Dr Kiri Thornalley
@kizzythechemist.bsky.social
Usually overcaffeinated nanochemist.
Queer. they/them
Queer. they/them
Fly my pretty fellowship proposal!!
(And now we wait).
(And now we wait).
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fly my pretty fellowship proposal!!
(And now we wait).
(And now we wait).
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Microphones Do I really need a microphone?
Yes! You might think you have a booming voice, but It's not about you & folks at the back may be struggling with the echo, or the hum of the air con, or using a hearing aid & induction loop.
If its provided, use the mic.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
Yes! You might think you have a booming voice, but It's not about you & folks at the back may be struggling with the echo, or the hum of the air con, or using a hearing aid & induction loop.
If its provided, use the mic.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Microphones Do I really need a microphone?
Yes! You might think you have a booming voice, but It's not about you & folks at the back may be struggling with the echo, or the hum of the air con, or using a hearing aid & induction loop.
If its provided, use the mic.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
Yes! You might think you have a booming voice, but It's not about you & folks at the back may be struggling with the echo, or the hum of the air con, or using a hearing aid & induction loop.
If its provided, use the mic.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
Considering how dark, wet and miserable it is outside, apparently the universe really does want me to get this fellowship proposal written.
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Considering how dark, wet and miserable it is outside, apparently the universe really does want me to get this fellowship proposal written.
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Released v0.2.0 of the @coreacter.org code SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a Julia package for dealing with my current mathematical obsession, directed hypergraphs.
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
GitHub - CoReACTER/SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl: An package for directed hypergraphs in the Julia programming language, extending SimpleHypergraphs.jl
An package for directed hypergraphs in the Julia programming language, extending SimpleHypergraphs.jl - CoReACTER/SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Released v0.2.0 of the @coreacter.org code SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a Julia package for dealing with my current mathematical obsession, directed hypergraphs.
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
New release includes heuristic and exact shortest-path algorithms for directed hypergraphs.
#mathsky #networksci #hypergraph #julialang
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Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky
Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC
Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
Not really sure if this is normal, but apparently "start writing new fellowship proposal, get obsessed with a different food" is how it's going here. The last one - cheese and ploughmans plum chutney toasties. This one - tea loaf and very specifically Assam tea.
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not really sure if this is normal, but apparently "start writing new fellowship proposal, get obsessed with a different food" is how it's going here. The last one - cheese and ploughmans plum chutney toasties. This one - tea loaf and very specifically Assam tea.
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Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
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At drink and draw tonight and the first prompt- and hey listen I just wrote the prompt I did NOT choose it, they chose it! You can’t blame me! I am blameless!!!!!…
Was beluga with a boob job lmfao
Was beluga with a boob job lmfao
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
At drink and draw tonight and the first prompt- and hey listen I just wrote the prompt I did NOT choose it, they chose it! You can’t blame me! I am blameless!!!!!…
Was beluga with a boob job lmfao
Was beluga with a boob job lmfao
I feel like an absolute Cassandra. I definitely remember having a conversation in supervision 2 and a half years ago about how they'll come for Gillick competence, and later it'll be contraceptives and a persons right to abortion.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I feel like an absolute Cassandra. I definitely remember having a conversation in supervision 2 and a half years ago about how they'll come for Gillick competence, and later it'll be contraceptives and a persons right to abortion.
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Join us for a live webinar with @royalsociety.org to see how we can make science more accessible for everyone.
Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM.
Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht
#ChemSky
Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM.
Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht
#ChemSky
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us for a live webinar with @royalsociety.org to see how we can make science more accessible for everyone.
Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM.
Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht
#ChemSky
Hear from members of our Inclusion and Diversity Committee and watch a panel of invited speakers discuss improving inclusion in STEM.
Save the date and the link: rsc.li/4o5uCht
#ChemSky
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This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
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More real talk from James Richards if EDICa at the @edicaucus.bsky.social symposium today: EDI as messy, not a 'nice' subject. People who want to make a difference need to get their hands dirty.
