CANCELLED – 25th March 2023 – Sian Williams: The age of antibiotic resistance
CANCELLED: 22 April 2023 – Alice Sheppard: Astronomical misconceptions
27th May 2023 – Eugene Byrne: Bristol Bullsh!t
24 June 2023 – Steve Wright: Greta may yet fly again! Flying taxis and electric planes
6th July 2023 – Michael Marshall: The rise and rise of Flat Earth belief
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Following the new guidance from the authorities announced today, we are unfortunately cancelling the March event.
Ironically it was about microbes, and has been cancelled due to a microbe…
We are also cancelling the April event (Alice Sheppard).
Events in May and the rest of the year will remain in the calendar for the time being.
We hope to reschedule the cancelled events. Stay tuned for updates.
In the meantime, stay healthy. And Be Excellent to Each Other.
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Cornerstones of modern medicine are at risk due to drug-resistant infections, with routine surgery, common illnesses and minor injuries becoming potentially life-threatening. People are already dying from drug-resistant infections, and as more drugs stop working, more lives will be put in danger. Everyone is at risk. Sian Williams will discuss the causes behind this major public health issue and how organizations such as the Wellcome Trust are helping to address the challenge.
Sian will also explore why we’re not seeing new antibiotics entering the market, the ethical dilemmas involved in the decision to prescribe new drugs, and how we could help GPs stop over-prescription of antibiotics.
DOORS: 19:00
START: 19:30
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Venue: Smoke and Mirrors, 8 Denmark Street
Two for one pizzas available from the bar! 10% off all drinks!
Sian Williams is a Policy Officer with the Wellcome Trust’s Drug-Resistant Infections priority programme, a team with a £175m commitment to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance. The programme works with scientists and policy makers to advocate for and support evidence-based decision making globally. She earned a 1st class honours degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London.
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UPDATE (16th March)
Following the new guidance from the authorities announced today, we are unfortunately cancelling Alice Sheppard’s talk.
We hope to reschedule the event. Stay tuned for updates.
In the meantime, stay healthy.
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Alice Sheppard has acted as ambassador for astronomy for over a decade. During that time, she has encountered all sorts of misunderstandings. These include the ideas that astronomy can predict the future, that it’s a waste of money, that it matters what we call Pluto, and that stargazing is a subject best left to men! In this whiplash tour, Alice will explore some of the most common misconceptions and set the record straight.
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START: 19:30
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Venue: Smoke and Mirrors, 8 Denmark Street
Two for one pizzas available from the bar! 10% off all drinks!
Alice Sheppard studied Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia before rediscovering astronomy through Galaxy Zoo, whose first discussion forum she led for five years. She began writing articles and giving public talks on how ordinary citizens, when equipped with the right tools, can teach each other astronomy and make their own discoveries. During this period Alice also co-founded Cardiff Skeptics in the Pub!
Although employed by a university, Alice does not consider herself an academic but rather an example of what members of the public can achieve scientifically outside the academic environment.
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What happened when a medieval merchant’s wife got hold of the elixir of life? (Hint: It didn’t end well.) Which rock ‘n’ roll star fathered a love child at the Hippodrome? Where did our own local Spring-Heeled Jack attack? Was there really a serial killer at work in the docks and which Bristol office block was HQ for the assassination of Princess Di?
For more than 30 years local historian, author and journalist Eugene Byrne has been filing away historical yarns, plus the tall tales he’s heard in the pub or newsroom. Learn all about them at Skeptics in the Pub!
DOORS: 19:00
START: 19:30
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Venue: Smoke and Mirrors, 8 Denmark Street
Two for one pizzas available from the bar! 10% off all drinks!
Eugene Byrne is a Bristol-based author, historian and journalist who has written science fiction novels and short stories as well as several books on Bristol’s history, including The Bristol Story (with artist Simon Gurr) and a brief history of council housing in Bristol (with artist Anthony Forbes) for Homes For Heroes 100 celebrations in 2023. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at UWE and is editor of the Bristol Post’s weekly Bristol Times local history pull-out.
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The science fiction of the 1950s imagined that by now middle-class families would be commuting to work in flying cars. That hasn’t happened, but within five years consumers may find themselves making journeys in something close: the flying taxi. Such “electric vertical take-off and landing” (eVTOL) systems will fly a small number of passengers up to 20 miles quickly, cheaply and without burning carbon. Dr Steve Wright will discuss the engineering and regulatory challenges for these vehicles and how soon we might see them in Bristol.
