Dr Kat Day (she/her)
@chronicleflask.katday.com
Science & Fiction editor/writer. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Deputy Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Short fiction https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com 🖊️
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Maybe I STARTED OUT made of sugar and spice and all things nice, but now I’m made of coffee, capsicum, obstreperousness and dark stories.
This is genuinely funny and you should watch it.
(Anyone got a link for the full talk to hand?)
(Anyone got a link for the full talk to hand?)
The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is genuinely funny and you should watch it.
(Anyone got a link for the full talk to hand?)
(Anyone got a link for the full talk to hand?)
We will remember them ❤️
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We will remember them ❤️
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Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Poppies are a symbol of remembrance on Armistice Day. Did you know that some poppies are also the source of powerful opioid painkillers?
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
Find out more in this graphic: www.compoundchem.com/2020/11/11/p...
#ChemSky 🧪
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Was lovely to speak with Dr Uy Hoang - who has uploaded over 300,000 photos of the UK's canals and rivers to Google Street View and is ninth in the world by number of uploads - for this piece. www.londonworld.com/news/people/...
I’m mapping Britain for Google on foot - I’ve taken 300,000 snaps over 10 years
Watch as Dr Uy Hoang from London discusses how he’s mapping Britain's waterways, having covered at least 75% of the nation's canal network so far.
www.londonworld.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Was lovely to speak with Dr Uy Hoang - who has uploaded over 300,000 photos of the UK's canals and rivers to Google Street View and is ninth in the world by number of uploads - for this piece. www.londonworld.com/news/people/...
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I may have to retire, because Eric Idle just quoted me with a Monty Python joke. What a strange and beautiful world.
Yellow. No blue.
Traffic update:
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I may have to retire, because Eric Idle just quoted me with a Monty Python joke. What a strange and beautiful world.
Huh. I recognise that guy.
Regina Pessoa, award winning Portuguese artist and animator #WomensArt
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Huh. I recognise that guy.
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Traffic update:
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Traffic update:
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
If you're heading over the Troll Bridge today, his 3 riddles include questions about goat grooming, historical wigs, and ghost bones.
Good luck!
I'm sure you have been told how, you just didn't like the "write stuff, finish stuff, repeat until you get good" answer.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'm sure you have been told how, you just didn't like the "write stuff, finish stuff, repeat until you get good" answer.
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Imagine, in the 80s we thought robots would become super intelligent and destroy civilisation, and it turns out in fact we're going to be destroyed by robots giving people idiotic advice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Imagine, in the 80s we thought robots would become super intelligent and destroy civilisation, and it turns out in fact we're going to be destroyed by robots giving people idiotic advice.
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Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
It’s also a mistake politicians make. It’s actually a very common human mistake: to try and change the minds of people who dislike you, rather than focus on those who already love you.
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It’s also a mistake politicians make. It’s actually a very common human mistake: to try and change the minds of people who dislike you, rather than focus on those who already love you.
Thinking about that guy who posted about cooking chicken in a kettle that time
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thinking about that guy who posted about cooking chicken in a kettle that time
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You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
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Ms. Mantis on my front porch just now. This time of year the adult females sometimes wander to find new spots to lay their egg cases - I relocated her to a flowering shrub where she can fatten up on bees and stay hidden from birds. She’s a native species here (Stagmomantis limbata). 🐙🌿 #Bugsky
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ms. Mantis on my front porch just now. This time of year the adult females sometimes wander to find new spots to lay their egg cases - I relocated her to a flowering shrub where she can fatten up on bees and stay hidden from birds. She’s a native species here (Stagmomantis limbata). 🐙🌿 #Bugsky
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North America needs to pull some old French designers out the retirement homes to teach us how to make cars with nice faces again.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
North America needs to pull some old French designers out the retirement homes to teach us how to make cars with nice faces again.
It’s not too much to ask, is it?
