Dr Emily Sparkes 🎆

Yesterday I fulfilled my dream of wearing the @OfficialUoM PhD puffy hat and bright robes. To make the day even better, I graduated in a skirt made out of my old research posters (a project I’ve been planning since 2017…) made by my amazing best friend #scicomm @WomenInChem_UoM

BRAND NEW footage of @maudeapatow , @MasonAPark and the current cast of CABARET (“London’s hottest ticket”, Stylist).  Now booking until December 2023. kitkat.club

The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long.

The lava from Indonesia's Kawah Ijen volcano has an electric blue appearance Large quantities of sulfuric gases emerge at high pressures, exposed to oxygen in the air and are ignited by the lava producing a blue flame

exactly one year ago i got stuck in a lift

@nateadams Ughhh so tempting

@SparkesWill_Fly Move to Germany and you get to be Frau Dr Sparkes all day every day.

Emily: 10/10 can’t go wrong with my name Em/Ems: 5/10 close friends and family only Emma: 1/10 this is not my name please don’t Squemiloo: 3/10 only my mum is allowed to call me this Dr Sparkes: 8/10 not enough people call me this (stupid Netherlands) Miss Sparkes: 0/10 get out

My husband was given a bird feeder with camera for his birthday recently and it's proving very delightful...

No I dont have proof of address on a letter. BECAUSE I WENT PAPERLESS LIKE I WAS FUCKING ASKED TO

Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.

Happy birthday mate.

A List of Things People Blamed on Women 🧵

Today, nobody showed up to my 8.15am class. 0 students of about 40. Sitting in the empty room, I email them, trying to disguise my hurt feelings. 2 mins later, I get a reply: "Professor, we think you might be in the wrong room." So anyway off I go to live in a hole forever.

Up and out for a regular Tuesday. Mood:

The head of the girls school trust saying tonight that it doesn’t matter how brilliant or successful a woman is, she is only as safe as her male partner allows her to be, is chilling. #EmmaPattinson

Rewatching #BulletTrain now it’s on Netflix and oh my god I love this film so much. It’s so good. And Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s moustache is just 😚👌

This is a thread of new / slang words, from different languages, that were coined for the modern world. I’ll start with this one… Egérmozi (Hungarian) = watching films or shows on a phone (literally ‘mouse cinema’)

Wazzock should be higher on that list