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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 16/07/2026

Today's choice of t-shirt has wholeheartedly been endorsed by @marinemumbles.bsky.social. I knew she'd understand. #BIGEvent26

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 15/07/2026

Day 1 at #BIGEvent26 included a wander around a building I worked in regularly during the first 7-8 years of its opening. I had a bit of catching up to do @stemlearning.bsky.social National STEM Centre and met some former colleagues. Then I got distracted by the Lego. Very distracted.

LEGO Technic-style elephant model on a bookshelf. The elephant is built from grey struts, gears and panels, with its trunk lowered and legs standing on round supports.

Large LEGO model of a green space capsule with a cutaway doorway showing the detailed cream and grey interior, donated by the UK Space Agency.

Small LEGO train set on an oval track, with a yellow engine, red-and-white wagon and colourful track pieces on carpet. A small level crossing is in the centre of the track, complete with red and white barriers.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 14/07/2026

York Minster is quite something without anyone in it. Even though I've experienced this before, I still wanted to allow myself a few minutes to pause and just take it in. Magical.

A view of the nave of York Minster, looking towards the West Window from the chancel crossing. The rear of the high alter is in the foreground.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 14/07/2026

Reciprocal view. When in York...

A view of the twin bell towers at the West End of York Minster, basking in the evening sun again a blue sky. On Bluesky. See what I did there?

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 14/07/2026

Helloooo down there. I may have got slightly side-tracked en route to #BIGEvent26.

A view from the south-west tower of York Minster, looking down onto trees and buildings on the street below. Evening sun is creating long shadows on the road and pavements.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 28/03/2026

Congratulations and thank you to the organisers of today's #CardiomyopathyUK patient conference. I cannot emphasise how uplifting it is to hear about latest research and to speak to other patients. Great to see @thehearthive.bsky.social there too.

A slide from the Digital Health session, outling how patient arrhythmias could be better managed using a range of interlinked technologies and patient data.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/09/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who made the Festival such a brilliant night. Here’s to the sparks — big and small — that keep us going. Whether you’re outdoors amongst nature or finding a quiet moment at home, I hope you discover something today worth celebrating. Here's one of mine! ✨

Rocks'y, the Lancashire Heeler, on her back. She is being tummy-tickled by Matthew’s hand. The dog is looking straight at the camera.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/09/2025

If you’re having a rough day, please know this: progress isn’t about “carrying on as normal”. It’s about noticing and celebrating the little wins — a moment of laughter, finishing a task, enjoying a view. Small sparks of joy matter and can change the feel of a whole day.

Looking out over a calm sea at Burnham-on-Sea beach at dusk. A bit of the beach is visible in the foreground. I love watching the sea and this image always makes me smile.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/09/2025

What you don’t always see behind the microphone is that I live with a progressive heart condition. It’s unpredictable, exhausting and mentally challenging. Yet standing there on Saturday, part of the atmosphere and joy, reminded me how powerful it is to keep finding things that lift you up.

A section of an ECG trace showing abnormal rhythms (a premature ventricular contraction couplet).

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/09/2025

🔥 What a weekend at the Festival of Fireworks, Catton Hall! Thousands gathered under the night sky for a spectacle of colour, sound and shared awe — and I had the privilege of being host. 🎤 Nights like these remind me why live events matter. 👇 [Thread]

A dark sky filled with spectacular golden brocade (glitter) shell bursts, over the top of 11 pink and gold mines erupting from the ground, with 22 45-degree gold-glitter comet punctuations.

A photo of my announcer's script, showing the start of my 4pm announcement.

The control point, with four individual firing systems (all FireOne in this photo). They are set up on trestle tables, with laptop screens visible and the lids of the hard-plastic cases of the control panels open. Some of the crews can be seen in the background chatting in small groups.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 20/06/2025

Earlier this week, I was fortunate to be part of a #Cardiomyopathy UK visit to #CureHeart Labs @ox.ac.uk . We went behind the scenes to see cutting-edge work on inherited heart conditions. Lots of uplifting conversations between researchers and patients giving real hope for progress.👇

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 29/03/2025

This morning's partial #SolarEclipse, evidenced by my solar panels. 😎 Cool, eh?

