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@scienceshowoff.bsky.social
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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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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
GIG NIGHT TONIGHT! Join me and some hilarious expert people at @brunelmuseum.bsky.social for some serious laughs: thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event/underground-comedy/
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Underground Comedy - Brunel Museum
Super Early Bird & Early Bird tickets have SOLD OUT! Standard tickets are still available — grab yours before they’re gone! Jokes and learning are back in the big hole in the ground! Join the Brunel M...
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GIG NIGHT TOMORROW catch me and some brilliant comedians an experts at @brunelmuseum.bsky.social for a fundraising comedy show. Tickets: thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event...
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Underground Comedy - Brunel Museum
Super Early Bird & Early Bird tickets have SOLD OUT! Standard tickets are still available — grab yours before they’re gone! Jokes and learning are back in the big hole in the ground! Join the Brunel M...
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On Weds 23rd join me, @iszi.com and more wonderful people for a night of UNDERGROUND comedy at @brunelmuseum.bsky.social Tickets: thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event...
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Underground Comedy - Brunel Museum
Jokes and learning are back in the big hole in the ground! Join the Brunel Museum for a night of laughing all about our theme of The Underground. The Amuseum have assembled a brilliant lineup of profe...
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Erin Beeston (she/her) @erinbeeston.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In London this Saturday and enjoy your #comedy with a smattering of smart 🧠 science? Join us for a FREE @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Raven 6pm www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...
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Science Showoff Cures All Brain Ills — Medi-Culture
Join us for a night of medically-themed stand-up comedy, stories and silliness from some of London's funniest people.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Real science fans can tell me reasons why Interstellar is shit.
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Get tickets now for this month's @scienceshowoff.bsky.social with seven incredible acts, most of them new to our stage. April 21st at The Harrison near King's Cross wegottickets.com/f/18111
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Science Showoff April 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pi day is actually the 31st April
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Philosophy Playdate @philosophyplaydate.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Episode 2 is up! Join us as we discuss "What's The Best Favourite Colour to Have?" with some help from Immanuel Kant and the many philosophers who have pointed out the holes in his arguments through which one could sail an oil tanker . The episode should be on all platforms. Shout if it isn't!
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Philosophy Playdate @philosophyplaydate.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We are live! Download episode one and decide who is getting converted; Babies into dogs or dogs into babies? Can philosophy help us to decide? Available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. Other platforms coming very soon. open.spotify.com/show/6ryHSeM... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Ep 1 - The Dog/Baby Switch
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
THIS WEDNESDAY catch a line-up of exciting new talent and grizzled old vets at The Harrison. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/690755
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Science Showoff Feburary 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Get tickets now for our next show in London. Feb 25th with a cracking lineup! wegottickets.com/event/690755
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Science Showoff Feburary 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Tomorrow's show is SOLD OUT. Please don't come along if you don't have a ticket. Get a ticket for February instead: wegottickets.com/event/690755
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Science Showoff Feburary 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Our next live show! It's on Jan 28th at the Harrison near King's Cross. We've got a famous TikTok star, an astronomer off of the telly, a flea expert and someone who is nearly named after the most expensive Pokemon card. And loads more! You want tickets? wegottickets.com/event/684234
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Science Showoff January 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff. Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
NOW RECRUITING FUNNY ENGINEERS. On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts. 10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com Who would like a show?
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Homepage - Brunel Museum
The Brunel Museum is an educational charity run by volunteers that tells the story of one of the world’s great engineering dynasties
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I see the “I want to be associated with the British Empire” people are being loud again.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Who do we think will come out on top of this Drake vs Drake beef?
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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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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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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Science Showoff: PathLOLogy
A fun-filled comedy evening focused on medicine and pathology
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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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Kat Benatar @feliskathryn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
reminder that neil degrasse tyson is a creep www.vox.com/2019/7/29/89...
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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.
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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 20/04/2025
giant domino meme, first domino labeled "Woman asks men not to be creepy on an elevator" last one is a photoshop of this book cover
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
LOL at all the old science guys.
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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
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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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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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...
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April Fool's Medicine — Medi-Culture
Join us for April Fool’s Medicine , where history takes a hilarious wrong turn.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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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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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Dr Anna Ploszajski @annaploszajski.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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
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Steve Cross @drstevex.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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/...
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April Fool’s Medicine – The Old Operating Theatre
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Shouldn’t Britain’s Silicon Valley just be the train line from Liverpool St to Cambridge?
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The zombie of cold fusion staggers on, forever dead, forever hungry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Where are my ultra-processed food fans? I just had a bag of Wotsits and I tell you friends, they’re fantastic!
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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...
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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.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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.
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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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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Why have London bus stops become so obsessed with anal glands? This is not a phrase I need to see fifty times a day.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Brew Dog is Tesla Beer.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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! ✨
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The argument for winding up Oxford University gets stronger by the day www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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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
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Really admire @deevybee.bsky.social stance here. I hope Royal Society listen as he has egregiously breached many standards and ethical codes
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Time for scientists to start lining up against the worst people in the world. Well done Prof Bishop! Which FRS is next? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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John Higgs @johnhiggs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New Scientist is going through a hard time and lashing out at the universe
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The king of musicals (and our tech booth) @ianbowkett.bsky.social has arrived friends! Go follow him!
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The new Arts and Humanities comedy thing was really really hilarious. Well done to the new acts! Photos coming very soon.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just checking in on the science museum www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Security guard sues Science Museum for allegedly denying suitable chair
Malina Nowicka, a cancer survivor with chronic back pain, works as security guard at London museum
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
On Tuesday it’s Science Showoff but for Arts and Humanities. Join us for an evening of jokes about philosophy, language, history and more. A few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/636456
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LOLs in Translation
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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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 15/11/2024
The Sokal hoax is so funny if you've ever been anywhere near academia and are even a little honest with yourself. "I got a shitty, nonsensical paper published!" Yeah we've all had to get management off our back before mate, nobody's impressed.
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Science Showoff @scienceshowoff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Look everyone @lescarr.bsky.social is here and now I want to make a starter pack of people who are very clear that AI won’t solve that problem you want it to solve, and can express that in jokes.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Made another highly specific apology card.
A red dog painting with the caption “Sorry I didn’t mention you on my Bluesky starter pack
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