Dr Aidan Budd 🐈 @aidanbudd@scholar.social

Let me introduce you to the floff that is my grandparents cat. He is uncle to my kittens 🐈🌸 #mastocats

Finally finished my two blog posts on why I’m weaning myself away from Twitter in favour of Mastodon:

What’s wrong with Twitter?
https://laurakalbag.com/what-is-wrong-with-twitter/

What is Mastodon and why should I use it?
https://laurakalbag.com/what-is-mastodon-and-why-should-i-use-it/

Still the best thing when I'm drawing and a lock of my hair gets loose and falls in front of my face and it's MFING BLUE YAAH

Probably one of the saddest parts of leaving birdsite was that I’d spent a pretty decent amount of time trying to add and follow a lot more women in tech, and I miss hearing from them.

Help me balance my follows out and suggest some awesome #WomenInTech to follow (cis/trans, it’s all good). Boost this, maybe even reply with yourself, maybe we can get a good list of voices.

@jon Not very important:

* Scrambling in a vain attempt to prevent hurt feelings for the next rich dude who shows up on Masto and desperately wants to be An Important Ally and just isn't very good at it

Very important:

* Abuse, dog-piling, etc. is happening against women, queers and people of colour on Masto right now, and yet we aren't rushing to ensure that it never happens again

How's your day going? I just came out of the post office and got into the wrong car, so hope your day is going better 😂

Just had my first pull request to a GitHub project approved recently. This is my first time contributing to an open source project. Although it’s a fairly small language translation patch, but I am happy for taking the first step. 😁

I have all of these little pieces sitting in a folder waiting to be adopted. They range from 10 - 12cm square. For the low low price of $5 USD I will pop one in an envelope and send it to you. They will all be signed, and they're all original hand-drawn works. #MastoArt #CreativeToots

Hey pals do you think you could boost this so I can find & connect with more trans men here & irl? Thank you!

I really want to connect and talk to more artists ✨

Meh, sorry it's a Medium link, but I am re-posting because there can never be enough reminders.

*I'm in an almost entirely white workplace, and they're not successfully attracting, mentoring, or retaining diverse faculty. The white folks steering the ship, as it were, are frustratingly defensive.

https://medium.com/s/story/how-white-people-handle-diversity-training-in-the-workplace-e8408d2519f

Please boost:

Where are all the Mastodon #chemists?

#chemistry #chemist #mastochem

The N's justify the means

I'll be here all week everyone, tip your waiters

Dear folks making custom emojis for Mastodon, a note on accessibility from @laura:

“So while word_word or wordword seems to be the standard for multiple-word emoji on Mastodon, using camel case is probably more accessible.“

More tips at: https://laurakalbag.com/custom-emoji-on-mastodon/

So I'm thinking of tattoos, I am keen to get tattoos that fit within a bladerunner world. Not tattoos that are like drawing cybernetics on you. I want to look like someone in the world, not someone trying to paint the world on my body. Any ideas?

Does anybody have experience with applying for funding for postgrad (below-Doctorate) part-time distance courses? Unlikely, I know.

Any European researchers who would be affected by #PlanS? Do you mind funding agencies telling you, "You can't publish in Nature, Science, or Cell?"

My view in bed this morning #CatsOfMastodon