Conor McKeever

@conormckeever.bsky.social

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Oxfordshire, UK | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈 and 🐱🐱 | Lapsed chemist, now working in science communication 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/conor.mckeever

A poster for the event. On a colourful background it says Pride in STEM 10th anniversary celebration, Royal society of Chemistry April 17, 6.30 pm.
A black and white tuxedo cat (Nyota) sits on a fluffy beige rug in the foreground, while a calico cat (Nebula) sits behind her on the wooden floor of our living room. Both are staring intently at the camera as if to convey their desire for food.
Video of some birds on a patch of grass next to a lake. There are several mallard ducks and a young crow whose feathers are still a little scraggly and pale, but who is still recognisably a crow. The birds are all walking around, then I throw some food into shot and they all dart for it. The crow grabs a piece then dashes off, part running and part hopping.
Composite picture of the characters Seven of Nine and The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager, in front of a background of stars.
Photo of a vase of bright yellow sunflowers on a side table
A brightly colored Maryland state flag waves against a clear blue sky. The flag is divided into quarters, with two quarters having alternating black and gold checkered patterns and the other two quarters having a red and white cross. It is quite an affront to the eyes!
Selfie photo of my dad (holding the camera on the left), my husband, my mum and me. My mum's wearing a multicoloured dress and holding a pride flag, and I'm wearing a white t-shirt that says 'proud' in rainbow lettering on it.
A two panel meme made from a comic where a goose is chasing down a man wearing a goose feather jacket. Instead of the goose demanding "What's in the jacket?" the goose is demanding "Who's putting them under pressure?"
Photo of my computer monitor on my desk. Behind it, sticking out at the top, you can just about see a little pair of cat ears. Definitely not the ears belonging to a cat that's good at hiding!
Photo of a shop window with a display containing all sorts of bright colourful items, combining to make a Pride-themed display. Items include a 'Be You' rainbow poster in the colours of the bi flag, books stacked in rainbow colours, a cushion that says 'love', a card that says 'love is love', and a blue wig next to a rainbow bandana.
Video of two adult children hugging their mum - she pushes one away saying "get away from me, you're straight, it's pride month"
Screenshot of the same video, where the cooked pudding is being lifted out of the pot of water. The subtitles read "you'll know that it's ready because it will have swollen up and become quite firm when you take it out of the water"
Our two cats sit on our TV cabinet, in front of the television. The cat on the left is black and white, and the cat on the right has tortoiseshell and white fur. The two cats are sitting up very primly, with their feet together and their tails tucked around their legs. Their tails are going in opposite directions, with one going clockwise and the other anticlockwise, so they're sort of mirror images of each other. They are both looking directly at the camera.
Selfie of me in my living room wearing a rainbow lanyard, a white t-shirt with the word 'Proud' written on the chest in the colours of the progress pride flag, and a red tartan hoodie. I'm sort of smiling at the camera holding up a pair of rainbow sunglasses.
A very badly photoshopped picture of Mariah Carey. Her head is normal sized but the rest of her has been morphed to make her inhumanly skinny in a really obvious way (like you can see all the logos in the background are stretched and warped around her).
Photo of Nyota, my black and white cat, curled up on one of the pages in my ring binder. She's looking cutely at the camera. In the background is my computer monitor so you can tell I'm at my work desk while she's doing this!
Two kids are hugging their mother on the sofa. The kids are smiling, almost laughing, but the mother pushes away her daughter with fake outrage saying "get away from me, you're straight, it's pride month". Both kids are struggling to contain their laughter at the end of the video.
Photo of me holding out a cross-stitch done by my friend Hayley. It shows me and my husband in cute, almost pixel art style, holding hands wearing the suits we wore at our wedding, right down to the tie colours. Next to us in the cross-stitch are representations of our two cats, one either side of us, again looking very cute. And at the bottom is the date of our wedding, 30 April. In the background you can see one of the cats and it's clear how good a likeness it is!
