Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇭

I've also met people along the way who have shared with me that they realised they are ace because of me. I appreciate this a lot as it reminds me of why it's important to talk about asexuality.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me as I've gone through this journey 💜

The personal reflections started seeping into my work life, which positively impacted and influenced it. I have explored new work directions too.

It also helped me reflect on friendships & made me realise how important they are to me. I'm fortunate to be in a group of wonderful, accepting friends.

Today marks 5 years since I came to the realisation that I am asexual.

I remember doing some googling about asexuality one morning when the penny fully dropped. I was initially scared and upset.

Although it was scary at first, learning I am asexual has been such a positive thing for me.

Little gem from my weekend at Nottingham Pride:

I have a science demonstration which involves lolly pop sticks crossed over each other (called a cobra weave). These were arranged to look like a trans flag.

Me to the audience: does anyone know what this flag is?
Kid at the front: ...Spain?

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

The UK has always been pretty anti-immigrant but it’s really intensified over the past few years.

Frankly I think anyone who encourages folks - particularly international students - to move over here without being brutally honest of the reality of living here as a foreigner is doing egregious harm

Genotype and social environment influence female–female interactions in a non-social insect | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Factors shaping social interactions between females are understudied in non-social insects. We tested whether female–female investigation, aggression and same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) are influenced by genotypic and environmental factors in the Hawaiian ...

First ever paper is finally out!!!!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

These are soooo cute 😍 I need the non binary one!

We should all submit a question asking Parliament about the use of unreliable evidence behind the Cass Review- which they then used to make policy in banning blockers for trans kids! ✍🏼

If everyone asks the same question - they can’t ignore it!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻🏳️‍⚧️

#TtansHealth #Science #Evidence #policy

Photo of a black mug with a space shuttle and "Johnson Space Centre" in silver. Sarah is wearing pajama bottoms with a print of C3PO, R2D2 and Darth Vader. The mug is resting on top of the leg.

And today for the free choice #NerdyLooks prompt I am wearing Star Wars PJs and drinking coffee from a mug I got from the Houston Space Centre a few months ago. I am absolutely exhausted from attending the conference so today is a chill day.

Photo taken of the back of Sarah's right arm. There is a tattoo of a rice cooker above their elbow with steam moving upwards to their shoulder, where it swirls. To the right of the tattoo is an existing tattoo of a zine with "the queer agenda" on the front and different coloured stars above and below it. Sarah is wearing a fish earring on their right ear.

I didn't follow the #NerdyLooks theme for Friday (sorry!) and yesterday for the free choice day, I went and got a tattoo of a rice cooker! Whilst wearing some cool Filipino food inspired earrings and tote bag (which I forgot to take pictures of).

Sarah taking a selfie of themselves with a mirror behind them. They are wearing a black button up shirt with three silver stars and dots on each side, around the collarbone. The mirror shows the back of the shirt which has embroidery of a space shuttle, planets and stars. Sarah is wearing a lanyard with multiple pins: a frog with non binary flag colours; a she they pronoun pin with non colours; a megaphone with the progress flag coming out of it; a badge which says "science is not neutral" with a watermelon illustration underneath; a cell; and two other pins turned away so you can't see the design. Sarah is also wearing gold metal earrings bent into a curved design.

I've been so bad at posting #NerdyLooks this week 😅

Here is my fit from Thursday for the theme "matter".

I'm finally home from BIG! My husband greeted me with some really lovely plants he bought for me to put in my office 🥹

Hana is incredible and is going to be a brilliant chair for @big-stem-network.bsky.social. We are so lucky to have her! Congratulations Hana 🥳

A white background with purple and black text reads. BIG Committee 2025/26 Chair Hana Ayoob Vice-Chair Naomi Foster Secretary Chris Snowden-Smith Treasurer Claudia Antolini General Officers Ash Redhouse White Elizabeth Mills Sophia Constantinou Khalil Thirlaway

Executive Committee Results 2025

Thank you to everyone who put themselves forward to be part of exec, this amazing group of volunteers are what makes BIG able to run every year!

Congratulations to those who have been duly elected, your freelance team are excited to work with you all!

For #NerdyLooks yesterday (life) I wore an alligator shirt and jellyfish earrings!

Failed to post my ‘life’ themed #NerdyLooks or to even get a proper pic yesterday so this will have to do

Representing the animal, plant & fungi kingdoms with my favourite witchy dress, orange squid necklace & leaf earrings

It's time for #BIGEvent25! 😁

Today’s #NerdyLooks prompt was ‘bright’ and Sarah & I (and my house) delivered!

@acescicomm.bsky.social

Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:

- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender

What we know so far 🧵

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

So who's heading to #BIGEvent25 this week?

I can't believe it's been 8 years since my first one - haven't skipped a year yet! Grown a lot as a science communicator (and as a person) since my very first one.

I would wear pink trousers with this but it's too warm 😅

I love how we both went for a similar colour theme today 😮

What a fab look!

Day 1 of #NerdyLooks this week and the prompt is ‘spark!’

I went with double octopuses (cos they’re bright sparks 😂) and these little embroidered lightning bolt earrings.

The bright green also feels sparky!

Feel free to join in with the prompts at any time this week ⚡️

Theme for today's #NerdyLooks is spark!

I had these cool spikey earrings (which have glitter on them) which fit the theme, and a shirt with different Pokemon (including electric type)

Feel free to join in at any point this week - post a photo (with an image description) with the hashtag!

I wasn't sure if I should do a post today about this as I still have uncertainties and things to figure out. However I feel being open and visible is important, especially with the current climate for LGBTQIA+ people.

It's International Non-Binary People's Day! 💛🤍💜🖤

There are many different experiences and ways in which someone can be non-binary.

I've been thinking a lot about my gender over the last year and I've come to realise that I may be somewhere under the non-binary umbrella.

It's almost time for #BIGEvent25 and we're so excited that @hanaayoob.co.uk and @acescicomm.bsky.social will be running their #NerdyLooks challenge all week!

Get your nerdiest looks sorted, whether it's that new Lucy & Yak jumpsuit, an over the top lanyard or something else, we wanna see it!

Text heavy graphic. BIG does #NerdyLooks 14th to 20th July. Prompts for the week are M - Spark, T - Bright, W - Life, T - Matter, F - Count and S & S - Free choice. Smaller text in a speech bubble says Bonus challenge: Wear one thing which has previously sparked a SciComm conversation. The text is on a grey centre which is surrounded by a pale green border covered in purple doodles related to science and science communication.

Whether you’re attending @big-stem-network.bsky.social next week or not, we have a special #NerdyLooks challenge planned!

Snap a photo of your outfit or part of it and share with the hashtag. Pls use alt text!

@acescicomm.bsky.social