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'
- Why are women getting ADHD diagnoses so late? This fascinating film from @emzywb.bsky.social explores the stats, the science and the personal costs.
- For fans of The Traitors and also Bing Crosby!
- 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 🤷♀️
- We TOLD you he was so hot right now! (In TTRPGs) (And in general)
- 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 🛹
- 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
- Paleontology meets Musical Theatre, this is my jam
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
- 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?
- Cool archeology news! 🔥 It's fascinating how hard it is to figure out what ancient humans were actually doing with fire.
- I'm still cross about this.
- 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'. 😐
- Games night tonight?
- This is my nerdery-based ttrpg creation where everyone has to use their own special interest to somehow solve every single problem. If you missed it it's on YouTube now!
- I've been watching too much Star Trek and wrote a whole original TTRPG system based entirely on the cheesy similes. ♥️🤩🚀
- It's Jeeksday!
- Two days left to apply for this job!
- Important news for my London #scicomm / film-making folks: my work is hiring! We're looking for a science-nerd with experience of social/vertical video production - writing, editing, presenting, wacky ideas, the whole shebang. If this is you and you have any questions feel free to reach out!
- There's a Lindt shop at Piccadilly Circus which does ice cream cones with warm melted chocolate in the bottom and this changes everything.
- I am getting very excited for this year's #Dragonmeet - a nerdy TTRPG convention at the Excel in London. I'm so short of time to dress up these days but gonna throw on some (semi-practical) cosplay for babynightbot and I! Find me hanging out at the podcast zone with the these actual play nerds:
- Yes we had to get the old Orbital Blues crew back together for this because, not content with being sad space cowboys, now we get to be doomed arthurian cowboys too.
- Breaking dinosaur news from me!
- Science video nerds assemble! If you know anyone who this job at Nature's London office might be suitable for please share and let me know if you have any questions.
- Important news for my London #scicomm / film-making folks: my work is hiring! We're looking for a science-nerd with experience of social/vertical video production - writing, editing, presenting, wacky ideas, the whole shebang. If this is you and you have any questions feel free to reach out!
- Important news for my London #scicomm / film-making folks: my work is hiring! We're looking for a science-nerd with experience of social/vertical video production - writing, editing, presenting, wacky ideas, the whole shebang. If this is you and you have any questions feel free to reach out!
