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Kate Lancaster

@profkatel.bsky.social
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All about lasers/plasmas/fusion/bread/miscellany. Professor in physics. She/Her

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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kenneth Williams pulling his face with a cup of tea and a bowler hat
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I filled out a form and after a couple of hours it told me to ring the surgery. Could have just done that….🙄
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
😱
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Sarah West @sarahwestsei.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On this Clean Air Day, help us reach schools in England and Wales to take part in our monitoring study #InternationalDayOfCleanAirForBlueSkies #CleanAir #BlueSkies
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We used to sing “I was cold, I was naked, I was bare, I was bare” 🤣
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m a fan of ecover fabric softener. Smells lush
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Probably disco inferno for me! Also I’ll come up out the coffin all weekend at Bernie’s style 🤣
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
YESSSSSSSSS!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The five Simpsons lines I’ve uttered the most: 1. Nuts and gum,together at last. 2. Stupid, sexy, flanders 3. I was saying boo-urns 4. Its all coming up Milhouse 5. You don’t win friends with salad
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have a pasta machine and far and away the best thing to make is ravioli. Bbc good food has a nice recipe for sweet potato and goats cheese ravioli.
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For real. August has been my temporary “no” era
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Relate so hard to this ⬆️
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All I would ask is if you work or study in a uni, check in with colleagues who may need help. And continue to do so. A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other. Help here www.papyrus-uk.org www.thecalmzone.net anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform... blackbritishacademics.co.uk
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
That is spectacular!
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We used to do this as kids too! :D
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ah gawd. This haunted my dreams.
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tonty
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My first brush with the facilities at private schools was when I started doing outreach during my PhD. Blew my tiny mind 🤯
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
When women do obtain tenure, the effects extend well beyond their own careers. Beyond the direct promotion of the qualifying candidate, departments experience on average one additional female promotion over the subsequent fifteen years, a substantial expansion of the female PhD pipeline, and improved retention and career progression among female doctoral graduates. These effects are concentrated in departments where women are underrepresented, but not entirely absent, suggesting that a minimal female presence is a precondition for trickle-down effects to materialize, whether through mutual support, departmental influence, or other channels that require women not to be entirely isolated.
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🤣
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think it was them as rather good was circa early noughts right?
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They did it on one of their shows (prob sat morning telly )
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Omg same! Ant and Dec have a lot to answer for 🤣
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🤣
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
May it be everything you want it to be!
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
FYI - the Tesco finest roast beef aba horseradish are a fine substitute
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Honey cake is 😍
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Godspeed
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Unbelievably glad that Glastonbury wasn’t on this week as it would have been brutally hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Breathe a sigh of relief that the HUGE and very boozy stag do are not on my flight. Poor Bucharest that’s all I can say :/
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m in
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Apparently Odelay turns 30 today 😱. My soundtrack to my first year at uni 😍
The front cover of Odelay by Beck. It is a very hairy dog jumping over a hurdle
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh poppet
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Especially if there are fresh sheets 🥰
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Love Salts Mill 🥰
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026
It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Pin badge “scientist” in rainbow motif Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag. Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her 
He him 
She they 
He they 
They them An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It’s gorgeous 🥰
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
YOU TOO!
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We’ll be on the UoY stand! There’s some physicsyengineeringy stuff too!
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Oh my 😍
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Is that base coat a single shade or a mix? It’s so dreamy 😍
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 21/05/2026
Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The episode of “you’re wrong about” on Chris McCandless is interesting
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Kate Lancaster @profkatel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There was a broken car seat by the bin at the top of our road 🙄
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In 1915, Gillette began convincing women that leg & armpit hair were embarrassing, masculine & unhygienic--to sell razors. A norm that has no health benefits but incredible compliance. Women are called 'disgusting' when they have the same body hair as men. www.thepersistent.com/tangled-hist...
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The Tangled History of Women and Body Hair
Is it time, finally, to push back?
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