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Dr Sophia Komninou
@sophiakomninou.bsky.social
Academic @SwanseaUni public health nutrition, interested in the first 1000 days, research magpie, inclusive feminist, amateur ballet dancer & ballet geek, passionate about food, inter-crafter, curious, pretending adult. She/her
Not quite sure what extra information the interpreter can provide that deaf people cannot already read?
What am I missing here?
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My ceramic pumpkin is giving more Cinderella than Halloween and I am ok with that.
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you live in Wales consider signing this petition to ask the Welsh Government to continue funding Technocamps
I'm a current student in their introduction to Python course this semester and, trust me, they provide a fantastic value for money service for Wales!
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Petition: Continue funding Technocamps to provide the support that schools and teachers across Wales rely on.
Welsh Government has stopped funding Welsh universities (Technocamps) to support Welsh teachers, and instead is giving £1.4M to York University to provide on-line resources for this. This is outrageou...
petitions.senedd.wales
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I will give you a scary costume idea this Halloween! 🎃

An academic in UK higher education in 2025.

Pitch dark academia.

#academicsky #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I do hate it when I don't know what is the next right thing to do...
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That's probably the best picture of me even taken and it was from this random lady while I was minding my own business looking though the displays in the Archeological Museum in Thessaloniki.

What can I say? If the golden wreath fits...
October 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I came back home to a shattered inner pane of my window.

The internet says metal enclosure/manufacturing fault and I have already contacted my landlady who is sorting a replacement out but I can still hear more cracking happening and I am kind of terrified it will collapse into a heap 😬
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Just published! Supervised my student Chelsea's systematic review on foodborne infections in infant feeding.

I hope this helps improve safety protocols for vulnerable infants.

Paper is open access if anyone's interested in the full findings.

#academicsky

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40970506/?tr...
Foodborne Infections and Mortality Associated With Expressed Breastmilk, Donated Breastmilk, and Infant Formula in High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review of Peer-Reviewed Evidence Cases - PubMed
Infant feeding influences infant growth, development, survival, and long-term health. Maternal expressed breast milk (MEBM), donor human milk (DHM), and powdered infant formula (PIF) serve as alternat...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I have not written for @theconversation.com for a while but I am back taking a closer look at the evidence and explaining why most children already consume enough protein and why focusing on overall diet quality is far more important for their growth and wellbeing
theconversation.com/does-your-ch...
Does your child need more protein? The answer is probably not
The vast majority of children will already get more than enough protein as part of their usual diet.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I have now watched @hankgreen.bsky.social scishow's video on physics and knitting and I am really curious to know if they had a single knitter or any kind of textile related expert in the writing team.
If not I offer my services.
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Why am I getting adverts for advent calendars? It's August! 😳
August 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Yesterday was a good day to be a supervisor! On article from my PhD student published and one other from a MSc dissertation accepted!

Read Grace's open access here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#academicsky
How Does Household Food Insecurity Impact Complementary Feeding, in High Income Countries, in a Cost‐of‐Living Crisis? A Systematic Scoping Review
The impact of household food insecurity on complementary feeding, in high-income countries, in the cost-of-living crisis was reviewed. Five studies were reviewed, only one study, from New Zealand, fo....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reviewer 2 needs to learn not to waste their time doing the copyeditor's job.

#academicsky
August 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This weekend I am sharing stall C23 at the festival for Quilts with @tripsandflips.bsky.social talking about our interactive feminist community quits projects.

We have loads of fun talking to people from so many different paths of life who share the enthusiasm for textiles.
August 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The clay gods were smiling at me today!
July 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Sometimes I wonder whether academia is the right career path for me and then I go to a random place with patchy 4G but my phone connects to eduroam and, honestly, this is 90% of what keeps me in.

(This post was brought to you by said eduroam connection)

#academicsky
July 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It was so nice talking about the quilt, crafting, motherhood, and community building again with a lovely group in Wyeside arts center! They also have a fantastic exhibition of paintings of the beautiful mid Wales countryside on so if you are around you should definitely visit!
June 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I swear Wales is the place where all your cottagecore dreams come true. Just found this hand embroidered tablecloth in a village charity shop for £2.50
June 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The heart of Wales line experience can only be improved by the addition of compartment coaches.
June 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A few days ago I saw one of those skits about online training courses where the speaker makes an attempt to interact with the audience by asking very basic questions and people answer in the chat and says things like "yeah, that's a good one"

I am currently living though it.
June 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I am not a big Swifty, but this messy Trump Vs Musk break up feels like an opportunity.
Taylor Swift can do the best next move right now 🐍

#ReputationTV #LWYMMD
June 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Banksy and I narrowly missed each other in Marseille. Like ships in the night. You’d think the lighthouse would’ve helped! 😅
May 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Last day in Marseille and I spent £25 on various types of soap.

I am now trying to calculate my luggage allowances withe no scales and just vibes.

If a bottle of wine is indeed 1.2kg I might need to wear some extra layers 😬
May 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just arrived in France and discovered that my Airbnb host does not speak a word of English.

To my surprise, I can understand about 70% of what she is telling me which, honestly, should make my high school french teacher very proud!
May 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My douze points to #Luxemburg
May 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM