Science Communication

I wrote a guest post on Occam’s Typewriter’s Irregulars blog, about crowdfunding research. Here’s a tiny fragment. Research can’t guarantee any outcomes. You can’t promise funders that you’re going to …

A book with my name on the cover was published yesterday! The official title is “The Best Science Writing Online 2012”. Technically, it should be called “Some of the Subjectively …

I studied chemistry for my undergraduate degree, and for our first- and second year labs we had to all have our own lab coat. They were of the kind of …

One thousand people There are only one thousand people in the world – or so I say when joking about coincidental encounters. How else can you explain that I constantly …

If it hadn’t been for the excessive amounts of money my former universities invested in institution-wide access to scientific research papers, my MSc and PhD theses would each just be …

How do you pronounce “niche”? If you say “nitch”, to rhyme with “kitsch”, you’re probably from the US. If you say “neesh”, to rhyme with “quiche”, you’re in the company …