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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 15d

Today’s my final day working with the wonderful YSC team @rigb.org I can’t believe how quickly 3 months has flown by! It’s been an inspiring, enriching & rewarding experience. If a little exhausting at times 😅 I’ve learned more than this word limit allows…🙏 Now to get back to that PhD thing!

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you for sharing your excellent research with us 💛

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Serena Qihui Pei @serenaqihuipei.bsky.social · 26d

💜Grateful to be part of #BARS2025 Romantic (Un)Consciousness at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 💜Inspiring panels both in person & online—deep gratitude to the amazing organizers: @drcleoocy.bsky.social @zooeyziller.bsky.social @womanofclouds.bsky.social

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote a little blog post for @rigb.org, all about the institution's history of artistic experimentation! Even managed to get a sentence about clouds in 🌦️...

It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out.

www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

Art and science working together: the Ri’s experimental history across culture

Science and art have always been intertwined, and often met right here at the Ri.

www.rigb.org

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · 28d

Such splendid news, Cleo!! Biggest congratulations! 🥳

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was a joy to meet you and hear about your research. Thank you so much being apart of an amazing event. Looking forward to crossing paths, hopefully, one day soon 💛

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank YOU for your fascinating paper, it was a pleasure. As you can see, I am as indecisive as the badges are divisive 😅

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Sep 4

After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!

A group of people walking into the Wren Library, with a statue of Lord Byron at the back.

The hotel register in which Shelley declared he was going to “L’Enfer”, and was a lover of humanity, democrat, and atheist.

1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads, the former with Coleridge’s own annotations.

A letter claiming to be Lord Byron’s first. The postscript reads, “I hope you will excuse all blunders as it is the first I ever wrote.”

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wending my way back to Kings X & reflecting on the last two days. What an enriching, thought-provoking time we’ve had at #BARS2025. All thanks to the wonderful Romantic people of the world (truly, folk travelled far & wide!) More to follow but for now: team William or team Dorothy?

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Sep 4

Such a treat to be sharing more on my current work on Romantic clouds 🌧️ ☁️⛅️🌩️ Live from #BARS2025 !!

Adam Neikirk @adamneikirk.bsky.social · Sep 4

#BARS2025 begins with ecological and climatological (un)consciousness

@womanofclouds.bsky.social discusses the cloud poetics of William Wordsworth and John Constable

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s been a while since I’ve shared on here…I’ve been busy @rigb.org helping run the summer workshops programme with the wonderful team at the Young Scientists Centre 🤓

But I’m back because #BARS2025 starts today!! See all you beautiful BARS folk in Cambridge shortly!

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jul 13

Finally, someone speaking some truths

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cirrus display for the first day of my internship @ri-science.bsky.social. Can’t wait to spend summer working at this incredible institution ☺️

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 26

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."

An aspirational approach to planetary futures - Nature

The Nature Relationship Index offers a new way to measure and engage human aspirations to shape a better future for people and all life on Earth.

www.nature.com

Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 25

Oxford clouds hit differently

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 23

Also saw some incredible cloudscapes, real and painterly ☁️

Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 13

I’ll join!

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 13

Just a woman in her beloved landscape reading about women and landscape, thinking about identity (my own and theirs) in relation to landscape. Happy Friday! 🌳🌾🌿

Hand holding a book titled Prolific Ground by Nicolle Jordan with foliage in the background.

A field with trees on the horizon and blue sky above it.

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 1

Oh I’ve just seen you’ve already said autumn ‘25 🤦🏼‍♀️ I shall wait in anticipation!

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 1

Oh this sounds wonderful and extremely pertinent to my own research. Do you have any details of when the round table will take place? I’d love to attend!

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · May 24

There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · May 15

Solidarity to the folks who walk to work and are erased by Bike to Work Week.

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · May 13

It was a privilege to hear @titachico.bsky.social speak about her work on meteorological instruments & literary devices in the 18thC this afternoon ❄️ leaving with lots to think about ☁️

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · May 13

Today is the day! Join us at 4.30pm in the Huntingdon Room (King’s Manor) for this year’s Copley Lecture! Professor Chico’s lecture, ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09’, will be nothing short of Brrrrrilliant ❄️ #thegreatfrost #eighteenthcentury

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · May 9

We are delighted to announce that our annual Copley Lecture will take place on Tuesday 13 May at 4.30pm. Please join us to welcome Professor Tita Chico who will present ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09: Thermometers and Representations of Climate Disruption’. The lecture will be followed by a reception 🥂

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · May 9

Turner’s well-used paint box & his ‘Two Figures in a Storm’ were my personal highlights. Simply astounding. Plus some other cloudy things…but you’ll have to visit to find out for yourself.

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