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Bright Club Bristol #1: What they said about it…

gingerbreadlady — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:35:38 +0000

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@brisandbath_sci The first time has *never* been so good

Bright Club Bristol

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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Fantastic time @BrightClubBris last night w/ @ayiasophia @alan_winfield @ianwalker and @nomadicrevery Has the first time ever been so good?

Bristol and Bath BSA

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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Oh, and MIGHTY FINE compering from @nomadicrevery – what a tasche! @BrightClubBris

Suzi Gage

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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Had a great time at the very first @BrightClubBris last night. Congrats to everyone involved. Looking forward to the next one.

Will Gater

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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Nice one @brightclubbris, brilliant first night, can’t wait to do it all again.VERY HIGH QUALITY of acts – you know who you are!

Suzi Gage

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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@BrightClubBris YAY! thanks so much.

Nick Brompton

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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@nickbrompton Well, she may just get the chance. It will be recorded later today for the @BrightClubBris & @geekpop podcast. Yay!

Bright Club Bristol

November 30, 2011 3:27:27 AM EST

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@BrightClubBris thanks! Loved the song she wrote for last night, told my fiance about it when I got home & she wants to hear it

Nick Brompton

November 30, 2011 3:23:02 AM EST

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Am recovering from amazing @BrightClubBris event with @alan_winfield @ianwalker @ayiasophia, Jacques & Chiara. Learnt SO much about comedy

Ian Walker

November 30, 2011 3:22:05 AM EST

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Good morning everyone. Had a fine night @BrightClubBris last night. Loved Lori Campbell hugely, anyone know if she’s on twitter?

Nick Brompton

November 30, 2011 3:17:52 AM EST

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@alan_winfield You’re too kind. *Blush* *Hurriedly saves and prints out for potential funders*

Hayley Birch

November 30, 2011 3:16:49 AM EST

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and *Congratulations* Hayley for making @BrightClubBris happen. A star organisation and leadership.

Alan Winfield

November 30, 2011 3:15:18 AM EST

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@alan_winfield So glad you had fun. The evil robot overlord masters thing was genius

Bright Club Bristol

November 28, 2011 1:47:56 PM EST

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@BrightClubBris @ianwalker @ayiasophia Jacques & Chiara. Thanks Hayley – wonderful doing the gig with you all last night.

Alan Winfield

November 30, 2011 3:10:34 AM EST

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@Bristol_Culture @brightclubbris *do jealous*

Wai Yee Hong

November 30, 2011 2:51:06 AM EST

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There was a lot of Cox-love/hate in that room last night, wasn’t there? @BrightClubBris

Hayley Birch

November 30, 2011 2:49:44 AM EST

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RT @Bristol_Culture: A most enjoyable time at @BrightClubBris this evening, from quantum physics to songs about pigeons. Here’s to next time bristolculture.wordpress.c…

Bright Club Bristol

November 30, 2011 2:42:57 AM EST

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A most enjoyable time at @BrightClubBris this evening, from quantum physics to songs about pigeons. Here’s to next time bristolculture.wordpress.c…

Bristol Culture

November 29, 2011 6:50:13 PM EST

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Really great night at @BrightClubBris tonight – Science, comedy and SWEETS! What more could you want? Great stuff, more soon please!!

Maddy Foard

November 29, 2011 5:47:45 PM EST

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Well done @BrightClubBris … very good night. Look forward to more.

Jack Challoner

November 29, 2011 5:33:07 PM EST

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Lovely evening at @BrightClubBris – looking forward to the next one. Good work! Thank you.

Paul Parry

November 29, 2011 5:02:28 PM EST

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Sets from @ianwalker and @alan_winfield went down great at @BrightClubBris. Go @imascientist alumni!

Sophia

November 29, 2011 4:23:52 PM EST

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Really good first half @BrightClubBris really really enjoyed the music. And stomping on Brian cox.

Nick Brompton

November 29, 2011 3:49:45 PM EST

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Well done to @ianwalker who nailed his @brightclubbris set!

