Sensational(ised) Supernatural Skeletons
October is my favourite month. That is despite the fact that it is also the month where I go all Jekyll and Hyde with outbursts of nerd-rage directed at all […]
October is my favourite month. That is despite the fact that it is also the month where I go all Jekyll and Hyde with outbursts of nerd-rage directed at all […]
TD;LR I didn’t like this article about pirates, because it wasn’t actually about pirates, so I wrote a blogpost three times as long as the actual article to tell you […]
Earlier this week while on a flight to Belfast for a conference I was reading the wonderful book ‘Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction’ by Jules Howard. It […]
I absolutely adore skeleton sketches. This summer on the site where I was supervising we acquired an enormous amount from all of our students. I’ve put together a collection of […]
In the post ‘From Dinosaurs to Astronauts, Long-Live the Bone Cells’ I shared my entry to Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014. The following post includes some of my thoughts […]
In what is becoming an annual tradition, this post is the article I submitted to the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014*. When the first vertebrates emerged onto land, their […]
[Update: The response to Penny Darlings has been rather unexpected. One a scale of one to GIF, I’m about here: As a result of the level of interest in this […]
[WARNING: Contains minor spoilers from Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: The Empty Hearse.] On Wednesday I, like 9199999 other people, sat down to watch the much anticipated Season 3 opener […]
As a part of the recent Manchester Science Festival (Oct 24th – Nov 3rd) I gave a talk at the Science Showoff event. The event is a well-oiled machine that […]