Chris Constantine-Armstrong

I hate when they try to make it "fair" by adding the caveat "compared to students of a similar background".

I've got exactly one student with that background, so they're simultaneously in the top 1% and bottom 1%. What do you want from me!?

Radio buttons are for mutually exclusive options (pick 1 from the list)
⚪ A
🔘 B
⚪ C
⚪ D
⚪ E

Checkboxes for picking any number of options from the list.
🟩 A
✅ B
🟩 C
✅ D
✅ E

I think organometallic nmr people need a trigger warning before that stuff gets mentioned.

A ghost hastily scribbled onto a fume hood window with two C H 3 groups attached to its arms.

"Methylated Spirit"

[Since this is from On This Day 12 years ago, I'm fairly sure it's from one of the last times I was demonstrating in the teaching labs in York]

That's now out-of-date because apparently it does support a few more characters now!

I'm using it because it doesn't like putting that many things on separate lines like my fediverse account has.

I started seeing it in YouTube videos years ago, to separate the video title from the series title etc. No idea where it came from before that or who popularised it.

One day, science communicators are going to acknowledge the existence of Franklin and Gosling 'Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate', Nature (1953).

This seems incredibly high-brow to me because I'm currently nearing the end of "Zoey Punches The Future In The Dick".

Spend five minutes on Blackboard's backend and you will eat those words. Canvas is a *delight*.

For the benefit of the Bluesky audience: this is what we call 'sarcasm'; a deliberately insincere use of rhetoric to draw attention to the absurdity of a conclusion, thus actually endorsing its opposite.

Screenshot of an Instatok video of a woman sat quietly with a sign, while 6 police officers stand around reading out an arrest announcement.

Yes, two of my friends have deranged stalkers who are free to send visceral threats about how they're going to be raped, and that the police lack the capacity and power to do anything about it, but that's a fair price to get this dangerous individual off our fields!!

If you neglect the 20, then a week or so agao, 16/9/25, was both square and a representative of a pythagorean triple: 4/3/5.

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!"

Ah, the instant you know it's been delivered, you know nothing about where they delivered it!

Having an NMR background, I'm very used to incredible stretches in the field of backcronyms, but "VR-HEd:SETS (Virtual Reality in Higher Education: Sharing Educational Tips and Stories)" is an astounding effort from the education community.

Major Shlong.

🎵Ground control to-

💅

I'm just saying that if that workaround works, I can allegedly pay my entire annual salary by the institution not buying in specialist event management software. 🙃👍

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

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...

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

If any of you knit, @mrsglempy.bsky.social showed me this adorable little tea bag friend last night. Use this knowledge wisely.

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I've accidentally* raised a theatre kid.

*Not very accidentally

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]

I love that Bluesky is keeping that old Twitter spirit alive by deliberately misinterpreting what someone said in the most obnoxious, borderline psychotic way. 👍

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.

The one man on Earth where you never need to ask "Oh god, what has he said this time?" because he only ever says the one thing.

a black and white drawing of a cartoon character ALT: a black and white drawing of a cartoon character

Okay, finally on a laptop so I can manipulate Tableau's settings without causing mental distress so have looked this up on CAH2 and, oh, wow. That's.... that's going to precipitate some massive algorithm changes in the newspaper league tables.

The Canvas logo saying "your finally awake, you hit your head pretty hard there"

Somehow, that ellipsis makes it sound like a threat.

Reminds me of a drawing of an aarvark I once did where... well, the brief was "do something day would break the Chair of the Douglas Adams Society" and I was banned from drawing ever again.