Ahoy!
Excited to be at #CheltSciFest for the 8th year!
This year, it's all about #sciart :

🫙🦈 still-life drawing deep-sea creatures w/ DiscoveryCollections from National Oceanography Centre

🧜👹a mermaids, myths & monsters show

🔬✍️ a whole day of microscope art!

FULL PROGRAM👉cheltenhamfestivals.com/science

Having been an EMSEA member since 2016 (and served on the board), it was fun to be interviewed about marine #scicomm , #oceanliteracy & the Incredible Oceans 🐳 process.
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We believe in making learning about our ocean fun & relevant!

FULL INTERVIEW: emseanet.eu/blog/incredibl…

Happy new year everyone!
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Kicking off the year with a new position: Teaching Fellow in Oceanography at
UoExeterCGES at University of Exeter, Cornwall!
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Now I’m based in Cornwall, I’d love to connect with West Country ocean peeps!
Who should I be saying hi to?

#NewYearNewBeginnings

I don't want to get political, but boy-oh-boy do I hate this government.

Hey mycologists!
An instagram reel told me this mushroom was edible and I found some today!
I reckon this is Giant Funnel but obvs want to be sure before eating it.
Found growing out of leaf litter in a forest.
Please help!

This FRIDAY, it's Goodwill Evening in Stroud!
And the theme is 'OCEAN'!
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So StroudValleysProject will be hosting an 'Ask-Me-Anything' with our presenter Dr Russell Arnott who will be there with our ocean artefacts & copies of 'Ocean Endangered' to sign!

See you there!
#stroudgoodwill

Here's a paper showing how Shepherd's Purse seeds give off chemicals to attract small nematode worms
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which get stuck in a sticky mucilage
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which rot & provide nutrients for the seed to germinate!
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SEEDS CAN BE CARNIVOROUS!

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Wearing my #plantscience hat at the John Innes Centre in Norwich today.
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The mission: to get 120 year-8 pupils to think plants aren’t boring!

Leave your best plant fact in the comments below & I’ll try to fit it into my show!

Ok.
And now do the same graph PER CAPITA.
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Or adjust to account for the fact that 24% of China’s emissions are from making consumables for USA & Western Europe…

Pls can we just stop making misleading climate graphs & constantly shifting blame to ‘other countries’

120 full time river warriors cleaning 200 rivers on a daily basis in Indonesia on a mission to stop plastic from going into the ocean

[📹 sungaiwatch]
twitter.com/Levandov_2/sta…

Having been a science teacher for years, I fainted sooo many times in classes trying to do dissections; I’m so bad with blood.
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Fish & squid dissections offer a much less gory & easier to acquire equivalent that allows students (and me!) to learn about anatomy.
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OG dragon Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 kicking off #BESummit23 .

Apparently, there’s a lack of environmental skills that businesses require.
There’s 1 job per 500 environmental graduates; the skills ARE there but our sector’s reliance on unpaid internships & volunteering DEVALUES our skills.