Jessamyn Fairfield
@jessamynfairfield.bsky.social
Scientist, writer, intersectional feminist. Founding director of Bright Club Ireland and half of the Jess's's's. Wanderer, like a planet or a polar bear.
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Hello new followers! I am a scientist/artist focused on performing arts and public engagement. I also get mad about social justice and immigration (in a good way). And I train researchers to be better communicators, collaborators, and leaders.
Going on @newstalkfm.bsky.social shortly to speak about glacial retreat and what it means for mountain communities around the world. Listen in to #Futureproof here: www.goloudplayer.com/radio/newstalk
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Going on @newstalkfm.bsky.social shortly to speak about glacial retreat and what it means for mountain communities around the world. Listen in to #Futureproof here: www.goloudplayer.com/radio/newstalk
We've just had our wonderful first shows of 2025 for We Built This City on Rock and Coal up in Mayo and Donegal, and learned that the project is shortlisted for the #FallingWallsEngage award! Read about brilliant science engagement from around the world here: falling-walls.com/engage/short...
June 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We've just had our wonderful first shows of 2025 for We Built This City on Rock and Coal up in Mayo and Donegal, and learned that the project is shortlisted for the #FallingWallsEngage award! Read about brilliant science engagement from around the world here: falling-walls.com/engage/short...
So amazed by the @eusea.bsky.social community, and grateful for the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on improvised theatre for engagement with societal challenges based on our project 'We Built This City on Rock and Coal'. What a wonderful group of people bringing together science and arts!
May 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So amazed by the @eusea.bsky.social community, and grateful for the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on improvised theatre for engagement with societal challenges based on our project 'We Built This City on Rock and Coal'. What a wonderful group of people bringing together science and arts!
I was on the radio recently talking about Trump's war on science, a horrific attempt to dismantle the apparatus of science itself. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...
Building a super particle collider | Newstalk
Guests:Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of GalwayMedic and Immunologist Dr Lara Dungan...
www.newstalk.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I was on the radio recently talking about Trump's war on science, a horrific attempt to dismantle the apparatus of science itself. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...
Improv is amazing, and I'm really pleased to be bringing this workshop to @eusea.bsky.social exploring how we used improvised theatre to talk about the climate crisis in our show We Built This City on Rock and Coal!
🔎 What’s happening at #EUSEA25?
🎭 Improvised Theatre for Engagement with Societal Challenges
Explore how improv sparks collaboration, emotion, and science engagement! This workshop highlights its impact through We Built This City on Rock and Coal, tackling #climatechange.
euseaconf.eusea.info
🎭 Improvised Theatre for Engagement with Societal Challenges
Explore how improv sparks collaboration, emotion, and science engagement! This workshop highlights its impact through We Built This City on Rock and Coal, tackling #climatechange.
euseaconf.eusea.info
March 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Improv is amazing, and I'm really pleased to be bringing this workshop to @eusea.bsky.social exploring how we used improvised theatre to talk about the climate crisis in our show We Built This City on Rock and Coal!
Hard to know what to do in such "interesting times". We don't have control over a lot, but we can help others, so I'm heading back to Antarctica as faculty for Homeward Bound working with women and non-binary people on leadership for the greater good. A more just world is possible, if we make it!
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hard to know what to do in such "interesting times". We don't have control over a lot, but we can help others, so I'm heading back to Antarctica as faculty for Homeward Bound working with women and non-binary people on leadership for the greater good. A more just world is possible, if we make it!
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Gritty continues to be a real one
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Gritty continues to be a real one
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Universities aren't supposed to make money.
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Universities aren't supposed to make money.
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Have you ever wondered why should researchers do public engagement events have a read of @jessamynfairfield.bsky.social paper
If gaining communication skills, creative expression, and competence are not enough.
If done right like Bright Club it can be really good fun.
If gaining communication skills, creative expression, and competence are not enough.
If done right like Bright Club it can be really good fun.
It's fitting that this research is coming out now, as it's been about 10 years since I first emailed @drstevex.bsky.social for his advice on launching a Bright Club in Ireland. Here's the full paper (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 12, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Have you ever wondered why should researchers do public engagement events have a read of @jessamynfairfield.bsky.social paper
If gaining communication skills, creative expression, and competence are not enough.
If done right like Bright Club it can be really good fun.
If gaining communication skills, creative expression, and competence are not enough.
If done right like Bright Club it can be really good fun.
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At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
December 3, 2024 at 4:58 PM
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
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president tries to seize power in south korea? significant resistance. president tries to seize power in brazil? president is arrested and banned from running again. president tries to seize power in america? the courts grant him total immunity and the voters reelect him with an allied congress
December 3, 2024 at 5:23 PM
president tries to seize power in south korea? significant resistance. president tries to seize power in brazil? president is arrested and banned from running again. president tries to seize power in america? the courts grant him total immunity and the voters reelect him with an allied congress
This thread is 🔥🔥🔥
Even as someone who really advocated for data driven approach to ED&I, I stand with a level of cynicism today because it FAILS those who CANNOT be captured and described with the required statistical power.