Dr Wright will also look further ahead to 2040 and 2050, when the aviation industry might finally crack the carbon challenge and produce electric planes. Greta Thunburg may yet fly again! But will batteries become light and powerful enough to make such dreams realistic? And will electric planes be safe?
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START: 19:30
Venue: Smoke & Mirrors, 8 Denmark Street
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Dr Steve Wright is a Senior Research Fellow and lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the University of the West of England. He has spent 25 years as a software, electronics and systems engineer at Rolls-Royce, ST Microelectronics, and Airbus. He has contributed to the development of the Airbus A320, A330, A340, A380, A400M, A350, and Boeing 747, 757, 767, and 777.
Dr Wright’s research is focused on Avionics and Aircraft Systems, particularly in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He founded the Unmanned Flight Laboratory (UFL) at the UWE, developing UAV technologies for a variety of industrial customers.
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NOTE THIS IS NOT ON OUR USUAL WEDNESDAY AND NOT IN OUR USUAL VENUE. This is a special event jointly organized with Bristol Humanists. It takes place at Unitarian Meeting Hall, Brunswick Square. There is a cover charge of £3.
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In 2013, Michael Marshall interviewed the Vice President of the Flat Earth Society for his podcast Be Reasonable. At the time, such ‘true believers’ were extremely rare. But in the seven years since, Flat Earth belief has gone mainstream, spawning thousands of hours of YouTube videos, widespread international media coverage, and countless followers. In the age of science, reason and rationality – how did we get here?!
In this talk, Michael will talk through his experiences of the Flat Earth movement, take a look at the leaders and some of their reasoning, and report back from the weekend he spent at the UK’s first ever Flat Earth convention.
Michael Marshall is one of the UK’s highest-profile Skeptics. He is the Project Director of the Good Thinking Society, Vice President of the Merseyside Skeptics Society, and co-founder of the annual QED conference. Michael’s work has seen him organising international homeopathy protests, going undercover to expose psychics and quack medics, and investigating extraordinary claims of all types. He has written for The Guardian, The Times and New Statesman.
Michael also co-hosts the popular Skeptics with a K podcast, the official podcast of the Merseyside Skeptics Society.
The Good Thinking Society is a small charity that is pro-science and anti-pseudoscience, and actively involved in promoting maths teaching. It was founded (and is chaired) by the mathematician and physicist Simon Singh, well-known for his best-seller Fermat’s Last Theorem and for having been sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association, a case which he eventually won
The entrance fee is £3 (reduced rate £1), although members of Bristol Humanists attend free of charge. Membership costs £20 pa (or £5 reduced rate). If you wish to become a member, please download the form at this link. http://bristol.humanist.org.uk/membership/.
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Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing? How can we hope to conduct experiments on things that only exist within our minds, and, on a related note, can scientists ever be trusted to study deception without being deceived themselves? What can scientists learn about the mind from the illusions developed and practiced by professional magicians? Join magician and experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins, author of The Spectacle of Illusion, for a fascinating talk exploring the psychology of magic.
Everyone’s heard, and most of us have told, a story about an uncanny or supernatural seeming experience. Accounts of wondrous and impossible phenomena can be found around the world throughout recorded history. These extraordinary events often seem to be facilitated by extra-ordinary individuals: sorcerers, spiritual mediums, psychic sensitives. Such phenomena have even been reported under ‘test conditions’, witnessed by scientists—men professionally trained in the practice of empirical observation. To date, such events have not led conventional scientists to embrace the reality of supernatural phenomena- but they have arguably led to scientific breakthroughs how we understand the psychology of illusion.
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Venue: Smoke and Mirrors, 8 Denmark Street
Two for one pizzas available from the bar! 10% off all drinks!
Matt Tompkins American magician-turned-psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins completed his DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Previously, he had obtained a BA in Psychology at the State University of New York at Geneseo and an MSc in Psychological Research from Oxford. He is currently a Visiting Academic at The Queen’s College, Oxford and also works as a freelance writer.
His research, which has been featured across various international media outlets, including the Washington Post and BBC Future, focuses on the cognitive psychology of illusions. Matt was working as professional magician before he began his academic career, and his experiences performing continue to influence his work. He is the first member of The Magic Circle to have been admitted on the basis of a peer-reviewed scientific publication. His new book, The Spectacle of Illusion, explores the historical and contemporary relationships between scientists, magicians, and fraudulent mystics.
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26th August 2023 – Stephan Lewandowsky: Fighting fake news with cognitive science
How do we stop the spread of misinformation?
The psychologist’s traditional answer is to target individual cognitive failures such as poor reasoning. Stephan Lewandowsky argues this is no longer enough. The problem must be viewed in the wider context of inequality, polarization, fragmented media and distrust in science.
Stephan advocates for IT architectures designed with cognitive principles in mind. Such “technocognition” systems will encourage the sharing of truth and discourage the spreading of lies.
DOORS: 19:00
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Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and social media fees. If you cannot afford to donate, please do not! If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to see some magic before the talk, close-up magicians will be performing tableside in the bar from 6:30pm.
Speaker biography
Stephan Lewandowsky is Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol’s School of Experimental Psychology. His research focuses on the public’s understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs at odds with scientific evidence.
He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition from 2006-2008 and was an Australian Professorial Fellow from 2007 to 2012. Stephan was awarded a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council in 2011.
Until early this year he was digital content editor for the Psychonomic Society, a global organization for researchers in Experimental Psychology founded in 1959.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Washington College and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto, and is the recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
In 2015, Professor Lewandowsky was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), an organization which arguably started the modern Skeptical movement.
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NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOT ON OUR USUAL WEDNESDAY AND NOT AT OUR USUAL VENUE.
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Find out what truly makes a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve’s Villanelle.
Dr Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and disturbing psychopath cases of recent times and is now sharing his phenomenal insight.
Case by fascinating case, get to know seven of the most dangerous minds that Dr Freestone has encountered over the last 15 years; these are up close accounts of some of Britain’s most psychopathic criminals, and what can happen if you fall victim to their supreme powers of manipulation.
Dr Freestone will explore the many factors that make a psychopath, the complexities and contradictions of their emotions and behaviour, and the lives they live in and out of institutions. This discussion will open a window into the world of those who operate in a void of human emotion … and what can be done to control them.
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and social media fees. If you cannot afford to donate, please do not! If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
Venue: The Square Club, Berkeley Square Hotel, 15 Berkeley Square
Speaker biography
Mark Freestone PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London.
He has worked in prisons and forensic mental health services for over 15 years as a researcher and clinician, including in the High Secure Category A prison estate, which houses some of the UK’s most notorious and high-risk criminals.
He is a consultant to BBC America’s Killing Eve, an editor of the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and currently an advisor to NHS England on services for men and women with a diagnosis of severe personality disorder.
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Humans have been fascinated with our nearest heavenly body, the Earth’s Moon, since prehistoric times. 2023 marked 50 years since we set foot on the Moon during the Apollo space missions.
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Dr Robert Massey is Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, where he spends his days making the case for astronomy to the wider world. Before joining the RAS, his career took him from PhD research in Manchester on the Orion nebula to teaching, local politics, and then a stint as Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. With the art historian Dr Alexandra Loske, he published Moon: Art, Science, Culture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
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Wednesday, 28 October 2023: Andy Parker – Should we block the sun to cool the Earth?
SRM sounds crazy and in time it might prove to be crazy, but it might also prove to be helpful at reducing some of the risks of climate change to which Earth is already committed. Andy Parker will make the case that SRM needs to be taken more seriously and more funds must be invested in researching this potentially planet-saving technology.
DOORS: 19:00
START: 19:30
Admission is FREE but during the interval we asks for donations. This is to cover speaker expenses and marketing costs such as social media fees and flyers. If you cannot afford to make a donation please do not. If you can, £3-£5 would be greatly appreciated.
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Two for one pizzas available from the bar! 10% off all drinks!
Andy Parker is an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He has worked on solar radiation management geoengineering (SRM) for over a decade: first as a Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society then as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the IASS Potsdam.
Since January 2018 Andy’s main focus has been directing the SRM Governance Initiative (SRMGI), an international project that seeks to build the capacity of climate-vulnerable countries of the Global South to evaluate the potential risks and benefits of SRM. He has been the main architect for the project since it was launched in 2010.
Andy has published opinion pieces in Nature, Nature Geoscience and the Washington Post, led the production of the Royal Society’s “Geoengineering the Climate” report, and was a member of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s expert working group on geoengineering.
Andy is not a proponent of deploying SRM but is a strong supporter of research in order to make an informed decision or whether to implement or reject it. Andy says “It’s source of some pride that my work has been described as pathetic, hysterical, idiotic, and EVIL EVIL EVIL by the readers of the Daily Mail.”
