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Dr Kat Day (she/her)

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Science & Fiction editor/writer. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Deputy Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Short fiction https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com 🖊️

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · May 15

Maybe I STARTED OUT made of sugar and spice and all things nice, but now I’m made of coffee, capsicum, obstreperousness and dark stories.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1h

How it started ⬆️
How it’s going ⬇️

A much larger orange cat, sitting on the floor, looking over his shoulder

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1h

Five years ago today (awww) 🧡

A teeny tiny orange fluff ball kitten, stretched over my legs and a cushion

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 8h

Your daily horoscope:
Today you are a page in a coloring book - feeling half finished and waiting for someone to fill you in.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8h

It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD and this is @mind.org.uk’s campaign 💙

Shows a photo of a woman looking off to the side.
Text:

It's the day
everything was
ripped away
to the day I found
hope.

Fight for mental health every day.
mind.org.uk/wmhd

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8h

Oh, is it, we hadn’t noticed 😁

a man in a military uniform is sitting in a classroom with other men and says `` it 's classified . ''

Alt: Tom Cruise is sitting in a classroom with other people and says “it's classified.”

media.tenor.com

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10h

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 9h

Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be

“Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein
They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser
Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao

Various CWs: please follow the link

PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be

Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. There’s a gale when dawn illuminates our world. The morning light arrives as though leached from my son’s eyes, his gaze cast skyward…

pseudopod.org

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 13h

It's just 28 days to WFC. PR3 has gone out and with it the news about our new MC. We are very sorry to lose Sarah Pinborough but delighted to welcome Joanne Harris.
Joanne Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written over 20 novels, published in over 50 countries.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 12h

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13h

Yep. And, distressingly, sometimes women tacitly defend it (“oh, just the way men think” “all men are like that” “of his time”) and everyone needs to push back a bit harder against that kind of internalised attitude.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13h

I really believe they don’t perceive women as humans equivalent to themselves, and that leads to some *extremely* dangerous thinking

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13h

As I said, oh, just a couple of hours ago…

You’ve got to ask some serious questions about men who perceive machines as people and women as things.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 17h

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 14h

Thank you, @compoundchem.com! 👇

Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 15h

Yes! I've got this which needs updating (for the whopping one additional woman who's won the prize since 2020). "Nobel Prize diversity" is a bit of an oxymoron...

And a whole women in chemistry category here which shows there's no shortage of potential nominees: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...

Infographic showing the number of men (179) and women (7) who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry between 1901 and 2020

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 15h

Also going to tag @compoundchem.com @andy.compoundchem.com as he has graphics both on women in chemistry and (I think) on Nobel Prize diversity, and this might be a good time to bring some of those out…

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16h

Here’s Dr Jess Wade’s bio. I don’t think she’s on here, but you should follow her work. She’s amazing.

profiles.imperial.ac.uk/jessica.wade

Discovery

profiles.imperial.ac.uk

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16h

It tells you *everything* you need to know about these people that they perceive machines as people and women as things.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 16h

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Jonathan H. Liu @jonathanhliu.bsky.social · 23h

#Etchtober Day 9

Today's prompt: "Lego Spider-Man and Lego Batman bonding over how great gadgets are," requested by Nick & Jen.

Who's old enough to remember these gadgets?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jhl...

Pocket Etch-a-Sketch drawing: Lego Spider-Man and Lego Batman stand behind a table with four objects from the Far Side cartoon "Cow Tools"

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 17h

And this morning the Shed is a battleship, with cannons at the ready…

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

If it helps, you can turn reposts and/or quote posts off on your Following feed, and that way you don’t see the same thing umpteen times :-)

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Phew.

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 1d

Today is #NationalNanotechnologyDay 🔬

Here's a look at some of the big jobs tiny particles can do in @cenmag.bsky.social

cen.acs.org/articles/94/...

#ChemSky 🧪

This is an infographic explaining the chemistry behind nanotechnology in a few consumer products, including silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial uses, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens, carbon nanotubes in sports equipment and quantum dots in televisions.

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