We are going on holiday tomorrow. Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning. We are all coming home on the 11th. I am SO ANXIOUS
Materials Scientist & transmission electron microscopist, between institutions while I apply for a fellowship. Dyspraxic.
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We are going on holiday tomorrow. Mr Cat is going to the cattery this morning. We are all coming home on the 11th. I am SO ANXIOUS
Wood panelling on the inside of the kitchen door. Pink bathroom. Fluorescent pink legwarmers that were SO ITCHY. And people smoking EVERYWHERE. It smelled.
And TVs in their bedrooms omg. My mum would have never.
Whenever you post a photo of your kids they are looking back at you with so much love in their eyes ❤️
I think she might only have a blunt bread knife. We struggled until we bought a new one.
Thank you, I had forgotten to renew mine because they sent me the reminder on old-job payday and I decided to wait until new-job payday and then walked through a doorway and forgot.
You're asking the wrong questions. You have to ask questions to which the answer is treats.
There was a guide and they measure things, I didn't just wander out onto it and get lucky.
I visited this volcanic crater once. It's bigger than the picture looks like and you can walk on the mud crust as long as you stay away from the holes. The holes are surrounded by circles of Russian tourists peering into them from the very edge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisyros...
I think many things are damaging to jet engines if you spray it right down inside. Nevertheless you can take it apart and clean it. I find scrubbing carbon-based gunk off engine parts a meditative exercise and maybe gives time to think about not selling weapons to governments who blow up babies.
You'd think the disembodied pair of legs sitting next to Emmanuel Macron would be a clue.
Cybergoth?
Charlesworth that has those metal silhouettes of soldiers to show how hard they can remembrance, so when you drive through there and the sun is low it looks like a gunman is stalking cars from the hedge.
Here's the link to check. bsky.app/profile/mode... Bet I'm on it. I swear like a chuffer sometimes
They called the core a demon and executed it in revenge? I suppose it's politer than calling him "Louis Slotin, now known as the Bloody Idiot Corpse" but not that helpful for making people not do that again.
As a Joanne: I get what you mean.
The US Traitors season 1 cast will probably help once they shut all the useless screaming people in a box and form a crack team of the clever ones.
And the best way to transport rocket fuel up the 1000m from the bottom of the mountain to the top is to put it in a rocket and set fire to it rather than get some poor bastard to try and carry it safely.
I have this on my car journey playlist because it is SO GOOD when there is a traffic jam.
Yes there has: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_r... I think there are a few people alive who remember this, as children.
And he thinks throwing the grenade of a vivid image of sexual assault into the conversation will make him look **more** like an ally to women. I don't need a "friend" like that.
At least healing crystals look pretty
Inherently funny and also what you say when you find out you got on the tube in the wrong direction towards Cockfosters instead of the airport.
No My nemesis is people who get on a crowded train with a cold
In 50 years you'll be described as a fucking classic Not that helpful to your bank account now though
[paper from 1977] "The authors are particularly indebted to Mrs. M.H. Brady for preparation of the electron microscopy samples and for assistance in-TEM sample examination and data analysis" Why is she not FIRST AUTHOR That is literally THE ENTIRE STUDY you credit stealing bastards
SCIENCE WHATSAPPS Because nerds hate the phone
Ooh. Correction: not people - but other things including animal blood, oil, fat, wee and somebody has indeed tried milk. My favourite is "the urine of a small red-headed boy". How small is small enough? Bright red, or will ginger do? thermalprocessing.com/quenching-a-...
It does sound plausible though. There are tales of people quenching swords by plunging them into the chest of a prisoner to give the sword a taste of blood. It maybe would make it cool slightly less evenly but not that different from water tbh.
"Side effects may include lethargy" *black and white streak gallops past, up and down the stairs a couple of times, attempts to eat headphones and paper* We're probably ok on that front
(He's also thinking "I can smell Lickelix! Did you bring lickelix? For me?") yes but to mix your meds into young man.
Well you hear about those polar explorers who ate sled dogs' and their dead comrades' livers and went mad with vitamin A poisoning then died of cold having run around naked in the snow, so maybe that in that respect. Honestly though this is getting weird. Hopefully nobody gets eaten here.
