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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hate hospitals, but not because of traumatic experience or medical anxiety. because outpatient appointments are entirely reliant on you being able to hear your name being called 🙃

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have an arthritis flare up in my left hand so I can only type on a keyboard for about a minute at a time before everything gets too ouchy to continue. However, my thumbs are fine. This means I am currently writing two journal article reviews and a grant application on my phone. LIFE IS HELL 🫠

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

votes for whether I should put this inspiring tale on LinkedIn please xx

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Please be seated for a tale of my proudest culinary innovation: Yesterday we had some bits in the fridge to use up so I was going to make fig and coconut yoghurt ice cream mix for our Ninja Creamiᵀᴹ. My husband Llewe said, "no, you can't do that, there's already five full tubs in the freezer".

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This experiment has had me saying things I never thought would pass my lips, such as, "hooray, a man!"

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Me on international women's day: women are essential to scientific progress and we must urgently fix gender imbalances in STEM Me now, desperately trying to find more cisgender men to participate in my experiment: WOMEN ARE USELESS TO ME.

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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Featuring brilliant scientists from our recent #SmashingStereotypes campaign, the latest BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe programme focuses on scientists with disabilities and explores disability research. Thank you @smeekings.bsky.social, Nic Bonne, Rugile Sestokaite! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Science Café - Championing Disability - BBC Sounds

Adam shines a light on scientists with disabilities and explores disability research.

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Having a very intense time at work at the moment as my day job and four different extracurricular roles are all in a crunch period this month. For the sake of my mental wellbeing it has therefore become essential that I take on a fifth extracurricular proj--

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Some thoughts from today's Women and the Future of Science conference at the @royalsociety.org: - Pretty impressive to get this many exceptional scientists in one room, never mind that most of them are women - Questions from secondary school pupils were brilliant and incisive, the future is bright!

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 10/03/2026

What does the ongoing rupture in the world order that Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney referred to at Davos earlier this year mean for #ClimateChange?

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Discussing importance of m & f scientists to take parental leave. Need better childcare. Dame Jocelyn: On site at unis. Prof Uta Frith: (with glee) and then the psychologists cd do experiments!

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Everyone always says Sugababes are the Ship of Theseus but isn't it also just every sports team ever? (Brought to you by watching the Fulham game highlights for the first time in a while and recognising absolutely nobody)

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

in 2021 you'll read a cool paper by someone working at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing and you'll think about contacting them to set up a collaboration; it's very important that you send that email

Sophie sitting on a stone block look g kit at misty mountains in the Nilgiris

Tall pine trees reaching towards the sky

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Someone please tell me why, to find the commodity code that applies to laptops, I have to look in the chapter of the UK Online Tariff that deals with NUCLEAR REACTORS 😭 people who deal with import/export for a job must be on another level for lateral thinking

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Been a wild 24hrs- kicked off Monday giving a talk at the Royal Society #FutureSciPub then headed home to miraculously pass my driving test?? Have spent a good chunk of the year so far so ill I couldn't travel and legally unable to drive for a bit so feeling v grateful for some glorious respite.

Three white people sitting on a stage (Bill Sutherland, Mark Walport, and Sophie Meekings) with a Royal Society branded lectern in one corner and a slide projected behind them entitled "The future of scientific publishing"

Sophie beaming and holding a driving test pass certificate in front of a bright blue car with colourful dots all over it

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Well this is impressive!

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

jfc these predatory conferences get more alarming by the day

Screenshot of a line from my email inbox that says it's from 'Cancer', subject line 'Sophie Meekings' and text 'Dear Dr Sophie Meekings, I hope this message finds you well'.

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 28/03/2025

22 March 2025 saw the 80th anniversary of the first women scientists being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Head to our YouTube channel to see our new short documentaries celebrating the lives and work of Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS:

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Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale - trailer | The Royal Society

Maggie Aderin-Pocock meets Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Judy Armitage to discover the fascinating stories of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale, the first ...

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Cat Vicente @catcvicente.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Great fun to be in the House of Lords this evening with fellow @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social exec group member @smeekings.bsky.social, to celebrate 25 years of the @royalsociety.org's pairing scheme between scientists and policy makers. Lovely to meet so many interesting people from both spheres!

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm also in this WhatsApp group. #UKYoungAcademy new members induction this morning includes a prize for most interesting hobby- making an early bid for supremacy here.

