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Scarlett Li-Williams

@scarlettlw.bsky.social
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Science Communications, Education & Engagement Illustrator✏️ Writer✍️ Presenter🎤 Artist 🎨 Biologist 🧪 | Space Nerd 🛰 Wildlife Photographer 📷 www.skyplumstudios.com All views & opinions are my own 🌈

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I had a fab time last week in York attending at my first @big-stem-network.bsky.social BIG Event! Great time running a session with @lizahaart.bsky.social with so many fun and creative outputs from everyone! Incredible community and inclusive conference #bigevent26 #stem #scicomm #sciart 🧪 🐡
Inside STEM learning building with an astronaut model hanging over the middle Two women smiling in front of a projected slide called ‘Unlock your inner Visual Artist’National STEM Learning Centre building with blue sky
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Lizah van der Aart @lizahaart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We’re ready for our session at @big-stem-network.bsky.social ! @scarlettlw.bsky.social
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Feeling really honoured to have my artwork included in this First Nations News piece. I created it during my time working on a SciArt project with the Australian Centre of Astrobiology, and it is wonderful to see it being used in this context. firstnationsnews.com.au/words-do-mat... 🐡 🧪 🎨 #language
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Words do matter - honouring Malgana language in naming of new species - First Nations News
The stromatolites of Western Australia are part of Malgana heritage and the use of Malgana language in describing them is important
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Highly recommend visiting the International Centre for Life 🧬 Fab examples of inclusive, creative & immersive science engagement. They have put a lot of work into making it accessible. Highlights: Relaxed Sunday, planetarium, fossil show (included shadow puppets!), and hands-on experiments. 🧪 🐡
Image of the outside of Centre for Life. Blue curved building with sign saying ‘Life’ on the front. The ‘F’ is a chromosome An exhibit for visitors that is an international space station module with a suspended astronaut Inside the Centre, with a science theatre and a suspended earth from the ceiling An exhibition saying Lightbox, and visitors enjoying a hands on activity with a large funnel
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New publication out! 🎉 mted.merga.net.au/index.php/mt... #maths #mathematics #academia #mathseducation #teaching #teachercpd
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Supporting Teachers to Foster Students’ Interest in Mathematics Through Flexibly Delivered Teacher Professional Learning | Mathematics Teacher Education and Development
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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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Association for science and discovery centres open letter 2025
This open letter is part of the campaign 'Science Centres for our Future: Supporting engagement, education and diversity in STEM for the next 25 years' calling on the Department for Science, Innovatio...
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/10/2025
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...
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
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Autumn is coming 🎃 🍁 #CatsOfBluesky 🐈‍⬛ #cat
A grey cat in a pumpkin cushion
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Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) @sciencecentres.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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/
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Science Centres for our Future Open Letter
Science Centres for our Future Open Letter
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Brendan Burns @brendanburns999.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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 🧪 🐡
Ticket to see Ocean with David Attenborough and a booklet. Seen at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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 🧪
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Tardigrades – The Ultimate Survivors?
These small earth-dwelling creatures can out-survive us in many apocalyptic scenarios, and might unlock the code to our space survival.
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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 🧪
Photo of the Down House, home of Charles DarwinPhoto of part of Charles Darwin’s garden
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
These two had the right weekend vibe last night #cats #catsofbluesky 🐈
Two cats in a bed cuddling
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 11/04/2025
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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Microplastic pollution found in insect casing from 1971
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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 🧪
A fence skink on a green wooden fence
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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 🧪
A Grey-headed Flying-fox upside down
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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!🧪 🐡
The entrance to Musée de Terra Amata Prehistoire A hologram projection of a stone tool
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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! 💡🐡
An interactive turn board of photographs on a display A display in Bradgate park showing information on Bradgate house
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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 🧠
Front of Kings College London’s IOPPN
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 24/01/2025
I 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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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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
Two shadows on the ground with shrubs and blackthorn stumpsPile of branches on a green tarp
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/01/2025
The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you | Patrick Schröder
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The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you | Patrick Schröder
As commercial space activity ramps up, detritus from launches poses a risk to active satellites and those of us down on Earth Last month, people in a small village in Kenya looked to the sky and saw a red glowing ring slowly descending. The half-tonne…
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
She’s finally finished! A portrait I’ve been working on whilst commuting - belated gift for a family member! #dog #art 🐶
Sketch of a dog in pencil
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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)!
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
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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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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Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Looking cute and cuddly ❄️ (after ripping up the carpet) 🐈 #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky
4 8-month old kittens cuddling in a small cat bed, all half asleep
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Been away for a while but back to BlueSky with a chonky squirrel & some spooky fog pictures from my walk this Saturday - because why not? #sqrlpix #squrrielofbluesky
A large grey squirrel A tall tree in the fog with frosted grass in the foreground Person and kid walking in the fog with a tree branch in the foreground
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Disinformation and Misinformation shared by Steven Bartlett in his so-called health podcast has multiple dubious claims, debunked ‘experts’ including Malhotra and people with stakes in wellness including the host who also makes £££ from the podcasts. 😡😡😡🧪
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Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast
Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Today, we remember the 14 women murdered on December 6, 1989, in the Montreal Massacre at École Polytechnique. Their lives were stolen by misogyny, but their names and stories remain with us. They will never be forgotten.