Liam Gladdy

November 29, 2011 3:34:46 PM EST

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Had no idea Brian Cox was so maligned by the science community @BrightClubBris

Charlotte

November 29, 2011 3:06:58 PM EST

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Phew! Approval from HQ RT @BrightClubLDN Excellent stage. Good luck MT @jackinatus Live from first Bristol Bright Club null

Bright Club Bristol

November 30, 2011 2:53:55 AM EST

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Excellent stage. Good luck @BrightClubBris RT @jackinatus: Live from the historic first ever Bristol Bright Club. http://twitpic.com/7lqbka

Bright Club London

November 29, 2011 2:34:39 PM EST

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Waiting for @brightclubbris to start and really don’t know what to expect!

Charlotte

November 29, 2011 2:27:05 PM EST

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At @BrightClubBris with @Nath_Stealth and @paulhillier

Rob Mills

November 29, 2011 2:19:55 PM EST

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I’m with @lgladdy at @BrightClubBris. Good luck to @ianwalker, you have bigger balls than me!

Robert Weeks

November 29, 2011 2:17:45 PM EST

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First ever comedy set written for @brightclubbris tonight. Actually learning it proving tricky.

Sophia

November 29, 2011 12:53:23 PM EST

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@Benchtwentyone yeah @BrightClubBris looked really good, we’ll definitely have to go next time even if you’re not on the bill!

Iain Trotter

November 29, 2011 12:27:51 PM EST

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I’m off for tea with @darwin then the 1st @BrightClubBris. Still knackered from weekend & bad night last night but looking forward to it.

Nick Brompton

November 29, 2011 12:10:30 PM EST

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@BrightClubBris The event space is looking great for the first Bright Club tonight (Sold Out): coexistcic.squarespace.com…

Coexist

November 29, 2011 11:05:04 AM EST

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RT @BrightClubBris TONIGHT! Psychologist, musician, quantum physicist, science dialoguer, philosopher, comedian and terrified roboticist.

Alan Winfield

November 29, 2011 7:35:55 AM EST

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TONIGHT! Roboticist, psychologist, musician, quantum physicist, science dialoguer, philosopher & comedian on same stage @BrightClubBris #1

Bright Club Bristol

November 29, 2011 5:06:55 AM EST

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Afraid to leave the house this morning in case I’ve forgotten something for @BrightClubBris Mic – check. Chocolate biscuits – check…

Hayley Birch

November 29, 2011 4:46:51 AM EST

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@BrightClubBris gutted I missed out on tickets for tonights show…any last minute tickets going spare?

Von

November 29, 2011 3:18:09 AM EST

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YEEES! Have finally thought of a joke to finish my set at tonight’s @BrightClubBris comedy show. BIG RELIEF

Ian Walker

November 29, 2011 3:09:28 AM EST

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You’ll be fine, we’ve just had our first birthday bash RT @BrightClubBris EEK!

Bruce Etherington

November 28, 2011 4:53:25 PM EST

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Looking forward to @BrightClubBris tomorrow. Random fact: I was on a jury earlier this year with one of speakers, roboticist @alan_winfield.

Bristol Culture

November 28, 2011 3:20:25 PM EST

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Good luck! RT @BrightClubBris Is everybody excited about tomorrow’s show?

Bruce Etherington

November 28, 2011 11:31:16 AM EST

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Bright Club: The First Time: John Robins, Lori Campbell @ CoExist, Bristol

Archived information for John Robins at CoExist in Bristol on Tuesday 29th November 2011 from Ents24.com, the UK’s biggest entertainment …

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@BrightClubBris What time is the show expected to go on till tomorrow night? Just planning travel home!

Robert Weeks

November 28, 2011 10:02:02 AM EST

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Just back from studio antics. Listen out for robots, Dim Club & @westvictoria’s weird fetish in first @BrightClubBris podcast, due next wk

Bright Club Bristol

November 25, 2011 1:52:43 PM EST

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Just recorded a podcast for @BrightClubBris with the very wonderful @westvictoria, @gingerbreadlady and @jimothybell.

Alan Winfield

November 25, 2011 12:46:16 PM EST

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Making epic efforts to Get Things Done before @BrightClubBris kicks off next week.

Hayley Birch

November 24, 2011 11:08:21 AM EST

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@BrightClubBris @westvictoria Looking forward to it:) Now, back to writing robot jokes.

