I'm enjoying an episode of that history podcast you like where two tory men talk about stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0im...

A gentle reminder to pay your freelancer invoices before Xmas. You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.

If you'd like to see an amateur comedy routine vaguely on the subject of peer review involving lots of puns and me forgetting a line, look no further! Credit and thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for the video and, as always, being a very funny, supportive compere! youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...

NOW RECRUITING FUNNY ENGINEERS. On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts. 10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com Who would like a show?

TOMORROW! Catch London's hottest Arts and Humanities talent telling jokes about their work. Just a few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/679150

I'll be performing at this - really looking forward to it! It'll be my sixth time doing stand-up, almost a year exactly since I first tried it. Also my fifth different set, which is admittedly a slightly abnormal way of approaching things.

NEXT TUESDAY London's funniest Arts and Humanities researchers will make you laugh your ass off at LOLs In Translation. Tickets selling fast so get one now! wegottickets.com/event/679150

FREELANCING HUNT I've had a couple of really frustrating cancellations and work ghostings recently SO I have loads of space in my diary until the end of Jan. Hire me for all your training, event hosting, workshop enlivening, facilitation, comedy & photography needs! Or a bespoke work-themed quiz.

These days I mainly gig just to catch up on my reading. Thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for another lovely show at The Old Operating Theatre and for the lush snaps x

COMEDIANS would any of you like a paid show on Wednesday? I need 15 minutes of material with a loose medical and/or Halloween-y theme from you. PAID. It's this: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s... (had an act pull out for completely forgiveable reasons)

TOMORROW NIGHT: Catch me and a VERY SPECIAL SCIENCE FRIEND in Bristol with some incredible acts: thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...

Need a fun Christmas activity for your work? Something a bit different? I create and host bespoke silly quizzes, themed around you workplace. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you all about it. I’ve done this for companies, conferences, loads of universities and more. You next? Photo: Ian Bowkett

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST I am coming to entertain you very soon. Get tickets fast for the Know Show on Tuesday 28th with a fantastic lineup thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...

November 18th! LOLs in Translation, the night where researchers in the Arts and Humanities tell real jokes about their work is back in London. It will sell out. It always does. So get a ticket quickly: wegottickets.com/event/679150

It's tonight! Get a faceful of science and a belly of laughs with @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Harrison! Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/673103

Getting quite excited about the lineup for @scienceshowoff.bsky.social on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103 Got some brand new acts for this one - you can forever say you saw them first!

An incredible lineup of acts old and new at @scienceshowoff.bsky.social on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103 Fill your brain with joy and FACTS.

Over on The World's Only Science Podcast I've been watching Paycheck (2003) with Leah Morgan. Come learn what a professional Reverse Engineer is and what happens when you microwave your brain. From sites.libsyn.com/474930/episo... or wherever you get podcasts.

My day of free headshots for science people went so well in London that I'm doing one in Cambridge. Oct 9th afternoon at Canopy (CISL). Email [email protected] if you'd like free pictures to use to promote yourself and do websites and socials and that.

Anyone in the University or Impact worlds got good gossip on the REF pause? What can we expect?

“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

Sad that after two all-action episodes, Alien Earth is now deep in the “just people talking in rooms” slow phase of a streaming series. I want ANDOR pace!

COLLYMOHA #lfc

At a gig this week someone referred to “the mid 13th century” but I think the 13th century was actually quite good.

LOOKING FOR SCIENCE PERFORMERS OCT 8TH LONDON. Fancy trying your hand at being funny at @scienceshowoff.bsky.social ? If you've not performed with us before pitch me your set of under ten minutes. Pays an equal split of the door money.

PAID GIG looking for comedians in London who have chronic pain for a new informal panel format talking to academic pain researchers. In October. Just a feeler at the moment as I put the idea together to pitch to the festival / funder.

COMEDIANS / MEDICS / SCIENTISTS / MUSEUM FOLK / OTHER NERDS I'm looking for people who'd like to perform at a SPOOKY MEDICINE comedy show on October 29th. PAID (enough for you to write something new) 15 minute slots. Think Halloween / Horror / Goth stuff DM me if you've got ideas and fancy it

What a wonderful experience performing stand-up comedy at The Royal Society this week! Huge thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social and @royalsociety.org for the invitation, and to my fellow comedians for all the laughter and camaraderie! 😊🎤 📸: @drstevex.bsky.social

Tomorrow night catch a special night of Humanities-based comedy in Kings Cross, hosted by the magnificent Shalaka Kurup wegottickets.com/event/659501

Lads I’m having a full-fat Coke. It’s incredible. Nature’s most effective medicine.

I hate conspiracy theories. I think they're ruining society. That being said, that lottery was 100 percent rigged.

Laughable levels of rigged

How many gender neutral / unisex toilets are there in the UK? www.toiletmap.org.uk/posts/gender... (spoiler: we don't know, but here are 1447 of them)

Exciting news: The 365 day countdown to Leeds United’s relegation being confirmed starts now!

Friends, I'm performing MICHAEL BRUNSTRÖM SINGS TEN SONGS ABOUT MOTHS at The Pen Theatre on Thursday. It's a very fun show with lots of music and silliness. I'd be lovely to see you there. www.thepentheatre.com/michael-brun...

On June 18th get ready for a night of jokes about health, disease, bones, death and squishy bits of people. Get tickets now for PathLOLogy at Bart's Pathology Museum! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-sh...

It should be illegal for a mainline train station not to have a Boots. Looking at you, Euston.

I've accidentally wound up doing a mini-lecture tour of London this week & in case anyone is desperate to hear two very different perspectives on the history of Newfoundland, here they are. First, at Gresham (there are tickets left for the live stream) ... www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...

I'm on a hunt for freelance work. Lots of free time in my diary and looking to fill it up with projects. Use me for: Training Facilitation Consultancy Comedy Hosting events Photos, videos & podcasts (photo by @ianbowkett.bsky.social the UK's best theatre photographer) drstevecross.com

Quick selfie before I eat 10kg of chocolate

NeuroNight! Excited to share a fun Neuro-comedy night — where science meets stand-up — all part of the countdown to #BNA2025 in Liverpool! 📅 Apr 24 – Battle of the Brains 📍LEAF, Bold Street, Liverpool 🎫 Tickets: lng.org.uk/byob-leaf Please share – everyone’s welcome! 🙌

I'm recruiting acts for a PAID science comedy show on the 1st July. Looking for active researchers who have done something like @scienceshowoff.bsky.social , Bright Club, The Know Show etc before. 10 minute sets.

Want to talk to me about a project or want advice or a favour? The next London Scicomm Social is Weds May 7th at the Temple Brew House from 6pm, and it’s always the best place to talk me into things!

Had lots of fun blending into the background at Science Showoff Cures All Ills last night. Photos by @drstevex.bsky.social

A highlight of last week was a chance to try out some new ways to tell jokes while also admitting the horror of climate change. Thanks to @ianbowkett.bsky.social for the photo and @itgreenhouse.bsky.social for the support.

TONIGHT! Fill your brains with laughter about climate change and find hope in all this firey mess. A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/646879

TONIGHT! Join me and some hilarious whimsical folk to delve into the history of medicine COMPLETELY WRONG www.mediculture.co.uk/whats-on/apr...