Matt Williamson
@mattdoesscience.bsky.social
🌌 Owner of www.TaysidePlanetarium.co.uk
🎓 Presentation Skills trainer
with @dyellowlees.bsky.social
He/Him - Trans Rights Are Human Rights - 🏳️⚧️Ally
🎓 Presentation Skills trainer
with @dyellowlees.bsky.social
He/Him - Trans Rights Are Human Rights - 🏳️⚧️Ally
Yup, those are clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yup, those are clouds.
Had a fab time back at Seaview PS in Monifieth, with two whole days of planetarium shows, and every class in the school! Lots of great questions from the kids about gravity, the search for life, and what's in the sky this autumn.
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Had a fab time back at Seaview PS in Monifieth, with two whole days of planetarium shows, and every class in the school! Lots of great questions from the kids about gravity, the search for life, and what's in the sky this autumn.
Lovely bit of sunset.
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Lovely bit of sunset.
Returning home from a lovely trip to Durham (where I was a student back in the olden days). Had a fab time as always with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social doing Presentation 101. A very informal session in a very fancy building!
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Returning home from a lovely trip to Durham (where I was a student back in the olden days). Had a fab time as always with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social doing Presentation 101. A very informal session in a very fancy building!
Had an absolutely fab day Saturday. Took the planetarium to Biggar Science Festival. Some lovely shows for young & old, including folks who braved the rain to reach me! Some tried to make it round all the venues throughout the town. Great chats about dark skies, meteorites & aurorae. Cheers Biggar!
September 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Had an absolutely fab day Saturday. Took the planetarium to Biggar Science Festival. Some lovely shows for young & old, including folks who braved the rain to reach me! Some tried to make it round all the venues throughout the town. Great chats about dark skies, meteorites & aurorae. Cheers Biggar!
Or to give him his proper name, Michael Faraday, inventor of the frisbee
July 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Or to give him his proper name, Michael Faraday, inventor of the frisbee
It's Mikey Boy!
July 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It's Mikey Boy!
The view out the train window was better yesterday! Busy week, training online for Politecnico Milano, then a night in Newcastle and now I'm on to Leeds for some lovely chemists, and then it's the BIG event in London with @big-stem-network.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The view out the train window was better yesterday! Busy week, training online for Politecnico Milano, then a night in Newcastle and now I'm on to Leeds for some lovely chemists, and then it's the BIG event in London with @big-stem-network.bsky.social
New prop alert! The cactus in the background of my online presenting set up has now died of neglect (oops). Well here's one I can't kill!
July 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
New prop alert! The cactus in the background of my online presenting set up has now died of neglect (oops). Well here's one I can't kill!
"Get your presentation skills, get your presentation skills here, they're lovely and fresh..."🥕🫑🌽
But seriously, you can sign up for workshops this summer - as an individual!
Join Duncan and me online this August.
thoughtful-motivator-597.kit.com/posts/you-ar...
But seriously, you can sign up for workshops this summer - as an individual!
Join Duncan and me online this August.
thoughtful-motivator-597.kit.com/posts/you-ar...
July 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
"Get your presentation skills, get your presentation skills here, they're lovely and fresh..."🥕🫑🌽
But seriously, you can sign up for workshops this summer - as an individual!
Join Duncan and me online this August.
thoughtful-motivator-597.kit.com/posts/you-ar...
But seriously, you can sign up for workshops this summer - as an individual!
Join Duncan and me online this August.
thoughtful-motivator-597.kit.com/posts/you-ar...
He regrets nothing...
June 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
He regrets nothing...
Phobia warning: snakes.
Those of you who know me well will spot what is wrong with this picture of the underside of my sofa.
Those of you who know me well will spot what is wrong with this picture of the underside of my sofa.
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Phobia warning: snakes.
Those of you who know me well will spot what is wrong with this picture of the underside of my sofa.
Those of you who know me well will spot what is wrong with this picture of the underside of my sofa.
Had a lovely time taking the portable planetarium to the SmartSTEMs event on Saturday at Morrisons Academy in Crieff. Met lots of nice folk and we talked about everything from light pollution to Mars Rovers, to the doomed Venus Lander Kosmsos 482.
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Had a lovely time taking the portable planetarium to the SmartSTEMs event on Saturday at Morrisons Academy in Crieff. Met lots of nice folk and we talked about everything from light pollution to Mars Rovers, to the doomed Venus Lander Kosmsos 482.
Eclipse spotting not going great here in Dundee either!
March 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Eclipse spotting not going great here in Dundee either!
Now home from a fab week in Shetland. The scenery is stunning and I made it to the northern tip of Britain's most northerly inhabited isle, Unst! I did a couple of planetarium shows for the National Space Academy camp. And I saw otters!
March 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Now home from a fab week in Shetland. The scenery is stunning and I made it to the northern tip of Britain's most northerly inhabited isle, Unst! I did a couple of planetarium shows for the National Space Academy camp. And I saw otters!
Mine is black on the outside, but yes it's very similar to what you're remembering. Here it is at a school in Angus the other month. I'm at www.taysideplanetarium.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Mine is black on the outside, but yes it's very similar to what you're remembering. Here it is at a school in Angus the other month. I'm at www.taysideplanetarium.co.uk
And here are some more mascots...
January 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And here are some more mascots...
Another fab year leading the team building and presentation skills sessions for @iapetusdtp.bsky.social . The room was a buzz with creativity from the get go. @ruth-wright.bsky.social has shared some of the mascots, & here's a clip as the teams had 5min to recreate an emotional film scene!
January 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Another fab year leading the team building and presentation skills sessions for @iapetusdtp.bsky.social . The room was a buzz with creativity from the get go. @ruth-wright.bsky.social has shared some of the mascots, & here's a clip as the teams had 5min to recreate an emotional film scene!
Sunday was an absolutely fab day at the Dundee RPC for the @GirlGuidingDund event. We did taster shows in the portable planetarium for Rainbows, Brownies, and Guides from all over Dundee.
October 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Sunday was an absolutely fab day at the Dundee RPC for the @GirlGuidingDund event. We did taster shows in the portable planetarium for Rainbows, Brownies, and Guides from all over Dundee.
Score! Here's comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS over Dundee from tonight. Took me until an hour after sunset to spot it, then another half hour to get good phone pics.
October 14, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Score! Here's comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS over Dundee from tonight. Took me until an hour after sunset to spot it, then another half hour to get good phone pics.
Fabulous aurora over Dundee tonight!
October 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Fabulous aurora over Dundee tonight!
And we're off! A week of conferences ahead... Leaving Dundee today for the Interact Symposium at Northumbria Uni tomorrow, then back up to Edinburgh for British Assoc of Planetaria, and then down to Birmingham for Vitae. See some of you along the way!
September 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
And we're off! A week of conferences ahead... Leaving Dundee today for the Interact Symposium at Northumbria Uni tomorrow, then back up to Edinburgh for British Assoc of Planetaria, and then down to Birmingham for Vitae. See some of you along the way!