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James Romero

@jamesromero.bsky.social
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Public Engagement Manager Imperial College London - #ImperialLates and #sciart 'Great Exhibition Road Festival' organiser. Also writes about planets and geology and other stuff. #Scicomm + music geek. bsky.app/profile/jamesromero.bsky.s…

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/12/2025
The stuff that's on for the NI Science Festival is brilliant, including @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Currently working out how not to bankrupt myself buying tickets for things nisciencefestival.com/events/?ct=t...)
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Events | NI Science Festival
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ten years ago, Luke O’Nien was playing for Wealdstone. Tonight he made his Premier League debut at Anfield. How the mighty have fallen.
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
600+ visitors through the front door in three hours for last month’s Time-themed #ImperialLates. Together they enjoyed talks on the early universe, demos of atomic clocks & workshops making time-warping black hole Christmas decorations with our theoretical physicists and the wonderful PomegranART
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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The British Science Festival needs you! Our Open Call for #BSF26 with @unisouthampton.bsky.social is now LIVE. You don't need to be a scientist or linked to Southampton - anyone can propose. Find out more and send us your event ideas here: www.britishscienceassociation.org/open-call
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British Science Festival proposals - Open Call
We are currently accepting Open Call proposals for the British Science Festival 2026.
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"The gold standard of an engagement project’s impact is whatever is intrinsically most beneficial to the project, the people involved in it, and the communities it is hoping to impact...." Yesterday's annual Engagement Day at Imperial was full of inspiring ideas and practical advice
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Andrew Jaffe @defjaf.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Come hear us talk about the first moments in the history of the Universe, part of Imperial Lates at Imperial College in South Kensington, London.
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What happened in the first second of the universe?
Journey back nearly 14 billion years to the very first moments after the Big Bang.
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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🎤 Are you an early career researcher passionate about communicating with the wider public? Applications for the 2026 British Science Festival Award Lectures are now open! Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept. Find out more and apply > www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
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Award Lectures
Details on how to become an Award Lecturer at the British Science Festival
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As we near the end of International Year of Quantum, we're wrapping up the celebrations with a Time-themed #ImperialLates – packed with quantum-fun! The centre piece of our Quantum Time Zone will be Resonating Possibilities' from Studio Above&Below – an art piece inspired by quantum clocks
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
An Exciting, Inclusive Day of Exploration and Learning Awaits at the Deaf Art Science Festival www.byteseu.com/1525994 Published on November 9, 2025 Melbourne is set to host a truly unique and vibrant celebration of creativity, science, and culture, all with a focus on inclusivity, at …
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An Exciting, Inclusive Day of Exploration and Learning Awaits at the Deaf Art Science Festival - Bytes Europe
Melbourne is set to host a truly unique and vibrant celebration of creativity, science, and culture, all with a focus on inclusivity, at the upcoming Deaf Art
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I think Ive posted before about dance and movement as a science storytelling and engagement device for public audiences. There was some great examples at last week's Diwali celebrating Light themed #ImperialLates - captured by the ever brilliant Brendan Foster
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UCL Innovation and Enterprise @uclenterprise.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We're pleased to be part of the Festival of Social Science! The festival explores the world of social science, from how society has shaped our local areas to behaviours that help fight climate change. Sign up to the UCL events: bit.ly/3Yab00X Browse the rest of the festival events: bit.ly/3kCUfXb
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Oooooh - thats a nice poster
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A real highlight of last night's light-themed #ImperialLates celebrating Diwali 🪔 Vinay Jobanputra, the creator of Bollyqueer, collaborated with Matthaus Schullik from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Astrophysics Group to create a dance class that explored the four stages of star formation ⭐
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Imperial Science @imperialsci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Two experiments involving Imperial scientists have created the world's most precise measurement of the difference between the mass of two types of #neutrino Read more here ⬇️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270453/...
