iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Allison Andrews @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 3h

Question for fellow trans people: How do you go about discussing surgery with close family? Especially if it’s a topic you haven’t brought up before or discussed in a while?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 6h

The best part of having a shared Zotero library with a collaborator--getting to see what interesting papers they're reading. Do I have any idea what they're doing with half of these papers, absolutely not.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need to stop stress refreshing my inbox before I drive myself mad. It's going to be a "sorry but you've been unsuccessful", because it always is.

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LGBTQ+ STEM @lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some updates!! We have a full slate of speakers which can be found here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst... We are also coming up on the registration deadline! Please register or encourage others to register by 6 October! Also we made this digital flyer to display or distribute as you see fit. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You probably know about my PIP guide, but I always try to share on threads like this docs.google.com/document/d/1.... A friend with ADHD and other stuff got rejected despite my help recently, we need to find appeal spoons. Infuriating we're usually successful for the few friends I can help directly

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Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - Natalya's Criptivist Information Pages

PIP Info - Natalya's Criptivist Info series This page is not official advice, this is a summary of info and resources I share as a grassroots disability activist. There is a lot of information on th...

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 26/09/2026

This is one of those things I'm going to keep reposting until you're sick of it. It's not just because I want to make sure everyone sees it. I want everyone to see it multiple times. I want it in your long-term memories so that it's something you use and share and don't forget when you scroll away

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know, I know, I sound like a robot who only has one phrase programmed into their speech module but: HEY EVERYONE!! LOOK HOW CLEVER MY FRIENDS ARE!!

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Emileigggggh @emileigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fight for trans liberation and liberation for neurodivergent (and disabled people in general) is the same fight! So many actions taken against one group WILL hurt the other, not to mention all the people who are both trans and disabled (our strongest soldiers tbh)

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Dori Grijseels @dgrijseels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lastly, I discuss the ethical question of (mis)gendering people. Assigning a gender, especially to trans, queer and gender diverse people, is an act of harm Just because an algorithm is doing it on this case, doesn't make it better. In fact, trans problem report it makes it worse

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Parted my hair differently before putting it up before bed so I don't get tangled in it overnight. Found a lot of silver hairs I didn't know I had. I think I need 1-2 business days to work out how I feel about this.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bought two new books. Popped into Sainsbury's for a bottle of water and train snackies. Only go and leave the books in Sainsbury's don't I 😬

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚂🚂🚂 It has been a very long time since the last station coffee.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work. Talk to your neighbours, care for each other" Spotted in Somerset, UK

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I seriously do not need this level of brainfog ~48 hours from a job interview. Not helpful.

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"unions are like condoms: the more insistent somebody is that you don't need one, the more important it is that you have one"

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Truly, I think my "best" one: washing one of my phases in a separating funnel. Inverted it to vent CO2 and guess who forgot gravity existed. Turns out the stopper doesn't stay in by magic. I watched 2 weeks worth of synthetic work escape in slow motion; attempted to catch it, unsuccessfully.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I love it so much when microsoft installs updates and it makes useful things like WSL stop working. All I wanted to do was run something in the terminal to paste it's output in a presentation. Not spend 45 mins and counting trying to get WSL to boot...

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nothing I hate more than creating a slide deck to answer the question "And here's why you should pick me!"

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The lack of working-class representation in academia is not just an issue of fairness – it limits the scope and depth of research. Diversity drives innovation.

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Cathy Abbott @cathyabbott.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know it’s just a scarf but honestly I think this is one of the nicest things I’ve ever made (forgive the brag!)

A brightly coloured fairisle knitted scarf with rainbow style stripes but more subtle than that sounds

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy 7th Veganiversary to me 🥳🌱

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The question isn't whether academia is worth saving. It's whether the version of academia we've built is worth saving. If we want the next generation to believe in academic careers, “more funding” isn't enough. The incentives, working conditions & definition of academic success need to change too.

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 02/09/2026

Sincere Q: has anyone tried specific things which improved lecture attendance? I would like more students in the room this year, and would love to hear about what's worked for other people.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

>"I think about the person who’s never met another disabled scientist further along and starts quietly shrinking what they think is possible for themselves."

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fly my pretty job application!!! I was going to send it tomorrow and then got too in my head about closing dates and what if I miss it.

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 01/09/2026

Brilliant checklist for trans people working with therapists from Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia. therapistsagainsttransphobia.org/2026/08/26/n...

A set of prompts and questions for anyone looking to understand if their therapist is trans-affirming. The image is in two columns - red flags and green flags. The resource is created by “therapists against conversion therapy and transphobia” and at the bottom is the TACTT website: www.therapistsagainsttransphobia.org.

The image text reads: Heading: Is my therapist Trans Affirming?

