Kate Lancaster
@profkatel.bsky.social
All about lasers/plasmas/fusion/bread/miscellany. Professor in physics. She/Her
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Kate Lancaster
@profkatel.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Today and everyday I stand by my trans friends and colleagues. ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️
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On this Clean Air Day, help us reach schools in England and Wales to take part in our monitoring study #InternationalDayOfCleanAirForBlueSkies #CleanAir #BlueSkies
We’re recruiting schools in England and Wales to take part in CHILI: research exploring how the changing climate affects classroom environments, pupil health and attainment.
Could you help us reach schools?
Ready-made copy 👉 tinyurl.com/CHILIschools
🍎 #STEM #HealthyAir #HealthySchool #SciTeachUK
Could you help us reach schools?
Ready-made copy 👉 tinyurl.com/CHILIschools
🍎 #STEM #HealthyAir #HealthySchool #SciTeachUK
September 7, 2026 at 2:28 PM
On this Clean Air Day, help us reach schools in England and Wales to take part in our monitoring study #InternationalDayOfCleanAirForBlueSkies #CleanAir #BlueSkies
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Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
September 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most:
1. Nuts and gum,together at last.
2. Stupid, sexy, flanders
3. I was saying boo-urns
4. Its all coming up Milhouse
5. You don’t win friends with salad
1. Nuts and gum,together at last.
2. Stupid, sexy, flanders
3. I was saying boo-urns
4. Its all coming up Milhouse
5. You don’t win friends with salad
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most:
1. My story's better, it has tigers.
2. Baby... Baby... Oh... lemon.
3. I'd say he eats more like a duck.
4. Linguo...is...dead
5. Chewy!
1. My story's better, it has tigers.
2. Baby... Baby... Oh... lemon.
3. I'd say he eats more like a duck.
4. Linguo...is...dead
5. Chewy!
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most:
1. Yeah, the legend of the dog-faced woman!
2. Implied, Lisa? Or implode?
3. Endut! Hoch hech!
4. Probably misses his old glasses.
5. Please eliminate three.
1. Yeah, the legend of the dog-faced woman!
2. Implied, Lisa? Or implode?
3. Endut! Hoch hech!
4. Probably misses his old glasses.
5. Please eliminate three.
August 25, 2026 at 7:02 AM
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most:
1. Nuts and gum,together at last.
2. Stupid, sexy, flanders
3. I was saying boo-urns
4. Its all coming up Milhouse
5. You don’t win friends with salad
1. Nuts and gum,together at last.
2. Stupid, sexy, flanders
3. I was saying boo-urns
4. Its all coming up Milhouse
5. You don’t win friends with salad
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All I would ask is if you work or study in a uni, check in with colleagues who may need help. And continue to do so.
A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other.
Help here
www.papyrus-uk.org
www.thecalmzone.net
anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform...
blackbritishacademics.co.uk
A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other.
Help here
www.papyrus-uk.org
www.thecalmzone.net
anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform...
blackbritishacademics.co.uk
August 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
All I would ask is if you work or study in a uni, check in with colleagues who may need help. And continue to do so.
A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other.
Help here
www.papyrus-uk.org
www.thecalmzone.net
anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform...
blackbritishacademics.co.uk
A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other.
Help here
www.papyrus-uk.org
www.thecalmzone.net
anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform...
blackbritishacademics.co.uk
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🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨
As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights.
Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights.
Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
July 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨
As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights.
Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights.
Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
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Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?...
Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
July 28, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?...
Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
Unbelievably glad that Glastonbury wasn’t on this week as it would have been brutally hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥
June 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Unbelievably glad that Glastonbury wasn’t on this week as it would have been brutally hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Breathe a sigh of relief that the HUGE and very boozy stag do are not on my flight. Poor Bucharest that’s all I can say :/
June 21, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Breathe a sigh of relief that the HUGE and very boozy stag do are not on my flight. Poor Bucharest that’s all I can say :/
Apparently Odelay turns 30 today 😱. My soundtrack to my first year at uni 😍
June 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Apparently Odelay turns 30 today 😱. My soundtrack to my first year at uni 😍
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It’s Pride 🏳️🌈
Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺
My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521
New for Pride 2026:
🌈Scientist🌈
🏳️🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️🌈
🌈pronouns🌈
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺
My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521
New for Pride 2026:
🌈Scientist🌈
🏳️🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️🌈
🌈pronouns🌈
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
June 2, 2026 at 10:46 AM
It’s Pride 🏳️🌈
Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺
My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521
New for Pride 2026:
🌈Scientist🌈
🏳️🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️🌈
🌈pronouns🌈
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺
My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521
New for Pride 2026:
🌈Scientist🌈
🏳️🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️🌈
🌈pronouns🌈
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
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There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
May 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you
May 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you
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In 1915, Gillette began convincing women that leg & armpit hair were embarrassing, masculine & unhygienic--to sell razors. A norm that has no health benefits but incredible compliance. Women are called 'disgusting' when they have the same body hair as men. www.thepersistent.com/tangled-hist...
