Kate So
@drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social
Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️
Hello writers!! Any tips for writing an omniscient third person narratives??? I need help 🙏 🙏 🙏
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hello writers!! Any tips for writing an omniscient third person narratives??? I need help 🙏 🙏 🙏
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If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
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Just your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for PhDs and ECRs and anyone else who'd like to join in London. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list please DM me.
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Just your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for PhDs and ECRs and anyone else who'd like to join in London. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list please DM me.
How it started vs how it’s going
Happy three year anniversary to my lovely @alfredso.bsky.social ! Our elopement was one of the best days of my life.
Thankfully he’s never dragged me away from a museum (especially not my fav @surgeonshall.bsky.social), or I wouldn’t have made it down the aisle!
Happy three year anniversary to my lovely @alfredso.bsky.social ! Our elopement was one of the best days of my life.
Thankfully he’s never dragged me away from a museum (especially not my fav @surgeonshall.bsky.social), or I wouldn’t have made it down the aisle!
October 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How it started vs how it’s going
Happy three year anniversary to my lovely @alfredso.bsky.social ! Our elopement was one of the best days of my life.
Thankfully he’s never dragged me away from a museum (especially not my fav @surgeonshall.bsky.social), or I wouldn’t have made it down the aisle!
Happy three year anniversary to my lovely @alfredso.bsky.social ! Our elopement was one of the best days of my life.
Thankfully he’s never dragged me away from a museum (especially not my fav @surgeonshall.bsky.social), or I wouldn’t have made it down the aisle!
Mum? Can you come pick me up? The ‘we are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn’ girlie pops are being really fucking weird again. This is so gross.
Besides, everyone knows the true challenge would a PB chest press challenged called ‘More weight’.
Besides, everyone knows the true challenge would a PB chest press challenged called ‘More weight’.
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mum? Can you come pick me up? The ‘we are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn’ girlie pops are being really fucking weird again. This is so gross.
Besides, everyone knows the true challenge would a PB chest press challenged called ‘More weight’.
Besides, everyone knows the true challenge would a PB chest press challenged called ‘More weight’.
It’s finally cold, which means it’s the perfect weather for layering up on couch with a hot water bottle and blanket and eat super cold chunky ice cream. Sensory heaven.
a small dog wrapped in a blanket on a bed .
ALT: a small dog wrapped in a blanket on a bed .
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s finally cold, which means it’s the perfect weather for layering up on couch with a hot water bottle and blanket and eat super cold chunky ice cream. Sensory heaven.
Just spent five minutes googling whether these little robot guys actually existed or whether I had a key stage 2 fever dream
October 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Just spent five minutes googling whether these little robot guys actually existed or whether I had a key stage 2 fever dream
One of the best things about accompanying my husband to his medical work events is he always goes 'This is Kate. She works with old books. Guys, did you know that wearing gloves when handing manuscripts is A LIE?'
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One of the best things about accompanying my husband to his medical work events is he always goes 'This is Kate. She works with old books. Guys, did you know that wearing gloves when handing manuscripts is A LIE?'
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Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).
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Fellow immigrants: if you are on the ILR visa and citizenship is available to you, please consider locking that down before a disastrous Reform electoral win, which would outstrip many of us of our rights. Anyone who thinks this isn't a possibility isn't paying attention to global politics.
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Fellow immigrants: if you are on the ILR visa and citizenship is available to you, please consider locking that down before a disastrous Reform electoral win, which would outstrip many of us of our rights. Anyone who thinks this isn't a possibility isn't paying attention to global politics.
I miss my girl Tallulah so much. I love how her St Tallulah tattoo is on my dog petting arm, so I can pass on a blessing with each pat.
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I miss my girl Tallulah so much. I love how her St Tallulah tattoo is on my dog petting arm, so I can pass on a blessing with each pat.
Gives me the ick to see social media history girlies do press with Rylan. They preach empathy and ethics in the portrayal of history + the representation of marginalised people and then do press with someone who recently said very awful things towards refugees. Empathy pending 70+ years post death??
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gives me the ick to see social media history girlies do press with Rylan. They preach empathy and ethics in the portrayal of history + the representation of marginalised people and then do press with someone who recently said very awful things towards refugees. Empathy pending 70+ years post death??
I hope the parents who dress their babies up in fluffy animal clothes understand their positive impact on my life 🙏
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I hope the parents who dress their babies up in fluffy animal clothes understand their positive impact on my life 🙏
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Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.
When does death begin?
In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.
Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd
In the 18th century, no one could agree—some said when the pulse stopped, others when the body began to rot. Out of that debate came a century of strange experiments on severed heads.
Learn more in our kids’ book DEAD ENDS (w/ @tealcartoons.bsky.social): shorturl.at/FS3nd
October 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tomorrow: DEAD ENDS comes out in the US! Aimed at kids aged 8-12, @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I think everyone will love this grisly romp through medical history. Please consider ordering a copy, and enjoy the weird stories we've uncovered that prove failure is essential to scientific progress.
So great to be back at The North Wing to celebrate its reopening and the hard work of the teams who made it all happen. 💕 ✨
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
So great to be back at The North Wing to celebrate its reopening and the hard work of the teams who made it all happen. 💕 ✨
If in The Lost Boys you turn into a half vampire by drinking vampire blood and then a full vampire by drinking human blood, why couldn’t David give Michael his blood wine and then at another point give him wine with human blood in it?
a woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her
Alt: Lucy, the mum from Lost Boys, is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee with the words let 's talk written below her
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October 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If in The Lost Boys you turn into a half vampire by drinking vampire blood and then a full vampire by drinking human blood, why couldn’t David give Michael his blood wine and then at another point give him wine with human blood in it?
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Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World
King's College London - Department of History
Fixed-Term/Contract
Closes: 13th October 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World
King's College London - Department of History
Fixed-Term/Contract
Closes: 13th October 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Recruiting now: Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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October 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World
King's College London - Department of History
Fixed-Term/Contract
Closes: 13th October 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World
King's College London - Department of History
Fixed-Term/Contract
Closes: 13th October 2025
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
I’m going to make the best autumnal soup 🥣 🍁
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I’m going to make the best autumnal soup 🥣 🍁
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Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thesis? Submitted! The next few days will be spent reading spooky books.❤️❤️ I debated sharing I’d submitted because I’m so unsure about the Viva, but honestly if that goes badly I’ll be talking about it publicly too. Success comes in all forms and on its own timeline. Celebrate the little wins!
September 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thesis? Submitted! The next few days will be spent reading spooky books.❤️❤️ I debated sharing I’d submitted because I’m so unsure about the Viva, but honestly if that goes badly I’ll be talking about it publicly too. Success comes in all forms and on its own timeline. Celebrate the little wins!
There is nothing more beautiful than science and research offering new possibilities of treatment for diseases that have previously been seen as untreatable.
One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases known to humanity, Huntington's disease, has been successfully treated for the first time in our history.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
There is nothing more beautiful than science and research offering new possibilities of treatment for diseases that have previously been seen as untreatable.
'A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard' Duchess of Malfi (1612) 💅
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
'A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard' Duchess of Malfi (1612) 💅
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There's a lot of bad in the world right now. But @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I have a new kids' book coming out called DEAD ENDS that reminds us that failure isn't just inevitable but essential to success. There are a limited number of SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com - shorturl.at/1A9CS
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
There's a lot of bad in the world right now. But @tealcartoons.bsky.social and I have a new kids' book coming out called DEAD ENDS that reminds us that failure isn't just inevitable but essential to success. There are a limited number of SIGNED copies from @mysteriousbookshop.com - shorturl.at/1A9CS
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For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present: