Brilliant science fair at @stamfordbps yesterday -- great job Mrs Bowes for organising! x.com/stamfordbps/st…

At the end of full-time in the footie, the demand on National Grid UK increased by more than 1000MW in 3 minutes! That's like 3000 kettles being switched on every second!

Opportunities for a career in science should be open to everyone. x.com/PhysicsNews/st…

I'm super-excited to be an investigator on this £5m+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council multi-university project to study magnetised plasma turbulence and thereby to optimise tokamak plasmas for fusion performance. x.com/fusionenergy/s…

Last week in Riga on a EuroFusion panel supporting doctoral training in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Lots of fun doing experiments with Owl Class this morning

Great to visit Wistow C of E Primary School earlier this week. The children tested substances using red cabbage chemical indicator, made potato batteries light up LEDs and I did a short talk on fusion (including some plasma demonstrations).

Thanks to Clifton Alliance CC for hosting Stamford Bridge CC🏏 on Sunday for an enjoyable pre-season friendly. The hosts posted a tidy 243-7 (Bagshaw 3-47); the visitors responded with a respectable (albeit lower) score of 203-7 (Salman Syed 52*, Paul S Milner 37, Roddy Vann 49).

14th International Reflectometry Workshop at Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, has just come to an end. Some excellent talks including Joe designing microwave antennas & circuit boards for MAST-U

Roddy Vann from University of York and his company partner Sylatech outlining their journey in medical imaging and support from Grow MedTech . #growingmedtech

Prof. Roddy Vann has just opened the 7'th edition of the FuseNet PhD event - The #Virtualternative. Today and tomorrow, European doctoral students in the fusion field will engage in a series of talks, discussions and Pecha Kucha sessions on a wide range of related topics!

Goole in Yorkshire is on the shortlist for the site of UK's prototype fusion reactor -- STEP! To find out more, register for the community forum TOMORROW (Wed 2 Feb) online at 6pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-siting-…

65 new #EPSRC_CDTs launch today to train the next generation of scientists and engineers and three are being led or co-led by York researchers, including Roddy Vann from York Plasma Institute UoY School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and Helen Sneddon from Green Chemistry York: bit.ly/4aa0Cul #YorkResearch