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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You failed to spot that only two of those are great football teams!" "You swine!" "That's right! Arsenal's a complete dump!"

Current top three in the English Premier League: Manchester City, Arsenal and Hull City.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For the Home Secretary, it's more important to be seen to be harsh to an immigrant than to protect women, because it would involve protecting women in some other country.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Myth: The Digital Education team are just a group of autistic dweebs who do nothing all day except play with the fancy toys. Fact: We also have a lot of ADHD in the team, too.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Currently processing some academic feedback on an online course and it inspired this little schematic.

A two by two grid, with columns marked consequential and inconsequential, and the rows being actionable and unactionable. The detailed descriptions as follows.
Consequential: Implementing the feedback would be noticed by future readers / viewers / users of the work.
Inconsequential: Implementing the feedback would have negligible effect on the future understanding of the work.
Actionable: It is immediately clear what successful implementation of the feedback would look like.
Unactionable: It’s unclear what implementation of the feedback looks like without multiple further rounds of feedback.

The intersections are marked with various faces from happy to angry, with happiest in the consequential and actionable section, and the angry face in the unactionable and inconsequential section.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Very excited for my first day working for Instructure and working on Canvas for first time!

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Getting back into chilling with Tiny Glade.

Screenshot from Tiny Glade, which looks like a miniature Durham cathedral poking out of some trees at night.

Screenshot from Tiny Glade, which looks like a miniature Durham cathedral poking out of some trees, with a low sun and glare along with the intense tilt-shift effect.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I hope more conference keynotes consider their lighting and costume choices in the future. #durbbu

Dr Malcolm Murray dressed as Adam Ant in front of a university lectern that's lit with multi coloured L E Ds and a disco ball.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Oh no, my phone no longer launches Teams! But on the bright side, my phone no longer launches Teams!

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

At some point, my career ambition will pivot to collecting a complete set of swipe cards.

Photo of a screen for an Aura conference on wind energy with logos for universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough, Newcastle and Sheffield. With got, got, need, need, got superimposed over them, referencing how people swap collectable stickers that they need, and which places I've worked.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sir, please! We abolished public executions 150 years ago!!

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Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I like the Green Party because they have outrageous extremist policies like “what if we made things better?” rather than frothing at the mouth and screaming about how everything that’s bad is because of brown people

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Students have no attention span and can't concentrate for a long time. This is a moral and intellectual failing on their part. The videos we get with our mandatory training are terrible and I can't get to the end, though they're <2 mins. This is **not** a moral or intellectual failing on my part.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The ads you see during the Super Bowl every year always reinforce my theory that 85% of people in the ad industry have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and no sense of what makes customers buy or not buy their products. Just throwing stuff out there to see what happens.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I need to get around to fixing the tyop then re-printing this.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Making bad choices about what to post on main again.

Cartoon of a nucleophilic substitution, and a speech bubble coming out of the target saying "what are you doing, step-nucleophile?!"

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Academic Skills keep being asked "How do I make a poster?!?" by students, and apparently we have no centralised guidance. So, that's January's job sorted.

An minimalist diagram of three similar poster layouts, with small simplified icons to represent figures and straight lines to represent text. The first is crowded, with a lot of text and very much like a typical poster -- it would probably look horribly cluttered with real text and images. The last one only has six large figures and a title that takes up about half the page. The middle one is a balance between the two extremes.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move

MOTORING-- Cars will be wonderfully improved during the next hundred years and you would hardly recognize them as the outcome of our present primitive vehicles. One of the reasons for this is that there will be so many of them that none of them will be able to move.
--Radio Times, 17 December 1926

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I'm going to start calling the f block of the periodic table the "forbidden elements". I'm even going to black out all the elements on the periodic tables in my classrooms. Going to tell them that it is illegal for me to teach it to them. Try to get them to learn that shit on their own.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#AdventOfCode Day 4 in #Excel. Still needs two cells because I'm referencing the split input (well, the concatenated-then-split-then-wrapped input because Reasons) using OFFSET(). (same issue as in Day 2)

Screenshot of Excel, showing a grid of at simples, x symbols and dots, and a formatted piece of code that uses a scan function to go across an array, count the cells in the three-by-three grid around it, and return appropriate values.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#AdventOfCode Day 1 done in a way that will hopefully utterly infuriate a lot of people.

