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It’s that time again!

Actually the calendar savvy amongst you will note that we are NOT on a Thursday this month but Saturday night.

We’ve moved venue once again (in our quest to make sure everyone gets a seat) and we will be upstairs at Good Companions in Seven Dials.

We are very excited again to have some top class speakers with us this month. We have our first international speaker too (all the way from the United States of Canadia):

1. How to find Starbursts in space – Ms Charlotte Clarke

from the Astronomy Unit at the University of Sussex and will be our Brian Cox for the evening. Her research in extragalactic astronomy revolves around far-infrared data from the Herschel Space Observatory, helping to get to grips with the formation of galaxies when the Universe was less than half its current age. She’s also heavily involved in public engagement in Brighton and the surrounding areas.

2. How strong are earthworms and can they make choices? – Dr Robert Stovold

Robert is a very busy man. He juggles running the Brighton and Hove Humanist Society, Philosophy in Pubs, his role in the National Secular Society, writing books and singing in various karaoke haunts around town with his daily work with B&H Council. However tonight he will be returning to his (literal) roots and his PhD in Soil Science to talk to us about earthworm burrowing.

3. Whistleblowing in the age of Wikileaks: From the Pentagon Papers to Cablegate – Dr Patrick McCurdy, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Flying over especially for Nerd Nite Brighton (well… kinda) Patrick’s research examines the representation of politically contentious issues in an age of media saturation. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2009. His thesis examined how radical social movement actors think about and interact with media at the site of protest. He is widely published and his book Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society released this year forms some of the basis of his talk tonight.

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There’ll be the usual quizzes and music but to celebrate our 3rd event we’re also having a bit of a party afterwards so it would be great if you could come and hang out. Perhaps throw some shapes (as long as they’re geometric and congruent) on the dance floor?

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely nerdy faces. Be there AND be square!

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Doors as usual at 7.30pm, nerdy party till 1am!

Tickets from here or on the door

Attention Brighton Nerds!

We are moving!

Partly due to a need for more space (some of you poor nerds had to stand last time) Nerd Nite Brighton #2 will be held Downstairs at the Caxton Arms at 7.30pm on Thursday May 9th 2013.

Pleased to welcome:

Dr John Turner, Reader in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sussex:

“Black leaves: Building a rational economy one molecule at a time”

Kate Doran, PhD student in cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

“The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Addict”

Finally a nerdy greeting to Dr Refik Gokmen, National Institute for Health Research Clinical Lecturer in Renal Medicine at King’s College London:

“The Original Nerds: Travels through Western Turkey”

Be there and be square! Looking forward to seeing y’all!

Thanks to everyone who came last night. What a fantastic turn out and we hope you enjoyed it! Lots of learning, beer and giggling so mission accomplished.

A big thank you to our speakers Drs Thomas Nowotny, Shailesh Shah and Ben Afzali who entertained us throughout the evening with tales of smelling bees, massive sharks and tight black t-shirts (TBTs).

Congratulations to Felix on his epic quiz win and also thank you to the team of nerd helpers.

Please drop me a line on here or through the facebook page if you have any thoughts for speakers, comments or want to be involved.

Next one is May 9th – hope to see you there!

Much Love

P

Good Afternoon Brightonians, Hovians and Beyondians

We hope you’re enjoying this incredible weather we’re having on the coast this last week. We’re frankly sick of the humidity, the blazing sunshine and the sound of crickets in this awful humidity. A bit of snow in April wouldn’t go amiss eh?

Almost all set for Thursday for our inaugural meeting (and the inaugural UK Nerd Nite too!) Our talks are:

“How does the brain make sense of a mixture of mixtures? – Lessons from the honey bee.” – Dr Thomas Nowotny

“If Carlsberg made fish – adventures with Carcharocles megalodon” – Dr Shailesh Shah

“Thrown to the wolves – an experiment in social networking” – Dr Ben Afzali

We’re planning to open doors at 7.30pm. It’s upstairs at the Eagle and 4 squid entry (3 squid for you lucky students). Do spread the word, please bring anyone and everyone and make sure you’re in your nerdiest outfits.

If you can stick one of our posters (below) somewhere that’d be fab too.

Finally please swing by the facebook page and share.

Looking forward to it!

Much Love

Hola everybody!

We’re booked into the Eagle pub  in the North Laine for April 11th 2013 and have a great bunch of speakers lined up. More details to follow!

Looking forward to seeing you guys there only 4 quid (3 quid NUS)

Partha

Dear all

There’s been a little bit of stopping, starting and then stopping again with the first Brighton, no first UK, Nerd Nite.

It has been a long time coming. Having said that I can’t give you an exact date right now. HOWEVER, watch this space in the next few weeks for details of the first one. There are some great speakers lined up and poised to get going.

In the meantime, relax your eyes with this beautiful visualisation of wind patterns across the US.

http://hint.fm/wind/

Cheers a million

Partha Das

Brighton Nerd Nite Curator

PS. Do let us know if you have something suitably nerdish you’d like to present – form on the right!