Get hands-on at MA Conference 2025 🛠️ In Cardiff you'll be able to take part in interactive workshops on topics including: • Working equitably with partners • Implementing Easy Read • Making ethical choices in museum scenarios • Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage through music, food and more

It’s so close now! Still just time to bag a ticket for TMiP 2025, where you can meet and network with other maths communicators, upgrade your skills and learn some new tricks: talkingmathsinpublic.uk

Our #TMiP25 conference attendees will also learn about how skills from stand-up comedy can improve our maths comm, with experienced comedy producer Chris Head. Tickets at talkingmathsinpublic.uk

Whether you’re attending @big-stem-network.bsky.social next week or not, we have a special #NerdyLooks challenge planned! Snap a photo of your outfit or part of it and share with the hashtag. Pls use alt text! @acescicomm.bsky.social

⚡Funderworld⚡ What are the attractions? "The Amazing Grant Tombola" "The Polaris House Haunted Mansion" "It's A Small World - Panel Membership Selection Game"

Talking Maths in Public is the UK's network for maths communicators. We run a conference every two years, and will shortly be opening sales for this year's event, 28th-30th Aug at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. Join our mailing list at http://talkingmathsi... for updates!

Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic... A stunning flying saucer-shaped building housing a large particle accelerator can be found not far from Didcot and it opens to the public for free tours a few times a year.

Become a guest writer for the IPR blog! Share your expertise, studies, and thoughts to enrich the policy conversation. Help shape the future of public policy by joining us here: buff.ly/0ueINOw #PublicPolicy #PolicyDiscourse

"Good practice for public involvement and engagement in data research" Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST, online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-pract... cc @timandraharkness.bsky.social

Our retrospective of all our recent family fun activities begins next week! Dull but worthy - Where’s The Fun challenges families to complete 27 learning outcomes while enduring the exhibition. #Museums

Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

The Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A open next week - funding for #SciComm folk working in STFC-areas (astro- / nuclear physics, computational science, quantum tech) www.ukri.org/opportunity/.... Max £20k, closes 24 April.

OBS for Beginners Are you someone who wants to get to grips with livestreaming? Do you want to find out more about how to use OBS in a way that is accessible, inclusive and engaging? I'm offering an intro training session where we'll build a new stream together! www.eventbrite.com/e/obs-for-be...

The BIG Event this year is at the @ri-science.bsky.social, home of the Christmas lectures, the Faraday theatre and so much more science history! BIG is the skills sharing network for STEM communicators, and I am so excited to be involved in making it happen! www.big.uk.com/latest-news/...

Executive Officer vacancy in my team starting salary £37,999 rising to £45,163 Working across Research and Innovation Services at @uniofbath.bsky.social to support department leadership team Looking for organised, flexible and proactive. No week will look the same. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📢 Calling all BSI members! Our BSI Communication & Engagement grant scheme is here to support your #PublicEngagement projects in #immunology Apply for up to £1,000 to bring your #SciComms ideas to life 💡 Deadline for applications: 1 February 2025 🔗 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm

After the unnecessarily complicated socks I decided to try another toe-up pattern. This one is sooo much quicker and easier. In less than ten days I've produced a whole sock and the second toe. Very pleasing indeed! #Knitting #Socks ##Lace

Since 2023, Twerton & Whiteway Community Network members have been developing their #CommunityResearch agenda funded [email protected]. Check out what they've been up to + their approach to using research and engaging with academic researchers to empower their community. blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...

Job alert 📣: Our centre hub, @uniofbath.bsky.social, is hiring for a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. They are keen to receive applications from those working in Environmental Psychology. 🌍 Deadline: Monday 10 February. Find out more and apply now: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

✨MSc Science Communication online open event✨ Thurs 30 Jan 2025 7-8pm Join us for an overview of the MSc, the SCU & the opportunity to ask Programme Leader @doc-webber.bsky.social lots of questions! www.uwe.ac.uk/events/msc-s... #scicomm #sciencecommunication #publicengagement

Interested in #scicomm? Then our online course Science Communication: Online and Media Writing CPD course might be just the thing for you! ⭐10 week course ⭐Online only - study from anywhere in the world ⭐Starts 22 April For more info & to apply: courses.uwe.ac.uk/USSKNP15M/ap... #sciwriting

Royal Society has an afternoon event on 13 Jan about careers in Engineering Biology, a term I discovered for the first time last year and had to google (but turns out I already knew what it was). The afternoon session has someone from DSIT royalsociety.org/science-even...

