Steve Cross
@drstevex.bsky.social
Comedy and science communication. Trainer, consultant, speaker, host, podcaster, photographer. I help experts to be interesting, effective and public. Founder of Science Showoff he/him
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Get tickets now for our next show in London. Feb 25th with a cracking lineup! wegottickets.com/event/690755
Science Showoff Feburary 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff.
Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Get tickets now for our next show in London. Feb 25th with a cracking lineup! wegottickets.com/event/690755
I'm enjoying an episode of that history podcast you like where two tory men talk about stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0im...
History Today - The Industrial Revolution (from the Mary Whitehouse experience)
YouTube video by Alan Heath
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January 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I'm enjoying an episode of that history podcast you like where two tory men talk about stuff www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0im...
A gentle reminder to pay your freelancer invoices before Xmas.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A gentle reminder to pay your freelancer invoices before Xmas.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
You know how you pay your PAYE staff early in December because everyone in Finance goes away from the end of this week until January? We also need to be able to afford crackers and tinsel.
Reposted by Steve Cross
If you'd like to see an amateur comedy routine vaguely on the subject of peer review involving lots of puns and me forgetting a line, look no further! Credit and thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for the video and, as always, being a very funny, supportive compere!
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
James Connolly - peer review - LOLs in Translation
YouTube video by JEPC123
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November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you'd like to see an amateur comedy routine vaguely on the subject of peer review involving lots of puns and me forgetting a line, look no further! Credit and thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for the video and, as always, being a very funny, supportive compere!
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
youtube.com/watch?v=D4ll...
NOW RECRUITING FUNNY ENGINEERS.
On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts.
10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com
Who would like a show?
On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts.
10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com
Who would like a show?
Homepage - Brunel Museum
The Brunel Museum is an educational charity run by volunteers that tells the story of one of the world’s great engineering dynasties
thebrunelmuseum.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
NOW RECRUITING FUNNY ENGINEERS.
On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts.
10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com
Who would like a show?
On March 4th The Brunel Museum and I are running an engineering-themed fundraising comedy gig and I'm looking for acts.
10 minute sets, unpaid, and a chance to play an iconic (but pretty inaccessible) venue. This is them: thebrunelmuseum.com
Who would like a show?
TOMORROW! Catch London's hottest Arts and Humanities talent telling jokes about their work. Just a few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/679150
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
wegottickets.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
TOMORROW! Catch London's hottest Arts and Humanities talent telling jokes about their work. Just a few tickets left: wegottickets.com/event/679150
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I'll be performing at this - really looking forward to it! It'll be my sixth time doing stand-up, almost a year exactly since I first tried it. Also my fifth different set, which is admittedly a slightly abnormal way of approaching things.
NEXT TUESDAY London's funniest Arts and Humanities researchers will make you laugh your ass off at LOLs In Translation. Tickets selling fast so get one now!
wegottickets.com/event/679150
wegottickets.com/event/679150
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
wegottickets.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'll be performing at this - really looking forward to it! It'll be my sixth time doing stand-up, almost a year exactly since I first tried it. Also my fifth different set, which is admittedly a slightly abnormal way of approaching things.
NEXT TUESDAY London's funniest Arts and Humanities researchers will make you laugh your ass off at LOLs In Translation. Tickets selling fast so get one now!
wegottickets.com/event/679150
wegottickets.com/event/679150
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
wegottickets.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
NEXT TUESDAY London's funniest Arts and Humanities researchers will make you laugh your ass off at LOLs In Translation. Tickets selling fast so get one now!
wegottickets.com/event/679150
wegottickets.com/event/679150
FREELANCING HUNT
I've had a couple of really frustrating cancellations and work ghostings recently SO
I have loads of space in my diary until the end of Jan. Hire me for all your training, event hosting, workshop enlivening, facilitation, comedy & photography needs! Or a bespoke work-themed quiz.
I've had a couple of really frustrating cancellations and work ghostings recently SO
I have loads of space in my diary until the end of Jan. Hire me for all your training, event hosting, workshop enlivening, facilitation, comedy & photography needs! Or a bespoke work-themed quiz.
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
FREELANCING HUNT
I've had a couple of really frustrating cancellations and work ghostings recently SO
I have loads of space in my diary until the end of Jan. Hire me for all your training, event hosting, workshop enlivening, facilitation, comedy & photography needs! Or a bespoke work-themed quiz.
I've had a couple of really frustrating cancellations and work ghostings recently SO
I have loads of space in my diary until the end of Jan. Hire me for all your training, event hosting, workshop enlivening, facilitation, comedy & photography needs! Or a bespoke work-themed quiz.
Reposted by Steve Cross
These days I mainly gig just to catch up on my reading.
Thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for another lovely show at The Old Operating Theatre and for the lush snaps x
Thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for another lovely show at The Old Operating Theatre and for the lush snaps x
November 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
These days I mainly gig just to catch up on my reading.
Thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for another lovely show at The Old Operating Theatre and for the lush snaps x
Thanks to @drstevex.bsky.social for another lovely show at The Old Operating Theatre and for the lush snaps x
COMEDIANS would any of you like a paid show on Wednesday? I need 15 minutes of material with a loose medical and/or Halloween-y theme from you. PAID.
It's this: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...
(had an act pull out for completely forgiveable reasons)
It's this: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...
(had an act pull out for completely forgiveable reasons)
Spooky Medicine with Steve Cross & Friends — Medi-Culture
Join Steve Cross and a lively lineup of comedians and researchers for an evening of spooky hilarity about the history of medicine.
www.mediculture.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
COMEDIANS would any of you like a paid show on Wednesday? I need 15 minutes of material with a loose medical and/or Halloween-y theme from you. PAID.
