The British Science Festival needs you! Our Open Call for #BSF26 with @unisouthampton.bsky.social is now LIVE. You don't need to be a scientist or linked to Southampton - anyone can propose. Find out more and send us your event ideas here: www.britishscienceassociation.org/open-call

"The gold standard of an engagement project’s impact is whatever is intrinsically most beneficial to the project, the people involved in it, and the communities it is hoping to impact...." Yesterday's annual Engagement Day at Imperial was full of inspiring ideas and practical advice

Come hear us talk about the first moments in the history of the Universe, part of Imperial Lates at Imperial College in South Kensington, London.

🎤 Are you an early career researcher passionate about communicating with the wider public? Applications for the 2026 British Science Festival Award Lectures are now open! Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept. Find out more and apply > www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures

As we near the end of International Year of Quantum, we're wrapping up the celebrations with a Time-themed #ImperialLates – packed with quantum-fun! The centre piece of our Quantum Time Zone will be Resonating Possibilities' from Studio Above&Below – an art piece inspired by quantum clocks

An Exciting, Inclusive Day of Exploration and Learning Awaits at the Deaf Art Science Festival https://www.byteseu.com/1525994/ Published on November 9, 2025 Melbourne is set to host a truly unique and vibrant celebration of creativity, science, and culture, all with a focus on inclusivity, at …

I think Ive posted before about dance and movement as a science storytelling and engagement device for public audiences. There was some great examples at last week's Diwali celebrating Light themed #ImperialLates - captured by the ever brilliant Brendan Foster

We're pleased to be part of the Festival of Social Science! The festival explores the world of social science, from how society has shaped our local areas to behaviours that help fight climate change. Sign up to the UCL events: bit.ly/3Yab00X Browse the rest of the festival events: bit.ly/3kCUfXb

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A real highlight of last night's light-themed #ImperialLates celebrating Diwali 🪔 Vinay Jobanputra, the creator of Bollyqueer, collaborated with Matthaus Schullik from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Astrophysics Group to create a dance class that explored the four stages of star formation ⭐

Two experiments involving Imperial scientists have created the world's most precise measurement of the difference between the mass of two types of #neutrino Read more here ⬇️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270453/...

Sunday at @newscientist.com live with the family: - Coding lunar rovers with the National Space Centre - Detecting cosmic rays with the Boulby Underground Lab - Enjoying Christopher Jackson's beautiful layered cakes of seismic reflection - Learning vertical farming with the John Innes Centre

💫 Celebrate the festival of lights safely, and let the chemistry of joy shine bright! Wishing you and your loved ones a very Happy Diwali filled with love, light, and laughter. #RSCIndia #ChemSky #Diwali2025

No one ever wants an #ImperialLates to end, but at the close of next week's event, you'll be treated to a beautiful Bollywood dance by Imperial Indian Society to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light! 🎟️: ow.ly/kJ3W50X9Krw

Stuck for weekend plans? Why not visit The Festival of Social Science! The festival kicks off this weekend and will be exploring and celebrating the world of social science. 📅 18 Oct - 8 Nov 🎟️ Free entry 📍 Across the UK and online 🔗 Find an event for you: festivalofsocialscience.com

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

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🎪 Great Exhibition Road Festival 2026 opens for ideas! 🎪 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social teams can today propose activities for our celebration of art, science, & innovation 📩 Submit proposals lnkd.in/evbJfwNE 📚 Guidance lnkd.in/eYt6nA6T 💡 Advice sessions lnkd.in/e8HdfmCC ☕ 1-2-1s lnkd.in/eqx5ChZv

Heads up all Imperial staff and students!! Next Wednesday we will launch 🚀 the proposals process for teams interested in taking part in @ExRdFestival 2026 🎪 More details to follow......

I think it means Earth is about to vomit because it's literally sick of us.

These images by Tommy Wong of dance company Movema at Liverpool Cathedral during the British Science Festival are too beautiful to just keep to Instagram. But join us on there for more! In the background, artwork by Maria Loizidou 🕊️ Taking Flight was programmed with Liverpool Biennial 🪶 #BSF25

🚨 Date confirmed for Imperial's Engagement Day 26! 🚨 If you're academic or professional services Imperial staff Imperial with an interest in societal engagement - this is for you! 📆 26/11 ⏰ 09:30-16:00 📌 Scale Space White City, W12 7RZ ℹ️ More info: lnkd.in/eGHhvHd9 🖋️ Sign up: lnkd.in/exKA5WZp

My wife picked up this lovely children's book a while ago - and our boys love it. Today it inspired our first mushroom hunt of the end of summer / autumn - around Stanmore Common

“If we had not continued to burn fossil fuels over the last decades, most of the estimated 24,400 people in Europe wouldn’t have died this summer.” ~Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...

