Shamini Bundell
"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'
- Reposted by Shamini BundellFounders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell100 episodes, 2 years - I cannot believe how much every single guest, every game (and the designers behind them), and every single listener has meant to me. I remember the day I got this job so vividly, and this episode has been a love letter to the entire experience.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellOpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com
- Why are women getting ADHD diagnoses so late? This fascinating film from @emzywb.bsky.social explores the stats, the science and the personal costs.
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell"A wizard is never late, nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to." I am thrilled to let y'all know I'm joining #WotCStaff as a Game Designer for the Dungeons and Dragons team! This move starts a new chapter in my life and I am so excited to see what adventures await me 💜
- Reposted by Shamini BundellLord Knight of Weymouth (what a name!) sets out many things that will be lost in a ban. So, do we decide to restrict all under-16s in order to potentially protect those at risk of harm (keeping in mind that the causal link between social media use and mental health problems is murky)? 3/3
- Reposted by Shamini BundellIf you want to gem up on any of the maths/Science in Arcadia before you go, then you can read all about it here: kityates.substack.com/p/et-in-arca...
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell🎲 7pm UK time, 21st January 2026 💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1JD...
- For fans of The Traitors and also Bing Crosby!
- Reposted by Shamini BundellGet ready for a HUGE amount of orbital blues content coming your way
- Pasting this thread here to come back to when making my next #ttrpg character! What does your character believe about the world/themselves that isn't true? A compelling arc could be one that proves them wrong.
- Original thread (can't find this user here): www.threads.com/@xervesjeeve...
- Some of these adverts have really got me double-taking as I pass 😆
- Great aunt in India heard us brits were coming and ordered in a special dish for us. It was Butter Chicken 🤷♀️
- Reposted by Shamini BundellIf we're doing deep cuts I want a Vorta-Ferengi-Andorian but it's still just Jeffrey Combs
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell✨ Khalil Thirlaway at the Little Event 2026 ✨ Khalil Thirlaway, science communicator and creative producer, will guide an interactive session exploring creative approaches to science communication. 1 of 2
- Reposted by Shamini BundellHats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
- Reposted by Shamini BundellI'm very much on team "build more houses" but we also need to consider the carbon cost of construction - staying below 2°C requires a complete rethink www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell#DnD advice: Keep vague notes so you can make a fun minigame of trying to guess what happened last time.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellWhen you have a VO recording at 6pm but have D&D at 8pm. ‘A (pretend) wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.’ #ttrpg #improv
- Reposted by Shamini BundellTTRPGs by European-based creatives that we're looking forward to in 2026 👇🏽 'L’Hôtel du Lion rouge' by @comemartin.bsky.social & @nicolasfolliot.itch.io 'Against Time and Death' by @ickbat.bsky.social 'Games for an Ordinary Life' by @watermosaic.bsky.social Full VOD at youtube.com/@EUphoriaAP
- Reposted by Shamini BundellWorking @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social is just like fuuuuuck i have psychotic posts due tomorrow.....shit need a surrealism by 5pm......uggghhhh my insane thoughts report for the meeting.....
- Reposted by Shamini BundellWhat A Year. It's time for the biggest of cheers for our fantastic guests and our awesome audience who all helped make 2025 so special. To celebrate we've crammed some of the best (and worst!) moments into this short video!
- Reposted by Shamini BundellWith @whohurtyouap.bsky.social, Mum Chums (game by @floaker.bsky.social), a deeply special story playing a game about parents at a table of parents: @jcdarcy.bsky.social, @shamini.bsky.social, @taylorannnx.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ln...
- We TOLD you he was so hot right now! (In TTRPGs) (And in general)
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell(2/2) Reuniting... @drakoniques.itch.io @emzywb.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social ...the resultant tale was a dark ode to Arthurian myth and the Old West, the blood-drenched outcome of which remains a secret between two of our players, kept even from me.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellAfter @rpgeeksdnd.bsky.social's acclaimed Blackstar, it was inevitable that our cast would reunite for another story this year. And so it was that @soulmuppet.co.uk's Inevitable was chosen, as a cadre of cowboy knights trekked across the wastes to deliver a coffin to its final resting place. (1/2)
- Have you heard of slugblasting? It's SO COOL, just like my character Conan, honest. Check out my guest appearance on the Deck of Many Aces podcast a we play the award-winning 'Slugblaster' by Mikey Hamm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpgB...
- In our newest Splitting the Deck series, we are doing some SICK FLIPS and COOL TRICKS with Slugblaster! 🩷 Our cast are swapping spell scrolls for skateboards in this one shot, playing Slugblaster by @wilkiescandylab.com . We've also swapped Ellie out for super special guest @shamini.bsky.social 🛹
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell🎄SPIDER FREE GIFT🎄 @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social have got you a festive gift straight from @podcastzoneuk.bsky.social! You can now hear our sold-out HEART Dragonmeet live show and discover the spirit of Incy-wincy-moonmas ❤️ pod.link/1390231928/e...