A power-time output chart, showing a reduction in output between 10am and midday.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 26/03/2025

For the first time ever, I'm actually able to attend an @equitybwm.bsky.social meeting. We've had some amazing speakers today and now we are onto serious union business. Very glad to be part of this. Together we are Stronger.

Headed meeting papers on a table in the foreground, showing the union name "EQUITY". The content is not visible (cropped out). In the background are union members out of focus.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 18/03/2025

Bring extra sparkle to your festival with a science and maths infused fire and art mashup. Drop me a line if you are interested. I adapt the size and scale of the shows for each venue. #STEAM #STEM #artistry #pyrotechnics #PyroArtistry #safety #SciComm

Matthew is on stage in a large Victorian City Hall venue, with a high arched ceiling and theatrical lighting overhead. In the foreground is the audience who are watching the show. A six-metre high wall of pyrotechnic gold and silver sparks is erupting at the front of the stage with dramatic effect.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 17/03/2025

A stonking finish to British Science Week at the weekend, with headline shows at #ColliderFest. I left a little decorative post-show souvenir at City Hall. 😄 #Hull #BSW25

A theatre lighting truss with colourful paper streamers hanging from it.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 12/03/2025

Lovely to join the friendly @benendenbells.bsky.social ringers this evening, although it did require a lot of knots in my rope. Me and my high heels... 😆 #bellringing

A vertically hanging bellrope with three figure of eight knots in it. A blurred ringer is sitting in the background.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 12/03/2025

Mid #BSW25 school shows. I was very tempted to shave my head, paint myself blue and hit the table with fluorescent sticks.

A very blue, darkly-lit stage containing a table and some black wooden boxes. The photo is so blue that it is almost not worth posting.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 09/03/2025

VIDEO: Bit of chat in the press this weekend about peal ringing. But what actually *is* peal ringing? vimeo.com/1063590192/d... #bellringing #VoiceOver

Picture of Chilcompton church and tower on a sunny summer day. The tower is Norman style with castlellations around the top.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/03/2025

Tosh downtime this afternoon is taking me back to my degree year abroad, when I first discovered Moroccan cuisine.

A plate of ground spices, arranged individually in small piles, including chilli flakes, coriander, cumin, turmeric, cayenne pepper, paprika and cinnamon.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 07/03/2025

I suddenly have an urge to fire something in celebration, however my shows aren't until next week. MUST RESIST. #ScienceWeek

Matthew's left hand holding a pyrotechnic device and positioning it on a mounting frame. The device is made from cardboard, is cylindrical and painted black on the exterior.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 28/02/2025

18 months on, and this still feels surreal, even for a clued-up #scicomm pro! A clinic in another part of the country can access the implant INSIDE my body to check that I am safe. 🤯 Flippin' marvellous! 🫀😀 #ACM #AVC #ARVC #cardiomyopathy

Screenshot of a mobile device showing an ICD monitoring app. The message on the screen says: "Checking your heart device... This may take several minutes. Keep the app open and your mobile device nearby."

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 27/02/2025

This time of year = Site visits and consultancy. Bit soggy under foot, but lovely sunny spells are a bonus. 🙂

A grassy park, with a line of trees on the horizon - deliberately framed to be ambiguous.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 17/02/2025

When I am big and grown up, I want to go to conferences and communicate through the medium of purple modelling clay, rainbow lollipop sticks and sparkly pipe cleaners. 🙏😀✨🌈🦄 #SciComm

A side photo of Matthew making a model person out of purple modelling clay during a recent conference. Matthew is working at a table with colourful lollipop sticks, modelling clay, pens and pipe cleaners.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 17/02/2025

Back from a much-needed holiday. This is my favourite photo from the week. Any guesses as to where this was taken? 🤔

No peeking here for clues! You are looking at the underside of a civil engineering structure. It features triangulated girders and a cantilever deck running along the left and right sides. The blue sky has a few white clouds visible.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 09/02/2025

New responsibility: I am now the official Mascot Keeper for the Welsh Colleges Society of Change Ringers. Say hello to Puff. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #bellringing

A toy Welsh dragon, made from red felt. It is wearing a multi-coloured scarf and some metal pins badges. Sorry, I mean him, not it.