All I want is a humble castle on the Irish coast, a crackling fire, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support raven, a raging thunderstorm, a few purring cats, endless cups of tea, and a scandalous amount of freshly-baked pastries.
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s not too much to ask, is it?
TIL people seem to prefer text with more letters from the right-hand side of the QWERTY keyboard 😲
qz.com/668815/studi...
qz.com/668815/studi...
Studies show keyboards have a powerful “QWERTY effect” that’s shaping our word preferences
QWERTY, a strange-sounding word that refers to the most common type of keyboard, is apparently influential enough to spawn it’s own effect. Repeated studies have found that we seem to prefer certain w...
qz.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
TIL people seem to prefer text with more letters from the right-hand side of the QWERTY keyboard 😲
qz.com/668815/studi...
qz.com/668815/studi...
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Trevor Philips tries to get Zack Polanski to trip up on the issue of trans
Polanski responds with a slam dunk, a home run, a touchdown - whatever your sports metaphor is 👏
Polanski responds with a slam dunk, a home run, a touchdown - whatever your sports metaphor is 👏
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Trevor Philips tries to get Zack Polanski to trip up on the issue of trans
Polanski responds with a slam dunk, a home run, a touchdown - whatever your sports metaphor is 👏
Polanski responds with a slam dunk, a home run, a touchdown - whatever your sports metaphor is 👏
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So much to love in the new Frankenstein, but I do particularly love the choice to dress Elizabeth in the most poisonous shades of 19th century green - Paris and Scheele's. She's so doomed, poor thing.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So much to love in the new Frankenstein, but I do particularly love the choice to dress Elizabeth in the most poisonous shades of 19th century green - Paris and Scheele's. She's so doomed, poor thing.
A week tomorrow I’m going to see The Importance of Being Ernest with an old school friend. I’ve never seen the play performed, and I’m focused on this Nice thing because this week contains a Horrible thing, and I’d rather skip over that.
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A week tomorrow I’m going to see The Importance of Being Ernest with an old school friend. I’ve never seen the play performed, and I’m focused on this Nice thing because this week contains a Horrible thing, and I’d rather skip over that.
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Excited to share PseudoPod's wonderful performance (read by Rebecca Wei Hsieh) of "The Squatters" by Shawna Yang Ryan from Silk & Sinew. This is a story that will stick with you for a long long time.
Light a candle, snuggle with a blanket, and take a listen.
#badhandbooks #silkandsinew #horror
Light a candle, snuggle with a blanket, and take a listen.
#badhandbooks #silkandsinew #horror
"The government begins excavating the bones in late February"
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
The Squatters, by Shawna Yang Ryan
Narrator: Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Host: Kat Day
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/11/07/p...
This story originally appeared in the 2025 Anthology, Silk and Sinew
PseudoPod 1002: The Squatters
The government begins excavating the bones in late February to coincide with the events planned to commemorate the massacre. It is meant to gesture that they truly do intend to follow through on their...
pseudopod.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Excited to share PseudoPod's wonderful performance (read by Rebecca Wei Hsieh) of "The Squatters" by Shawna Yang Ryan from Silk & Sinew. This is a story that will stick with you for a long long time.
Light a candle, snuggle with a blanket, and take a listen.
#badhandbooks #silkandsinew #horror
Light a candle, snuggle with a blanket, and take a listen.
#badhandbooks #silkandsinew #horror
Little bit of popcorn for the movie
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Little bit of popcorn for the movie
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We have! There are many excellent ones. For example, this year we ran The Old Lady, by Eleanor Scott, which is a delightfully disturbing tale.
pseudopod.org/2025/01/03/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/01/03/p...
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We have! There are many excellent ones. For example, this year we ran The Old Lady, by Eleanor Scott, which is a delightfully disturbing tale.
pseudopod.org/2025/01/03/p...
pseudopod.org/2025/01/03/p...
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'Moonrise' by Frances Seward, UK born contemporary abstract photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'Moonrise' by Frances Seward, UK born contemporary abstract photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt