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.

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.
Beyond #hypoxia: Context-dependent #transcriptional reprogramming by #ERFVIIs
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience #SciComm @jipb.bsky.social @wileylifesci.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social @isplore.bsky.social @pgrp2026.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social
Same data, two results slides. Only one of them tells the room what happened.
Before: a topic title, seven bullets, a 3D chart and a red p-value box.
After: the finding as the headline, one chart, three numbers.
Illustrative study, synthetic data.
MRI Techno launches 1 Oct 🎧 Open source MRI sounds: prep for a scan or sample them in your next track. Open call → Berlin expo + club night
Discover our new pharmacogenomics webpage, featuring information on how genetic variation can influence a response to medicines. Explore data from centrally authorised medicines and scientific guidance for medicine developers 🔗 www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-reg... #PublicHealth #medsky 🧪 #SciComm
What does 10 years of “making science visible” look like? 👀
🎥 491 videos
👁️ 755.6K views
⏱️ 16.2K hours watched
🔔 7.4K subscriptions
🌐 60 websites built & managed
And that is only part of it. 🧵1/2
🔬 82% value scientists' contributions, but only 43% feel informed about science. Their "communication skills are less well-regarded," says Ipsos.
AI is in the news a lot and will be even more when Trump and Xi meet today. Have a look at the history of some of the metaphors and frames that are being used - race, pace, frontier: makingsciencepublic.com/2026/09/23/p... #AI #metaphor #linguistics #scicomm
Ophthopedia Update: Prevalence, Ocular Manifestations, and Treatment Response in Post-Bariatric Vitamin A Deficiency: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: biliopancreatic diversion #Ophthalmology #Ophthotwitter #Scicomm
Scientists from IISER Kolkata, IISc, and partner institutions investigated why life gets more crowded near the equator.
To deep dive, tap researchmatters.in/news/why-doe...
#species #biodiversity #ecology #ecologicalhotspots #science #scienceeducation #scicomm #Indianscience #sciencecommunication
#CA125 By studying Instagram accounts, Jill van der Kamp, Lotte Krabbenborg & Afke Wieke Betten show how women living with incurable cancer mobilise biomedical knowledge to juggle everyday life and illness. Image: Vanya Samkov #scicomm - full text at doi.org/10.22323/371...
🧪 Measles is back. Could polio be next?
Tomorrow we launch Community Immunity — a free outbreak simulation + classroom unit for grades 8–12.
First short is live:
youtube.com/shorts/eUHUO...
📝 We’ve delivered 250+ science storytelling workshops — and we have two more coming up!
Join us to find your story and build the skills to tell it. ❤️🔬
Your #ScienceStorytellingWeek support also helps us provide workshop scholarships. https://ow.ly/Y3TX50ZLHtw
#StorytellingWorkshop #SciComm