Dr Mel T
@drmel.bsky.social
🇦🇺Microbiologist in 🇬🇧 again adrift from Academia…. Disabled STEMMinist who has grown weary of discrimination in STEMM. #FuckMS #OneHealth 🌈 pan&poly she/her
Had my first paying gig in the Performing Arts sector this week! Leading a Costume making workshop. Teaching teens to sew is very gratifying!
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Had my first paying gig in the Performing Arts sector this week! Leading a Costume making workshop. Teaching teens to sew is very gratifying!
Meanwhile at the conference:
October 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Meanwhile at the conference:
How many more volunteer sausage sizzles is it going to take to protect me from the Mob of my Reform voting neighbours, who want migrants out?
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
How many more volunteer sausage sizzles is it going to take to protect me from the Mob of my Reform voting neighbours, who want migrants out?
This has got ‘science quest scavenger hunt / break room’ activity written all over it….! Ping @hanaayoob.co.uk @lappinscott.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This has got ‘science quest scavenger hunt / break room’ activity written all over it….! Ping @hanaayoob.co.uk @lappinscott.bsky.social
Okay, so imma gunna need smaller eggs or a bigger pie make @crowbar.wtf for this idea! 🤣
August 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Okay, so imma gunna need smaller eggs or a bigger pie make @crowbar.wtf for this idea! 🤣
This is what happens when the local Health Authority forgets to order enough vaccines to cover the vulnerable people and they run out…. My first covid infection for 2 years - third in total since 2021. First one since suppressing my CD20+ B Cells with Kesimpta
July 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
This is what happens when the local Health Authority forgets to order enough vaccines to cover the vulnerable people and they run out…. My first covid infection for 2 years - third in total since 2021. First one since suppressing my CD20+ B Cells with Kesimpta
Look, Beryl and Trevor should have been more canny and travelled in the off season, like the group of 6 Catholic Boomer Pilgrims from Berwick I drove around Ireland and Scotland at the end of March / start of April. Weather was glorious and no midges had hatched yet to ruin the highlands.
June 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Look, Beryl and Trevor should have been more canny and travelled in the off season, like the group of 6 Catholic Boomer Pilgrims from Berwick I drove around Ireland and Scotland at the end of March / start of April. Weather was glorious and no midges had hatched yet to ruin the highlands.
Getting my violet toner on as I’ve made it to the ‘quick chat stage’ tomorrow, for a role helping the Mother Ship of @gaydio.bsky.social stay fabulous! It’s gotta be more fun than doing the finances for NIHR and MRC Grants, surely?
June 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Getting my violet toner on as I’ve made it to the ‘quick chat stage’ tomorrow, for a role helping the Mother Ship of @gaydio.bsky.social stay fabulous! It’s gotta be more fun than doing the finances for NIHR and MRC Grants, surely?
The front of house versus the back!
May 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The front of house versus the back!
Indoor plumbing and sewerage. Only a relatively recent phenomenon in this part of the world….
May 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Indoor plumbing and sewerage. Only a relatively recent phenomenon in this part of the world….
Maybe if you’d bothered to help me earlier, this disabled person might have held onto employment. How’s this for an Orwellian oubliette! #AccessToWork #DWP #Fascist
May 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Maybe if you’d bothered to help me earlier, this disabled person might have held onto employment. How’s this for an Orwellian oubliette! #AccessToWork #DWP #Fascist
Not too bad. Still dealing with the fall out of my BFF’s husband dying suddenly. Funeral on Wednesday. We had the sewing bee to complete the memorial tartan ribbons yesterday.
May 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Not too bad. Still dealing with the fall out of my BFF’s husband dying suddenly. Funeral on Wednesday. We had the sewing bee to complete the memorial tartan ribbons yesterday.
Funeral memorial ribbons made out of tartan.
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Funeral memorial ribbons made out of tartan.
Which stage of grief and moral injury is ‘Rage de- upholstering”? #AskingForAFriend
April 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Which stage of grief and moral injury is ‘Rage de- upholstering”? #AskingForAFriend
When you contact the Ombudsman, cc in the VC’s email address. That might unblock the issue….
April 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
When you contact the Ombudsman, cc in the VC’s email address. That might unblock the issue….
I think we need to talk about the gendered labour it takes to produce even *ONE* of these Elizabethan/Jacobean Ruffs, worn by all sections of English Society circa 16th-17th Century. SO MUCH WORK to produce - and I have an electric iron, spray on starch and an industrial sewing machine!!!
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I think we need to talk about the gendered labour it takes to produce even *ONE* of these Elizabethan/Jacobean Ruffs, worn by all sections of English Society circa 16th-17th Century. SO MUCH WORK to produce - and I have an electric iron, spray on starch and an industrial sewing machine!!!
Me, after my first ‘low mobility’ fitness class #sweaty #NotAsLowImpactAsIWasExpecting
February 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Me, after my first ‘low mobility’ fitness class #sweaty #NotAsLowImpactAsIWasExpecting
My Suffragette hat pins have arrived! #Stabby #SelfDefensiveAgainstThePatriarchy
February 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My Suffragette hat pins have arrived! #Stabby #SelfDefensiveAgainstThePatriarchy
Can I get some kind of medal? I’ve been rejected on first try from both the Oz NDIS scheme and now the UK equivalent (despite having two more reportable disability diagnoses than when I applied to the NDIS in 2020). So begins the charade of the two step appeals process. #EverydayAbleism
February 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Can I get some kind of medal? I’ve been rejected on first try from both the Oz NDIS scheme and now the UK equivalent (despite having two more reportable disability diagnoses than when I applied to the NDIS in 2020). So begins the charade of the two step appeals process. #EverydayAbleism
I just tried to upload here in the UK and got this:
January 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I just tried to upload here in the UK and got this:
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
January 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
This is why I have 4 pets.
January 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is why I have 4 pets.