Photo of me and my now-husband sitting at a big wooden desk with our parents standing behind us. We're all looking at the camera and smiling. I'm holding a pen in my hand over a ceremonial wedding certificate.
My cat Nebula (who is tortoiseshell and white) is asleep on a desk, resting her head next to a white computer keyboard. Sunlight streams in from the right, illuminating her fur. In the background, there's a computer monitor, and to the right, a computer mouse.
Photo of my beautiful cat Nebula, who has a tortoiseshell and white coat (so brown, black, ginger and white in patches all over). She's sitting contentedly in the windowsill slightly hunched down but with her eyes closed and her tail wrapped around her front legs. Right in front of her are two Japanese solar-powered cat ornaments, one black and white, one ginger and white, both with stylised happy faces that look just like the one Nebula is making.
Following the guidance, issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on the practical implications for trans people of the Supreme Court ruling of 16 April, I am writing to seek your urgent response on these implications. This ruling and subsequent guidance from the EHRC has immediate consequences for trans people's ability to participate in daily life and for institutions and businesses providing facilities for patrons and the public. In places like hospitals, shops and restaurants, the new guidance says trans women should not be permitted to use women's facilities, but they should not be left with no facilities to use. This is extremely confusing and conflicts with the first sentence of your statement to the House last Tuesday following the "For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers ruling. This guidance puts trans people at risk of discrimination and there are major and immediate questions about how its requirements would be funded and policed. Last week you told the House that the Govt stands for "dignity and respect for all, now and always", yet the wake of this guidance trans people are not being afforded clarity or respect. Therefore, I would like to seek clarity from you on the following: How is the Govt going to respond to both distress within the trans community and further confusion for employers, businesses and service providers who are trying to understand what the supreme court ruling means for them? What are the risks of encouraging vigilante policing of public facilities? Have Ministers considered that the Equality Act requires that providers of services avoid 'creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment' for people with protected characteristics (Section 26, Harassment)? The EHRC guidance is clearly correct that trans people must not be deprived of facilities, but as the Equality Act requires more than just the equal provision of services, there is a risk that following this EHRC guidance...
A still from the video above, where one of the adults has the pea in its beak and the baby is just beneath it, ready to grab it from the parent's beak. Posting to (hopefully) show more detail than the video does, because the video looks blurry and compressed.
Video taken from a grassy bank of a lake. Two adult moorhens are pecking around for food for their baby, who is cheeping in the background (and looks identical to them except more fluffy). I throw them some oats and peas from off camera and the adults run over, pick some up in their beaks, then take it in turns holding it out for the baby to eat, as it runs between them looking excited.
Photo of a panel where telephone and internet cables enter my house - on it is a little black spider
A screenshot from a BBC news article that reads: "Crucially, the ruling provides a clear framework for what equality laws mean. The EHRC says it is "working at pace" to update its guidance, and expects that to be ready by the summer. It has already made it clear that if a single-sex space, like a toilet or changing room, is women-only, that means biological males who identify as women should not use it. It says instead that trans people should use their "powers of advocacy" to campaign for third spaces, such as unisex toilets. And it has said it will pursue the NHS if it does not follow the latest ruling."
Screenshot from Google maps, centred on a restaurant called Nón - Vietnamese restaurant (where the word nón is clearly meant to be a Vietnamese word but it looks like it just means the restaurant isn't Vietnamese)
Photo of the corner of my childhood bedroom, taken from my perspective lying in bed. In that corner is a toy robot, with a transparent head and white body, looking directly at me.
Photo of a TV screen showing a news programme. In the cutout on the left, you can see me, my mum and my sister in red t-shirts being interviewed by the news anchor. On the right is a photo of the eclipse happening.
Photo of the sun taken through eclipse glasses so that it looks like a yellow disk on a black background. You can see about a quarter of the sun is missing, covered by the moon.
Photo of my two cats. Nyota, who is black and white, is sitting in an office chair and facing the camera. Nebula, who is orange, brown, black and white, is behind her, lying on the desk with her eyes closed, enjoying the sunlight.