Alan Winfield

November 22, 2011 2:13:13 PM EST

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Bristol Culture

For those not in the know, Bright Club is a late arrival in Bristol, having thrived in London over recent years with its mix of intelli…

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Bright Club: “The First Time” Variety Night at Co-Exist, Stokes Croft, Bristol – Tuesday 29th November 2011 : What’s Hot in Bristol

Event Location: CoExist, Hamilton House (above The Canteen), Stokes Croft, Bristol Date:: Tuesday 29th November 2011 Start & Finish Time:…

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Bright Club – the first time! | British Science Association

Oct 12, 2011 … Bristol & Bath Branch. What’s On … Bright Club – the first time! What would … they know? Come and find out…

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Sep 19, 2011 … Following the success of Bright Club in London a similar event is being organised for Bristol. Billed as the ‘Thin…

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November 30, 2011 3:50:21 AM EST
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gingerbreadlady — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:43:43 +0000

We’ve been busy organising Bristol’s first Bright Club, with a little bit of help from friends at University College London and a strategic grant from the British Science Association. With three weeks still to go, we’ve sold most of the tickets in advance… Bristol loves Bright Club already. Hooray!

Full details:

Bright Club Bristol #1: “The First Time” « Bright Club Bristol.

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Julianna’s new film

gingerbreadlady — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:29:43 +0000

While I was busy organising a solar-powered stage at Green Man Festival, Sounds of Science affiliate Julianna was making a film about the Festival’s hydrogen-powered Omni-Tent. She did a great job of convincing all of her friends to pose as hydrogen and oxygen atoms for the film. Not only that… they dance too! Here are the results:

The film was supported by an Institute of Physics grant and was shown between every (hydrogen-powered!) performance in the Omni-Tent.

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Back from Einstein’s Garden

gingerbreadlady — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:38:49 +0000

Much of August was spent building up to and recovering from Einstein’s Garden at Green Man Festival. I was managing the Solar Stage there; Jim was broadcasting for Green Man FM, and doing a sterling job plugging all of my acts as well as a bunch of other Geek Pop artists. It was a balmy few days weather-wise, as well as workwise.

I’ve since been experimenting with Storify for aggregating social media content relating to Einstein’s Garden from lots of different sources. It doesn’t work perfectly and takes some considerable fiddling but here are the results. I think it produces a lovely, if not-very-scientific, analysis of the social media response to the project. Though the Storify folks should really think about including some different options for automatically organising content. After a couple of hours of organising everything chronogically I decided I wanted my story to run from first to last post rather than last to first (a la Twitter streams). I then had to spend the rest of the day manually reversing the order of my posts…

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Bug Explorers: The Deadly 40

jimothybell — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:18:46 +0000

Spider bites kill people. No really, they do. But then so do car crashes, heart attacks and narcotics. It’s all a matter of stats, to really get a grip on what to be worried about then mathematics can be pretty useful.

The main trouble with statistics is that most people, myself included, have a very limited grasp on how they work. This is something that Professor David Nutt, head of the UK’s drug advisory body, discovered in 2009 when he quite correctly pointed out that you are as likely to be killed horse riding as you are taking ecstasy. Tabloid outrage ensued.

People die taking ecstasy, about 30 every year in the UK. They also die, riding horses, driving cars and yes, by being bitten by spiders. But how many people actually die from spider bites?

Read the rest of this post at Bug Explorers: The Deadly 40

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Filed under: Education, Science communication Tagged: death, spiders, statistics

words of science: Podcasts I will keep on paying for

gingerbreadlady — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:10:18 +0000

A shout out for two awesome, life-enriching podcasts that I have supported in the last 12 months…

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Posted by Hayley.

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Bug Explorers: A Grand Day Out

jimothybell — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:59 +0000

So, we decided to go to the British Tarantula Society‘s Annual Exhibition a couple of weekends ago (what else does one do of a Sunday…?) and what an experience it turned out to be. We were anticipating a small school hall with a few different exhibiters. Instead we found THIS:

Read the rest of this post at: Bug Explorers: A Grand Day Out.

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Filed under: Education, Science communication Tagged: Avicularia versicolor, mullets, spiders

words of science: Einstein’s Gardener

gingerbreadlady — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:56 +0000

As readers of this blog will know, I’m a sucker for anything combining science and the arts, and especially the musical arts. So when I was asked to manage the Solar Stage in Einstein’s Garden at the amazing Green Man Festival, I jumped at the chance. My task, basically: to populate a festival programme with nerds. And mostly singing ones…

Read the rest of this post at: words of science: Einstein’s Gardener.

Posted by Hayley

Filed under: Arts, Science communication Tagged: einstein's garden, Green Man Festival