Calling the #scicomm community, and anyone looking for a new career in bonny Scotland. New job alert for an Education & Learning Officer at the fantastic #Kirkcudbright Dark Space Planetarium. Application deadline: 27th March. 🔭🎢
www.darkspaceplanetarium.org/explore/care...
We're excited to be teaming up with the City of London Sinfonia next week for a special show at Hackney Empire. The Exoplanets, hosted by @robinince.bsky.social with @jengupta.bsky.social, is a live orchestral journey inspired by real scientific data. Tix - www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/the-e...
A portable planetarium set up in a school hall. The planetarium is a big inflatable black dome that reaches almost to the ceiling. The Tayside Planetarium advertising banner is set up in front of the dome, showing a colourful image of deep space.
Had a wonderful time on the Black Isle on Monday, taking the portable planetarium to Avoch Primary. We chatted about planet parades, meteor showers, and the upcoming (delayed!) Artemis mission launch. The kids were bubbling with joy and with questions. A fab day all round.
A portable planetarium set up in a school hall. The planetarium is a big inflatable black dome that reaches almost to the ceiling. The Tayside Planetarium advertising banner is set up in front of the dome, showing a colourful image of deep space.
Had a wonderful time on the Black Isle on Monday, taking the portable planetarium to Avoch Primary. We chatted about planet parades, meteor showers, and the upcoming (delayed!) Artemis mission launch. The kids were bubbling with joy and with questions. A fab day all round.
Plans for a new Scottish Dark Sky Observatory (SDSO) in Galloway to replace the old one in Ayrshire, which was destroyed by a fire, have been approved
A lurcher lying on a sofa getting belly rubs. He looks very content.
The face of someone who's just been chased round the house, while finishing a Yorkshire pudding, and who has learned NOTHING.
Yeah okay this is addictive
A pheasant looking in a window against the backdrop of the Lovell Telescope. Caption reads: 'Meet Maurice'.
Maurice the pheasant looking in the window of the Star Pavilion, with the Lovell Telescope in the backdrop. Caption reads 'Frequently caught trying to join our daily Telescope Talks...'
Maurice the pheasant looking at his own reflection in the window, captioned: '... and regularly spotted gazing lovingly at his own reflection!'
👋 Meet Maurice!
If you’ve visited Jodrell recently, you might have noticed a rather persistent guest tapping at the windows of the Star Pavilion…
Maurice, our resident pheasant, has become a regular (if entirely uninvited!) presence at Jodrell’s daily, free Telescope Talks and other events.
JOSH AWARD 2026 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
The winner of this national award in science communication and engagement will develop and deliver a new project to run at Science Festivals, Science Discovery Centres, or other outreach events. Full details at big.uk.com/josh/
Deadline 10 April 2026.
I saw one as well heading past York today! Bon voyage!
A rainbow shines over the houses and trees and parks of the West End of Dundee. The waters of the Firth of Tay are in the foreground, as the photo is taken from the train as it passes over the Tay Bridge.
Back on the trains again down to Liverpool bringing some of the @dyellowlees.bsky.social storytelling magic to LJMU. A good omen over Dundee to start the journey!
A woman dressed as a giant starfish is centre, alongside the STEM learning logo and "York 2026. 15th - 17th July" “I think the bursary is a great way for anyone who hasn’t been to a BIG event to get to meet a whole welcoming community of people with experience in STEM and SciComm and try out new things!” Elizabeth Mills 2024 Bursary Recipient and Human Starfish
The bursary scheme for the BIG Event 2026 is open!
Open to anyone who hasn't been to the BIG Event before, and who is in the first 5 years of their scicomm career!
Apply by the 10th March to cover your BIG ticket and contribution to travel costs for York 2026! 👇
big.uk.com/event-6560981
A big "👋 hello!" To all my new connections and followers!
I run DY training, a company specialising in helping researchers give better presentations.
We're all about helping folk find confidence and belonging in how they express themselves
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Top marks to Bedford Borough Council on both history and astrophysics. 🔭
Do you organise talks at your uni? Please keep an eye on the tech!
Keep those mic batteries charged. Get in early & turn on projectors, lower the screens. HDMI cables are quite fragile, so tell your IT people if they’re bust.
You don’t want your speakers to arrive and be stumped by tech issues.
Splendid. No notes.
And both of them wearing the badges I designed for LGBT+ History Month! 🏳️🌈💚
Matt Ridley, a whole career of being dangerously wrong about everything
Guy who receives money from a coal mine on his land has thoughts.
www.desmog.com/matt-king-co...
Zack Polanski wearing my LGBT+ History Month 2026 pin which looks like rainbows exploding out of a conical flask
This is incredibly cool. Thanks @zackpolanski.bsky.social for wearing one of my designs to celebrate queer scientists and innovators!
Remember: the slides are for the audience, not for you the presenter.
If you’re putting stuff on your slides to help you remember what’s next, try another way.
Presenter view in PPT lets you have notes for each slide, or cue cards work too, but best of all, learn the talk.
#Academia #PHDChat
BIG Event 2026 Registration is Open Now!
Join us at the National STEM Learning Centre 15-17 July for top quality skills sharing, networking and our famous Best Demo competition!
Early bird tickets and our bursary scheme are now open, with early bird closing 31 March!
www.big.uk.com/BIGEvent2026
A graphic showing a range of reasons why you should come to the BIG Event, including expert speakers, incredible demos, award winning presenters, lifelong friendships, skills development and whimsical crabs. A range of images of delegates are shown, as well as the STEM learning logo.
BIG Event Registration launches tomorrow!
We're so delighted to share that the BIG Event will go on sale tomorrow, with Early Bird tickets, and the Bursary scheme, launching at 10am GMT.
This is the cheapest way to attend, so mark your diaries, and book ASAP!
www.big.uk.com/BIGEvent2026
The best presenters have found their own style. It's not about being the perfect. The goal is an engaged audience, & there's a load of ways to achieve this.
One person's talk may rely on skills that you don't use much, and vice versa. We all have our own skill set.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations
Come on daylight! Been trying to picture this out in my head since October. This is a fab graph.
Excellent, funny and depressing thread!
What can PhD researchers learn from a ceilidh? 🕺📚
From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections.
Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...
A photograph of a protest sticker stuck to a lamp post which reads: The rich are robbing us blind and yer da’s greetin about small boats. Migrants welcome in Dundee.
Spotted in Dundee.
Tailor your talk to the audience – this is a must
You can’t give the same talk to primary school kids that you would to folks in your research specialism. And it goes for every different audience in between.
Ask yourself who are they?
What do they know already?
How do they feel about the content?
Graphic which is predominantly text with the BIG logo. The Little Event 2026. Our popular introductory event for people new to STEM Communication in the UK and around the world. 29th January @ 3pm-6.30pm GMT, 31st January @ 10am-2pm GMT. Members £50, Non-members £85, Price includes one year of BIG Membership. Zoom Event, Captions Available, Breakout Room Activities, Bursaries Available. www.big.uk.com
There's still time to grab a ticket for the @big-stem-network.bsky.social #LittleEvent26 next week for early career #SciComm folks!
Lots of great sessions including an overview of the sector from me & @acescicomm.bsky.social
Find the fulll programme online www.big.uk.com/event-6410615
