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Science Poetry Friday: Version Drift
Somewhere,a term-thresherworksthrough the night –their yieldcleanbut less.
Aug 1, 2025
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Sam Illingworth
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Sam is a Professor in Creative Pedagogies. His research is concerned with trying to engage and empower people with science, especially those from under-served communities. He writes science poems to try and communicate some of the beautiful and important scientific research that is being done on a daily basis, all across the world.
Science Poems
Version Drift
In early 2025, US agencies quietly changed public health data, replacing ‘gender’ with ‘sex’ without record.
Jul 31, 2025
Bloggers
Tilt: The Poetry of Science
What shiftsis not the weight itself,but the waiting – a basin drawntoo fullto still.
Jul 24, 2025
Science Poems
Tilt
During the 20th century, human activity changed not only the surface of the planet but also its physical balance.
Jul 24, 2025
Bloggers
When Bats Carry the Cure
They touchin flick-skin intervals –wing-to-wound,a brief groomingpassed without notice.
Jul 18, 2025
Science Poems
When Bats Carry the Cure
A new rabies vaccine for vampire bats spreads through colonies via grooming, offering a humane alternative to culling.
Jul 17, 2025
Bloggers
Below the Threshold
Below the Threshold It begins not in the bones, but in the slip between sound and signal – a misfire before numbers take form.
Jul 10, 2025
Science Poems
Below the Threshold
Low lead levels are linked to lower school performance, suggesting current safety limits may be too high and earlier intervention is needed.
Jul 10, 2025
Bloggers
Science Poetry: Ocean Colour Change
The edge extends past grey-rims drawn throughold plankton maps. Where blue thins,a green-thick seamunspools,threading northwith nothingto net.
Jul 3, 2025
Bloggers
Science Poetry Friday: Cheese Weather
The field holdsless than it promises –a green-waneunderfoot,where mouthsonce read the seasonby the hour.
Jun 27, 2025
Science Poems
Cheese Weather
Hotter, drier summers mean less fresh grass for cows – and that means blander, paler cheese.
Jun 26, 2025
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Overspill: Science Poetry Friday
They do not play, but live beside the tailored grass. Fairways curve where warnings should.
Jun 20, 2025
Science Poems
Overspill
Living within 1–3 miles of a golf course is associated with higher Parkinson’s disease risk, likely linked to pesticide use and groundwater contamination.
Jun 19, 2025
Science Poems
Line Decay
Ending water fluoridation in the US would lead to 25 million more decayed teeth in children over 5 years – mostly affecting those without private insurance.
Jun 12, 2025