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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 15/07/2026

On Friday I’m co-running a session on Care & leading a section on what disabled & ND people in scicomm need to thrive. And something I keep thinking about is having the support to tap out. This is me thriving - taking time on the floor of the quiet room at a conference I am Chair of #BIGEvent

Hana’s legs in floral dungarees stretched out on the floor. You can see her name badge which says Hana Ayoob she/her. Ask me about BIG, PPI, SciArt. There is a sticker saying I Make Intros

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BIG - STEM Communicators Network, UK @big-stem-network.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

CHECK OUT THE NEW BEST DEMO TROPHY! Many thanks to last year's hosts, The Royal Institution of Great Britain for making this fantastic trophy for the winner of this year's Best Demo Competition. If you're coming to the BIG Event and would like to enter, email event@big.uk.com. #BIGEvent26

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 14/07/2026

Omw to #BIGEvent26! Looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and meeting lots of new people! #NerdyLooks off to a good start with some orangutan dungas! Would love to see your own Nerdy Looks this week whether you’re at BIG or not

Hana wearing short dungarees with an orangutan pattern on them over a sleeveless black top. She is also wearing a dna helix necklace and snake earrings.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Good aft/eve/morning wherever you are, spoonie people. May we take of ourselves & each other as much as we're able to today. May we vex fascist shitpickles with our continued existence. May we cherish each other even when society devalues us, & survive like the glorious, intrepid beetles we are 💖

A glorious and intrepid chafer beetle climbing up my finger. It has a chonky black and white body, warm brown wing cases, a slightly fuzzy black head, big black eyes, and the most delightful antennas. The antennas are short with utterfuckingly adorable little fan shaped structures at the ends. There's probably a scientific name for those. I didn't think to look it up though. It also has long spindly legs that end in smol claws, that would be great for tap-dancing.

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 31/03/2026

It's #TransDayOfVisibility! Feels weird to post about it this year considering how visible I've had to become to drive my fundraising. Being visible is a mixture of joy and absolute terror but, more than anything else, it's necessary for me right now 🏳️‍⚧️

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Roma Agrawal @romatheengineer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Yaaaay, relaunched my website and newsletter on a much more ethical platform! Hope it works well on your devices! And sign up 💪🏾🫶🏽 www.romatheengineer.com

romatheengineer.com

Roma The Engineer

The home of Roma Agrawal, and her newsletter, Riveting with Roma.

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I know everyone hates substack because nazi bar. But have you considered also hating it for its craptastic interactions with some phone accessibility settings?

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 27/03/2026

March was always going to be ALOT. Even before my dad had fairly major surgery scheduled and spent 9 days and counting in hospital. But brighter days feel right on the horizon! He should be out soon & there’s one more major work event which should be a delight. Also here’s some henna 💁🏽‍♀️

Hana’s intricately hennaed hand - piped glossy brown paste forms a floral mandala on the back of the hand hand with vines flowing up the fingers and thumb, and swirly vines coming down on to the wrist area. Hearts and leaves fill the empty areas between the vines.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/03/2026

two new anti-AI paintings in the shop in spring colors artologica.etsy.com

2 paintings that say NO AI ONLY BRAIN over watercolor brain images

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 18/03/2026

Are you an early career science communicator? Do you have an interesting idea for a project? Make sure you check out the Josh Award

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/03/2026

I should probably repost this more often. Ways to actually be an ally:

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Restarting an old tradition. Good morning/aft/evening wherever you are. May we take care of ourselves & each other as much as we're able to today. May we vex fascist wankspangled dicklimpets as much as we can, with our very existence even. & Please enjoy this lichen.

Close up on a tree branch covered in felt lichens and liverworts. The lichens are kinda fan-shaped with frilly edges, smooth and grey on top, with a fuzzy blue underside that seems like felt. The liverworts are like thin branching strands of string, burgundy red brown.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 28/02/2026

Steadily coming back to myself, including creatively, after surgery last month and a recovery period which has been tougher than expected in every possible way. Read this line of a Rumi poem and this piece buzzed around in my head incessantly until I made it. This counts as #SciArt right?

A collaged anatomical heart made from hand printed papers surrounded by collaged flowers and penned in leaves and patterns. A hand written Rumi quote ‘Each time a thought enters your heart, treat it as an honoured guest’ is in one corner. Art materials are scattered around the piece.

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Scary (they/them) @emfcamp @scaryboots.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

More #art done with @lycomorpha.bsky.social paints (possibly with others, I cannot remember). I very much enjoy this style I am developing: tracing paper, marker and ink on top, watercolour behind. I label the bottles as I give them to people.

