Category: Website updates
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Generative AI
Moving into 2025, we will be using more generative AI to support the website. To begin with, we are experimenting with using AI to generate featured images. WordPress (our Content Management System) can now generate images based on the textual content of the post, like the one for this post. See here for our first…
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Online science talks
Some additional science content to keep you busy over the summer whilst Salisbury Cafe Sci will not be running any talks.
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New and Improved website
The website has been running for almost five years now in its current form, based on the WordPress Content Management System. Over that time, it has been extended with plugins such as the Timely calendar but is largely as originally implemented. Despite being heavily standards based, it has been noted that the user experience could…
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Attend a Cafe Sci event
Each month, we get a number of requests for booking places at our events. In most cases, there is no need; our events are free to attend and booking is not required. The venue is spacious and can accommodate large audiences and thanks to the generosity of our speakers and organisers, there is no need…
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Shifting seasons and event times; an apology…
Apologies if you have been confused by the apparent time shift for events from April onwards; the website has been showing these events starting and finishing an hour later than usual. This was due to a quirk in the calendar time zone settings, daylight saving, GMT and the like. On the website that is not…
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Dorchester Cafe Sci – upcoming events
The 2013-14 programme is available here and forthcoming events have been added to the Calendar. Thursday January 30th 4.00-Ââ€5.30pm in the Sixth Form Centre: “Prosthetic Limbs and the Role of Technology in Elite Sport†discussion to be led by Bryce Dyer, Bournemouth University Friday March 14th  7.30-Ââ€9.30pm at the Dorchester Arts Centre: “The Role of…
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Sherborne Science Cafe – upcoming events for 2014
The programme of events for Sherborne Science Cafe up to and including June has been added to the Salisbury Cafe Sci calendar. You can see these events on the calendar by turning on the ‘Other Café Scientifique‘ category (please see the help page for instructions to do this if you are unsure) or you can…
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Calendar updates
The calendar now has the dates for all the talks through to February 2014. Posters and further details will be posted as soon as they are available. There’s a gap for August as there is no meeting in August. There is also a gap in September but rest assured there will be a meeting, the…
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New calendar
The calendar has again been updated to improve usability. It still supports all the same functionality such as ICS feeds (so you can add individual events or the entire calendar to your own calendars, on your computer, phone, iPad, etc) and a variety of views. Feeds from other calendars are pulled in automatically, so we…
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Event times – oops!
Due to a small problem with the calendar, some upcoming events were listed as starting at 6pm. Just to confirm that all forthcoming events start at 7pm as usual; doors open at 7pm for a prompt 7.30pm start. The calendar has been updated and now shows the correct times. Sorry about that; the calendar imps…