Abersci Cafe

An opportunity for people from all backgrounds to meet and chat in an informal environment about the latest ideas in science.

[Charles Musselwhite @charliemuss]

Nice to present @AberSciCaf last night. Always good to do a public presentation. Discussed driver safety in later life, how to get beyond headlines, how ageist stereotypes result in poorer driver behaviour, how to help people give-up driving & improving alternatives to the car

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Dr Matt Hegarty gave tonight’s Aberystwyth Science Cafe talk, taking us through genetic variants, population genetics, animal breeds, genetic marker chips and the computational techniques to analyse it all.

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Our first Science Cafe of 2024 will be on Monday (15th January). Dr Matt Hegarty: Genetic analysis of rare breeds in horses, dogs and cattle. Upstairs in the Arts Centre Bar at 7:30pm.

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This evening’s talk by Prof Huw Morgan is on Space Weather: hazards and forecasts.

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Great talk this evening by @Snail_memory on training snails and dogs, on classical conditioning and operant conditioning and the effects of conditions on training and recall. Loved the happy dog videos that very clearly showed the science.

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Our next Science Cafe will be on Monday 20th November, with @Snail_memory explaining to us "What can snails teach us about the science of dog training?". All welcome, in @aberystwytharts Theatre Bar.

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We kick off the autumn Science Cafe programme with John Warren asking How big is a buttercup? And is Botany a Science?

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Mariecia described the different choices that different grazing animal make and how these can be combined to keep diversity and prevent one plant species taking over. Latest technologies (DNA metabarcoding, radio tags & fixed wing drone imaging) allow more complex data analysis.

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Thanks very much to @uplandresources for an excellent Aberystwyth Science Cafe talk this evening about grazing and the alpacas of Pwllpeiran.

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This month’s Science Cafe is by @amandajayne1975 and describes just how much science is in the modern nursing curriculum along with the people skills.

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Our next Science Cafe on 22nd May will be:
Science in the nursing curriculum
Amanda Jones - Principal Lead and Head of Healthcare Education
Upstairs in the Arts Centre Theatre Bar, 7:30pm. Aberystwyth Science Cafe is free and open to all.

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Iwan Morus kicks off April’s Science Cafe on how the Victorians took us to the Moon.

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Our next Science Cafe on April 24th will be

How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon.
Iwan Morus

Upstairs in the Arts Centre Theatre Bar, 7:30pm. Aberystwyth Science Cafe is free and open to all.

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Farzad’s models show that early treatment lowers the viral load but can increase the duration of infection.

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Farzad Fatehi Chenar is telling us about how his models predict the cells infected by virus and how long we might remain infected.

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@shimtunley Very sorry, we talked about it but there's just too much involved in managing a zoom at the same time (and we're a very small volunteer organiser team). But we'll have more talks when the daylight lengthens too.

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Neil and Dewi are talking us through the university’s plans for reducing he carbon footprint including electricity reduction, solar farm, tree planting on uni farmland, district heat network, and more.

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On Monday 23rd January Mark James Neal will be telling us about his work building a network of low-cost automated sensors for the adult moths that devastate maize and other crops. 7:30pm in the Arts Centre Theatre Bar. All welcome.

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Aberyswyth Science Cafe starts up again this evening with "Making Prifysgol Aberystwyth University Carbon Neutral" at 7:30 pm in the @aberystwytharts upper bar.

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Lockdown Cafe 19:30 TONIGHT.
Currently slight technical problem with the link to the Q&A board, so in case this isn't resolved, here's an alternative URL: https://t.co/fylju4N2br
The original link to the talk still stands @AberOnline @AberUni @LloydCymru