Tom Heyden

Journalist, video/docs, editing, writer, ex-@BBCWorld, @bbcstories, currently BBC Studios Science Unit. Views a combination of everyone else's, never my own.

[Ian J. O’Neill 💾 @astroengine]

The Reign of Taters continues! Thank you @BBC's @tomheyden for taking on the story of everyone's favorite orange tabby 📡💫🛰️🐱 https://t.co/6S66B1vXxt

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

@TheRewatchables The amount of times I’ve watched films I’d never heard of before listening to you, assuming I’d have a podcast to then listen to, is mounting up 😂 Latest Body Double. Still appreciate. Intriguing film, can’t watch any film now without thinking of the categories

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

Very honoured that my short doc 'The slime that could change the world' is a finalist at the Lovie Awards!

Winner is decided by public vote so if you can take two minutes to vote - and verify your vote via email (one click), I'd massively appreciate it!

https://t.co/NpPIRHHfP2

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

Two brains can synchronise with each other - ie match their electrical brainwaves - just through eye contact 🤯

Fascinating interview with @HanCritchlow about 'collective intelligence' and the latest incredible neuroscience on brain synchronisation

https://t.co/QTzmqwLn3E

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

@yorkshiretam What you up to these days?

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

Four scientifically-backed ways to live longer

https://t.co/XQOHuTohAD

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

@yorkshiretam Thanks Tammie! Had fun making that :)

[Dan John @DanWithTheCam]

I am so pleased to see this mini-doc published on BBC Reel recently. @PaddyySmyth has done such a fantastic job on this film, working with the hugely talented @tomheyden. The film is refreshingly honest, thought-provoking and emotional: https://t.co/tYi8IWOITv

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Each ball travelling in a Straight line. Amazing Physics

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

RIP Daniel Ellsberg. When asked if he was afraid about spending his entire life in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers and exposing the genocidal war criminals behind the Vietnam War, this was his response:

[Caleb Lovell @CalebLovell]

I built an interactive map of Latin America, with a timeline that allows you to visualize the political history of the region since 1789.

Check it out!

https://t.co/oCTbjdeXwk

[Paul Stamets @PaulStamets]

The beauty of fungi! (Watch until the end 😂) 📹: #LukePenry

[Tim Spector MD (Prof) @timspector]

https://t.co/qqyyjyUizZ Are you a coffee lover and don’t t want it to go extinct ? Watch this great ten min film from @tomheyden and this is all part of the importance of saving rare species @DanSaladinoUK

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

Fascinating science about enzymes that can breakdown plastic... and then refashion it into... vanillin (via E.coli... yep)

Meet The Plastic-Eating Worms | Planet Fix | BBC Earth Lab https://t.co/c7ttBCAYbb via @YouTube

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

This Slime Could Change The World | BBC https://t.co/KKXjWIzYTJ @YouTube #Mexico #Science

Really happy how this came together after logistical challenge of arranging shooting in rural Oaxaca (+in Spanish) - but crucial to hear from the town at the heart of this amazing maize

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

@Rebecca_Dent Hi, I'm a producer at BBC Studios and we're making a short film about pre-workout nutrition and supplements, looking into the ingredients and what they do to the body. Would love to explain a bit more if you're be interested? Pls follow me back if so and will DM

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

❤️ 🎨

[Tom Heyden @tomheyden]

@DrLaurenceGant Hi Dr Gant, I'm a film producer for the BBC and we're making a short film with Dr Ronx about proteins and they highly recommended you. Would love to talk in more detail if possible. If you follow me back then I can DM you, or email you, with more info. Thanks! Tom

[Paul Stamets @PaulStamets]

What an incredible video that was captured of mushrooms releasing spores into the wind! Nature is spectacular. 

Video credit: Villareal C. Jojo