Podcasts & Radio

• Mindscape with Sean Carroll (Episode 355, 10 Nov 2025)
• New Books Network with Greg McNiff (25 Nov 2025)
• Science for Fiction with Dave Clements (18 Dec 2025)
• Into the Impossible with Brian Keating (12 Jan 2026)
• Scientific Sense (Or with video on YouTube)
• “The Science Show” on Resonance FM, (3pm Monday, 6 April 2026), also available for streaming on Mixcloud.

More Coming soon!

Video

You can find a playlist with some of my appearances and other content here.

Personal Appearances

• South by Southwest (SXSW), “How Do We Know What We Know About the Universe & the World?”, 15-21 March, 2027.
• Kingston Library, New Malden Branch, 3 December 2026
• Hampstead Scientific Society, 15 October 2026. Details TBC.
• Pints of Knowledge, 16 June 2026, 7pm, at The Blues Kitchen Brixton, London SW2 5SP. Sold out!…
  • … but second show added at 5:45!
• The Random Universe, Oxford, UK: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, 21 April 2026.
• PubSci: The Random Universe (Andrew Jaffe), 18 March 2026, at the Old Kings Head, Kings Head Yard, London SE1 1NA
• 12 Last Songs, 14 March 2026, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN. This live exhibition and performance is “about work and how we spend time. Making a living. Finding your passion. Watching the clock.” It starts at midday with a midwife and ends at midnight with me, an astronomer.

Reviews and Interviews

• Universe Today, “Astronomy’s Decades-Long Quest To Understand Cosmic Topology”, by Bruce Dorminey (18 Sept 2026)

• Five Way Interview, Popular Science (August 2026)

• Physics World, “Knowing through uncertainty: probability and the evolution of our cosmos”, by Chrysi Malouchou Kanellopoulou (12 August 2026):

  A masterful and refreshing take… I found the book’s thesis – that uncertainty is not a hindrance to knowledge, but an opportunity to learn (and learn more) about the world – simultaneously liberating, humbling and empowering.

• Brian Clegg, Popular Science
  

  Probably the best book I’ve ever read on what the scientific method really is, how scientists build models, how they deal with randomness, uncertainty and the pitfalls of induction.

• Nature Astronomy book review. (14 May 2026):
  

  The book works. It takes you from the reliability of London buses to the Big Bang in a circuitous but continuous path, leaving you with an accomplished feeling of having slotted parts of the Universe and parts of our understanding into their logical places. The contextualizing of statistics and randomness in human history adds flavour to what could otherwise have been quite obscure and textbookish subject matter, and the handful of equations and plots are explained in straightforward terms. While not a casual read, it is an accomplished one.

• Nature, Modelling the cosmos and imagining a future without meat: Books in brief (6 March 2026):
  

  “The sun and the stars and the edge of the Universe are inaccessible, but no more so than the interior lives of other people,” writes astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe in his intriguing book about epistemology, probability and cosmology. We can observe the Universe in detail with scientific instruments — but without devising plausible models of how it works, such as the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and even the interpretation of our Universe as one component of a ‘multiverse’, we cannot understand it.

• The Guardian, “‘We’re trying to find the shape of space’: scientists wonder if the universe is like a doughnut”, by Philip Ball (8 June 2024)