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Hana Ayoob
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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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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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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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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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I’m sorry you need it too but hope it helps. Here’s another one I made last week ❤️
Sketchy digital illustration with big pink and green letters saying ‘nobody expects as much from you as you expect from yourself’ with a crow turning to look at the letters. There are paisley like flourishes around the text and a scalloped border.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 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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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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Recently finished the beaut
Little handmade book - the cover is made from the packaging for ‘5 full briefs’ with botanical images on the front. Staggered pages create a layered effect showing blue patterned scallops, a leaf, the words ‘the petrichor’
October 22, 2025 at 6:38 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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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
October 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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My father is a ridiculous human
WhatsApp message from Dad ‘New River Coots very pleased to see me again....all this year's Cooties have left the nest and gone to University...except for Derek he fell in with a bad gang of Moorhens and ended up convicted of Fowl play....’
September 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Science folks who were active on the other site - can anyone remember who made the edited version of this?! 🧪

I don’t think it was me but honestly it could’ve been 🙈
Text ‘the world needs science, science needs women’ with 5 pictures of women doing science - all are white with brown hair ans slim and might even all be the same person The same image edited to include a range of skin tones and hair colours (including blue). One woman has been made larger and another uses a wheelchair.
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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We had a bumper plum harvest from the garden today so I decided to make a plum crumble.

But then I had to make an apple crumble too because my father is a ridiculous human

So then we had two types of crumble and they were both amazing!
Text from my dad ‘No.... apple crumble is sacrosanct ....other crumbles are godless, alien desserts....not patriotic puddings...’
September 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Monday morning metaphors
Hana’s hand picking up a glass hourglass - the base has come away, spilling green sand around it
September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Cut all the circles and punched all the holes! And have made myself a little kit for the rest of the stitching ❤️
A little transparent pink trimmed zipper pouch. A bobbin of thread and an awl are just visible
August 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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And it was possible! Even if I chose thread that was incredibly difficult to work with.

This particular thread reminds me so much of Indian textiles so it feels appropriate! #SciArt

Now to make a bunch more of these!
Hana holds up a small circle of astronomy plate with a circular mandala embroidered on it in a metallic multicoloured thread - the design is very geometric
August 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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And then because I am a mixed media artist to a fault and astronomy film wasn’t unusual in and of itself - I decided to try embroidering it

So I tried making holes… lots of them #SciArt
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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And that got me thinking about @astrosadie.bsky.social & co ‘giving away the universe to artists’

Could I make mini mandalas of some sort from the plates? Step one was seeing if I could cut circles out of them #SciArt
An astronomical plate (similar to an X-ray film) with circles cut out of it and the circles next to it on a work bench with an orange circle cutter and cutting mat
August 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Unfinished story time!

Many years ago, I received a few astronomy plates as part of this #SciArt project at Southampton

www.phys.soton.ac.uk/getinvolved/...
A square astronomy plate with details around the border held up to a wall. You can just see Hana’s reflection in it
August 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Leaving my 10th BIG Event as the incoming Chair of @big-stem-network.bsky.social

Not bad for someone who was told SciComm was probably ‘too competitive a career for someone like you’ 15 years ago.

Here’s to the next year of BIG!
Hana wearing a black tshirt which says badass science lady, a rainbow pencil necklace, traditional Indian earrings and a brightly patterned skirt in oranges and blues The royal institution logo and motto is above her
July 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Zoning in (TFL joke anyone?) on #BIGEvent25 with @acescicomm.bsky.social & @marinemumbles.bsky.social

I’ve got a full house this week!
Hana in a dress with fungi and moths, Sarah in a green alligator print shirt and Elizabeth Sat on a train
July 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Jewellery close up - on today’s #SciComm link, I bought the sun & moon when I was delivering moon related art workshops
An acrylic necklace of 3 parrots linked together and gold sun and silver moon earrings with faces
July 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Today’s #NerdyLooks prompt was ‘bright’ and Sarah & I (and my house) delivered!

@acescicomm.bsky.social
Sarah, who has short pink hair and fair skin, wearing a bright greeny patterned shirt and lime green trousers with yellow jellyfish earrings and Hana, who has curly shoulder length dark hair and light brown skin, wearing a long white yellow red and green floral dress with sun and moon earrings and a large parrot necklace
July 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Lil crab has a message for you!

Sticker by @canopyrobin.com
Crab badge by me
A little diamond painted red crab with their arms up next to a sticker which says Real Allies Take Action with a QR code which links to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZAjjmevpxL6lgopbi69q04qsPvMHEyTo6UD9s7SdNE8/edit?usp=drivesdk
July 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Day 1 of #NerdyLooks this week and the prompt is ‘spark!’

I went with double octopuses (cos they’re bright sparks 😂) and these little embroidered lightning bolt earrings.

The bright green also feels sparky!

Feel free to join in with the prompts at any time this week ⚡️
Hana, a brown woman with shoulder length hair, wearing black glasses, pink lightning bolt earrings, a green octopus necklace, pink octopus tshirt and green trousers A close up of the green octopus acrylic necklace (which needs a clean) and embroidered and beaded pink lightning bolt stud earrings
July 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Hey artist! Quote with your woman art ✊🏼

#SciArt 🐍
A drawing of an Indian Medusa from the shoulders up. She has range of different snakes, all different Indian species, coming out of her head and messy brown hair. They are all intricately patterned. She has large staring eyes, painted lips, gold jimkhi earrings, a snake decorated gold collar necklace, and she’s wearing a green sari with gold trim. The sari is decorated with scaly patterns, snakes, flowers and snake eyes.
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM