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Hana Ayoob
@hanaayoob.co.uk
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60% freelancer exploring & challenging science through art & events.
40% Patient & Public Involvement @britsocimm.bsky.social
100% nerd.
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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Nov 12
I've hit 2K so it feels like time for a proper intro!

Hi, I'm Hana! I've been a freelance SciCommer / Public Engagement person / Illustrator / Trainer for nearly 7 years (eek!)

In January I joined @britsocimm.bsky.social as their part time Patient & Public Involvement Manager .

More below 👇🏼
Hana in a sunflower pinafore pointing at a painting of a small-clawed otter on a massive screen Lots of people sat around crafting next to a Christmas tree. A sign says 'The magic of the moon workshop' Hana points at a slide which says Creative and practical both pointing at each other in a circle Drawing of Hana with lots of speech bubbles with question words including How? Who? When? What? Why? and Where?
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This week I’ve:
- drawn 2 colouring pgs
- facilitated a PPI meeting
- attended a policy roundtable
- read 70+ applications for a writing programme
- chaired a committee meeting
- designed up 2 conference posters
- a bunch of other things

While my body has been screaming.

0/10 Do not recommend
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Only 8 of the 20 pin, sticker, necklace, and patch designs I sell have ever made a profit. I would love to get that up to ten by the end of the year!
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canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 5d
One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Can’t tell if my body is screaming at me because of the cold or cos of something else. Only time will tell ⛄️
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Cooking away my woes
Pot of pasta and another of red sauce on a hob
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The closer you look, the better they get!🤩
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 5d
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Always be #CrabPosting
Drawing in white ink against a black background of 5 crabs hovering in a starry sky like constellations.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Just keep drawing
Doodles of repeated thick rounded purple squares in a grid. They’re outlined and decorated with stripes in red. There are red dots between the squares in a grid.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Just keep drawing
Doodles of repeated thick rounded purple squares in a grid. They’re outlined and decorated with stripes in red. There are red dots between the squares in a grid.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This is my biggest release ever but it's important to me to represent as many people as possible, especially considering how kind Dropout were to let me make them! I know that a lot of the more niche flags will never break even but I'm so happy to share them anyway.

We've been here the whole time.
Enamel pins in the shape of a Dropout Game Changer loop-de-loop, with the words "we've been here the whole time", in abrosexual, agender, altersex, aroace, aromantic, asexual, autigender, bigender, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, disability, gay man, genderfae, genderfaun, genderflor, gender fluid, genderflux, gender queer, intersex, lesbian, LGBTQ+, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, and trans pride colours
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!

Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...

My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Vinyl stickers in the shape of a Dropout Game Changer loop-de-loop, with the words "we've been here the whole time", in abrosexual, agender, altersex, aroace, aromantic, asexual, autigender, bigender, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, disability, gay man, genderfae, genderfaun, genderflor, gender fluid, genderflux, gender queer, intersex, lesbian, LGBTQ+, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, and trans pride colours
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Continuing to to dump my silly thoughts on to screen and paper
A two panel comic titled ‘confessions of an overachiever’ - panel one has a happy Hana (woman with wavy hair wearing purple glasses and earrings) thinking ‘I got so much done this afternoon!’. Panel 2 has a frowning Hana with a ‘1 minute later’ note thinking ‘I should have done more’
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Continuing to to dump my silly thoughts on to screen and paper
A two panel comic titled ‘confessions of an overachiever’ - panel one has a happy Hana (woman with wavy hair wearing purple glasses and earrings) thinking ‘I got so much done this afternoon!’. Panel 2 has a frowning Hana with a ‘1 minute later’ note thinking ‘I should have done more’
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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ScienceWrite is a mentoring scheme for aspiring and early-career minoritised and marginalised UK-based STEM writers, supported by @royalsociety.org and co-founded by @hanaayoob.co.uk @romatheengineer.bsky.social.

There's just a week to go until this year's deadline >>
hanaayoob.co.uk Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · Oct 20
ScienceWrite 2026 is open for applications! 🧪

Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again!

Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you!

Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk
A handdrawn laptop with 'Apply for sciencewrite' on the screen and 'Deadline 10am 17th November 2025, sciencewrite.co.uk' underneath
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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I find it fascinating that although whales are the largest animals on the planet there's a ton of species we just don't know much about.

