@scarlettlw.bsky.social
Science Communications, Education & Engagement Illustrator✏️ Writer✍️ Presenter🎤 Artist 🎨 Biologist 🧪 | Space Nerd 🛰 Wildlife Photographer 📷 www.skyplumstudios.com All views & opinions are my own 🌈
Spreading the word 🏛️ - science & discovery centres in the UK are facing a lack of financial support. The ASDC are calling on the Government to implement policy changes that safeguard the sector's future.
Find out more & sign the open letter⬇️
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
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A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
For over 25 years, science and discovery centres have been at the heart of inspiring millions of people to explore, question, and be part of UK science and technology.
But they're seriously under threat… 1/3
A grey cat in a pumpkin cushion
Autumn is coming 🎃 🍁
#CatsOfBluesky 🐈⬛ #cat
Thank you to our patron @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for sharing our open letter.
Science and discovery centres are facing a lack of financial support. We are calling on the Government to implement policy changes that safeguard the sector's future.
Sign it ⬇️
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter/
This was a truly collaborative effort spanning multiple labs and institutions….many hands picking the Asgard fruit. Recognising Indigenous knowledge and culture from #SharkBay in the naming of novel organism. Brief summary and shout out to @scarlettlw.bsky.social for some cool stromatolite art...
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Ticket to see Ocean with David Attenborough and a booklet. Seen at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre
Watching this last night at the Pheonix Cinema & Art Centre moved me (and the stranger next to me) to tears.
I cannot recommend watching this enough - powerful documentary with Attenborough
I will be waiting to see the outcomes of the June UN Ocean Conference in a few weeks!
#scicomm #fish 🧪 🐡
Happy (very belated) tardigrade day! Completely forgot to post on actual tardigrade day - but better late than never!
Resharing this blog I wrote and illustrated for the National Space Centre on this fantastic little creatures:
www.spacecentre.co.uk/news/space-n...
#scicomm #sciart 🧪
Yes! Can confirm it was backgammon 😆
28.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Definitely, and the chair he sat in to write the Origin of Species! Our incredibly knowledgeable guide Kim said some people would travel far and wide to see the study - and would cry once seeing it. I completely forgot to mention the Sandwalk walking path, you’re right, was serene 😊
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Photo of the Down House, home of Charles Darwin
Photo of part of Charles Darwin’s garden
I was lucky enough to be invited on a tour with some other Cambridge SciComm folks over the weekend to the Down House - the home of Charles #Darwin!
I saw where he did some experiments in the house & in the garden 🪴, as well as the bedroom he died in!
Highly recommend visiting!
#scicomm 🧪
Two cats in a bed cuddling
These two had the right weekend vibe last night
#cats #catsofbluesky 🐈
So very hyped that @nature.com made a video about our study on microplastic in caddisfly casings! 😱🎥
Watch it preferably next to a creek... some of them might want to tune in too. 🍿🐛
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Wilder, S.M. and Simpson, S.J., 2022. A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider. Food Webs, 32, p.e00236.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A fence skink on a green wooden fence
Spotted this fence skink on a fence!
Fun fact (source in replies)!
🕷️ A recent study found these skinks, Cryptoblepharus virgatus, are considered low quality prey for redback spiders…
#SciComm #wildlife #photography 🧪
australian.museum/learn/animal...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A Grey-headed Flying-fox upside down
A Grey-headed Flying-fox I spotted in a Sydney park!
Couple fun facts (sources & info in replies)
🦇They are one of Australia's largest bats
🌿 They play an important role in pollination & seed dispersal, connecting forest fragments & help with forest regeneration
#SciComm #wildlife #photography 🧪
The entrance to Musée de Terra Amata Prehistoire
A hologram projection of a stone tool
Went to Nice in France last month & had a little museum & gallery crawl. This is a great small archaeological museum (name in image), and is a site-museum!
Great displays on the historical timelines of the site, and loved the hologram projection - great tool for #scicomm visual storytelling!🧪 🐡
An interactive turn board of photographs on a display
A display in Bradgate park showing information on Bradgate house
Went to Bradgate Park over the weekend and loved their new information instillations & displays around the park! These boards tell the history of the ruins using fantastic engagement elements - like this turning photo wheel that utilises the spring sunshine!
It has given me a new #scicomm idea! 💡🐡
Front of Kings College London’s IOPPN
Had a fab time today visiting IOPPN King’s College London for the first time! Got some filming & interviewing done 🎥 for a video project I’ve been working & collaborating on the last few months (stayed tuned!).
Even got some rare sunshine ☀️
#scicomm 🧠
Ah thanks Lindsey- when I woke up this morning I thought the bots had come for me! But actually found some incredible new people in the science & med spheres with the influx 😌
26.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.
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Two shadows on the ground with shrubs and blackthorn stumps
Pile of branches on a green tarp
Had a great time doing shrub removal at Stonesby Quarry for the LRWT Wildlife Trust 🦡 yesterday!
This site is known for wildflowers, butterflies & glowworms!
LRWT Team Wilder resources has great tips for helping UK wildlife 🐝 🦡 & the planet 🌏:
www.lrwt.org.uk/actions
#conservation #scicomm
The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you | Patrick Schröder
13.01.2025 10:06 — 👍 121 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 4
Sketch of a dog in pencil
She’s finally finished! A portrait I’ve been working on whilst commuting - belated gift for a family member!
#dog #art 🐶
Illustrated by Holly Exley with tree facts by Tony Kirkham. Produced by Laurence King in collab w/the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew!
12.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of a game box with ‘Match A Leaf’ - A Tree Memory Game on it. The box has illustrations of trees and leaves on it with corresponding common name of the species
Came across this game over the holiday season…turns out I don’t know my trees as well as I should… but great #SciComm 🧪 gift!! 🐡
Found it in my local @waterstones.bsky.social!
Credits/details of the game in comments (bc ran out of characters)!
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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4 8-month old kittens cuddling in a small cat bed, all half asleep
Looking cute and cuddly ❄️ (after ripping up the carpet)
🐈 #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky
