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2017 is the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council, who fund my FIRSTDAWN group at Imperial. For our celebratory festival, I thought it would be fun to display an SKA dipole. They’re eye catching and a good prop to … Continue reading →

My reading from 2015.   January The Millstone – Margaret Drabble The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins Against Method – Paul Feyerabend February Falling Upwards – Richard Holmes Fantastic read that … Continue reading →

This weekend was the 72nd World Science Fiction Convntion – Loncon3 – held at ExCeL in the London Docklands. It coincided with the visit by my friend and collaborator Katie Mack to work on a new paper looking at fast … Continue reading →

(If you just want a link to the web form: http://tinyurl.com/NAMStatistics) At the AAS 223 meeting as part of a hack day project, Jim Davenport and colleagues carried out a survey of the gender balance of speakers and question askers to get … Continue reading →