This is going well already, isn't it?

A toy Welsh dragon, made from red felt. He is wearing a multi-coloured scarf and some metal pins badges. The dragon is sitting in the middle of a table, which has been set for a formal dinner. He has a flute of orange juice in front of him as alcohol and sources of ignition do not mix.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/02/2025

Happy place: 🔔 @bristolcathedral.bsky.social ringing chamber 🔔 I've spent many hours up here over the years and did some stints as Ringing Master many moons ago. Today, I'm here with the Welsh Colleges Society of Change Ringers. #bellringing

The (nearly) white-walled ringing chamber of Bristol Cathedral. Twelve blue rectangular peal performance boards are displayed on the facing wall, with an additional two on the left wall, each featuring a different performance scribed in gold lettering. In the foreground are seven visible ringers out of eight who are ringing on ropes with blue wool sallies.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 07/02/2025

We've moved on to inventing our own #SciComm movie characters. Ours is a skiing hairdresser. The big ears make them a good listener, vital for being an effective engager. #UKSFN

A plasticine character with big googlie eyes. It is on green skis, made from ice lolly sticks, and is holding tinsel scissors.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 07/02/2025

I'm at a conference. The current presentation features a photo of the Coventry ring road*. This is way too much excitement for a Friday afternoon. (*Radford Road junction, I think?)

A photo of a junction of the Coventry ring road.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 07/02/2025

Good morning from very familiar surroundings.😃 I'm in Bristol today for the UK Science Festivals Network conference.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 06/02/2025

It is #LGBTplusHM25, but did you know that it is also #HeartMonth? Do you know CPR? It's never too late to learn or refresh your CPR training? Lots of info and advice at @resuscounciluk.bsky.social.

An artistic painted heart, made up from diagonal rainbow strokes in watercolours.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 06/02/2025

Mmm. Lovely. Good to go. AFAIK I am not a mutant. Others may disagree. 😄 I don't have orange saliva. The colour is due to the preservative.

A plastic vial containing a mixture of saliva and preservative. It is an orange solution and looks a but like a urine sample, but it's not. I promise!

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 03/02/2025

Now stop pushing and get in line. There *is* room for all of you in the wok.

A small clump of mushrooms in a plastic punnet. The mushroom bodies are erupting from the same base and it looks like they are competing to out-grow the punnet.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 03/02/2025

SEO report suggests new alter-ego.🦔

A screen shot of the most commonly searched terms by Matthew's website audience. In first place is "Matthew Tosh". In second place is "Matthew the hedgehog".

Matthew is now considering an alternative lifesyle as a flea-infested, slug-eating erinaceid.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 01/02/2025

Lovely to join the Ancient Society of College Youths' practice at Birmingham Cathedral today. The ringing room was rammed! I am now dodging drunk people on the train home. See what I did there? 😄 #bellringing

A view of Birmingham Cathedral ringing chamber. Eight out of the twelve ringers can be seen, pulling on the red, white and blue striped sallies. Other people are sitting squashed up around the edge of the ringing chamber. There are three cooling fans in the centre of the room, pointing outwards to keep the ringers cool.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 01/02/2025

Can a spider have more than eight legs? If not, then there is a mutant in Birmingham Cathedral. #bellringing

A metal rope spider (hooks for ropes) hanging from a ceiling in a bell chamber. It has 12 legs or hooks.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 01/02/2025

Looking back through some of my early day #SciComm stage show pics. This was taken at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen (2012?). Can you spot the subtle #LGBTQIA reference? #PrideInSTEM

Matthew is picture on stage at the Aberdeen Arts Centre. He is gesturing, with his arms outstretched, at a rainbow of fire, nade from five two-metre-high flames. From left to right, the vivid flame colours are red, yellow, green, blue and purple.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 01/02/2025

Continuing the new month theme, February is LGBT+ History Month. It encourages a focus for schools, in particular, to delve into history and discover LGBTQIA people from the past, many of whom were unable to be true to themselves. #LGBTplusHM25

Graphic of a loudhailer with LGBTQ+ History month written on the side and an LGBTQ+ flag coming out of the mouth of the hailer.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 25/01/2025

I've moved on to this little outfit now.

