Rowena Fletcher-Wood

At Brookes University Science Bazaar today with A Monstrous Discovery workshop!

Oxford IF ideas festival A Monstrous Discovery is starting at the Westgate Library at 10am!

We’ll end with a bang (and put it on TikTok).

If you hear someone screaming “Look, it's fire!”
Remember they're just trying to inspire.
So put in your calendar this playful gig!
There's always something going on at BIG.

Apples and oranges and gravitational mass.
Theatre, lasers, magnetic air, ducks!
Ball wranglers, mouth crisps, shapeshifting plasma flux.
Can you see Jupiter? IR art? Or owls?
What a deck! What a catch! Electrifying! – wow!
Take your eyes for the moment off the aggressive clock,

How to turn off smoke alarms – you will need to know.
Think fast – innovate: grab a grant to write.
Low tech versus high tech, tech glitches, AI.
Delay explanations, embrace misinterpretation.
Join a table, a protest, a community garden.
Sit back and and enjoy the performance:

Bring all your pets and discuss biomimicry.
Create your own props – and more paid opportunities.
Let’s do physio by sneak approach, and do it with pizzaz,
Reimagine your festival, for every child crack
Their relationship with failure, and for every show

time.

Like how many delegates fit in your paddling pool?
How have our places and spaces changed?
And is this a practice that you can sustain?
Catapult yourself into intersectionality
Travelling to travellers, cricket-adjacent PE.
Bring a 200-year institution online.
Play being the expert one word at a

#Bigevent2025 @big-stem-network.bsky.social

BIG poem 2025 #1

There's always something going on at BIG,
From finding your feet to finding freelance gigs.
If you lose your name badge THAT'S OKAY
Just get your audience thinking in mathematical ways.
And asking questions that are SUPERcool,

Bee in paper nest

Once upon a time, there was a bee who built a nest... #bigevent2025

Seen at the #bigevent2025

@thisgirlcanuk.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social

Meet my 3-year-old, Wren, who is a great role model for women in STEM. At her nursery graduation, Wren said, "When I grow up, I want to be a scientist like Mama" and a drew a picture of herself which she explained was her "wearing a dress and doing a really dangerous experiment".

Fay Couceiro presents at #EnvChem2025 on how microplastics in the atmosphere are the least understood, but now outweigh that in the oceans! @rscecg.bsky.social

#EnvChem2025 @rscecg.bsky.social starts day 2 with a sample talk you really need your caffeine for!

Wow, #EnvChem2025 from regulation to communication to data collection challenges, water, indoor air, and soil samples, we have been on a complex journey through so many matrices - and it's only day 1 of 2.

At #EnvChem2025 learning how wood preservation from the Mary Rose is undertaken and monitoring using XRF and FT-IR analyses with Interdisciplinary @rsc.org Award Winner, Dr Eleanor Schofield.

🚨 Still thinking about joining #EnvChem2025? There's still time! We’re accepting poster abstracts until the end of May — don’t miss your chance to present! 🧪🌱

📍Looking forward to welcoming you at the University of Portsmouth!

#EnvironmentalChemistry #PosterCall

Looking forward to meeting everyone at #EnvChem2025 tomorrow!
If you're already in Portsmouth, come join us tonight at 7 PM for an informal meetup:
📍 The Old Customs House
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth PO1 3TY

See you there! 👋🍻

🚨 Save the date 📅 Join us on 15th December for the latest insights into #AirQuality with presentations from DEFRA's Air Quality Expert Group 📝 Call for abstracts & registration details will be circulated in Sept 2025 @rsc.org @rscecg.bsky.social @drgaryfuller.bsky.social @ukcleanair.bsky.social