Sophie

Ikr I JUST bought their chard earrings like two weeks before they released these, my bank account is begging me for mercy

Someone please tell me why, to find the commodity code that applies to laptops, I have to look in the chapter of the UK Online Tariff that deals with NUCLEAR REACTORS 😭 people who deal with import/export for a job must be on another level for lateral thinking

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

Three white people sitting on a stage (Bill Sutherland, Mark Walport, and Sophie Meekings) with a Royal Society branded lectern in one corner and a slide projected behind them entitled "The future of scientific publishing"

Sophie beaming and holding a driving test pass certificate in front of a bright blue car with colourful dots all over it

Been a wild 24hrs- kicked off Monday giving a talk at the Royal Society #FutureSciPub then headed home to miraculously pass my driving test?? Have spent a good chunk of the year so far so ill I couldn't travel and legally unable to drive for a bit so feeling v grateful for some glorious respite.

Well this is impressive!

It was signed by someone on behalf of 'Team Cancer 2025' and I just... I really think you ought to look at that messaging

Screenshot of a line from my email inbox that says it's from 'Cancer', subject line 'Sophie Meekings' and text 'Dear Dr Sophie Meekings, I hope this message finds you well'.

jfc these predatory conferences get more alarming by the day

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

OBVIOUSLY. Where's my bog starter pack.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock meets Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Judy Armitage to discover the fascinating stories of Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale, the first ... Marjory Stephenson and Kathleen Lonsdale - trailer | The Royal Society

22 March 2025 saw the 80th anniversary of the first women scientists being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Head to our YouTube channel to see our new short documentaries celebrating the lives and work of Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS:

Great fun to be in the House of Lords this evening with fellow @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social exec group member @smeekings.bsky.social, to celebrate 25 years of the @royalsociety.org's pairing scheme between scientists and policy makers. Lovely to meet so many interesting people from both spheres!

I'm also in this WhatsApp group. #UKYoungAcademy new members induction this morning includes a prize for most interesting hobby- making an early bid for supremacy here.

YouTube video by British Science Association Meet Sophie, Speech neuroscientist | #SmashingStereotypes

Meet Dr. Sophie Meekings, a speech neuroscientist studying what happens in your brain during a conversation.

Despite growing up deaf and not taking science A-Levels, Sophie’s passion for language led her to a PhD in neuroscience. #SmashingStereotypes #BSW25

youtube.com/watch?v=YwGr...

Bringing back Smashing Stereotypes for its sixth year for British Science Week 2025 The British Science Association (BSA) is thrilled to announce the return of the highly-anticipated ‘Smashing Stereotypes’ campaign for this year’s British Science Week – celebrating the diverse people...

Now in its 6th year, our #SmashingStereotypes campaign for #BSW25 is back!

We're spotlighting remarkable individuals in diverse STEM careers who are breaking barriers -because there's no 'typical' path to STEM success!

Read the full story!

www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/bringin...

Nine squashes of various shapes and sizes sitting politely on the top of a dresser.

Home for the holidays and sharing my old room with my parents' replacement children:

Doing some UK Young Academy work on the train and feeling very lucky to be part of such a broad organisation filled with experts on cool things I didn't even know it was possible to be an expert in 🥰

Current status and future challenges in brain imaging: Insights from leading experts

I really like the idea of interviews on "current status and future challenges in brain imaging". I do NOT like that 14 of 15 interviews are with men. Who is missing from this list? We have lots of amazing neuroimagers who aren't men. #neuroskyence

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

really the social media experience peaked with Beebo and has been downhill ever since

A wicker basket filled with an assortment of green and purple sprouting broccoli

It's garden season again bitches 🌱

Sign in front of a wire avian enclosure that says "do not shout at the red-tailed black cockatoos" in all caps.

This sign clearly had a very specific backstory and I need to know what it is:

A baby Eastern quoll (a tiny, adorable marsupial with dark brown fur dotted with white spots) turning towards the camera. It has just heard my husband going pspsps like it's a cat- apparently this also works on quolls.

why did no-one tell me that quolls exist and they are so, so perfect

love to go on a little treasure hunt across the city for my medication thanks to a global shortage! Also love the clerical error that has led to my repeat subscription being half as much as I actually need, meaning I get to do this AGAIN in 14 days 🥰

A bright yellow fizzy drink can that says "Fruit Salad" on it in pink writing

This message appeared in my timeline with no context and I was like......maybe this???

A basket full to the brim with yellow courgettes

Can't believe no-one came trick or treating, I was waiting by the door with my basket of treats all night 😥 🌱

Sophie (a white brunette woman with long hair) squints at the camera with a beautiful landscape of mountains, woodland and a rainbow behind her. She's wearing bat earrings and a tan coloured woolly hat that matches both her jumper and the dead bracken in the landscape behind her.

Just spent a week taking kids caving in beautiful South Wales. Love to be on top of and/or underneath mountains. Just any orientation relative to a hillside really.

A green carrier bag filled with yellow courgettes

The courgette plants have been turning it OUT just in time for our kitchen to be out of action (the ceiling needs reinforcing so it's been full of scaffolding and mortar dust). Everyone who sees me is getting a compulsory courg, no opt-outs. 🌱

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A green carrier bag filled with yellow courgettes

The courgette plants have been turning it OUT just in time for our kitchen to be out of action (the ceiling needs reinforcing so it's been full of scaffolding and mortar dust). Everyone who sees me is getting a compulsory courg, no opt-outs. 🌱

The difference between last month's basket "full" of veg and this month's 🌱 hauls is *extreme* 😅

A pretty light orange marigold flower with dark orange edges to the petals. Photo taken in portrait mode (with an artistically blurred background) cos she's so beautiful she needs a glamour shot 😘

And after completely failing to grow any of these marigolds (calendula "Sunset Buff") in trays I'm happy that just dumping out the remaining seeds in the packet onto soil worked perfectly 😅🌱