It's this: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...
(had an act pull out for completely forgiveable reasons)
It's this: www.mediculture.co.uk/all-events/s...
(had an act pull out for completely forgiveable reasons)
TOMORROW NIGHT: Catch me and a VERY SPECIAL SCIENCE FRIEND in Bristol with some incredible acts: thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...
Bristol Know Show - The Wardrobe Theatre
Presented by Sci X Southwest - where knowledge meets comedy meets cabaret
thewardrobetheatre.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
TOMORROW NIGHT: Catch me and a VERY SPECIAL SCIENCE FRIEND in Bristol with some incredible acts: thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...
Need a fun Christmas activity for your work?
Something a bit different?
I create and host bespoke silly quizzes, themed around you workplace. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you all about it.
I’ve done this for companies, conferences, loads of universities and more. You next?
Photo: Ian Bowkett
Something a bit different?
I create and host bespoke silly quizzes, themed around you workplace. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you all about it.
I’ve done this for companies, conferences, loads of universities and more. You next?
Photo: Ian Bowkett
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Need a fun Christmas activity for your work?
Something a bit different?
I create and host bespoke silly quizzes, themed around you workplace. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you all about it.
I’ve done this for companies, conferences, loads of universities and more. You next?
Photo: Ian Bowkett
Something a bit different?
I create and host bespoke silly quizzes, themed around you workplace. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you all about it.
I’ve done this for companies, conferences, loads of universities and more. You next?
Photo: Ian Bowkett
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST I am coming to entertain you very soon. Get tickets fast for the Know Show on Tuesday 28th with a fantastic lineup thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...
Bristol Know Show - The Wardrobe Theatre
Presented by Sci X Southwest - where knowledge meets comedy meets cabaret
thewardrobetheatre.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BRISTOL AND THE SOUTH WEST I am coming to entertain you very soon. Get tickets fast for the Know Show on Tuesday 28th with a fantastic lineup thewardrobetheatre.com/shows/bristo...
November 18th! LOLs in Translation, the night where researchers in the Arts and Humanities tell real jokes about their work is back in London. It will sell out. It always does. So get a ticket quickly: wegottickets.com/event/679150
LOLs in Translation - standup comedy from Arts and Humanities researchers
A new night of research-based comedy from the team behind Science Showoff, but this time we've shown science the door to find out about HUMANS.
Join Steve Cross and a team of philosophers, linguists...
wegottickets.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
November 18th! LOLs in Translation, the night where researchers in the Arts and Humanities tell real jokes about their work is back in London. It will sell out. It always does. So get a ticket quickly: wegottickets.com/event/679150
It's tonight! Get a faceful of science and a belly of laughs with @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Harrison! Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/673103
Science Showoff October 2025
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff.
Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
wegottickets.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
It's tonight! Get a faceful of science and a belly of laughs with @scienceshowoff.bsky.social at the Harrison! Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/673103
Getting quite excited about the lineup for @scienceshowoff.bsky.social
on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Got some brand new acts for this one - you can forever say you saw them first!
on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Got some brand new acts for this one - you can forever say you saw them first!
Science Showoff October 2025
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff.
Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
wegottickets.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Getting quite excited about the lineup for @scienceshowoff.bsky.social
on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Got some brand new acts for this one - you can forever say you saw them first!
on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Got some brand new acts for this one - you can forever say you saw them first!
An incredible lineup of acts old and new at @scienceshowoff.bsky.social on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Fill your brain with joy and FACTS.
Fill your brain with joy and FACTS.
Science Showoff October 2025
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff.
Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
wegottickets.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
An incredible lineup of acts old and new at @scienceshowoff.bsky.social on October 8th. Get a ticket fast! wegottickets.com/event/673103
Fill your brain with joy and FACTS.
Fill your brain with joy and FACTS.
Over on The World's Only Science Podcast I've been watching Paycheck (2003) with Leah Morgan. Come learn what a professional Reverse Engineer is and what happens when you microwave your brain.
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From sites.libsyn.com/474930/episo... or wherever you get podcasts.
The World's Only Science Podcast: Episode 55 - Paycheck with Leah Morgan
The podcast that treats science with the preparation and seriousness it deserves. This week our fusion expert Leah Morgan has traded in the public sector for private dollars, so we get a feel fo...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Over on The World's Only Science Podcast I've been watching Paycheck (2003) with Leah Morgan. Come learn what a professional Reverse Engineer is and what happens when you microwave your brain.
From sites.libsyn.com/474930/episo... or wherever you get podcasts.
From sites.libsyn.com/474930/episo... or wherever you get podcasts.
My day of free headshots for science people went so well in London that I'm doing one in Cambridge. Oct 9th afternoon at Canopy (CISL). Email [email protected] if you'd like free pictures to use to promote yourself and do websites and socials and that.
September 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
My day of free headshots for science people went so well in London that I'm doing one in Cambridge. Oct 9th afternoon at Canopy (CISL). Email [email protected] if you'd like free pictures to use to promote yourself and do websites and socials and that.
Anyone in the University or Impact worlds got good gossip on the REF pause? What can we expect?
September 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Anyone in the University or Impact worlds got good gossip on the REF pause? What can we expect?
Reposted by Steve Cross
“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
September 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
Sad that after two all-action episodes, Alien Earth is now deep in the “just people talking in rooms” slow phase of a streaming series.
I want ANDOR pace!
I want ANDOR pace!
August 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sad that after two all-action episodes, Alien Earth is now deep in the “just people talking in rooms” slow phase of a streaming series.
I want ANDOR pace!
I want ANDOR pace!