Christian Donohoe

Can confirm that today's snow in Copenhagen is 1 pug deep

Graduated my masters 2018, my student loan has gone from £45000ish to £60000ish from inflation alone 🙃
Even on my postdoc wages i don't even cover the cost of inflation every month, it's ridiculous and I'll never realistically pay it back fully, or have any motivation to do so

Regret to inform that getting up early to run to work was both refreshing and healthy

Mirror selfie of a stocky bloke in a Paddington yellow coat, short shorts and long socks, with strava timings for a 10K overlaid on top (hence X km - mas as a pun on Xmas)

Singing sun over rolling fields

Merry X kmas to those who celebrate 👟💨🎄🎄

A heavy fog saps the colour out of the photo. A train pulls into the station, blurred as if not understandable through human eyes

Sorting through family photos and found this nightmare from 1999

Silent hill x Thomas the tank engine 😬😬

Triptych of Stonehenge from night to day as the light scatters in behind mottled clouds

Absolute nerds in hats by the henge

The sun was shy behind the clouds this morning but winter solstice at Stonehenge was still cute af 🥰

My two favourite shows of last year (The Pitt and The Artful Dodger) are getting new series! And within a year!

A giant sausage encased in a thick Yorkshire pudding that is bursting out the sides of a small white tray

Dissected toad in the hole, a halved cross section across the curled sausage Yorkshire pudding

Tudse-i-hullet!
An English classic dane-ified by using julemedister and a Carlsberg-based batter
Was testing the bake since it's to be served for lab Xmas dinner this week 😬😬

Thank God for Bluesky Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

Perfect yolk orange sunset across the Copenhagen channel (river?) taken from a bridge. The building lights match the outgoing light, and the water fades into darkness as if racing the sky

Bristling cold time of year to be a runner in Copenhagen but the afternoon sunsets are 👌

Little pencil drawn cartoon frog with the caption "hope you had a 'ribbeting' time!' underneath, for a work goodbye card

With the right lighting you can actually trace a picture from your phone through card and make cute little drawings for your co-worker's leaving card 😊

(Især for those with 0 hand skills f.eks me)

I just want a government that is morally *better* than this.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

phone shot of the introduction of a paper about "SLIC-CAGE" with a real sexy photo of Nicolas Cage inserted into the first paragraph

Was asked to help edit an article about Super Low Input Carrier - Cap Analysis of Gene Expression aka "SLIC-CAGE" and this is all I have contributed so far :D 🧪

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

As with any airline problems I assume this is the venue to gripe

Flew with KLM, they lost my luggage, but a week later found it. However since it's damaged (by them) and now leaking they can't send it back to me and will thus "dispose" of it. -_-

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Marie Pavlik

Found out I'm featured on my tattoo artist's website so that's my smile for the day sorted 🥰🥰
(Below for reference, obvs would highly rec)

www.mariepavlik.com

Glazed mug decorated to look like a barbers pole - the lines are poorly constructed and the paint is unevenly applied. The white stripes are speckled and off-putting. An accurate reflection of the artist

Cute little strawberry! Made from a heart shaped plate with vibrant green, red that pops and little yellow seeds dotted along

Nothing more humbling than going to an art cafe for the first time 😅
(Was celebrating a friend's engagement, she's a cafe veteran with a whole fruit themed collection)
happy enough to make this one little mug though :)
(CD, 29)

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

Lab highlight today was sawing two drawers free after an acetone spill welded my bench front together into one flat face :D

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

why why why do papers do these matryoshka method sections?!
It shouldn't take 4 links to get to the actual method from 19## - method sections should be thorough and exempt from publication word limits

Oh yeah such a hellhole when will Copenhagen get robotaxis

pre-run me (but post-2-pints me) in the waiting area for the run with other KU runners. in a purple uni-branded shirt, am wearing glasses and a beard with full hair. 2 fingers to camera in a V style. The sun gives a JJ - esque lens flare

post-run me - sweaty af but still smiling :) race number in hand since it fell off, am in the general staging area with portable toilet trailers in the background. The sun is gone.

Pretty in purple at the DHL run :D

HUGE 5 km run (or walk) event in downtown CPH attended by what feels like the whole city, with the uni providing free shirts, pints and protein for KU attendees.

Was the slowest on my team lol (29:27) but my first sub-30 in yonks so still pleased as punch

Got to listen to Castle on the hill, on a hill. 10/10

Long distance shot of ed Sheeran concert arena - spikes shoot out of the centre, from which pick - shaped screens hang. A blue sky drapes over the scene

Hillside full of freeloading Copenhageners like myself enjoying a free summer concert in the grass. A cargo bike anchors the scene to Denmark

Free Ed Sheeran concert in Copenhagen for those happy to sit on the hill next door 🥰

We had to cut down a 240 word long abstract to 200 words during paper submission and between three of us (me, supervisor, PhD student), we not only were done in 5 min but honestly weirdly it was so much fun?! 😅
Counting down the words, finding new ways to say things, so suspenseful and satisfying