Dr Dot
@dotaidulis.bsky.social
Science, reading & being outside make me happy :) I love running "Dr Dot's Science Club" (Primary after-school) & we have the BEST fun! I also make easy-to-use digital resources to help busy parents & kids do sciencey stuff at home. Science is for sharing!
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Me getting my brain waves measured at the Smelly Sunday science event in Glasgow 😀.
May 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Me getting my brain waves measured at the Smelly Sunday science event in Glasgow 😀.
I've been feeling a bit down lately at the state of the world. Then I remembered. There IS something we can do. Here it is ❤️
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I've been feeling a bit down lately at the state of the world. Then I remembered. There IS something we can do. Here it is ❤️
March 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I can't think of a better way to start British Science Week than to announce that Dr Dot's Online Science Club is now officially up & running!
We are starting something special.
A science communication revolution.
It's time.
Join here
stem-scotland.thinkific.com/bundles/dr-d...
We are starting something special.
A science communication revolution.
It's time.
Join here
stem-scotland.thinkific.com/bundles/dr-d...
Dr Dot's Online Science Club (Spring 2025)
stem-scotland.thinkific.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I can't think of a better way to start British Science Week than to announce that Dr Dot's Online Science Club is now officially up & running!
We are starting something special.
A science communication revolution.
It's time.
Join here
stem-scotland.thinkific.com/bundles/dr-d...
We are starting something special.
A science communication revolution.
It's time.
Join here
stem-scotland.thinkific.com/bundles/dr-d...
🌟Hello & welcome back to The Dot Spot!🌟
At my desk working on something special for all you busy Parents with primary age kids ❤️
Trying to concentrate - but got a bit excited & just had to share right now 😍!!
I can't wait!
🎯 Tues 18 Feb, 8pm GMT, free online - are you coming??
At my desk working on something special for all you busy Parents with primary age kids ❤️
Trying to concentrate - but got a bit excited & just had to share right now 😍!!
I can't wait!
🎯 Tues 18 Feb, 8pm GMT, free online - are you coming??
February 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🌟Hello & welcome back to The Dot Spot!🌟
At my desk working on something special for all you busy Parents with primary age kids ❤️
Trying to concentrate - but got a bit excited & just had to share right now 😍!!
I can't wait!
🎯 Tues 18 Feb, 8pm GMT, free online - are you coming??
At my desk working on something special for all you busy Parents with primary age kids ❤️
Trying to concentrate - but got a bit excited & just had to share right now 😍!!
I can't wait!
🎯 Tues 18 Feb, 8pm GMT, free online - are you coming??
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Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at work or quit academia will find plenty of advice in these books. Check out this list from Nature Careers of books to help your science career in 2025. #AcademicSky 🧪
Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at work or quit academia will find plenty of advice in these books, all published this year.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at work or quit academia will find plenty of advice in these books. Check out this list from Nature Careers of books to help your science career in 2025. #AcademicSky 🧪
🌟The Daily Dot!🌟
Live in '25!
Hope this is a good year for you all 🥰
Live in '25!
Hope this is a good year for you all 🥰
January 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🌟The Daily Dot!🌟
Live in '25!
Hope this is a good year for you all 🥰
Live in '25!
Hope this is a good year for you all 🥰
Ooh! Going to check this list for my next Audible credit!
Also: Happy 2025!
Also: Happy 2025!
Since my kids have grown, I read a LOT. This year was no different. I read fiction, non-fiction and in particular, science themed non-fiction in form of physical books, ebooks & audiobooks.
Allow me to share my "read" list for 🧪📚 in 2024: 83 science themed books, 36 written by women.
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Allow me to share my "read" list for 🧪📚 in 2024: 83 science themed books, 36 written by women.
🧵
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ooh! Going to check this list for my next Audible credit!
Also: Happy 2025!
Also: Happy 2025!
Hello & welcome to today's Daily Dot!
✨️Sparkles & Science✨️
🎄 And a wee Science Pressie for you in the comments - perfect for rainy days & cosy together time 😍🔎🧪
✨️Sparkles & Science✨️
🎄 And a wee Science Pressie for you in the comments - perfect for rainy days & cosy together time 😍🔎🧪
December 23, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Hello & welcome to today's Daily Dot!
✨️Sparkles & Science✨️
🎄 And a wee Science Pressie for you in the comments - perfect for rainy days & cosy together time 😍🔎🧪
✨️Sparkles & Science✨️
🎄 And a wee Science Pressie for you in the comments - perfect for rainy days & cosy together time 😍🔎🧪
Mon the Libraries!
📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.
December 22, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Mon the Libraries!
Welcome back to The Daily Dot!
In this episode...How many lemons does it take to power an iPhone? 👀🍋
There's only 1 way to find out...!
#TryIt #science #ScienceAtHome
In this episode...How many lemons does it take to power an iPhone? 👀🍋
There's only 1 way to find out...!
#TryIt #science #ScienceAtHome
December 19, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Welcome back to The Daily Dot!
In this episode...How many lemons does it take to power an iPhone? 👀🍋
There's only 1 way to find out...!
#TryIt #science #ScienceAtHome
In this episode...How many lemons does it take to power an iPhone? 👀🍋
There's only 1 way to find out...!
#TryIt #science #ScienceAtHome
The other day I came across a thread on FB which was sceptical of the COVID-19 vaccine. I knew some of the people & their view surprised me a bit, which inspired today's Daily Dot.
Always be kind & be respectful ❤️
Always be kind & be respectful ❤️
December 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
The other day I came across a thread on FB which was sceptical of the COVID-19 vaccine. I knew some of the people & their view surprised me a bit, which inspired today's Daily Dot.
Always be kind & be respectful ❤️
Always be kind & be respectful ❤️
Chill-out time on today's Daily Dot!
What's your favourite relaxation tip? Let's build up a bank of these, we're in for a busy few weeks 💖
Aaaand breeaathe...
What's your favourite relaxation tip? Let's build up a bank of these, we're in for a busy few weeks 💖
Aaaand breeaathe...
December 13, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Chill-out time on today's Daily Dot!
What's your favourite relaxation tip? Let's build up a bank of these, we're in for a busy few weeks 💖
Aaaand breeaathe...
What's your favourite relaxation tip? Let's build up a bank of these, we're in for a busy few weeks 💖
Aaaand breeaathe...
This is such a busy time of year. But when is it not?!
✨️If you're a working parent with Primary/Elementary age kids✨️, constantly meeting yourself coming back & feeling a teensy bit frazzled,
I'm planning something special just for you in Jan
☺️.
Clues: 👩🔬🧪☺️!!
✨️If you're a working parent with Primary/Elementary age kids✨️, constantly meeting yourself coming back & feeling a teensy bit frazzled,
I'm planning something special just for you in Jan
☺️.
Clues: 👩🔬🧪☺️!!
December 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM
This is such a busy time of year. But when is it not?!
✨️If you're a working parent with Primary/Elementary age kids✨️, constantly meeting yourself coming back & feeling a teensy bit frazzled,
I'm planning something special just for you in Jan
☺️.
Clues: 👩🔬🧪☺️!!
✨️If you're a working parent with Primary/Elementary age kids✨️, constantly meeting yourself coming back & feeling a teensy bit frazzled,
I'm planning something special just for you in Jan
☺️.
Clues: 👩🔬🧪☺️!!
Hello & welcome to Wednesday's Daily Dot! In 2day's episode
🎯 Multitasking (in a chilled way)
🐎 New website progress
👩🔬 Dr Dot's Online Science Club (coming Jan 2025)!
I ❤️ science-ing!
How was your Wednesday?
🎯 Multitasking (in a chilled way)
🐎 New website progress
👩🔬 Dr Dot's Online Science Club (coming Jan 2025)!
I ❤️ science-ing!
How was your Wednesday?
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Hello & welcome to Wednesday's Daily Dot! In 2day's episode
🎯 Multitasking (in a chilled way)
🐎 New website progress
👩🔬 Dr Dot's Online Science Club (coming Jan 2025)!
I ❤️ science-ing!
How was your Wednesday?
🎯 Multitasking (in a chilled way)
🐎 New website progress
👩🔬 Dr Dot's Online Science Club (coming Jan 2025)!
I ❤️ science-ing!
How was your Wednesday?
Hello BlueSci! In today's episode of the Daily Dot...
🎯How walking helps me think
😍 New website coming
🧪 Want to do easy science at home? Launching 30 Jan!
👀 A q for you...should I re-start The Daily Dot?
🎯How walking helps me think
😍 New website coming
🧪 Want to do easy science at home? Launching 30 Jan!
👀 A q for you...should I re-start The Daily Dot?
December 10, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Hello BlueSci! In today's episode of the Daily Dot...
🎯How walking helps me think
😍 New website coming
🧪 Want to do easy science at home? Launching 30 Jan!
👀 A q for you...should I re-start The Daily Dot?
🎯How walking helps me think
😍 New website coming
🧪 Want to do easy science at home? Launching 30 Jan!
