Absolutely delighted to be part of the judging team today STEM for Britain competition at UK Parliament. The poster competition showcases incredible work of early-career STEM researchers. Congratulations to all of the finalists & best of luck! 🏆 #STEM4Brit #RAEngResearch ScienceinParliament

Absolute pleasure to attend the The IMechE Team today, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first female member, #VerenaHolmes. An amazing, high energy, enthusiastic, diverse event! Read about her life & career here: bit.ly/48tFIoR #IMechE #Diversity #Inclusion #inspiration

Super excited for the North East celebration of STEM today with @YESC_Scotland and the #ClimateSmarter project. We're all set up and ready to #inspire some #EngineersOfTheFuture ⭐

Huge thanks to FlotationEnergy for a fantastic opportunity to visit Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm in Aberdeen this afternoon with colleagues from ORE Catapult, Net Zero Technology Centre & The National Decommissioning Centre Also, thankful for a calm day! #FloatingWind #NetZero #EnergyTransition #WindEnergy

Fantastic, sunny and BUSY day Falkirk Leisure and Culture STEM@TheHelix family fun day for #FalkirkScienceFestival! #EngineersOfTheFuture #STEM The Helix STEM Ambassadors

Delighted to be part of the assessor panel @EDTScotland Industrial Cadets Bronze Project North hub graduation today National Subsea Centre. Huge congratulations to all the teams for their fantastic projects & excellent presentations! 🏆🏅 #IndustrialCadets #STEM STEM Ambassadors in Scotland EDT

Great news for the Festival, some of the UK’s top Maths communicators will visit Orkney schools as the result of a funding boost made by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences ICMS Public Engagement fund. theorkneynews.scot/2024/06/06/exp… Image Credit: Hana Ayoob

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED24 celebrates women working in #Engineering, so it was great to catch up with Women's Eng. Society Scotland members Summerlee Museum 🚂 today to chat, offer support & remind ourselves how life has been #EnhancedByEngineering. INWED 🥳

Fantastic Peter Pan @Bamburgh_Castle on a VERY wet & windy Saturday evening by tenacious & stoic actors Immersion Theatre. Battling through awful weather, they made the audience laugh & sing regardless! Incredibly impressive, multiple costume changes & undampened enthusiasm🧚‍♂️🐊☠️⚓

Excited to be on our way back to the Orkney International Science Festival for an incredible week of STEM presentations, workshops and activities for all the family! Thanks to NorthLink Ferries for providing discounted tickets for staff and volunteers travelling to support the festival.

Absolutely incredible event Orkney Science Fest Swimming with Gravitational Waves. Fully immersed in the music of the universe through combining the #Scientific research University of Glasgow and #Artistic imaginings of audiovisual artist Leon Trimble in this ‘Gravity Synth’ #Collaboration #STEM

Fantastic presentation from Professor Martin Hendry, Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal University of Glasgow exploring the detection of spacetime ripples from colliding celestial bodies bringing exciting insights to cosmic origins of precious metals, Gold in the #Stars ✨ #STEM #Cosmology

Fascinating talk from head gardener, Ed Bollom, about the restoration & challenges of creating 1 of the UK's largest kitchen gardens & growing food in the North of Scotland Gordon Castle Walled Garden. Truly #Inspirational & stunning results growing flowers, veg, fruit & botanicals for gin!

Huge thank you to Adrian Allan for an absolutely incredible show Orkney Science Fest. Introduced by a special guest host Jo Durrant, he wowed the audience with illusions, magic & science. Students at Dornoch Academy are so lucky to have such a passionate & enthusiastic teacher! #STEM

The beautiful Bicentennial Quilt, created in 2020, every square hand-crafted, designed & stitched by 70 volunteers celebrating the 200th anniversary of the The Royal Astronomical Society is on display in Magnus Santiago Cathedral until Wed 11th Sep as part of the Orkney Science Fest. #STEM #Astronomy ✨🔭

Fascinating event Orkney Science Fest about the #Constellation Ursa Minor with composer @stuart_macrae & Astronomer Anne-Marie Weijmans beautifully combining #Music & #Science to discuss the power & inspiration of the #Stars with special guest host Jo Durrant ✨🔭🌌 #STEM #Astronomy #Science

Thank you to Ian Taylor from Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) for an interesting presentation about #OffshoreWind & the Ayre project in #Orkney Orkney Science Fest "Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations" #STEM #Sustainability #Innovation

Another fantastic event Orkney Science Fest with head gardener Gordon Castle Walled Garden, Ed Bollom, hosting a workshop to discuss the tips & challenges of growing your own fruit & veg, from planning your plot, pest control, sowing, growing & harvesting fresh produce 🫛🥕🌽🍅🫑🥒 #Sustainability

Thank you Dr Jamie Gallagher for a fascinating, funny & educational session Orkney Science Fest about the elements of the periodic table. Dragons love gold as a means of curing their heartburn🐉🔥 Tellurium poisoning makes you reek of garlic & it was discovered in Romania! 🧛‍♂️🧄 #STEM #Chemistry

Thanks Dr Russell Arnott from @incredoceans, absolutely fantastic presentation Orkney Science Fest! We all breath plankton farts Best plankton: Mesodinium Rubrum looks like🌻can jump 260x its size Sharks: doctors of the ocean Sperm whales: so loud they talk to each other anywhere on the 🌎