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Dr Kiri Thornalley

@kizzythechemist.bsky.social

Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist. Queer. they/them

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neither do I. All I know is thems some very big words because the badgers a very clever boy.

23.11.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is wild. Clearly someone had her weetabix for breakfast!
Or are we in such a HCB era that we smell faintly of toast and mixed spice?

23.11.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not another one!

23.11.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I... would absolutely outsource that to my local IT fella. I do not have the patience for something that dinky and fiddly.

23.11.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have absolutely no idea what the heck the blurb is trying to tell me, but that shade of green is gorgeous!

23.11.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Boo! Antipsychotic, you had one job, and that was to keep Steph out of hospital, not get them a nice wee taste of NHS Glasgow's hospitality (and godawful menu).

23.11.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBEβ€”Life Sciences Edu... Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...

Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.

*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.

23.11.2025 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh she's so cute and fluffy.

22.11.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was about to suggest "scare it off with a scarily hot curry". I see you also subscribe to that school of thought.

22.11.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
 Beluga smokes a cig on the couch with a hot pink polka dot bikini top

Beluga smokes a cig on the couch with a hot pink polka dot bikini top

A beluga proudly presents her big ol titties with sea stars on her nips

A beluga proudly presents her big ol titties with sea stars on her nips

A beluga has a Stanley mug with big ol titties

A beluga has a Stanley mug with big ol titties

A beluga with a bikini top strips on a pole

A beluga with a bikini top strips on a pole

At drink and draw tonight and the first prompt- and hey listen I just wrote the prompt I did NOT choose it, they chose it! You can’t blame me! I am blameless!!!!!…

Was beluga with a boob job lmfao

22.11.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6

Genuinely, I think my time in hospital is why they started thinking about a second opinion for me. I have no idea what the nurses/ psych liaison must've written in the version that went to CMHT, but the picking the same meal off the menu made it to the version of the discharge paperwork I got!

22.11.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BABY <3

22.11.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

01/01/1970 is the start of the Unix epoch, so I think it's defaulting to that when it doesn't have a date instead of returning None.

22.11.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's so fluffy. I'm not a cat person usually.

21.11.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I'd die for baby Ozzy. LOOK HOW FLUFFY HE IS.

21.11.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

14 hours to get from Grimsby to Glasgow in 2022, via Sheffield, Manchester, Carlisle, Newcastle and Edinburgh. I couldn't even bare the thought of getting a train for a good 6 months.

21.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering how much of a faff organising my viva was, you're not wrong.

21.11.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, at the time, I think this was the entire API wasn't responding because the website wasn't working either. But yeah, also thinking about using EPMC instead as (currently) that looks to be more stable/reliable. This is one of *many* tasks on my to-do list.

21.11.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like an absolute Cassandra. I definitely remember having a conversation in supervision 2 and a half years ago about how they'll come for Gillick competence, and later it'll be contraceptives and a persons right to abortion.

21.11.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I laughed at this more than I should...

21.11.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Working together to address the barriers for disabled scientists - Tuesday 25th November

Working together to address the barriers for disabled scientists - Tuesday 25th November

Join us for a live webinar with @royalsociety.org to see how we can make science more accessible for everyone.

Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM.

Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht

#ChemSky

21.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

If anyone wants to come for my flowery orthographical voice and em dashes, then they're welcome to - but I am going to make you confront your internalised ableism first.

21.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

to be fair to it: my immune system can be a drama queen over "just a cold". I run cold, so what is clinically a slight fever I'm blathering nonsense. I think I'd have been more concerned had I had no reaction - what if there was actually nothing in the syringe/ I'd been given WFI by accident?

21.11.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's absolutely out my skillset, but I'm so glad we have people who are experts at this (although oof, the AZ jag didn't half have a bit of a kick to it! A friend got a lot of incoherent whatsapp messages - "at least this isn't actual covid, but I think I might be dying?")

21.11.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"if the tech behaves" - oh I felt that.

21.11.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks wonderful. Is this likely to be recorded - in case this blasted ELCI goes "lol, brain is soup today"?

21.11.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

352 days I waited. The scientists went from "we don't know if this is airborne", to vaccinating Group 4 - Clinically vulnerable Adults" in less than a year. I was absolutely inconsolable when my invite for my jag came through, "they've come to get me, I get to be safe".

21.11.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oof. That's the second most painfully slow service, isn't it?

21.11.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces

21.11.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If you get your hands around your scales, your pieces are a lot more fun.

20.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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