SEPnet student-led conference: The Imitation Game
This week was the SEPnet student-led conference, The Imitation Game, at The Open University.
This week was the SEPnet student-led conference, The Imitation Game, at The Open University.
Last week I gave an update on the Black Hole Hunters project to the REINFORCE workshop, Fostering citizens’ role in the advance of ground-breaking research i...
Last week I attended NAM 2022 at the University of Warwick. I presented my poster, Black Hole Hunters: A citizen science search for black hole self-lensing. ...
I wrote an article for The Conversation about the recent Gaia Data Release 3 (along with Andrew Norton) summarising my favourite highlights from the new data:
I hosted a discussion and Q&A about Black Hole Hunters, citizen science, and the “big data” revolution in astronomy, as part of British Science Week. We ...
I recorded an interview with Astronomy on Tap Jena where I talked about my work on SuperWASP Variable Stars and Black Hole Hunters, as well as my unusual car...
The Conversation has published an article by me and Andrew Norton on the probable recent discovery by gravitational microlensing of the first isolated, quies...
I wrote an article about our recently-launched Black Hole Hunters project for the Open University’s OpenLearn web site:
I recently added VeSPA data release 1 to Zenodo:
The new SuperWASP.org is now live. It contains a section called VeSPA: The Variable Star Photometry Archive which I’ve spent the last few months building. Th...
I’m a little late in posting this, but I recently wrote an article for Popular Astronomy. It’s for the Young Stargazers section, and in it I encourage studen...
I wrote a guest post on Astrobites, about LIGO’s 2019 detection of a neutron star merger with a single detector:
As part of the Open University’s first year “upgrade” process (i.e. their probation process) I gave an internal talk about what I’ve been working on. This in...
There’s a new SuperWASP paper up on the Arxiv, SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, written by my fellow student, Heidi ...
I gave a student lightning talk at this week’s STFC Introductory Course, titled An Interactive Catalogue of Variable Stars, where I gave a brief overview of ...
I wrote about the various places you can find water in the solar system on Three Alpha:
I gave a talk at the Wetton Workshop in Oxford in June, and then wrote a blog version of that for the Zooniverse blog:
A post about the different types of gravitational waves and where they come from, on my new blog, Three Alpha:
I wrote a summary of our experience at Stargazing Live this year – the first time we’ve managed to run a BBC Stargazing Live event at the Zooniverse with no ...
I wrote a post on the Valcato blog outlining why, as a company, we oppose the Snoopers’ Charter and support our clients’ right to encrypt their communication...
Over at The Zooniverse we’ve been migrating most of our apps to run under Docker. I won’t bother explaining all the benefits of Docker, but we’ve found it to...
Two MPs, Tom Watson and David Davis, are challenging the DRIP bill that the government forced through Parliament last week. The bill was rushed through on sh...