Well that was a hoot. Not the sort of thing I usually get up to on a Thursday evening, but very worthwhile, and super interesting so hear all about our sun, other stars, and think about our human relationships with these through space and time. Sometimes it is a privilege being an academic.

Quantum Sauce@quantum-sauce.bsky.social · 3w ago

☀️A sunsenational night of solar science! Quantum Sauce meets @wxwakefield.bsky.social beneath #Helios, for chats about: - our sun’s life story🌌 - solstice religions🛘 - geothermal energy futures♨️ Massive thanks to Dr Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, @undertheground.bsky.social & @jimleary.bsky.social! 👏

☀️A sunsenational night of solar science! Quantum Sauce meets @wxwakefield.bsky.social beneath #Helios, for chats about: - our sun’s life story🌌 - solstice religions🛘 - geothermal energy futures♨️ Massive thanks to Dr Felix Sainsbury-Martinez, @undertheground.bsky.social & @jimleary.bsky.social! 👏

🌞 Sunsentional news, we’re going to #Wakefield! We’re teaming up with @wxwakefield.bsky.social for @lukejerram.bsky.social’s #Helios installation! More solar science than you ever knew you needed! ☀️ Check out the details at wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Det... 🧠 Bring your brain & pull up a pint! 🍻

#scicomm at @oldwoollen.bsky.social! Where else will you find a mash-up of #EltonJohn, fossils, cheese and astronauts?! Rocket Man, Crocodile Rock and Philadelphia Freedom: Elton tracks inspiring a night of science! 🚀 🐊 🧀

Where else are you going to find palaeontology, psychology and the history of cheese, all with an #EltonJohn soundtrack?! That’s Quantum Sauce folks! 12th May @oldwoollen.bsky.social! Tix at tinyurl.com/t5z9dfym 🧠 Bring your brain and pull up a pint! 🍻 #Leeds #Farsley #scicomm

🎹 It’s official! Tickets just dropped for the Quantum Sauce #Elton Extravaganza at the @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 🎫 tinyurl.com/t5z9dfym 12th May, we’re talking fossils, cheese and spaceperson wellbeing! 🦖 🧀 🧑‍🚀 🧠 Bring your brain and pull up a pint! 🍺 #Leeds #science #scicomm

Quantum Sauce returns, with an #EltonJohn night at @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 🦖 🧀 🚀 It’s a croc-rocking, Philadelphia freeing, rocket man extravaganza! 12th May, in #Farlsey Old Woollen club! 🧠 Bring your brain and pull up a pint 🍻- watch this space for the ticket hotline! 🎟️

🦁What a way to walk on the wildside! #worldwildlifeday at @oldwoollen.bsky.social, feat: 🪰Evidencing insectageddon with @katatrepsis.bsky.social 🏞️Kindling river love, with Dr Josh Cohen 🐘Seismic safari with @dralicemorrell.bsky.social & an accordion soundtrack!🪗 Next night, 6-May! Watch this space!

🐘Just 2 weeks til we Walk on the Wild Side for #WorldWildlifeDay! Our @oldwoollen.bsky.social faunal festival features @ox.ac.uk’s Dr Alice Morrell & a seismic safari! What do vertebrate vibrations say about human-animal conflict? Come hear the rhino rumbles! Tix: tinyurl.com/9vzy769b, March 3rd!

3weeks til we Walk on the Wild Side for #WorldWildlifeDay! 🪰First up, welcome @katatrepsis.bsky.social & ponder a post-pollinator world… Is insectageddon here…?⚡️Small but mighty @oldwoollen.bsky.social celebrates our six-legged, swarming life-support system! March 3rd, tix at tinyurl.com/9vzy769b!

🐼With #worldwildlifeday coming up, we’re taking #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social for a Walk on the WildSide! 🪰Is insectageddon upon us? @katatrepsis.bsky.social tells all! 🏞️Rebonding with rivers,it’s Josh Cohen 🐘Alice Morrell leads a seismic safari through Africa! 3/3/26,tix tinyurl.com/9vzy769b 🍻

Give the gift of Quantum Sauce this Christmas! Tickets at oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/quantu..., for our next @oldwoollen.bsky.social show! 3rd March - it’s a faunal festival, as we mark #WorldWildlifeDay! #leeds @worldwildlife.bsky.social @worldwildlife.org @leedsgigs.bsky.social #scicomm

🦁Quantum Sauce takes @oldwoollen.bsky.social for a Walk on the Wild Side: 3rd March is #WorldWildlifeDay! From insect to elephant, desert to delta, we’ve got you covered! - eavesdropping on elephant earthquakes 🐘 - imagining insectageddon 🪰 - reconnecting rivers 🏞️ 🎟️ Tix at tinyurl.com/9vzy769b 🐼

@bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social - support #localmusic with a vote for Bradford Accordion Band, nominated for an inspiration award by the Royal Philharmonic Society! Who wins is down to public vote, so it’s over to you! Vote via this link! royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne... 🪗 🗳️ ❤️

Public voting opens for the 2026 RPS Inspiration Award

royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk

#Accordion players of the UK! You can vote for Bradford Accordion Band to win a music inspiration award! @ukmusic.bsky.social @classicfm.com @makingmusicuk.bsky.social @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social @bradfordmusic.bsky.social @englishfolkexpo.bsky.social Please consider a vote! 🪗 🗳️ ❤️

Bradford Culture Company@bradfordculture.co.uk · 8mo ago

You can vote for the Bradford Accordion Band here! royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps_m...

