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The Interdisciplinary Identity Crisis
Interestingly, between running experiments and preparing talks lately, I’ve been wondering a bit about the actual nature of what it is I do and the potential pitfalls of doing it. I’ve heard people...
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Astrobiology Reading List
So I’m working on some slides for that public lecture I’m giving next week. I think things are looking good. I know plenty about all of the topics I’m planning on covering. Just a couple of things to...
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Confidence
Well, I’m a bit more confident about this talk now, thanks to some extremely useful feedback from two of my rather wonderful colleagues. I’m still rather inexperienced at giving talks (whether public...
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Lab Demographics
Well this is atypical. Me being in for 9am? Most people don’t seem to even be here yet. Another reminder that no matter how much we all grumbled about early morning starts as undergrads, the lecturers...
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A pinch of SALT?
So I’m looking forward to going observing at some point in the near future. There was a trip to La Palma in the pipeline, but unfortunately that fell through. The upside to that is that I’ll likely be...
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Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics
All written up and cunningly disguised as a paper, this appeared on arXiv a few days ago. It’s a write-up of a lecture given at a recent summer school in Italy, by Dr. Christian Iliadis (Uni. North...
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Some bookmarks…
I bookmark a lot of things, some of which prove to be more useful than others. In particular, I’ve been looking recently at resources pertaining to stellar spectra and exoplanets. Here are a few of the...
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Astrochemical Shenanigans
So I may not have been blogging much recently. I seem to be a bit of a rubbish blogger lately. But then, I have a whole host of other things I should be writing at the moment, including at least …...
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Article 1
The time has come. The time to actually start being serious about writing a rather large and technical book, so that hopefully it might end up being used as more than just a doorstop. Thesis time is...
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I don’t even
Ugh… I’m just going to cut this one immediately, so anyone who doesn’t want to hear me whining about wavelength calibration can go on about their business! The biggest pain in any kind of science is...
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