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

Got to perform stand up at the @royalsociety.org last night! What an amazing venue, and I got to catch up with my lovely former colleagues @katedoingscience.bsky.social and @sanahannan.bsky.social - Lancaster clearly makes very funny scientists! Huge thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for inviting me.

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

The NBA draft is 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...

This Friday! Get yourself a brain full of medical silliness for FREE at the Raven in London Bridge as part of the Medi-Culture festival: www.mediculture.co.uk/whats-on/sci...

@claireprice.bsky.social is a WIZARD

One week to go until we try and bring some comedy to Climate Change! A few tickets left for this London show wegottickets.com/event/646879

I'll be speaking at @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 30 April about my new research; on a subject that is profoundly important to me and to the world (even if few have heard of this incredible woman and her people). Register to attend in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...

Just double-checking whether this headline has slipped through a time hole from 2008. If I bought a pint for a fiver the biggest danger is hitting my head on the bar when I faint.

If you're a researcher or nerd of any variety and you'd like to try #standup get in touch @brightclubmcr.bsky.social our next gig is 14 May 🎭

Severance is just Inside Out for grown-ups

Try thinking of your salary as the bribe you accept to allow someone to torture you slowly to death.

5 tickets left to catch me with @chrislintott.bsky.social and more tonight in OXFORD wegottickets.com/f/13642 I am bringing a special guest!

On April 1st I'm bringing something new to @oldoptheatre.bsky.social with @teamlondonbridge.bsky.social . Comedians, storytellers and museum curators making up lies about the history of medicine. Everything will be incorrect, made-up and funny. oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

Watching the Tottenham of the North vs the Newcastle of the South.

The fabulous @drstevex.bsky.social kindly hosted me on The Worlds on Science Podcast. On listening back, I’ve possibly managed to offend plant biologists and the physiological society. I blame Steve! #anatomy #scicom #comedy

I’m over the moon to have won the @britishneuro.bsky.social award for Public Engagement 2024 🥳✨🧠 Massive thanks to the panel! This is such an exciting recognition of public engagement work in neuroscience! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @devneuro.bsky.social

It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

Thankfully Merseyside Derby is called off so we don’t have to look up the George Bernard Shaw quote about fighting pigs in mud. #lfc

If you’ve lost Whamageddon already, you can always take part in Mothergeddon, where you have to go the rest of your life without hearing Meghan Trainor’s “Mother”

I just said the sentence “where did I leave my glasses to charge?” out loud. I do not have tech glasses, I’m just an idiot.

#lfc Liverpool vs Accrington Stanley is the true Milk Cup.