There are 24 species of beaked whales and some have only been discovered in the last few decades.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Omg, someone just bought three and now my flower pins are in profit! This is so exciting 🥰
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Oct 20
Pride flowers anyone? These were inspired by the fact that 90% of flowering species have individual flowers that are both male and female 🌸 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4338...
enamel pins of flowers in pride colours for nonbinary, pan, bi, lgbtq, and trans. They are on backing cards that say "A perfect flower" and other text which is too small to read in the photo
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Snailposting! #SciArt
Pen drawing of a snail with a shell patterned with triangles and a textured body. Text labels it a GARDEN SNAIL, Cornu aspersum • Shell height: 25-35mm, width: 25-40mm • Varied habitats → gardens, parks, dunes, woods • Mainly nocturnal but comes out after rain during the day • can self-fertilise but usually mate in early summer • Native to Western Europe & the Med. • Eat trees, crops, flowers, rotting plant material + animal matter incl. crushed snails
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A pleasingly round and stripey snail.

The variations in background colour and stripes on its shell have been studied by geneticists and ecologists.

We salute your contributions to science, little snail pal!

#SciArt
Colour pencil drawing of a brown-lipped snail, Cepea nemoralis, and four empty shells demonstrating variations in the thickness of brown stripes on its yellow shell. The snail's shell is pleasingly rounded, and its body is a glistening slimey grey wedge-shape with little bumps all over. It has 2 long thin eyestalks, and 2 shorter ones. Adorable. A watermark in the corner reads @lycomorpha - lycomorpha.etsy.com.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Been thinking a lot about expectations, perfectionism and people pleasing recently

Inspired by britchida’s work
Collaged image - a stack of blocks labelled ‘what I expect of myself’ next to a few blocks, one lop sided, and a heart and star labelled ‘what I can achieve’
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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They might not be quite so obviously #SciArt as my botanical designs but I'm still tagging them for the feed. The people behind the science (and art) are important too!
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 19d
I was blown away by the response to my trans "It's Dr, Actually" pins so, by popular demand, I made nonbinary ones too. They were so successful, I've now expanded to a whole range of gender pride flag variants, as well as some plain and shimmery colour versions!
canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
Variations of a circular hard enamel pin that says "It's Dr, Actually" on different backgrounds. The backgrounds are nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, gender fluid, bigender, intersex, the progress pride flag, lesbian, black, white, hot pink, pearlescent dark purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. In the middle, it says canopyrobin.etsy.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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My lungs are grumpy af for no obvious reason & it always feels like some sort of ominous background music should be playing when they’re like this
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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When I released these last week I assumed they would lose me money – another passion project that people from a small niche would absolutely love but that wouldn't break even. Well, thanks to you lovely lot, I'm halfway there already! Please do keep sharing them with anyone who might like one 💚
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Oct 15
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!

Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Still obsessed with making random lil books
Hana holding a little booklet with layered pages, a semi circular page says ‘notes to myself’ in handwritten text on yellow and purple hand printed paper. Underneath peeks a colourful printed page edged in green washi tape with hand drawn scallops. There’s a ‘don’t forget’ sticker at the edge.
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Managing to reply to this juuuust before the end of #ADHDAwarenessMonth because... I have ADHD! Working on this book helped me reflect on my experiences and, after a LOT of forms and waiting lists, I now have a deeper understanding of my very own wonderful brain 😊🧠

Grateful for everyone @'d below ⬇️
aliceharman.bsky.social Alice Harman @aliceharman.bsky.social · Oct 1
It's #ADHDawarenessmonth and I couldn't let it go by without mentioning All Brains Are Wonderful! 🧠 I loved editing this brilliant book and working with @thereaderteacher.bsky.social , The Boy Fitz Hammond, @sciwithrach.bsky.social and @bsmallpublishing.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Oh great 🫠🏳️‍⚧️
Anyone want to buy some pins? canopyrobin.etsy.com
a screenshot of a notification saying "£191.85 is due for your prescription"
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I'm sharing these perfect pride flowers again because I only need to sell 10 more to break even on making them. That seems doable! Also I think they're pretty 😊 #SciArt
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Oct 20
Pride flowers anyone? These were inspired by the fact that 90% of flowering species have individual flowers that are both male and female 🌸 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4338...
enamel pins of flowers in pride colours for nonbinary, pan, bi, lgbtq, and trans. They are on backing cards that say "A perfect flower" and other text which is too small to read in the photo
October 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM