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Scarlett Li-Williams

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Science Communications, Education & Engagement Illustrator✏️ Writer✍️ Presenter🎤 Artist 🎨 Biologist 🧪 | Space Nerd 🛰 Wildlife Photographer 📷 www.skyplumstudios.com All views & opinions are my own 🌈

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Nov 26

Updated intro👋

I'm a #SciComm & STEM ed specialist! Lapsed geneticist 🧪

🧬Science Communicator @ University of Cambridge

🛰Space Comms Presenter @ National Space Centre

🎨Freelancer

Excited to connect with creatives, scientists, educators!

Will block accounts that seem like bots/spam messaging me

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · Aug 30

For over 25 years, science and discovery centres have been at the heart of inspiring millions of people to explore, question, and be part of UK science and technology.

But they're seriously under threat… 1/3

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · 23d

Autumn is coming 🎃 🍁

#CatsOfBluesky 🐈‍⬛ #cat

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Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) @sciencecentres.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you to our patron @profaliceroberts.bsky.social for sharing our open letter.

Science and discovery centres are facing a lack of financial support. We are calling on the Government to implement policy changes that safeguard the sector's future.

Sign it ⬇️
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter/

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Brendan Burns @brendanburns999.bsky.social · Jul 23

This was a truly collaborative effort spanning multiple labs and institutions….many hands picking the Asgard fruit. Recognising Indigenous knowledge and culture from #SharkBay in the naming of novel organism. Brief summary and shout out to @scarlettlw.bsky.social for some cool stromatolite art...

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · May 16

Watching this last night at the Pheonix Cinema & Art Centre moved me (and the stranger next to me) to tears.

I cannot recommend watching this enough - powerful documentary with Attenborough

I will be waiting to see the outcomes of the June UN Ocean Conference in a few weeks!

#scicomm #fish 🧪 🐡

Ticket to see Ocean with David Attenborough and a booklet. Seen at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happy (very belated) tardigrade day! Completely forgot to post on actual tardigrade day - but better late than never!

Resharing this blog I wrote and illustrated for the National Space Centre on this fantastic little creatures:

www.spacecentre.co.uk/news/space-n...

#scicomm #sciart 🧪

Tardigrades – The Ultimate Survivors?

These small earth-dwelling creatures can out-survive us in many apocalyptic scenarios, and might unlock the code to our space survival.

www.spacecentre.co.uk

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 28

Yes! Can confirm it was backgammon 😆

Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 28

Definitely, and the chair he sat in to write the Origin of Species! Our incredibly knowledgeable guide Kim said some people would travel far and wide to see the study - and would cry once seeing it. I completely forgot to mention the Sandwalk walking path, you’re right, was serene 😊

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 28

I was lucky enough to be invited on a tour with some other Cambridge SciComm folks over the weekend to the Down House - the home of Charles #Darwin!

I saw where he did some experiments in the house & in the garden 🪴, as well as the bedroom he died in!

Highly recommend visiting!
#scicomm 🧪

Photo of the Down House, home of Charles Darwin

Photo of part of Charles Darwin’s garden

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 12

These two had the right weekend vibe last night

#cats #catsofbluesky 🐈

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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · Apr 11

So very hyped that @nature.com made a video about our study on microplastic in caddisfly casings! 😱🎥

Watch it preferably next to a creek... some of them might want to tune in too. 🍿🐛

Microplastic pollution found in insect casing from 1971

YouTube video by nature video

www.youtube.com

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 10

Wilder, S.M. and Simpson, S.J., 2022. A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider. Food Webs, 32, p.e00236.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A vertebrate, the fence skink, is a common but relatively low-quality prey for an invertebrate predator, the redback spider

Many predators feed on a diversity of prey items and the traits of these prey can affect their quality for predators. While invertebrate predators mos…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 10

Spotted this fence skink on a fence!

Fun fact (source in replies)!

🕷️ A recent study found these skinks, Cryptoblepharus virgatus, are considered low quality prey for redback spiders…

#SciComm #wildlife #photography 🧪

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Grey-headed Flying-fox

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 9

A Grey-headed Flying-fox I spotted in a Sydney park!

Couple fun facts (sources & info in replies)

🦇They are one of Australia's largest bats

🌿 They play an important role in pollination & seed dispersal, connecting forest fragments & help with forest regeneration

#SciComm #wildlife #photography 🧪

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 8

Went to Nice in France last month & had a little museum & gallery crawl. This is a great small archaeological museum (name in image), and is a site-museum!

Great displays on the historical timelines of the site, and loved the hologram projection - great tool for #scicomm visual storytelling!🧪 🐡

The entrance to Musée de Terra Amata Prehistoire

Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Apr 7

Went to Bradgate Park over the weekend and loved their new information instillations & displays around the park! These boards tell the history of the ruins using fantastic engagement elements - like this turning photo wheel that utilises the spring sunshine!

It has given me a new #scicomm idea! 💡🐡

An interactive turn board of photographs on a display

A display in Bradgate park showing information on Bradgate house

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Mar 6

Had a fab time today visiting IOPPN King’s College London for the first time! Got some filming & interviewing done 🎥 for a video project I’ve been working & collaborating on the last few months (stayed tuned!).

Even got some rare sunshine ☀️

#scicomm 🧠

Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Jan 26

Ah thanks Lindsey- when I woke up this morning I thought the bots had come for me! But actually found some incredible new people in the science & med spheres with the influx 😌

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · Jan 24

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Jan 25

Had a great time doing shrub removal at Stonesby Quarry for the LRWT Wildlife Trust 🦡 yesterday!

This site is known for wildflowers, butterflies & glowworms!

LRWT Team Wilder resources has great tips for helping UK wildlife 🐝 🦡 & the planet 🌏:
www.lrwt.org.uk/actions

#conservation #scicomm

Two shadows on the ground with shrubs and blackthorn stumps

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 13

The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you | Patrick Schröder

As commercial space activity ramps up, detritus from launches poses a risk to active satellites and those of us down on Earth Last month, people in a small village in Kenya looked to the sky and saw a red glowing ring slowly descending. The half-tonne…

www.theguardian.com

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Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Jan 13

She’s finally finished! A portrait I’ve been working on whilst commuting - belated gift for a family member!

#dog #art 🐶

Scarlett Li-Williams @scarlettlw.bsky.social · Jan 12

Illustrated by Holly Exley with tree facts by Tony Kirkham. Produced by Laurence King in collab w/the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew!

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