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Sunday at @newscientist.com live with the family: - Coding lunar rovers with the National Space Centre - Detecting cosmic rays with the Boulby Underground Lab - Enjoying Christopher Jackson's beautiful layered cakes of seismic reflection - Learning vertical farming with the John Innes Centre
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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 17/10/2025
💫 Celebrate the festival of lights safely, and let the chemistry of joy shine bright! Wishing you and your loved ones a very Happy Diwali filled with love, light, and laughter. #RSCIndia #ChemSky #Diwali2025
Promotional image by the Royal Society of Chemistry featuring colorful fireworks labeled with chemical elements like Strontium, Copper, Sodium, Barium, Calcium, Aluminum, and Magnesium. Text states "Chemistry is full of wonder. Watch science light up the sky this Diwali. Enjoy the celebrations!"
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
No one ever wants an #ImperialLates to end, but at the close of next week's event, you'll be treated to a beautiful Bollywood dance by Imperial Indian Society to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light! 🎟️: ow.ly/kJ3W50X9Krw
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 15/10/2025
Stuck for weekend plans? Why not visit The Festival of Social Science! The festival kicks off this weekend and will be exploring and celebrating the world of social science. 📅 18 Oct - 8 Nov 🎟️ Free entry 📍 Across the UK and online 🔗 Find an event for you: festivalofsocialscience.com
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Festival of Social Science
The Festival of Social Science is an annual celebration of research and knowledge about humans and society..
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is amazing!
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎪 Great Exhibition Road Festival 2026 opens for ideas! 🎪 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social teams can today propose activities for our celebration of art, science, & innovation 📩 Submit proposals lnkd.in/evbJfwNE 📚 Guidance lnkd.in/eYt6nA6T 💡 Advice sessions lnkd.in/e8HdfmCC ☕ 1-2-1s lnkd.in/eqx5ChZv
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Heads up all Imperial staff and students!! Next Wednesday we will launch 🚀 the proposals process for teams interested in taking part in @ExRdFestival 2026 🎪 More details to follow......
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I think it means Earth is about to vomit because it's literally sick of us.
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Vast Anomaly in Earth's Gravity Field Signals Shifts Deep Beneath The Surface
In 2007, something strange happened over the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
These images by Tommy Wong of dance company Movema at Liverpool Cathedral during the British Science Festival are too beautiful to just keep to Instagram. But join us on there for more! In the background, artwork by Maria Loizidou 🕊️ Taking Flight was programmed with Liverpool Biennial 🪶 #BSF25
Two female dancers in huge beautiful birds' wings and colourful makeup bow facing each other on the steps of a large Cathedral, a tapestry depicting birds hanging in the backgroundA female dancer looks to the ceiling, her one bird wing in front of her and the other raised. She is East Asian with black hair, orange makeup. Light shines through the cathedral's stained glass behind.
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚨 Date confirmed for Imperial's Engagement Day 26! 🚨 If you're academic or professional services Imperial staff Imperial with an interest in societal engagement - this is for you! 📆 26/11 ⏰ 09:30-16:00 📌 Scale Space White City, W12 7RZ ℹ️ More info: lnkd.in/eGHhvHd9 🖋️ Sign up: lnkd.in/exKA5WZp
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My wife picked up this lovely children's book a while ago - and our boys love it. Today it inspired our first mushroom hunt of the end of summer / autumn - around Stanmore Common
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Suzanne York @suzanneyork.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“If we had not continued to burn fossil fuels over the last decades, most of the estimated 24,400 people in Europe wouldn’t have died this summer.” ~Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London
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Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 17/09/2025
The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...
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Largest social science festival shows research’s impact on lives
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science returns for its 23rd year, offering hundreds of free events across the UK.
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Imperial Science @imperialsci.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Imperial staff and students are invited to the live stream watch party for the Launch of NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) Mission 🚀 Tuesday 23 September, 11.30 – 13.30 🚀 Main Entrance, South Kensington Campus Sign up now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19803... #ImperialSci
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Celebrate Diwali 🕯️ at an evening festival of light 🌟, explore the nature of time ⌛ through dance 💃 & immersive art, or find out all the ways science can improve your wellbeing 🙂 Its the return of the Imperial Lates - our adult evenings of scientific discovery! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268433/...
