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Kate Lancaster

@drkatel.bsky.social

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

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗@katymontgomerie.com · 3mo ago

Even violence, state or otherwise, will not stop me living my life. I will not change a single thing about how I've been living for over a decade regardless of what some new garbage "guidance" might say. If they made it illegal to breathe I'd still do it. Fuck you

RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The Sutton Trust@suttontrust.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Graduates who experienced poverty in childhood still face a significant earnings gap after a decade in work 👎 An important new report from @resolutionfoundation.org reveals how childhood disadvantage shapes the earnings of university grads in England 🧵 www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

The long shadow • Resolution Foundation

Childhood poverty casts a long shadow over graduates’ earnings. This briefing note shows that even after achieving the same grade from the same university and working for the same employer a decade…

resolutionfoundation.org

Kate Lancaster@drkatel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Left a bit. Stop. Back a bit. Stop. Back the other way. Yup. Up a bit. Stop. Down a touch. Stop. Done.”

Nina@ninaneedsspace.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Yes, that will need to be risk assessed. Yes, for each individual activity. Yes, for each one. Each one, yes, a risk assessment for each one”.

Not In Our Name (NION) Women@nionwomen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷 For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence

ALL Women must stand together on International Women's Day Graphic image of women's outlines in different colours like watercolour.
Institute of Physics@iop.org · 5mo ago

What inspires someone to pursue physics for life? From discovering general relativity to the encouragement of mentors, women in our community share the moments that shaped their journeys. This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating women advancing physics and inspiring the next generation. 🌟

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 6mo ago

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition. Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

Kate Lancaster@drkatel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

GCSE science live season starts today! My 18th year of doing this! Lovely jaunt at Bridgewater hall in Manchester talking about fusion energy. Can’t believe Jim AK was warm up for me 🤣🥰

Me doing green room realness - my reflection in the dressing room mirrors. I’m wearing a hounds tooth CK jacket and am gawping and throwing a peace signThe running order for today showing me after Jim Al Khalili
UoY Digital Accessibility Unit@uoydigacc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This review provides an important report on where we are and how far we have yet to go to fully include and support disabled people in education.

Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...