Inside the Infinite Monkey Cage
A few weeks ago, I had the rare pleasure of recording an episode of one of my favourite shows/podcasts – The Infinite Monkey Cage, hosted by Brian Cox and Robin Ince, with comedian John Bishop and astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock as guests alongside myself. Absolutely mesmerizing to be on the other side of that mic, and […]
A beautiful Summer festival of ideas
This July, I had the great pleasure to present my book at ALSO24, one of the most stimulating and beautiful Summer festivals in England. Set on a natural estate with its own lake and forests, the festival combines ideas, music, food and dance in a unique, three-days long blend of entertainment and encounters. It was […]
Solstice at the Standing Stones of Callanish
I had the privilege to travel to the Outer Hebrides around solstice, to speak about my book, STARBORN, and to visit several primary schools on the Isle of Lewis, on the invitation of the Callanish Stones Trust. The Callanish Stones (the “Stonhenge of the Hebrides”) are an incredible neolithic stone circle, which inspired me during […]
✨ STARBORN launch events in November! ✨
I am thrilled to announce the first launch events for my new book, STARBORN – How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them). It’s a mix of talks and conversations with amazing scholars, followed by book signing – I look forward to meeting my first readers then! Please do join me […]
An Impossible Dialogue
I am delighted to be involved as scientific consultant in a new play by and with actress and author Diana Höbel. Diana approached me with the idea of creating an “impossible dialogue” between Alma Mahler, a fascinating character and talented musician, and her husband, Gustav Mahler, with whom she had a stormy and ill-fated relationship. […]
STARBORN: my new book available to pre-order!
I’m excited to share that my new book will be published by Basic Books in the Fall 2023! For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. STARBORN: How the Stars […]
The Edge of the Sky | Oir Nan Speur
The Edge of the Sky | Oir Nan Speur is a beautiful new ‘analogue theatre show’ in which two astronomers try to unravel a story from the past following a cataclysmic event. It will premiere on February 18th, 2022 at the Hebridean Dark Skies festival, on the Isle of Lewis. Performed in English and Gaelic, it is a uniquely […]
LIBRA: a multi-media theatre play on mega-constellations
It’s 2042: a global corporation has plastered the night sky with internet satellites. Virgil, a middle manager in the company, stumbles on a mysterious pattern hidden in the ads the company runs: could this be linked with the pandemic of compulsive shopping that has struck his own wife? And can a teenage girl with special […]
Celebrating 70 years of Humanities at Imperial College London
Imperial College London is world-renowned for its research and education in science, technology, engineering, maths, medicine and business. It is perhaps less well known that the humanities have a long and fascinating history at Imperial: for 70 years, the arts, humanities and social sciences have enriched the cultural and intellectual life of Imperial’s staff and […]
Uncertain Ruins – From The Big Bang to AI
I was invited to contribute a piece responding from the perspective of astrostatistics to the timely and exciting show “Uncertain Ruins”, a “a site-responsive collaboration by artist Julie F Hill and Gauld Architecture that draws on the social, material and historical context of the Swiss Cottage Library in which the gallery is located”, part of the Passen-gers site-specific exhibition […]
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