 Stocking stitch Feet Cast on 8 stitches in mid brown Row 1 Purl Row 2 K2Tog x 4 Row 3 P2Tog x2 Row 4 Knit Row 5 Purl Cast off
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Genuinely I have no idea where this six year old found time in her schedule to learn APT.

[For the benefit of the ChemSky audience, that's a song, not a ligand]
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
You'll never catch me uncritically copying code without understanding what it does from a chatbot.

I uncritically copy code without understanding it from Stack Overflow as God intended.
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Chris Constantine-Armstrong
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ahead of the weekend i need you to know that my gf judges each eurovision act very carefully…

under the robot wars scoring criteria:
-damage
-aggression
-control
-style
May 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Ah, yes, more top quality chemistry content.
Noah - as in the flood and ark guy - as depicted in Family guy addressing a penguin and elephant and demanding what the fuck is this? Except we've pasted over the animals with an iron atom and the structure of cyclopentadiene, and the resulting horrific offspring is ferrocene.
March 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Chris Constantine-Armstrong
leefallin.bsky.social
A2: Inclusive design is hard! As a cheeky plug, I’d draw back on last weeks’s #LTHEchat and the Designing for Diverse Learners Guidance that we’ve produced. It’s designed for stuff just like this!

Designing for Diverse Learners Poster [3.2.2] doi.org/10.25416/NTR...
Follow the link for an accessible version of this poster.
February 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Possibly my greatest contribution to #Chemistry.
Simba and Mufasa from the Lion King looking out over the Pride Lands. However, on close inspection they appear be wearing crudely drawn white lab coats and safety goggles. The captions read "As lab demonstrators, everything the light touches is our kingdom." "But what about that shadowy place over there?" "That's the technicians' prep room. You must never go there."
February 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Finally cleaned that image of Flasky.
A wide-eyed anthropomorphic conical or Erlenmeyer flask, in the style of the much maligned M S Office Clippy. The pale yellow speech bubble above asks "Looks like you're trying some meta-free synthesis. You gonna clean that fucking stirrer bar? Yes, No."
January 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Cleaning out my office and found these conference/symposium chairing signs for keeping speakers to time. I thought I'd lost them!
Two signs in teal and purple branding, with a stopwatch icon. The first says "one minute remaining", the second says "time's up. S T F U."
November 27, 2024 at 12:51 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Does this thing make me look short?

#Chemistree
Yet more chemistry Christmas tree spam, with a shiny glass tree near the stairs. This time I'm standing on the stairs, reaching to fix something, coming up to maybe two thirds of it's height.
November 25, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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I think we're good to reveal the whole Christmas #Chemistree at Hull.

100 pieces of glassware (I think) in total. No liquids in it this time as I've dangled lights into the flasks instead.
A Christmas tree viewed from above, lit with some bright blue-white LED lights. A low angle shot of the tree showing its height. I didn't measure it. Distant shot of the tree, showing that each bauble is actually a piece of Chemistry glassware. A lot of lens flare on this as I didn't wipe my camera properly.
November 21, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Chris Constantine-Armstrong
saladcookies.bsky.social
chemsky - is anyone doing NON-fourier transform NMR these days??
November 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM
rhodium103.bsky.social
Refuting that Russell Brand magic amulet video with a Quantum Mechanics textbook.

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Chemistry @ Hull on Instagram: "We will start at Chapter 1 on waves..."
2 likes, 0 comments - hullchemistry on October 23, 2024: "We will start at Chapter 1 on waves...".
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October 23, 2024 at 10:16 AM