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell'Tis the season!
- Still can't believe our GM sent us actual presents for the Christmas one shot! Such excitement 😂🎁🎅🐕 @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @emzywb.bsky.social #ttrpgs
- This whole game was a Christmas present! ♥️🥳🎁
- Still can't believe our GM sent us actual presents for the Christmas one shot! Such excitement 😂🎁🎅🐕 @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @emzywb.bsky.social #ttrpgs
- Reposted by Shamini BundellOmg that's me
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell
- I do not have time or the skills to make fancy graphics or videos. But what I do know is that, this year, I took part in approx. 135 actual play sessions (give or take a few), across 43 unique TTRPG titles (30 unique publishers). Here’s my 2025 play report 🧵 fkth.notion.site/TTRPG-Play-R...
- Reposted by Shamini BundellMost TTRPG sessions by game: 1. The Between (13 sessions/Producer) 2. Public Access (11 sessions/Producer) 3. Kids on Bikes (10 sessions/Player) 4. Blades in the Dark (8 sessions/GM) 5. Call of Cthulhu (8 sessions/Player & GM) (D&D came 6th with 7 sessions/Player)
- Reposted by Shamini BundellI do not have time or the skills to make fancy graphics or videos. But what I do know is that, this year, I took part in approx. 135 actual play sessions (give or take a few), across 43 unique TTRPG titles (30 unique publishers). Here’s my 2025 play report 🧵 fkth.notion.site/TTRPG-Play-R...
- Reposted by Shamini BundellTime for another science carol! 🎄 Some researchers stuck a duck to a rock, so we sang a song about it. As you do!
- Paleontology meets Musical Theatre, this is my jam
- Reposted by Shamini BundellAn homage to VHS horror, Solemn Vale: Homegrown follows a group of football players as they uncover the terrible truth behind the disappearance of of their siblings. Enjoy Solemn Vale and the rest of the Last Line Rewind anthology at bio.site/lastlinepod.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellSo delighted that @lastlinepod.bsky.social was picked this year's selections for @tabletopartsfund.org Actual Play Grants! Congrats to the other reciptients!
- An homage to VHS horror, Solemn Vale: Homegrown follows a group of football players as they uncover the terrible truth behind the disappearance of of their siblings. Enjoy Solemn Vale and the rest of the Last Line Rewind anthology at bio.site/lastlinepod.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellSome people clearly haven’t got enough to do. Paging @jgn-paleo.bsky.social
- Reposted by Shamini BundellOur lovely GM made us puzzles! Which went... well...?
- Reposted by Shamini BundellA machine pretending to be a woman said something nice to me, and now I think it is a person
- Some banging tunes in this episode and also an end of year quiz with excellent vibes if I do say so myself! Science nerds, get listening to the Nature Podcast!
- This wk's @nature.com podcast has - ME on my heart-warming festive gifts piece 🎁 - A choir of scientists 🎤 - @bmaher.bsky.social on researchers who shaped science in 2025 - ME again, on our festive quiz w/ @shamini.bsky.social, @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social and Ben T 🏆 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Shamini BundellThe winter solstice is almost upon us once again...tomorrow marks 1 year since the release of @realmspod.bsky.social's 'Solemn Vale: Of Oak &Holly' series. Maybe time for a new festive tradition and have a relisten eh? www.realmspod.com/solemnvale #RPG #TTRPG #RealmsofPeril&Glory #SolemnVale
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell"Every Single Day" - Part 2 of our Mum Chums game with @taylorannnx.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @jcdarcy.bsky.social and @watermosaic.bsky.social is LIVE now! Join us for a brilliant story told my some top talent, with tears, tantrums and tipsy mums!
- Mum Chums concludes tonight! This is not an hours long epic. It is intimate and cosy and sad and funny and hopeful and filled with tiny truths. It is vignettes of lives as parents, apart and together, and I highly recommend watching and enjoying it.
- Our final actual play of 2025 goes out tonight! "Every Single Day" - Part 2 of this Mum Chums game with @taylorannnx.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @jcdarcy.bsky.social and @watermosaic.bsky.social arrives at 7pm GMT. A tight 1 hour long story, tears aplenty! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmQZ...
- We look adorable 🐕🎅
- Now is a great time to watch some dogs SAVING CHRISTMAS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL47...
- Reposted by Shamini BundellLive right now with one-shot full of the coolest canines Christmas has ever seen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL47...
- Ummm so I just got hand-delivered a mystery Christmas present that I'm not allowed to look in until tonight and I'm so excited for what @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social has in store! Yay for Christmas TTRPGs!
