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60% freelancer exploring & challenging science through art & events. 40% Patient & Public Involvement @britsocimm.bsky.social 100% nerd. Views my own! She/her Spoonie / medical mystery 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇸🇬 Hanaayoob.co.uk

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Nov 12

I've hit 2K so it feels like time for a proper intro!

Hi, I'm Hana! I've been a freelance SciCommer / Public Engagement person / Illustrator / Trainer for nearly 7 years (eek!)

In January I joined @britsocimm.bsky.social as their part time Patient & Public Involvement Manager .

More below 👇🏼

Hana in a sunflower pinafore pointing at a painting of a small-clawed otter on a massive screen

Lots of people sat around crafting next to a Christmas tree. A sign says 'The magic of the moon workshop'

Hana points at a slide which says Creative and practical both pointing at each other in a circle

Drawing of Hana with lots of speech bubbles with question words including How? Who? When? What? Why? and Where?

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 13h

THIS!

And your regular reminder that your ‘just a cold’ could be considerably worse for others.

Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 14h

I know that, realistically, people are done masking here.

Not least cos the UK pretty much has a fucken moratorium on talking about COVID, masks, etc at the moment.

But if you can avoid spreading your seasonal germs of any kind, please do.

(Cos OMFGs I have enuf wrong with me already aarg 😭)

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 13h

Got snapped at by a doctor to take my mask off on Tuesday 🙄

‘You’re not going to catch anything in here’

Like, you sure mate?

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 2d

I’ve not encountered that one yet 🤦🏽‍♀️

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 2d

I think a lot of the time the grief of this feels so much deeper because I work adjacent to research.

It feels like there’s so much promise & hope in many ways, our understanding of human biology grows and grows and yet so many of us are still searching for answers…

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 2d

Sometimes I want to scream that all healthcare has to offer re me getting so ill so often can be summed up as either:

1. The tests are all clear, nothing’s wrong with you

-or-

2. The tests are all clear, we don’t know what to do

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 2d

Actually nah that ignores no. 3. It’s just a cold, just try fluids and rest 🙄

Then do that again in a few weeks time. Then again.

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 2d

Sometimes I want to scream that all healthcare has to offer re me getting so ill so often can be summed up as either:

1. The tests are all clear, nothing’s wrong with you

-or-

2. The tests are all clear, we don’t know what to do

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 3d

Mostly important but in all seriousness I have a pretty good system of batching by project/client. Stops me from getting exhausted just from switching mental gears.

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 3d

😂 unfortunately not a good freelance strategy

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 3d

I think it was still at ghastly from the last bout of illness before this one. What’s next up from ghastly?

I set myself the stupid task of clearing it today which was probably not realistic even before most of my spoons were spent dealing with the leak

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 3d

Petition for chronically ill folks to not have to deal with any other shit pls 🙏🏽

Brought to you by my first day back at work after being off sick (again) starting with

- smashing a bowl while trying to get breakfast

- finding the bathroom had sprung a fairly significant leak into my office

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 5d

Full house of flu jabs today 💪🏼 💉

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 10d

My father is a ridiculous human

WhatsApp message from Dad ‘New River Coots very pleased to see me again....all this year's Cooties have left the nest and gone to University...except for Derek he fell in with a bad gang of Moorhens and ended up convicted of Fowl play....’

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 17d

Amazing! Thanks Felicity

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 17d

Science folks who were active on the other site - can anyone remember who made the edited version of this?! 🧪

I don’t think it was me but honestly it could’ve been 🙈

Text ‘the world needs science, science needs women’ with 5 pictures of women doing science - all are white with brown hair ans slim and might even all be the same person

The same image edited to include a range of skin tones and hair colours (including blue). One woman has been made larger and another uses a wheelchair.

Reposted by Hana Ayoob

Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 23d

OK, dice doodle games from our workshops!

The idea is these games can be played anywhere you can doodle, even if you only have 1 pen/pencil & plain/lined/etc paper. You can use a D6 or an app to generate random numbers.

You can use any media tho, & easily make them more colourful or complex...

Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 24d

Gotta write up the notes on last week's workshops & games.

It's hard to express how it helps to get a minute to be ridiculous, & to draw absolute friggin nonsense in these exhaustingly fascist times.

I'll share the dice doodle-rules that gave us Blinky when I've done, in case anyone else needs em.

A sketchbook drawing of a ridiculous imaginary mythical creature called Blinky the Waveybeast. Blinky has 5 eyes, all of which are closed right now, 4 curved horns, and pointy teeth in a smiling mouth. They have a long neck, a bead necklace, and a body that is shaped like a cloud and covered in small polka dots. Blinky also has 1 large waving tentacle, 3 skinny wavey tails, and 2 sturdy legs with a lot of toes.

A sketchbook page with a map of an island doodled on it. It's labelled Blinky's Eye-land, spelled like Eyeball eye and land. There's a compass and some scrawled numbers in one corner, and a giant octopus waving out of the sea labelled 'thar be octopods.' The island itself is marked as having cliffs around its edges called the cliffs of doo-oo-oo-oo-oom, trees and plants growing on it, and tall pointy mountains in the middle, the tallest of which is labelled pointy McPointy's peak. There's also a collection of trees labelled Forest of Blarg, and a small house for a mythical beast. We aren't sure if it's Blinky's house, it doesn't say.

A very rough doodle of a flowering plant labelled as the greater grater flower. The first greater is spelled like greater meaning bigger, and second grater spelled like cheese grater. Because the petals are like mini cheese graters. It has two flowers with five gratery petals each, the leaves with three lines each, and a long thin stem. There's a note telling us it only grows on Blinky's Island.

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 8

One day maybe I’ll stop being surprised at the total disdain & disinterest doctors can treat you with on your worst days

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 5

I’ll wait till tonight 😂

My todolist is currently an absolutely monster

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 5

This makes me want to pull out all my collage stuff so bad 😂

Reposted by Hana Ayoob

Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · Sep 4

Live, laugh, annoy fascists with your very existence by being disabled & proud. 😘 🥄 ♿

Reposted by Hana Ayoob

Dr Elizabeth Mills @marinemumbles.bsky.social · Sep 3

About me!

It’s time I reintroduce myself and reconnect with my BlueSky community!

I am so excited to be full time freelance now, so watch out there’s going to be lots of marine content (1/10)

#scicomm #freelance #marinebiology #aboutme

About me, MarineMumbles.
Dr Elizabeth Mills (she/her)
Facts about me scattered around a photo of myself (white, female with blue cap and clothes on) sitting on a rock in the sea. A spiked orange graphic is in the background on dark blue.
Facts are:
- has a phd in civil engineering
- number 1 barnacle fan
- theatre nerd
- marine biologist
- freelance science communicator

You can reach me on YouTube, TikTok, instagram and Bluesky with the handle @marinemumbles

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 2

Congratulations Kate!!

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 2

Sameeee

I had this real sense in the run up to the election that if Labour won, many of their voters would stop paying attention. And it’s been validated a thousand times over.

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 2

Thank you for this thread, I really needed it. I’m so exhausted by it all. And I’m so exhausted of people who should know better trying to convince me this government isn’t as bad as I think 🙄

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 1

I will do 😂

Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Sep 1

I think that’s why it’s his favorite 😂