Shaaron Leverment

Updates, ideas, reconnections & new collaborations - Thankyou @Ecsite #Ecsite2024 🤝Sad to leave - but not too long to wait before our European colleagues come to my home city of Bristol for the November Directors Forum @wethecurious 🙌 #EcsiteDF2024 @sciencecentres

Celebrating #NationalSpaceDay with our space science project #OurWorldFromSpace currently running across 22 #ScienceCentres and #ScienceMuseums around the UK youtu.be/71aSY8a74Gs?si… Funded by @spacegovuk in partnership with @NERCscience

@CokeMaddy @Atoms2Astrophys @sciencecentres @STFC_Matters Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing 🤩

Giving the Explore Your Universe @Atoms2Astrophys box a second lease of life! Using the diffraction grating spectroscope to see the spectral lines in H2 doesn't get old. @sciencecentres @STFC_Matters these boxes are still going strong!!

This was great! Thank you @ArmaghPlanet @CatalystSDC @eurekamuseum @gsc1 @scienceatlife for sharing your wondrously wintry demos and shows! Loved feeling festive with our @sciencecentres community 🤩. Can you guess what @elinoroberts is doing here and how it ties with Santa!?

Blown away by this evening @UKHouseofLords hosted by @FloellaBenjamin. The importance of cultural permanence, representation & collaboration as @windrushmuseum joins @RMGreenwich for a future together. Proud of the (tiny) role we played in this matrix of brilliant people & places

Farewell vibrant, thoughtful, uplifting & emotion-full #Museums2023! @Sciencecentres joined you & felt welcome and connected. Highlight final session chaired by @waji35 with the beautiful words of @viciws Congratulations @MuseumsAssoc, @Sharonheal, @glasshouseicm & all involved.

A few pics from the start and finish (with the blur of an amazing conference of connection between!) All brought together by the Power in Purpose 🙌 #ASDC23 it was a privilege and a lot of fun. Thank you @Victoria_Denoon 👏🙏👏🙏👏 @W5Belfast @VisitBelfast @sciencecentres

@ConorJonEllis @sciencecentres @W5Belfast 😆

We’re @bluedotfestival a wee bit soggy but happy 🙌 If you’re here come see us @ExplorerDome

Amazing session on biodiversity from space from Rod Downie @wwf_uk & @PeterTFretwell @Bas_news the team behind #WalrusFromSpace 🤩 Next up... penguins from space with @ourdynamicearth … 💩🐧#OurWorldFromSpace

“Ready to rock and roll” is how we’re feeling at #OurWorldFromSpace training academy 🤩 our largest programme yet! 45 colleagues from 22 centres and museums across the UK @sciencecentres

ASDC heads home but #Ecsite2023 is buzzing! Great to see @scienceatlife @wethecurious @sciencemuseum @nhm_London here in dazzling technicolour. Simply blissful to spend moments ‘mixing it up’ with international colleagues & friends in Malta 🇲🇹 Thankyou for the days @Ecsite

We're celebrating #VolunteersWeek with our next Members' Forum: Working effectively with volunteers, Wed 7th June, 2-3pm + the launch of our 2nd Volunteer of the Year Award, sponsored by @MarshAwards ASDC members please register 👇🏾 sciencecentres.org.uk/events/working…

Vicky visited @SeabirdCentre and brought back our proud first SDC fridge magnet! 🙌 Tadaaa 🙌 Unanimous decision @sciencecentres this is SO going to be a thing for our office 🌠

This #Earthday we celebrate the launch of 'Our World From Space', a two-year STEM programme exploring the relevance of UK space science for the future health and sustainability of our home planet. Funded by @spacegovuk in partnership with @NERCscience sciencecentres.org.uk/projects/our-w…

Thanks @ROGAstronomers @RMGreenwich for this event with Mark Camplin director astrophysics @NASA : Hot topics of @NASAWebb @EsaWebb science, unexpected discoveries and a future of habitable world exploration - all wrapped up with some excellent people & views in the sun☀️✨

@JamieBGall @cabe_bedlam @astroholbrook @DrCarpineti That’s ace - the folk you work with are clearly very COOOL! 1st prize to clouds pics 🥇And maybe they’d taken pic of Centaurus too?… tho again not at night time in UK… could be low in daytime sky maybe 🤔🧐 🤷‍♀️?

Thanks to star gazers @cabe_bedlam @astroholbrook, @SLeverment & @DrCarpineti for the Sagittarius intel. I asked researchers to “find & photograph a centaur” meaning this one on the hotel. But when they posted photos of a cloud filled sky I wasn’t sure if they were right!

@JamieBGall No self-proclaimed bright spark but yup - it’s a summertime constellation… if you’re Sagittarius the Sun is (supposedly) in that constellation - so best time to see it in night sky is 6-8 months after your birthday 🤔

Can some bright spark tell me if Sagittarius is in the UK sky tonight?

>60% of people either don’t feel R&D benefits ‘people like them’ or feel neutral/unsure about its impacts… “This is a precarious position for a sector that receives substantial public investment.” Excellent insights from #DiscoveryDecade for all in STEM participation 👇

Invitation to tender: Mindsets + Missions project evaluation 📝 We're looking for an evaluation specialist to measure the impact of our Mindsets + Missions project with @UKRI_News, @ahrcpress, @sciencecentres and @TheLiminalSpace 🤝 Apply by 6 March 👉 ow.ly/OF1N50N3qLA