Postdoc at the Royal Institution. Interested in all things old and science-y. Probably drinking coffee.https://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mucucl5rrk2pA magic mirror looks perfectly ordinary until you reflect light from it onto a surface. Its "flat" face actually hides micron-deep curvature from the casting and polishing process. Invisible to eye or touch, but light never lies! 📐💡 Filming with Michael @bristoluni.bsky.social was so much fun 🤩 🪞 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Aug 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucucl5rrk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3msvkuk2nrk2jNever a better occasion to have a gander at these beautiful plates in the @rigb.org’s collection. Taken by Warren de la Rue in 1860, they sought to settle the mysteries of the “tentacles of light” that only appeared during totalities…. 👉 https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/more-meets-eye-photograph-settled-astronomical-debate 🧪🔭🌚 #histsci #eclipse12 Aug 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvkuk2nrk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3msbacr2hbk2kWhen people tell me they love the Royal Institute [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbacr2hbk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mqhknssmik2hYou know it’s #eshs-hss when, despite your best efforts, it is simply impossible to attend even half of everything you’d like to https://static.klipy.com/ii/39f2394ae36df6e199be9eb7c9fa1012/ba/d1/useYDhxi.gif?hh=210&ww=320&mp4=afr5Z9NZ5AlGPTsjK&webm=Lv4FzJqXECbiYuLA12 Jul 2026 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqhknssmik2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mojfmifwek2a📣 Are you on a DTP funded by BBSRC, NERC, MRC, AHRC, or EPSRC?? Come intern with us! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jun 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojfmifwek2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mmdzdzcdis2xSuper excited to have @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social join us at the Ri! Book your tickets* here👇 *big discounts for members, students etc. #histsci #science #scicomm 🧪 🦋 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmdzdzcdis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mldkjvcytk2eHappy birthday to David Attenborough! 🎉 One of the few to have ever come out on top against the unholy trinity of live tv, children, and animals… take a look back at his 1973 @rigb.org Xmas Lectures, & check out a never before seen transcript of the missing lecture 4! https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/blog/sir-david-attenborough-royal-institution08 May 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldkjvcytk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mhzxhbin6s2vLovely little @rigb.org archive find - in the back of James Dewar’s pamphlet for his 1883 Juvenile Lectures on Alchemy & its relation to Modern Science is this wonderful pull-out timeline of physical and chemical philosophers… beginning with “Hermes??” and (of course) finishing with Faraday 🧪27 Mar 2026 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzxhbin6s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mf3mta45t22eTipper was incredible - not only was she a Research Assistant in the DFRL at @rigb.org in the early 1920s, but simultaneously worked at the Royal School of Mines AND assisted GI Taylor at @cambridgephysics.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3mta45t22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3mejcxvocw22gCongrats to @rigb.org’s chair, SRC! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Feb 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejcxvocw22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3ma4l4hdzz22nThe last of the red leaves 🍂 📍 Kanazawa Castle Park, Ishikawa, Japan16 Dec 2025 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4l4hdzz22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3m6ljop4nxs2sHad the best day at the Nature and Science Museum in Tokyo today. A productive time researching Ayrton as well as getting sidetracked by everything else! 🐋 🦕 🌱 🚀27 Nov 2025 04:26 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ljop4nxs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3m6jgggg4kk2hAt Cambridge I worked with @whipplemuseum.bsky.social and @chuarchives.bsky.social to explore why Bacon’s cell ended up in space 🚀 from Grove’s letter we see that the basic principles were the same - tho the composition of the Bacon’s nickel membrane was kept under the official secrets act 🤫 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Nov 2025 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6jgggg4kk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3m5cbjtrij225Oxford, you’ve been an absolute treat! Thanks for having me @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - I’ll be back 👀 @stannescollege.bsky.social10 Nov 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5cbjtrij225https://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3m52i4vd74s24📢 JOB ALERT 📢 Come work with me! @rigb.org is hiring an Archivist, full time, 2 year, fixed-term contract, hybrid working possible. Please share widely! More details 👇 https://www.rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA07 Nov 2025 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52i4vd74s24https://bsky.app/profile/katysduncan.bsky.social/post/3m3pqhpzb4k2jI definitely recommend *chequing* out the finer details of this note if you have one! Lots of lovely little science details (even if the xmas lectures year turned out to be wrong…) And rumour has it the men in the front row of the audience are from the Bank of England 🤔 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Oct 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:o2gcs2pfjve2fnch3ej7u5fa/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pqhpzb4k2j