The Tangled History of Women and Body Hair
Is it time, finally, to push back?
www.thepersistent.com
April 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
In 1915, Gillette began convincing women that leg & armpit hair were embarrassing, masculine & unhygienic--to sell razors. A norm that has no health benefits but incredible compliance. Women are called 'disgusting' when they have the same body hair as men. www.thepersistent.com/tangled-hist...
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Today marks the 44th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum, the weird little goblin of a computer that changed my life. My ongoing book series Speccy Nation is my attempt to explore why this period of gaming captivated me so deeply.
Buy 'em here: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=speccy+n...
#ZXSpectrum
Buy 'em here: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=speccy+n...
#ZXSpectrum
April 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Today marks the 44th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum, the weird little goblin of a computer that changed my life. My ongoing book series Speccy Nation is my attempt to explore why this period of gaming captivated me so deeply.
Buy 'em here: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=speccy+n...
#ZXSpectrum
Buy 'em here: www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=speccy+n...
#ZXSpectrum
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Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Astronomer | blue plaques
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was widely considered the most eminent woman astronomer of the mid-20th century. She is recognised by a plaque at the home where she grew up, 70 Lansdowne Road.
www.english-heritage.org.uk
April 22, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)
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The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
April 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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Graduates who experienced poverty in childhood still face a significant earnings gap after a decade in work 👎
An important new report from @resolutionfoundation.org reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
An important new report from @resolutionfoundation.org reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
The long shadow • Resolution Foundation
Childhood poverty casts a long shadow over graduates’ earnings. This briefing note shows that even after achieving the same grade from the same university and working for the same employer a decade…
www.resolutionfoundation.org
March 26, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Graduates who experienced poverty in childhood still face a significant earnings gap after a decade in work 👎
An important new report from @resolutionfoundation.org reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
An important new report from @resolutionfoundation.org reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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Watch the new film from Royal Society about the story of Hertha Ayrton, the first woman to be nominated for election to the Royal Society #womeinstem www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLt...
Hertha Ayrton and the electric arc | The Royal Society
YouTube video by The Royal Society
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March 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Watch the new film from Royal Society about the story of Hertha Ayrton, the first woman to be nominated for election to the Royal Society #womeinstem www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLt...
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Left a bit. Stop. Back a bit. Stop. Back the other way. Yup. Up a bit. Stop. Down a touch. Stop. Done.”
“Left a bit. Stop. Back a bit. Stop. Back the other way. Yup. Up a bit. Stop. Down a touch. Stop. Done.”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Yes, that will need to be risk assessed. Yes, for each individual activity. Yes, for each one. Each one, yes, a risk assessment for each one”.
“Yes, that will need to be risk assessed. Yes, for each individual activity. Yes, for each one. Each one, yes, a risk assessment for each one”.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
'It is probably just a rock, but...'
'It is probably just a rock, but...'
March 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Left a bit. Stop. Back a bit. Stop. Back the other way. Yup. Up a bit. Stop. Down a touch. Stop. Done.”
“Left a bit. Stop. Back a bit. Stop. Back the other way. Yup. Up a bit. Stop. Down a touch. Stop. Done.”
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Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷
For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence
For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence
March 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷
For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence
For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence
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What inspires someone to pursue physics for life?
From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys.
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟
From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys.
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟
March 8, 2026 at 10:01 AM
What inspires someone to pursue physics for life?
From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys.
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟
From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys.
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟
I’ve found a new delight: biscoff spread on a hot crumpet 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😍
a pancake with the word wtf printed on it
ALT: a pancake with the word wtf printed on it
media.tenor.com
February 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I’ve found a new delight: biscoff spread on a hot crumpet 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😍
Hah. 2013. Playing around with weird effects. #oldestselfie on my phone 🤣
February 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Hah. 2013. Playing around with weird effects. #oldestselfie on my phone 🤣