Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 44mI'm reading this and I'm genuinely in hysterics. 000
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 52mThe cravings I've had for suet dumplings/ jam roly poly over the summer have been incredibble. #MadSkyChat 230
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 53mBrolly came out this morning for the first time in... years. Discovered that my brolly is knackered. 220
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 57mIt's finally cold!!! All the stuff I've wanted to eat but the weather has been wrong is back on the menu!! #MadSkyChat 240
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1hcan also get weird wear patterns if you're hypermobile as well. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 1hIt's been nice to learn things for funsies and not because I have to, though. Oh this sounds fun! 100
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2hbut also I don't think I'm not, not saying that. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2hNot proud to say I submitted my thesis for examination, coped for a fortnight and then started a CodeFirstGirls Data and SQL course. Then self taught ML and deep learning and I now have eyes on the MA Art in Science at LJMU. I'm not saying I don't know who I am if I'm not learning something, 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 2h> "With my newfound free time, I am exploring what (else) my life can be, a life besides accelerating towards a single point like a silvery line in Star Wars. I am adjusting to life slower-than-hyperdrive and life for living’s sake." I... ok that is making me have feelings. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 4hThe nearest place to me that stocks it is Hull. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 4hIt's always some lovely lady in a shoebox of an office who has been there since time-immemorial. 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 4hteam superdead one arm, not half dead both arms. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 7hSo I'm going to have to ask, what's the specs of your laptop? Because mine threatens to catch fire/take flight at less than 10% of this... 100
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 7hOh I know. I have my everything crossed for them. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 8hCertainly not TEWV--I believe they're currently being sued. 010
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 8hHonestly that's very much the vibe/opinion I'm getting off the r/UniUK subreddit. Don't want to apply because they don't know if their lecturers will still be there at the end of it! 040
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 8hThis. A friend's writing a fat ERC grant at the moment. If they even only get through to round 2, I'll be living off the excitement and enthusiasm for weeks. 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026SEEN THAT BEFORE!! Near where I lived in Sheffield is the RNIB place, so they've taken tiny guide dog babies onto the 120 down to uni 😭 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026if you think that they're the goodest of good boys and girls, they know. I've had it where I've been absolutely ✨blessed✨ on a rail replacement bus service where a ladies guide dog fell asleep on my feet for two hours. I didn't dare move. 140
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Too old, not old enough? Teaches a well niche course that they had a snowballs chance in hell of replacing? 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had assumed Katie was taking the piss! Didn't realise she actually meant it. 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm... equal parts impressed and horrified. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He's got his NI number learnt off by heart? 210
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yay, bye bye port. Not a bad friend. Nope. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026if it's been tied up, very easy to mistake it for that. It is, legally, supposed to hang not more than 4cm off the floor. 130
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ABSOLUTELY NOT. Heck, someone internal phoning me unscheduled is probably also a no... 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Well at least you know if you were a full time wheelchair user and had absolutely cocked up the transfer to the toilet, the red cord works! 040
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026well this is a variation on "all hell broke loose" I wasn't quite expecting. 140
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026just a bit. I absolutely made comments more along the lines of "your mam's going to have me guts for bloody garters if you don't go home at Xmas/Easter with all the limbs you came with." than I thought I would. idk if it's because a lot of them were still 17. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Best part (and honestly some days, feels like the only good part) of this stupid job. Even when I have to tell them "You have a very lovely face, and I think your parents are going to be upset if you come home disfigured with a chemical burn, so PLEASE STOP TOUCHING YOUR FACE WITH GLOVES ON!!" 130
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you just done an interview with someone who was banger on paper, and very much not IRL? 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Being Mrs "fix the stupid"--genuinely think you could be hopeless at everything else and they'd still love you. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I initially matriculated on Chemistry with a European language! A friend picked up a 10 credit ab initio mandarin module alongside a his politics degree in semester 1 of his first year. Went in with "40 and it's fine". Turns out he was really, really, really flipping good at it. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Treat yourself like you are. If it improves your life, amazing. Most of the adjustments you'd probably need because autism, you can reasonably wangle them under that anxiety/depression (mis)diagnosis you've probaly already got? 130
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Heather and Mr, do you want to come and crash on me sofa bed for a week so you don't go batshit mental?" 230
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026jesus. This makes me wish I had a tiny one bed flat, and the vimle sofabed from ikea in the front room. 120
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Brain did think small tablet, install linux, and rice it so it's all in e-ink. But that's is absolutely more faff than she's after. 010
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026pfft, we just went and got chickenpox in the UK instead. My sisters had (allegedly) shingles this year as well! 030
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026my brain half came up with names for both of those. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I can remember 1 other than Marie Curie, and that's because for some unknown reason Prof. Bertozzi follows me on this place. I have no idea why. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@tricyclemayor.bsky.social Her Frieda has more swag that I ever will. 020
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026oooh, visual basic, that takes me back! That's the first language I started with! 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Basically, I know (probably) exactly the vid you mean and I can't for the life of me remember how I ended up getting wind of it second hand. 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Bashbunni is lovely, but I hate how she has to basically lock her VODs of her livestreams down pretty tightly. 010
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There are other squiggly bracket languages that do the job just fine. there is something about squiggly brackets + indentations that makes my brain explode? 110
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I think you're about to learn a lot about who I watch on YT. But yeah, DHH going on about how it's all tokenmaxxing and that tech debt doesn't matter. Can't remember where I saw it, was it my shorts, or was it Prime dunking on him, I don't remember. 210
Dr Kiri Thornalley @kizzythechemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026and isn't DHH a.... bit of a fuckwit. 110
