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Carl Poree

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Teaching-focused senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Manchester, training the next generation of lab monkeys and arrow-pushers. Occasional dabbler in ChemEd research.

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Sky News: Learner driver arrested for drug driving during test
Police said officers could smell cannibals after they pulled over a 26-year-old learner driver because of a faulty brake light. He was later arrested for drug driving.

Sky News: Learner driver arrested for drug driving during test Police said officers could smell cannibals after they pulled over a 26-year-old learner driver because of a faulty brake light. He was later arrested for drug driving.

CANNIBALS.

04.03.2026 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 10

Statements like this are probably doing more for Starmer's popularity than anything Starmer himself has ever done.

04.03.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Please* tell me that this means we get all of Little Miss TERF's shitty franchise crap out of King's Cross Station...

04.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the way.

04.03.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't get DIPEA. I grew up calling it HΓΌnig's base, and HΓΌnig's base it shall remain... even if the umlauts are annoying to type.

04.03.2026 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

What is it, topical sulfuric acid cream?

03.03.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So the US asked Israel to launch the attack on Iran [which the two countries planned together], in order to give the US war dubious legal cover. Once Israel attacked, Iran was likely to retaliate against the US, ergo US attack on Iran is defensive. QED.

Suez, the slapstick version.

02.03.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

"Unless it's in America, in which case it's probably us."

02.03.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Combined Synthetic and Computational Understanding of New Heterobimetallic Dimetallocenes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Combined Synthetic and Computational Understanding of New Heterobimetallic Dimetallocenes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

The PhD position within my research group is still open. This project is joint with Profs David Mills and Nik Kaltsoyannis looking at the synthesis and bonding in main group heterobimetallic dimetallocenes. Closing date 6th March

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

25.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He *is* a distant turd, though.

27.02.2026 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawyer: β€œProbably best not to dress like a sex offender when you’re heading into court.”

Russell Brand:

25.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

This is without, as you rightly say, any pretence of generating a "precise" mark for an individual viva, but using a coarse-grained rubric and many individual points of assessment.

23.02.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps not everyone would think of it as a "viva", but we do about 200 every Wednesday morning in our department. A small battalion of well-trained GTAs do much of our Y2 lab assessment that way.

23.02.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone remember the MOOC craze? Or β€œlearning styles”? For a bunch of supposed academics, our β€œleaders” are amazingly credulous.

23.02.2026 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Given economists' track records at making accurate predictions, maybe *they* are replaceable by AI...

22.02.2026 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Take a minute to marvel at the ineptness of this AI and to enjoy everybody dunking on it in the replies but, once you have done that, I have a serious point.

The racist arseholes *have* to turn to AI for their vision of the past because it is *fictional*. Genuine stock footage doesn't support it.

21.02.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to see this out, congratulations!

19.02.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

19.02.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11934    πŸ” 3081    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 243
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Grammarly Revisited - Carleton College A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*.
www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

18.02.2026 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 19

The ones I'm angrily channeling were from Tim D's Y3 total synthesis course...

17.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I swear they were inventing terminology on the fly.

17.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Particularly annoying were the ones where bits of chemical structures were included, but you had to fill in other bits. That did not promote cognition, but rather a laser-focus in whether you'd got that stereocentre right, or caught the other deprotection on the C ring of whogivesafuckamicin.

17.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I hated that shit with the fire of a thousand suns.

17.02.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess a more diplomatic name would need to be found. The Trump Collection? He'd love that, and *so would everyone else*.

17.02.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a Mack Forehand competing in the skiing. With a name like that, I would've assumed he was a Toast of London character...

17.02.2026 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should open a Museum of Official Gifted Tat.

17.02.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Basically the same!

17.02.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

14.02.2026 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7773    πŸ” 2433    πŸ’¬ 379    πŸ“Œ 167
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Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

πŸ“ Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

13.02.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2046    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 35