Kate Lancaster

@drkatel.bsky.social

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All about lasers/plasmas/fusion/bread/miscellany. Senior lecturer in physics. She/Her

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today and everyday I stand by my trans friends and colleagues. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 3d

15 surely

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 3d

Post me from a different era. Aged 23 in 2002 putting the finishing touches to the neutron time-of-flight arrays for my PhD project. So wholesome.

Me in jeans and a black polymer pretending to twiddle a knob on a large neutron detector array. The lighting is pink and blue for some reason

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 4d

That. Was. Astonishing 😆😱😱😱 #celebritytraitors

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 4d

Back to teaching this week so back to jazzy Thursday! This weeks effort was firework themed, black base and nail varnish pens for the detail. 🎆🎇

My right hand showing the nails. The nails have a black base and then firework designs with gold, green, pink abc blue starbursts over the top

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 9d

So true

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 9d

RIP my Eurofusion mug. It’s my fav mug for my morning cuppa and a hairline crack means it’s no longer viable 😭

Reposted by Kate Lancaster, Christina Pagel

Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 11d

Those quoted in that Times article who want what they call a merit-only system would struggle to explain how the pre-DEI domination of white men can be explained by merit alone. Unless they want to say that white men are smarter and better at science than everyone else.

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 11d

This breaks my heart. It’s a great show and you’re a brilliant journalist and one of the only people that I trust to do interviews with.

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 18d

That’s the stuff that keeps me in this game 😍

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 18d

Since next week is consolidation week (so no lectures) I needed to do my spooky Jazzy Thursday nails this week! The base is a charity nail varnish called “the blackest sabbath” where the proceeds go to Cure Parkinson’s. The stickers on top are spooky! Overall a Halloweeny treat. 🦇🕷️🕸️🧛‍♀️

My right hand showing my nails. The base coat of nail varnish is black with holographic microflakies which make it sparkle. The stickers on top are pumpkins, ghosts and spiderwebs

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · 25d

This weeks Jazzy Thursday was an experiment! I did a dusky pink base and then used purple and pink nail varnish pens to get a leopard print effect 🐆🥰

My right hand showing purple and pink leopard print effect on a dusky pink base

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Kate Lancaster

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 26d

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Oct 9

This weeks Jazzy Thursday was a simple but very shiny affair. Just a couple of coats of the prism polish “help me, I’m feeling”. Liquid silver gorgeousness. Lots of the students playing along which is very wholesome 🥰

My right hand showing highly silver nails (micro flakie silver polish). Looks like liquid silver but sparkly.

Reposted by Kate Lancaster

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Oct 6

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Oct 5

A Virgin Mary the Yorkshire way (with Hendo’s) 🥰

A glass of tomato juice with ice, lemon squeeze, and a good blob of Henderson relish. A bottle of hendo’s is on the left

Reposted by Kate Lancaster

Claudia @beeclaudia.bsky.social · Oct 2

If I were to commit a robbery there’d be signs

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Oct 2

This week’s jazzy Thursday - Cherry and berry realness 😍

My right hand. The nails are minty base with cherry and berry nail stickers

Reposted by Robert W. Wallace, Kate Lancaster, Gerald Friedman , and 3 more Robert W. Wallace, Kate Lancaster, Gerald Friedman, Dana R. Fisher, Karen L. Cox, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Oct 1

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Reposted by Dave O’Brien

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 30

RIP Brian Patten. He featured in one of my favourite poetry books when I was a teen 😢

Front cover of the penguin modern poets book “The Mersey sound” featuring Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten.

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 30

They stole my bit :( (dad was a toolmaker)

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 26

I always have a greggles brekker on Fridays as a treat. Finally treated myself to their reusable cup. Fits perfectly into the cup holder in my car 🥰

Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social · Sep 25

First jazzy Thursday of the season. I did magnetic nail polish from Prism (called “follow the screams”). A bit sparkly, a bit physics-y 🥰 🧲 💅

My left hand with blue/purple sparkly magnetic nail polish where the magnetic field has created a lighter blue swoosh”. It’s very pretty!

Reposted by Mark D. White, Lesley A. Hall, Kate Lancaster , and 4 more Mark D. White, Lesley A. Hall, Kate Lancaster, Rebecca Tushnet, James Goodwin, Michael Hancher, Gilles Louppe

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 24

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis: