Ashika V

How small can a computer get? 🤔 Maddison Coke @manchester.ac.uk is using single atoms to build the next generation of super-powerful computers - but the cooling system is bigger than a room! ❄️

Explore the tiniest adventures with Mimi: iop.org/TinyAdventure

#MimisTinyAdventure

Image promoting the IOP Public Engagement Grant Scheme, along with a mother and daughter engaged in a physics activity.

Got an idea to engage families with #physics? The IOP Public Engagement Grant Scheme is now open! ✨ Apply for grants up to £4,000 to run physics activities that connect families (including parents/carers) with physics in a meaningful way. Find out more and apply: www.iop.org/about/suppor...

Should children be taught ‘real-life’ physics? Try our quiz The Institute of Physics wants the curriculum to focus on core concepts that make sense of our environment and underpin future technology

Anyone in science education – this is an interesting article highlighting the importance of teaching physics in a way that connects to more real-world applications and a long overdue need for an overhaul in the curriculum

www.thetimes.com/uk/education....

After a week of ~illness 🤒🤧 I've done a LOT of scrolling. To reinvigorate my brains and introduce myself to this app, I'm going to post 7 pieces of both past & recent (mostly journalistic) writing that I've loved

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

@scarlettlw.bsky.social ? 🎨

No thoughts, just bookshops 💭

📍Foyles, London

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.

So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.

Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

so gorgeous ❤️

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Watched the new Netflix documentary on how consumerism greed is destroying our health and planet 😭

I despise fast fashion and how ‘nothing lasts as long as they used to’. It’s all by design! It’s the developing countries who suffer as a result (e.g your recycled shoes ending up on a beach in Ghana)

Anytime! Thank you for the amazing opportunity 💖

Some highlights:
⭐ Valuable feedback on my writing
⭐ Trips to London and Oxford to catch up with pals met from this
⭐ Talks and panels with Angela Saini, @munkeatlooi.bsky.social, @acescicomm.bsky.social and many more
⭐ Invitation to the @royalsociety.bsky.social Trivedi Science Book Prize event

If you're a science writer from a minoritised group, I cannot recommend this scheme enough! I've met the most amazing group writers and had networking opportunities with science communicators. Great for if you're working on a book proposal, blog, article or any other science writing project ✍️

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!

The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED

Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪

www.sciencewrite.co.uk

Bit surreal to be back in the old lecture theatre where I slowly died doing a physics degree about a decade ago.

Except this time, it was to watch Nobel prize winner Professor Kostya Novoselov talk about graphene, which put Manchester’s sustainable materials expertise on the map 😄⚛️

Please can we not let a tech billionaire ruin this one

Hello! I’m Ashika, and I work at the University of Manchester as a science & engineering research administrator ✍️

I’m a maths and physics tutor, and have worked in EdTech and STEM PR/comms ⚛️

I love all things physics, writing, books, tea, and wearing funky socks (just not at the same time). 🫖📚🧦

Fantastic talk about why we need more women in science and the barriers facing them by @athenedonald.bsky.social at the Manchester Lit and Phil last night 🙌🏽

Don’t be a bystander! We all have biases and this is an issue that everyone has a responsibility to help fix and make science more inclusive 💪🏽

I LOVE

Do you have a burning idea for a science book or popular science article? Are you UK-based? Not written an article or book previously? Minority (inc. neurodiverse)? Then today is your day! ScienceWrite 2025 applications have opened!

Deadline is 3rd of January 2025.

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