New animation from @nature.com - scientists turning bacteria and parasites into drug delivering double agents youtu.be/lYuGzWGusuU
Bacteria recruited to fight cancer
YouTube video by nature video
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Shamini Bundell
@shamini.bsky.social
"joyfully energetic nerd" - Science & TTRPGs - London based creative. - Creating nerdy ttrpg actual play with @RPGeeksDnD - Award winning video journalist for @Nature - Performer, improviser, GM - She/her and it rhymes with 'harmony'
think it is probably worth pointing out that the entire reason the RNLI relies on donations and is not funded like the fire service or police is precisely to allow it to stay entirely independent of whatever government is in power so you know, it's worth keeping it going rnli.org/support-us/g...
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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OKAY the campaign is formally and finally LIVE! Please support City of Espers - a TTRPG as Black and Queer and Fabulous as I could possibly get it. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t... #tabletopgaming #crowdfunding #nerdlings
City of Espers - A Psychic-Powered Urban Action TTRPG
City of Espers is a psychic-powered urban action TTRPG for 2 to 4 players and a Game Master. Play as a group of psychics connecting to the city they live in through high-energy battles and melodrama.
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Get your gel pens ready as we go Back To School for an Entire Month of Blood On The Clocktower! Live now and every Wednesday in September on YouTube.com/RPGeeksDnD!
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2w ago"We gotta go back, back to school again!" Summer is over and it's time to pwn some people in Blood on The Clocktower on stream with @rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social now! Come watch us, live. 7pm-10pm GT here! youtube.com/live/gh4t15-...
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Plan for tonight: ⚓ Piratical antics ☠️ Big feels 🌎 Saving the world, or at least each other
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 3w agoOur pirates haven't quite hit rock bottom yet but it's not looking good. Will they manage to escape their captors, or will they help bring about the end of the world? The grand finale is live tonight, 7pm BST! @emzywb.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social
I NEED A MIRACLE season 2 is crowdfunding now. I beseech you, grant me £2,400 to pay these and other excellent writers to write a new season, yet more tumultuous and miraculous than the last. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/miracle
Oh, gosh, hello five thousand people, yes you can have more Blood On The Clocktower scheming, epic Actual Play antics and nerdy lore drops to fill your brain. It's lovely to prance around YouTube with you all each week! <3
Great new doc from @shamini.bsky.social for @nature.com youtu.be/lEE7k04WX7Q Can you just buy an Iron Man suit from Amazon? (No, but maybe one day)
The exoskeletons are coming (to a store near you)
YouTube video by nature video
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Me as a GM when my players actually find my antagonist intimidating.
Woman's Joyful Celebration Dance
Alt: Amy Santiago flailing her arms and punching the air with joy
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I'm very much enjoying throwing foreboding weather at my players 😈🏴☠️🌊👀 More Pirates! tonight from 7pm BST!
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 4w agoPirates! In which the weather is never just weather and we all realise we don't really understand how weather works anyway. #ttrpg #actualplay #rapscallionrpg
When the rules compel you to do the most *embarrassing* thing possible. #spoilerwarning #cringewarning (Yes there was a song, yes you should check out Pirates! 2 on our YouTube to hear it in its full glory, accompanied by gulls.) @fkth.bsky.social @emzywb.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social
Some peak Lore Mistress gif content in this video 😂😂 the secondhand cringe was REAL!
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 4w agoWhen the rules compel you to do the most *embarrassing* thing possible. #spoilerwarning #cringewarning (Yes there was a song, yes you should check out Pirates! 2 on our YouTube to hear it in its full glory, accompanied by gulls.) @fkth.bsky.social @emzywb.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social
Post-stream checklist: ☠️ Emotional drama - check ✅ ☁️ Foreboding weather - check ✅ 🗡️ Epic swashbuckling - yeah... just not by the PCs 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MH...
Shamini Bundell@shamini.bsky.social · last mo.GM checklist for tonight: ☠️ Emotional drama 🗡️ Epic swashbuckling ☁️ Foreboding weather
GM checklist for tonight: ☠️ Emotional drama 🗡️ Epic swashbuckling ☁️ Foreboding weather
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · last mo.Happy Jeeksday! We're going live tonight at the slightly later time of 7:30pm BST due to spectacular solar happenings here in Europe. Watch the skies (safely) as the eclipse peaks between 7 and 7:15 and then watch the seas as we launch into Chapter 2 of Pirates!
swords and cannons are fun but "deeply buried devotion" is what actually sells me. messy pirates with feelings, yeah.
I am so here for the emotional drama (In between bouts of swashbuckling)
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · last mo.Our first chapter had swords clashing, cannons firing and masts toppling! But also bubbling tension, emotional skewering, flashes of anger and deep(ly buried) devotion... For a tale of pirates with messy relationships watch part 1 on YouTube now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWie... #ttrpg #actualplay
I'm scheming piratical schemes! So excited to be GMing this excellent crew every Wednesday in August. Drop your favourite pirate trope below, I wanna try and pack them in and need ideas!
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · last mo.PIRATES HO! Hear ye, land lubbers - the RPGeeks are shivered to their very timbers to announce our next mini-series: a 4-part adventure of daring dandies on the ocean deep! With @loremistress93.bsky.social, Grace Willsmer, @emzywb.bsky.social, @fkth.bsky.social & @shamini.bsky.social!
I just found some of the weird quotes I scribbled down in episode one when we had no idea what was going on and OOHHH...
The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd so it all comes full circle. Our story comes to The End in the most final way possible. All three episodes of VIEWSCREAM are up now on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And so it all comes full circle. Our story comes to The End in the most final way possible. All three episodes of VIEWSCREAM are up now on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Mad rush to make the accompanying film for this feature youtu.be/W0lyOxQyRcM?... before I swanned off on holiday. Massive thanks to @shamini.bsky.social and @ecallaway.bsky.social for the help.
Ancient humans carved tiny birds in a dark cave
YouTube video by nature video
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Nature@nature.com · 2mo ago“We can almost look through the eyes of [Europe's earliest Homo sapiens] and see how they viewed the environment around them” go.nature.com/3ThKtQC
The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
Five survivors... Holly, Tom, Emily, Fiona & Shamini are back tomorrow for the finale of our Viewship/Motherscream space horror chimera. Find us: www.youtube.com/@RPGeeksDND/... @hollylikesgames.bsky.social 📚 @emzywb.bsky.social 🪴 @fkth.bsky.social 🎶 @shamini.bsky.social 💻
Improving trust in science is not the point of science journalism.
It is not science journalism's job to improve trust in science
Also: The "Science: A New Golden Age" report, layoffs at National Geographic, and studies on the consequences of AI adoption in research
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Episode two, in which everyone is safe and nothing goes wrong.
LIVE | VIEWSCREAM Pt. 2
YouTube video by The RPGeeks
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Man, the proliferation of shitty baby name websites has made resourcing the origins, etymology and historical popularity of names such a pain in the ass. Web searches are just flooded by them.
Going live now! Join us (and the horrors) in chat! www.youtube.com/live/mn0xzLr...
LIVE | VIEWSCREAM Pt. 2
YouTube video by The RPGeeks
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The RPGeeks@rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe'll be live from space at 7pm BST - hit the 🔔 icon under the video for a reminder! We won't be interacting with chat much due to *gestures at space* so you'll have to keep each other sane through it all. 🫣 @hollylikesgames.bsky.social @emzywb.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social
