Happy Sign Language Week!🌟

New British Sign Language signs for marine species are here, making conversations about nature and climate more accessible to everyone! 👋 The @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Scottish Sensory Centre tested them out while cleaning oysters with #RestorationForth 🦪 #SignLanguageWeek #SLW2026

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more. And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share! www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

#ochemistree #chemistree by this year’s @morayhouse.bsky.social #PGDEchem students! @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social Merry Christmas 🎄!!

🎓 Want to become a teacher? Join our PGDE sessions to learn how you can take the most direct route into teaching. Hear from Programme Directors Dr Sue Chapman & Steve McLeister, our admissions team, alumni, & get your questions answered. 📅Primary: 2–3pm 📅Secondary: 3:30–4:30pm 🔗Book: edin.ac/4hff0q0

So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents

Hi! I’m Zahra Nawab, a deaf PhD student at UCL. I’m looking for participants for my research on language, thinking & emotions in deaf adults. Interested or know someone who might be? Get in touch: [email protected] For more information, please watch this video: youtu.be/Iw-TiANQpY0

Recording of @aud2526.bsky.social presentation "Signing to Know: Unlocking chemistry concepts" from symposium in her honour last week is now on @cerg.bsky.social YouTube channel. Thanks to Dr Helen Pain for her warm introduction to Audrey and the symposium youtu.be/9cWN4oD39kw

A really inspiring symposium today. Lots to take away from it. I loved the chemical considerations involved in making new signs and the student generated videos were amazing! Thanks to presenters, interpreters, & Dr Helen Pain for officially opening proceedings! rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

Congratulation to the British Deaf Association for this discussion paper on AI and BSL. As far as I know this is the first deaf NGO to have such a discussion paper. Very much needed!

Gingerbread, mulled wine, and the warmth of cinnamon. Join us in the Christmas countdown with the @thamesvalleyrsc.bsky.social #adventcalendar #ChemSky 🎄🔬 @compoundchem.com

Congratulations #UoEPGDEchemistry, for winning Category Three of the @ochemistree.bsky.social ! @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🎄🧪

For those of you who did’nt follow me on the other place, I run an annual competition for the most creative #Chemistree. For 2024 I have officially moved it to #BlueSky this year and you can find all the details below 🧪🎄 #ChemSky

Loads of great #Chemistree creations are starting to appear on #chemsky well done everyone!

#UoEPGDES’ #OChemistree Our #chemistree stands proud and tall, It is pretty to look at, but that is not all, The amino acids have a message of cheer, Crack the code for all to hear! @morayhouse.bsky.social @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social #ChemSky

Day 2 of #ChemAdvent24 looks at how a colour-changing indicator can be made from festive poinsettia leaves. This is possible because they contain anthocyanins, which undergo structural changes in acidic and alkaline solutions. #GardenIndicators #ChemSky 🧪

Hello #Chemsky! The #OChemistree competition has moved over from the other place. This year's theme is "Complex Molecules" in honour of the 2024 @nobelprize.bsky.social in Chemistry. Send us your #Chemistree creations before the 13th of Dec! More info: ochemistree.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/o...

#MICER25 - Hurrah! #micerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

You might have heard about my book… well, now you can join the webinar on Valentines Day 2025 to hear all about it! I’ll be discussing some themes from the book and I’ll play some clips from my favourite onscreen chemistry examples Register here: #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/ons...

PhD studentship opportunity! 👇

The Royal Society is on Bluesky! We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, founded in 1660 and dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity. Follow us for the latest research, fascinating looks at science history, events and more: royalsociety.org

Day 13 of posting cool mushrooms every day: Witch's Butter (Tremella mesenterica) is a brainlike gelatinous mass of a mushroom. It's one of the few mushrooms that will grow any day of the year, usually on softwood decaying logs. It's edible, however it has little flavor.

My attempt at a starter pack (one of BSky’s handiest features). Tag and I’ll add you. go.bsky.app/Bz3cYP4#chemed

#FluorescenceFriday reminder that if you sprinkle turmeric into alcohol while shining a UV light on it, you get a brilliant fireworks display in a glass 🎇 #ChemSky 🧪

In our chapter for this new volume, Robin Angelini, Katta Spiel and I explore perspectives on the development of signing avatars through interviews with deaf and hearing professionals involved in sign language machine translation. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Second edition of International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education is out! Great work by Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb and @rejadam.bsky.social gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/I/Inte...

I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8

Brilliant day with the #UoEPGDEp @morayhouse.bsky.social today, looking at Pluriliteracies. Amazing lecture this morning linking models in Science with sign creation. 🤯🤯🤯 Thank you @louisehawxwell.bsky.social, @aud2526.bsky.social and the sign linguists, interpreters and scientists who joined us!

So excited for #PGDEp science tomorrow as part of our Pluriliteracies focus @morayhouse.bsky.social Be prepared to get messy and go out of this world! 🥯😋🔭 @aud2526.bsky.social @drsuechapman.bsky.social @kdarlingmcq.bsky.social @missjgm.bsky.social @carolinegordon.bsky.social

Excited to be working with the new PGDE chemistry and science students (2024-2025)! First week went well! #uoePGDEs