Two paintings showing coloured backgrounds with transparent glass bottles on top, containing fluids and with labels and banners.
Left one is blue and has a geometric stopper and a luggage tags label, right is red and yellow background, heart shaped, has a tattoo banner label, smoke and a wooden scrolled.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 28/02/2026

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

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Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 21/01/2026

The Little Event was my 1st #SciComm Event back in 2016 when I still wasn't quite sure if it was for me. 10 years & 10 BIG Events later and I've carved out a place for myself in SciComm - including now as Chair of @big-stem-network.bsky.social! Where could #LittleEvent26 take you?

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 21/01/2026

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 21/01/2026

There's still time to grab a ticket for the @big-stem-network.bsky.social #LittleEvent26 next week for early career #SciComm folks! Lots of great sessions including an overview of the sector from me & @acescicomm.bsky.social Find the fulll programme online www.big.uk.com/event-6410615

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Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Hey, all right now, all right now, fellas (Yeah?) Now, what's cooler than being cool? (ALT text!) I can't hear ya I say what's, what's cooler than being cool? (ALT text!) All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right Lend me some alt text! I am your neighbor!

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a man singing into a microphone with a green jacket on

Alt: Andre 3000 singing into a microphone with a green shirt and white suspenders on with the word alright popping up around him

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 17/01/2026

10 days of consuming concentrated dust mite & my fairly minor side effects have eased off a lot Just 1086 days to go!

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 08/01/2026

Doing some *practical* immunology this morning - I’ve just had my first dose of dust mite allergy immunotherapy! Feeling very well taken care of & trying to keep my nerding out to a minimum 😂

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A small little bit of both advice and a plea for using Bluesky. This platform doesn't have an algorithm for content. If your default response to seeing something cool is to hit like, take a second to hit the Repost button too. Especially if it's a cool indie product, a show, some art, whatever.

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Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I still think this is one of the most beautiful pins Robin has ever designed (and given their huge array of gorgeous designs that's saying something!) Go and buy one, now!

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 05/01/2026

Today I got to see my vocal cords malfunctioning on video & I cannot tell you how validating it was. No matter how much you know the symptoms are ‘real’, all the ‘tests are clear’s wheedle their way into your brain.

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BIG - STEM Communicators Network, UK @big-stem-network.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

They're open, and we need YOU (yes, you!) to submit your proposal for the BIG Event! Come join us and loads of others at the National STEM Learning Centre this July! Propose a session now forms.gle/RBW95Z8sEagK...

A man holding up a sign in front of a crowd that says "BIG Event Proposals are open!"

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 01/01/2026

Posted this, got out of bed and started moving around and became 99% sure I’ve got a chest infection. Just to underline to point below 😂😭

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year folks!! This is your friendly neighbourhood spoonie reminding you that you don’t have to start anything new today or this month 😴 I wish you the ability to be kind and gentle to yourself this year ❤️

A roughly drawn crow looks at the words ‘nobody expects as much from you as you expect from yourself’ in handwritten pink and Green text. On a green background. There are pink paisley flourishes and a scalloped blue border.

A collaged big stack of diffwrent coloured blocks with the text ‘what I expect of myself’ next to a much smaller stack of a few blocks, a star and a heart with ‘what I can achieve’

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 30/12/2025

Managed my first swim in well over a month 🥹 Didn’t count my lengths, took lots of breaks and switched to paddling with a float at the first chest twinge. And I’m now feeling delightfully tired ❤️

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 29/12/2025

Day 20 - catching up slowly while my body continues to be a temperamental creature Collage has been my go to medium this year - and collaging in hand made books in particular. There’s something about not starting with a blank canvas! #ArtAdventCalendar

Hand drawn text ‘what are you looking at’ in green and yellow with a hand drawn eye, over a zig zag transfer, some blue printed paper with a little cartoon dog looking over its shoulder. The background is messily painted pink paper and an orange and green page behind is peeking out the side.

A yellow plastic heart says ‘sorry’ with a face on it and is layered on top of black part and transfers with other blue and yellow accents around against a pink painted background. Cut out text running down the side of the page says ‘sorry, there’s a fee to pay before we can deliver your item’ and the page has a purple scalloped edge with yellow detail. Other pages peek through the edge.

A transfer says ‘follow your art’. The page has a more geometric feel with two big red painted semi circles, cut out organic doodles, different textured paper backgrounds and thick purple marks on top

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 27/12/2025

Day 19 - I made a hat! Using @alisonkiddle.bsky.social‘s knitting machine & a lot of their help too! #ArtAdventCalendar

Hana wearing a six-rainbow beanie hat with a rolled edge. She has shoulder length curly hair, light brown skin and is wearing black glasses. Shes also wearing a dark green hoodie and light green trousers.

