Parliament seems to understand that the processes leading to the proposed cuts to particle physics, astrophysics, and nuclear physics — and the cuts themselves — are unacceptable.
“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.
Appearance: 12 Last Songs, Saturday, 14 March 2026 at Battersea Arts Centre: A live exhibition and performance “about work and how we spend time. Making a living. Finding your passion. Watching the clock.” It starts at noon with a midwife and ends at midnight with an astronomer (me!).
Maybe this Green victory will convince Labour that there is no point in pandering to the pro-Brexit anti-immigration right (who weren’t going to vote for them anyway)?
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First undergraduate cosmology lecture in about 13 years. Too many slides today, but looking forward to 25 lectures of good old-fashioned chalk-and-talk.
Holiday buns. Finally perfected with the third batch of the season. (6/12)
Our first sourdough…
I’m on a new podcast, Science for Fiction, hosted by my Imperial colleague, and fellow author, David Clements, discussing my book, The Random Universe.
Grateful to the colleagues, friends, students, and others who showed up for The Random Universe launch last night, and to Imperial College and Yale University Press for sponsoring and enabling the event.