Screenshot of Excel, with a list of left/right dial combinations, numbers, and a final output that says "3".

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Americium Gothic #chemsky #sciart #chemistry

two atoms of americium standing out the front of their house in a chemistry parody of the famous painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic.

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Via @matthartings.bsky.social & @rhodium103.bsky.social I think about this one a lot

Mad men meme with the caption chemistry is the central science. Meanwhile, Draper is represented by physics, math and biology. Who says I don’t think about you at all.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

From On This Day last year. For... various reasons... I will not be partaking in this nonsense this year, but if anyone else is getting ready, may I suggest the "don't talk to Health and Safety about the #Chemistree" approach.

A table with a lot of clamp stands on it and bars to make the frame if a very tall chemistry Christmas tree.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I promised some #ViCEPHEC / #ViCEPHEC25 people I'd dump a load of this in a folder. It's on an as-is basis. I'll work on curating and making it better later. durhamuniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

Screenshot of an Excel sheet featuring some data, and ticks and crosses showing whether it has been inputted correctly.

Feedback poster saying "every time we respond to something you have said, mark or annotate your work, or comment on an answer you give, this is feedback", with four icons representing the different categories of poster produced.

A complicated and shiny diagram of skills, stylised like a computer game

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Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If any of you knit, @mrsglempy.bsky.social showed me this adorable little tea bag friend last night. Use this knowledge wisely. Original Source: www.facebook.com/groups/36022...

A knitted tea-bag friend dangling from it's string

A knitted tea-bag friend doing a little sit

Front view of a knitted tea-bag friend doing a little sit

Teabag by Jenny Church

Seed stitch
Row 1 and all odd rows - K1,P1,K1,P1 (Repeat for all stitches)
Row 2 and all even rows - P1,K1, P1, K1 (Repeat for all stitches)

Front Back and sides (make 2)
Cast on 16 stitches in light brown
Rows 1-18 seed stitch all rows
Change to dark brown
Rows 19-26 seed stitch all rows
Cast off knitwise
Bottom piece
Cast on 12 stitches in dark brown
Rows 1-6 seed stitch all rows
Cast off kit wise
Tag
Cast on 8 stitches in teal/turquoise
Rows 1-16 Stocking stitch
Feet
Cast on 8 stitches in mid brown
Row 1 Purl
Row 2 K2Tog x 4
Row 3 P2Tog x2
Row 4 Knit
Row 5 Purl
Cast off

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Genuinely I have no idea where this six year old found time in her schedule to learn APT. [For the benefit of the ChemSky audience, that's a song, not a ligand]

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

You'll never catch me uncritically copying code without understanding what it does from a chatbot. I uncritically copy code without understanding it from Stack Overflow as God intended.

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jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

ahead of the weekend i need you to know that my gf judges each eurovision act very carefully… under the robot wars scoring criteria: -damage -aggression -control -style

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ah, yes, more top quality chemistry content.

Noah - as in the flood and ark guy - as depicted in Family guy addressing a penguin and elephant and demanding what the fuck is this? Except we've pasted over the animals with an iron atom and the structure of cyclopentadiene, and the resulting horrific offspring is ferrocene.

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Dr Lee Fallin EdD @leefallin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A2: Inclusive design is hard! As a cheeky plug, I’d draw back on last weeks’s #LTHEchat and the Designing for Diverse Learners Guidance that we’ve produced. It’s designed for stuff just like this! Designing for Diverse Learners Poster [3.2.2] doi.org/10.25416/NTR...

Follow the link for an accessible version of this poster.

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cleaning out my office and found these conference/symposium chairing signs for keeping speakers to time. I thought I'd lost them!

Two signs in teal and purple branding, with a stopwatch icon. The first says "one minute remaining", the second says "time's up. S T F U."

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Chris Constantine-Armstrong @rhodium103.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I think we're good to reveal the whole Christmas #Chemistree at Hull. 100 pieces of glassware (I think) in total. No liquids in it this time as I've dangled lights into the flasks instead.

A Christmas tree viewed from above, lit with some bright blue-white LED lights.

A low angle shot of the tree showing its height. I didn't measure it.

Distant shot of the tree, showing that each bauble is actually a piece of Chemistry glassware. A lot of lens flare on this as I didn't wipe my camera properly.

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lab tech to the stars @saladcookies.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

chemsky - is anyone doing NON-fourier transform NMR these days??

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