A side view of Hana wearing the hat. A large living room can be seen behind her.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 27/12/2025

Day 18 - something a bit different, inspired by the constant ‘See it. Say it. Sort it.’ Announcements on public transport. #ArtAdventCalendar

‘Stereotype it. Snitch it. Screw it.’ in blue scrawly capitals on a grey backpack with blue zips, a grey patch and grey smudges.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 26/12/2025

Day 17 - blue genes & red genes Drawing on lino prints on gelli prints #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

Intricate black line drawings of stylised dna with flower and leaf accents - the drawing outlines a subtle peach print of stylised dna over a blue gelli printed background. The whole piece is circular and has been mounted on black card.

A single strand of stylised dna is outlined in purple with floral details in yellow and leaves in green. These highlight the design of a subtle peach dna print on an orangey red gelli printed background. The background has masked circles, some of which have geometric drawings within them.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It's #ChristmasEve, so I depicted Parasaurolophus under UV light, lit up like a Christmas tree - you can check out the rationale of this #paleoart on my #Patreon if you're already bored of holiday TV. Oh, and Happy Christmas to those who celebrate! #sciart #fossils www.patreon.com/posts/146578...

The crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus, as it may have appeared when hit with UV light. The fluorescent body parts indicate areas of thickened keratin, which is especially reflective of UV light, even in species that cannot see UV wavelengths. The fluorescent fungi are just fluorescent fungi.

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr @drbjcarr.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I bought an ink adventer calendar and to justify it, I've been doing a sketch a day with the new inks. Here are a couple of my favorites. #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #Sketch

A pen and ink drawing of a spiny lumpfish. It is drawn using orange ink. No thoughts, only fish.

An ink drawing of a golden horse standing behind a fence, looking uninpressed.

A pen and ink drawing of an ice buggy on top of a glacier. There are blue mountains in the background.

A purple pen and ink drawing of a night monkey peering out from a crack in a tree-like foreground.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Happy #InverteFest!! Here are some Invertebrates I've encountered this month in Japan.

A whale bone with spider crabs walking over it

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 24/12/2025

Day 16 - one very happy snake plant who started with some leftover watercolour ink and then just grew from there. I really want to make prints of this in 2026 #ArtAdventCalendar

A green windy snake fills the entire page. It has a big yellow eye and is smiling. The snake is filled with floral mandalas and leaf patterns in green and thwre are leaves sprouting off the spake too. Everything is intricately pattered.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

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#InverteFest December 2025

What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. The hashtag was conceived w...

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 24/12/2025

Can’t believe I forgot to add #SciArt to this one!

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Today’s fun find: Pennsylvania Game News, May 1982, #Raccoon cover art by PA wildlife artist Gerald W. Putt. Look at the baby! 😂🥰 #MagazineArt #Ephemera #WildlifeArt

photo of the cover of Pennsylvania Game News, May 1982, with cover art by Gerald W. Putt: mother raccoon holding baby in mouth, about to place in its nest in a hole in the trunk of a dogwood tree blooming with white flowers, on spring green background

closeup of the baby raccoon held in mother’s mouth - plump belly!

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 24/12/2025

How I’m showing up to the BlueSky Christmas party

A massive bright pink sign which says ‘food allergy’ in block black letters. On a floral tablecloth

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 24/12/2025

Day 15 - one of my favourite things I made this year, a trio of badges for @marinemumbles.bsky.social #ArtAdventCalendar

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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

19. Poplar spiral gall in a black poplar leaf stalk. These are twisty little galls caused by an aphid that induces formation of a short corkscrew of distended leaf stem. I'm more familiar with wasp galls on oak. So I I thought this aphid gall was very curious. #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar

A colour pencil and watercolour drawing of a twisted, lumpy poplar spiral gall in the stem of a poplar leaf. The galls are the result of an aphid, Pemphigus spyrothecae, developing in the leaf stalk of black poplar, Populus nigra. The aphids cause a spiral structure with 2-3 turns to form in a petiole (leaf stalk.) Galls start off green, turning to yellow and red as they mature in August to September.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 23/12/2025

Day 14 - another Summer exhibition piece inspired by pollen grains #ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

A landscape buff canvas covered in different sized green blobby pollen grains. Each grain has a purple scalloped outline with yellow and blue oval shapes and red irregular blobs with lots of dots and other details

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23/12/2025

You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts. I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So exciting... just found out my author copies of Speaking with Pictures are arriving next week. After working on this graphic novel for 7 years I can't wait to see what it's like fully printed 📖👀 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip

“Understanding Comics by artist McCloud now has an even more ambitious scholarly competitor. In Speaking in Pictures Cohn pushes his claim that visuals are languages to the limit. No theorist of visual communication, multimodality, and cognition can afford to ignore the challenging ideas in this ingenious, intelligent, and experiment-supported monograph.”
– Charles Forceville

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