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I love the Jurassic Coast. I went to Lyme regis as a child (evidently due to the photos) although I don't remember much of it. My parents, however, like to claim this is where my love for rocks and fossils began. I remember a specific story book my mum would read to me and my sister before bed about Mary Anning and her dog fossil hunting along he cliffs in Lyme egis, so have always had fond thoughts of the place. Since studying geology, I've done a whole uni field course in D

Book Cover Recently, I've made it an aim to try and get through the majority of the unread books that are sitting untouched on my bookshelf. This has been quite fun and I've ended up reading a whole bunch of different genres from non-fiction science related things (like the one I'm about to discus) to spirituality guides (not my fav tbh), murder mysteries (much more fun), and some 2020 BookTok classics (shout out to ACOTAR). Since this is a science-related blog I'll save you

The discovery of Auroralumina qttenboroughii first came to my attention when I was driving home one evening listening to the BBC Inside Science Podcast. Two things about this story caught my attention: 1) it was a really, really old fossil named after Sir David Attenborough who I, alongside much of the British Public, am somewhat of a super fan of, and 2) the paper was written by, and being discussed on the podcast by, Dr Frankie Dunn, from Oxford University, who just so happ

It's been almost a year since I graduated, and it's safe to say I have had my run in with the highs and lows of post grad life. In the past year I've moved to a new city, worked three very different jobs, had a whole career and future crisis, spent a lot of time trying to stay in touch with and see all my friends that are now spread over the country, and had to work out silly adult things like council tax and registering at a new GP, all while still having to call my mum to

A picture I took in the museum showing some of the collection cases. As I think I've mentioned in some previous posts, I've been keen on doing sidequests now i'm living in London. My bucket list does of course include the classic museums - the Tate Modern, the V&A, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery etc - but it also has some smaller ones I've heard about, one of them being UCL's Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. I finally got around to

While living in London I have made it one of my aims to just do as much as possible! I'm lucky enough to be living in this amazing city with so much going on around me and I want to experience it all. To facilitate in doing this I have a list on my notes app titled "London Bucket List"which I have complied from a mix of things my friends have, told me about, ads I've seen on the tube, and stuff i've seen on TikTok - which I some what reluctantly admit is my main source of ins

Big G (the universal gravitational constant) is one of the most widely known values in physics, and one of the first you learn at school. It determines the strength of attraction between two masses and applies anywhere in the entire universe. Scientists have been trying to measure the exact value of Big G for over 225 years (since Isaac Newton first suggested the concept of gravity) but still its value remains one of the least well known out of nature's fundamental forces. In

Daylight savings: the extra hour of sleep we get as the clocks fall back every autumn, and the hour we lose as they leap forwards every spring. I grew up in the UAE, a country whose proximity to the equator means it does not operate a daylight savings system, so the concept was something I only came across when I moved to the UK for uni 5 years ago. And, if I'm being honest I never thought much about it until I came across an article on EuerkAlert! detailing the potential i

GCSEs 2026 are rapidly approaching! I'm currently working as a TA in a school in West London, and with our year 11s having their last day at school tomorrow (at the time of writing this) I'm all too aware of the prospect of revision and exams that looms over them. That being said, GCSEs are not all doom and gloom. They are an opportunity to show off everything you have learnt in the past 2 or 3 years, and also a last chance to do many subjects that you won't study beyond this

Now that I have graduated and lost the free access to journals, reading lists from my lectures, and general academic buzz and osmosis of knowledge that comes with being in a university building, I am finding that its much harder to stay up to date with the going on of the scientific world. Nonetheless, I think it's so so important to stay in the loop. Knowledge is power and just as you're always told to stay up to date with the political or social news of the world, staying u