It’s time to turn the focus on the workplace cultures pushing hard working women out. /5
It’s time to turn the focus on the workplace cultures pushing hard working women out. /5
December 1, 2024 at 8:23 AM
This thread is 🔥🔥🔥
Voting in #ge2024 was my first general election since I got Irish citizenship, and I have to say it was a way better experience than absentee voting in the last US election. PR-STV is great for voting your actual values, and no one is engaging in voter suppression? What a place!
November 30, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Voting in #ge2024 was my first general election since I got Irish citizenship, and I have to say it was a way better experience than absentee voting in the last US election. PR-STV is great for voting your actual values, and no one is engaging in voter suppression? What a place!
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...while most US anti-trans activism is steeped religious right framings, Mace's rhetoric lately (on gametes & her critics supposedly "silencing" her as a woman) sounds like she's been binging UK "gender critical" blogposts. those talking points debunked here:
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
A “Gender Critical” and “TERF” Primer
for readers trying to make sense of “feminists versus transgender activists” debates
juliaserano.medium.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM
...while most US anti-trans activism is steeped religious right framings, Mace's rhetoric lately (on gametes & her critics supposedly "silencing" her as a woman) sounds like she's been binging UK "gender critical" blogposts. those talking points debunked here:
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...
Hello new followers! I am a scientist/artist focused on performing arts and public engagement. I also get mad about social justice and immigration (in a good way). And I train researchers to be better communicators, collaborators, and leaders.
November 20, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Hello new followers! I am a scientist/artist focused on performing arts and public engagement. I also get mad about social justice and immigration (in a good way). And I train researchers to be better communicators, collaborators, and leaders.
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Sharing this great starter pack of PoC in SciComm. Already lots of great science communicators on it to follow (get in touch with @hanasciart.bsky.social to be added).
go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx
go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx
November 13, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Sharing this great starter pack of PoC in SciComm. Already lots of great science communicators on it to follow (get in touch with @hanasciart.bsky.social to be added).
go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx
go.bsky.app/MaDPSzx
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It's so important to vote in #Ireland #GE24. There are quite prominent racists going for TD seats in Ireland this time around and we need to make sure they don't get a seat. These are dangerous people who spread nothing but anti-immigration sentiment and stir extreme hate. Use your vote.
November 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Visiting rural communities to talk about climate action, I was unprepared for how many people brought up trains and buses as areas for improvement! But it makes sense, and you can see what learnings came through from all the Creative Climate Action projects here: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A call to climate action
What needs to happen to save ourselves, our species and planet? Eight climate-conscious individuals offer their take
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Visiting rural communities to talk about climate action, I was unprepared for how many people brought up trains and buses as areas for improvement! But it makes sense, and you can see what learnings came through from all the Creative Climate Action projects here: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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You! Yes you! Want to do awesome science 🧪? Get yourself some of the best and most enthusiastic collaborators through citizen science!
Check out my world view for @natureportfolio.bsky.social on chemistry ⚗️ citizen science. (I'm v.proud of the pun at the end!).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Check out my world view for @natureportfolio.bsky.social on chemistry ⚗️ citizen science. (I'm v.proud of the pun at the end!).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Citizen scientists can be chemists — give them a chance
When research on an intriguing material called for hundreds of samples, secondary-school students, teachers and technicians stepped up.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2024 at 6:04 AM
You! Yes you! Want to do awesome science 🧪? Get yourself some of the best and most enthusiastic collaborators through citizen science!
Check out my world view for @natureportfolio.bsky.social on chemistry ⚗️ citizen science. (I'm v.proud of the pun at the end!).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Check out my world view for @natureportfolio.bsky.social on chemistry ⚗️ citizen science. (I'm v.proud of the pun at the end!).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yesss Irish Bluesky assemble! I've been in Ireland for 13 years now working in science/arts at various unis, but am originally from New Mexico - weeks like this you can see why I stayed. Here is a gratuitous picture of me from when I got my dual citizenship:
November 8, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Yesss Irish Bluesky assemble! I've been in Ireland for 13 years now working in science/arts at various unis, but am originally from New Mexico - weeks like this you can see why I stayed. Here is a gratuitous picture of me from when I got my dual citizenship:
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Take the time to read Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottam today. Her take resonate’s deeply. (Gift Link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/o...
Opinion | What We Can Learn From How Kamala Harris Lost
Her loss is a sign that the age of identity politics is not over.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Take the time to read Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottam today. Her take resonate’s deeply. (Gift Link)
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/o...
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I wish I could say “I can’t fucking believe this” but I can fucking believe this.
November 6, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I wish I could say “I can’t fucking believe this” but I can fucking believe this.
How does participating in comedic public engagement events, like Bright Club Ireland, affect researchers who perform? I really wanted an answer to this question, because my gut feeling was that there's something extra that happens when you remix research into comedy.
November 1, 2024 at 11:39 AM
How does participating in comedic public engagement events, like Bright Club Ireland, affect researchers who perform? I really wanted an answer to this question, because my gut feeling was that there's something extra that happens when you remix research into comedy.