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...

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

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...

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?

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

There was a brief moment last nigtlht seeing the aurora from Dundee, at least until the cloud set in completely.

More aurora tonight at Loch Calder, far north of Scotland

Just off the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿radio after a lovely #Artemis-II return to the moon chat with @ollopa11.bsky.social! Leo taught me that the Orion capsule is the first moon-mission with a toilet-cubicle on board! The 1970s Apollo astronauts were afforded no such dignity😳 🛰️ ℹ️: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/artemis...

🚨 Aurora alert! 🚨 A geomagnetic storm is expected over the next 48 hours due to the expected arrival of a coronal mass ejection that left the Sun on 18th January. View the full forecast: geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service... 📷 Aurora borealis over Aviemore - credit: J Orsi

Through examples and guided activities, this workshop will help you think outside the box, experiment with new formats, and develop ideas that make your science more engaging, original, and impactful. Last chance to book! www.big.uk.com/thelittleevent #LittleEvent26 2 of 2

🥳 Major milestone for the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish Dark Sky Observatory: architectural designs are now public and isn't she a beauty! Two 5m 🔭domes, observing deck, solar-panelled planetarium, exhibition area & cafe. Fingers crossed that planning permission gets approved! ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 📷: arpl

I've been sitting on this for over a month...but given how cross I am with @royalsociety.org at their ongoing inaction over #Elon #Musk I thought I'd share this. They invited me to serve on their Public Engagement Committee; I could have been more eloquent, but I had to give a firm "no"...

Elizabeth is a member of the BIG Exec Committee, is a highly accomplished marine biologist & runs a massively successful YouTube channel. Her session will explore how to embed video in to your communications, with plenty of top tips to take away! Book your place now! www.big.uk.com/event-6410615

It's not long now until the Little Event 2026, our training session for people who are new to STEM communication It takes place on the 29/31 January via Zoom, and we're so excited to share that @marinemumbles.bsky.social will be one of our speakers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl94...

I want to bully people into making science comics! I just applied to give a comic workshop at @big-stem-network.bsky.social :3 This is one of my favorite workshops, people always surprise me (and themselves) with their creations. Everyone is a storyteller, I am here to remind people of it.

Did a really fun video with the V&A at their cool storehouse location! WAs such a delight to get to see some of really cool objects up close and chat about art ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js3LV1KZ7M

Us, checking to see if you've submitted your session proposal yet. Closes on 16th January, don't dilly dally! 🔗 forms.gle/mqEAjRMz87yT...

I am a very serious event manager, I promise.

Every year when I do my tax return, I think of this scene from Black Books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBc...

They're open, and we need YOU (yes, you!) to submit your proposal for the BIG Event! Come join us and loads of others at the National STEM Learning Centre this July! Propose a session now forms.gle/RBW95Z8sEagK...

Audience switching off during a talk? Could be cognitive overload. Audiences need to take in a lot: there's visual stimulus, audio stimulus, background stuff. And then you need them to think and process the information. Don't make the problem worse with cluttered slides or lots of jargon.

My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt

Armagh Observatory continues centuries-old winter solstice tradition www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

As we're heading to 2026, time to reintroduce myself. I'm Sam, a science communicator, event manager, showrunner for an award nominated AP & manager of a range of TTRPG & science projects! Do you need an event manager or content producer? A presenter or trainer? Let's chat! 📩 samsighs.carrd.co

A GORGEOUS NEW JWST IMAGE OF WESTERLUND 2 DROPPED AND EVERYONE SHOULD SEE IT!!! 🌌✨

As a science teacher and writer, the ambiguity in the meaning of the word “day” occasionally bothers me, but not as much as trying to say the word “nychtemeron”

Prepping for @cosmicshambles.com #NineLessons and just came across the very good quote: "The North-South border is extremely well-defined, just ask any Northerner and he will gladly tell you that ‘the South’ is everywhere immediately south of where he happens to live..." 😅

Growing up on the Solent, the answer was of course that The North starts anywhere beyond the M27.

⭐ BIG NEWS ABOUT THE BIG EVENT 2026! ⭐ We are thrilled to announce that BIG will be heading to the fantastic National STEM Learning Centre in York for the BIG Event in 2026 between 15th & 17th July. Tickets go on sale on 29th January, and Session Proposals are open now! forms.gle/i6hNy2FE9ixX...

I'm now an officially Big fan of #Biggar! Loved the xmas lecture vibe in the packed theatre - and so many cool questions in the Q&A 🥳. Huge thanks to the Biggar Science festival @biggarsciencefest.bsky.social team for organising!

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

Look, if you're going to buy some kid you know a sciencey book for Christmas, it really ought to be one of mine. You know, to show that you've really thought about it and not just grabbed the first science book you came across: alomshaha.com

Delighted that "Mr Shaha's Marvellous Machines" once again features on "15 inspiring books that teach children about engineering" from the Institution of Civil Engineers. NOTE: "anyone who can’t get hold of the book... can access some videos of related projects on the author’s website for free"

Genuinely believe this advert raised a generation who confuse eclipses with the New Moon! Yes this a niche gripe #planetariumpresenter

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️ #Scotland #Christmas

A Dundonian #Star, in more ways than one, is Williamina Paton Stevens or Fleming. Born here in 1857 she went on to help classify types of stars at Harvard College Observatory. These are some copy obituaries and other papers about her life. Ref: GD/X34 #ArchiveAdventCalendar

🔊Big in #Biggar! If you're in the #Lanarkshire area, the Biggar Science Festival's Christmas lecture in the Corn Exchange, will be featuring yours truly. We'll be discussing the 4 questions that I'm most often asked! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭 ⏰: 11th Dec @ 19:30 🎟️: biggarce.yapsody.com/event/index/...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

For some people, a presentation is; - The slides - On a big stage - An exam/judgment When actually its; - 1 person talking to more than one other. And they are trying to achieve something with the conversation.