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
More real talk from James Richards if EDICa at the @edicaucus.bsky.social symposium today: EDI as messy, not a 'nice' subject. People who want to make a difference need to get their hands dirty.
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If you are looking for resources, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social produced an extremely comprehensive document with a long list of articles, papers, books, and more:
prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you are looking for resources, @shaunoboyle.bsky.social produced an extremely comprehensive document with a long list of articles, papers, books, and more:
prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
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It's #LGBTQSTEMDay so why not treat yourself to an "It's Dr Actually" pride pin or some queer #SciArt from a trans femme scientist?
canopyrobin.etsy.com #PrideInSTEM
canopyrobin.etsy.com #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's #LGBTQSTEMDay so why not treat yourself to an "It's Dr Actually" pride pin or some queer #SciArt from a trans femme scientist?
canopyrobin.etsy.com #PrideInSTEM
canopyrobin.etsy.com #PrideInSTEM
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
I know it's very in fashion to bring back things from the late 90 and early 00s, but maybe we didn't need to bring back the concept of a Furby and somehow make it even worse?
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I know it's very in fashion to bring back things from the late 90 and early 00s, but maybe we didn't need to bring back the concept of a Furby and somehow make it even worse?
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“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government”
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government”
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government.
You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.
Realised I was a lesbian at 14-15. Learnt the word non-binary at 23, took about a year to realise that applied to me - that was fun having to misgender myself during PhD applications, just in case things got sent in the post.
I'm 32.
I'm 32.
Queer BlueSky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?
I never officially came out as queer, just talked about being bi on myspace from 16-20 which upset my family 🤣
I'm 37 now.
I never officially came out as queer, just talked about being bi on myspace from 16-20 which upset my family 🤣
I'm 37 now.
I was 18, said I was bi and my mom cried non-stop for 2 hours.
I'm 36 now.
I'm 36 now.
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Realised I was a lesbian at 14-15. Learnt the word non-binary at 23, took about a year to realise that applied to me - that was fun having to misgender myself during PhD applications, just in case things got sent in the post.
I'm 32.
I'm 32.
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We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
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Stop using chatgpt adopt an autistic with special interests TODAY this deal wont last forever mostly cause they get overstimulated pretty fast but hey great for the environment amirite
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Stop using chatgpt adopt an autistic with special interests TODAY this deal wont last forever mostly cause they get overstimulated pretty fast but hey great for the environment amirite
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I can’t quite comprehend and still many clinical trial papers that many patients no doubt would like to read and behind a paywall. It’s entirely unacceptable. Journals should make articles used in potentially life altering clinical decision making free. How are they not.
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I can’t quite comprehend and still many clinical trial papers that many patients no doubt would like to read and behind a paywall. It’s entirely unacceptable. Journals should make articles used in potentially life altering clinical decision making free. How are they not.
I genuinely love it so much when people propose research projects/ write papers that prove my ideas aren't completely bonkers.
We are recruiting a fully-funded 3.5yr PhD student to examine the potential genetic relationships between autism and hypermobility. Full details of the project and how to apply here ⬇️
usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.
usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Deadline Jan 12th! Within the Precision Medicine DTC at Edinburgh.
Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility | Precision Medicine Doctoral Training Programme | Usher Institute
Precision Medicine Project - Understanding the relationship between autism and hypermobility
usher.ed.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I genuinely love it so much when people propose research projects/ write papers that prove my ideas aren't completely bonkers.
TFW you've just seen a fellowship that would fit your research interests perfectly. If only it was advertised a year and a bit from now 😭.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
TFW you've just seen a fellowship that would fit your research interests perfectly. If only it was advertised a year and a bit from now 😭.
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My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
Ramping Up Rights | Hurst Publishers
A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn’t over.
www.hurstpublishers.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...