🦝Cate Meredith

Happy 14 March to everyone except the people who told me Klaus Fuchs wasn’t fascinating. Here he is in 1949, calmly reviewing a physics paper while the British state had no idea he was about to rewrite Cold War history. I didn't choose the Fuchs life. The Fuchs life chose me.

'It is in .. times of evil that men recognize their helplessness and their profound dependence.. In the Bhagavad-Gita it says, "Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.." For this reason it is possible to maintain the hope..' -J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Services for President Roosevelt Los Alamos, April 15, 1945 digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/48374

Damn right.

Exactly 175 years ago Leo Tolstoy wrote the greatest diary entry of all time

“Thanks for your kind letter and invitation, though”

Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics. Laurent Simons has officially become a doctor in quantum physics after defending his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp on November 24, 2025.

Patrick Blackett could detect a charged particle’s entire life story but still wrote softer emails than any professor alive today.

Niels Bohr writing to Carlsberg Foundation: "I respectfully request a travel grant of 2500 Kr for a one-year study stay at foreign universities." That's it. That's the entire proposal. He received approval the next day...

Save Geography at the University of Leicester - Sign the Petition! c.org/GLQ7f5jQX2 via @UKChange

The beauty of this building! Dazzling.

Bought The House at Otowi Bridge for £4. Inside? A 1962 letter from W.G. Penney — architect of Britain’s atomic bomb — thanking a colleague for lending him that exact book. Not a metaphor. Just Cold War history doing what it does best: haunting the margins. I’m writing a book about Klaus Fuchs. The ghosts are getting louder. #KlausFuchs #ColdWar #AtomicHistory #Archives #FoundInABook

Less is more. #BauhausExperience #BauhausWeimar #BauhausDessau #Design #Modernism #Travel bauhaus-experience.com

Goals.

Crazy how literally all of this happened.

'Capitalism also depends on domestic labour' by See Red Womens Workshop, feminist silk-screen poster collective, UK (1970s-90s) #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Tomorrow, 53 years after Bloody Sunday, the man known as Soldier F finally stands trial for murders of Willie McKinney and Jim Wray and the attempted murders of five more. Remember, despite bluff and bluster, all 14 were executed as they marched for equality

The Kneecap effect in action !

@EricAlkire I loved that book. I still have others about Klaus Fuchs I just bought too. I'm definitely developing an obsession.

@cate_meredith Hmmm, I sense a theme. American Prometheus is wonderful too, bio of Oppenheimer. Making of the atomic bomb is dense but thorough.

Current #bookstack. #bookstagram