Kay Ritchie
@kayritchie.bsky.social
Research on face recognition | Director of the Policy Hub at University of Lincoln, UK | public engagement with research | flute in Lincoln, Stamford and musical theatre
Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good meetings include good cake! Very productive day in York with Eilidh and @drkatiegray.bsky.social
Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰
August 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Probably the most joyous photo of two old friends drinking wine and making each other laugh through music 🥰
Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.
July 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hear me out. Who was the first dude on the podium at the Euros final there? Was it Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible mask? And if you’re saying no, are you sure? The face, the eyes, and the hands don’t match the face.
What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏
July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What a brilliant time at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Dundee last week! Huge congratulations to Mike Burton for his Sir Frederick Bartlett prize lecture and thank you for attracting so many awesome face perception researchers! 🥰🤓 Thank you to @lizziebradford.bsky.social for organising! 👏
Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓
June 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Great day and a bit with Katrina and Ranbir in Huddersfield for the Yorkshire and Humber Policy Engagement and Research Network meeting. Lots of networking, and lots of good ideas to be working on from an East Midlands perspective! 🤓
Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln
May 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pint of Science has made the front cover of the Lincoln Independent magazine! 19-21 May, tickets here PintOfScience.co.uk/events/lincoln
Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Had a wonderful week in the merry old land of Oz playing in the band for MJH Productions in Grantham. Congratulations to everyone in the cast, crew, production and band!
Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
March 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brill but exhausting sitzprobe for MJH Productions’ Wizard of
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
Oz today. The cast sound amazing 🥰 8th-12th April - tickets here www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all... 🌈🌪️👠👠🧠❤️🦁
What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What an absolutely brilliant concert with Stamford Chamber Orchestra! Mozart narrated a ‘children’s guide’ piece written specially for us by John Sturt, complete with kiddo violins & singers. Jupiter symphony was genuinely one of the best things I’ve played in a while - well done everyone!
ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations
February 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ITV commentary once again is totally unhinged - there’s clearly a bet on as to who can say the word “wardrobe” the most. “He is a nicely built, nicely aging French wardrobe”. Mad. Also strong choice from Twickenham to choose ‘Chumbaleze’ for their hanging around music. #EngFra #SixNations
Last Christmas concert of 2024 done! Huge thank you and well done to the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, chorus and soloists. And my pal gave me a cute wee hat for my flute!
December 22, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Last Christmas concert of 2024 done! Huge thank you and well done to the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra, chorus and soloists. And my pal gave me a cute wee hat for my flute!
Huge thank you to Lincoln Cathedral for hosting our ‘dust off your instrument’ Christmas Carol session with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra today! We were expecting 5 people and a dog, but 77 members of the local community came to play! Sorry for my terrible conducting, well done all, Merry Christmas!
December 21, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Huge thank you to Lincoln Cathedral for hosting our ‘dust off your instrument’ Christmas Carol session with Lincoln Symphony Orchestra today! We were expecting 5 people and a dog, but 77 members of the local community came to play! Sorry for my terrible conducting, well done all, Merry Christmas!
Lovely day playing for The Snowman at Lincoln Cathedral. I cry every time he melts! Two more to go tomorrow 🥰☃️🎶
December 14, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Lovely day playing for The Snowman at Lincoln Cathedral. I cry every time he melts! Two more to go tomorrow 🥰☃️🎶
Ended up in the front row on tonight’s Question Time. Tried really hard to control my face when the woman beside me (who’d told me before hand she was there to see Farrage because she’d voted Reform) said she didn’t believe in migrants seeking asylum. You can judge whether I succeeded.
December 5, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Ended up in the front row on tonight’s Question Time. Tried really hard to control my face when the woman beside me (who’d told me before hand she was there to see Farrage because she’d voted Reform) said she didn’t believe in migrants seeking asylum. You can judge whether I succeeded.
Which bit is the front?! 😻
November 26, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Which bit is the front?! 😻
Colin and I have been on our holidays ahead of next week’s Science Live on Stage: A Journey Through The Brain. This fun kids’ science show should be a proper laugh. With some fun brain science! Tickets here - lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/scienc...
