A fun day of coding!
Spent all morning and most of the afternoon trying to get the software stack installed. Succeeded and found out I did not have access to the repository. Waited, to get access. Turns out private key is not on new laptop. Now it's the end of the day. What a fun day of coding.
Are you interested in the history of rivers? Do you wonder how historians and environmental scientists can work together? Join the EDHS seminar to hear from the ARTEMIS team about their amazing project exploring the histories and ecologies of the Scheldt. #envhist #histsci #skystorians #dh
A petition against the mass redundancies proposed at my university: www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Im always skeptical about high performance laptops. Used to use them in previous roles alot, but I always wonder how cost-effective and environmentally friedly they are conpared to laptops for email/cms and using some form of backend compute. I think that method is better for collaboration as well
So jealous! Would love to see this in person, I bet it looks amazing.
Slightly clearer photo from above. Chocolate cake (soil) with grass and trees, and victoria sponge with a butter cream river.
Did a little bit of baking for the NCDR Science Area Meeting at work today. Was fun to get creative again. @ukceh.bsky.social
Ah, that time of year when North America has put their clocks ahead but the UK has not yet switched to British Summer Time so everyone is perpetually confused about what time their trans-Atlantic meetings are. The best solution is that we should just have no meetings for the next three weeks.
There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Software Sustainability Institute Research Software Maintenance Fund logo, a grey wavy pattern
🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
Continuing the @hiddenref.bsky.social movement with my amazing partners James Baker and @simonhettrick.bsky.social !
Buzz us to find out how to join us!
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
"Unfunded research" = basic research motivated by disciplinary importance, which forms the basis for funded research and the international reputation of universities that drives student recruitment.
Without it, a university is not a research university and is not financial viable.
That seems extreme, I like cycling byt this is too much. But like those that chose to go running up hills, they enjoy it, but I don't understand it.
emojis vary across platform/provider, studies have shown that somr are more agressive depending on the phone OS. As if writing messages wasn't stressful enough with anxiety.
youtube.com/shorts/i4VEt...
1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵
I was never happy with most explanations I was given for how rainbows are formed. This wonderful video from @veritasium-science.bsky.social explains it, an any questions I had about rainbows.
Neurotypicals and also me so I'm in no position to judge, but yes, I hope you all enjoy your restricted and repetitive behaviours in the coming week
from datetime import date
def greeting():
d = date.today()
if d.month > 1 and d.month < 12: print('Too early!')
elif d.month == 12 and d.day == 25: print("Merry Christmas!")
elif d.month == 12 and d.day < 25: print("Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!")
else: print("Happy New Year!")
🎁 Steve is trying his best this Christmas...
I feel your pain. I think the most I have ever managed was 3 days and then ran out of time.