Imperial staff and students are invited to the live stream watch party for the Launch of NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) Mission 🚀 Tuesday 23 September, 11.30 – 13.30 🚀 Main Entrance, South Kensington Campus Sign up now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19803... #ImperialSci

Celebrate Diwali 🕯️ at an evening festival of light 🌟, explore the nature of time ⌛ through dance 💃 & immersive art, or find out all the ways science can improve your wellbeing 🙂 Its the return of the Imperial Lates - our adult evenings of scientific discovery! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268433/...

And that’s a wrap on the 194th British Science Festival! 🎉 For four days, Liverpool was alive with inspiring talks, hands-on experiences, and city-wide celebrations of science! We were proud to help shape this year’s programme, with research from across all three Faculties showcased. 🙌

I was privileged to support the Branch Line Society 'Piccadilly Explorer' tour yesterday, which raised £1,000 for Northwick Park Hospital League of Friends. First stop: South Harrow for the gasworks viaduct stub and signal relay room, plus the original 1903 station building 🧵1/7

One more year: Ice loss at Konkordiaplatz on Aletsch #Glacier is just... wow 😲 Minus 4.6 metres of ice. Will there ever be a call: "Make Aletsch Great Again"? It would be about time

"Looks horrible and it is." - that's my favourite local 😀

Dr Jess Wade, multiple award-winning British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, has written and contributed to more than 2,000 Wikipedia pages about female scientists and scientists of colour. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Festival season is over... or is it? This fall, Berlin Science Week is bringing hundreds of free events combining science, art, and culture to every corner of the city. 🗓️ Save the dates: 1—10 November. It's going to be a good one. Our programme launches 25 September! #BerlinScienceWeek25

Excited to be representing LJMU @ljmuofficial.bsky.social who are co-hosting the British Science Festival 2025 starting next week. Tickets are still available come along and see what we are doing 😊 #BritishScienceFestival2025 #BSF #marineecology #outreach www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Science Festivals as vehicles for inclusive, live, participatory practise in academic research At this year's Great Exhibition Road Festival a 'Be a scientist zone' supported @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social teams to incorporate public input into academic practice www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267814/...

🚨 The #ImperialLates returns this October!! 🚨 And there are lots of opportunities for Imperial academic staff and students to bring their research, innovations and ideas to these fun, social post-work events attended by anywhere between between 750-1000 visitors www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/...

94% of visitors & 95% of exhibiting academic & student contributors described their overall Great Exhibition Road Festival 2025 experience as good or excellent! For Imperial teams reporting on their festival participation, we have lots of eval stats we can share - www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266933/...

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My 4th 'Bugs Day' at Imperial's Silwood campus. The boys (and I) had a wonderful time at an event that just gets better each year. For Imperial team's interesting in public engagement with the natural world or environmental research, Bugs day is a wonderful resource to reach public audiences.

Congratulations to the organisers of Middlesex Pride in Gunnersbury park today. It was a brilliantly organised event. Loads of fun activities, amazing stage performances and a real sense of community and people being nice to people 🏳️‍🌈

Great free thing to do in London these summer holidays - head to St James' Park at 14:30ish to watch the Pelicans getting fed The Royal Parks team were amazing answering everyone's questions

A mylonite beach pebble, a 600 My old microcosm of plate tectonics

8 giant murals created by 8 artists 🎨 -inspired by conversations with 8 Imperial scientists will go on display in White City this week. Created during this year's #ExRdFest, it is great they will get a second viewing, and a chance to reach new audiences. #Sciart www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266258/...

A Welsh festival combining the joy of indie-folk music with science, nature, spoken word, dance, and the arts which takes place in a beautiful Welsh woodland is readying for its most exciting event yet this August

You can now view the whole timetable for BSF25 here - issuu.com/britishscien... Get booking here - britishsciencefestival.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @cultureliverpool.bsky.social @liverpoolecho.co.uk

Thanks so much to Harrow Nature Conservation Forum for talking to our boys about local wildlife at today's Roxeth Show

These tiny creature are called the "carriers of stone seeds" in Ancient Greek. Known as coccolithophores, these algae shield their bodies in stunning calcium plates. In ancient times they were so numerous their bodies—piled in the trillions—formed the rock of the White Cliffs of Dover, in England

✨ What a weekend at the Great Exhibition Road Festival! Eleonora Moratto and the Chelsea Ballet Group lit up the stage in a stunning fusion of science & dance. They wove talks by Morena Mills, Robin Lamboll & Matt Clark into a breathtaking ballet about our planet’s urgent plight 🌍🩰

We reckon 55,000 people joined us & our 1000 Imperial staff and students for the 2025 Great Exhibition Road Festival. A weekend full of fun and colour and conversations and ideas and a bit of rain, but also lots of sunshine! Better photos to come from the professionals, but it was filled with joy