November 24, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Colin and I have been on our holidays ahead of next week’s Science Live on Stage: A Journey Through The Brain. This fun kids’ science show should be a proper laugh. With some fun brain science! Tickets here - lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/scienc...
Join me and my friend Colin for this year’s Science Live on Stage! We’re taking a journey through the brain in this informative and fun stage show.
28th & 29th Nov at the Lincoln Arts Centre. Aimed at late primary aged children, please do come along & share with anyone interested 🥰🧠
28th & 29th Nov at the Lincoln Arts Centre. Aimed at late primary aged children, please do come along & share with anyone interested 🥰🧠
November 11, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Join me and my friend Colin for this year’s Science Live on Stage! We’re taking a journey through the brain in this informative and fun stage show.
28th & 29th Nov at the Lincoln Arts Centre. Aimed at late primary aged children, please do come along & share with anyone interested 🥰🧠
28th & 29th Nov at the Lincoln Arts Centre. Aimed at late primary aged children, please do come along & share with anyone interested 🥰🧠
Who goes to the gym and comes back with a lovely bottle of champagne? Me! Despite turning up late 🙈 Great fundraiser session and raffle for a wonderful gym friend and her family. Thank you to organisers, donations, and to the fab gym community for donating and being awesome.
November 2, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Who goes to the gym and comes back with a lovely bottle of champagne? Me! Despite turning up late 🙈 Great fundraiser session and raffle for a wonderful gym friend and her family. Thank you to organisers, donations, and to the fab gym community for donating and being awesome.
Some snaps from graduation today. Amazing to be so close to the Peace Doves art installation at Lincoln Cathedral. Beautiful!
September 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Some snaps from graduation today. Amazing to be so close to the Peace Doves art installation at Lincoln Cathedral. Beautiful!
Not my work, but some useful pairings here for face recognition researchers!
December 30, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Not my work, but some useful pairings here for face recognition researchers!
Firmly aimed at @drkatiegray.bsky.social
December 7, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Firmly aimed at @drkatiegray.bsky.social
What an absolutely brilliant time at the UoL Awards #UoLMandA2023 Creative Reactions won the Award for Civic Engagement and the Grand Prix award! Were absolutely delighted! Congratulations to our fab team led by Fiona with brilliant arts technicians, Rob, Olly, Polly & Mick 🥰🏆
November 23, 2023 at 10:33 AM
What an absolutely brilliant time at the UoL Awards #UoLMandA2023 Creative Reactions won the Award for Civic Engagement and the Grand Prix award! Were absolutely delighted! Congratulations to our fab team led by Fiona with brilliant arts technicians, Rob, Olly, Polly & Mick 🥰🏆
Delighted to have won “people’s choice” poster at the University of Lincoln open access competition for my poster with Katie Gray on our current project with undergraduate students comparing image, video and live face matching. I even got some figshare branded socks! 🧦🥰
November 6, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Delighted to have won “people’s choice” poster at the University of Lincoln open access competition for my poster with Katie Gray on our current project with undergraduate students comparing image, video and live face matching. I even got some figshare branded socks! 🧦🥰
We’re so lucky to have had another wonderful, inspiring evening with NASA astronaut, Mike Foale. Huge thanks to Chris from ISSET, the Lincoln Pint of Science team and College events team who made this another slick, successful event. Hanging out with astronauts will never get old! 🥰🚀🧑🚀
October 26, 2023 at 8:58 AM
We’re so lucky to have had another wonderful, inspiring evening with NASA astronaut, Mike Foale. Huge thanks to Chris from ISSET, the Lincoln Pint of Science team and College events team who made this another slick, successful event. Hanging out with astronauts will never get old! 🥰🚀🧑🚀
Here’s a new(ish) paper on face matching comparing ability with familiar and unfamiliar human faces and monkey faces. We conclude that, at least when the images shows the same person/monkey, unfamiliar people may as well be another species. Plus it features the best figure caption ever (L/R 😂)
October 16, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Here’s a new(ish) paper on face matching comparing ability with familiar and unfamiliar human faces and monkey faces. We conclude that, at least when the images shows the same person/monkey, unfamiliar people may as well be another species. Plus it features the best figure caption ever (L/R 😂)