Text from an article by BBC News, where a sentence is highlighted in yellow that has clearly been edited but the edit is incomplete. That sentence reads "Since then, Israeli military attacks have killed more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed" The full paragraph reads "The war in Gaza was triggered by the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and led to 251 hostages being taken to Gaza. Since then, Israeli military attacks have killed more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed, health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza say."
Photo of a river bend curving from right to left across the photo, where the river bank is covered in grass and beautiful yellow daffodils, and in the middle distance is a curved footbridge crossing the river.
Calendar of webinar sessions for Neurodiversity Week, running from Monday 17 March to Friday 21 March. Monday events are: Celebrating Different Minds - An Introduction to Neurodiversity at 9am, Breaking Barriers - The Power of Language in Neurodiversity at 11.30am, Neurodivergence Seldom Travels Alone: The Unexplored World of Co-Occurring Conditions at 1.30pm, Neurodiversity: Where can HR Professionals make a difference? at 3.30pm, Perspective of Young People on Neurodiversity at 7pm. Tuesday events are: Neurodiversity at Work Q&A: Products & Customer Services at 9.30am, Neurodivergence & LGBTQIA+: A Conversation on Identity, Intersectionality & Empowerment at 11.30am, Empowering Neurodiversity in the Workplace at 1.30pm, Neurodiversity & Mental Health - Acquired Neurodivergence at 3.30pm, Navigating Neurodiversity: Parental Perspectives, Professional Insights, and Policy Changes in 2025 at 7pm. Wednesday events are: Neurodiversity and Nutrition - Food For Thought at 8.30am, Shaping Neurodiversity through Innovation & Technology at 10.30am, Neurodiversity at Work Q&A: Designing Neuro-inclusive Working Environments at 1pm, Person-Centered Management for Neuroinclusion at 2.30pm, What makes Spaces and Places Neuroinclusive in Further and Higher Education? at 4.30pm. Thursday events are: Is Neurodiversity a Community? Exploring Identity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality at 9am, Building the Neuroinclusive Classroom of Tomorrow…Today! at 11am, Workplace Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Energy as a Neurodivergent Woman at Work at 1.30pm, Navigating Neurodiversity & the Criminal Justice System at 3.30pm, Neurodiversity around the World at 7pm. Friday events are: Late Diagnosed Neurodiversity in Women at 9am, Parents & Carers - Supporting Children Through Times of Transition at 11.30am, Is the Business World leading society on Neuroinclusion? at 1.30pm, Celebrating Different Minds: Future Directions and Continuing Conversations at 3.30pm.
Close-up photo of my cat, Nebula, lying relaxed on a wooden table next to a window. Her coat is multicoloured - brown, black, white and orange. She's looking off into middle distance as she warms herself contentedly in the sunshine, and a little bit of her tongue is sticking out - a blep.
Photo of a piece of paper stuck to the wall in a bar. It says that the area is reserved for Connor from 6pm to 9pm. But the photo underneath that information is of a very muscular male dancer wearing very little.
A picture of a 4-pack of 'Warburton Protein Thin Bagels' from the Tesco website.
Photo of a box of bird food fat balls. On the box, the description says 'Attracts popular garden birds' where the word popular is in a much bigger typeface making it look like this specific product attracts popular birds, and other products attract less popular birds.
Photo of my cat Nebula sitting in the windowsill, looking directly at the camera, with one of her front paws out in front, with her leg bent at an angle so it looks like she's pretending to have a limp wrist, as though she's being homophobic towards me (or maybe she is doing it intentionally, who knows).
Picture the coolest, most explosion filled film poster ever, with lightning and tigers and fireballs. Now imagine it features a big picture of Tuvok from Star Trek Voyager in the middle of it all. He's wearing some kickass shades, which is good because he looks like he's going to kick some ass. The poster reads "It is indeed Tuvok Tuesday", as if you needed a reminder.
Photo of my cat sitting on the post at the top of my staircase, catching the small amount of sun that's coming through the window and illuminating the bannister and her butt. She is all neatly tucked in because there's not very much space, but she looks very pleased with herself.
Photo of both my cats sitting on the TV stand directly in front of the television. On the TV is Twin Peaks, but the two cats are covering up half the subtitles and a lot of the bottom of the screen.
A video of my cat sitting directly in front of the TV, on the TV stand, neatly tucked in with her tail around her legs and looking beautiful... But then I zoom in and you see that she's got her tongue sticking out and looks very intense - especially once she starts staring into the camera.
Video of a young swan, still with some of its grey cygnet feathers, on a lake. It floats over towards me and the camera and puts its neck out for food, and I put my hand out, filled with seeds, and the swan gently nibbles them from my hand, dips its head into the water in between, then comes back for a bit more seed.
Screenshot of the US National Parks Service page on the Stonewall National Monument in New York, taken two days ago. The intro text reads "Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement." The page also has a link to another page about "LGBTQ+ flags", with the description "What are LGBTQ+ flags and what days should we celebrate them? Click here to find out."
Me and my sister in front of a wall of pink and white roses. We're dressed up for a wedding - I'm wearing a blue suit with a white shirt and blue tie. Faye is wearing a pink dress with a flower pattern on it and a belt around her waist.
Meme format in three panels, where a cartoon penguin sits at a desk talking on the phone. In the first panel, they say "911, what is your emergency?". In the second panel they say "what do you mean you're being murdered". In the third panel they say "that's illegal, people can't do that".
Screenshot of an episode of The Simpsons, where Hans Moleman, a small old man with big glasses and wearing a shirt and tie, is using a phone in a phone box. Outside the phone box birds are flying around and attacking the glass doors. The subtitles say that he is saying on the phone "No, that's too big"
Black and white photo of a woman supposedly collecting spaghetti from a tree - the cooked strands are dangling from the branches and she's holding some in her hand.
Photo of me and my sister standing in the lobby of the cinema (with pocorn and other snacks on sale behind us). We're both smiling at the camera, and she is dressed up in a red dress for the screening. I'm holding up a signed poster of a film called Here Comes Hell, which conveys that it is a comedy horror film - the writing is in big red letters and the cast are emanating like ghosts from a deserted mansion.
Photo of a homely-looking cross stitch - the sort you'd hang over your bed that says something like "bless this house" - except this one says "Don't put all your heads in one basket".
Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Dr Beverly Crusher is slowly pacing the bridge of the ship by herself, thinking out loud about a challenging problem. She says "If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe there's something wrong with the universe."
Screenshot of a scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Data (an android) is giving instructions on how to look after his cat. He is telling Worf (a Klingon) that he "must talk to him. Tell him that he is a good cat and a pretty cat." Worf is holding the cat at arm's length as if he doesn't know what to make of him, while Data is looking concerned.
Photo of my cat Nebula contentedly dozing on a pile of towels. Most of the photo is quite dark, but a ray of sunshine is coming in from the left and hitting her face and the side of the towels, making it the perfect place for a cat nap.
Photo of some mallard ducks on a frozen pond. The males all have yellow beaks, except for one in the foreground that has a silver-green beak.
A foggy field at sunset - the grass is frozen and tinged white with frost, the sky is blues and golds, leafless trees silhouetted against it in the background, and in the middle of the photo is a stone circle, partially shrouded in the mist.
Photo of my cat Nebula sitting on my home office desk. She's sitting in front of a computer monitor and has her tail tucked around her front feet. Her eyes are closed and she looks content.
Photo of my cat Nebula partially curled up in the corner of a sofa. Her feet are all tucked in, but her belly is showing, and her tail is curled round her feet in a very cute way. She's looking at the camera. Basically, she looks adorable.
Video of me crouched on the ground with a cat snuggling up against me. I try to lift it off me and stand up, but it clings to me and at the end curls up on my lap and rubs up against me.
Photo of me crouching down on the pavement with a cat on my knee. It's acting affectionately - its tail is up and it's rubbing against me. I'm holding it with one hand and stroking it with the other.