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Discover a world of ideas! Festival will return in 2026!
🚀 The first
#NISF26
events announced! 🎟️ Book now:
nisciencefestival.com
✨ Featuring:
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
,
@maddiemoate.bsky.social
, Dr Marie Cassidy, Dr Julia Shaw, Horrible Science, Dr Kathryn Harkup & The Foyle Science Showcase Full programme announced in early December
#NISF26
about 2 months ago
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The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project
2 months ago
An exciting new venture from our friends
@profkdlilley.bsky.social
and
@niscifest.bsky.social
on our very own doorstep. Looking forward to the programme of events that they have planned
belfastmedia.com/celebrating-...
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Celebrating 200 years since first mapping survey of Divis Mountain took place
A NEW community heritage project has been launched which will shine a light on the rich and fascinating heritage of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.
https://belfastmedia.com/celebrating-200-years-since-first-mapping-survey-of-divis-mountain-took-place
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Jonathan G. Heaney
about 2 months ago
Myself &
@jonnyhhanson.bsky.social
are organizing an event at the
@queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social
as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. We screen Jonny's short film, followed by a discussion on power, emotion, and rewilding. All welcome—tickets here!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-and...
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Living and working with lynx and snow leopards
A rewilding short film screening and discussion
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-and-working-with-lynx-and-snow-leopards-tickets-1606510800049
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Dr Jonny Hanson
about 2 months ago
This is going to be great
@niscifest.bsky.social
🌳 🌿 🌍🦤🧪🦊
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Belfast International Arts Festival
3 months ago
🎭 Belfast International Arts Festival returns 14 Oct – 9 Nov 2025! Over 30 city venues alive with the best in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, literature & film – from global stars to homegrown talent.
belfastinternationalartsfestival.com
#BIAF25
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🚨 We're hiring! NI Science Festival is seeking a part-time Project Co-Ordinator for Maps and Memories — a 2-year, NI-wide heritage project exploring landscapes, history & mapping 🗺️ 📍 Belfast-based 🗓️ Apply by 18 July Details 👉
nisciencefestival.com/news/job-vac...
#Jobs
#Heritage
4 months ago
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Richard Troupe
8 months ago
A wonderful evening was had last night at an
@niscifest.bsky.social
talk on marine life by Steve Backshall.
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Nigel Gilmore-Cook
8 months ago
Thanks to
@niscifest.bsky.social
last night I got to see Steve Backshall give a talk on marine conservation. It was a really special moment for me as he is one of the broadcasters who inspired me to pursue science communication. A fantastic event and I learned so much 🐋🐬
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This Thursday we welcome Steve Backshall to Belfast to chat about Oceans and all things Marine Life! Very few tickets left!!
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8 months ago
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🚀 300+ events. 12 unforgettable days. Huge THANK YOU to everyone who made
#NISF
amazing—partners, funders, staff, volunteers, speakers & YOU! 💙 Help shape next year’s fest—share your thoughts! ⬇️ 📢
form.typeform.com/to/W7iuPVa
#NISF2025
9 months ago
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🌟 This
#IWD2025
, we’re celebrating the incredible women of
#NISF25
— on stage & behind the scenes! From trailblazing scientists to our brilliant team, they make science shine. 💡💜
#WomenInSTEM
8 months ago
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Future Island-Island
9 months ago
Future Island-Island at NISF25 Wrapped 🎁 8 Days | 13 Events | 278 Tickets. This year's NI Science Festival was a whirlwind of hands-on workshops, immersive experiences, and thought-provoking talks- showcasing sustainability, design, and community collaboration in action.
@niscifest.bsky.social
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Seamus Heaney HomePlace
9 months ago
We were thrilled to host a memorable weekend of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney's North. Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to making this a truly special occasion! Read all about the weekend's events here >
tinyurl.com/284p7eza
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🚀 300+ events. 12 unforgettable days. Huge THANK YOU to everyone who made
#NISF
amazing—partners, funders, staff, volunteers, speakers & YOU! 💙 Help shape next year’s fest—share your thoughts! ⬇️ 📢
form.typeform.com/to/W7iuPVa
#NISF2025
9 months ago
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Ian Reynolds
9 months ago
Thanks to all
@niscifest.bsky.social
for a wonderful festival. It has been fun, enlightening, enervating and rewarding.
