I make podcasts 🎙 Neuro PhD 🧠 Creator of Gold Lovie for Best Podcast 2023 How We're Wired https://nitter.cf/t.co/9VzC8WOmoc 🎧 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, UK
Joined June 2016
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Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
A pair of great *FUNDED PHDs* open @UniofReading
If you're interested in finding farming solutions that can mitigate the #climate and #biodiversity crises AND produce food at the same time, arable #agroforestry is a really promising area, and still lots we don't know!
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Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
If only someone had written a dissertation on "olfactory ethics" and the "politics of smell."
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
Why makes rules that are impossible to follow?
This sign forbids you from giving your heart to a #wombat. 🧡
#WombatWednesday
#fieldwork #Tasmania #wombats #MammalWatching #WildOz
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital.
Here's Jane & me in happier times.
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
every trump appointment is like "Donald Trump has appointed the Grinch as director of the Department of Christmas"
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
Tune in to episode 5 of the @TMiPUK podcast to hear me and @Eva_Higg chat about our recent "Mind Games: Your Brain on Puzzles" project!
It's the penultimate episode in this series of the TMiP podcast! Hear an interview with Rob Eastaway, and a chat about a maths/neuroscience activity at a festival, and find out what is Maths Capital? Podcast feed and more info/links at talkingmathsinpublic.uk/podc…
10 years ago this week I moved to Cambridge to start my PhD at @Newnham_College ❤️
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
Hi everyone! I’m on the hunt for jobs in scientific animation/design in the UK
If you have any leads please get in touch, and share far and wide if you can!
Let me use my noggin!
#PortfolioDay michaelschwimmmer.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
#scicomm #b3d
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
your 20s are for gathering brick and wood and your 30s are all about ore and wheat
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
In this blog, based on my research with deaf and disabled people's organisations in Uganda, I investigate why development institutions in Uganda (and elsewhere) appoint incomprehensible sign language interpreters who don't use local sign languages
When inclusion is an illusion: sign language interpreters and the pitfalls for ‘inclusive’ development. Today's @fp2p by @laamodern frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/whe…
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
Do you ever think about what your brain does when it's solving a puzzle? Two weeks ago, I was at @GreenManFest running “Mind Games: your brain on puzzles” in Einstein’s Garden alongside @CurlyFriedMaxMH, @Eva_Higg and @dralicemorrell
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
wow, if you look closely you can see that the olympics is actually set in the same cinematic universe as ratatouille
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
what is so realistic about sex and the city is her friends never read her little articles
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
1/6 🧵I’ve given a few talks recently about trans-Atlantic slavery in British history, to people who really don’t want to hear it. I don’t mean haranguing shoppers in Oxford Street, but talks to church, community and business groups comprised of small ‘c’ conservative White people who’ve been willing to hear me out, even if they find it uncomfortable.
I’ve kept it factual and based it on two main databases: slavevoyages.org/ on British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave ‘trade’ and ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ on slave ownership.
On every occasion, there have been two main objections. In case its useful for others, this thread sets out what they are, along with my own attempts to answer:
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
I submitted a pitch for today's round of the #BigMathOff! Head on over to the @aperiodical now to see how I created a mathematical pride dress! (And possibly drop me a vote before 8am tomorrow!)
aperiodical.com/2024/07/the-…
Fun times telling jokes about being a wannabe birdwatcher at @ScienceShowoff last week. Remember kids, don’t fuck with swans (or the Duolingo bird…) 🦢
Also enjoyed another fab performance from local grave robber @LiamHywelCJ - or is it body snatcher?!
Photo credit @steve_x
Dr Eva Higginbotham retweeted
I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. shorturl.at/nENOY
