Alice Gray

Welsh STEMinist • Neuroscience • Comms • Presenter • Producer of Gray Matter YouTube channel and Inside the Petri Dish Podcast • BBC Expert Woman

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

Imagine an episode of Real Housewives but Miss Piggy is part of the cast and no one acknowledges it.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

It’s always such an honour to judge the #WalesSTEMAwards - each year, without fail, I’m blown away by the entries and the fantastic STEM businesses, projects and activities in Wales.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

I have been joking that Mabli is now Spanish because - with her new haircut - she looks like a-spaniel (español)

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

A very typical day in the life of Alice Gray - I had a tonne of errands I needed to run at lunch but I got sent on a side-quest because I found a baby hedgehog.

It’s safely at the vets, fingers crossed it’s okay 🤞

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

@kate_cluett Oh Kate! You are a mature cheddar cheese with a balsamic onion chutney, maybe some rocket in there. You would be on crusty white bread with salty butter, cooked on a sandwich press xx

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

You know some people have synaesthesia and can tell you what colour your name is? Well I can tell you what kind of cheese toastie you are based on your personality.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

A kind man stopped me on my dog walk this morning to check if I was okay after a man catcalled me. In response, I awkwardly congratulated him on being a nice man. More of this please.

(If you know a nice man with a moustache who frequents Claude Rd, tell him well done)

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

Living in Roath/Splott means there are more seagulls here than there are by the sea. And at this time of year, they’re all fighting to protect their babies - there’s a lot of gull-on-gull action 😏

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We are big fans of democracy 🗳️

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A short summary of how I got her:

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BBC Wales Today - How researchers are using beeswax to help families living in war zones 🐝 Available on iPlayer: https://t.co/MCAzzHzd0m

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

Cardiff in the summer 🌞:

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

If you just saw me and my dog fleeing from three swooping seagulls and you thought it was *funny* then you are *wrong* and I think you'll find we were being *brave*.

And YES I did shout 'I don't want your stupid seagull babies' as we ran. What of it? That’s NOT embarrassing.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

I’m going to start putting Real Housewives taglines as my instagram captions. It’s like the millennial urge to put song lyrics as captions, but more bewildering.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

I just saw three parakeets flying around Waterloo gardens - it was very Kensington.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

As someone who both works in PR/marketing and is single, so is using the dating apps (as little as I can) - I’ve been watching this with frustrated fascination.

For a brand that says they are ‘women-focused’, Bumble has fumbled.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

It’s interesting seeing the dichotomy in the coverage of Bumble’s new marketing campaign, comparing the coverage from just days ago, which is clearly based on Bumble’s press release, verses the real-time reaction from women to a poorly informed campaign, targeted to women.

[Alice Gray @AliceJaneGray]

Instead of focusing on changing the app culture for the benefit of their female usership (which are essential to their business model - because they are very much the product they ‘sell’ to their majority male demographic), they shame women for not accepting poor behaviour.

[Sophie Hall @SophLouiseHall]

Enjoy the visible aurora borealis, I hope it makes you very happy