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University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And that’s a wrap on the 194th British Science Festival! 🎉 For four days, Liverpool was alive with inspiring talks, hands-on experiences, and city-wide celebrations of science! We were proud to help shape this year’s programme, with research from across all three Faculties showcased. 🙌
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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I was privileged to support the Branch Line Society 'Piccadilly Explorer' tour yesterday, which raised £1,000 for Northwick Park Hospital League of Friends. First stop: South Harrow for the gasworks viaduct stub and signal relay room, plus the original 1903 station building 🧵1/7
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Matthias Huss @matthias-huss.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
One more year: Ice loss at Konkordiaplatz on Aletsch #Glacier is just... wow 😲 Minus 4.6 metres of ice. Will there ever be a call: "Make Aletsch Great Again"? It would be about time
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Looks horrible and it is." - that's my favourite local 😀
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Joanna Redfeather @joannaredfeather.eurosky.social · 14/09/2025
Dr Jess Wade, multiple award-winning British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, has written and contributed to more than 2,000 Wikipedia pages about female scientists and scientists of colour. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/science/2023...
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‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists
Despite some advances, men still dominate science but one academic is working hard to get women and peers of colour the recognition they deserve
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Berlin Science Week @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Festival season is over... or is it? This fall, Berlin Science Week is bringing hundreds of free events combining science, art, and culture to every corner of the city. 🗓️ Save the dates: 1—10 November. It's going to be a good one. Our programme launches 25 September! #BerlinScienceWeek25
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Monica McCard @monicamcc.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Excited to be representing LJMU @ljmuofficial.bsky.social who are co-hosting the British Science Festival 2025 starting next week. Tickets are still available come along and see what we are doing 😊 #BritishScienceFestival2025 #BSF #marineecology #outreach www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Science Festivals as vehicles for inclusive, live, participatory practise in academic research At this year's Great Exhibition Road Festival a 'Be a scientist zone' supported @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social teams to incorporate public input into academic practice www.imperial.ac.uk/news/267814/...
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 The #ImperialLates returns this October!! 🚨 And there are lots of opportunities for Imperial academic staff and students to bring their research, innovations and ideas to these fun, social post-work events attended by anywhere between between 750-1000 visitors www.imperial.ac.uk/be-inspired/...
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
94% of visitors & 95% of exhibiting academic & student contributors described their overall Great Exhibition Road Festival 2025 experience as good or excellent! For Imperial teams reporting on their festival participation, we have lots of eval stats we can share - www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266933/...
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I started scratching my arm straight away
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
My 4th 'Bugs Day' at Imperial's Silwood campus. The boys (and I) had a wonderful time at an event that just gets better each year. For Imperial team's interesting in public engagement with the natural world or environmental research, Bugs day is a wonderful resource to reach public audiences.
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Congratulations to the organisers of Middlesex Pride in Gunnersbury park today. It was a brilliantly organised event. Loads of fun activities, amazing stage performances and a real sense of community and people being nice to people 🏳️‍🌈
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Great free thing to do in London these summer holidays - head to St James' Park at 14:30ish to watch the Pelicans getting fed The Royal Parks team were amazing answering everyone's questions
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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A mylonite beach pebble, a 600 My old microcosm of plate tectonics
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
8 giant murals created by 8 artists 🎨 -inspired by conversations with 8 Imperial scientists will go on display in White City this week. Created during this year's #ExRdFest, it is great they will get a second viewing, and a chance to reach new audiences. #Sciart www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266258/...
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Science inspired art on display at White City | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Eight artworks inspired by Imperial research, which were painted live during the Great Exhibition Road Festival, will go on display at White City.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/07/2025
A Welsh festival combining the joy of indie-folk music with science, nature, spoken word, dance, and the arts which takes place in a beautiful Welsh woodland is readying for its most exciting event yet this August
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Four day festival in enchanted Welsh woodland takes place next month
A Welsh festival combining the joy of indie-folk music with science, nature, spoken word, dance, and the arts which takes place in a beautiful Welsh woodland is readying for its most exciting event ye...
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James Brown @jcwbrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You can now view the whole timetable for BSF25 here - issuu.com/britishscien... Get booking here - britishsciencefestival.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @cultureliverpool.bsky.social @liverpoolecho.co.uk
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British Science Festival - 2025 event guide
British Science Festival 2025 event guide
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James Romero @jamesromero.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Thanks so much to Harrow Nature Conservation Forum for talking to our boys about local wildlife at today's Roxeth Show
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