Book free workshop places here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/disco... And concert tickets here: www.thegapfestival.org/events/the-c...

OXFORDSHIRE PEOPLE! Come to our FREE family physics singalong workshops! Or get £5 tickets for our concert of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social at an ACTUAL FIRE STATION (bring picnics!) All at GAP Festival in Goring & Streatley on Saturday 20th June... pls share share share! thegapfestival.org

Incredible

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Sunday saw the first two workshop performances of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social performed by the brilliant University of Lincoln MT second year students, and a creative dream team. Thank you for bringing our story to life! And thank you for the fabulous photos @briansayle.bsky.social !

The musical I'm co-writing got a lovely writeup on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I need you to understand that I'm not being ironic when I say that this is exactly what brilliant local journalism looks like

Would you like to hear a song from the musical I'm writing with @helenarney.bsky.social and @jennipinnock.com , sung by the amazing LVL musical theatre choir? You for sure do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myY-...

Save Us, Tornado Man

Come see me and my badass STEMinist musical in concert this summer: @firebrigademusical.bsky.social! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 PLUS - free family singing science workshops for ages 7 to 107 in CHELTENHAM, OXFORDSHIRE and LINCOLN (did I mention these are FREE?) Come one come all! Click link in bio to grab your place!

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Gentlefish 🐟

Oh shit, the dolphins have invented maths

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

35 vintage pencil boxes we have found and sold over the years. www.instagram.com/p/DWgrcahjK_U/ Happy National Pencil Day!

For National Pencil Day - my stub jar

“Girlguiding didn’t have to address the supreme court judgment this way; it has centred notions of femaleness as an exclusive and fragile quality” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘As Yip Harburg, lyricist of The Wizard of Oz, put it: “Words make you think thoughts, music makes you feel a feeling, but a song makes you feel a thought.” Choose songs. Choose joy. Choose musicals.’ @theguardian.com

The Attempt

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

I use this sequence when I talk to educators and parents about the impact that comics have on literacy and development. This comic requires the reader (in the instances in which I'm discussing, a developing one) to reason how the rat creatures got from their position in the 1st panel to the 2nd. 1/

This is the musical I'm writing with @helenarney.bsky.social and @jennipinnock.com !

Twin Peaks Lucy commission <3

Manuel Gómez Burns

requiem for vanished birdsong

From today STEEPLE is running on Webtoon as a Dark Horse Original. This includes the first five issues that have never been available online before. www.webtoons.com/en/supernatu...

Fun fact - a lot of other places that will list self-published books (waterstones, Blackwells) will take them down if they're AI. I know about one dope who was belching out error-laden science biographies with AI, and all 400 of his got delisted. Amazon is crap, but it's worth emailing others

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

greenlit.com/project/unfo... Well - this is scary stuff, but what's the BEST than can happen? Every little helps towards our budget for a two-week rehearsal and workshop leading up to a London industry sharing for www.unfoldingthemusical.com xx Your shares and comments keep this alive. Thank you!🎇

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked. I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem

look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think

OK, this is amazing. An automata of Gormenghast. youtu.be/v3fyV06D1gk?...

Hi @royalsociety.org, you might find this thread interesting. “Now consider the system that allows him to exist, that created him and protected him and rewarded him.”

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 7 1969:

Today is the day a very special man was born, sent to us many years ago to tell fantastic tales and bring messages of peace and understanding. Happy birthday Rod Serling!

Perfect!!

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Marvel Team-up

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 21, 1990.

Two interesting stationery facts that you might need to sit down for : 1. The blue part of a classic pink/blue eraser was originally intended for pencil on thick paper, not ink. 2. Etymologically ‘stationery’ stems from ‘stationary’.

At some point I played my last game of chasing with my friends in school, without realising it would be our last game. However, that means one of us is still IT, and doesn't even know. Forever chasing people who don't know they're being chased. I think about this all the time. Is it me? Am I IT?

happy Halloween

This is so good.

ScienceWrite 2026 is open for applications! 🧪 Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again! Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you! Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk