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Katie Steckles @steckl.es · 13/03/2026

One week until our next Finite Group livestream - join me and @katdoesmaths.bsky.social for an hour of interesting maths chat by joining our Patreon - just £4 a month, including Discord access and live/recorded streams each month. Details at

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Finite Group

Finite Group is a collective of cool maths people who want to have nice conversations about mathematical ideas.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Whoops that's my bad! Thank you for letting me know 😊

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you wonder what I look like as a tiny head in a call with a bunch of Incredible people, or how to combine cryptography and Santa, this is the video for you! (Can you tell I've just got my login back for bluesky by chance?)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you like too much detail on maths facts, or always wondered what I look like off camera, come along to this event at the end of the month! I'm so excited to contribute to AEOUD and be alongside some truly incredible other acts!

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Spoken Nerd @fotsn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

⭐ Kat Phillips ⭐ The wonderful @katdoesmaths.bsky.social is joining us at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on 26th January! Kat is an Innovation Research Associate, a Maths Communicator, & wearer of many hats (literally)! Make sure to nab tickets to see her Spoken Nerd debut! fotsn.com/tickets

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Simon Clark @simonoxfphys.com · 09/12/2025

OK we're back baby. I'm not exactly well, but well *enough* to attempt a quiz stream tonight. I'll be joined by some creator friends playing quiz games from games.city... who are offering a donation match up to £2000 during the stream! Tonight, 7:30PM GMT www.twitch.tv/drsimonclark

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🎓 Calling UK University Maths Departments - Registration now open for PhD Your Way 2025! 22 Oct 2025 | 🕑 14:00–16:30 BST | Online Talks, Live Q&A, virtual uni fair. Breaking down the knowledge barrier to entry for UK maths PhDs. Register your institution by 30 Sept 👉 forms.gle/F47w6EVNmFKt...

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Furthermore, the speed of this new model permitted exploration into repeated bounces wihtout further loss of resolution - supporting long scale investigation into Faraday pilot wave dynamics, coming full circle from my initial thesis formulation report 5 years ago! 3/4

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

We introduce new analytical and computational modelling approaches for capturing the dynamics of a liquid drop and pool impact which include a fully coupled reduced dynamic model for the entraped gas region between droplet and bath, and compare to dedicated direct numerical simulation. 2/4

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

✨💧 New Publication Alert 💧✨ My paper alongside Radu Cimpeanu and Paul Milewski is finally available on Proceedings of the Royal Society A !! The paper titled "Modelling two-dimensional droplet rebound off deep fluid baths" captures the dynamics of a droplet rebound on a deep liquid bath🧵1/4

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I can't believe it's been 4 years since I started talking maths on twitch. I'm celebrating with possibly the most challenging streeam I've ever designed - a 12 hour maths exam! Join me on the day as I raise money for the british heart foundation! twitch.tv/katdoesmaths

text: Kat Does Maths Marathon. When? 9am-9pm BST, 21 May 2025. What? I'll bee attempting a 12 hour maths exam-marathon, going from 11+ up to my PhD viva! Why? To celebrate 4 yeears since I started streaming, I'm fundraising for the British Heart Foundation! All subs/donos contribute, and there'll be a tiltify link on the day! How? On twitch.tv/katdoesmaths

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Oh yeah, photo context - the team at the stadium let me keep one of the rebranding panels, and it’s still up at Mams house! (I never got a programme from matchday though, so if anyone has one knocking about I would be forever grateful!) However if you want to see a vintage version from 2015... 🧵5/5

A young Kat stands next to a plaquard that has "Ospreys, Stadiwm Katie Phillips Stadium" on it. the plaquard is part of the branding attached to the wall of the Stadium. Kat has long brown hair and glasses, and is leaning on the wall with her arms crossed. She's wearing a leather jacket and smiling down at the camera.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ten years ago I was a confused kid in the middle of her A levels who’d just lost her father to cancer, and didn’t know what she was going to do with her life. Now I couldn’t be more proud of who I’ve become. I’m a mathematician, science communicator, and still an avid rugby fan.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It was pure chance - they randomly chose one fan who’d been supporting since the beginning to win the honour, so my name went everywhere (including the wiki page, much to someone's attempt to keep kicking me off there!!)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ten years ago today, the ospreys celebrated their ten year anniversary by renaming the then liberty stadium the “Katie Phillips Stadium”. I still find it completely surreal that for a single match all the commentators were saying MY name, and all the branding everywhere in the stadium got replaced.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A large part ofmy love of rugby is due to the weekly rhythm in our house. Saturdays meant doing the weekly shop, wolfing down a swansea pie, and then heading off to sit in the cold for two hours beside my Mam and Dad, and later Mam and Bampi, as we cheered on @ospreysofficial.bsky.social. 🧵1/5

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hallo! I'm not very good at using this platform, but I am quite good at sometimes remembering to tell people where they can find me. I'll be live over on twitch doing some co-working study streams this week, and I'll be doing some maths and fundraising May 21st (more to follow). Come say hi!

