Thank you to all that contributed to our Voyager exhibit today and created golden records at the British Science Festival! Some of my favourites are here, but I know I missed many so I'll be going through them once I've recovered a bit! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

We've got materials from the Science Fiction Collections at the University of Liverpool relevant to first contact in the Black-E (in Liverpool) today for the British Science Festival! Come and take a look! @britsciassoc.bsky.social

I'm a serious adult academic, so of course I've spent the last few days making Voyager 1 out of papier mache and bottle tops... See you tomorrow, British Science Festival @britsciassoc.bsky.social!!!

We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

I'll be on BBC Radio Wales at 6.30pm tonight talking about the British Science Festival and (of course) aliens! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Had so much fun at the weekend at Destination (an unofficial Star Trek convention) talking about the linguistics of First contact! Thanks so much to @jamiebgall.co.uk for organising! So exciting to see so many people engaging in science through fiction and culture!

The wonderful @hanachronism.bsky.social diving into the exolinguistics of Star Trek at the Destination convention.

My British Science Festival events featured here! www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/explori...

Claudio Maccone, Italian SETI astronomer and mathematician, passed away this week at the age of 77. Claudio was an early proponent of SETI research and was globally known for his work in the field. 🧪 🔭

A really fun episode today as we chat with the brilliant Catriona Silvey about writing a time-travelling romcom, why Cambridge is ridiculous, and why she wants to write many different types of stories Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/5aCdv-UFpes Or listen on your favourite app: linktr.ee/ukpageone

I'll be speaking about the linguistics of Star Trek at the Science and Community stage at Destination this year in Blackpool! Details here: destinationfanevents.com/Activity/sci...

I have written a piece in this book about Arthur C. Clarke's typewriter held in the Science Fiction Special Collections here at Liverpool. This will be a super cool volume with all sorts of unexpected treasures!

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

“We’re seeing teens being prevented from accessing content about sexual health, politics and news. If adults want to see this content, they are forced to prove how old they are with unregulated age verification companies.” 🗣️ ORG's James Baker #OnlineSafetyAct www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Lights are going out across the Net for UK users. Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content. In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best. 🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim.social.openrightsgroup.org.ap.brid.gy #OnlineSafetyAct

In a huge surprise to absolutely no one... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you met an alien, what would you say? And how would you say it? Celebrate 50 years of Voyager with @hanachronism.bsky.social at the British Science Festival, 13 Sept, and brush up on your intergalactic etiquette britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #BSF25

Was watching Cory Doctorow speak just now with ORG and he mentioned how in the past mobile calls within the same network were cheaper, which is something I'd completely forgotten about. When I got my first mobile, I chose my network based on the network of the people I wanted to call...

Fascinating interview with archaeologist & evolutioniary biologist Dr Ella Al-Shamahi who grew up as a devout creationist missionary, and studied evolution in the hope of disproving it, only to embrace science. She presents a BBC doc series about human evolution observer.co.uk/news/science...

ORG turns 20 this year and we've lined up a special event! Join Cory Doctorow in conversation with @mariafarrell.bsky.social. They'll be getting into Cory's work and taking the fight to Big Tech ✊ 🗓️ 16 July 🕕 6pm BST 💻 Zoom Don't miss it! Register now ⬇️

I'm speaking (and doing a fun workshop!) at the British Science Festival 2025, which is in Liverpool this year! I'll explore how we might design a communication system to talk to aliens and what we might want to say! britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

🎂 OTD 1912, computer science pioneer Alan Turing was born 🤖 In Babel No26, @hanachronism.bsky.social looked at the Turing Test and the possibilities of AI communication

Devastating www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Published in Public Understanding of Science with @justinsulik.bsky.social: "How do you argue with a science denial meme?" People rate response strategies to a science denial meme (specifically the "If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?" meme)

We're hiring a Lecturer in Media and Politics (Fixed Term, 12 months) to cover a colleague on a fellowship for 12 months. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Published in Public Understanding of Science with @justinsulik.bsky.social: "How do you argue with a science denial meme?" People rate response strategies to a science denial meme (specifically the "If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?" meme)

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

NO BIG DEAL but my partner is on Blue Peter today. I'm very proud.

Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors Deadline: 1st August 2025 Find out more and how to apply: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25 @gerrycanavan.bsky.social‬ @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social ‬@horrorlex.bsky.social‬

If it was possible to prevent this, I'm left even angrier that they tried to do it in the first place. Overjoyed for colleagues who will be saved though!

I'm presenting a paper in the Sustainability and biodiversity session today at #PCST2025. "Anthropomorphising ecology: investigating social information bias with non-human characters". I'll be talking trees and graphs, if you like that kind of thing. 11:45 AM in Conference Suite 4.

📢 The @absw.bsky.social is providing diversity scholarships to cover the full cost of attending their Science & Technology Journalism Summer School. www.absw.org.uk/pages/divers... (Apply by Fri May 30) www.absw.org.uk/pages/absw-s... #sciencejournalism #sciwriting #sciencecommunication #scicomm

EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.

For those interested in more detail on why scientists are engaging in activism see my latest papers on the topic here tinyurl.com/287n4ees tinyurl.com/muaptp9e tinyurl.com/ym3wfv4v Stay tuned for forthcoming ethnographic research into scientist-activism which is currently being written up.

Very cool looking PhD studentship in gaming and sustainability at Uni of Salford here, working with @cultsociologist.bsky.social and Tom Brock. Interested to see the outcomes of this one! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMU434/p... #PhD #studentship #funding #GameStudies #EcoGames

I'm enacting a leftist "homecoming" & hosting an event on the opening night of Bristol Transformed 2025: "First Congress of the Comedy Party" I will eject anyone for proposing things that are too sensible. Entrance is included in a BT2025 Festival ticket - find them here: hdfst.uk/e126380

Obviously the stats for the right wing parties are alarming, but who on Earth are the Green voters who think the climate isn't changing?

Make sure you're following @openrightsgroup.bsky.social for all of your UK digital rights news, campaigns and actions!

I'm once again hosting the Famelab Regional Final for the North West! We'll be at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester at 7pm! Tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...

Israel has broken the ceasefire, killing 400 Palestinians in Gaza and injuring over 500. The death toll and humanitarian catastrophe is worsening by the hour. The UK must finally demand accountability for Israel's war crimes, strengthen sanctions and ban all arms sales.

I remain gravely concerned by today’s welfare announcement, to put it mildly. Cutting social security for disabled people will only deepen poverty and inequality. This wasn’t in our manifesto and it isn’t what people voted for when they elected a Labour government.

There is only one good thing about being in America right now, and it's that this book is available for you to buy.

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢 If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP @commmedia.bsky.social

Why does it look like the Queen is trying to escape out of his face?

I invited some international friends over for pancake day tomorrow and more than one person assumed I meant for breakfast, rather than what I meant, which was an evening affair. Now I'm wondering if even all British people have pancakes in the evening? That's when we eat them, right?

Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS

I hate the future

lol same

JCOM is pleased to announce a special issue dedicated to “Transitions in Science Communication”, one of the themes of the 2025 PCST conference, and specifically for speakers at this conference. More info - jcom.sissa.it/news/27/