St Mary's Redcliffe Church, Bristol - view of the exterior from the North-East.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 25/01/2025

Second venue of the day - St Mary's, Stoke Bishop. Scored a rather nice quarter peal here with fellow @bristoluni.bsky.social alumni. #bellringing

Photo of a church spire against a blue sky.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 25/01/2025

Ooh, I can see my bell on the telly whilst ringing. That's not at all distracting. #bellringing

A TV screen on top of a cupboard, showing CCTV images of the bell chamber and the bells. There are 8 bells hung for full-circle ringing here.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 25/01/2025

On a church roof, waiting to get in the tower. Perfectly normal.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 23/01/2025

2/2 The reality of #bellringing in a vast standalone stone tower in Winter: Huddling up to the radiator when sitting out. This place is like a giant refrigerator. 🥶

Looking across the ringing chamber. There is an oil radiator in the foreground. Some ringers and ropes are outof focus in the background.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 23/01/2025

1/2 🔔 Practice night at #Coventry Cathedral. The lighting inside makes it look cosy (but do not be fooled!). This evening, we welcomed some visiting ringers from Earl Shilton. #bellringing

Coventry Cathedral ruins bell tower at night, floodlit from below. The viewpoint is looking up from the foot of the tower. There is a large glass window, through which the bellringers and ropes can be seen.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 15/01/2025

2/3 🛠️ H&S makes you credible. Show you’ve thought about risks & how to mitigate them, and you’ll gain trust. It’s simple: If clients see that you care about safety, they’ll invite you back. Safe = professional. #ScienceFestivals #SciComm

Matthew demonstrating a controlled fireball during a science show at a primary school. Children are in the foreground, watching the show.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 09/01/2025

Note to self: Don't store pastry-goods in the same freezer drawer as the (allegedly) hermetically-sealed home-made garlic butter. My mince pies have developed an interesting garlic flavour.

A pair of home-baked mince pies on a plate. They have been dusted with icing sugar.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 08/01/2025

1/3 💡 Think health & safety kills #SciComm creativity? Think again! A solid H&S plan unlocks exciting ideas. From explosive demos to hands-on activities, good planning ensures you can WOW your audience(s) safely. Risk assessments aren’t red tape; they’re your backstage pass to incredible engagement!

A pile of risk assessments and safety paperwork on on office desk.

Matthew on stage performing a hand in "fiery hot sparks" stunt. White hot sparks are hitting his hand from a pyrotechnic device (out of shot). Matthew is wearing safety glasses and is holding a microphone in his other hand and explaining how this stunt works. Do not attempt to recreate this stunt - this was carefully planned and thoroughly rehearsed before performing it on stage.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 06/01/2025

Big step forward this evening. I returned to the bell tower where I went into polymorphic VT/VF 🫀 and was hospitalised in 2023. Wasn't sure if I'd have flashbacks/PTSD. All was well, and we scored a quarter peal (akin to a 10K run, if that's your thing). #bellringing #cardiomyopathy #survivor

Night time photo of a frosted glass window in the West end tower of Chilvers Coton church, Nuneaton. Lights are on in the tower. There is a dark wooden door beneath the window.

A bell rope featuring a blue wool Sally. Only the lower half of the Sally is in shot. The end of the rope is hanging on a hook on an oak panelled wall.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 02/01/2025

When it comes to #SciComm, good health and safety management enables exciting content and engagement. Whatever the hazard(s), big or small, I support production teams, presenters and exhibitors with H&S and risk assessments, enabling them to shine and inspire. www.matthewtosh.com/health-safet...

Matthew is carefully positioning a bowl of water in front of a high-speed camera in a lecture theatre. Members of the production team are standing either side of the camera lens. They are preparing to film the highly-explosive reaction of caesium and water.

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Matthew Tosh @matthewtosh.com · 31/12/2024

Lovely to be back on-air again earlier today. I've missed speaking on breakfast shows. 😀 I've been talking about how #fireworks work, #safety and the effects of #wind. #radio #studio #pyrotechnician

A computer monitor showing a log-in screen for a BBC studio live link. There is an audio-level gauge at the centre of the screen. A studio microphone can be seen on the left in the foreground.

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