A purple noticeboard with a maths background and techy looking font advertising stream schedules on twitch.tv/katdoesmaths

Tuesday 14:00 BST, Pomodoro co-working
Friday 09:00 BST, Pomodoro co-working
21 May 2025, Streamaversary charity event

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Last time I played a game with Sam I helped try to unionise a bunch of bakery goblins. He is a fantastic GM and I can't recommend this highly enough!!

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am so excited for this evening! Come along and share the joy 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 23/02/2025

Very excited to share these new pins! I couldn't find my favourite version of the transbian flag as a pin already, so I decided to make them myself. Please share these around so that other people can find and enjoy them too! canopyrobin.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Two rectangular hard enamel pins. Each has the trans pride chevron from the progress pride flag on the left side. The rest of the design is either the gay man pride stripes (outlined in silver metal) or the lesbian pride stripes (outlined in rose gold metal)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do grey squirrels have red faces/backs for the same reason that some non-ginger people get ginger beards?

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Do they release a cut of The Traitors where they don't include the confessionals, so you can play along? Because that would be so much fun

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've had a very good day. I hope y'all have also had a good day, and if you haven't, I hope tomorrow is better 💜

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This year for JingleJam the sci com collective are getting together to provide two weeks of chaotic streams, including a 12 hour Xmas Spectacular where it'll be me, some maths, and a few friends to keep me sane! This is all in the name of charity and you can donate here: tiltify.com/+the-sci-com...

A schedule of streams
Tuesday 3rd 7:30pm ThomAstroSci Scottish Music Stream

Friday 6th 10am KatDoesMaths 12 Hour Xmas Spectacular

Friday 6th 7pm Christmas Trains

Sunday 8th KatDoesMaths and friends Plateup

Thursday 12th 7:30 Unstable Fluid Podcast Live recording

Friday 13th 7pm ThomAstroSci Space Engineers

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Forget Christmas, the best part of December is watching two grown men lose their minds watching silly cat videos for charity. #jinglejam

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The book I'm reading got to a sad moment, so I decided to catch up on my Buffy rewatch. Only I forgot that my next episode is The Body... Looks like we're having a crying night no matter what

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

28. The PhD gave me a load of opportunities to travel, my favourite of which was getting to attend ICIAM in Tokyo 2023. It was a massive (thousands of people) conference from all over the world getting excited about maths. And I got to present my poster via robot! (Plus Japan was a dream location!)

A portrait academic poster with title 'drop impact: lubrication air layer and surface waves in rebound dynamics'. In front of the poster is a small robot with a screen that has a video of Kat standing next to the poster giving a small talk about the work presented on the poster.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

27. Im really not a morning person, I think if life didn't work around a 9-5 assumption, my productive hours seem to be late evenings-early hours of the morning thesis write-up was a strange time)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I've had an amazingly full circle moment today where I was invited to speak at the applied mathematics seminar in Cardiff University. I completed my undergraduate in Cardiff in 2019, so to go back just after completing my PhD and share my success with the people who inspired me was a lovely feeling.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

26. I AM A PUBLISHED AUTHOR 🥳 (as of literally today, my paper just got published)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

25. The SAMBa CDT main group photo on their websites and advertising has me at the front in the centre, with a hot water bottle toy penguin visible in my dungarees.

Screenshot of the samba cdt website with a group photo of many students and academics. In the middle kat is wearing blue dungarees and the head of a soft toy penguin is visible peeking out above. Over the image are the words "love maths? Want to do a PhD? Join samba!"

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

24. I used to do musical theatre when I was a kid, one of my favourite roles was 'radio' in Bugsy Malone.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

23. I have an awful habit of leaving preparation until the last minute, which might be why I'm making slides for a talk on a Sunday afternoon right now...

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

For now at least, I'm amused by my jokes

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

22. Parallel lines have so much in common, it's a shame they'll never meet.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

21. Q: How many monsters like maths? A: it depends if you Count Dracula

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

20. My D&D alignment (from various online tests) sits in the top left corner of chaotic neutral.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

19. I don't know where I lie on the tea v coffee debate. I like earl grey tea the most, but probably drink way more coffee.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

18. My first job was in a greengrocers, I used to take great pride in making all the fruit pyramids - optimal sphere stacking solved at 15!

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

17. I am very very slowly learning Welsh (if my 800 day Duolingo streak has anything to do with it)

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

16. I cry at media really easily, you will catch me sobbing at bridge to terabithia

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

15. I won a silver medal in a shooting competition when I was ~13

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

14. Pineapple not only belongs on pizza, but is my favourite topping

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

13. I was nearly a pure mathematician, and seriously considered a PhD in number theory.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

12. I used to play double bass in school, and every once in a while I pick up my bass guitar.

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

11. One of the things on my bucket list is driving a lorry

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Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

10. I must have watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer about 7 times over at least. I'm actually on season 5 of a rewatch of both BTVS and Angel where you swap series episode by episode to get the full timeline!

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