@LorryBonnets

Chartered Senior Engineer, Sustainability | STEM Ambassador | WES Scotland Coordinator | #WATCTop100 Rising Star 2019 | #IETYWE 2018 WES Prize | Own opinions

 Scotland
Joined February 2016
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Thanks @Russell_Arnott from @incredoceans, absolutely fantastic presentation @OrkSciFest! We all breath plankton farts Best plankton: Mesodinium Rubrum looks like🌻can jump 260x its size Sharks: doctors of the ocean Sperm whales: so loud they talk to each other anywhere on the 🌎
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Thank you @JamieBGall for a fascinating, funny & educational session @OrkSciFest about the elements of the periodic table. Dragons love gold as a means of curing their heartburn🐉🔥 Tellurium poisoning makes you reek of garlic & it was discovered in Romania! 🧛‍♂️🧄 #STEM #Chemistry
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Another fantastic event @OrkSciFest with head gardener @GCWalledGarden, Ed Bollom, hosting a workshop to discuss the tips & challenges of growing your own fruit & veg, from planning your plot, pest control, sowing, growing & harvesting fresh produce 🫛🥕🌽🍅🫑🥒 #Sustainability
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Thank you to Ian Taylor from @TWPScot for an interesting presentation about #OffshoreWind & the Ayre project in #Orkney @OrkSciFest "Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations" #STEM #Sustainability #Innovation
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Fascinating event @OrkSciFest about the #Constellation Ursa Minor with composer @stuart_macrae & Astronomer @AMWeijmans beautifully combining #Music & #Science to discuss the power & inspiration of the #Stars with special guest host @jojo_durrant ✨🔭🌌 #STEM #Astronomy #Science
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The beautiful Bicentennial Quilt, created in 2020, every square hand-crafted, designed & stitched by 70 volunteers celebrating the 200th anniversary of the @RoyalAstroSo is on display in @Saint_Magnus Cathedral until Wed 11th Sep as part of the @OrkSciFest. #STEM #Astronomy ✨🔭
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Huge thank you to @DrAllan12 for an absolutely incredible show @OrkSciFest. Introduced by a special guest host @jojo_durrant, he wowed the audience with illusions, magic & science. Students at Dornoch Academy are so lucky to have such a passionate & enthusiastic teacher! #STEM
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Fascinating talk from head gardener, Ed Bollom, about the restoration & challenges of creating 1 of the UK's largest kitchen gardens & growing food in the North of Scotland @GCWalledGarden. Truly #Inspirational & stunning results growing flowers, veg, fruit & botanicals for gin! – at Kirkwall, Scotland
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Fantastic presentation from Professor @martin_astro, Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal @UofGlasgow exploring the detection of spacetime ripples from colliding celestial bodies bringing exciting insights to cosmic origins of precious metals, Gold in the #Stars ✨ #STEM #Cosmology – at Kirkwall, Scotland
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Absolutely incredible event @OrkSciFest Swimming with Gravitational Waves. Fully immersed in the music of the universe through combining the #Scientific research @UofGlasgow and #Artistic imaginings of audiovisual artist Leon Trimble in this ‘Gravity Synth’ #Collaboration #STEM – at Kirkwall, Scotland
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Excited to be on our way back to the Orkney International Science Festival for an incredible week of STEM presentations, workshops and activities for all the family! Thanks to @NLFerries for providing discounted tickets for staff and volunteers travelling to support the festival. – at Aberdeen, Scotland
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Fantastic Peter Pan @Bamburgh_Castle on a VERY wet & windy Saturday evening by tenacious & stoic actors @Immersion_Thtr. Battling through awful weather, they made the audience laugh & sing regardless! Incredibly impressive, multiple costume changes & undampened enthusiasm🧚‍♂️🐊☠️⚓ – at North East, England
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Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED24 celebrates women working in #Engineering, so it was great to catch up with @WES1919 Scotland members @SummerleeMuseum 🚂 today to chat, offer support & remind ourselves how life has been #EnhancedByEngineering. @INWED1919 🥳 – at Coatbridge, Scotland
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Great news for the Festival, some of the UK’s top Maths communicators will visit Orkney schools as the result of a funding boost made by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences @ICMS_Edinburgh Public Engagement fund. theorkneynews.scot/2024/06/0… Image Credit: Hana Ayoob
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Delighted to be part of the assessor panel @EDTScotland @IndustrialCadet Bronze Project North hub graduation today @NatSubseaCentre. Huge congratulations to all the teams for their fantastic projects & excellent presentations! 🏆🏅 #IndustrialCadets #STEM @ScotSTEMAmb @TheEDTUK
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Fantastic, sunny and BUSY day @FalkirkLandC STEM@TheHelix family fun day for #FalkirkScienceFestival! #EngineersOfTheFuture #STEM @HelixFalkirk @STEMAmbassadors – at Falkirk, Scotland
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Huge thanks to @FlotationEnergy for a fantastic opportunity to visit Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen this afternoon with colleagues from @ORECatapult, @netzero_tc & @decomcentre Also, thankful for a calm day! #FloatingWind #NetZero #EnergyTransition #WindEnergy
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Super excited for the North East celebration of STEM today with @YESC_Scotland and the #ClimateSmarter project. We're all set up and ready to #inspire some #EngineersOfTheFuture ⭐ – at Aberdeen, Scotland
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Absolute pleasure to attend the @IMechE today, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first female member, #VerenaHolmes. An amazing, high energy, enthusiastic, diverse event! Read about her life & career here: bit.ly/48tFIoR #IMechE #Diversity #Inclusion #inspiration
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Absolutely delighted to be part of the judging team today @STEM4Brit competition at @UKParliament. The poster competition showcases incredible work of early-career STEM researchers. Congratulations to all of the finalists & best of luck! 🏆 #STEM4Brit #RAEngResearch @ParlSciCom
Royal Academy of Engineering@RAEngNews4 Mar 2024
Today, we are at the @STEM4Brit competition at @UKParliament, a poster competition for early-career science researchers. We are delighted to have our #STEM4Brit judges here to judge the engineering posters. This evening, medals will be awarded to the top three posters. Keep up to date by following the hashtag! #RAEngResearch @ParlSciCom
Group photo of STEM 4 Britain judges around a table at Portcullis House.

ALT Group photo of STEM 4 Britain judges around a table at Portcullis House.

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