Helen Featherstone, PhD

It’s so close now! Still just time to bag a ticket for TMiP 2025, where you can meet and network with other maths communicators, upgrade your skills and learn some new tricks: talkingmathsinpublic.uk

Our #TMiP25 conference attendees will also learn about how skills from stand-up comedy can improve our maths comm, with experienced comedy producer Chris Head. Tickets at talkingmathsinpublic.uk

Text heavy graphic. BIG does #NerdyLooks 14th to 20th July. Prompts for the week are M - Spark, T - Bright, W - Life, T - Matter, F - Count and S & S - Free choice. Smaller text in a speech bubble says Bonus challenge: Wear one thing which has previously sparked a SciComm conversation. The text is on a grey centre which is surrounded by a pale green border covered in purple doodles related to science and science communication.

Whether you’re attending @big-stem-network.bsky.social next week or not, we have a special #NerdyLooks challenge planned!

Snap a photo of your outfit or part of it and share with the hashtag. Pls use alt text!

@acescicomm.bsky.social

Very busy poster attached to railings. The main text reads "Funderworld theme park, Bristol"

⚡Funderworld⚡

What are the attractions?

"The Amazing Grant Tombola"

"The Polaris House Haunted Mansion"

"It's A Small World - Panel Membership Selection Game"

Talking Maths in Public is the UK's network for maths communicators. We run a conference every two years, and will shortly be opening sales for this year's event, 28th-30th Aug at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. Join our mailing list at http://talkingmathsi... for updates!

Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source A stunning flying saucer-shaped building housing a large particle accelerator can be found not far from Didcot and it opens to the public for free tours a few times a year.

Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source

ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tic...

A stunning flying saucer-shaped building housing a large particle accelerator can be found not far from Didcot and it opens to the public for free tours a few times a year.

Become a guest writer for the IPR blog! Share your expertise, studies, and thoughts to enrich the policy conversation. Help shape the future of public policy by joining us here: buff.ly/0ueINOw #PublicPolicy #PolicyDiscourse

"Good practice for public involvement and engagement in data research" Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST, online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-pract...
cc @timandraharkness.bsky.social

A very grumpy looking child. The black and white poster is entitled ‘where’s the fun? A retrospective of recent dull but worthy family fun events’ Tickets unavailable

Our retrospective of all our recent family fun activities begins next week!

Dull but worthy - Where’s The Fun challenges families to complete 27 learning outcomes while enduring the exhibition.
#Museums

Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity - Research Professional News When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates

Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity.

When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A Apply for funding to engage the public with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) supported science, people, technology or facilities.

The Public Engagement Spark Awards 2025A open next week - funding for #SciComm folk working in STFC-areas (astro- / nuclear physics, computational science, quantum tech) www.ukri.org/opportunity/.... Max £20k, closes 24 April.

OBS for Beginners Learn how to set up a simple livestream from scratch, whether you're playing video games, running an actual play, hosting a panel and more.

OBS for Beginners

Are you someone who wants to get to grips with livestreaming? Do you want to find out more about how to use OBS in a way that is accessible, inclusive and engaging?

I'm offering an intro training session where we'll build a new stream together!

www.eventbrite.com/e/obs-for-be...

An advert for the BIG Event. Green and purple graphics, including the BIG logo, the Royal Institution logo and a photo of the Best Demo competition competitors is shown. The text reads "London 2025. The BIG Event, 16tj - 18th July. Home of the best demo competition, over 30 sessions to choose from, fun networking opportunities (really). The skills sharing event for people that work in in STEM engagement. want to take part as a session host and receive a discount? Submit your ideas now. www.bigevent.info"

The BIG Event this year is at the @ri-science.bsky.social, home of the Christmas lectures, the Faraday theatre and so much more science history!

BIG is the skills sharing network for STEM communicators, and I am so excited to be involved in making it happen!

www.big.uk.com/latest-news/...

Executive Officer vacancy in my team

starting salary £37,999 rising to £45,163

Working across Research and Innovation Services at @uniofbath.bsky.social to support department leadership team

Looking for organised, flexible and proactive. No week will look the same.

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

📢 Calling all BSI members! Our BSI Communication & Engagement grant scheme is here to support your #PublicEngagement projects in #immunology

Apply for up to £1,000 to bring your #SciComms ideas to life 💡

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2025

🔗 bit.ly/3Y9j8gm

It is isn't it! It was a gift. Malabrigoyarn.com.

Pattern is Willow Socks from the Woodland Designs collection by Kat Megan. Found on Ravelry.

A multi coloured (reds, purples, and blues) hand knitted sock with a lace pattern on the front. Next to it is a ball of the yarn and the toe of the second sock. All on top of the paper pattern.

After the unnecessarily complicated socks I decided to try another toe-up pattern. This one is sooo much quicker and easier. In less than ten days I've produced a whole sock and the second toe. Very pleasing indeed!
#Knitting #Socks ##Lace

A green vinyl banner attached to railings with the words "Twerton and Whiteway Community Network" in green

Since 2023, Twerton & Whiteway Community Network members have been developing their #CommunityResearch agenda funded by@ukri.org. Check out what they've been up to + their approach to using research and engaging with academic researchers to empower their community.
blogs.bath.ac.uk/publicengage...

Job alert 📣: Our centre hub, @uniofbath.bsky.social, is hiring for a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology.

They are keen to receive applications from those working in Environmental Psychology. 🌍

Deadline: Monday 10 February.

Find out more and apply now: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

✨MSc Science Communication online open event✨

Thurs 30 Jan 2025 7-8pm

Join us for an overview of the MSc, the SCU & the opportunity to ask Programme Leader @doc-webber.bsky.social lots of questions!

www.uwe.ac.uk/events/msc-s...

#scicomm #sciencecommunication #publicengagement

a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them ALT: a cartoon drawing of a person using a laptop with the words write written around them

Interested in #scicomm? Then our online course Science Communication: Online and Media Writing CPD course might be just the thing for you!

⭐10 week course
⭐Online only - study from anywhere in the world
⭐Starts 22 April

For more info & to apply: courses.uwe.ac.uk/USSKNP15M/ap...

#sciwriting

Careers in engineering biology | Royal Society Hear from people who have established a career in engineering biology.

Royal Society has an afternoon event on 13 Jan about careers in Engineering Biology, a term I discovered for the first time last year and had to google (but turns out I already knew what it was). The afternoon session has someone from DSIT royalsociety.org/science-even...

I'm pleasantly surprised to find that Google / YouTube's setting for "Allow third-party companies to train AI models using my channel content" is OFF by default and you can tick in the Channel > Advanced Settings option to allow it, if you wish. Then choose which companies can use it.

Rubbish. Hope you feel better soon.

Matthew is really good at this stuff. It's so easy to overlook, but vital for great #SciComm #PublicEngagement

Not long after this, Potato worked out how to jump onto my desk from this position. She got pretty adept at it too, not bad for a 16yo.
Sadly, Potato took ill over the festive season and we said goodbye to her in the small hours of this morning. We had a lovely couple of years with her.

While not located in the Public Engagement Unit with me, the person in this role will work closely with us in the PEU to ensure joined up approaches and sharing learning between our central team and this new Research Group.

📣#JobAlert #PublicEngagementLead 5 yr, full time. Starting at £37,999. Working in the newly developed Bath Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) @uniofbath.bsky.social to work with young people aged 12-25 in the region. Lots of #PublicInvolvement. Deadline 16 January.
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...