Check out the first of our meet the team blog post. This week is project lead Nic Bonne (CoffeeSamurai): tactileuniverse.org/2018/09/17/mee…

Check out our second meet the team blog post. This week is technical lead Coleman Krawczyk (Coleman Krawczyk): tactileuniverse.org/2018/09/24/mee…

Team members CoffeeSamurai and Coleman Krawczyk are presenting about Tactile Universe and what they think has made it a successful public engagement project at #SEPnetOPE

Check out our third meet the team blog post. This week is our public engagement advisor Jen Gupta (Dr Jen Gupta): tactileuniverse.org/2018/10/01/mee…

Coleman Krawczyk cutting out galaxy image 246 of 400. Thanks to the feedback from our original VI test group, our transparent tactile images have pictures like these embedded in them, letting anyone use whatever mix of sight and touch suits them. User Centred Design in action!

The first of five Tactile Universe training days will be held on the 14th of January, 2019 in Manchester. We'll be covering everything you'll need to know to use our resources with your local VI community. Use the link below to find out more and sign up - eventbrite.co.uk/e/tactile-univ…

The dates and Eventbrite pages for our series of 5 UK training workshops are live! See our blog post for links and details tactileuniverse.org/2018/12/19/tac… The first workshop is a little over a week away on January 14th in Manchester, but it's not too late to sign up if you want to attend

Being #blind or #partiallysighted is no longer a barrier to enjoying astronomy. allan russell spoke to Nicolas Bonne Tactile Universe and Portsmouth Cosmology Astronomy For Visually Impaired People. #RNIBConnect audioboom.com/posts/7138511-… via Audioboom

CoffeeSamurai and I spent the afternoon packing boxes for our Tactile Universe kits

All the resources needed to print your own Tactile Universe kit are now available for free on our website along with lesson plans for using them in the classroom: tactileuniverse.org/models/

This week in honour of #CitizenScienceMonth we met Dr. Coleman Krawczyk Expert Researcher in data analysis for The Zooniverse University of Portsmouth. We talked about how telescopes and space have enabled a citizen science revolution! 🔭🪐 Read more here: ow.ly/bpCg50EBrrm

A fun new toy for our office :-) x.com/TactileUnivers…

We’re hosting an amazing event with Tactile Universe Dr Jen Gupta CoffeeSamurai and Coleman Krawczyk for the visually impaired. Are you coming? x.com/iopdiversity/s…

And here's the obligatory selfie of Coleman Krawczyk, CoffeeSamurai and Dr Jen Gupta with our SouthEastPhysics highly commended certificate!

Congratulations to the winner of our Innovation Project Award Tactile Universe from Portsmouth Cosmology collected by CoffeeSamurai Coleman Krawczyk Prof. Karen Masters 💫⭐️✨ and Raffles #SEPnetPEAwards

The Portsmouth Cosmology group SouthEastPhysics #sepnetpeawards end.

The Tactile Universe at #pompeystargazing

The team's at the airport waiting to fly to Japan for #CAP2018 and look what we found in the shop! New issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine with Dr Jen Gupta's column about our work!

The team have made it to Japan for #CAP2018! We'll be running a Tactile Universe workshop on Tuesday to show off our models and resources.

The Tactile Universe has come a long way in the last 2.5 years x.com/TactileUnivers…