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Mrs Julie Scattergood
@doucelassie.bsky.social
110 followers 110 following 730 posts
Usually to be found geeking out over tea, science, cats, languages, politics, cats, food, crafts, books and cats. Deaf blind. She/they. AroAce.
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doucelassie.bsky.social
I've had nothing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Please include alt text on your photos.
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Can you please put alt text on all of your photos. This isn't currently inclusive communication.
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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neilpollyticks.bsky.social
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Are you Scottish?
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Brrruuuuu!!
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Hugs
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
I'm so sorry that you've had a lifetime of 'bantz'. It's all racist, anti-semitic, ableist bullshit.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Amazing! 😍
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
doucelassie.bsky.social
Go English style and make Dáfaoiansia = Dah-feen-shah 😄

(I'm riffing off English surnames like Featherstonehaugh, pronounced Fanshaw.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM