Organising #pint22, I came to the realisation that it would be my fifth Pint of Science Netherlands. Well, I guess the past two years have been an interesting time to organise science communication events (although, a very important time to continue outreach to the general public). Regardless, I have had the tremendous opportunity to steer the Pint of Science Netherlands organisation and work with fantastic volunteers from across the Netherlands for the past five #pintNL even

In 2019, the Pint of Science team in Groningen hosted nine events with 18 speakers and more than 260 audience members across four bars. In 2021, the Groningen team organised an online event in conjunction with the Green Office Groningen for #pint21online However, in 2022, unfortunately, there were no events for #pint22 :( As with any volunteer organisations, there are ebbs and flows of participants helping out with organising events. So does this mean that there were no scien

Find the Dutch text at the bottom of this blog! It is almost 2022 and it is time to look back on 2021. All in all, it was a great year with many events hosted during the Pint of Science festival and #pintNLthuis events. Multiple cities were represented by amazing speakers whom shared their diverse research. In addition, the blog was filled by interesting authors introducing us to their research. To make this year such a success, we would love to thank everyone that has partic

While the vaccines have helped shape the horizon of the COVID19 pandemic, it was not enough to ensure that #pint21 would be back live this May. Therefore for the second year, Pint of Science countries across the world facilitated online events to continue our mission of breaking down barriers to accessing science. Translating the events online was not without issues but as volunteers had taken the initiative to organise online events prior (check them out at #pintNLthuis!), t