This week for #FindsFriday, let's go a little deeper than usual and explore the mystery of the 'Chalk Goddess' of Grimes Graves!
Who made it and why? 🤔
And how did it end an archaeologist's relationship? 💔

This week for #FindsFriday, let's go a little deeper than usual and explore the mystery of the 'Chalk Goddess' of Grimes Graves!
Who made it and why? 🤔
And how did it end an archaeologist's relationship? 💔
Student Reflection #20: Heather Teixera on her first six months of a Bioinformatics Honours at UCT — new coursework structure, a project in personalised medicine, and the shift from undergrad to research. 💻🧬
#SciComm #UCT #Bioinformatics
Most "consciousness research" is awareness research in disguise. Swap the noun and the field gets clearer. Consciousness is passé; awareness is king.
Still time to get your tickets for THIS MONDAY'S breakthrough comedy with a side of scientific breakthroughs! Only at The Stand, Glasgow!
use discount code BRIGHTCLUB you know you want to www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
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Cten days to go until #CtenophoreDay (10-04) 🪼 How will you be celebrating this tentacular event? #combjelly #ctenophore #scicomm #sciart #MarineLife #SciSky 📽️ @montereybayaquarium.org
Mitochondrial transfer is getting far more buzz these days. Mitochondrial transfer or “mitotherapy” for disease & longevity: how much real hope vs. hype?
ipscell.com/2026/09/mito... via @nichecanada.bsky.social #SciComm #science #biology #SciChat
Been hearing a lot of discussions lately about the perceived decline in trust of science and scientists. So, worth revisiting this piece -- which provides some important context for those discussions. #SciComm 🧪
Our new story is up on
@eurekalert.bsky.social: "Most rivers don't respond to rain the same way twice."
Based on our recent paper in Nature Water
€275 million in EU funding for 77 new Horizon Europe projects.
Discover how they will strengthen democratic resilience, support culture and creative sectors and drive social and economic transformation.
More info: link.europa.eu/Tk3xxQ
#SciComm 🧪
Scientists from Canada recently studied ancient uranium deposits to determine how similar radioactive waste might behave in deep geological repositories underground.
#SciComm #SciNews
sciworthy.com/is-nuclear-w...
October 4–10 is World Space Week, and the theme this year is Rocket Revolution.
#WorldSpaceWeek #RocketRevolution #SpaceWeek #STEMEducation #HandsOnScience #JuniorEinsteins #Junioreinsteins #ScienceForKids #Inspiration #FutureLeaders #SpaceExploration #CuriosityUnleashed #EducationMatters #SciComm
Steel leg braces to fifteen. Thirteen miles down the Thames. Twenty-two down the Danube. Three tries at the English Channel. Then a Boston beach cop arrested her for wearing a one-piece. Meet Annette Kellermann, the Australian mermaid.
Clips from interviews #6, #7, and #8 of our 250 mile NYC-to-DC walk! 🧵
Learn more about how weather forecasts are made today, how they were made in the past, and the Antarctic ice sheet.
✨ Searching for the first generation of stars
Else Starkenburg, astronomer @rug.nl @kapteynastro.bsky.social is searching for early-generation stars in nearby galaxies with the international programmes WEAVE and 4MOST to see what they are made of
Read more 👇
🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/mat...
🧪 #SciComm
Researchers are exploring the intertwined nature of episodic memory and spatial processes and how neural patterns governing those connections differ between children and adults. Learn more in this new Q&A with Kim Nguyen.
www.cogneurosociety.org/exploring-th...
#scicomm #neuroscience
Such a pleasure to present at #JBIiGNITE today with @biancapilla.bsky.social on inclusive #SciComm and responsible AI use.
Two things: a message can be accurate and still exclude the people it was written for. And every AI output we judged acceptable still needed a human to edit it. Every one.