Kate Lancaster

15 surely

Post me from a different era. Aged 23 in 2002 putting the finishing touches to the neutron time-of-flight arrays for my PhD project. So wholesome.

That. Was. Astonishing 😆😱😱😱 #celebritytraitors

My right hand showing the nails. The nails have a black base and then firework designs with gold, green, pink abc blue starbursts over the top

Back to teaching this week so back to jazzy Thursday! This weeks effort was firework themed, black base and nail varnish pens for the detail. 🎆🎇

So true

A blue curved mug, wider at the top than the bottom. It has the eurofusion logo (blue and white concentric circles). The inside of the mug is white and says eurofusion in blue. It is very battered and scratched.

RIP my Eurofusion mug. It’s my fav mug for my morning cuppa and a hairline crack means it’s no longer viable 😭

Those quoted in that Times article who want what they call a merit-only system would struggle to explain how the pre-DEI domination of white men can be explained by merit alone. Unless they want to say that white men are smarter and better at science than everyone else.

This breaks my heart. It’s a great show and you’re a brilliant journalist and one of the only people that I trust to do interviews with.

That’s the stuff that keeps me in this game 😍

My right hand showing my nails. The base coat of nail varnish is black with holographic microflakies which make it sparkle. The stickers on top are pumpkins, ghosts and spiderwebs

Since next week is consolidation week (so no lectures) I needed to do my spooky Jazzy Thursday nails this week! The base is a charity nail varnish called “the blackest sabbath” where the proceeds go to Cure Parkinson’s. The stickers on top are spooky! Overall a Halloweeny treat. 🦇🕷️🕸️🧛‍♀️

If I were to commit a robbery there’d be signs

My right hand showing purple and pink leopard print effect on a dusky pink base

This weeks Jazzy Thursday was an experiment! I did a dusky pink base and then used purple and pink nail varnish pens to get a leopard print effect 🐆🥰

THIS MOMENT DESERVES A BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

My right hand showing highly silver nails (micro flakie silver polish). Looks like liquid silver but sparkly.

This weeks Jazzy Thursday was a simple but very shiny affair. Just a couple of coats of the prism polish “help me, I’m feeling”. Liquid silver gorgeousness. Lots of the students playing along which is very wholesome 🥰

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

A glass of tomato juice with ice, lemon squeeze, and a good blob of Henderson relish. A bottle of hendo’s is on the left

A Virgin Mary the Yorkshire way (with Hendo’s) 🥰

My right hand. The nails are minty base with cherry and berry nail stickers

This week’s jazzy Thursday - Cherry and berry realness 😍

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Front cover of the penguin modern poets book “The Mersey sound” featuring Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten.

RIP Brian Patten. He featured in one of my favourite poetry books when I was a teen 😢

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They stole my bit :( (dad was a toolmaker)

My hand holding a white plastic reusable cup with a blue lid and the Greggs logo on the side.

I always have a greggles brekker on Fridays as a treat. Finally treated myself to their reusable cup. Fits perfectly into the cup holder in my car 🥰

My left hand with blue/purple sparkly magnetic nail polish where the magnetic field has created a lighter blue swoosh”. It’s very pretty!

First jazzy Thursday of the season. I did magnetic nail polish from Prism (called “follow the screams”). A bit sparkly, a bit physics-y 🥰 🧲 💅

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

My top half in a black dress with white maths equations abs shapes on it. My hair is down and I have black rimmed glasses on. I look suspiciously happy for the beginning of the semester

As tradition dictates - the first maths lecture of the season gets the maths dress! 😀

Me with glasses on and hair down smiling in front of my bookcases

Day 1, week 0 autumn semester! A picture for posterity (and to track the decay 😂)

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Never sleeping again thnx