Back to the 1980s event & prop hire presents: Future Fanfest. An exclusive 1 day event celebrating the Back to the Future trilogy. During this event you can expect set builds, props, replica vehicles, as well as zoom style Q&As with cast & crew. 📅29 Jan 🎫bit.ly/FutureFanfest

🎁 Day 3: Next up is a project from #PopUpUni which explored why we need to grow plants in space and outlined the benefits and challenges surrounding this goal. Available at: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/crop-gr… #ShefEngage2021 Institute for Sustainable Food @SheffieldAPS Dr Luke Fountain

Last night we celebrated our Institute for Sustainable Food (Institute for Sustainable Food) at the Royal Society, with friends and colleagues from the agri-food sector. The event was a once in a lifetime opportunity to come together and create a fairer and healthy food system for the UK. 🧵

Innovations were showcased like an open source controlled environment growth cabinet resembling the Advanced Plant Habitat on the International Space station by Harry Wright Dr Luke Fountain

Back in Sheffield after doing some fantastic outreach at Great Yorkshire Show. So glad to see the tomatoes in foam doing so well. Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme 2020-24 Institute for Sustainable Food Anthony J Ryan OBE Prof Dunc Cameron 🏳️‍🌈♿️ 🐝

If you're visiting the great Yorkshire show, go have a chat with Dr Luke Fountain today and Alexis Moschopoulos tomorrow about growing plants in space!

Fun times at the Great Yorkshire Show! Spoke to people about growing food in space - our collaboration with Harry Wright Dr Luke Fountain Prof Dunc Cameron 🏳️‍🌈♿️ 🐝 et al - and our plant growth chambers for scientific research groboticsystems.com. Thanks Institute for Sustainable Food for inviting us!

And we're off! IHC 2022 - Horticulture for a world in transition Toby Evans Dr Luke Fountain Harry Wright #angers is a pretty city, really looking forward to the week ahead!

Great day yesterday! Bring on round 2! #angers IHC 2022 - Horticulture for a world in transition Harry Wright Dr Luke Fountain Toby Evans

Great day out in the field yesterday! Thankfully the rain was shortlived! Looking forward to a day packed full of exciting sessions today IHC 2022 - Horticulture for a world in transition , just a matter of picking which ones to go to with Harry Wright Toby Evans Dr Luke Fountain

Congratulations Dr Dr Luke Fountain graduating today. Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Prof Dunc Cameron 🏳️‍🌈♿️ 🐝

Our paper on why growing food in space is important has been published in Nature Food ! Congrats Prof Dunc Cameron 🏳️‍🌈♿️ 🐝 Anthony J Ryan OBE Dr Luke Fountain Alexis Moschopoulos and the rest of our coauthors! rdcu.be/djb4S Science at Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food Grantham Centre

Our latest paper on why growing food in space is important has been published in Nature Food, congrats to all the authors! If you're interested you can read the article using the link below. rdcu.be/djb4S

Excited to see that our Nature food article ( nature.com/articles/s4301…) has been mentioned in the opinion piece, how a Martian menu may transform what we eat on Earth. Anthony J Ryan OBE Prof Dunc Cameron 🏳️‍🌈♿️ 🐝 Dr Luke Fountain Institute for Sustainable Food Science at Sheffield cnn.com/2022/10/07/opi…

Starship launches off the pad under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster

Over the past decade, our #DonateDontWaste university scheme saw students divert over 70 thousand bags of usable items from landfills to British Heart Foundation . How can we make our world even better? Dr Luke Fountain shows us what we can do in space: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/crop-gr…

Excited to participate in STAR-5 as I continue to develop my space biology and space crop production research!

How will astronauts live and work on the Moon? In our new episode of "Far Out," explore NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where we're designing rovers to dig up Moon dirt, zapping Moon dust off spacesuits with electricity, and creating new ways to farm in space: go.nasa.gov/3FER5S9

Highly recommend taking part in this course, it’s a fantastic way to meet like-minded researchers and develop skills for future space biology PIs!