A fascinating talk by Prof. Russell Foster of SleepCircadianNeuro on Saturday on the impact of our circadian rhythms on behaviour, illness & treatments!

That brings #ATOMfestival24 to a close. Thank you to everyone who supported the festival - by volunteering or attending events! 👏🏻

Join us tonight from 6:30pm in the guildhall for our final talk of #ATOMfestival24 ! Tonight Prof. Russell Foster will be telling us about #sleep 😴- the impact it has on our health & how we can improve it. Tickets on the door or from the website: atomfestival.org.uk/programme/

Happening now! Drop in to the guildhall from 9-11:30 this morning to have fun with NitroJen who will be running science activities suitable for 6 to 12 years olds. 🤗 No need to pre-book, just turn up!

A fascinating and entertaining talk tonight from Professor John Tregoning! Best slide definitely goes to - what else have people died of instead of #smallpox since it was eradicated? 😂 Thank you John - who’d have thought #InfectiousDiseases could be so amusing. 😉

It’s tonight! We look forward to seeing you there. 😊 Tickets on the door or online: atomfestival.org.uk/programme/

It was an absolute pleasure to go to Amey Theatre for Abingdon’s inaugural #FameLab , part of ATOM Festival We are so proud of Emily, Jasmine and Maddy. Well done to Emily who was runner-up with her insightful presentation on tortoiseshell cats! 🙌🏻 St Helen and St Katharine SHSK Middle School #oracy

A super talk tonight from Megan Jacobs about her work as a #paleontologist and her discovery of Abingdon’s pliosaur in Abingdon County Hall Museum! If only they could go back and dig up the rest of the bones… 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Reminder that Megan Jacob’s will be talking to us tonight about Abingdon’s Jurassic sea monster! 🐋 We hope to see you in the guildhall from 6:30pm, ready for the talk to start at 7pm!

A brilliant #vaccines double-bill tonight from David Miles and Catherine Green for our Peagram Lecture in Amey Theatre! 💉 Between them they covered Pasteur’s germ theory in 1870s all the way through to the OxfordAZ covid vaccine in 2 hrs!! 🦠 #VaccinesWork

A superb evening on Tuesday in Amey Theatre for the festival’s first FameLab competition finals! We had 6 fabulous Year 9 finalists talking about #AMR , #genetics , #ClimateChange , black holes, #MentalHealth and de-extinction. It was tough for the judges to choose a winner!! 🏆

It was our honour to welcome Isabella Tree of Knepp Wilding to Amey Theatre on Sunday night as our first speaker of #ATOMfestival24 ! The audience was enthralled by her talk and books were flying off Mostly Books shelves for the book signing after! 🤩📚 #Rewilding

Thank you to our sponsor Oxford Nanopore for further supporting the festival with a stand at the science market (extracting 🧬 from 🍓!) and a live #DNA #sequencing demo in the guildhall! 🙌🏼 #ATOMfestival24 #AnythingAnyoneAnywhere

In conjunction with the ATOM Festival, our Collections Officer will be giving a special talk on Mary Buckland, her life and her contribution to palaeontology, this Saturday 23rd March at 11am Abingdon County Hall Museum.
Free Admission. #Abingdon #Science #Oxfordshire

It’s tonight! Pop down to the Amey Theatre for 6:30pm and grab a drink ready for talks to start at 7pm. 😊

Tickets available on the door or can be booked in advance here: atomfestival.org.uk/programme/

Reminder that tonight is our Fame Lab final. No tickets required, just turn up at the Amey Theatre from 6:30pm, grab yourself a drink & be ready for a 7pm start! Let’s encourage our scientists of the future by supporting this event. 🤗

It’s tonight!! Please arrive at Amey Theatre for 6:30pm to grab your drinks & seats (and copy of Wilding from Mostly Books 😉) in time for Isabella’s talk to start at 7pm! You can purchase a ticket on the door or from here: atomfestival.org.uk/programme/

Great to see UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in action at today’s ATOM Festival! 🙌🏼 Youngsters could make their own butterfly pic to take away and learn to tell apart bees, moths & beetles. 🐝🦋 #Ecology #Pollinators

Reminder that we have a full schedule of talks happening over in the Guildhall today too!

We’re open!! And the sun is shining! ☀️

Happy British Science Week everyone! One Particle Physics Masterclass done. Next stop Abingdon for ATOM Festival tomorrow. Hope we have as much fun as last year Department of Physics at University of Oxford