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
TW: War & violent depections I went to Newarke Houses Museum & spotted paintings by Terence T. Cuneo! He is known for putting a mouse 🐁 in his pieces! Took a while to find them - can you see them? (I've cropped the paintings to make it easier!) I promise they are there! #art #museum #history
Fallen soldier in the foreground with a parachute and battle scenes in the background. Hidden mouse in the pictureWar scene with soldiers aiming the foreground with oncoming soldiers firing
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To any University of #Cambridge Staff! 📢 The Race #Equality Network #Mentoring Programme is open for any interested staff mentors & staff mentees 🎉 Delighted to be on the REN Committee this year - I recommend signing up to the mailing list to keep up to date! www.race-equality.admin.cam.ac.uk/ren
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Race Equality Network | Race Equality at Cambridge
The Race Equality Network is a community for staff members who self-identify as being from a racial minority ethnic background and/or who have an interest in the topic of race and would like to contri...
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 29/11/2024
Is the SciArt Feed 🐡 just a couple of days away from 2k subscribers? Please share!
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Ending the week with a pretty dragon 🐉 Saw this beautiful Eastern Water Dragon 💧🐲 on a lunchtime walk in the Royal National Park, NSW, Australia. #nature #wildlife #photography #lizard #animals
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
People think cockroaches are just gross - but I don't mind them when they look like they are doing yoga! In case you wondered what it looks like to see a cockroach grooming itself (yes - they like to keep themselves clean!) 📸 Sydney, Australia #bugs 🪲 #insects #invertabrate #BugADay #bugsky
Cockroach grooming on tiles outside
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Updated intro👋 I'm a #SciComm & STEM ed specialist! Lapsed geneticist 🧪 🧬Science Communicator @ University of Cambridge 🛰Space Comms Presenter @ National Space Centre 🎨Freelancer Excited to connect with creatives, scientists, educators! Will block accounts that seem like bots/spam messaging me
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Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 25/11/2024
Look who's here @pnas.org ✔️ @science.org ✔️ @naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️ @natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️ @naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️ @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️ @naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️ @genesdev.bsky.social ✔️ @cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️ @genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️ @jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Huge thanks to @franzanth.bsky.social for creating this list. These accounts take and use creators' art and photography (including pets) without crediting them. List is more tailored for science/art creators #SciComm #SciArt - stay credited out there! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 26/11/2024
Crabs might feel pain - new research shows their bodies react to harmful sensations, much like ours. 🦀 If crabs can suffer, should we rethink how we treat them and other animals in farming, research, and beyond? #OpenAccess study: doi.org/10.3390/biol... #Science🧪 #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Putative Nociceptive Responses in a Decapod Crustacean: The Shore Crab (Carcinus maenas)
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system. While nociception has been extensively studied in...
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📷 Taken during my time at a research station in Botswana! Couple fun facts about plains zebras (the references in comments): 🦓 They have 4 found vocalisation types (incl. the ‘quagga quagga’) 🦓 Headbobs are a form of communication between each other #SciComm #wildlife #photography 🧪
Two zebras looking into the camera in long grass with trees in the background
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 24/11/2024
Happy Evolution Day! Today's the 165 anniversary of the initial publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - and this is a page from his notebooks. 🧪
Page from Darwin's notebooks (c. July 1837) with his first sketch of an evolutionary tree, and the words "I think" at the top.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In case you hadn't seen enough cats this weekend. Mum is the white one on the right, and these are all her kittens (6 months now)! #cat #cats #CatsOfblueSky 🐈
5 cats sleeping on a sofa, one white, three tabbies and one tuxedo cat
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Happy Sunday! Here is a Long-billed Corella going for a stroll on a sunny Sunday morning - 📸 taken near the Royal National Park, Australia. They also have a short crest (but not visible below) 🐦 #birds #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #photography
A Corella bird walking on grass looking down at its feet
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Space fact to go with some space themed art 🛰️ : Did you know space smells? Astronauts have reported space has a metallic smell, like welding fumes or burnt meat! A very different #SciArt project for me - I usually do more realism-style work but am branching out. More in the series to come! #SciComm
An digital artwork. There are colourful planets displayed in an abstract shape with olive green background
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 23/11/2024
A list of sort-of-algorithmic general feeds that might make your Bluesky experience more fun: Thread 🧵 🪡 1/5
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
On this snowy(ish) Friday, here’s a mischievous wild Kea I came across in New Zealand! This one has a reputation of nibbling on car tires - not ideal on a mountain drive! #birds #wildlife #SciComm 🧪 CORRECTED POST: [Wrong image/bird description in original😅 🤦 how embarrassing! Sorry for confusion]
Kea looking at camera in the light snow
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just discover #sqrlpix! Can finally do something with these squirrels pics in my camera roll 🐿 #SquirrelsOfBlueSky BUT these cute grey squirrels are actually an invasive species in the UK. They can carry the squirrelpox virus that threatens the native red squirrels 😅 #Scicomm 🧪
Grey squirrel looking at camera surrounded by branches
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Watched Netflix's 'Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy'! Had striking scenes related to the rising fast fashion problem - hills of clothes covering the shorelines ('donated' from places like US, UK, and Europe). I shouldn't be - but I'm always shocked by how we treat our planet! #SciComm #documentary
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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've already re-shared about this - but it deserves constant re-shares! Ran by incredible people, with inspiring speakers from a diversity of scicomm backgrounds. Fantastic place to find a community whilst being authentically yourself. Highly recommend applying if you can! #SciComm 🧪🛰 ✍️
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