Oh he woke up for elevenses! Here is Mr Cat reflecting on the last 24 hours.
Once as a student I told somebody that if he didn't understand the lecture he could go and look at books about it in the library and it might help and he gave me a look like 🤯 Apparently that was a trick he'd never seen 😆
Like in textbooks where they give a ridiculously trivial example and then the "questions to set your students" section is 10x more complicated.
What a horrible thing to do!
The building might though
And the amount your face hurts while you do it
If she ate you, she'd die? I'm...alarmed that she's considering it...
You have to wait until he wakes up around lunchtime!
Shout out to Mr Cat, adopted as a problem biter in February, who went to the vet for an abcess today and stood there eating Lickelix while she examined it and cleaned it and did not bite anybody even once. He is a Very Good Boy.
I was very imagining the world map my mum used to have on her dining room wall when I was a kid!
Ohhhh. Because you flew west to get there! That's clever!
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Yet when I write **the whole paper** in plain language I get stinking feedback from bosses and reviewers. Are we all writing papers to tell each other what we found, or to show that we are Very Clever People? Because I'm doing the first one but I swear to god I can't tell sometimes with others.
That's so shit!
And I've seen "world leading" professors attempt to check in for a flight and then get on it without stepping on anybody. ChatGPT would have done only marginally worse.
No I think it's quite accurate. I've been in meetings of PhD level experts that consume enough energy for a whole week of sensible tasks and come out with paragraphs of useless nonsense at the end.
Where is the Singapore in the west? Is it a US town?
Tilly died? Oh no! Poor kitty!
"Where's the bucket of sand?" is probably in my top ten, after "Run and keep running" and before "I've never heard it make that noise before".
Ok, well, I can drop a "Professor A is an asshole and when he dies I'll piss on his bigoted grave before I paint his old office rainbow colours" in between the iron-carbon phase diagram and the influence of kinetic factors on its interpretation.
Yet 40% of those anti-refugee protesters had a record of domestic violence. When they talk about protecting women and children, they mean protecting like packaging protects fruit: "save some for us to use".
Mrs Cat used to bring those in and then decide they weren't tasty after all and let them go.
Trans people existing definitely impacts my mental health. A trans man showed me I wasn't too disgusting for anybody to love, a trans woman saved my life and then some years later a different trans woman picked me up from an emergency hospital admission and gave me somewhere safe to live.
Woman is This [the best you could think of as a name for your weirdass hate club]
Sheffield: "We put a hill on a hill so you can walk up a hill while you walk up a hill. Also good luck finding the door of literally any building" Huddersfield: "Oh you wanted to study that? We just fired everybody who knows about it. And that too. And that."
A watched article never progresses. Go do something else and you will have 6 pages of terrible reviewer comments in a flash/7 months' time.
Hmmmmm 🤔 perhaps people who fake their data tend to ignore what their electron microscopy people say. Perhaps sometimes it's "you cited the SEM wrong, boss" and sometimes it's "what the hell did you do to that image"...
They're starting to figure out materials that might not be completely destroyed by it, and thinking of ways to extract the tritium and debris from where it attacked the walls so they can repurify it and recycle it. Very tiny tiny steps. I haven't the heart to ask what they do with the lab waste.
What does Jesus heart, on that wall there? Dodgy bannisters?
Good god, and with attitudes like that she's allowed to deliver medical care to people? Imagine how horrible she must be to Muslim patients. There's a face that would withhold pain relief and laugh about it.
Oh, FLiBe. The conference presentations that don't get questions because everybody is sitting with their head in their hands thinking "what the fuck did you do that for?"
Though one of the coolest bits is the patterns that molten salts make under the surface of stainless steels as they dig out massive corrosion pits that you can barely see from the surface. You can see the crystallography!
As a metallurgist, yes.
I suspect I have made an SEM attribution error a few times from one SEM being broken and switching to another one to get an emergency image requested by a coauthor or reviewer then forgetting to add it to Methods. But maybe I have just not thought of more sinister possible explanations before. 😟
Secondly, some labs have uncredited technicians who do all the electron microscopy and you can tell the authors don't understand the details - in those places wrong SEM errors are less likely to get spotted in edit by authors. I hate that approach but it could be another underlying factor.
That is really interesting, but I have some doubts. They correlate errors in a calculation with writing the wrong SEM in the methods section - could both of these be an indicator of an underlying cause that they're tired and not paying attention to detail? More points to follow...
It's like disapproval of afro hair. It isn't ugly, it means somebody who isn't like the speaker is getting a chance to thrive, and that's what makes the right wing angry.
Eyes, clearly, because fish.
Had it been in the freezer?
Sometimes the smell is trapped in a bubble under the surface and it only reeks when you pour it.
If this is the lab head I think it is (it probably isn't) he was watching other people do fun stuff on 3 different tabs at the back of the conference one time and I thought it was genuinely quite sad.
Maybe he'll fall asleep
Looking for the crime section to see if it could be outfoxed by Agatha Christie :)
Probably a bit late by now, but try in the shed door, on the floor near the shed door, anywhere you might have crouched down on the way back to the house, on the kitchen counter, in your pocket or any pocket in any clothes you recently took off, on top of the fridge, in the bathroom.
If you do give up BlueSky, I'm glad you were on here in the first place so I could catch up and find out you were still alive, kicking and awesome.
It really, really is. There are places I won't go because I know how sick I would get if I capsized.
It's picking the wet wipes and sanitary towels out of the trees after high water that gets you. As a canoeist, trust me, I know.
They could film it as reality TV and enough people would want to watch it that they could fix some of the pipes with the proceeds!
The details of getting things to actually work, like code, or physics, or cleaning, or cooking, are seen as "grunt work for inferior people" and then as unimportant and unnecessary, because they've never done it and they've learned not to see dirt/errors/civil infrastructure.
Ohhh. Those are the people who wash up by rinsing the inside of a saucepan and walking away from it because their time is "too valuable to spend doing worthless things". The modern equivalent of those useless viscounts who couldn't dress or feed themselves and lived only to breed and play cards.
They're targeting Hampstead Heath ponds because it's historically been a LGBTQ+ positive space and has always been on their hit list.
It's wild to me that no kind of clothes has thigh measurement listed when that's the bit of me that I have to buy things to fit. I don't even run unless there's a bear or a bus, I just lift normal garden objects ever.
I have trouble writing about elections because my fingers want to write electron and I have to stop for a few seconds to give them different instructions.
Also those people behind us screaming "OH MY GOOODDDD I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN AAAGESSSS" are clearly overdoing it and were talking shit about each other not five minutes ago.
I'm just chilling with my friend at the side of the pool while those identical-looking girls bitch about us but we don't care.
Everybody thinks I'm kidding when I tell them "maybe if you stop being a bunch of knobheads". I never am kidding.
Calling the police on a scared primary school age child?! What a big man he must feel.
My dad: "turn the landing light off or it'll be full of planes in here". 1) We lived on the Heathrow flight path 2) He really liked the Only Fools and Horses episode where they end up with a radar antenna from an airport on their balcony.
My thoughts exactly.
I am a scientist with a disability and in Germany, I would have been pushed out as too untermensch within a single number of years of my PhD. And I use that word deliberately because it comes from the same philosophical origin as this system.
" the university’s lawyers wrote: “...you continue to directly contact university staff despite the university’s request that you cease ...” Enough replied: “We still live in a free country and we can talk to who we like.”" That set off a red flag right there.
Oh tell me about it. I was the best transmission electron microscopist in the university and by god I was discouraged from moving upwards sometimes.
I used to be that person in my office and then there was a pandemic and a lockdown and suddenly everybody could magically share Google Drive folders unaided. Wow! Grrr
And if we suggest paying them half because they do half a job, suddenly we're the poor team players.
Nah they quoted the application number and the title, I believed it!
To the next hurdle! Now I have to prepare for interview in October which is where I fell last time, but on the other hand, better project this time, haven't just got married and moved house, face not exploding, so there's that.
I hope you doooooo!
Mine too!