Ali J. Birkett

Good to see the need to make #science storytelling related to personal experiences being discussion in relation to teaching in #HigherEducation as well as in #PublicEngagement and science communication #SciComm

Limestone pavement photography exhibition completes its tour of Lancashire and Cumbrian libraries - Lancaster University Photography exhibition “Limestone Pavement: Life Between the Cracks” completes its four-month long tour of libraries across Lancashire and Cumbria showcasing the importance of preserving these importa...

Discover more about the exhibition www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/research...

Thanks to @britishecologicalsociety.org and @lancasteruni.bsky.social for funding the exhibition.
Exhibition arranged by Prof Carly Stevens of Limestone Pavements Partnership based at @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social.

A collage of photos showing an photographic exhibition on display in the Westmorland and Furness Council's Grange-over-Sands library, including a shot showing a visitor reading the exhibition and another including Ali's evaluation data sheet. The fifth photo shows a sunny day looking over the sands of Morecambe Bay from The Promenade of Grange-over-Sands towards Arnside and Lancaster

Thank you Grange-over-Sands librarians Jane and Lisa and library users for my lovely couple of days evaluating the success of Limestone Pavements Partnership's "Limestone: Life Between the Cracks" exhibition featuring photos by Oana Baković.

#SciComm #publicengagement #ecology #nature #cumbria

Screenshot of Ali's post on X (Twitter) 33minutes ago. Reads: "Nail in the coffin. Time to go! I stopped being an active part of X platform when it became a place for attack not discovery. I refuse to have any association with a platform that permits the way Grok is being used. #Goodbye! Find me on my Bluesky profile"

It's time.

"Dung beetles are basically nature's own parasite control." 🪲

Integrating animal health into a regenerative system is about more than reducing inputs – it's about building a resilient ecosystem.

Watch #ClaireWhittle explore #WholeFarm health👇

www.soilassociation.org/our-work-in-...

#Agroecology

'In reading and writing about research that had nothing to do with my own, I felt curious, enlightened, and empowered... The work fed the side of me that, as my mom would say, was always interested in “way too many things.”'

Exactly why I moved from research to #scicomm too @liuswrites.bsky.social!

I can't be at the conference, so it would be great to get a little Bluesky summary of your talk afterwards @laurapenny.bsky.social?
And updates on any other #DungBeetle #ecology content I'm missing out on!

Exploring the role of partnerships in enabling public engagement by Long-Term Ecological Research programs This study explores how organizations that conduct scientific research support communication activities, including activities aimed at fostering public engagement. It uses qualitative, thematic analys...

Breakfast-time reading that will bring two interests together: #PublicEngagement and Long-Term Ecological Research #LTER!

"Exploring the role of partnerships in enabling public engagement by Long-Term Ecological Research programmes"
jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

#SciComm @ect-uk.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing this photo exhibition "Limestone: Life Between the Cracks" in the local libraries of South Cumbria close to the beautiful locations where the photos were taken! 🌿

Thanks for the opportunity to help produce the exhibition @limestonepavements.bsky.social!
#SciComm #Ecology

Very frightening if this is true.
Terrifying that I won't be very surprised if it is.

One of the World’s Oldest Experiments is This Patch of Grass YouTube video by SciShow

I'm not sure what it says about me that I could immediately recognise the Park Grass experiment from just the thumbnail of this @scishow.bsky.social video!
youtu.be/bFXd7EIXiiA?...

#LongTermExperiment #Agriculture #Ecology #Nitrogen #Science #Evolution

@ect-uk.bsky.social
@rothamsted.bsky.social

Sorry for the Bluesky silence. It's been a very busy few months:
- designing Edinburgh Science Festival events 🎭🧪
- preparing for new projects 🤔
- taking a bit of personal time 🥾

Expect more posts in the near future!
#SciComm #science #PublicEngagement

Ali in a ocean blue tshirt talking enthusiastically with a group of adults building small robots at an activity table

Ali in a ocean blue tshirt talking enthusiastically with a group of people building small robots at an activity table

Sharing STEM stories (science, technology, engineering and maths) with people is such a joy! 😁

It's a privilege to be part of the Edinburgh Science events development team... and to moonlight as one of our science communicators at my third Edinburgh Science Festival opening party!
#SciComm #STEM

An enlightening threat with lots of info I had no idea about before. An informative #MondayMorning breakfast read!
#ecology #reintroduction #wolf

a disco ball hanging from the ceiling in a room Alt: a turning disco ball hanging from the ceiling in a room

I've got a lot of work to do today.
Feels like a classic disco tunes sort of day.

