I track “Nottingham” on Twitter – which mostly just gives me fairly inconsequential tweets from people across the country who come here and prop up our economy in business or pleasure.

But a couple of weeks ago, I started getting messages about “Youtube videos of Nottingham scientists”

Turns out there’s a year-long film project of a group of people working in science in this city, and you can watch the project as it happens with little snippets of film on the website test-tube.org.uk

I have to admit, so far I’ve mostly been looking at the videos of the new University of Nottingham hot air balloon, but I also spent an interesting 8 minutes following Aziz around a new lab he’s just about to inhabit. The fascinating thing was the lab had been in his building, vacant, for a year or two, while his team were cramped into an already overcrowded lab on another floor. In showing the cameraman around his new space, he said something along the lines of the previous team had left so suddenly they simply left experiments in the middle. The room is full of bottles of liquids, and you have to wonder whether it’s entirely safe…

Good stuff – will be interesting to see it develop.