Last year was a really big one for me - I changed jobs and institutions just before the end of 2022, and was lucky enough to become a group lead in the new team in May. It's been challenging but really exciting, I feel like I'm getting a lot more out …

Gedankōans - a Twitter sequence from a few years ago which I finally got around to publishing as a collection.

In 2013 I wrote and published an eighty-one-verse poem in Spenserian stanzas on FSVO. It started as an affectionate parody of the works of writers like Erasmus Darwin, who in the eighteenth century enthusiastically boosted the natural sciences in poems which are now long unread. It grew into something a …

Here are several sequences which ran on FSVO earlier this year.

The LITANY OF INFINITY - an incomplete catalogue of transfinite cardinals

MANY MOONS - a catalogue of the nature, population and attributes of the Solar System's satellites

An essay on MIGRATORY WORDS, their seasonal habits and reproductive cycle

I love the proper names of stars, most of which are severely corrupted versions of Arabic originals, and one of my favourite books is R H Allen's Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning.

A few years ago I spent several months tweeting every star with a proper name, from Acamar …