I'm pleasantly surprised to find that Google / YouTube's setting for "Allow third-party companies to train AI models using my channel content" is OFF by default and you can tick in the Channel > Advanced Settings option to allow it, if you wish. Then choose which companies can use it.

Matthew is really good at this stuff. It's so easy to overlook, but vital for great #SciComm #PublicEngagement

Not long after this, Potato worked out how to jump onto my desk from this position. She got pretty adept at it too, not bad for a 16yo. Sadly, Potato took ill over the festive season and we said goodbye to her in the small hours of this morning. We had a lovely couple of years with her.

📣#JobAlert #PublicEngagementLead 5 yr, full time. Starting at £37,999. Working in the newly developed Bath Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) @uniofbath.bsky.social to work with young people aged 12-25 in the region. Lots of #PublicInvolvement. Deadline 16 January. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📢 We're recruiting for an Assistant Editor and Network Developer to join our Science for Environment Policy team at UWE! Deadline this weekend! ⏰ Apply by 5 Jan 2025 Search for 'Editor and Network Developer' via the link below for more details & how to apply: https://buff.ly/3DmUGDd

Merry Christmas! Here's the full set.

This will be great. You should go if you are new to #SciComm

The statue above the Commercial Rooms on Corn Street is commonly thought to be Neptune or Poseidon but is actually an 1811 female representation of the spirit of Bristol.

And here we have them! The socks are done. Thank goodness. They have been a looooong time coming. Now comes any of the other projects I've got lined up for when these are done. #knitting #socks #cables

Potato really wants to get on my lap. This is very much the wrong way to try to get there, but at least she's trying!

In exciting news. I only have the cuff of my unnecessarily complicated sock to do. #Knitting #Socks

Come join the #PublicEngagement Unit as @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head. Check out the #Job pack and book in a chat with us if you fancy apply. Be quick though, just 1 week left to get your applications in! blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...

I still have availability for public engagement and science communication work in 2025, including content creation, training and presenting work! You can check out everything I offer below samsighsoffer.carrd.co I am very good at it, even if I do say so myself. Please share to boost visibility :)

Alt text? Don’t worry, Santa’s elves have your back! Writing great alt text is simpler than you think. Got questions? Ask our alt text elves!

📣📣 #PublicEngagement Job Klaxon📣📣 Fancy joining the team at the Public Engagement Unit? Come be the @uniofbath.bsky.social's new Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Check out the details of the job and how to apply 👇 blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...

I made an advent calendar last year. There is one of these squares for each day. They are made from tissue paper. I'll post them up each day. #Advent #Craft

So much to like in this article from the fabulous Ed Stevens. Introduction and background provides a great overview of why #PublicEngagement with research is important. journals.uclpress.co.uk/r4a/article/...

I don't know how many #PublicEngagement people are here yet. But I have a #job good in my team. Deputy Head of Public Engagement. Full time, permanent, based in Bath, starting at £37,999

I had an interesting day talking about small grants for #PublicEngagement with research. We talked about new approaches to funding to reduce burden. How the value of funded projects is not always in the project, but in the process the teams go through (and how is this captured).

So I'm back to the #UnnecessarilyComplicatedSock. This time I've got help from Potato who is kindly sitting on the pattern. #Knitting #catsofbsky

Here's what I'm currently dealing with. An unnecessarily complicated sock. I wanted to try making toe-up socks. The toe-up bits are pretty straightforward, I really didn't need all the complicated cabling! #Knitting #Socks

I can get down with reposts of cats. This is Potato trying to get into the kitchen after I had to run away because she was attacking my legs.

Science city, research region: how to build R&D into local identity. Polling shows place-based awareness and alliances can be foundations for national support, says Kim Shillinglaw. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Making work-related comments first thing on a Monday morning is not an accurate representation of me. Here's my cat instead, much more realistic for a Monday morning!

Getting set up to present online can be tricky. Over the last few years here is what I've come up with. Now I know it's my job so I put the effort in but quick things you can do in the below thread 🧵 0/7

Nice to see Human Centred Design getting a mention in here.

▶️ NHS England are looking for patient safety partners with national and regional patient safety teams. Purpose is to be a voice for patients and ensure that the patient perspective is at the forefront of all that we do. Role eligible for involvement payment. Closes: 21 Nov.