Wow. 😟😡

Ali, wearing a dark green Edinburgh Science branded tshirt, stands grinning beside a life-sized model of a brown and white Ayrshire dairy cow, with the glass roof of an exhibition gallery in view behind her

I'm fascinated by how engineers are improving sustainablity and welfare in #food by 'making the invisible visible' to producers.
👏 Thanks @cynthianaydani.bsky.social, Dave Scott, Ken Loades, Chris Jones, Susannah Bolton and Ross Robertson for teaching me, and to Elsie the cow of course 🐄! #SciComm

Edinburgh Science on LinkedIn: #raengingenious #futurefarming #engineeringmatters #careershive #stem… 🏆 Future Farming: A Celebration of Innovation and Inspiration! 🏆 We’re thrilled to share that our Future Farming activity has been nominated for an…

Highlight of 2024: collaborating with experts to develop Future Farming, showing the potential of #engineering careers in #agriculture and #aquaculture to secondary school students, thanks to @raeng.org.uk.
🏆And now it's shortlisted for an Engineering Matters Award!
www.linkedin.com/posts/edinbu...

a frog wearing glasses is reading a book with the words so much to learn so little time Alt: Gif of a green caterpillar-like "bookworm" wearing glasses wuth their eyes going side to side as they read a book. Text underneath says "so much to learn so little time"

The world is full of so many interesting things! I'm having one of those afternoons where I'm not getting anything done because I keep finding new things to look up. I WILL finally make it into the kitchen sometime before teatime, I hope! 😜 #AlwaysCurious

FameLab UK - Edinburgh Science

Scottish-based scientists: come and share your work on an Edinburgh Science Festival stage with #FameLab 2025! Application deadline: Sunday 5 Jan.

Details: www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/fam...

#EdSciFest
#SciComm #research #storytelling #communication #STEM #WomenInSTEM #science

FameLab UK - Edinburgh Science

Are you a #science researcher or student? ✅️
Looking for an amazing #SciComm opportunity to develop your #communication skills and share your work with a live festival audience? ✅️
Based in #Scotland? ✅️
Well I hope you've got your application in for #FameLab!
www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/fam...

Landscape diversity, habitat connectivity, age and size determine the conservation value of limestone quarries for diverse wild bee communities Observed negative effects of high woody vegetation cover on bee communities highlight the importance of local management to reduce shrub encroachment and reset successional processes in limestone qua....

🐝 Limestone Quarries & Wild Bees

A study from @britishecolsoc.bsky.social finds abandoned quarries can be vital habitats for 114 bee species, including 35 endangered ones, when managed well. Connectivity & floral diversity are key.

🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SciComm 🧪

This is a fascinating piece of #bumblebee research! Read the main thread and @hcslambert.bsky.social's interesting answer to questions too.

#ecology #insect #flower #phenology
Love that I'm discovering things like this again thanks to this place

It is Richard! Well spotted.
You can take the lass out of Lancashire... 😉

A large shiny dung beetle about the size of a the face of a digital wrist watch sits on the side of someone's hand. On its right, its black wing case is open and it's stretching its delicate looking transparent wing out to the side

I've been out of the field lab for a long while. Who are the #DungBeetle researchers in #Farming and #ecology and #biogeography to follow on here to get me up to speed?

#AlwaysCurious #biodiversity #SustainableFarming #insect #invertebrate #entomology

Blue sky is the 'nice app' where white people make starter packs about their interest or research area but somehow do not notice that these lists are all white and then further do not engage when this pointed out. But you are not racist, right?

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!

The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED

Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪

www.sciencewrite.co.uk

Hi Jaime! Any chance you could add me to your #SciComm starter pack? Hope you have a lovely day!

Very poignant thread from @be-sciencey.bsky.social. Would be great for the #SciComm community over here to better than it's ever been elsewhere. I'm mostly here to discover and learn instead of share, but would be interested to follow this conversation. Thanks for getting it started Helen!

Drawing of an Arctic charr

Hi #freshwater folks 👋 The Freshwater Biological Association have announced a new initiative to assess one of our rarest fish, the Arctic charr, in Windermere.

There is a crowd funder, too, to support the work ☺️

(And here's a bit of #SciArt from me!)

🧪💦

www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...