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Ali J. Birkett
@alijbirkett.bsky.social
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Always curious and usually wearing walking boots! Science Engagement Producer with a PhD in dung beetles. Fascinated by natural world, geography, STEM discoveries, where our food comes from, and social history. #SciComm (She/her)
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Sharing STEM stories (science, technology, engineering and maths) with people is such a joy! 😁

It's a privilege to be part of the Edinburgh Science events development team... and to moonlight as one of our science communicators at my third Edinburgh Science Festival opening party!
#SciComm #STEM
Ali in a ocean blue tshirt talking enthusiastically with a group of adults building small robots at an activity table Ali in a ocean blue tshirt talking enthusiastically with a group of people building small robots at an activity table
April 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I'm fascinated by how engineers are improving sustainablity and welfare in #food by 'making the invisible visible' to producers.
👏 Thanks @cynthianaydani.bsky.social, Dave Scott, Ken Loades, Chris Jones, Susannah Bolton and Ross Robertson for teaching me, and to Elsie the cow of course 🐄! #SciComm
Ali, wearing a dark green Edinburgh Science branded tshirt, stands grinning beside a life-sized model of a brown and white Ayrshire dairy cow, with the glass roof of an exhibition gallery in view behind her
January 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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I've been out of the field lab for a long while. Who are the #DungBeetle researchers in #Farming and #ecology and #biogeography to follow on here to get me up to speed?

#AlwaysCurious #biodiversity #SustainableFarming #insect #invertebrate #entomology
A large shiny dung beetle about the size of a the face of a digital wrist watch sits on the side of someone's hand. On its right, its black wing case is open and it's stretching its delicate looking transparent wing out to the side
November 26, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Ah the things you find yourself doing for work! 🤷 What are you doing with your Thursday afternoon?
#SciComm #PublicEngagement #Events #Science #Pollinators
Hands cutting hundreds of cotton "ear cleaning buds" in half. Behind is a plastic tray containing artificial apple flowers with ear buds for stamens, and a pot of artists' paintbrushes
October 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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I watched this film about work Lake District Farmers are doing investigating financial and nature implications of regenerative farming, with ICAEW and some of my old colleagues from Lancaster Uni. Fascinating!

📰 Details: www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us...
📽 Film: www.icaew.com/technical/su...
Screenshot webpage with 4 minute film waiting to play. Text reads "Making COP count: From farm to financial statement. Lancaster University and meat processors Lake District Farmers are seeking to equip local farms with evidence that regenerative practices benefit both nature and the bottom line".
December 18, 2023 at 8:19 AM
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Hello! Excited to find people on here!

I'm a former field ecology / biogeography researcher and "dung beetle botherer", now working full time in science communication, helping to share the science stories of others. Day-job with Edinburgh Science, by "night" sharing science at music festivals!
A dung beetle walking on a person's hand in a green hilly landscape Ali stood outside a brightly coloured stall at Glastonbury Festival sharing conversation with people about science
October 24, 2023 at 10:16 AM