What is a roost? Here are some bat roost facts: 🪹 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to shelter, live and sleep in. 🦇 Where bats choose to roost varies between species and the time of the year. 📍 They don't stay in the same roost the whole year.

Does it have bats... why yes, yes it absolutely does 🦇

This week's #ShowMeYourKnitting and conveniently today's museum knitting is socks! It's fun to do bright colours for gift knits because I never really wear them myself #knitsky 🧶

Difference between undergrad and postgrad: I actually read the methods and references sections!

#wipwednesday #knitsky #showmeyourknits Working on my 2nd Halloween theme project this month. I’m Batty for Halloween socks by Charlotte Stone Picked a yarn to look like a sunset when the bats fly out of my bat house ❤️🦇 Now onto the mate..

Little pumpkin thief 🎃

Wish I could make it 😭

Feeling this one again! 😀🦇 We need to do a tally of our outreach events & numbers of people reached for 2025! It has been busy!

Current knitting WIP #knitsky 🧶 Affric sweater by The Creabea (in testing)

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#BREAKINGNEWS 🦇🌍 The world now has 1,500 recognized bat species! 🎉 The global list at www.batnames.org just hit this milestone. New bats are found through fieldwork in remote places & genetic discoveries. Amazing biodiversity news! #Bats #Biodiversity #BatsNeedFriends

Another quick WIP for #ShowMeYourKnitting - pink socks!

From #WIP to FO! Hibernal socks in Ballyhoura Fibres Snowdonia National Park sock set #ShowMeYourKnitting 🧶 #knitsky

Watching bats flying about in the evening never gets old ❤️🦇

Urrent pair of socks for #ShowMeYourKnitting WIPs Pattern is Hibernal socks by Summer Lee and yarn is inspired by Snowdonia National Park and is from @ballyhourafibres.bsky.social

We’ve pulled together a Rewilding Booklist for adults and kids: 🌿Adults can explore the history, science, and big ideas behind ecological restoration. Feral, Reclaiming Nature, Wild by Design are just three of the reads to help inspire action. 👉 Read the list here: wildones.org/rewilding-bo...

Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) 🌿 A wild plant with bright yellow blooms — now captured in my Botanical Diary💚 #botanicalart #celandine #chelidonium #botanicalillustration #naturedrawing #wildflowers #sketchbookpages #botanicaldiary

The jumpers I'm most excited to be able to wear as it comes into autumn for #ShowMeYourKnits sweater week!

A drawing of an African Flower Beetle (Mecynorrhina oberthuri) for #InverteFest

At knit night so here's my #WIPWednesday and second sock week!

3 weeks until I start my masters degree!!

Finished my first test knit! This was definitely one of the best things I've knitted and I'm so happy with the end result. 🧶 #knitsky

Sock WIP in between jumper projects- this yarn from @ballyhourafibres.bsky.social is so gorgeous Pattern is Hibernal socks by Summer Lee #knitsky 🧶

Stripes for #ShowMeYourKnits - my first two actually wearable socks, still fine-tuning what I need to get the perfect fit

I never know what to do with my knitting scraps, but I love the idea of making matching accessories after finishing a garment. I made this scrunchie with scraps from my beloved Wool and Honey jumper, even though my hair isn't quite long enough to use it #ShowMeYourKnits #knitsky 🧶

Sharing my Vesper shawl for #ShowMeYourKnits The only shawl I've knitted, bat inspired and finished just in time to wear it to a bat themed ball 🥰

If I stand in the right way it looks finished... First sleeve done, I now have just under a week to finish the second sleeve before the test knit deadline! Gleniff sweater by Tania Barley, releasing in the next two weeks 👀 #knitsky 🧶

Caught the knitting 🧶 bug 🐜

And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow

Current WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits this week! I have just over 2 weeks to finish up the sleeves and block before the pattern is released 😅 🧶 #knitsky

Doesn't look the most summery but I've been wearing this on all my bat walks this summer #ShowMeYourKnits #knitsky 🧶🦇

Of course I wore my vampire bat skull pin from @galacticcoffee.bsky.social on my bat walk last night

I led my first bat walk by myself last night! Luckily we had plenty of activity, with four species identified (and one mystery bat) - Leisler's, Daubenton's, and common and soprano pippistrelles 🦇 When a group of teenagers openly show their interest, you know you're doing something right 😂

Silverlining sweater by Jennifer Steingass for #ShowMeYourKnits blue - just the one project! 🧶 #knitsky

The only map that matters

Current knitting at the museum! Gleniff test for Tania Barley 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitsky

Tried on my current WIP and I love it! Was unsure about my colour choice but I'm really happy with how it looks on me 💚 🧶 Testing the Gleniff sweater for Tania Barley #knitting #knitsky

Studying up for delivering a bat walk 🦇

Satisfying floats on my Gleniff test knit 🧶 #knitsky

Also works for #ShowMeYourKnits garter stitch 🧶

Almost missed my Wool & Honey for yellow #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶🐝 #knitsky

Just read that "Jaws" has turned 50. My flower sharks surely are friendly creatures 😀 #sciart

Sunshine yellow for #ShowMeYourKnits - Silverlining by Jennifer Steingass and Dragon Tale by Mary P Hunt 🧶 #knitsky

Does anyone else keep accidentally matching their outfit to their knitting or is it just me? 🧶 #knitsky

Gorgeous yarn delivery from @hedgehogfibres.bsky.social 😍

Today is 200 years since Faraday's discovery of benzene! I made these hexies for a maths community quilt (with the maths being in the bond lengths of single and double bonds and the aromatic structure). I don't believe ever got made, so it's nice to have an opportunity to post a picture of them! 🐡

If your work or education involves science communication, this class may be of interest to you. My full presentation and slides with IEEE Women in Engineering are available at no cost on my website: maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/narr...

Final of my 2025 colour-ways for the end-pages I designed for NESS Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Winter 2025 - Added new planetary elements & played with overlays to add to the celestial space theme for this issue ⚔️ 🎨

Took my knitting on the bus, to the museum, and to get my hair cut for #KnitInPublicDay #ShowMeYourKnits

Cowls for #ShowMeYourKnits - both gift knits from Mary P Hunt patterns 🧶 #knitsky