Talks

Learn how to cultivate edible, nootropic and medicinal mushrooms at home from expert cultivator Darren Le Baron.

It’s magic, to make something out of nothing. Science can reveal how the brain does this amazing trick! In this talk, Dr Jonathan Iliff shows you what we know about the neuroscience of creativity. It is the process that sees something arrive in the brain and be transformed into a work of art, a wonder...

Learn the science behind dreams from Neuroscience expert Dr. Jonathan Iliff. Followed by a Q&A.

Join us for this enlightening talk about ADHD with Dr James Brown A simple scroll through Instagram or TikTok and you’ll be left questioning: do I have ADHD? The rise in ADHD in adults is undeniable. But only over the last decade has ADHD been formally recognised in the UK. It has been suggested that...

Killer crayfish? Pine Martens in Bristol? Jamie and Jen discuss their efforts to reintroduce of two very different species. In this, the third Bristol Rewilding Group talk, we will be hearing from Jamie Kingscott-Evans and Jen Nightingale - two people working on the reintroduction of vital native species in the UK. From the benefits pine...

Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic also used to treat pain in a medical setting. In the mainstream world, you may have heard of it as a party drug or horse tranquilliser. Since the early 2000’s, researchers have been investigating ketamine efficacy in treating mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. A study in 2012...

The traditional use of psychoactive plants and fungi for spiritual and shamanic rituals has occurred for thousands of years, whereas the Western scientific research of these substances has only been explored in the last 100 years, and prohibition stalled the last 50 years of this. In this talk, you will be introduced to the science...

A simple scroll through Instagram or TikTok and you’ll be left questioning: do I have ADHD? The rise in ADHD in adults is undeniable. But only over the last decade has ADHD been formally recognised in the UK. It has been suggested that about 1.5 million adults in the UK have ADHD but only 120,000...

It’s magic, to make something out of nothing. Science can reveal how the brain does this amazing trick! In this talk, Dr Jonathan Iliff shows you what we know about the neuroscience of creativity. It is the process that sees something arrive in the brain and be transformed into a work of art, a wonder...

Multiple universes and parallel worlds are all the rage in film and TV these days from the Marvel cinematic universe to Stranger Things. But multiverses are more than just fiction, many scientists are increasingly convinced that our universe is just one of a vast number of hidden worlds. Multiverses crop up all over the place...

A simple scroll through Instagram or TikTok and you’ll be left questioning: do I have ADHD? The rise in ADHD in adults is undeniable. But only over the last decade has ADHD been formally recognised in the UK. It has been suggested that about 1.5 million adults in the UK have ADHD but only 120,000...