Gabrielle Beans
@gabbybeans.bsky.social
Science communicator, research manager, photographer with a background studying the evolutionary biology of penguins, now based in Umeå, Sweden after a life of moving hither and thither. Now: IceLab, Curiosum. Alum: Santa Fe Institute, Massey University.
This is how we do science!
Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇
Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇
Seeing science in a new light: take your time!
Five participants talk about their experiences at IceLab Camp.
www.umu.se/en/feature/g...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #complexity #complexsystems #researchschool #multidisciplinary #researchculture
Five participants talk about their experiences at IceLab Camp.
www.umu.se/en/feature/g...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #complexity #complexsystems #researchschool #multidisciplinary #researchculture
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is how we do science!
Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇
Wrote a piece on our way of launching collaborations in science, check it out 👇
Teaching at @icelabumu.bsky.social Camp (multidisciplinary research proposal workshop for early career researchers) last week. One night planned electrical work in the town of Granö afforded us rare dark skies. Here you see three students enjoying the light show. Amazing. #northernlights #photosky
September 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Teaching at @icelabumu.bsky.social Camp (multidisciplinary research proposal workshop for early career researchers) last week. One night planned electrical work in the town of Granö afforded us rare dark skies. Here you see three students enjoying the light show. Amazing. #northernlights #photosky
A fascinating lecture on terraforming ecosystems! You can find it online here: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne...
It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last!
#complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering
It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last!
#complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering
September 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A fascinating lecture on terraforming ecosystems! You can find it online here: www.umu.se/en/icelab/ne...
It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last!
#complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering
It was very rewarding to organize @icelabumu.bsky.social's first public lecture - it certainly won't be the last!
#complexsystems #sciencecommunication #bioengineering
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
August 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
NOW SEEKING POSTDOCS - the 6th call for IceLab Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellows funded by Kempestiftelserna is open! Apply now for 3 fellowships with six exciting research projects to choose from: www.umu.se/en/work-with...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social #postdoc #scisky #postdocfellows
Are you an early career researcher who wants to learn what it takes to collaborate across boundaries and launch interdisciplinary projects that get funded? Join me, @grocherros.bsky.social + @mrosvall.bsky.social in @icelabumu.bsky.social CAMP in September!
#PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋
#PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋
IceLab Camp: FREE #TRAINING for #PhD students and #Postdocs eager to explore science across boundaries! Learn how to ask questions, craft interdisciplinary research proposals & have fun doing it.
September 23–26 near Umeå
Apply by June 9 www.umu.se/en/icelab/ca...
#complexsystems #complexityschool
September 23–26 near Umeå
Apply by June 9 www.umu.se/en/icelab/ca...
#complexsystems #complexityschool
May 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Are you an early career researcher who wants to learn what it takes to collaborate across boundaries and launch interdisciplinary projects that get funded? Join me, @grocherros.bsky.social + @mrosvall.bsky.social in @icelabumu.bsky.social CAMP in September!
#PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋
#PhDSky #SciSky #PhDCourse #Complexity 🦋
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety:
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins
🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage
📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly
Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
Need a break from bad news? Work? Take a breather and enjoy the best Slow TV Sweden has to offer - watch moose migrate live. Check it out! #älgvandringen
Fin text i Guardian om Den stora Älgvandringen. Kul de även låter medieforskare kommentera slow television. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration
Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmon
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Need a break from bad news? Work? Take a breather and enjoy the best Slow TV Sweden has to offer - watch moose migrate live. Check it out! #älgvandringen
Did you know that a tree's sense of the length of a day has a genetic component - and that that can be tweaked to extend its growing season? No? Neither did I until I chatted with Bertold Mariën and @treesandgrowth.bsky.social about their work. Read: www.umu.se/en/news/adju...
April 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Did you know that a tree's sense of the length of a day has a genetic component - and that that can be tweaked to extend its growing season? No? Neither did I until I chatted with Bertold Mariën and @treesandgrowth.bsky.social about their work. Read: www.umu.se/en/news/adju...
Stepping away into nature helps with the overwhelm, whether it's your job, hectic family life, the news. I'm so lucky to live in a place where stepping into nature looks like this.
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky
March 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Stepping away into nature helps with the overwhelm, whether it's your job, hectic family life, the news. I'm so lucky to live in a place where stepping into nature looks like this.
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky
When things are too busy and the world seems to be burning down...take a break. Seriously work is non-stop, the news is 💩 and I had no time for this ice dip and sauna session. There's never time though - so I just took the time. First time I dipped my head. I needed this.. #isvak #umeå
March 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
February 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes
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February 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
Huh, this was quoted in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Huh, this was quoted in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
Inside the lobby at NSF…
February 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Inside the lobby at NSF…
Listened to this this morning on John Oliver. It's in my head. The power of music and poetry and humor to process hard things is awesome. Everyone should sing this at protests...
