Speakers wanted for Pint of Science!

● Reception of applications until February 28.
● The festival will be held on May 22, 23 and 24.

The Pint of Science festival is getting underway to organize its ninth edition, which will take place on May 22, 23 and 24. To do this we need researchers who want to bring scientific knowledge closer to the general public. Bars, ancient meeting spaces, offer themselves as a relaxed meeting place and thus facilitate the dissemination of research beyond academic circles.

The talks, which last 15 minutes, cover all scientific disciplines. These are some of the thematic areas covered in past editions:

• Beautiful mind: neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry.
• Our body: life sciences including immunology, cancer, aging, genetics, health, biotechnology.
• “Tech me out”: technology, engineering, computing, robotics, mathematical modeling, software.
• From atoms to galaxies: physics, chemistry, astrophysics, cosmology, thermodynamics, materials.
• Planet Earth: geography, geology, oceanography, earth sciences, ecology, climate, environment, zoology.
• Our society: archaeology, history, anthropology, politics, economics, philosophy, social behavior.

23.251 people throughout Spain attended the festival in its 2019 edition, being interlocutors in this dialogue between society and science. On the second part, 784 speakers, 471 researchers and 313 female researchers spoke, thus increasing the participation of women to reach 40%. But it was in Zaragoza in the 2022 edition, the first in-person after COVID, when we achieved the desired parity of men and women among the people who give the presentations. A goal sought throughout the history of the festival in our city.

Almost fifty Spanish cities participated in the last edition, which included 200 populations from 25 countries on 5 continents. This is the ninth of a festival that originated in May 2013 at Imperial College London. Researchers Michael Mostkin and Praveen Paul organized an event in their laboratories in order to show the research they were carrying out on people affected by different mental illnesses. After the success of the call, they decided to move to where the audience was already: the bars. The proposal arrived in Spain in 2015, with Zaragoza being one of the pioneer cities to welcome it.

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