Katy Duncan 🍉
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Katy Duncan 🍉
@katysduncan.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Royal Institution. Interested in all things old and science-y. Probably drinking coffee.
We met over dinner last week! (Too nice to call it scran…)
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Why, that would make a great book cover…
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The lectures also feature one of my favourite items in @rigb.org’s collection - Morrison’s huge (and functional!) pencil ✏️ 👇
Once the world's biggest working pencil, this is one of the most iconic #XmasLectures props, created for Philip Morrison's 1968 series. ✏️

Historian @katysduncan.bsky.social tells us about this piece that's writefully earned its place among some of the coolest things in our archive.
October 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
There really should be! The earliest surviving @rigb.org Christmas Lecture footage is Philip Morrisons’s series - it takes direct inspiration from Guilliver’s Travels, even reading from it at various points youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Philip Morrison's 1968 CHRISTMAS LECTURES - Gulliver's Laws - the physics of large and small - YouTube
In the 1968 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, physicist Philip Morrison explores the science of scale through the eyes of Jonathan (also knows as Dean) Swift's classic boo...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Glad you enjoyed the exhibition! The Ri funded the publication to be reproduced from Lonsdale’s draft (at great expense!) as she didn’t trust the typesetters to get it right. All for the better I think - it’s such a magical book to look through, and not many copies of it around either.
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Hopefully gone for good!🤞🏻
September 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well we all know Hasok is angelic, so it definitely tracks….
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Preaching from the pragmatic pulpit I presume
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Taxonomic Collapse: A Study in Red (cardboard on wall, 2025)
August 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thanks for sharing!
August 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM