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"Hi everyone, my name’s Ipshita, Biotales’ visual design and illustration intern! You’ve probably seen my name in the credits of a few posts, either under some illustrations or the recent Biotales posters. It’s about due time I introduce myself (further than whatever is on the About page, anyway). So here it is!"

"Through a series of word association activities, Biotales participants responded to words such as “laboratory” and the words “excitement” and “pain” around their research experiences. Hover over the word clouds to sense the emotional landscape around biological sciences research– the highs and lows of it."

"In this post, we go into the guiding ideology behind Biotales—to forge a connection between the participants and their science through autobiographical accounts fashioned as outreach material—through the spirit of Barbara McClintock’s scientific inquiry encapsulated in the phrase a feeling for the organism."

"What happens to a person inside a laboratory? In a warm up activity which we called “You in your research”, we asked participants to scribble on sticky notes who they are inside and outside the laboratory, and what aspect of the person they are changes when they walk into a laboratory.
In the visuals in this post, we have clustered the participants' sticky notes around three hybrid human figures consisting of the’ Inside the Lab’ and the ‘Outside the Lab’ halves sutured together."
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"What are some of the experiences, events and significant life events that gets someone to pursue biological sciences research?

Throughout the Biotales workshops, participants shared their individual stories of how they got hooked to science as young people. This post visualises these stories in the form of sparks of inspiration."