ATOM Festival

That's a wrap folks! It feels like we're just getting started, but the festival is over for another year. Never fear though, plans are already afoot for 2026. Thank you again to all our speakers, sponsors, volunteers and attendees. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

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ATOM Science and Technology Festival, Abingdon-on-Thames - Tony Hey New page

Professor Hey has held positions at Caltech, MIT, CERN and was Chief Data Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Harwell. For more information about this evening’s talk and speaker, please visit our website: www.atomfestival.org.uk/atom-25-spea...

Tonight is the final event of this year’s festival and we couldn’t be more excited! Our 2025 Peagram Lecture is titled Einstein, Bohr and John Bell: Entanglement, Hidden Variables and Quantum Computers and comes from Professor Tony Hey CBE.

Tickets are still available, so be sure to pick some up before it’s too late: www.ticketebo.co.uk/atom-festiva...

ATOM Science and Technology Festival, Abingdon-on-Thames - Mark Simmonds New page

For more information about the speaker and the talk, please visit our website: www.atomfestival.org.uk/atom-25-spea...

Tonight we’ll be back at the Amey Theatre for the penultimate talk of this year’s festival and we'll be learning about The Whale-Human Interface from Mark Simmonds OBE. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. We hope to see you there!

Well done again to all the speakers at FameLab Academy last night. It's a shame we could only crown one winner when you all did such an excellent job - everyone can be very proud of what they achieved!

This evening we'll be crowning the FameLab Academy regional winner for 2025. No tickets required for this free event, so please come along to cheer these science communicators of the future! Doors open at 7pm and presentations begin at 7:30.

All of our iBricks sessions with House of Fun at Abingdon Guildhall tomorrow are full, but we can't wait to see what you'll be building! Be sure to send photos of all your incredible creations 🧱

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Off to @atomscifest.bsky.social to give a talk tonight (tickets still available) and am bringing some ☢️ objects from my collection.

Tomorrow we'll be joining @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social at Harwell for her talk on "Quacks, Medical Radium and Harwell". Tickets are still available so be sure to get them before it's too late! www.ticketebo.co.uk/atom-festiva...

That talk will be at Abingdon United Football Club, where doors will open at 7pm for a 730pm start. This one is free for @atomsociety.bsky.social members, so be sure to arrive promptly to get yourself a seat! For more information, see the website: atomsociety.org.uk/03-2025-macu...

Thank you once again to @brianclegg.bsky.social for last night's fascinating talk on Brainjacking and apologies to those who attended for the technical issues. Tomorrow evening we join @atomsociety.bsky.social in welcoming Professor Susan Downes, who is coming to talk about Macular Degeneration.

ATOM Science and Technology Festival, Abingdon-on-Thames - Monstrous Discovery New page

Tomorrow evening's talk from @brianclegg.bsky.social is now SOLD OUT, but there are still spaces available on the children's workshop tomorrow morning, so be sure to get your tickets while there are still any left! www.atomfestival.org.uk/atom-4-kids/...

It was wonderful to see so many people on the Market Square today celebrating science, even the sun put in an appearance! 🌞 Thank you to all the exhibitors and visitors that came to join us!

We're excited to be kicking off ATOM Festival 2025 tomorrow with our Science Market on the Market Square in Abingdon! The event will be running from 10am to 3pm and we hope to see you there! 🧑‍🔬

A week today we'll be hosting Professor Susan Downes as part of @atomscifest.bsky.social with a talk about Macular Degeneration. This talk is free for members or £3 on the door. Doors open at 7pm as usual, for a 730pm start. We hope to see you there!

Following that, any budding paleontologists will love our 'A Monstrous Discovery’ workshop with the Royal Society of Chemistry on Sunday 16th March in the Roysse Room at Abingdon Guildhall. For more information and booking, visit our website: www.atomfestival.org.uk/atom-4-kids/...

A display of rocks and fossils in a museum

It’s now less than a week until we kick off ATOM Festival 2025 with our free Science Market on 15th March! On the same day Abingdon Museum will be hosting the Oxfordshire Geology Trust for their Fossil and Mineral Day.

A plushie toy virus surrounded by cards from a card game, some facing downwards and some facing up, with pictures of different types of cells, viruses and bacteria.

Two weeks today, we’ll be kicking off ATOM Festival 2025 with the Science Market Day. We’re expecting some tiny shy visitors from @dunnschool.bsky.social. Can you uncover and match all the different microbes? Come to Abingdon Market Square on Saturday 15th March to find out!

A poster promoting the FameLab Academy Oxfordshire Finals

This year will see the welcome return of the FameLab Academy Oxfordshire Finals to the ATOM Festival. Come along to the Amey Theatre on Monday 24th March to witness these science communicators of the future in action! Entry to this event is free, so we hope to see you there!

Disinformation. Misleading AI. Propoganda. Fake News. Has there ever been a time when we needed more to know about Brainjacking, the science of influence and manipulation? @atomscifest.bsky.social talk at Abingdon Guild Hall, 16 March, 7.30pm book here:
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Our talk next month will be part of the @atomscifest.bsky.social when we will be welcoming Professor Susan Downes to give a talk about Macular Degeneration: Through the Ages. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 18th March!

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ATOM Science and Technology Festival, Abingdon-on-Thames - Brian Clegg New page

For more information about the talk or speaker, you can visit the event page on our website: www.atomfestival.org.uk/atom-25-spea...

Our first talk of the 2025 ATOM Festival will be ‘Brainjacking: the Science of Influence and Manipulation’ with @brianclegg.bsky.social on Sunday 16th March. In this talk we’ll explore the psychology of storytelling and how stories can be used to inform, influence and manipulate.