Today’s ice breaker event for our new Year 1 students resulted in a range of carefully crafted sculptures. A refined and inspiring beginning to the year.
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🎉 Exciting news from @UCLSTS! We’re thrilled to welcome Professor Andy Stirling as an Honorary Professor in our department. Andy, is a emeritus professor at Sussex, and has been a valued friend to the department for decades. For more info 👉https://bit.ly/4hFlY7K

Congratulation to STS PhD student Jon Dickinson who has had a paper adapted from his MSc dissertation published in ScienceDirect. You can read the full paper here:
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#Science #Scienceandenvironment #uclsts #education #climate

@uclsts hosted a taster lecture for students visiting from all over South Africa
#education #scienceandtechnology #tastersession

The WeAreSTS podcast from University College London has come to Bluesky! Find our ongoing Season 2 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all the apps. ALSO find us on Youtube and at our new home https://buff.ly/3CQx4Xv. #sts #uclsts #science #technology #scicomm

Under-tens on Tiktok buying £60 'anti-aging' skincare. Twenty-year-olds getting preventative Botox injections. Everyone is obsessed with looking young, and social media is only feeding the beast. Catch UCL's Maddy Ross on the case with the #WeAreSTSPodcast: https://buff.ly/4fQvzHj #babybotox #uclsts

What is dark matter and why does it... well, matter? To learn what makes dark matter so relatably W.I.M.P.-y, listen to #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: Dark Matter and the Search for Elusive Evidence, at https://buff.ly/3D61JA2 or anywhere you get your podcasts. #darkmatter #uclsts #particlephysics #science

🎓 Mel A., BSc Sociology & Politics of Science student, shares thoughts on The New Jim Crow in conversation with Dr Jenny Bulstrode.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4pJFnYj

#UCLSTS #StudentVoices #TheNewJimCrow #Sociology #PoliticsOfScience

Why do some physicists consider galaxy cluster mergers to be the 'smoking gun' for noninteracting particle #darkmatter? What do 50% of the words in that sentence mean? Find out with UCL graduate Mary Westover in #WeAreSTSPodcast Ep201: https://buff.ly/3Vtmzjl
#uclsts #scicomm #particlephysics

social media is like digital junk food except it makes you want to eat fewer donuts instead of more. an obvious miss imo, maybe we should start curating our digital diets instead... 🧐 https://buff.ly/3ZF866d
#babybotox #showerthoughts #plasticsurgery #aesthetics #uclsts #wearestspodcast

The WeAreSTS podcast also has a new addition — you can call me Cap, and in future if you notice any Gen-Z-seeming antics on our socials you can assume they come from me 😝 #uclsts

STS PhD student Rachel Hill was interviewed by the BBC on who she thought moved the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A.

You can read the full article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

#Science #Scienceandenvironment #uclsts #education

RT @poisonchallis: Interesting material coming out of UCL on #eugenics report. On the history & archives, the most robust is this @uclsts https://www.ucl.ac.uk/provost/sites/provost/files/archival_research_final_report_-_mk.pdf
On what to do next this:...

Students from our Science in Government course on a visited Westminster today #Science #Scienceandgovernment #uclsts

Ever thought about dumping 100 tons of iron oxide into the ocean? Well, Russ George certainly has. Listen to #WeAreSTSpodcast Ep205 to hear #UCLSTS students on his #geoengineering 'experiment' trying to fight the #climatecrisis—and about one or two slightly more scientific solutions, too.

The climate crisis is not just imminent, it's here—and #UCLSTS students are focused on solutions. Hear their ideas on everything from #oceans and #geoengineering to #imagination and #activism, now on #WeAreSTSpodcast Ep205. Available at buff.ly/J2gAstX or wherever you get your podcasts.