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?...

they returned with ideas of the impossible and new methods for calculating infinity

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

We're almost there. Why not download issue 1 for free. Dip your toe in the icy waters of Foran 4. Explore a new world... www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hnvyx... Then back the kickstarter here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr... Who knows... when it ends tomorrow, maybe the world will be a brighter place

Wait, mesmerism is an eponym en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M...

This has surprised me as much as hearing tonight that Tennessee Williams only died in 1983, meaning he was alive at the same time as Serena and Venus, the other tennisy Williams

I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.

Publication day for “About Time”! It seems to have got the horology world very excited (see review below). I hope some of you might take a look to learn about something so absolutely central to our existence - you literally can’t imagine it not existing, because without time, there’d be no thought

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

For deeply silly reasons, I need to find a scientist who specializes in magnet stuff. If you are such an individual and would be up for talking about superheroes on a podcast, I would love a word with you.

I STRONGLY urge you to back this. Space Captain: Captain of Space is a fantastic comic, full of humanity and heart, I love it so much. Also a chance to pick up a copy of We Said Goodbye To Gravity, also a big rec from me (I haven't read the others on offer, but I'll bet they're real good too)

flaming moe's

It's Swiss Independence Day! Here's a drawing of William Tell, the retired country crossbowman & Swiss folk hero who, in 1307, was, as a cruel jest by his captors, given the chance to save himself & his young son from execution if he could shoot an apple off his son's head at an absurd distance. 1/

15) We should improve society by responding to every declaration of "Cringe!" with "Shut up, coward."

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Up Corcaigh 🤙

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn. "Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

Illuminated comics are always great, this one particularly so. Enjoy! I didn't clip my fav panel because it's a spoiler, but it's only ten pages so you can get there and enjoy it yourself!

Comics are good.

SUPERMAN #30 Variant Cover.

Comics are good.

Amplify trans voices and make space for trans art! We're raising money for a body-mapping project featuring trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists. I'm really excited about Transcend, and I'd love to see it hit its next milestone today: gofund.me/aea4e925

Kid's publishing people, and adjacents! I've written a draft of a kids picture book text in a genre I'm calling GIANT SQUID MAGICAL REALISM. My 4 year old and 8 year old like it, but does anyone want to have a look at it? 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑 🦑

Flash Gordon: always prepared.

Everything about this article blew my mind — that someone got this obsessed with a routine piece of Hollywood continuity nonsense, that he managed to get this much filmmaker buy-in to investigate it, that McG is this conscientious and thoughtful, that the writer did actually find answers. Amazing.

This is going to be great everyone!

Absolute charity shop goldmine you guys! 1991 Original! Complete! Why does it exist? Who knows! Whoever designed the gameplay really got the show, it's suitably strange - to win you need to collect 12 donut tokens, 4 matching suspect cards, and all five points of a pentagram puzzle. Tremendous.

💪Chuffed to announce some of my Desperate Dan strips have been collected into their very own summer special, released on 15th May! 💖Available in WHSmith or grab a copy here www.dcthomsonshop.co.uk/dandy-presen... 🤩Wanna win a signed copy? Just share this post and I’ll pick winners over the weekend!

Scientists! Our planet needs your voice! I beg you to join me, Chris Packham & 100+ scientists on May 13th in a peaceful gathering in Parliament Sq, to put pressure on the government to be informed by - & ACT ON - science. tinyurl.com/Scientists2025 Pls help spread the word #BringScienceToPolitics

If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !) thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...

On Sunday 29th June Leading Voices LDN are presenting 22 songs by 22 British and UK-based writers at The Union Theatre, London - and they're including Put Out The Fire from The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade! See their website for more info: www.leadingvoicesldn.com

Proud to have my name on this docs.google.com/document/d/1...

he’s right and he’s right to say it