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Dr Kat Day 🏳‍🌈 🖋 ⚗ 🐙

@chronicleflask

Mar 6

I am a proofreader. Would you like a list of words which are very nearly, not not quite, the same?

Of course you would 😆
All right… 🧵

Forgo: opt out/abstain

Forego: go before

(Remember FOREgo means beFORE)

Complement: completes something/adds features

Compliment: a nice thing to say

(I always find myself double-checking this one. Remember compLEment means to compLEte)

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Dr Kat Day 🏳‍🌈 🖋 ⚗ 🐙

@chronicleflask

Jan 18

I’ve been asked to make a post about my twisty-turny career for #YoungScientistNetworking, because not all PhDs end up in academia. So, here goes… 🧵
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@periodicvideos

I finished my chemistry PhD in 2000, at Nottingham University (home of @periodicvideos!). I briefly contemplated working for Bio-Rad, because I’d done a lot of infrared spec, but instead I joined UoN’s web design team (it was a pretty new thing, then)
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After two years I decided I missed the science. So I left to complete a teacher-training course. I’d go on to teach secondary science, particularly chemistry, on and off for nearly twenty years
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Dr Kat Day 🏳‍🌈 🖋 ⚗ 🐙

@chronicleflask

Aug 23, 2021

I like that fact that this article reads as incredibly biased against the pub, but even with the slantiest ever slant, literally all they’ve got is, “yeah well the bar manager has some words in their Twitter name. It’s locked now but they did. Honest.”

edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/…

“Ok I *did* shout at the manager, but they said a thing I didn’t like”

“The stickers & leaflets in the toilets were Nothing To Do With Us.”

“We kept our thoughts to ourselves. Except the ones on our t-shirts.”

“We’re victims of a Very Unlikely series of coincidences, guv!”

Screenshots with alt text because the article seems to have mysteriously disappeared…

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Dr Kat Day 🏳‍🌈 🖋 ⚗ 🐙

@chronicleflask

Aug 21, 2021

Pinched from jesseosheamd (MD Jesse O’Shea) on Instagram. More in thread 🧵 … #COVID19 #VaccinesWork #Vaccines
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Top: a 47-year-old man without known comorbidities who received one Pfizer vaccine and developed COVID-19 2 weeks after. While he had a runny nose, mild body aches, and mild cough, his chest X ray is relatively normal.

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Bottom: a 50-year-old active female patient developed lung damage (all the fluffy white bits that oxygen can no longer reach) and required the greatest amount of life support available, after contracting COVID-19 while unvaccinated.

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Dr Kat Day 🏳‍🌈 🖋 ⚗ 🐙

@chronicleflask

Mar 3, 2021

One of my favourite science "facts" is that, by diameter, you can fit the other planets into the gap between the Earth and the Moon.

An argument recently broke out on Facebook about the truth of this, which led me to Check The Numbers.

Ready?
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The Moon isn't always the same distance from the Earth. Its nearest point is called the perigee, furthest is the apogee.

The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 356,500 km at the perigee, and 406,700 km at the apogee.

The time-averaged distance is 385,000 km.
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But.
Those distances are from centre to centre. So, we should subtract half the diameter of the Earth (6378 km) and half the diameter of the Moon (1738 km). That's 8116 km. So:

Perigee: 348,385 km
Apogee: 398,585 km
Time-averaged: 376,885 km
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