Mark has gone and done again with this excellent Christmas photoshop for you all. We wish you a restful break filled with light, love and big dinners! 🥰🎄xxx

Celebrating the winter solstice with a dear friend, a doggo, and lovely food. Today is the shortest day, now we move towards the light 🥰🌞

My god. It's full of stars. This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known. Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.

OOO is activated! Time for some friends, family and festive times ahead 🥰🎄🥂🎉

I made an Instagram post about the Levy recommendations. It’s long, so I’ve only put a few slides on here. As always, there are organisations better placed than me to respond @transactualuk.bsky.social @transsolidarity.bsky.social @goodlawproject.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DSchXjZDPe...

I may have done the most middle-aged thing possible. Great session at the gym. Walking out, foot went down a slight incline the the pavement and I rolled over on it. I’m praying it’s not a full sprain - icing the shit out of it 🤪😆😢

Forgot to post my Christmas jazzy Thursday nails for the last Thursday of the semester 🥰🎄❄️

Robin is one of the good ones. Solidarity with you Robin.

this is a work of art

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It’s that time of year to give thanks to past me! 🎉🎄

Someone has scooped out my brain and replaced it with snot 🤧

Today’s jazzy Thursday was the last one before my bit of the maths course is done . I chose a red and glitter ombré effect.

Right, I'm going to post something about the draft EHRC guidance, and I'm happy to be corrected, but here goes... In my knowledge of the queer history of law in the UK, we have not had statutes that prohibit "cross-dressing" in the way they did, say, in many US states. What you did have was...

everyone should have a walkup song to their desk at work

I was under inspired for this weeks jazzy Thursday so just did some sparkly green base and citrus stickers 🍋‍🟩🍋🍊

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

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. 🎆🎇

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 🥰

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:

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

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

September garden is just 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Ah steps 🥰. My biggest regret at uni was not embracing steps. I was trying to be too cool for school that when steps came on I’d slump back from the union at listen to jazz. Insufferable 😂😂😂😂. #totp

I mean that cover of night fever by Adam Garcia was trash but I love that boy. He taught us tap at the festival hall when he was in hot shoe shuffle. Absolutely mind blowing for us teen tappers! 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

Watching TOTP and giggling because Mick Hucknall sang “I get blown all around the world” 😂😱

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Yes I’m a giant baby but the new Sylvanian family range at uniqlo is 🥰

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Picked 800g of delicious cherry tomatoes and turned them into a delicious tomato sauce for pasta 🥰🥰🥰🥰🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

The curtain track for some reason broke and fell down. I swear there is no job more fiddley and annoying that putting up curtain track (with the exception of wiring in pendant lights). Be prepared for the air to be even more blue around me for the next hour 🤯🤬

First day back after a short but sweet holiday to Ghent and my brain is like a horse clippy clopping up to a jump and then is all like nah let’s go over here 🤪

This. Ask me what it was like being in high school when size 8 was considered fat and my friends all had eating disorders. Or how being the only girl walking into a gaming store felt like a chum tossed into a shark tank. Or how men in public started asking me out or catcalling me around at age 13.

I’ve never really been a footie fan but still when the lionesses kick ass and also the evident support for women’s football I do have a lil tear in the ol eye 🥲🎉

Magnificent scenes in Sainsbury’s. Some dude just knocked a load of toothbrushes off a shelf with a protruding baguette. He picked them all up, put them all back, and as he was walking away he knocked them all off again with the same baguette. I laughed and laughed and helped him put them back again