🎉Congratulations to our Term Winner Mehul Jesani! 🎉
Mehul is a forensic investigator and was our most voted for Scientist this term!
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🎉Congratulations to our Term Winner Mehul Jesani! 🎉
Mehul is a forensic investigator and was our most voted for Scientist this term!
Do you, like Emiko, use maths to tackle real-world challenges?
Join I’m a Mathematician for the Big Day of Maths 9–12 March to engage students in online, text-based chats.
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Meet Emiko, a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry, crunching numbers and analysing data to help develop safe, effective medicines.
Through I’m a Mathematician, she shows students how maths is used in real-world careers.
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Last chance to join I'm a Mathematician for the Big Day of Maths (9 - 12 Mar)! Sign up by tomorrow to connect with school students, answer their questions, and show them how maths is used in real-world jobs—all in flexible, online Chats.
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Students ask, “When will I ever use this?” If your work involves any kind of maths—modelling, stats, finance, economics—show them how it’s used in the real world!
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Whether you use modelling, stats, or equations, show students that maths solves real problems!
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Take part in live, online Chats with students on 9–12 March — answer their questions and share what maths looks like in the real world.
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At this time of year we are looking forward to signs of spring. Especially for nature lovers. Great advice here from Caroline in one of our Chats for an aspiring botanist.
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What's a mathematician's favourite Christmas snack? A mince pi. What does a teary-eyed, joyful Santa say about chemistry? HOH, HOH, HOH
Advent day 24!
Merry Christmas from the I'm a... Team.
We had to finish with some Christmas jokes from a very enthusiastic Physics class who had the last Chat of the year.
Student says they don't understand Konstantina's job. She explains that she selects materials to use, the method and how they test to make sure it works properly. The student follows up asking for more information about what a composite material is.
Advent day 23!
We don't share the age of students with the volunteers on the I'm a... programme. This is because questions can vary depending on age and ability. You might hear us say 'if students want more information, they will ask for it'. This is a really great example of that.
Student asks what inspired Rosie to become a microbiologist. Rosie wanted to do a job that helps people. She asks the student what they want to be. They want to be an engineer. There is a back and forth about why and a discussion about favourite cars
Advent day 22
It's great to see conversations being 2 way. The engagement goes beyond a Q&A and turns into a proper conversation. By asking a question back to the student, Rosie was able to extend the interaction.
Iain's hobby outside science is visiting ex-capitals of England. Student asks why Gloucester was a capital city. Iain says it was a capital in Roman times.
Advent day 21!
What are your hobbies beyond science? We really enjoyed this conversation with Dr Iain Brownlee about his goal to visit all ex-capitals of England!
Student asks about weird things developed. John says a smartie tag which looked like a smartie. Tom says a plastic dinosaur that they rigged up to make roaring noises when they deployed new software.
Advent day 20!
In this I'm a Computer Scientist Cloud technology Chat Hannah, Education Lead, really enjoyed how one question could involve answers about tech that looks like smarties and knitting Christmas jumpers for dinosaurs.
We have our term winner! Students have given the most votes in I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here to:
🎉Paul Trusty!🎉
Paul joined in September and has been sharing his knowledge with students in materials science and more. Congratulations Paul!
Student asks what the worst experiment has been. Benjamin replies when trying to alter the presence of a gene in cell experiments. Alice says spending 3 months growing cells in the lab and them being contaminated with mold
Advent day 19!
Moldy cells?! What's your worst experiment?
Student asks how you describe what science is. Andy says it is the process of collecting facts about something to learn more about it.
Advent day 17
How would you describe science?
We enjoyed Andy's answer that includes birds flying into trees and strapping rockets together.
Student wants to know how the diet affects day-to-day mental health and emotions. Ellen says that there are a variety of mechanisms which could include changes to inflammatory pathways and interacting with the gut brain axis. A different student wants to know what the guy brain axis is. Ellen says it is a term to describe the communication between our brain and gut.
Advent day 16
Jamie, event manager, really enjoyed this moment from yesterday's neuroscience Chat. Lily asked a question but peer Daisy wanted to know more information.
Student asks for jokes. Henry says how many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? None that is a hardware problem. Gareth says why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. Ranjini says there are 10 types of people in this work. Those who know binary and those who don't.
Advent day 15
Computer science joke anyone?
Student asks if there is anything creative that you can do in computer science. Caroline gets to do the operator screens for control systems and Paul makes user interfaces look good. The student says that sounds good and they would be happy to do that
Advent day 14
I'm a Computer Scientist supports students to see that STEM could be for them.
This interaction shows the personalised conversation that the student had with Caroline and Paul. Their responses supports the students to consider computer science in a way that they hadn't before.
Student wants to be in a job that drives the future forward. Shana and John reply that quantum computing would be good for that because there are lots of problem solving skills.
Advent day 13
Hannah, Project Support, shared an article with the team about UK researchers being invited to find uses for Google's quantum chip Willow.
It reminded us of this moment from a Chat recently. The student was involved in a conversation about being involved in quantum computing.
Student asks what's the coolest thing Luke has seen under a microscope. Luke says some 14th century book dust that revealed a new insect like creature never seen before.
Advent day 12
14th century ancient book dust creature?!
This authentic moment between a student and Luke highlights how the I'm a Scientist platform supports everyone to take part in 2-way conversations.
Hannah would be a tsunami because she loves the ocean and can be moody. Louise would be a tornado, a bit mess and always in a spin but pretty cool.
Advent day 11
This one speaks for itself. If you could be a natural disaster, which one would you be?
Student asks if consuming fruits can strengthen the human system then can it expand lifespan with cancer. Emma replies how antioxidants can help fight cancer.
Advent day 10
Mod Laura enjoyed the questions asked by this enthusiastic and curious Year 6 class. Emma was engaging with her responses. By providing smaller replies the student had a chance to respond and make it a 2-way conversation.
Alongside engaging students, Sinead’s reflecting on her outreach experience through the I’m a… Academy. Find out more: imascientist.org.uk/academy/
Spotlight on Sinead Eley. Problem solving physicist
Meet Sinead, a particle physicist using maths and coding to understand the building blocks of our universe. Through I’m a Mathematician, she shows students how maths is used as a tool for discovering how the world works.
Hannah asks what careers the students are interested in. They reply aerospace engineering and the IT industry.
Advent day 9
During this Chat, Hannah flipped the roles round. She asked the students a question to show that engagement works two ways.
This conversation continued to discuss AI and future opportunities.
A screenshot of a text chat discussing AI's difficulty in rendering hands, the complexity of image decoding, and the security concerns of increasingly realistic AI-generated media (deepfakes and cyber attacks).
Advent Day 8
The use of AI is a popular conversation in I'm a Computer Scientist Chats. Mod Laura highlighted this moment about AI getting things like hands wrong in images.
Another student joins in and asks about the concerns of AI becoming more realistic.
Student asks Jan what it's like being a mathematician and a detective. Jan say she is very proud of it. The student wants to know how many cases she has solved as a detective. Jan replies quite a lot. At the moment she is investigating treatments for Epilepsy.
Advent Day 7
In her profile, Jan describes her job as being 'like a detective who uses numbers and maths to help doctors and hospitals make sure that medicines that work well can be used to help patients feel better'.
This student was interested to know more about the 'detective' aspect.
