Sarah West

Preview of top of Spring 2026 SAMHE Newsletter, with the SAMHE logo, an image promoting British Science Week 6-15 March and the first few lines of text: "Hello Everyone. Curiosity: what's your question?"

Have you burped your classroom today?

Read our latest newsletter for:

⭐️ #Ventilation tips
⭐️ ideas for British Science Week
⭐️ using #SAMHE to support your #CREST award
⭐️ an invitation to help us investigate whether #AirQuality affects exam results

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🍎 #STEMed #BSW26 #EduSky

Sad to be missing #ECSA2026 AGAIN this year (can't even blame having small children anymore!) but looking forward to reading about it on here (and digesting Smriti Safaya's legendary notes!) #citizenscience

📢 Are you an adult living in the UK with a respiratory condition, or a guardian of a child with one?

Join an online panel to help shape research on indoor air quality & health.

🗓 Monthly (1 - 2 hrs)
🎁 Vouchers provided

🔗 tinyurl.com/codesign-airhub

#AirQuality #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHealth

If you are on FB the Heat pumps UK group is very helpful

The 2026 #NewYearPlantHunt is now underway and the first records are already pinging in!
Take a look at the Results map:
nyph.bsbi.org/results.php
There are going to be a lot more markers pinging in as the day goes on, each one showing where a plant or list of plants has been recorded. Let's go!

Part of a silver coloured extraction fan with a colourful magnet attached saying "Pan on?" with a picture of a frying pan, and "Fan on" with a picture of an extractor fan

Our "Pan on? Fan on." phrase as cited in this article is an example of an "If, then" message designed to help change behaviours, as they link a certain situation, in this case cooking, with a desired action (ventilating).

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Preview of top of December 2025 SAMHE Newsletter, with the SAMHE logo, a divider consisting of gold stars and red berries on a green thread, and the text "Jingle Bells: SAMHE version. (Tune: Jingle Bells)"

Read our latest newsletter for:

⭐️ Jingle Bells - #SAMHE style!
⭐️ inspiration from The Glebe Primary School
⭐️ fun, no-prep activities for the last week of term
⭐️ tips for boosting pupils’ concentration

📰 buff.ly/wvnoAbH

🍎 #STEM #EduSky #AirQuality #HealthyAir #SciTeachUK #PrimaryScience #IAQ

What are the costs and benefits of putting a HEPA filter into your classroom? Our new tool will help you find out.

Sign up to our newsletter to hear about our project #airquality #citizenscience

Change takes time.

SEI’s work with partners on Africa’s first integrated air pollution and climate assessment helped shape the Africa Clean Air Program, now acknowledged in a UN resolution. ¨

It offers a roadmap to save lives, cut emissions and boost resilience: buff.ly/2bhir9u

Ecological Citizen(s) The Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ uses the digital economy to catalyse sustainable change and tackle the ecological and climate crisis.

We had a great first #CitizenScience Q&A session yesterday on our #CommunityEnergy project - for more details or to sign up, see www.sei.org/projects/eco...

Adaptation is so important! It can also feel positive, because you are taking active steps to change, rather than fighting a rising tide (literally in many cases). weadapt.org is full of inspiration.

Ecological Citizen(s) The Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ uses the digital economy to catalyse sustainable change and tackle the ecological and climate crisis.

Involved in #CommunityEnergy?

New #CitizenScience project needs your help to find out how community energy schemes are run through online workshops bringing together #EnergyGroups and researchers. First meeting next week as part of #CEF2025

Find out more 👇👇
www.sei.org/projects/eco...

🌬️ Discover why indoor air matters!

Join SEI and partners on June 23 at 1:00 PM for a powerful #LCAW2025 webinar on indoor air quality and its implications for net zero and public health.

Register 👉 buff.ly/EJyKwbN

#ClimateWeek #CleanAirDay

Based in the UK and involved in community energy?

Join the CE-CS project from SEI York & the Ecological Citizens initiative.

We are inviting UK-based #CommunityEnergy groups to explore how projects are run and governed. Online, low time commitment (5 hrs/6 months).

Sign up: lnkd.in/d4_JzScp

Events - London Climate Action Week Discover climate summits, forums, workshops, and more during London Climate Action Week — a city-wide celebration of climate action and awareness.

We spend the majority of our lives indoors - at home, school, or work. The quality of air we breathe in these environments is often overlooked, but it plays a crucial role in our health and well-being.

Hear from the INGENIOUS project scientists...

www.londonclimateactionweek.org/event/pan-on...

Aw thanks Claire! Very happy to chat to anyone about inclusive citizen science

Opportunities for microbiology citizen science: lessons learnt from three pilot projects Citizen science (CS) is the partnering of professional scientists and members of the public to answer real-world scientific questions. There has been huge growth in CS over the past two decades, but u...

New paper out with colleagues on citizen science approaches for microbiology. A bit different, but membranes get a mention for anyone who was briefly worried 🤣

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Also, publish in society journals!

UKHSA 2025 conference: air pollution and healthcare Sarah West will share insights from her work investigating indoor air quality in homes and schools as part of this UK Health Security Agency Conference panel.

Attending #UKHSA2025 next week?

Look out for @hertscc.bsky.social's poster on our joint work evaluating the use of #AirFilters in primary schools and @sarahwestsei.bsky.social contributing to a panel on ‘Air pollution and healthcare: equipping professionals for action’.

www.sei.org/events/ukhsa...

It's a tricky time for Higher Education in the UK at the moment, but look at this uplifting thread!

Ours has said dress up as a character, or come in something comfy, which I think is a good way of doing it.

UKHSA 2025 conference: panel on air pollution and healthcare Sarah West will share insights from her work investigating indoor air quality in homes and schools as part of this UK Health Security Agency Conference panel.

📢 Are you a #healthcare professional? Discover the latest research and resources on #AirPollution.

@sarahwestsei.bsky.social will share insights from on indoor #AirQuality in homes and schools as part of a panel at #UKHSA25.

📆 25 -26 March
📍 Manchester, UK

www.sei.org/events/ukhsa...

#SAMHE

Reminder that you only have a few hours left if you want to apply to become our first ever Administration Officer!
Details & job pack here: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Deadline to apply: midnight tonight!

It is rather mad to think that Disco 2000 was written about a year 25 years ago

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

“The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For the 2025 #IMPETUS accelerator, we are seeking #citizenscience projects that focus on

#circularcommunities

♻️ #Resource Management
🏘️ #Infrastructure & #Housing
⚠️ #Disaster Resilience

If your project would benefit from some additional support, learn more
impetus4cs.eu/opencall/

#citsci #funding

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, made headlines recently for laying an egg with a new partner, her first egg in four years. The egg has now hatched, and Wisdom, a Laysan albatross (Phoebast...

Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

It's lovely and windy today, which means lots of clean green electricity.

Or does it? See all those purple dots in Scotland? Those are wind farms that we're turning off as of 8am… 🤔

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded & what’s next

Once upon a time leaders believed that science was essential to nation’s security, to better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living & to cultural progress
🧪 #academicSky
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Work at the Arboretum | About Us | National Memorial Arboretum There are lots of ways to get involved with the National Memorial Arboretum, from volunteer roles to paid positions.

Poet in Residence wanted for the National Memorial Arboretum for two years to use the Arboretum's landscape and memorials for a series of original poems to share stories with brand new audiences. Details in link.

Please share :)

www.thenma.org.uk/about-us/wor...