Science Showoff
@scienceshowoff.bsky.social
Chaotic nerdy comedy in venues across the UK and online. Serving science, history, medicine and books-based laughs. Always looking for new talent and audiences. DM if you'd like to perform. Listen to The World’s Only Science Podcast. it/that
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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
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
July 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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
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
I see the “I want to be associated with the British Empire” people are being loud again.
June 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I see the “I want to be associated with the British Empire” people are being loud again.
Who do we think will come out on top of this Drake vs Drake beef?
June 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Who do we think will come out on top of this Drake vs Drake beef?
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Tomorrow night catch a special night of Humanities-based comedy in Kings Cross, hosted by the magnificent Shalaka Kurup wegottickets.com/event/659501
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Tomorrow night catch a special night of Humanities-based comedy in Kings Cross, hosted by the magnificent Shalaka Kurup wegottickets.com/event/659501
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On June 18th get ready for a night of jokes about health, disease, bones, death and squishy bits of people.
Get tickets now for PathLOLogy at Bart's Pathology Museum! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-sh...
Get tickets now for PathLOLogy at Bart's Pathology Museum! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-sh...
Science Showoff: PathLOLogy
A fun-filled comedy evening focused on medicine and pathology
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April 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
On June 18th get ready for a night of jokes about health, disease, bones, death and squishy bits of people.
Get tickets now for PathLOLogy at Bart's Pathology Museum! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-sh...
Get tickets now for PathLOLogy at Bart's Pathology Museum! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-sh...
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explain to me like I’m five, Yvette, why people coming here on legitimate graduate visas and then getting jobs in our understaffed and underpaid health and social care sector is a problem
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
explain to me like I’m five, Yvette, why people coming here on legitimate graduate visas and then getting jobs in our understaffed and underpaid health and social care sector is a problem
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reminder that neil degrasse tyson is a creep www.vox.com/2019/7/29/89...
Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by 4 women. He’s keeping all his jobs.
The American Museum of Natural History just concluded its investigation, and Tyson is staying.
www.vox.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
reminder that neil degrasse tyson is a creep www.vox.com/2019/7/29/89...
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LOL at all the old science guys.
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
LOL at all the old science guys.
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I'm recruiting acts for a PAID science comedy show on the 1st July. Looking for active researchers who have done something like @scienceshowoff.bsky.social , Bright Club, The Know Show etc before. 10 minute sets.
April 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I'm recruiting acts for a PAID science comedy show on the 1st July. Looking for active researchers who have done something like @scienceshowoff.bsky.social , Bright Club, The Know Show etc before. 10 minute sets.
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TONIGHT! Fill your brains with laughter about climate change and find hope in all this firey mess.
A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/646879
A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/646879
Science Showoff presents Stand Up for Climate Comedy
A new night of climate-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, with jokes about science, despair, hope and sustainability.
Join Steve Cross and a team of smart and hilarious people who wo...
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April 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
TONIGHT! Fill your brains with laughter about climate change and find hope in all this firey mess.
A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/646879
A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/646879
Tomorrow Night! Catch us at the Old Operating Theatre Museum for a night of made-up silly medical history. Still some free tickets available courtesy of the Medi-Culture people: www.mediculture.co.uk/whats-on/apr...
April Fool's Medicine — Medi-Culture
Join us for April Fool’s Medicine , where history takes a hilarious wrong turn.
www.mediculture.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Tomorrow Night! Catch us at the Old Operating Theatre Museum for a night of made-up silly medical history. Still some free tickets available courtesy of the Medi-Culture people: www.mediculture.co.uk/whats-on/apr...
One week to go until we try and bring some comedy to Climate Change! A few tickets left for this London show wegottickets.com/event/646879
Science Showoff presents Stand Up for Climate Comedy
A new night of climate-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, with jokes about science, despair, hope and sustainability.
Join Steve Cross and a team of smart and hilarious people who wo...
wegottickets.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
One week to go until we try and bring some comedy to Climate Change! A few tickets left for this London show wegottickets.com/event/646879
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Hello lovely Bluesky 👋 please help me find people who would enjoy my free online course, 'Storytelling Foundations'.
Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.
It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout
Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.
It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout
Attention scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people 📣
I've just released a FREE online course that will help you write quicker and present better using tools from the world of storytelling.
Get it here:
www.storyology.co.uk/storytelling...
I've just released a FREE online course that will help you write quicker and present better using tools from the world of storytelling.
Get it here:
www.storyology.co.uk/storytelling...
Storytelling Foundations — Storyology
A free 30-minute online course for academic and industrial researchers, engineers and techy people. Developed by Dr Anna Ploszajski, Storytelling Foundations is a practical, creative and efficient cou...
www.storyology.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hello lovely Bluesky 👋 please help me find people who would enjoy my free online course, 'Storytelling Foundations'.
Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.
It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout
Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.
It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout
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On April 1st I'm bringing something new to @oldoptheatre.bsky.social with @teamlondonbridge.bsky.social . Comedians, storytellers and museum curators making up lies about the history of medicine. Everything will be incorrect, made-up and funny. oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
April Fool’s Medicine – The Old Operating Theatre
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January 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
On April 1st I'm bringing something new to @oldoptheatre.bsky.social with @teamlondonbridge.bsky.social . Comedians, storytellers and museum curators making up lies about the history of medicine. Everything will be incorrect, made-up and funny. oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...
Shouldn’t Britain’s Silicon Valley just be the train line from Liverpool St to Cambridge?
January 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Shouldn’t Britain’s Silicon Valley just be the train line from Liverpool St to Cambridge?
The zombie of cold fusion staggers on, forever dead, forever hungry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cold fusion may be a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels | Letters
Letters: A number of companies have been able to make these low-energy nuclear reactions work reliably, write Brian Josephson, David J Nagel, Alan Smith, Dr Jean-Paul Biberian and Yasuhiro Iwamura
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January 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The zombie of cold fusion staggers on, forever dead, forever hungry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Where are my ultra-processed food fans?
I just had a bag of Wotsits and I tell you friends, they’re fantastic!
I just had a bag of Wotsits and I tell you friends, they’re fantastic!
December 7, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Where are my ultra-processed food fans?
I just had a bag of Wotsits and I tell you friends, they’re fantastic!
I just had a bag of Wotsits and I tell you friends, they’re fantastic!
We're looking for scientists, activists, historians, researchers, museum people who would like to be funny about the environment for 10 minutes on Jan 15th. Paid slots.
www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk/events-calen...
www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk/events-calen...
Green Showoff: Stand-up Comedy Night — Team London Bridge
Join us for a night of green/sustainability-themed stand-up comedy, stories and silliness from some of London's funniest people.
www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
We're looking for scientists, activists, historians, researchers, museum people who would like to be funny about the environment for 10 minutes on Jan 15th. Paid slots.
www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk/events-calen...
www.teamlondonbridge.co.uk/events-calen...
This week on The World's Only Science Podcast we met Liz Johnson, co-host of Oxford's new science comedy night Huh That's Funny, and someone who is incapable of treating an alcoholic capybara.
Find it at sites.libsyn.com/474930 or anywhere else.
Find it at sites.libsyn.com/474930 or anywhere else.
The World's Only Science Podcast
Our group of science experts refuse to take anything seriously. Join Steve Cross, founder of Science Showoff, and some incredible co-hosts and guests for a nerdy look at the stories and culture aroud ...
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December 2, 2024 at 1:34 PM
This week on The World's Only Science Podcast we met Liz Johnson, co-host of Oxford's new science comedy night Huh That's Funny, and someone who is incapable of treating an alcoholic capybara.
Find it at sites.libsyn.com/474930 or anywhere else.
Find it at sites.libsyn.com/474930 or anywhere else.
Why have London bus stops become so obsessed with anal glands? This is not a phrase I need to see fifty times a day.
November 30, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Why have London bus stops become so obsessed with anal glands? This is not a phrase I need to see fifty times a day.
Brew Dog is Tesla Beer.
November 29, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Brew Dog is Tesla Beer.
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Honestly if someone had told me how much of academia required you to be popular and enjoy working with other people I’d’ve taken that masters in forensic science & become a cop instead.
November 28, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Honestly if someone had told me how much of academia required you to be popular and enjoy working with other people I’d’ve taken that masters in forensic science & become a cop instead.
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I'm slightly out of touch: who is currently working on nineteenth-century medicine? #skystorians Especially interested in PhD students, early career folk, anyone doing jazzy, exciting stuff? Is that you? Someone you know? Ty! ✨
November 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM
I'm slightly out of touch: who is currently working on nineteenth-century medicine? #skystorians Especially interested in PhD students, early career folk, anyone doing jazzy, exciting stuff? Is that you? Someone you know? Ty! ✨
The argument for winding up Oxford University gets stronger by the day www.theguardian.com/education/20...
William Hague elected chancellor of Oxford University
Former foreign secretary and Oxford graduate wins online vote, ending hopes a woman would fill role for first time
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:46 PM
The argument for winding up Oxford University gets stronger by the day www.theguardian.com/education/20...