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September 11, 2021

Big data presentation

September 11, 2021/ Neil Stoker

Presentation given to PhD students

September 11, 2021/ Neil Stoker/
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September 28, 2018

Follow that! A gold medal example of Public Engagement with Research to learn from

September 28, 2018/ Neil Stoker
Follow that! A gold medal example of Public Engagement with Research to learn from

Funding for British sport at the Olympics is pretty cut-throat. If your sport is unlikely to get a medal, you are likely to get nothing from UK Sport.  So 1st to 3rd means money, 4th or below means none. This has been a spectacularly successful policy in terms of medal results, though controversial in wider terms of how it relates to levels of participation in sports, how the individual sports can develop sustainably, and how broad the funding should be in this all-or-none system.

Funding research

The situation is a little similar for how research is funded at UK universities…

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science, public engagement
2018, impact, process, research, social media
September 07, 2018

How new technology affects the research process: The impact of CRISPR

September 07, 2018/ Neil Stoker
How new technology affects the research process: The impact of CRISPR

Gene Editing is a technology that is increasingly impacting on society and our lives.  What was hard to do became simple, and with that a host of new possibilities - and ethical issues - were unleashed.

In this dissertation I discuss the context of Gene Editing as a tool, and how it sits with other technologies.  I argue that it's not a complete stand-alone technology, but rather that it completes 'the toolbox' that geneticists have been developing since the first cloning experiments in the 1970s. 

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science, public engagement
2016, genetics, Imperial College, DNA sequencing, DNA, research capital, inequity, technology, qualitative research, research publications, geography, gene editing, CRISPR-Cas9, mutagenesis, research
August 10, 2016

Bridging the generation gap

August 10, 2016/ Neil Stoker
Bridging the generation gap

A farmer can remember what has happened last year and the year before, and can prepare accordingly.  But what about plants? How can they pass on their experience to their offspring?

It turns out that they can and do, and by being prepared, the new plants will grow better than they otherwise would have.

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2016, epigenetics
September 11, 2015

Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects

September 11, 2015/ Wellcome Collection/ Neil Stoker
Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects

First things first, in case you read no further: go and see Alice Anderson’s exhibition, Memory Movement Memory Objects, at Wellcome Collection.  I found parts of it extraordinary, that I have returned to repeatedly.  The curation, integrating strong design and careful lighting with the artist’s works, has produced effects that are aesthetically powerful and thought-provoking.  

But I’ve struggled to write this piece, to express what it meant for me in the context of what it appeared to mean for the artist, and why it was in this venue.

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art, review, science, public engagement
2015, memory, exhibition, process
September 01, 2015

Citizen Science podcast

September 01, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Citizen Science podcast

I'm interested in Citizen Science - where people take part in science research through non-traditional routes. Here I talk to someone, untrained in science, who’d worked on astronomy projects in the online Zooniverse platform in her spare time. Was she a technician, or had it become more than that?

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September 01, 2015/ Neil Stoker/
science, public engagement
2015, podcast, citizen science, astronomy
August 10, 2015

Emily Young: Call And Response

August 10, 2015/ The Fine Art Society London/ Neil Stoker
Emily Young: Call And Response

As a biologist, I’m used to the idea that elements combine to form simple and complex molecules in an orderly way, and with a ‘purpose’. How different it must appear to the geologist, who studies the rocks that make up our planet.  While the basic tools that form these objects – matter and energy – are the same, the scale is massive, the forces and timescale barely imaginable, and here there is no guiding template, no enzymes to channel the way molecules combine, just a relentless chain of events.

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art, review, science, public engagement
sculpture, geology, Italy, Emily Young, 2015
July 27, 2015

The Lighter Side of Drones

July 27, 2015/ Somerset House x/ Neil Stoker
The Lighter Side of Drones

An event about how drones can be used creatively.

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science, review, public engagement
2015, drones, audio
April 25, 2015

Hubble: A Visual Feast

April 25, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Hubble: A Visual Feast

A beautiful book of extraordinary images that we’ve almost become desensitised to.

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science, review
2015, Hubble, universe, images, book, astronomy
February 23, 2015

Lit Up: Images and Interviews from the Imperial Fringe

February 23, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Lit Up: Images and Interviews from the Imperial Fringe

Imperial Fringe event ‘Lit Up’ celebrated the International Year of Light through a range of events last Thursday.  I dropped by and interviewed some of the stallholders about their wares. 

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science, review, public engagement
2015, Imperial College, audio
February 13, 2015

A Taste for Fat

February 13, 2015/ Neil Stoker
A Taste for Fat

Is Umami our sixth primary taste? A story of a scientific pioneer, a natural molecule some see as ‘evil’, and ice cream.

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science, review
2015, taste, fat, glutamic acid, MSG
February 09, 2015

History in the Page

February 09, 2015/ Neil Stoker
History in the Page

Parchment is made from the stretched skin of goats or sheep. Here DNA technology is used to analyse historical specimens.

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science, review
2015, DNA sequencing, history, genomics
February 03, 2015

Leprosy: Is This Really the ‘Final Push’?

February 03, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Leprosy: Is This Really the ‘Final Push’?

“His hands were deformed and useless, and he had foot drop and ulcers on his feet. And nobody had recognized that he had leprosy until about 3 months ago.” Professor Diana Lockwood on her work with leprosy, an ancient disease that is still with us today.

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2015, leprosy, disease, India
January 16, 2015

Preserving Coral Biodiversity: A Gift to the Future

January 16, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Preserving Coral Biodiversity: A Gift to the Future

Another day, another gloomy prediction of ecological disaster? Mary Hagerdorn’s personal mission to save the coral reefs.

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science, review, public engagement
2015, climate change, coral
January 11, 2015

Will Self At CERN: An old argument in a new form

January 11, 2015/ Neil Stoker
Will Self At CERN: An old argument in a new form

I have friends whose idea of heaven – and mine of hell – is Power Ballad Night at the Electric Ballroom. They go, I don’t, and we are all happy. So I was puzzled by the five-part BBC radio programme Self orbits CERN, in which author Will Self walks the 50km route of the Large Hadron Collider that lies beneath the French-Swiss border, and essentially he spends 75 minutes telling us how much he hates the trip.

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science, review, public engagement
2015, radio, Voltaire, Rousseau
December 04, 2014

Who Am I? – Is Free Will an Illusion?

December 04, 2014/ Neil Stoker
Who Am I? – Is Free Will an Illusion?

What is consciousness? Who or what is the ‘me’ that I call my ‘self’? And does that ‘self’ control what I do, or is that an illusion? These are issues Dr Susan Blackmore spends much of her time thinking about, and which she presented at the latest GV Art & Mind Symposium.

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December 04, 2014/ Neil Stoker/
science, review, public engagement
2014, consciousness, free will
September 24, 2014

A Family Affair

September 24, 2014/ The Place/ Neil Stoker
A Family Affair

An affecting performance about identity, mortality and love connecting on different levels.

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science, review, art, public engagement
2014, dance, disease, Parkinson's Disease, family
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