Dr Kiri Thornalley

*waves in neurodivergent lesbian*

Have suddenly just remembered my Y11 English lit teacher who probably should have referred me to CAMHS off some of my creative writing. She did not.

Isn't he the guy who's in a rather a large amount of shit with the HSE w.r.t how he's doing a great job /s of running the University of Birmingham?

You're not joking about having resting angry face. You look like you're about to challenge me for a fight.

So I outsourced that to several thousand lines of Python/ the TodoistAPI.

Guess which idiot thought this would take... a weekend to code and be maybe a couple of hundred lines of Python. ROFL.

Like this is something I swear chatGPT has claimed to be able to do for a while. But yeah - *that* is the same reason I don't trust my own brain with this.

I think this is the best alt text I've ever read. It is indeed a work of art.

Does it become something you submit for review, but it never hits the internet? (I am thinking out loud and hoping an idea sticks)

I have no idea when you stopped being able to do it, but I'm the exact same. If it's not my bed, I can't sleep.

Your postie has a woolly hat?! Mine for Glasgow G1 would still be in shorts when it's -7c and snowing! I'm convinced RM must pay them less if they wear trousers?

But then what do we do once the LLMs *have* ingested the "not quite so perfect" versions of the TEM or w/e data out the ESI?

And it's not like they cut everything - they cut enough that you now can't do your job, but they can reasonably go "but we're funding X, what more could you want?"

I've seen a few where they don't tell you who your line manager would actually be. Or as Hull seem to do - vague AF about what they actually want the candidate to have.

And slightly more on topic - this is why UKRI can make all the proclamations about ED&I they like, but they then do things like this, and I remember why I don't believe them.

You know the reflective piece I do after submitting a proposal? they're all captured in there, and I'm 90% certain I can then query the entire obsidian database and pull the whole lot up.

And yes, it's mostly so I don't forget, as I swear writing one proposal makes my ideas breed like rabbits.

I felt so, so horribly guilty for getting 25% extra time in my exams as an undergrad. I still remember being told by one of my lecturers "I'd give all of you that 25% extra time if I could. It won't do a thing to your overall score if you don't actually know the material".

Sooo... I am playing this game correctly by having a working document with proposal ideas...

But you *did* rabbithole! I could not have managed to pull mine off PT in between a proper job that actually paid me NMW or better. I'd have hit burnout far faster had I tried.

I've tried applying for lab technician jobs that want just GCSEs. Was happy to do the job for min. wage. Not even invited to interview.

MeCN here too!

This is actually how I accidentally fell into graph theory and later graph neural networks. If we can see what there is, surely we can see what should be, but isn't?

Labmates boyfriend, ordering for me in italian, in the pizza place around the corner from my flat. "This pizza must not come with cheese, or she dies. Oh, and no olives either".

The pizza came with olives. I could atleast pick them off.

If you don't treat a PhD as a [insert time limit here] - year feeding frenzy of ideas, what were you even doing with yourself?

(I left with a PhD, PGCert, learnt Python, developed an augmented reality app for android and made 3D animations. No, I was not in comp. sci, much to my flatmates surprise)

Oh no. Did Saturday Debs have this misguided idea that she was going to be healthy and didn't need snackies in this weeks shop? And now we feel like Past Debs hates you?

Can think of a few places in Glasgow where that'd go down like a bucket of ice cold sick! (think everywhere the 🍊 aren't allowed)

oh I feel this. Try studying for a PhD on the protein corona, in a coronavirus pandemic 🥴

As much as I want to say "oh good, not just me who's in the trenches". It's less glee, more "solidarity comrade".

I was going to say that that's what I thought the thematic analysis of the QTs of *that* original post was going to be "man, shows entire ass on the internet".

You were not wrong about unhinged, I'll give you that.

I did panic attacks! at the little Tesco's instead 🙃

The dam against sorrow and dread is held by your will. Joy is a form of resistance.

Keep it up.

The line "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." has absolutely sent me. I cannot for the life of me tell you why my brain has found this absolutely hysterically funny.