For wannabe comedians among us, join @drstevex.bsky.social's workshop "Comedy skills for researchers and other humans" on 3 June for tips and tricks to craft successful jokes about life, work and the future. (I can personally vouch for this and I'm hilarious.) www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Now and always.

THIS SATURDAY! Come and laugh along with seven comedians, therapists and people with lived experience of mental health issues as we make jokes about our poor, sore brains. Near Tower Bridge, 6-8pm and FREE Tickets: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...

This Saturday - a special comedy show about mental health, featuring therapists and people with lived experience. And tickets are FREE! At the Raven (off Tower Bridge on the South side) from 6-8pm. Grab your seat by booking at www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s... Christabel will be performing!

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It's new episode day! After getting caught doing something naughty, Steve's daughter tries to escape blame by asking "Is my brain a separate thing that tells my body what to do?". We asked Plato, Cavendish, Descartes & more to answer. drstevecross.squarespace.com/podcast #philsky #philosophysky

BOOK AGENT CHAT who are your UK agents for non-fiction? Who is good? Asking for a friend.

We have our first merchandise! Available from stevecross.squarespace.com/podcast I honestly don’t know enough philosophy to get the joke. Can anyone explain?

New episode @philosophyplaydate.bsky.social as a child asks "When will I die?". Stream or download now. This t-shirt celebrates the day Christabel told a teacher she'd got into UCL but he misheard "UCLA" and got super excited. Should we sell these? drstevecross.squarespace.com/podcast

Get tickets now for this month's @scienceshowoff.bsky.social with seven incredible acts, most of them new to our stage. April 21st at The Harrison near King's Cross wegottickets.com/f/18111

Episode 2 is up! Join us as we discuss "What's The Best Favourite Colour to Have?" with some help from Immanuel Kant and the many philosophers who have pointed out the holes in his arguments through which one could sail an oil tanker . The episode should be on all platforms. Shout if it isn't!

We are live! Download episode one and decide who is getting converted; Babies into dogs or dogs into babies? Can philosophy help us to decide? Available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. Other platforms coming very soon. open.spotify.com/show/6ryHSeM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Once again I beseech all universities: Don’t buy Extron systems they do not work properly with Macs.

TONIGHT Catch the funniest up-and-coming science talent in London. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/690755/

Get tickets now for our next show in London. Feb 25th with a cracking lineup! wegottickets.com/event/690755

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