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Ian Miller
9 months ago
Had a great Sunday afternoon at Ulster Museum at a packed event speaking about my recent book with Hugh Odling-Smee. This was my second event at this year's
@niscifest.bsky.social
, and hopefully I'll be invited back next year for more!
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If you missed it, you can watch again! Northern Ireland's own Rosemary Coogan, one of the European Space Agency's five astronaut candidates, chats to NI Space Office about her journey.....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hU...
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Rosemary Coogan - In Conversation | #NISF25
YouTube video by NI Science Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hUM2GDlGU
9 months ago
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Blackstaff Press
9 months ago
The WildX Podcast episode with
@rubyfree.bsky.social
is now live! They talk all things conservation, following your dreams, community, storytelling, rewilding a farm in Northern Ireland and puffins!
open.spotify.com/episode/287U...
#wildxphoto
#Rathlin
#rathlinisland
#rathlin
#seabirds
#nature
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Matt Bothwell
9 months ago
Bad news for team asteroid, good news for squishy humans. Yay!
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9 months ago
Thanks to all folks in North & East Belfast who came to
#NISF25
city food strategy events the last two nights. Great chats.
nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@visitbelfast.bsky.social
@meecoprof.bsky.social
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Hugh Odling-Smee
9 months ago
I'll be talking to Dr Ian Miller from Ulster University about his fascinating book, A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts. From Clonycavan Man (and his hair gel) to our last common exit. Sunday, 2.30pm at the Ulster Museum for
@niscifest.bsky.social
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Belfast Telegraph
9 months ago
Ancient human remains uncovered in a Co Londonderry bog are believed to belong to a young woman who lived around 2,000 years ago. The discovery has been hailed as “one of the most important archaeological discoveries on the island of Ireland”.
tinyurl.com/cnr5u8vv
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9 months ago
Help inform our city food strategy. 2 great nights last week. 2 to come this week. Wed 19 (Skainos) / Thur 20 Feb (Duncairn)
nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@visitbelfast.bsky.social
@meecoprof.bsky.social
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Mark Emmerson
9 months ago
Getting ready for tonight’s
@niscifest.bsky.social
event at the Skainos centre on Newtownards Road delivered in partnership with
@playthinkbrink.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
& @ClimateCoCentre - talking food systems across Belfast & what this city should DO!
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Matt Bothwell
9 months ago
Signing books for schools for the
@niscifest.bsky.social
! Had a great time taking all things astronomy with students around Belfast and Derry 😀
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9 months ago
Great fun at Famelab
@niscifest.bsky.social
tonight - many congrats 🎉 to winner Erin McEvoy for an excellent 3-min talk on her PhD on women and gambling - and to runner-up Emily Bond who explained why airplane wings bend! Super hosting by Emer Maguire and v lively judging 😆 😆
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Blackstaff Press
9 months ago
Ruby Free had such fun last night (I think we can tell!) at her sold out Q&A and creative writing workshop at the Seamus Heaney Centre on behalf of
@niscifest.bsky.social
, talking all things storytelling, illustrating, rewilding, conservation and more.
@rubyfree.bsky.social
#rathlin
#rathlinisland
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Matrix NI - Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel
9 months ago
🚀 The winner of the NI regional heat of
#FameLab
has been announced as part of the
#niscifest
supported by
#QUB
#UlsterUni
#MATRIX_NI
#FameLab
Many
#congratulations
to Erin McEvoy who won the regional award and to Emily Bond the runner up
#STEM
#Innovation
#Communication
@niscifest.bsky.social
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Ian Reynolds
9 months ago
Two more events
@niscifest.bsky.social
- absorbing talk today on cadissflies at the Ulster Museum and last night a joint event with NI Humanists on the evolution of the free will. It is like a great work out for the brain and one’s curiosity with a similar endorphin rush.
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Alistair Hamill
9 months ago
A few photos from my
@niscifest.bsky.social
presentation about the aurora last night. We had such a fabulous time delving into the science behind this beautiful phenomena.
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Mark Allan
9 months ago
We all agreed that the
@niscifest.bsky.social
Late Late Love Lab was great fun and we would have taken our dates (this may be why we didn't have dates of course)
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Erica McAlister
9 months ago
At the
@niscifest.bsky.social
last night I met a PhD student who researches holes in rocks at the bottom of the Atlantic, hoping to find evidence of earliest traces of life.
