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Kate Lancaster

@drkatel.bsky.social

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All about lasers/plasmas/fusion/bread/miscellany. Senior lecturer in physics. She/Her

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today and everyday I stand by my trans friends and colleagues. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 1d

This weeks Jazzy Thursday was a simple but very shiny affair. Just a couple of coats of the prism polish “help me, I’m feeling”. Liquid silver gorgeousness. Lots of the students playing along which is very wholesome 🥰

My right hand showing highly silver nails (micro flakie silver polish). Looks like liquid silver but sparkly.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 5d

A Virgin Mary the Yorkshire way (with Hendo’s) 🥰

A glass of tomato juice with ice, lemon squeeze, and a good blob of Henderson relish. A bottle of hendo’s is on the left

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 8d

This week’s jazzy Thursday - Cherry and berry realness 😍

My right hand. The nails are minty base with cherry and berry nail stickers

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 8d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Brian Patten. He featured in one of my favourite poetry books when I was a teen 😢

Front cover of the penguin modern poets book “The Mersey sound” featuring Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten.

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 9d

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 10d

They stole my bit :( (dad was a toolmaker)

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 14d

I always have a greggles brekker on Fridays as a treat. Finally treated myself to their reusable cup. Fits perfectly into the cup holder in my car 🥰

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 15d

First jazzy Thursday of the season. I did magnetic nail polish from Prism (called “follow the screams”). A bit sparkly, a bit physics-y 🥰 🧲 💅

My left hand with blue/purple sparkly magnetic nail polish where the magnetic field has created a lighter blue swoosh”. It’s very pretty!

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 16d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 17d

As tradition dictates - the first maths lecture of the season gets the maths dress! 😀

My top half in a black dress with white maths equations abs shapes on it. My hair is down and I have black rimmed glasses on. I look suspiciously happy for the beginning of the semester

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 24d

Day 1, week 0 autumn semester! A picture for posterity (and to track the decay 😂)

Me with glasses on and hair down smiling in front of my bookcases

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 29d

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 29d

Never sleeping again thnx

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 7

OMG I was born in 1979…..

a penguin is sitting on top of a pile of pillows in a room .

ALT: a penguin is sitting on top of a pile of pillows in a room .

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 7

September garden is just 🥰🥰🥰🥰

A close up of two cosmos blooms that are the palest pink through to dark pink at the edges of the petals with yellow centres

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ah steps 🥰. My biggest regret at uni was not embracing steps. I was trying to be too cool for school that when steps came on I’d slump back from the union at listen to jazz. Insufferable 😂😂😂😂. #totp

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 5

The lightning seeds played my union in my first year (1997) and they defo played three lions more than once 😆)

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 5

I mean that cover of night fever by Adam Garcia was trash but I love that boy. He taught us tap at the festival hall when he was in hot shoe shuffle. Absolutely mind blowing for us teen tappers! 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 5

Watching TOTP and giggling because Mick Hucknall sang “I get blown all around the world” 😂😱

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yes I’m a giant baby but the new Sylvanian family range at uniqlo is 🥰

My in a white T-shirt with sylvanian families at the top and a 3 x 3 grid of cute lil characters

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Raccoons

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Andrej @tepid.meme · Aug 27

Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...

Greetings cards labelled "Nan, Nanna, Nanny, Nana and Nannie"

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 25

MATHS

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 22

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · Aug 22

@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you for my current ear worm 🎵long distance Clara ….🎵

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Hello I’m a competent human

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Aug 19

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