Leo Betschart @betschart@qoto.org

I went on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to talk about #WomenInSTEM. You can catch it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dqy975 (I'm on from 27 minutes in).

If you installed PyTorch nightly between 25 Dec and today, you've been compromised. https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.

I saw a toot about how Mastodon isn’t a suitable network for social movements.. posted on a social network with 8 million accounts that has no adverts, is volunteer run, is open source, has no owner and is end to end free of big technology companies.

Boost if you

- love reading books
- love buying books

No one will know which one.

Sixty month anniversary of me coming out as trans 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

65 years ago today, the first antidepressant, Imipramin, was discovered by Roland Kuhn.

However,Kuhn, a psychiatrist, conducted unethical and scientifically questionable research on patients without consent in a Swiss psychiatric hospital for decades.

#Science #Medicine #Chemistry

Got to say my experience of other Andy Brunnings has been entirely negative.

There’s one who’s sat on the andybrunning Twitter handle for years without tweeting.

And now there’s another who’s racked up thousands in debt that I’m getting debt collection letters for.

Wish Derek Lowe was on Mastodon as well as Post but until then here’s the link to his commentary on the brouhaha at #ACS. #chemiverse https://post.news/article/2J91CQVKL7ReRTzyxP60lsB3eim

Considering my change of job this year I was mulling over what to do with my ACS membership. The two biggest reasons I maintained membership were access to C&EN (because of the great coverage of the chemistry community) and the reduced conference rates. The latter I no longer need and sadly the former may no longer be a compelling reason to stick around. 25 years ain't bad, but I think I'm done. Good luck to all the former C&EN eds & those still holding the fort.

#ChemiVerse #ChemToots

We've flown the coup and are now fully active on Mastodon! Come engage with us.

#TwitterPurge #FollowFriday #TwitterMigration #Twitter

People on the other site keep telling me that Mastodon is just an echo chamber... which... is not at all how I'm experiencing it. Lots of people seem willing to disagree with me and make their disagreements clear.

They just don't suggest that I don't deserve to live when they do. And that seems healthier.

If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…

#ChatGPT can be quite creative.

#ozchem #nzchem #Chemistry #Creative #poem #science #AI

Why do organic chemists still place NMR spectra and HPLC chromatograms at the end of the SI instead of right after the procedure? I am old enough to have experienced evenings creatively using the photocopy machine to add spectra at the end of the SI, but I see no reason to continue doing it this way. Isn't it easier for both the author and the reader to show the spectrum right after the procedure? Old habits die hard. If you get that suggestion from a reviewer, you'll know it's me! #chemistry