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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Meet Dr. Sophie Meekings, a speech neuroscientist studying what happens in your brain during a conversation. Despite growing up deaf and not taking science A-Levels, Sophie’s passion for language led her to a PhD in neuroscience. #SmashingStereotypes #BSW25 youtube.com/watch?v=YwGr...

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Meet Sophie, Speech neuroscientist | #SmashingStereotypes

YouTube video by British Science Association

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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Now in its 6th year, our #SmashingStereotypes campaign for #BSW25 is back! We're spotlighting remarkable individuals in diverse STEM careers who are breaking barriers -because there's no 'typical' path to STEM success! Read the full story! www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/bringin...

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Bringing back Smashing Stereotypes for its sixth year for British Science Week 2025

The British Science Association (BSA) is thrilled to announce the return of the highly-anticipated ‘Smashing Stereotypes’ campaign for this year’s British Science Week – celebrating the diverse people...

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Home for the holidays and sharing my old room with my parents' replacement children:

Nine squashes of various shapes and sizes sitting politely on the top of a dresser.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Doing some UK Young Academy work on the train and feeling very lucky to be part of such a broad organisation filled with experts on cool things I didn't even know it was possible to be an expert in 🥰

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Current status and future challenges in brain imaging: Insights from leading experts

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

really the social media experience peaked with Beebo and has been downhill ever since

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

It's garden season again bitches 🌱

A wicker basket filled with an assortment of green and purple sprouting broccoli

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

This sign clearly had a very specific backstory and I need to know what it is:

Sign in front of a wire avian enclosure that says "do not shout at the red-tailed black cockatoos" in all caps.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

why did no-one tell me that quolls exist and they are so, so perfect

A baby Eastern quoll (a tiny, adorable marsupial with dark brown fur dotted with white spots) turning towards the camera. It has just heard my husband going pspsps like it's a cat- apparently this also works on quolls.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

love to go on a little treasure hunt across the city for my medication thanks to a global shortage! Also love the clerical error that has led to my repeat subscription being half as much as I actually need, meaning I get to do this AGAIN in 14 days 🥰

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Can't believe no-one came trick or treating, I was waiting by the door with my basket of treats all night 😥 🌱

A basket full to the brim with yellow courgettes

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Just spent a week taking kids caving in beautiful South Wales. Love to be on top of and/or underneath mountains. Just any orientation relative to a hillside really.

Sophie (a white brunette woman with long hair) squints at the camera with a beautiful landscape of mountains, woodland and a rainbow behind her. She's wearing bat earrings and a tan coloured woolly hat that matches both her jumper and the dead bracken in the landscape behind her.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

The courgette plants have been turning it OUT just in time for our kitchen to be out of action (the ceiling needs reinforcing so it's been full of scaffolding and mortar dust). Everyone who sees me is getting a compulsory courg, no opt-outs. 🌱

A green carrier bag filled with yellow courgettes

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 19/09/2023

Just a reminder that there's a setting you can enable! bsky.app/profile/plut...

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

The difference between last month's basket "full" of veg and this month's 🌱 hauls is *extreme* 😅

In contrast to the quoted skeet with a photo of a wicker basket containing a couple of courgettes and a handful of beans, this basket is positively overflowing with beans, gherkins and yellow courgettes piled on top of each other.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

This morning's harvest 🥰🌱 Tomatoes are "Sweet Million" and I've really neglected them so I'm pleased they're thriving anyway!

A wicker basket containing three yellow stripey courgettes, a bunch of pink and purple sweetpeas, some tomatoes, little cucumbers and a pile of beans.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

Time for my favourite bit of visiting a new city... Experiencing the public transport system 🥰

A photo of a train platform with posters on either side of metal lettering that reads Hlavní Nádrazí

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Basket I made filled with vegetables I grew! Friends say she is approaching dangerous levels of cottagecore 🌱 courgette = Zephyr beans = annelino di Trento cucumber = ??

A round wicker basket sitting on grass, filled with some yellow courgettes, cucumbers, purple and green stripey beans, and a pair of secateurs.

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

the best part of academia is leaving work at 3pm to make a wicker basket

A woven willow basket base lying on a table with spokes of willow extending out from it like a giant daddy long legs (these are the bits that end up being the sides)

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Sophie @smeekings.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

my son is ridiculous, part II (don't worry, the punnet was swiftly removed)

Photo of my idiot tabby cat with his head stuck inside a clear plastic punnet that used to contain grapes. He's also wearing a glittery bow tie, just to add a touch of class to his trash goblin ways.

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