👀 A q for you...should I re-start The Daily Dot?
What an interesting and comforting article!
🎯If you love *doing* science but think you're crap at *writing* about it, you NEED to read this!
#organised
#ScienceIsAProcess
#WritingIsAProcess
🎯If you love *doing* science but think you're crap at *writing* about it, you NEED to read this!
#organised
#ScienceIsAProcess
#WritingIsAProcess
I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it
"So, there I sat, struggling to write these dreadful essays about literary motifs and themes. For hours, I stared at blank pages, trying to turn my scattered thoughts into fluent sentences."
www.science.org/content/arti...
"So, there I sat, struggling to write these dreadful essays about literary motifs and themes. For hours, I stared at blank pages, trying to turn my scattered thoughts into fluent sentences."
www.science.org/content/arti...
I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it
How this researcher found her way through the “chaotic jungle”
www.science.org
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM
What an interesting and comforting article!
🎯If you love *doing* science but think you're crap at *writing* about it, you NEED to read this!
#organised
#ScienceIsAProcess
#WritingIsAProcess
🎯If you love *doing* science but think you're crap at *writing* about it, you NEED to read this!
#organised
#ScienceIsAProcess
#WritingIsAProcess
Reposted by Dr Dot
Reposted by Dr Dot
Parents/carers of children taking their GCSEs in Science this year! You will no doubt buy them revision guides etc to help them pass their exams. For just 99p, why not buy them the Kindle edition of this, which provides knowledge and understanding not found in any modern textbook or revision guide:
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Parents/carers of children taking their GCSEs in Science this year! You will no doubt buy them revision guides etc to help them pass their exams. For just 99p, why not buy them the Kindle edition of this, which provides knowledge and understanding not found in any modern textbook or revision guide:
Hello science pals, let's grow our networks 👩🔬🌟
Looking for Science and physics people to connect with - Help please !
December 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Hello science pals, let's grow our networks 👩🔬🌟
🔎Do I have any science teachers in my new network over here?
🖐 Hi! Get this book!
😬 If you've ever had the fear "ooh I feel should know this but don't 😬"...
🎯 SORTED!!
🖐 Hi! Get this book!
😬 If you've ever had the fear "ooh I feel should know this but don't 😬"...
🎯 SORTED!!
Good morning science teachers! I've made lots of free teaching resources in the past which many of you have used. For a short time, I'm giving away Kindle editions of my book "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" If you'd like a copy, just let me know and I'll send you a link! alomshaha.com/portfolio/wh...
December 4, 2024 at 10:49 AM
🔎Do I have any science teachers in my new network over here?
🖐 Hi! Get this book!
😬 If you've ever had the fear "ooh I feel should know this but don't 😬"...
🎯 SORTED!!
🖐 Hi! Get this book!
😬 If you've ever had the fear "ooh I feel should know this but don't 😬"...
🎯 SORTED!!
Reposted by Dr Dot
My first TED-Ed video just passed 1 million views on YouTube! How/why did I make this video? Because @biologycarly.bsky.social did one & told me anybody is allowed to submit ideas, so I did it as a grad student. Give it a shot! It’s a really fun #SciComm experience! 🦑🐟🦈🐠🐡 youtu.be/qWyLtYrTLYo?...
The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman
YouTube video by TED-Ed
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
My first TED-Ed video just passed 1 million views on YouTube! How/why did I make this video? Because @biologycarly.bsky.social did one & told me anybody is allowed to submit ideas, so I did it as a grad student. Give it a shot! It’s a really fun #SciComm experience! 🦑🐟🦈🐠🐡 youtu.be/qWyLtYrTLYo?...
Reposted by Dr Dot
Can we do a #DisabledInSTEM role call please? What's your area of study/work?
I'm Zoë. I've got ADHD and experience anxiety regularly because of it. I'm an analytical scientist, and now manage laboratory facilities at the OU, helping others do their science.
Would love to hear from you all.
I'm Zoë. I've got ADHD and experience anxiety regularly because of it. I'm an analytical scientist, and now manage laboratory facilities at the OU, helping others do their science.
Would love to hear from you all.
November 27, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Can we do a #DisabledInSTEM role call please? What's your area of study/work?
I'm Zoë. I've got ADHD and experience anxiety regularly because of it. I'm an analytical scientist, and now manage laboratory facilities at the OU, helping others do their science.
Would love to hear from you all.
I'm Zoë. I've got ADHD and experience anxiety regularly because of it. I'm an analytical scientist, and now manage laboratory facilities at the OU, helping others do their science.
Would love to hear from you all.