Athena Swan Cake Day
I had such a busy day on Friday (28th February) that I didn’t get time to post about our monthly MPS afternoon cake event. This month’s extravaganza was in honour of Athena Swan, the Bronze Award of which the Department of Physics and Astronomy hopes to earn later this year.
The eleven “special” cakes shown in the picture, each of which is in the shape of a swan, represent the eleven female members of academic staff in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (out of about 60 total), and were consumed by them too! There were plenty of other cakes for the rest of us, but since they all involved chocolate I didn’t eat any…
In the Dark 
March 3, 2014 at 5:10 am
Chocophobia?
March 3, 2014 at 10:51 am
Why didn’t you eat any? If I may wonder.
March 3, 2014 at 2:12 pm
I don’t like chocolate…
March 3, 2014 at 9:39 pm
I don’t like chocolate… I love it.
March 3, 2014 at 6:23 pm
‘I don’t like chocolate’? Which planet are you from, and what have you done with our friend Peter?
March 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm
https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/i-dont-like-chocolate/
March 3, 2014 at 7:24 pm
Is your percentage female academic staff higher or lower than the percentage of female students?
March 3, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Lower…
March 4, 2014 at 8:08 am
Same for us, and in spite of the fraction of female undergraduates having been at the current level for 15 years. We are running out of excuses.