Kirra Coates

"[Science communication] is not just a matter of translating jargon into plain language ... the key is getting the public to realize that science is a work in progress, an honorably self-correcting endeavor carried out in good faith." fcld.ly/v9y219e #ScienceEditorial

Very excited to have my first paper out! Grateful to my supervisors who helped me through the writing process

The world may change and evolve, but the one thing that will never change: we’re all part of one big family.

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? theguardian.com/science/2017/j… - an eye-opening read!

Weirdly excited for this one - read a lot about this guy while doing my research! Excited to see this.

Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds.

This is my favourite thing right now. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/09…

Tuning into Bake Off every week despite everything else that’s going on in the world #GBBO

If my A level grades had been awarded by algorithm this year I wouldn’t have got into @Cambridge_Uni Alumni please sign this open letter demanding offers are honoured for state school students - you interviewed them so know them better than the algorithm! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Objects in our collection that have killed Sean Bean – a thread. Happy #YorkshireDay everyone.

This is why I love #scicomm - give me the science in the things that I love.

@StuNattrass @KEHplantsci That sounds delightful!! I'll have to find it

@KCoatesSciComm @KEHplantsci I recently read To Be Taught, If Fortunate and the entire cast is people just doing the best science they can within the structures provided to them. It's basically a love letter to science if it hadn't been made competitive

I'm still working with my dataset, and I'd love to know if people have examples of fictional characters who show that science can be cool without breaking the rules? I'm a little tired of looking at all these morally ambiguous/ethically challenged scientist characters.

@BioScienceMum Oh yes, wonderfully weird and fantastically empathetic Abby, I forgot about her!!

@KimChandler1407 @burgess4mation Hiro makes their suits at home, so there is less rules to break in that I reckon 🤔 they're otherwise all doing uni sanctioned research, so the non superhero applications must be ethically approved... I feel like I'm thinking too hard about this, haha 😅😂

@KCoatesSciComm @burgess4mation yes him! Well they use the lab to make superhero suits etc. Don't know if that counts as breaking rules haha

@KimChandler1407 @burgess4mation Tadashi Hamada, he definitely fits!! 😊 The others of his lab don't appear to break rules with their science, I would say? Just how they use it? Comic book sciencey is always a little hand wavy...

@KCoatesSciComm @burgess4mation what about the older brother in the disney/marvel film Big Hero 6? Although the rest of the characters do a lot of rule breaking..

@DrMJBunting @KEHplantsci Oooh, I've never heard of either of them! I'll check them out. 😊

@KCoatesSciComm @KEHplantsci I liked The Naturalists - a botanical novel by Diane Smith. And depending on what you mean by science and rules, Patricia C Wredes Frontier Magic was a YA series with very scientific behaviour in a fantasy setting...

@g_efthimiou @KEHplantsci I loved her as a character! She's not been mentioned much at all in this set, and it's a shame.

@KCoatesSciComm @KEHplantsci Dr. Grace Augustine from Avatar?

The conservatives have a survey to judge the public response to their racist immigration bill, but advertising only to supporters. Only 4 questions, seconds to do #ToryRacism #EndRacism action.conservatives.com/immigration-bi…

@KEHplantsci @haematologyem It was brilliant to take part in this! Hope I can share more on how my research has shaped up in the future. 😊

@KCoatesSciComm and I (+ mini plantsci) enjoyed presenting a session on Questionnaire based projects to #DryLabsRealScience this afternoon, including data from @haematologyem project. Slides at docs.google.com/presentation/d… and will share resources later #AcademicParent