#NISF2025
#science
#nerds👊
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9 months ago
Great to meet Alex Lucas at the Sonic Arts Centre at
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
running Synth Hackathon 2025 for
@niscifest.bsky.social
- a delightful cacophony of electronic sounds! ⚡️🎸🔌
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Timofey Skvortsov
9 months ago
Delighted to represent our lab together with our PhD student Shauna at the NI Science Festival 2025 (
@niscifest.bsky.social
) and to talk about the exciting bacteriophage research we are conducting at the QUB School of Pharmacy (
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
!
#NISF25
#phage
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9 months ago
So positive to hear Tim Smit from the Eden Project in conversation with
@wildlifeni.bsky.social
@niscifest.bsky.social
talking about the potential of Belfast, all in the beautiful surroundings of the Elmwood Hall
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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9 months ago
Loved meeting Stephen Currie and David Hughes from
@basearcade.bsky.social
at the Banana Block 🍌for
@niscifest.bsky.social
, plus games developer Tom Cuthbertson - brilliant buzz!
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Ian Reynolds
9 months ago
The
@niscifest.bsky.social
is such a boon to life here that it forces you to choose events. Been at 6 events so far and could have gone to 6 others.
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9 months ago
Artist’s Fake Museum Explores Possible Future for the Planet - v much enjoyed my visit to ArtisAnn on Bloomfield Avenue today to see the work of Tracy McCoey for
@niscifest.bsky.social
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Jules Howard
9 months ago
Back from
@niscifest.bsky.social
(where events continue this week). Great fun! Lots of shows, lorra zoology chat. A privilege. A big highlight was on-staging with
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social
and hearing about Buster Gonad cricket genitalia among many other topics of important educational filth.
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Matt Bothwell
9 months ago
Talking to young scientists in Belfast, part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival
@niscifest.bsky.social
! So many great questions. And we sold out of books at the signing afterwards 😀
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Guided historical tours of Belfast
9 months ago
Second of three Diseases/Drs walking (medical history of Belfast) tours as part of the 11th
@niscifest.bsky.social
delivered this morning ! Rain, cold and grey. Nothing changes!
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9 months ago
A Palette of Possibilities: Celebrating Kidney Health
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
for
@niscifest.bsky.social
- super to meet Seana Maguire & Dr Clare McKeaveney, both involved in the Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund, plus of course Bella the Kidney Cow! 🐮
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Sarah Baccianti
9 months ago
Cold and misty day for this year's
@niscifest.bsky.social
#PaddleBackInTime
at
#Nendrum
. I miss my partner in crime
@drfranceskane.bsky.social
. A few trees broken after Storm Eowyn making the site even more surreal in this weather!
#StrangfordLough
#Vikings
#Ireland
#Winter
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Sarah Baccianti
9 months ago
And now back to Sketrick Island... Always fun to talk about heritage at our doorstep, or at short kayak away from the mainland.
#Vikings
#Ireland
@niscifest.bsky.social
#NISF25
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Join
@playthinkbrink.bsky.social
this week! Wed 19 (Skainos) / Thur 20 Feb (Duncairn)
nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s..
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9 months ago
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155Guy
9 months ago
@niscifest.bsky.social
Thanks for Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock’s event yesterday. Really enjoyed her second event with the festival.
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Future Island-Island
9 months ago
Explore the emotional impact of environmental change, connect with nature and focus on healing and reflection through nature and art. 📍 Harbour/Church Bay, Rathlin Island 📅 21 Feb | 1 - 3 PM 🎟️Tickets-
bit.ly/4h2YTej
Part of our event lineup for
@niscifest.bsky.social
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Future Island-Island
9 months ago
We had a date with wool on Friday 🌹 From badges and FII logos made from Irish wool and crafted on the felt loom to Rathlin wool rope, every fibre told a story - the sustainable potential of natural materials. Thank you to Ulster Wool & Donegal Yarns for joining us.
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Charlotte Blease PhD
9 months ago
Enjoyed contributing to an AI Ethics panel discussion at the
@niscifest.bsky.social
. A wide ranging discussion, and great audience.
#AI
#Ethics
#Algorithmicbias
#Healthcare
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Sara Gunn-Smith
9 months ago
This was great. Makes me want to create my own wee mini native rainforest in the garden. So much to think about, not only rewilding but how its all linked to politics, food, history & capitalism. Thanks
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
& Aoife de Bhal for excellent start to
@niscifest.bsky.social
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