Column 1: Green Flags
Subheading 1: Identity and Autonomy.
Respects different choices and stages of social and medical transition.
Listens to and validates your experience without deciding for you.
Supports you through transphobia without suggesting you change.
Subheading 2: Knowledge and Beliefs.
There’s no “right way” to be trans, cis, man, woman, or any other gender.
Recognises impact of being visibly or openly trans.
Respects experiences that don’t fit familiar frameworks.
Encourages self-advocacy and promotes trans joy.
Doesn’t assume trans identity is caused by trauma or fear of being gay, etc.
Educates themself about trans issues, terminology & current happenings.
Understands that dysphoria is not universal and experiences vary.
Is informed about trans history & how wider systems shape trans experiences.
Recognises neurodivergence doesn’t disprove or cause trans identity.
Supports your exploration without an agenda to change your identity.
Subheading 3: Understanding Transphobia.
Understands mental health difficulties result from social injustice, not identity.
Understands trans-specific misogyny, fatphobia, racism and other bigotry.
Understands gatekeeping, barriers to and disparity within trans healthcare.
Understands non-binary and GNC-specific challenges and bias.
Subheading 4: Language and Respect.
Owns mistakes, such as misgendering, without centering themself.

Column 2: Red Flags
Subheading 1: Identity and Autonomy.
Repeated misgendering, degendering or refusal to use appropriate language.
Refers to your past self using deadname or assigned sex at birth.
Doesn’t accept …

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🌧️🌧️⛈️ Well it's very suddenly fixed the weirdly humid and sticky situation we had going on this morning...

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You know you've possibly overthought this covering letter, when you're getting funny about commas and starting to worry if actually you don't even know how to properly use a comma in English. 😬

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We should probably stop treating the number of things someone has produced as a proxy for how much thinking they have done.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Autistic people are not disposable experimental units for scientists. I would like to see some proper ethics considerations, with proper autistic specialists in these fields.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

so the plan is make vegan brioche, and then finish a README.

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Carmen Rosas-Pérez @diffusefield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My doctoral thesis is now online! 📕 "Disabling Acoustics: Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people" www.researchgate.net/publication/... I've created a site for those who prefer an HTML version: disablingacoustics.wordpress.com

disablingacoustics.wordpress.com

Disabling Acoustics

Impact of daily life acoustic environments on neurodivergent, auraldivergent and noise sensitive people. [Doctoral thesis by Carmen Rosas-Pérez]

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If anyone sees me on here again before like, 3pm. Please yell at me. I have things to do, and a million ways to procrastinate doing those things.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I definitely have pocket pals who are chemists. Do I have pocket pals who are chemists and who do Skype a scientists, because I think Dr McAnulty desperately needs you!

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Having such a problem getting past the Cloudflare Bot protection this morning that I'm genuinely starting to wonder if maybe I _am_ a robot?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@aimeespeaks.bsky.social I feel like you'll know someone who knows someone who can help Steph?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It should not be legal to be this tired on a Monday. It's not even 11am. (No, I cannot just add more caffeine; if I do that, I may never sleep again).

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

academia is rife with fragile egos and bad behavior. so hey, celebrate the awesome academics in your life. tell folks they’re awesome as often as we (rightfully!) trash-talk fragile ego-driven bad behavior. no one does this job alone, for better or worse. better is worth acknowledging too, imho.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It has been a week. Tired, but wired should not be allowed to be a thing.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What we almost always discover is academic bullies and bigots don't stop, so if they aren't tackled firmly and early they grow more powerful. It's also true that they'll position themselves as victims. And they will always have supporters and further opportunities. Their victims fare less well /5

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Decades of research on bullying in academia tells us abusers are usually known in HEIs (including to HR). They typically stay in post, or are promoted. Their victims (within and outside the uni) are the ones who quit, step down, or are hurt. HEIs generally only act when their reputations are hit /1

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@helenargh.bsky.social Helen, Sorry, but was I at school with you? Because I swear I recognise your face and I just cannot for the life of me place it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

obviously Kathleen Stock is making an odious argument here but it’s also very funny to call to the eradication of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia from Academia, the Neurodivergence Factory

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ecologists, assemble, because Sarah is going to need like 11 million of you!!

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Your everyday, visible trans existence is someone else’s survival guide.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely *dreadful* conditions here for the solar eclipse--not a single cloud in the sky.

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Genuinely, am I doing something wrong/need moar RAM or are other people finding that jupyter notebooks are almost impossibly slow in VSCode/PyCharm?

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There's a cake shed near my sisters--not unusual for my parents to come back with cake after visiting her. And I'm like "so you've basically picked up random cake off the street. Ok. Could never be me".

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Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Day 1 of JuliaCon2026, and I've already added to the methodology for that fellowship idea... I'd forgot how sparkly conferences make my brain feel.

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