Chris Armstrong

🧪 Lecturer in Physical #Chemistry and #ChemEd
📜 SFHEA
👨‍🏫 (Deputy) Director of #Education
🖥️ Self-appointed #Canvas LMS expert
📊 Spreadsheet apologist
🎨 Occasional artist
⚔️ Warhammer adjacent
📺 Connoisseur of Netflix's finest trash
🐧 Chaotic neutral
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2024-09-11 10:33:33

The student approached the Master and said "He wants to put a million people on Mars by 2040! That's so amazing!"
The Master replied. "I have a better plan. I will put a million people on Antarctica by 2040."
"But that sounds fucking insane. Why would you want to do something that stupid? It's a barren wasteland that's difficult to populate and would provide us with absolutely nothing!"
At that moment, the student was enlightened.

2024-09-10 17:21:30

https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-closure-of-chemistry-department-at-university-of-hull
This petition to keep Chemistry in Hull went from 0 to 120 pretty fast. Unsure if I've burned any bridges sticking my name on it and being quite blunt (but I'd like to see them prove it isn't true) in the description. But what are they going to do? Fire me?
#petition #Chemistry #HigherEd #Hull #Universities

2024-09-09 10:53:37

I keep seeing adverts for AI things that will summarise lecture content so you don't need to listen to it. But... We have that already. Summaries, flash cards and textbooks exist. They're fairly freely available. Literally free if you know how.
AI will add nothing to that except significantly higher energy/water consumption and emissions, with the occasional misfire or hallucinated factoid. And they'll probably start charging you or bombarding you with horrifying advertising for the privilege.

2024-09-06 18:50:51

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A name you don't plan to use again.......are you Tara Gilesbie!?!

2024-09-06 12:22:40

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
We should have kept the abstract symbols so we could feel mysterious, aloof, and better than everyone else.

2024-07-30 12:15:36

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@npub1s97…lg0g
And we all know it's going cost £15 bn after overruns and delays. I don't know why they don't just add that extra 50% by default.

2024-07-20 07:33:01

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I thought I recognised that diagram, I work with some of the authors.

2024-07-16 07:22:43

I'm endlessly fascinated by the overlap of people who say "unskilled labour" and people who aren't competent to operate a self checkout.

2024-07-04 17:21:41

"Okay, my child, this music is called 'classic rock'."
🎶 Forfeit the game before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face, you can't run the race
The pace is too fast, you just won't last 🎶

2024-06-30 16:55:52

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@npub1lwu…6w4j I've started to get these, and it's so obviously phishing that I can only assume it's IT sending them out as a test.

2024-06-24 10:50:26

Working in UK Universities right now:
#AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Universities
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2024-06-20 14:33:36

#WritersCoffeeClub 20
Do you ever write in a cafe or bar?
And be *perceived*!?
By *real* people!?
Eugh... 😵

2024-06-09 09:37:49

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I haven't actually heard of the Rabbit R1 until now, so even figuring it out from context, my brain just read this as talking about the *other* type of very popular Rabbit.

2024-06-04 15:43:31

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It only goes downhill from there:
https://sphericalbullshit.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/things-to-do-instead-of-transformers-4/

2024-06-03 08:46:18

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@npub1dzj…4cun
The "should" makes it a very badly worded question.
In fact, if I was going to say something deeply unpopular, I think this tag has had some *terribly* worded questions, recently...

2024-06-01 18:26:27

Disney+ has a Pride Collection. Which I assume is a compilation of all the 2.3 second same-sex kisses that can be easily edited out for the international audience.

2024-05-25 15:16:38

A Glorious 25th of May to those who observe, and I hope you all enjoyed your hard boiled eggs.

2024-05-22 15:15:24

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And the tweet saying that was explicitly the intention.

2024-05-22 11:51:29

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I would assume it becomes impossible to read without hearing it in his voice, because I just read the marketing blurb as him, even though he possibly didn't write it.

2024-05-22 11:15:23

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2024-05-22 10:25:11

#WritersCoffeeClub 22 May - If someone were to write your biography, who would you want to write it?
I would.
And I don't mean the "of course I would write my own autobiography!" way, I mean, I'd write it as a biography. Under a pseudonym. And even add "unauthorized" on the cover. It would be very, very funny to watch.

2024-05-09 18:53:08

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2023-08-25 13:13:58

I have seem some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.
#Excel
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