John Oliver played the Hostile Government Takeover and I'm not not saying you could leave it on your legislators voice mails
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youtu.be/9rgHC9P7FjI
🙃 (Hostile Government Takeover song from TikTok)
YouTube video by A Gift From Todd
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February 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Listened to this this morning on John Oliver. It's in my head. The power of music and poetry and humor to process hard things is awesome. Everyone should sing this at protests...
Our double waffle maker at work for my fika week! Doesn't look super appetizing here but they are nice and crunchy and thin. Which are your favorite waffles - Swedish, Belgian (Liege or Brussels), or the American style? I'm team crunchy all the way. Even better with #västerbottenost + #hjörtronsylt
#FridayFika and @gabbybeans.bsky.social and Hugo Harlin served up Valentine's waffles and some fikabröd in IceLab this afternoon. Nice and crunchy, with raspberry jam and strawberries. Love to all the #science and #waffle lovers out there!
February 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our double waffle maker at work for my fika week! Doesn't look super appetizing here but they are nice and crunchy and thin. Which are your favorite waffles - Swedish, Belgian (Liege or Brussels), or the American style? I'm team crunchy all the way. Even better with #västerbottenost + #hjörtronsylt
A friend of mine has a personal contact with Alabama representatives and will send a personal message regarding #NIH #indirect funding cuts. She is looking for personal stories of the effects of science funding cuts on individual people, particularly if they are in Alabama! Share, I'll pass them.
an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything
ALT: an older man with a beard and mustache says tell me everything
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Maybe now is the time to start up a collection of research that seemed 'pointless' to some and wound up being generally valuable to many people. Gila monsters and ozempic, bacterial warfare against viruses and CRISPR... fundamental curiosity in understanding our world - SCIENCE - needs protecting.
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Maybe now is the time to start up a collection of research that seemed 'pointless' to some and wound up being generally valuable to many people. Gila monsters and ozempic, bacterial warfare against viruses and CRISPR... fundamental curiosity in understanding our world - SCIENCE - needs protecting.
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article)
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Just a bridge. In Umeå. In January. On a cold sunny morning.
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just a bridge. In Umeå. In January. On a cold sunny morning.
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå
I must admit I was not mentally prepared for the total upheaval of this second T#€%p term - cutting aid, science funding, DEI initiatives, all the people put on leave, this is chaos and so damaging not just in the short but also long term. Carl Zimmer does a great job here summarizing some of it
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I must admit I was not mentally prepared for the total upheaval of this second T#€%p term - cutting aid, science funding, DEI initiatives, all the people put on leave, this is chaos and so damaging not just in the short but also long term. Carl Zimmer does a great job here summarizing some of it
This was a nice release from work stress today! Josephine at IceLab is so good at finding ways of pushing us all out of our grooves. Joint poetry writing as a little bit of whimsy and release. I liked the bat poem until it took a dark turn... see below!
What happens when you ask a bunch of computational life science researchers to write poems together? At today's #FridayFika in IceLab Josephine Solowiej-Wedderburn brought cranachan in to share in honor of Robert Burns day tomorrow, and led us in a creative poem writing exercise. Unspool the 🧵 👇
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This was a nice release from work stress today! Josephine at IceLab is so good at finding ways of pushing us all out of our grooves. Joint poetry writing as a little bit of whimsy and release. I liked the bat poem until it took a dark turn... see below!
Quick plug for my fantastic friend @anapineda.bsky.social. We went to university together and she was by far the most talented, organized and diligent student in our biology degree. I believe students are STILL passing around photocopies of her class notes. She's here to help you focus + write! 👇
TODAY is the last day to join The Thriving Scientist and get as a BONUS our virtual writing retreat. A special event about storytelling and how to sprinkle it all around your papers and proposals ✨ Interested? All the info 👇🏼 https://buff.ly/4h3nJLa #ECRchat #NewPI #AcademicSky #AcWri
January 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Quick plug for my fantastic friend @anapineda.bsky.social. We went to university together and she was by far the most talented, organized and diligent student in our biology degree. I believe students are STILL passing around photocopies of her class notes. She's here to help you focus + write! 👇
Interesting to see that the news wins over social media as a way to come across information in science in Sweden. Even more so in Finland, and comparable in Denmark and Norway. I wonder why this is the case in the Nordics? I'll be sharing this preprint with my #scicomm #phd students in April! #tisp
New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎
➡️ osf.io/preprints/os...
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➡️ osf.io/preprints/os...
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January 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Reposted by Gabrielle Beans
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