Tactile Universe (@tactileuniverse) 's Twitter Profile
Tactile Universe

@tactileuniverse

An award-winning project at @UoPCosmology to engage the blind and visually impaired community with astrophysics research.

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Tactile Universe have been selected as the Falling Walls Science Engagement Breakthrough of the Year 2020! We're really thankful, and this has been such a great experience. We can't wait to see what future friendships and collaborations evolve from being a part of @Fallin_Walls

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Our friends at sciaccess.org are raising money to run their next meeting in 2021. Even a small donation will help this brilliant program continue to bring people together globally to make STEM accessible to all. charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/…

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Happy #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities! The IOP #LimitLess campaign is looking at why young people with disabilities are underrepresented in physics post-16. Do you have a story to share? Tell us here: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/yourphysicss…

Happy #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities!

The IOP #LimitLess campaign is looking at why young people with disabilities are underrepresented in physics post-16.

Do you have a story to share?

Tell us here: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/yourphysicss…
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Just a few days to go until #PompeyStargazing 2021! The programme includes sessions for school pupils on the 27th, and our Family Fun Day on the 30th. See our website for more information & to book tickets: port.ac.uk/news-events-an…

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This week Portsmouth Cosmology's annual #PompeyStargazing event is going virtual! We can't meet you in person this year, so Tactile Universe are offering interested VI people a virtual mini workshop on galaxies. Places are limited, so contact [email protected] to find out more.

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🎧💫Our latest podcast episode is out! We discussed #inclusion and #accessibility for #peoplewithdisabilities in STEM with Nicolas Bonne Tactile Universe & Sheryl Burgstahler DO-IT to the sound of stars✨🎶 👉bit.ly/2Nb4xSX #FallingWallsEngage #sciengage #scicomm

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How to foster more #inclusion for #peoplewithdisabilities in STEM? We talked to Sheryl Burgstahler DO-IT & astronomer Nicolas Bonne about #accessibility and creative differences✨🎧👉🏼bit.ly/2Nb4xSX Tactile Universe University of Portsmouth UW College of Education #FallingWallsEngage

Anna Voelker (@anna_voelker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As an entrepreneur, educator, poet (check out video for astro #poetry!) former #NASA space weather forecaster, and astrobiology researcher, I am thrilled to enter the #inspiration4contest! My business, Making Space for All, promotes accessible science: makingspaceforall.com

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I am happy to share that a captioned version of my #SpokenWordPoetry and #Inspiration4Contest entry is now available at youtu.be/Qno1L0W71PY. Please retweet to help spread the word! 💫

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Great to have Dr Nic Bonne and Dr Coleman Krawczyk from the Tactile Universe project speaking with Cardiff Uni Physics about their tactile graphics as a tool for making astronomy accessible to the blind and vision-impaired community.

Great to have Dr Nic Bonne and Dr Coleman Krawczyk from the <a href="/TactileUniverse/">Tactile Universe</a> project speaking with <a href="/cardiffPHYSX/">Cardiff Uni Physics</a> about their tactile graphics as a tool for making astronomy accessible to the blind and vision-impaired community.
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Today the Tactile Universe team CoffeeSamurai, Dr Jen Gupta & Coleman Krawczyk are heading to Wales to run a presenter training workshop hosted by Cardiff Uni Physics. Looking forward to sharing our resources with local educators, science communicators & researchers

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Today the Tactile Universe team travelled to Glasgow to train the amazing researchers from UofG Institute for Gravitational Research to use our new gravitational wave themed accessible resources. We've left a resource kit with them and we can't wait to see how they use it