Dr Jo Science

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... #ScienceActivities in my FREE six weekly summer science challenges - available at buymeacoffee.com/drjoscience/...

#SummerScience #DrJoScience #BeCurious #ScienceIsEverywhere#ThingsToDoWithKids #SafetyFirst

The sun is shining in my part of the world... time to get exploring outside with some #WaterPlay, #Measuring and #FloatingAndSinking
Investigating buoyancy, density, forces, cause and effect, capacity and so much more Find this, and more...
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#ScienceIsEverywhere#ThingsToDoWithKids #SafetyFirst

There are more than 900 plant gall forming animals in the UK, including mites, beetles, flies, gall wasps, plant sucking bugs (psyllids), aphids and sawflies.
#NatureQuest #BeCurious #ScienceIsEverywhere #DrJoScience
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The RHS says: there are 70 species of cynipid gall wasp. It is the larval stage of these insects that induce the plant to produce abnormal growths, known as galls, that enclose the developing larvae. These galls are part of the biodiversity a healthy oak tree supports.
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acorn oak galls on an oak tree

artichoke oak gall on the bud of an oak tree twig

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

These are oak galls - caused by types of gall wasp laying eggs in different parts of the oak tree.

#BeCurious #DrJoScience #NatureQuest #ScienceIsEverywhere
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Stripes black and cream tiger moth on a branch of a tree

Hooray! My first Jersey Tiger Moth sighting of the year 🙌 🦋
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#ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #NatureQuest #365DaysWild #DrJoScience #BigButterflyCount #Cambridgeshire #Essex #SouthCambs #Uttlesford

Three emoji faces looking unwell. text reads: It may take a little longer to get back to you for a few days... Hashtags as per post text.

End of term, you say?
Must be time to be ill then 🤒🙄😷🤧😩

#SchoolsOutForSummer #EndOfTerm #SummerHolidays #TeachersFollowTeachers #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience

Thanks to Emma for accompanying me, keeping me awake through my jet lag, sharing my joy in the art and science in the room and of course for wearing the perfect dresses to complement the painting! (as well as science-themed jewellery!)

I was honoured to be invited to the @rsc.org summer party at the RA this week, as #RSCPrizes Excellence in Education prize winner.

It was a beautiful collision of art and science - highlighting the creativity that abounds in STEM.

Thank you RSC!

#ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious

Very proud to be inspired by Simon and to work in this team @babraham-bioinf.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social
#PortfolioCareer #Training #ScienceIsEverywhere #Research

For #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology colleagues 👇
This is always a fun #Hackathon event
#CamBioHack #Coding

A sign advertising the next edition of the Cambridge Science Communication Social, with the title text and information about the date and venue overlaid on a picture of a park and a lake.

If you're in #Cambridge and work in #scicomm (science outreach, communications, PR, marketing, education, public engagement...) don't miss our surprise summer social meet-up *tomorrow* 🥳🍔🥂 Come to the Cambridge Blue (CB1 2LG) any time after 6.30pm! Everyone's welcome 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Please share! ♻️

a green coconut washed up on the beach, waves breaking in the background. Text reads school's out for summer! Seed dispersal and other hashtags as per text in post.

And that's a wrap on teaching for 2024-25!
Loads of projects happening over the summer (stay tuned!) and exciting new stuff from September (more on this later).
Wishing you a wonderful summer #BeCurious look out for #ScienceIsEverywhere
#PrimaryScience 🌥🐠🐡🦀🦐🐙🦎🌿🌸🌙☀️🌧💡🔬🧪

Leaf rust on a frangipani leaf.
DYK leaf rusts are actually fungi!

It’s characterised yellow/orange powdery pustules on the underside of leaves, which can lead to premature leaf drop. While it can be unsightly, it generally doesn’t harm the long-term health of mature trees. #ScienceIsEverywhere

Hope you are all having a BRILLIANT time (and everyone has remembered their badges!!) 😂

I can’t make it this year 😭 😭 😭

#ISeeMoss
@mosssafari.bsky.social I’m questioning my life choice not bringing my microscope on holiday to investigate differences in the microscopic inhabitants in moss here 😜 #MossSafari #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience #summerScience

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📩Sign up to my mailing list for families to be the first to hear about my digital Summer STEAM Club! Coming soon...

🔗http://eepurl.com/gYPv5P

#Summer #STEAMClub #ScienceClub #ScienceActivitiesForChildren #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience

🌥Summer holidays looming?
📲Screen time struggles?
🫠Parental guilt?
🥰Want them doing something meaningful and worthwhile?
🤩Looking for quality, engaging, fun science things for your children to do this summer?
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#STEAM #ScienceClub #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #STEMClub

smiling brown haired woman standing in front of lake

Getting something exciting prepped for launch this summer!
Watch this space 🙂

#Curiosity #Wonder #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #ComingSoon #ScienceForChildren #Summer #SummerActivities

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with an unintended but serendipitous link to #CrossCurricular #History learning about #AncientEgypt so we adapted to remove the organs to pop in pretend canopic jars!
#ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience #ILoveMyJob

Fab early morning international virtual #PrimaryScience lesson applying our knowledge on #Electricity and #Circuits with #Year3 and #Year4 today, linking to our previous learning about the #DigestiveSystem and #HumanBody
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WHAT'S THE POINT OF PRIMARY SCIENCE?
Why should science stand shoulder to shoulder with English and maths?

In this #PrimaryScience Podcast episode, Tim Holford plays devil's advocate and asks me this simple but powerful question.

Find out how I respond 👇
Full episode:
YouTube: lnkd.in/gpd68bsH

It was great to connect, share and chat with fellow #EastAnglia #STEAM #Educators today. We each have different approaches, backgrounds and niches but so much in common.

Instructions and images to tie a highway man’s hitch knot

Always exciting to see which #SciComm info card I get in my @brewteaco It’s the return of the highway man’s hitch #Knots card this time!
A great reminder as I’ve forgotten how to tie all of the knots my scout leader Dad taught me 😳
#ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience

Glass of water balanced in a knee, in a garden

#Rehydration
Well that was a fun day! Topping up my own #ProfessionalDevelopment learning more about teaching teachers and connecting with colleagues at the @associationscied #TeacherDevelopers #Conference

#CPD #LifelongLearning #Primary #Secondary

Looking forward to sharing and learning and meeting up with my #TeacherDeveloper colleagues at the #ASE #TeacherDevelopers #Conference today 💪 🧠
#LifelongLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment #CPD #ITT #ITE #ScienceIsEverywhere #BeCurious #DrJoScience

WOW!!! This is amazing!

@babrahaminst.bsky.social #TheTruthAboutFood @ri-science.bsky.social #XmasLectures @imascientist.org.uk
#PublicEngagement #ScienceIsEverywhere #ScienceIsForEveryone #BeCurious #DrJoScience

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I love taking part in the #ImAScientist live text chats - responding at lightning speed to students' curious questions, It's a great platform to connect students in a low threat, high benefit environment to build connections with real world science, scientists and raise #ScienceCapital.