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Christian Donohoe

@donohedron.bsky.social

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Sugar-beet scientist, UK @ KU British PostDoc at Københavns Universitet, working on green upcycling processes for sugar beet pulp! Some bleaching methods, enzymology (LPMOs), and material sciences to boot as well

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · May 15

Got sent a letter with some test results from my doctor that ended with "hope you are well" and my dude you are the one person who should know if that is true or not 😅

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · 9d

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 🧪

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

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 11d

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."

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."

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · 15d

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. -_-

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · 23d

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

Marie Pavlik

www.mariepavlik.com

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · 26d

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)

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

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 30

That's quite the chart annotation.

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

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%.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 30

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

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

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

benansell.substack.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Sep 15

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

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milo edwards @miloedwards.bsky.social · Sep 15

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

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oh yeah such a hellhole when will Copenhagen get robotaxis

Bike parking of the metro I'm Copenhagen on the edge of a pedestrian plaza on a sunny day. Preety chill (and quiet! Although hard to get that across in a photo)

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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.

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Aug 22

First postdoc paper submitted!

"Exploring Totally-Chlorine-Free Bleaching Methods to Produce Sugar Beet Pulp Cellulose Nanofibers"

not sure when/if a preprint will be available but still exciting :D

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Aug 14

"hope this email finds you well"

.....

Me:

Classical fresco of an unimpressed stucco man peering out of a ornate porthole high on a wall in a gallery in Oslo

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 9

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · Aug 9

The Mail on Sunday: TOP TORY'S FEARS FOR DAUGHTERS OVER BOAT MIGRANTS #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just saw my first cat on the CPH metro riding pirate-style 🥰🥰

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · Jun 4

Watching the new netflix detective show #DeptQ set in my old uni towm Edinburgh and the only thing breaking the immersion for me is hearing more Scottish accents in one episode than I did in 5 years living there 😅

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · May 27

I mean if they're going to change "sulphur" to "sulfur" we can definitely change "pH" to "f"

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · May 22

Door-to-Door shipping now available in your area

children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · May 22

like fucking hell...

a giant container ship run around viewed from the air and its bow is sooo fucking close to squishing a house.

a close up of the container ship bow boner mere meters from smashing through someone's house.

Christian Donohoe @donohedron.bsky.social · May 21

Some good news!
The sudden and unexpected ban last year from one multimillionaire hedge-fund manager land-owner has been overturned.
I spent a lot of my childhood hikes across and around Dartmoor and it means a lot to see it open up again to those who care

bbc.com/news/article...

Wild camping on Dartmoor backed by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court upholds the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor in Devon.

bbc.com

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