You can vote for the Bradford Accordion Band here! royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps_m...

Inspiration Award

royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk

Quantum Sauce@quantum-sauce.bsky.social · 8mo ago

People of @bradford2025.co.uk, consider a vote for your local accordion band! - nominated for a music award from @royalphilsoc.bsky.social - now it’s up to the public vote! “Music for good” really underlines the band’s approach. 🪗 🗳️ ❤️ Also, @musicleeds.bsky.social, @oldwoollen.bsky.social!

People of @bradford2025.co.uk, consider a vote for your local accordion band! - nominated for a music award from @royalphilsoc.bsky.social - now it’s up to the public vote! “Music for good” really underlines the band’s approach. 🪗 🗳️ ❤️ Also, @musicleeds.bsky.social, @oldwoollen.bsky.social!

Royal Philharmonic Society@royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Public voting is open for the 2026 RPS Inspiration Award! The shortlistees are: Bradford Accordion Band, Cantorion Llandrindod, Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society, and Sean Chandler and Shepherd Brass Band. Find out more and cast your vote by 2 February: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...

Public voting is open for the 2026 RPS Inspiration Award! The shortlistees are: Bradford Accordion Band, Cantorion Llandrindod, Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society, and Sean Chandler and Shepherd Brass Band. Find out more and cast your vote by 2 February: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...

🕰️Flashback: QS’s Valentines’24 night @oldwoollen.bsky.social, where our Quantum Quartet featured Bradford Accordion Band🪗 The Band are nominated for a @royalphilsoc.bsky.social inspiration award! Quantum Qrowd, please help them win by voting at royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps_m... ❤️ 🎵

From morose misery to moderate merriment: sniffles, suicide & sadistic, self-immolating trees offered an alternative take on Christmas @oldwoollen.bsky.social. With masterful emceeing by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social, the night moved swiftly from virology to musicology to ecology @uclselcs.bsky.social

So, @bsky.app… in each of our @oldwoollen.bsky.social nights, I ask our audience to give me a follow as I try to grow my network. Yet, you then block my posts as spam and then ignore my appeal. Thanks very much, I can feel our network blossoming…

🎄 Fantastic factual festivities last night at Quantum Sauce’s @oldwoollen.bsky.social Qristmas extravaganza! Featuring: - a massive carol-singing #Farsley Quantum Qrowd 🎤 - a stringy soundtrack from the Quantum Quartet - musicians from the @universityofleeds.bsky.social union music society 🎻 …

😢Embrace the #Christmas blues! From Blue Christmas to Wonderful Life,we’re spreading Christmas #catharsis & some festive feel-good!Join @jori-saudade.bsky.social for a Quantum Qristmas speak at #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social. Dec 2nd,tix at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5.Bring your brain & pull up a pint!

🎄Is your #Christmas tree talking to you - and if it was, would you want to know?! Translating the bio-signs of your festive fir, ecologist @canopyrobin.com brings a Quantum Qristmas to #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social! 2nd Dec, tickets at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5 🧠 Bring your brain & pull up a pint! 🍻

Had a great time at a "Back to the Future" edition of @quantum-sauce.bsky.social delivering a talk "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!" exploring my work in designing land speed record cars and spaceplanes using AI and the principles of evolution. Science + Art + Beer = Mind Expansion

🎅Hohoho!Who’s up for a Quantum Qristmas?! Dec 2nd, @oldwoollen.bsky.social frolics with a festive feast of fascinating facts,starting with why we can’t vaccinate away the #Christmas cold!We’re going viral, with @universityofhull.bsky.social virologist Dr Cheryl Walter!🦠 Tix at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5

Great Scott! A time-travelling trilogy of talks at @oldwoollen.bsky.social for #BackToTheFuture night! Kudos to @cern.bsky.social scientist Dr Kristin Lohwasser, aerodynamics ace @profbenevans.bsky.social & steampunk sensei Dr Robbie MacAllister! & thanks to our #Farsley crowd Next up: Christmas!

So, you going to be at our next @oldwoollen.bsky.social show - or are you too… …chicken? 🐓 Three talks linked to your fave time-travelling trilogy! 21st October, grab a ticket at oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/quantu... #Leeds #Farsley #scicomm #backtothefuture #science #cabaret

Great Scott! - Quantum Sauce is going Back To The Future!! 1.21 GigaWatts of electrifying research talks at the @oldwoollen.bsky.social, linked to your fave time-travelling trilogy for Back To The Future day! 21st October (2025)! #leeds #scicomm #80s #80smovie #backtothefuture #science #Farsley

🍸Gin night - done! Speakeasy vibes at the @oldwoollen.bsky.social with gin-linked talks on Chemistry, Social History & Sustainable Farming, from Dr Ruaraidh McIntosh, Dr @harbottlestores.bsky.social & Dr Pete Ianetta! Next up, we go Back To The Future! 👉 oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/quantu...