- Reposted by Shamini BundellHappy Jeeksday dog-lovers! (And fans of 80s action movies and Christmas cheer!) 🎅 @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social 🐩 @emzywb.bsky.social 🐕 @fkth.bsky.social 🐶 @shamini.bsky.social
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The RPGeeks Christmas One-Shot airs Tuesday with GM @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! In the futuristic year 2000 dogs compete on a TV gameshow to get on Father Christmas' Nice List. But why did these Good Dogs get put on the Naughty List? And what's really happened to Father Christmas?
- Reposted by Shamini BundellTomorrow it's Christmas for some Good Dogs, but not for others...
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The RPGeeks Christmas One-Shot airs Tuesday with GM @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! In the futuristic year 2000 dogs compete on a TV gameshow to get on Father Christmas' Nice List. But why did these Good Dogs get put on the Naughty List? And what's really happened to Father Christmas?
- Reposted by Shamini BundellJoin us for wholesome Christmas fun (via a perilous assault course of canine challenges and, of course, The Morality Dome) live this Tuesday at 7pm GMT on youtube.com/rpgeeksdnd!
- We've got ourselves a classic Rhys Lawton tale of imperiled doggies, morally dubious gameshows and christmas mystery! This TTRPG Tuesday come see some Good Dogs* play games! [*No actual dogs will be participating in televised death games and no fictional dogs will be harmed!]
- ANNOUNCEMENT: The RPGeeks Christmas One-Shot airs Tuesday with GM @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! In the futuristic year 2000 dogs compete on a TV gameshow to get on Father Christmas' Nice List. But why did these Good Dogs get put on the Naughty List? And what's really happened to Father Christmas?
- Reposted by Shamini BundellI am so proud of this cast, their story, and the final chapter of this grim, dark western tale. Mythic in scope. Dark in its telling. And as for its ending... ...well, that would be telling. ⚰️
- In Chapter 3 secrets were revealed and blood was spilt. Tonight, the final price must be paid... @edwardspence.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social @drakoniques.itch.io @emzywb.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Shamini BundellAnd thus our final series of 2025 ends. 'Unburied' is a tale of bravery and inevitable doom, brought to a stunning conclusion by GM @edwardspence.bsky.social, guests @drakoniques.itch.io and @superdillin.bsky.social and the RPGeeks. Watch all four episodes now on youtube.com/RPGeeksDND.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellWe jokingly dubbed our table the Inevitable Blues and this entire series kinda just backed it up. Especially this final chapter. Tune in and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
- In Chapter 3 secrets were revealed and blood was spilt. Tonight, the final price must be paid... @edwardspence.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social @drakoniques.itch.io @emzywb.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social
- Cool archeology news! 🔥 It's fascinating how hard it is to figure out what ancient humans were actually doing with fire.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellYou are not gonna wanna miss the final chapters of INEVITABLE: Unburied. It only get more and more intense. Trust me.
- TONIGHT and tomorrow, the conclusion of INEVITABLE: Unburied, our four-part series starring @superdillin.bsky.social, @drakoniques.itch.io and GM @edwardspence.bsky.social! Doom is approaching as five Arthurian cowboys try to outrun destiny in @soulmuppet.co.uk's 'Inevitable' ttrpg.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellIn Chapter 3 secrets were revealed and blood was spilt. Tonight, the final price must be paid... @edwardspence.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social @drakoniques.itch.io @emzywb.bsky.social @shamini.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Shamini Bundell(watching this, it's been so good; perhaps there's time enough today to get caught up before tonight's third installment?)
- Reposted by Shamini Bundellcheck out this fantastic actual play from some of my best pals!
- TONIGHT and tomorrow, the conclusion of INEVITABLE: Unburied, our four-part series starring @superdillin.bsky.social, @drakoniques.itch.io and GM @edwardspence.bsky.social! Doom is approaching as five Arthurian cowboys try to outrun destiny in @soulmuppet.co.uk's 'Inevitable' ttrpg.
- I'm still cross about this.
- Reposted by Shamini BundellPlease give this a watch and see what you make of it, as I reckon it conveys playing Mum Chums really well.
- Pssst... need more doomed romance, desperate revenge and heartless betrayal in your TTRPGs?
- TONIGHT and tomorrow, the conclusion of INEVITABLE: Unburied, our four-part series starring @superdillin.bsky.social, @drakoniques.itch.io and GM @edwardspence.bsky.social! Doom is approaching as five Arthurian cowboys try to outrun destiny in @soulmuppet.co.uk's 'Inevitable' ttrpg.
- None of the animals in this book have anthropomorphic accessories except this one.
- Because small children really need to know which gender it is that goes on and on 'blah blah blah'. 😐
- Reposted by Shamini BundellThe RPGeeks are live right now with nerdy festive fun! Come say hi in chat and play along!
