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Apr 26In the run up to my viva last week I became obsessed with a game I played a few years ago whilst at a summer school in Switzerland. Viva revision is somewhat mind-numbing because you feel that you are just reading your thesis thing over and over again. I took plenty of breaks to keep myself sane but I found that I needed to keep my brain active or I'd lose the plot. This game is the perfect...
Trapped in the Thesiverse
Feb 12In March I will begin working at Oxford University, as a postdoctoral researcher in citizen science. The 'post'-doctoral part of that title means that I must submit my PhD thesis by the end of this month. Eek! It has been on the boil for some time now, and I'm pleased to say that next week I intend to take it off the boil and begin letting it cool on the windowsill before handing it over at the...
The Gould Belt
Oct 19
The Gould Belt is a vast ring of active stellar nurseries and molecuar clouds encircling our Solar System. I am part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey and the Spitzer Gould Belt Survey who study the star-forming regions within it, but what is the belt - and how did it come to be?
Max Alexander Portraits
Oct 12Just a short post to draw your attention to this really cool collection of portraits by photographer Max Alexander. A wide range of people - all astronomers - are shown in quirky these photo portraits that refer to their fields of research.
.Astronomy Conference
May 27
I am running a conference in September and I’m inviting astronomers and astronomy bloggers from anywhere! If you’re interested in how astronomy and the internet can combine to produce new and interesting tools for research and communication then this conference is for you.
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