María Ordovás-Montañés

A burning scent signals me to turn towards the stove. —"Toaster Problem" by @m_ordv fiveminutelit.com/toaster-problem

I was interviewed for the Out There podcast a while ago, and it was just released today! The story is about one person's experience at the intersection of exercise and being AuDHD. It's definitely an intersection near and dear to my heart. outtherepodcast.com/episodes/fkt

Congratulations to Maria Ordovas-Montanes @m_ordv who has set the Fastest Known Time (female) for the Oxford Green Belt Way, running the route in 17h 51m 1s. #fkt #fastestknowntime #oxfordgreenbelt #oxfordgreenbeltway @FastestKnown

Thanks to @morethanadodo and @NHM_London for conveniently choosing the same color palette in your Drawn to Nature and Drawing Life events this week! I enjoyed developing my observational skills with art in natural history settings.

Something very tiny for day 3 of our Advent Calendar! The King Lab works with microscopic nematodes, C. elegans, which are useful models in genetics, development, and infection. The red dye shows the nuclei and the green is GFP being expressed from a histone-coding gene. @m_ordv

@verissimodiogo @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet @TuftsCHDept We had both planned and unplanned visits to #BacterialWorld by a range of people with and without science background. Average visit time for those interviewed was 20 mins and unsurprisingly the visitors who planned ahead were more likely to spend longer in the exhibit.

@m_ordv @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet @TuftsCHDept Hard thing about post only surveys is that there is no way to know if/how things changed as no comparison point.. Maybe the people who came to the exhibition already were incredibly excited by bacteria? Self selection bias is always a big concern to me.

Hello, I'm @m_ordv - I'm an @OxZooDept DPhil student & I've just finished an internship in the Public Engagement team @morethanadodo where I evaluated #BacterialWorld - their previous exhibition. Over the next few days feel free to #askmeanything

@verissimodiogo @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet @TuftsCHDept Big take-away for me: the capacity of art to communicate science. Viewing @ELINtm Petri dish crochet & @LukeJerram sculptures made visitors see bacteria are everywhere! Also, visitors use personification to discuss the microscopic and like components most relevant to their lives

@m_ordv @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet @TuftsCHDept Cool! So you were comparing before and after data? How was the sampling for the interviews done? Very curious to see the results

You can #askmeanything about how I learned to do #visitorresearch and #museumevaluation for @morethanadodo or what we found out from visitors to #BacterialWorld

@verissimodiogo @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet @TuftsCHDept More specifically, we had interview questions that aligned with exhibit aims e.g. Understand more about where bacteria are, how they operate and that they bring many benefits as well as causing harm; Feel surprise and awe at the scale of bacteria’s influence on us and our planet

@verissimodiogo @morethanadodo @OxZooDept @IWTnet I learned about changing health knowledge, attitudes, and practices during my undergrad classes at @TuftsCHDept, though not scope of #BacterialWorld. @morethanadodo will post more on methods tomorrow - interviews, visitor tracking, component observation - both qual and quant data

@hmo13 @morethanadodo @OxZooDept Depends on your aims! Our simplest evaluation tool involved using sticky notes on a poster for visitors to leave feedback at end. Would have also been interesting to compare pre and post visit perceptions of bacteria

@morethanadodo @m_ordv @OxZooDept Easy evaluations of school groups / teachers and how to measure learning? So many ideas and I still haven’t found one that works well for me......

#Chapeau to the @HandleBards for their energetic, cycling-themed performance of #TheTempest - here is my review dailyinfo.co.uk/feature/15543/… #sustainabletheatre #Shakespeare #spokeswomen

Our work out today highlighting key cell subsets which emerge in ulcerative colitis, and the power of merging knowledge from population and single-cell genomics to map GWAS genes to "cells-of-action" in IBD with @broadinstitute @MassGeneralNews @MIT cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Check out my review of @kendalmountain Tour 2019. dailyinfo.co.uk/feature/15105/… #kendaltour19 #sharetheadventure @SteveScott_KMF @TheNorthWall @polarben @TimKemple @KrystleWright @BrenOrton18 @DanDuxbury @rickeygates @Dean_Leslie

“Only call in an emergency” cautioned our pregnant landlord. Faucet erupts, gushing steaming water. Husband answers phone. “Can it wait? Pam’s water just broke...” #GWstorieseverywhere

Here is my review for Friday’s Stand-up Literature at ⁦@blackwelloxford⁩ ... 📚 🍻 🎤 ⁦@justconor87⁩ ⁦@ChloeJacobsLol⁩ ⁦@DanSquire007⁩ ⁦⁦@LouiseBastock⁩ @Alex_Farrow⁩ ⁦@ComedyJericho⁩ #review67728" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dailyinfo.co.uk/feature/15038/…

@ordovas_phd @Caroline_Bartma Edit: and now that you don’t have to divide, you can be G0

@ordovas_phd @Caroline_Bartma And now that you don’t have to divide, you can be good