Sarah Jowett-Taylor - Chaos Theory 

Wallace Arthur - Dinosaurs

Where no one has gone before: how and why we study comets - Charlotte Goetz

What is a comet, why should you care and how do we learn about them? We'll address all of these questions and explore from the edges of the solar system to the expanse of the Atacama desert and even into the Sun. Follow for a wild ride and stories about how comets made England french!

David Cushing - The Search for Symmetry

Join us at @ernest.ouseburn for a night of brain-bending fun with our science-themed pub quiz! Test your knowledge on a range of scientific topics. But don't worry, you don't need a PhD to participate – we've got questions for everyone! We'll also throw in some general knowledge, music and science fiction trivia to keep things interesting.

The Artemis Program - Hayden Goodfellow

Total Eclipse Down Under - Fred Stevenson

The origins of empathy: evolutionary insights from our great ape relatives - Zanna Clay

Empathy – the capacity to share and understand others’ emotions and thoughts – forms a core feature of what it means to be human. While empathy is important for our own species, emerging evidence suggests that it has deep evolutionary roots. Studying our closest living relatives, the great apes, offers us a unique window to address into how empathy might have evolved. Here, I will introduce to you our closest cousins, the chimpanzees and bonobos, before discussing their abilities for empathy. Such studies reveal many relevant overlaps which highlight the importance of studying other species to understand how abilities such as empathy might originate.

Chat GPT - Sam James

Showcasing early career researchers in the northeast

In March we shook up the Cosmology night format. 6 awesome speakers told us about their awesome work in an incredible night. 

Shelley's Cosmological Sublime - Christopher Goulding 

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was pre-eminent among his Romantic contemporaries for using scientific ideas as metaphors in his poetry. Where Wordsworth wrote of the natural world of the Lake District to evoke the sublime, Shelley looked to the sky and beyond. Emerging cosmological theories were also used by the poet to reflect radical political ideas in his verse. This talk will explore the influence of the scientific mentor of Shelley’s childhood along with the use in his poetry of imagery and ideas associated with the greatest British astronomer of the age.

Are we inside the Matrix - David Cushing

Life in the Universe  - Arthur Wallace 

To kick off the night Prof Wallace will talk about the race to discover the first credible evidence of life beyond the Earth, including Perseverance's search for present or past life on Mars, planned missions to the moons Europa and Enceladus, and the James Webb space telescope's search for evidence of life on exoplanets. He will also discuss his new book Understanding Life in the Universe.

Visualising Wormholes - George Stagg

The James Webb Space Telescope - Fred Stevenson

In the first of our talks Dr Fred will discuss perhaps the most exciting development of the past year, the long awaited launch and successful deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope. Some truly astonishing mages have recently been published and if things go according to plan this is just ‘the tip of the iceberg’. We will look at all of the recent images and discuss the relevance of them to our understanding of the universe.

The Science of the Terminator - David Cushing