Outreach & engagement

Last week, I found out about the Tumblr blog F No, Chemical Free with images of products that supposedly contain no chemicals at all.It reminded me of a story from …

Colin Firth is having a pretty good year. First he won an Oscar for the King’s Speech, and now he also has a paper out in Current Biology! When guest …

I’m not a morning person. There are only two things that make me get up on time: fear that everything will go horribly wrong if I don’t (catching flights, last …

I’ve experienced the other side of research recently. A number of weeks ago I spent an afternoon working with Cambridge students in their department. I wasn’t doing the research, I …

I went up and down to New York this week, and watched people watch Lab Waste at the Imagine Science Film Festival. I was in a foul mood before the …

The Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) kicks off today in New York. I’ll miss most of the event, but since I have absolutely nothing better to do than sitting on …