So sad to see #scicomm programmes closing - I've always seen it as a growing subject area over the last decade or so with increasing relevance.

What a treat to be a guest on the Let's Talk SciComm Podcast (@letstalkscicomm.bsky.social)! We talked about my career, aliens, linguistics, storytelling, and (of course) SciComm! You can listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/03dH...

I'm competing in the UK Jigsaw Puzzle Association National Championship at the weekend! If you want to experience the intense and niche sport of speed puzzling, the YouTube links are below. Saturday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH56... Sunday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8X...

"For years, a handful of Big Tech companies have used their power to gain control of the UK’s digital infrastructure, locking the government into wasteful contracts and shaping tech policy in their favour." 🗣️ ORG's @jim.killock.org.uk on our new report calling for UK Digital Sovereignty.

This paper by @hanachronism.bsky.social et al is full of useful tips for science storytelling, well worth the reading time for anyone who does this kind of thing for a living. 🧪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Job opportunity at the Natural History Museum in London! Principal researcher in human evolution. jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Back running experiments with real life humans which I haven't done since my PhD, and it's quite exciting!

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences? Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant! Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com lingcomm.org/grants/

My research is featured on the Public Understanding of Science blog with a brief introduction to our paper published in their journal (here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) and the toolkit which can be download here: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/ sagepus.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-fi...

They're open, and we need YOU (yes, you!) to submit your proposal for the BIG Event! Come join us and loads of others at the National STEM Learning Centre this July! Propose a session now forms.gle/RBW95Z8sEagK...

Christmas is a time for gathering round and listening to a tale well told. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social, an expert in communications. Explore her work helping scientists of all kinds explain their research here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

This is really cool. You have to scroll down a couple of comments to get to the pdf, though.

Nice toolkit supported by one of our small grants for how science communicators can make their messages memorable through understanding how people remember things. By @hanachronism.bsky.social livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/

This paper has also been “translated” into a practitioner-facing illustrated toolkit, which can be downloaded here: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/

New publication co-authored by department member Dr. Hannah Little in Public Understands of Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A fantastic (and free) resource from Faculty colleague @hanachronism.bsky.social to help science communicators make their stories more memorable ⤵️

📣Job alert: We're hiring a Public Services Research Lead! This role will develop and lead the delivery of Ada’s work on public sector use of data and AI. Closing: 09:30 GMT, 29 October 2025 www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/public-s...

I loved working on this project. FAO #sciart and #scicomm sky, check out this thread!

I was so pleased JC brought me in on this project. If you write or are a journalist or do any kind of storytelling (science or not) I highly recommend checking this out. There is so much in the about mechanics and risk/benefits of how you connect to audiences.

A couple of years ago, as part of a @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project, I interviewed some sci comm folk about storytelling strategies we know cause humans to pay attention to some stories more than others. Illustration by @jordancollver.bsky.social

I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026). Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development. Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon. I’ll share more about the move & new work soon. Please share with students & retweet!

I'll be speaking at Space Lates: A Message to Outer Space at the National Space Centre on Friday if anyone's around Leicester! Tickets here: www.spacecentre.co.uk/whats-on/spa...

Come and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Is Ofcom coming for VPNs? Monitoring their use through the narrow lens of whether the Online Safety Act is working is shortsighted. "VPNs can help protect children's security online too, they aren’t just used to avoid content blocks." 🗣️ ORG's James Baker. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

I'll be on BBC Radio Merseyside at 7.20am... Not sure why I agreed to that but there we are

Devastated about Jane Goodall. What a giant of science communication and such a champion of empathy, love and understanding for every living being on this planet. If I manage to live my life with a tenth of the integrity and compassion she had, I'll be proud.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

So great to finally see this in print! My piece about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter which is held in the Science Fiction Special Collections in Liverpool. It appears in "Collecting Stories", a volume by @livunipress.bsky.social about objects held in the cultural collections at the university.

Happy Darmok Day to all who celebrate

In which I talk with @comicbookyeti.com about comics, science communication, and my new book Pets Tell Tales! www.comicbookyeti.com/post/jordan-...

We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Labour: vote for us or you'll get RefUK! RefUK are ahead in the polls! WE MIGHT END UP WITH A REFUK GOVERNMENT NEXT TIME!! BEWARE!!! Also Labour: let's make a handy database of brown, black and queer people for when RefUK get in and want to persecute them!

No thank you!

Thank you to all that contributed to our Voyager exhibit today and created golden records at the British Science Festival! Some of my favourites are here, but I know I missed many so I'll be going through them once I've recovered a bit! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

We've got materials from the Science Fiction Collections at the University of Liverpool relevant to first contact in the Black-E (in Liverpool) today for the British Science Festival! Come and take a look! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

I'm a serious adult academic, so of course I've spent the last few days making Voyager 1 out of papier mache and bottle tops... See you tomorrow, British Science Festival @britsciassoc.bsky.social!!!

We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

I'll be on BBC Radio Wales at 6.30pm tonight talking about the British Science Festival and (of course) aliens! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Had so much fun at the weekend at Destination (an unofficial Star Trek convention) talking about the linguistics of First contact! Thanks so much to @jamiebgall.co.uk for organising! So exciting to see so many people engaging in science through fiction and culture!

The wonderful @hanachronism.bsky.social diving into the exolinguistics of Star Trek at the Destination convention.

My British Science Festival events featured here! www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/explori...

Claudio Maccone, Italian SETI astronomer and mathematician, passed away this week at the age of 77. Claudio was an early proponent of SETI research and was globally known for his work in the field. 🧪 🔭

A really fun episode today as we chat with the brilliant Catriona Silvey about writing a time-travelling romcom, why Cambridge is ridiculous, and why she wants to write many different types of stories Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/5aCdv-UFpes Or listen on your favourite app: linktr.ee/ukpageone

I'll be speaking about the linguistics of Star Trek at the Science and Community stage at Destination this year in Blackpool! Details here: destinationfanevents.com/Activity/sci...

I have written a piece in this book about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter held in the Science Fiction Special Collections here at Liverpool. This will be a super cool volume with all sorts of unexpected treasures!

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

“We’re seeing teens being prevented from accessing content about sexual health, politics and news. If adults want to see this content, they are forced to prove how old they are with unregulated age verification companies.” 🗣️ ORG's James Baker #OnlineSafetyAct www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Lights are going out across the Net for UK users. Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content. In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best. 🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim.social.openrightsgroup.org.ap.brid.gy #OnlineSafetyAct

In a huge surprise to absolutely no one... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...