Home of great science & big questions. Year-round home of @FameLab. Youngest member of @cheltfestivals family.
Cheltenham, England
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Check out this year's #CheltSciFest programme here: cheltenhamfestivals.com/scie…
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✨Research opportunity!✨
Would you like to try some intriguing sensory activities? Take part in our study at @lborouniversity and try some activities that have been demonstrated at major Science Festivals! DM or email for more info.
#PhD #CallForParticipants #lboro #psychology
ALT Study poster entitled 'Investigating the Power of Changing perception'. Help us to understand how people experience multi-sensory activities and explore how this links to thoughts about the brain and body. One in-person session (45 minutes) at Loughborough University. This session will involve answering some survey questions, trying seven sensory activities, and answering some questions about how you find them. You must be aged 18+ and not have tried the demonstrations with one of the researchers before. £30 prize draw: One4All voucher.
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Those of you who listen to #TheLifeScientific, either on @BBCRadio4 or via the podcast edition, may have heard the episode that went out in August with the great Kip Thorne. Unlike most episodes, which I record at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London.. 1/4
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#FameLab UK 2025 applications are NOW OPEN 📣
Are you a science enthusiast with a passion for communication? This is your chance 🌟
Can you share your knowledge and inspire in just 3 minutes?
Apply to be part of the future of science storytelling: cheltscience.festivalpro.com…
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🚀 We’re thrilled to be the NI National Hub for #FameLab! Could YOU be the next voice of STEM? 🌟 Apply from today & get training ahead of the NI Final at #NISF25 . Past winners like Emer Maguire & Dr. Aaron Monson have wowed – will you be next?
Read more nisciencefestival.com/famela…
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Great to be on this podcast with the awesome @StellarPlanet talking a bit about a massive (jupiter-sized?) composition I'm working on for 2025 involving exoplanets...! This interview is from back in June at @CheltSciFest
🎧 Ep 203 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out now
🤩 Special ep @HolstMuseum celebrating Holst 150th birthday with @LauraKinnear4
🪐 Holst inspired event @CheltSciFest inc @StellarPlanet @Robert_Laidlow
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💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.…
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Interested in being part of Cheltenham Science Festival 2025? Let us know here if you have an idea for an interactive zone space or event: cheltenhamfestivals.org/news… #CheltSciFest
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Cheltenham Science Festival uses storytelling and everyday materials to make complex #scientific topics #accessible and engaging. #CheltSciFest
Read our interview with Marieke Navin, Head of Programming at @CheltSciFest here: bit.ly/3T1jTYZ
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This week we swing open the cage door and invite questions from some young & curious chimps! @ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince are joined by @SteveBackshall @Zoologist_Jess @amateuradam as they wrangle brilliant questions from inquisitive kids, like who would win in a fight🦈 v🐊?!
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Who would win a fight between a shark and a crocodile?
@SteveBackshall helps us answer the important questions on @themonkeycage 's Kids Special episode “Beastly Bodies”, where @ProfBrianCox and Robin Ince are joined by a team of experts and an audience of curious children at Cheltenham Science Festival.
The Infinite Monkey Cage | Listen on @BBCSounds
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In a children’s special edition of The Infinite Monkey Cage, @ProfBrianCox , Robin Ince, @SteveBackshall @Zoologist_Jess and Adam Kay are put through their paces by an audience of curious youngsters at Cheltenham Science Festival: bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
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🎪 When @CheltSciFest was looking for innovative 💡 new ways to inspire a new generations of #cybersecurity professionals, it engaged with @EdinburghNapier for our #creativity & #festival curatorial expertise...!🎭
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#MustBeNapier @TourismENU @ENUBusSchool
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Why talking to animals could soon become a reality sciencefocus.com/news/talkin…
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🔔NEW SERIES ALERT🔔
@ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince are back in the monkey cage with 7 brand new episodes! Joined first by Dame Judi Dench talking all things trees🌲
Listen from Wednesday on @bbcsounds or wherever you get your podcasts OR tune in @bbcradio4 at 11am on Thursday!
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Another Successful Year Supporting STEM Skills at Cheltenham Science Festival l3harris.com/newsroom/editor…
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How scientists could now use your surname to catch serial killers sciencefocus.com/science/dna…
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For my @FameLab talk I took everyone to the past & back to the future of Marty McFly’s brain. Using MRI we can time travel to understand Parkinson’s 🧠
Watch this space, some big names are going to come out of this years final
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📸@StillMoving @cheltfestivals
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This was a fantastic collaboration between @GeneTherapyHubs, @_BSGCT & @CGTCatapult to deliver multiple activities at @CheltSciFest. BSGCT's @Dr_RKarda @Xri5stos & @amy_geard did a great job with help of other volunteers. Thank you so much!👏👏🏅🏅🏅
@lifearc1 @The_MRC @UKRI_News
Cheltenham science fest was a blast!
Inspiring the next generation of scientists with my all female crew #steminist
Representing the @GeneTherapyHubs, @neurosheff and @sheffielduni
Thank you for making it happen @sophiemountcastle
@The_MRC
@UKRI
@lifearc1
@BSGCT
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It's back! The new series of #TheLifeScientific begins from 9am @BBCRadio4 - when @jimalkhalili explores the starry world of asteroseismology with the inimitable Conny Aerts. Or catch up later on @BBCSounds. [Pic courtesy of @CheltSciFest & Still Moving Media]
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You are all invited to the public launch of my new book It's a Gas. 11th July 7pm at the Royal Institution @Ri_Science it will be explosive 💥 and entertaining like the book. Tickets here: rigb.org/whats-on/its-gas
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